[Rarebooks] FS: Special Signed Presentation Copy in full blue morocco of Robert Kennedy's TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD, 1967
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Apr 1 10:29:56 EDT 2010
One of 35 or so select items on our Spring New York Book Fair list to be
published on our home page early next week. Included will be exceptional
signed items, lovely hand-colored plate books, and early printed and
unusual pieces. They will be among the hundreds of fine items that will
be on display in our booth E-24 at the show which runs from Friday
through Sunday, April 8 - 11, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th St.
Hope to see you there.
KENNEDY, Robert. TO SEEK A NEWER WORLD. Garden City: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. A special Presentation copy of the
first edition bound in full blue morocco with gilt rules and lettering
on the spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on a tipped-in page before the title
page by the author "For Polly/With appreciation/Robert Kennedy/Christmas
1967." One of a small number of copies bound in this manner and
distributed to staff and friends, in this case a secretary, during RFK's
last Christmas, his assassination coming just a few months later.
Scratch on rear cover; minor rubbing. Near Fine and scarce. $2,500.00
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