"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Robert Kennedy and His Times.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. [American Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Averell Harriman, with his annotations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 1066 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to fly-leaf: 'For Averell and Pam | with love over | the years | Arthur.' Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and tan endpapers. With the dust-jacket, priced at $19.95. Moderate spotting and a few marks to edges. Harriman's pencil annotations to the section on Vietnam, pp.700-734, otherwise internally clean. Jacket quite heavily worn to extremities, including some chips and tears, and sunned to spine. Good. A significant association copy, read and annotated by one of the six 'Wise Men' who were most influential in defining US Cold War foreign policy, as identified by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas in their 1986 book. Item #65210
From the library of W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), Democrat politician under Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson; and of Pamela Churchill Harriman (1920-1997), US Ambassador to France 1993-1997 and former wife of Randolph Churchill.
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