Description
Signed limited edition of Looking Forward by Vice President George H.W. Bush, published before his successful presidential campaign.
Octavo, xii, [4], 270pp. Blue leather, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilt. Stated “first edition” on the copyright page. Frontispiece portrait of President Bush. Housed in the publisher’s matching blue leather slipcase.
From a limited edition of 250 signed copies, this being number 100, signed by Vice President Bush.
Looking Forward was written by Vice President Bush before he embarked on his successful campaign for president in 1988. Looking Forward covers his career from a Navy pilot during WWII, through his years as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, director of the CIA and finally to the 1980 presidential race. George Bush would serve as vice president for Ronald Reagan from 1981-1989 and one term as president from 1989-1993.
