Description
The first edition of Hubert: An Unauthorized Biography of the Vice President by Allan Ryskind, inscribed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Octavo, 355pp, [5]. Yellow cloth, title stamped in black on the spine. No additional printings noted. Light wear along edges of text block, faint offsetting to endpapers. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $5.95 on the front flap, light wear at head of the spine, some shelf wear, sunning to the spine, a very good example.
Inscribed by Vice President Humphrey on the front free endpaper: “Congratulations to our friend, Joe Yates on your new Party past and our best wishes to a great Democrat with whom we look forward to working. Sincerely, Muriel and Hubert.”
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) served as Vice President of the United States from 1964 until 1968. He was the democratic nominee for President in the contentious 1968 Presidential Election, after President Johnson decided not to run, and Robert F. Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. He supported Johnson’s war stance, which was unpopular with democratic voters. He lost the 1968 election to Richard Nixon and would return to the Senate in 1971.
