Two items:
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1920-1933, The Cabinet & the Presidency. First printing. NY: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5, 405 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in blue ink, "To Ralph C. Barron, the good wishes of Herbert Hoover."
TLS as president, one page, 7.25 x 8.75, White House letterhead, January 19, 1933. Letter to American Red Cross Chairman and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, in full: “I have your note of the seventeenth and wish to thank you for securing and sending to me the information you enclosed.” This letter was written during the Great Depression, a time of high unemployment, business and bank failures, and home and farm foreclosures. Hoover, who was also President of The American Red Cross, thanked Payne for providing information about how major cities were dealing with transient boys and men.
In overall very good to fine condition, with some light scuffing and sunning to the book covers, and some creasing and scattered small stains to the letter. Accompanied by an unsigned portrait photo of Hoover by the Pach Brothers Studio.
