HULL, Cordell (1871-1955). The Memoirs, New York, 1948, 2 vols., large 8vo, original non-uniform buckram. Mixed editions. IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Hon. Anthony Eden, with admiration and sincerest friendship, Cordell Hull." (2)

HULL, Cordell (1871-1955).  The Memoirs. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 2 volumes, large 8vo (209 x 140mm). Half titles, half tone portrait frontispiece (some leaves creased at corners). Original non-uniform buckram, the first vol. in plum buckram, the second in black buckram (without the dust-jackets). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted); an illegible note in Eden's hand to the final free endpaper of vol. one; some highlighting to the text; a sheet of paper indistinctly inscribed by Eden in pencil loosely-inserted in vol. one. Vol. one a FIRST EDITION, "first printing"; vol. II a "second printing". IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper of vol. one inscribed, "To Hon. Anthony Eden, with admiration and sincerest friendship, Cordell Hull." Cordell Hull was the longest serving United States Secretary of State, holding the position from 1933 to 1944, including working in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1945 principally for his key role in establishing the United Nations. (2)