High Tension: The Recollections of Hugh Baillie.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and blue cloth with orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 300pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn only. Item #145
First edition, tight and handsome, of this exciting political memoirs spanning the build-up to World War II to the early years of the Cold War by this former head of the United Press Washington bureau. Choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a lovely Typed Note Signed from Baillie, 1p, 8½" X 10½", New York, NY, 5 November 1940. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Near fine. Original mailing folds. On "United Press Associations" letterhead citing Baillie as president, the journalist tells this admirer "Thank you very much indeed for your kind and thoughtful birthday greetings. I am glad that you heard the talk I made in Cleveland and wish that I could have had the pleasure of getting acquainted with you there...." Large, bold signature in blue ink. HUGH BAILLIE (1890-1966) was a noted journalist who interviewed anyone who was anyone on the world scene and in 1935 became head of UP in 1935, filling that influential post until 1955. Jacket front panel touts this book as "forty-years years of current history -- from Darrow to de Gaulle, Wilson to Eisenhower -- as seen through the eyes of the colorful, hard-hitting, irascible reporter who became president of the United Press."
Price: $55.00