[Rarebooks] FS: JFK's AS WE REMEMBER JOE, Inscribed by Bobby Kennedy to his sister-in-law

[Charles Agvent]

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[KENNEDY,  Robert] KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald. AS WE REMEMBER  JOE.
Cambridge,  MA: Privately Printed 1945. First Edition. Burgundy  cloth
with  gilt  lettering on the spine and the title in gilt on  black  on
the  front  cover. Illustrated with photographs. One of 250 copies  of
the  Second Issue with the title page printed entirely in black. There
were  360 copies of the First Issue of this privately printed book  by
the  University  Press memorializing the oldest brother of the  future
President,  a  Navy pilot killed in action during World War  II.  This
copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by another brother,
Robert  F.  Kennedy: "For Georgeann and  George/Bob  Kennedy/Christmas
1965."  Georgeann was Robert Kennedy's sister-in-law, Ethel  Kennedy's
sister.  Books  authentically signed by Robert Kennedy  are  uncommon;
those  with  such  a personal association  are  scarcely  encountered.
Small scratch to rear cover. A fine, bright copy.             $4500.00

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