The Ordeal of Otto Otepka - WITH Note from Pacific Northwest Merchant Fred Meyer
New Rochelle: Arlington House, (1970). Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. 505. With three appendices. Index. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the three-color dust jacket that shows slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. With a prefatory note on the front pastedown, evidently taped by Fred Meyer or the recipient. A mimeograph note from Fred Meyer is tipped in to the front free endpaper, signed by him in ink. Very Good+ / Very Good. Item #7331 The book at hand was given by Meyer to Warne Nunn, a longtime Oregon political figure, serving as executive assistant and Chief of Staff to Mark Hatfield, Oregon Governor and, later, US Senator. Nunn served on the Meyer Memorial Trust for several years, starting with its inception in 1983. The book itself is a warning against America's inexorable slide to communism, a trend following WWII and hastened by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. The author prevails upon Dick Nixon to arrest the communist plot. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
As a young man Fred Meyer arrived in Portland, Oregon, 1908, and began selling coffee to lumber camps. His merchandising skills, and awareness of customer needs, allowed him to open a Portland storefront in 1922. Today the name Fred Meyer is ubiquitous throughout the Pacific Northwest as a standard-bearer of mediocre sundry marketing.
Price: $30.00