"THIS BOOK IS A CRI DE COEUR": THE REAL WAR, SIGNED BY PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
NIXON, Richard. The Real War. (New York): Warner, (1980). Octavo, original red cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $900.
First trade edition, first printing, signed on the half title by President Nixon.
"This is a struggle of titans," Nixon writes of America's engagement in the Cold War, "the like of which the world has never seen." In Real War, Nixon calls "on the United States to mobilize its military, economic and intellectual powers against the Soviet Union" (New York Times). "First Printing: May 1980" on copyright page. Published in the same year as the signed limited edition of 2500 copies and a signed deluxe limited edition of unknown limitation.
Slight toning to dust jacket edges. A nearly fine copy.