1. The Secret Diary of harold L. Ickes: The FIrst Thousand Days, 1933-1936. Simon and Schuster, 1953, First edition, stated first printing. Blue hardcover with tan spine covering. VG condition, square and clean, tight, not bumped or damaged. Includes laid in a 12 page pamphlet guide to the people in this book, an alphabetical listing of numerous administration members and others with their title and role.
2. Fightin' Oil by Harold L. Ickes. First edition, 2nd printing. Knopf, 1943. VG condition in tan cloth covered boards. Clean and bright, no noticeable damage or wear.
Ickes was the Petroleum Adminstrator For War in the FDR administration. He was also Secretary of the Interior from 1933 through 1946, the implementor of the New Deal, and a very important figure in American history. (the Harold Ickes of the Clinton Administration is his son.)
These items will ship together by media mail.
Check my other auctions for many more rare and unusual book listings. These books all come from an active store, not a garage or basement, and are clean and well cared-for. Between now and the end of January I'll be listing many interesting and low priced items: philosophy, cooking, history, biography, classic literature, poetry, finance and money, romance, science fiction, vintage mysteries, recent bestsellers, spiritualism, politics, vintage children's books, antique American histories, agriculture and the natural world, and much more!
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