[Rarebooks] FS: Tribute to Joseph Kennedy, 1945, INSCRIBED by Bobby Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy's sister
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Tue Aug 26 12:05:19 EDT 2008
[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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