INSCRIBED BY RONALD REAGAN TO A DECADES-LONG PENPAL
REAGAN, Ronald and HUBLER, Richard G. Where's the Rest of Me? New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1965). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $4600.
First edition, first printing, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ballachino In friendship and with every good wish. Sincerely Ronnie Reagan."
Reagan's first memoir coincided with his campaign for the governorship of California, which he won in 1966. Illustrated with six pages of photographs. Recipient Dolores M. Ballachino first wrote to Reagan in 1942 when she was a schoolgirl and he was a young actor, and they maintained the correspondence for over 40 years.
Book in fine condition, in an extremely good dust jacket with short edge tears and slight toning to the spine. A desirable inscribed copy.