Odyssey of a Friend. Whittaker Chambers Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr. 1954-1961
[New York]: Privately Printed by National Review, Inc., (1969).
Price: $400.00
Hardcover. First edition, the privately printed edition which apparently preceded the 1970 Putnam trade edition. 303 pp. 22 cm. Publishers' black cloth. Near fine with light spotting to the boards, in a very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and light wear to the edges. Inscribed by the great conservative intellectual and novelist to the great boxing champion: "To Gene Tunney, Gratefully, Wm. F. Buckley," on a bookplate on the front free endpaper.
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Wiliam F. Buckley
birth name: Wiliam Frank Buckley, Jr.
born: 11/24/1925
died: 2/27/2008
Biography
Author, columnist, ex-CIA operative, founder of the National Review, and spokesman for all things Right. His son, Christopher Buckley, is a novelist an political satirist.more