[Rarebooks] FS: AS WE REMEMBER JOE Inscribed by Robert Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy's sister
Charles Agvent
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Wed Aug 26 12:00:58 EDT 2009
[KENNEDY, Robert] KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald. AS WE REMEMBER JOE.
Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed, 1945 [1965]. 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, printed by
Robert Kennedy in 1965 with most copies distributed by him at Christmas
1965. The First Issue consisted of 360 copies published in 1945. A
privately printed book by the University Press memorializing the oldest
brother of the Kennedy clan, a Navy pilot killed in action during World
War II. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by
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.. cloth. $4,500.00
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