1964 ELLIS BRIGGS-FAREWELL FOGGY BOTTOM-CAREER DIPLOMAT

Description: spkul8tor Store 1964 ELLIS BRIGGS-FAREWELL FOGGY BOTTOM-CAREER DIPLOMAT BRIGGS, Ellis Forward by: THE HON. CHRISTIAN A. HERTER "FAREWELL TO FOGGY BOTTOM: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A CAREER DIPLOMAT" Signed and Inscribed to Jim Copley from ELLIS BRIGGS I, 100% unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of the signature forever. Please bid with confidence. New York. David McKay Company. 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 306 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Interior with light page yellowing. Covers with very light wear. In Fine condition. Includes original dustjacket, in Very Good condition, with corner of front flap price clipped, light yellowing, scuffing, and one tiny edge tear. Mr. Briggs worked in the State Department from 1925-1962. He served as Ambassador to seven nations by appointment of three presidents. He had a long and interesting career during a fascinating period in American history. Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The area is thought to have received the name because its riverside location made it susceptible to concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, an atmospheric trait that did not prevent the neighborhood from becoming the original location of the United States Naval Observatory. Foggy Bottom is west of downtown Washington, in the Northwest quadrant, bounded roughly by 17th Street to the east, Rock Creek Parkway to the west, Constitution Avenue to the south, and Pennsylvania Avenue to the north. Much of Foggy Bottom is occupied by the main campus of the George Washington University. This is book comes from the JAMES COPLEY Library and has a JAMES STROHN COPLEY bookplate glued to the interior front endboard. Provenance: James S. Copley / Copley Library - This item is formerly from the collection of James S. Copley (1916 - 1973) who owned the Copley Press and founded the Copley Library in San Diego California. James Copley was born in St. Johnsville, N.Y., in 1916. Both of his parents died in the flu epidemic that swept the U.S. in 1918, and when he was 4 he was adopted by Col. and Mrs. Ira C. Copley. Col. Copley bought The San Diego Union and Evening Tribune from the Spreckels family in 1928. Copley graduated from Yale in 1939 and started his journalism career at another of his father's papers, The Culver City Star News, where he solicited ads and circulation as well as sweeping the floor and writing news stories. When the elder Copley died in 1947, Jim became Chief Executive Officer of the corporation publishing a large family of newspapers, the flagship of which was, and is today, the Union-Tribune. He pursued a dynamic program of expansion of the newspaper plants, both technologically and in size. He took an active personal interest in the editorial quality of his papers. In the 26 years he headed the enterprise until his death in 1973, the Union's circulation tripled and the Union-Tribune moved into a wholly new plant with new presses in Mission Valley. Copley's politics were unabashedly conservative, Republican and pro-American, and still have a deep influence on the voting populace of San Diego. He was President of the Boy Scouts San Diego County Council, the Navy League San Diego Council, and received so many industry and patriotic awards that they are too numerous to list here. He also was a notable philanthropist to local causes, including large, key gifts to build the Copley Auditorium at the San Diego Museum of Art and Copley Library at University of San Diego. His widow, Helen K. Copley, has continued the tradition of philanthropy through gifts to finance Copley Symphony Hall and the City-County Animal Shelter. The Copley Collection - Later in life, James Copley and his wife embarked on an Americana collecting odyssey the likes of which few institutions have achieved - much less an individual has even dreamed of assembling. The exceptional collection contains highlights such as: 1. One of a few surviving broadside Declarations of Independence printed in the weeks after July 4, 1776 2. An official letter from 12 July 1776 from the Marine Committee of Congress to John Ashmead signed by Button Gwinnett, the most prized of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence 3. Personal notebooks belonging to John Lansing, Jr., kept while acting as a delegate for New York to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 4. A listing by Father Junipero Serra on March 1, 1777 of all of the missions he founded in Alta California These and many other extraordinary items are scheduled to be sold in a series of eight Sotheby's auctions concluding in April 2011. This item is part of a group of items that were not sent to Sotheby's and were sold locally in Southern California. I'll be selecting items over the next several weeks from a group of books and specific lots recently acquired from the Copley Library so please watch my future auctions. Please contact us regarding any special requests and with questions. RG060611 andale andalesell Payment Options: PayPal Shipping Options: Weight based Shipping Charges. USPS Priority Mail, USPS Media Mail, USPS Parcel Post, USPS Express Mail, USPS Priority Mail International, USPS Express Mail International I will ship to: USA and following regions : Canada, Europe, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, United Kingdom [Weight]: 3 lbs. 1 oz. Shipping and Handling: Winning Bidder: Click button on right to checkout now. andale andalecheckout Get more for your items with eBay Market Research. Truly Affordable Sales Automation. Try the Vendio Platform FREE. Truly Affordable Sales Automation. 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Location: Los Angeles, California

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