Recollections of a Happy Life by Maurice Francis Egan - 1924

NY: George H Doran Co, 1924. Good (previous owners name in book). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Normal age wear; a decent readable copy..

George H. Doran, 1924-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.0000 9.0000 6.0000. mild amount of wear on the dust jacket (ripping)

New York: George H. Doran, c. 1924. later printing. HB. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 385 pp. including index. Covers show minor shelf wear, no marks in book, binding solid. Later printing of biography of Minister to Denmark. Frontis photo of author. Book condition VG.

New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover.

On Murray Hill, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 8. 385 pages indexed. Very clean attractive well cared for book with white pages and few defects. Front hinge is weak but pages are bound tightly. No marks, stamps or names. Maroon unfaded cloth with bright gold spine lettering. Ffront cover decorated with embossed Doran Company logo. Minor edge wear to unbumped corners. Illustrated with black and white photos. An autobiography of the United States Minister to Denmark. Son of an Irish immigrant Egan was born in Philadelphia and appointed to his Denmark post by President Roosevelt in 1907. He remained in office under Presidents Taft and Wilson. He is the author of Ten Years Near the German Frontier. Described as a delectable book, wise, witty, and whimisical dealing with great affairs and small happenings freely and frankly. Introduction by Henry van Dyke. Frontispiece portrait of the author made after his return from Denmark.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition, 1924. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 374 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, owner's signature in ink on the front flyleaf, damage to the bottom of pages 101-104, dust jacket with some soiling or discoloration, rubbing and light wear to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good + +. Frontispiece; Photographs. 374 Pp. Inscribed "To Rudolph Forster, From His Friend ------------------ February 1925", Illegible But In Egan's Hand As Compared With Another Book Inscribed By Him To Forster. Egan Was The Longtime U. S. Minister To Denmark. Forster Was A Very Important Non-Political Staff Member At The White House. "Rudolph Forster Was Executive Clerk And Administrative Officer In Charge Of Executive Papers At The White House Until His Death In 1943. He Had Piled Up Nearly Fifty Years Of Service To Eight Presidents. His Job Was To Remind The President That A Bill, For Example, Must Be Acted Upon In A Certain Amount Of Time, Or That By Law He Must Fill A Vacancy Within A Definite Period. He Was Also Responsible For The 'Orderly Handling Of Documents' And Supervision Of The Large Clerical Staff. He Was The Most Important Permanent Official At The White House. " -Off The Record With F.D.R., Rutgers University Press,… Read More