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Lot 764
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$313
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Lot Description
[ROYALTY]. WINDSOR, Edward, Duke of (1894-1972, "Edward VIII, King of England"). A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY EDWARD.
8vo. Title-page with woodblock printed in red, frontispiece, photographic illustrations. Original publisher's red morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, watered silk doublures (light wear to joint, minor scuffs to spine); red cloth slipcase (minor fading).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, numbered 17 of 350 copies. SIGNED BY WINDSOR ("Edward") to limitation page. The Duke of Windsor's memoirs published after his abdication.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.