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Lot 77

Sale 1334 - The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, Part II
Lots Open
Apr 26, 2024
Lots Close
May 8, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$100 - 200
Price Realized
$286
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Lot Description

MEMOIRS
A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS INSCRIBED TO SECRETARY ALBRIGHT:


1) ZWACK, Anne Marshall. If You Wear Galoshes, You’re an Émigré. Budapest: Ab Ovo, 2001. ASSOCIATION COPY, GIFT INSCRIPTION FROM PETER ZWACK TO SECRETARY ALBRIGHT. With an autograph letter.

2) KAMARA-UMUNNA, Agnes Fallah and Emily HOLLAND. And Still Peace Did Not Come. New York: Hyperion, 2011. INSCRIBED BY KAMARA-UMUNNA TO SECRETARY ALBRIGHT.

3) McKINNON, Don. In the Ring. London: Elliott and Thompson, 2013. INSCRIBED BY McKINNON TO SECRETARY ALBRIGHT.

4) MAHDAVI, Pardis. Crossing the Gulf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. INSCRIBED BY MAHDAVI TO SECRETARY ALBRIGHT.

Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all in original bindings (condition generally fine).

Madeleine Albright published her best-selling memoir in 2003 that was dubbed by Entertainment Weekly as “one of the most diverting political bios in recent memory.” Several of the authors present in this lot were undoubtedly influenced by her memoirs, including inscriptions thanking her for her inspiration.

Provenance for the lot: Secretary Madeleine K. Albright (inscriptions, bookplates).

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