Description
The limited Presidential Edition of No More Vietnams, signed by President Richard Nixon. Additional inscription to journalist Austin H. Kiplinger.
Octavo, 240pp. Brown leather, gilt lettering on spine, gilt edges. Buckram cloth clamshell box with “Presidential Edition” in gilt on front flap, silk tie down. Minor scuffing to leather cover of book from slipcase insert, which is typical with this edition. Solid text block. The book has never been read.
From a limited edition printing of 200 copies, this being number 95, signed by President Nixon on the limitation page. Additional inscription on the title page: “To Austin Kiplinger, with warm regards from Richard Nixon. 8-31-’87.”
The recipient of this copy, Austin H. Kiplinger (1918-2015), was a journalist and businessman, the longtime editor-in-chief of the Kiplinger Letter, and chairman of Kiplinger Washington Editors, a prominent financial publishing firm.
This limited edition of No More Vietnams is known as the Presidential Edition, not to be confused with the Deluxe Limited Edition, which is bound in blue cloth. No More Vietnams is a retrospective of President Nixon’s experience with the Vietnam War. It was a defense of his policies and tactics to end the war, ten years after the last troops were withdrawn under President Ford’s administration.