The Reds and the Blacks: A Personal Adventure [Inscribed]

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red and black three-piece cloth binding, in grey, red, white, and black dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; x,341,[1]pp; black and white photographs. Inscribed by the author to Anne and J. Wayne Fredericks on half-title: "For Wayne-who was always passing through town, and Anne-who taught him all about protocol-With affection and admiration-Bill Atwood." With Fredericks' 1967 ownership inscription above. A sound copy, lightly rubbed with slight dustiness to top edge and very slight fading to edges, Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.95), gently edge-rubbed with tiny chips at spine ends, minor scuffing to lower spine: Very Good.

Memoir of Attwood's time as the U.S. Ambassador to Guinea and Kenya during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, discussing the relationship between Kenyan politics and communism. Inscribed to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State from 1961-67. [61996].