[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Lyndon B. Johnson TO HEAL AND TO BUILD, price reduced

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Sun May 22 16:13:41 EDT 2016


Price reduced to $700 NET

JOHNSON, Lyndon B. TO HEAL AND TO BUILD. THE PROGRAMS OF LYNDON B. 
JOHNSON. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. 
Illustrated with photographs. Edited by James MacGregor Burns with 
commentary by Ralph Ellison, McGeorge Bundy, and others. This copy is 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President to Jean and Bob Benjamin on the 
page before the title page bearing the printed quote beginning 
"Sometimes I have been called a seeker of 'consensus." Laid in is a 
small envelope with the imprint "The White House" inside of which is a 
calling card with the imprint "The President." Near Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper.

Robert Benjamin and his partner Arthur Krim acquired United Artists from 
then-owners Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford in 1955. During the 
Kennedy administration he served as Chairman of the United States 
Committee for the United Nations. Later he served on the Brandeis 
University Board of Trustees. In 1979, Robert Benjamin won the Jean 
Hersholt Humanitarian award posthumously. His wife Jean accepted the 
award on his behalf. (#016928)        $1,000.00

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