Years Of Upheaval. Kissinger, Henry Fine Bindings And Sets

The Easton Press Collector's Edition of Kissinger’s candid account of the turbulent years of the second Administration of Richard Nixon, detailing the Watergate scandal and the 1973 October war in the Middle East. Octavo, original publisher's full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and scrolling to the front and rear panels, watered-silk end leaves, all edges gilt, ribbon bound-in, illustrated with photographs. In fine condition, from the personal library of Ira A. Lipman by The Easton Press with the publisher's presentation bookplate to the half title page. A dramatic day-to-day account of President Nixon’s tumultuous second term, from the optimism of the Paris Agreement of January 1973 to his dramatic resignation a year-and-a-half later, “this memoir is a description of how the issues appeared to one of the participants shaping the decisions” (Foreword).