Forty-Two Years in the White House
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 332 pages.
Colorful recollections of the personal characteristics, peculiarities, and intimate daily lives of ten presidents and their wives from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ike Hoover first went to the White House as an electrician with the Edison Company, installing the first electric lighting in the house in 1891 for Benjamin Harrison. He stayed on as permanent electrician, was soon promoted to the ushers' force, and became Chief Usher of the White House under the Taft Administration.
A fascinating insider's view of White House life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Quite scarce as a first edition in the dust jacket.
Very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with red stamped titles to spine and upper board, red topstain, and red endpapers. Minor extremity wear to book. Jacket has moderate sun fading to spine, shallow edge chips, a few closed edge tears, and two larger edge chips to rear panel.
Item #1942
Price: $300