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Hardcover, bound in decorative full gray leather. Brand new in factory shrink wrap. 224 pages. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs. Special collector’s first edition signed by Governor Pataki and limited to 1200 numbered copies. Easton Press book-plate and Notes laid-in loose. His folksy style, moderate positions and small town background endeared him to an electorate dispite being in a deep blue State. ” Pataki was[only] the third Republican since 1923 to win New York’s governorship, after Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller, and is the most recent one to do so.” A pristine copy, still in original shrink wrap. Gift quality.