Herbert Hoover and White House Staff Signed

Signed book: Congressional Directory: 71st Congress, 2d Session, December 1929. First edition. Washington, D.C.: The Joint Committee on Printing, 1929. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 670 pages. Signed on the "Executive, The White House" page in fountain pen by President Herbert Hoover, as well as by six members of his personal White House staff: George Akerson, the first White House Press Secretary; Lawrence Richey and Walter Hughes Newton, Secretaries to the President; French Strother, Administrative Assistant to the President; and Rudolph Forster and Maurice C. Latta, as Executive Clerks. The front cover bears Strother's ownership stamp. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with a cracked front hinge, minor fraying at spine ends, and an "Autographed Copy" notation to front board.