BULLITT, Stimson. Introduction by David Reisman

To Be a Politician [INSCRIBED to his Mother]

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 190. Quarter gray cloth over light blue boards lettered in dark blue. Rear hinge is cracked. Dust jacket has some wear and creasing to extremities, price of $3.50 present. Inscribed "for Dorothy S. Bullitt with much admiration, love / and gratitude, from her son." and dated Feb. 5, 1959. The book is annotated throughout including numerous typescript additions pasted in, some are multiple pages. A unique copy. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #13890

Bullitt reflects on the trials and rewards of public life. Suggesting the inscription's reciprocity, seven reviews laid in including from The New York Times and The New Yorker, presumably clipped by the author's mother.

The Bullitts are one of Seattle’s most important media and civic families. Indeed, parlaying a fortune made in the timber industry, the inscribee, Dorothy Bullitt, founded KING Broadcasting. Please see Dorothy Stimson Bullitt: An Uncommon Life (Sasquatch, 1995) for more on her notable achievements.

Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.

Price: $450.00