ISBN10: 0817965815, ISBN13: 9780817965815, [publisher: Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1976.] Hardcover First Edition Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xl, 269 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some nicks and bumping/creasing at edges; short tear at top of rear panel; front flap's top corner is price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth with white stamping to spine and front board. Two faint stains to text block's top edge. Author's six-line black ink inscription "For Paul Rogers - | With all good wishes | for continued success | and good works. | Robert W. Tolf | May 1977" on the half-title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. The book's inscribee is U.S. Representative Paul G. Rogers (1921-2008) who was elected to twelve terms serving from January 1955 to January 1979. Rogers specialized in environmental and health-care legislation earning the moniker "Mr. Health" and was commemorated as the namesake of the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach and for the National Institutes of Health's main campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The book was acquired directly from the Paul and Becky Rogers estate. ISBN 0817965815
[Columbus, MS, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1976]