Description
First edition of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, signed by Jon Meacham.
Octavo, xxiv, 483p. Maroon hardcover, black spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated “First Edition” with full number line. Solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $30.00 retail price on the front flap, a near fine example.
Signed by author and historian, Jon Meacham, on the half-title, and dated “2008.”
Jon Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his monumental work on Andrew Jackson titled American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham was selected by the Bush Family as the official biographer of President George H.W. Bush, which became Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, published in 2015.
