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Lot 7
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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BENET, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943). John Brown’s Body. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928.
8vo. Original publisher’s boards, uncut (spine very slightly toned, short split to rear joint near head); cloth folding case. Provenance: Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt (presentation inscription from the author); Helmut N. Friedlaender copy (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 142 of 201 copies signed by the author, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt with 16 lines of verse on the front free endpaper, dated Nov 1928.