[Rarebooks] FS: One of the finest SIGNED Robert Kennedy books ever offered with his note "See you in Chicago"

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine items in our new catalog recently posted on our home 
page--SPRING MISCELLANY 2012 catalog with 70 select books and 
autographs, all new arrivals: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/catalogues.html?id=J5Y9M2kL&mv_pc=1881 


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 ----/See you in 
Chicago/With thanks and best wishes/Robert Kennedy." Books authentically 
signed by Robert Kennedy are uncommon, and this one is quite desirable 
with its reference to Chicago. Kennedy was assassinated on 5 June 1968 
in California after winning the California primary. His last words to 
the public were: "It's on to Chicago, and let's win there!" There are 
several circular red ink stamps, rather faint on the dark blue front 
free endpaper, that read "Checked May 15, 1968." Fine in a Near Fine 
dustwrapper with light edgewear and with a resonant inscription. 
Certainly one of the finest signed Robert Kennedy books ever offered for 
sale.

Ted Kennedy's eulogy for his brother is certainly one of the finest ever 
delivered for a politician: "My brother need not be idealized, or 
enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as 
a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw 
suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of 
us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he 
was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for 
all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to 
those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as 
they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'" 
(#016413)        $3,000.00

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