[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Robert Kennedy shortly before his assassination

[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. 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. (#013887)        $2,000.00

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