[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Kennedy: TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD Inscribed shortly before he was assassinated

[Charles Agvent]

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, Jr.   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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