[Rarebooks] FS: One of Bobby Kennedy's final autographs
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Mon Feb 19 12:51:47 EST 2007
From our new Internet Catalogue now posted on our website:
http://www.erols.com/agvent
It contains 39 Signed Presidential Books and Pamphlets including items
by John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt,
and more.
KENNEDY, Robert. TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD. Garden City: Doubleday &
Company, Inc. 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED with a
felt-tip pen on the half-title page by the author "For ----/With
thanks and best wishes/Robert Kennedy." Books authentically signed by
Robert Kennedy are uncommon, and this one is rather special as it was
signed shortly before he was assassinated. Laid into the book are
three interesting pieces of ephemera. One is a small printed
invitation from the Colorado United Democrats for Humphrey to a
"Coffee with the Vice President" for May 10. On the verso the
inscribee of the Kennedy book has written a note stating that the
signed book from Kennedy was received in the mail on 10 June 1968 as
a gift for his work on the Kennedy-McCarthy coalition in Denver
"where we shut out Hubert Humphrey." Also laid in is the top portion
of the brown envelope that contained the book from the Kennedy for
President Headquarters postmarked 2 June 1968. Kennedy was
assassinated on 5 June 1968. Finally, there is a memorial card for
RFK with a portrait of him on the recto and a long quote from RFK's
extemporaneous remarks on the death of Martin Luther King. Oddly, the
date of death printed on the card is 6 June 1968. The dustwrapper is
complete including the price with some abrasion to the spine and
wrinkling and rubbing to the rear. Very Good or better in a near Very
Good dustwrapper. $2000.00
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