A FRIEND CAME TO LUNCH The Annual Fishing Party of President John Sloan Dickey June 24-28, 1955

First Edition. VERY RARE. With thirty-seven tipped-on black and white photographs ranging in size from 7"x10" to 3"x 2", and two tipped-on maps, one of which is in colour. Oblong Folio, handsomely bound in the original green cloth over a pictorially illustrated front cover showing a photograph of Presidents Eisenhower and John Sloan Dickey, the spine gilt lettered. 14 leaves, unnumbered, printed recto only. A very good copy of this rare work, the photographs are all in excellent condition, the leaves all in fine condition but for the final five which have some marginal evidence of old insect damage not affecting the bulk of the page nor the text or photographs, the binding is solid, firm and well preserved with just a small spot of abrasion to the bottom of the cover.

Edizione: very rare. because of the inclusion of the original photographs, it is probable that very few copies were produced. oclc lists only one copy, that being housed at dartmouth's rauner library. no copies are offered in the marketplace and no copies are listed as being sold at auction. we note only one other copy found, that in the collection of the new hampshire historical society. <br> the rare photographic chronicle of president eisenhower's informal june 24th 'lunch with a friend'.<br> scheduled for after commencement in 1955, dartmouth president john sloan dickey's annual fishing party was to be held from june 24th to 28th. the fishing trip took place at part of the college grant in wentworth location, new hampshire. on these trips he was accompanied by a number of prestigious members of dartmouth's facility and staff and student members of the outing club.<br> in the spring of that year, the white house announced dickey's old friend president dwight d. eisenhower would be making a speaking tour through vermont, new hampshire, and maine. and since he would be passing within only a few miles of the grant, an invitation to lunch was sent to president eisenhower and his entire entourage. <br> this is the record in text and photographs of that very informal lunch with friends. along with eisenhower, dickey and crew from dartmouth, the meeting included former new hampshire governor and white house chief of staff sherman adams, u.s. senators styles bridges and norris cotton, secretary of commerce sinclair weeks, and congressman perkins bass.<br> the text and the captions for the photos were prepared by sidney c. hayward, secretary of dartmouth college, and john a rand, executive director of the dartmouth outing club. photography was done by adrain n. bouchard, college photographer, and frank a. pemberton, director of the dartmouth news service. composition and printing was done by the stinehour press of nearby lunenburg, vermont.