The White House Transcripts
[PRESENTATION COPY w/ALS] William B. Todd. The White House Transcripts: An Inquiry into Repetitive Typing, Cancellations, and Other Bibliographic Phenomena. Austin: Texas. Printed for Private Circulation, [Composed and Printed by The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine], 1974.
Staple bound in blue gray paper wraps. 30 pages. Includes illustrations of comparative typefaces. “This is a preprint, in a limited issue, of an article which will appear in the third number 1974 of the Papers of The Bibliographical Society of America.” Presentation Copy to Canadian Pre-Raphaelite scholar William E. Fredeman [“Dick”] (1928-1999) and his wife [“Jane”]: “For Dick and Jane, from Bill/ This analysis completed 17 June 1974 (2nd anniversary of Watergate),/ xerox copies of typescript distributed to several persons the following day,/ this preprint issued 30 July.”
Todd’s bibliographic analysis of Richard Nixon’s “The Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.” An in-depth inquiry into what the author demonstrates to be the questionable and purposefully obfuscating transcription of the Nixon tapes.
Includes a single sided manuscript letter laid in from Todd to Fredeman on small format University of Texas at Austin, Department of English letterhead, dated “5 August 1975”. A friendly letter written after a visit between him and his wife [Ann], and the Fredemans. Todd humorously mentions a passage from the Wealth of Nations [a photocopy of said passage is included] in reference to an “odious visit” Fredeman told him of earlier that day [re: hearth-taxes].
Pamphlet’s spine sun faded, few small corner bumps and creases. Letter with light vertical folds. Very good. FCB-100. Item #841Price: $100.00