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Lot 391
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$1,375
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Lot Description
[KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994), her copies]. A group of 5 works from her library, comprising:
DORR, Nell (1893-1988). Mother and Child. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. INSCRIBED TO JACQUELINE KENNEDY BY THE AUTHOR. -- MINOW, Newton N. Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest. NY: Atheneum, 1964. INSCRIBED TO JACQUELINE KENNEDY BY THE AUTHOR. -- GAVIN, James M. On to Berlin: Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1946. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. -- COOK, Don. Ten Men and History. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. -- SAMUELSON, Arnold. With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba. New York: Random House, 1984. SIGNED BY ONASSIS to the front free endpaper. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, all FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (sold Sotheby’s New York, 23-26 April 1996, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with bookplates).