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Posted in Inscribed Books on Aug 5th, 2009
BY THE AUTHOR… Throughout the history of book collecting, among the most sought after copies have been those inscribed and presented by their authors. The list of what one could dream of acquiring is endless. The first edition of Leaves of Grass that Whitman presented to Thoreau. The copy of The Great Gatsby that Fitzgerald [...]
Posted in Inscribed Books on Nov 24th, 2008
“Politics is a jungle” —John F. Kennedy, in his notes for Profiles in Courage On an August night in 1943, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy’s patrol boat PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and burst into flames. Badly wounded, Kennedy saved a fellow crewman in a rescue that earned him a Purple Heart and the [...]
Posted in Inscribed Books, Signed Books on Oct 27th, 2008
“One of these mornin’s you’s gonna rise up singin’.” George Gershwin had wanted to write an opera about the African-American experience long before he read DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy in 1926. But in Heyward’s portrayal of life on “Catfish Row”—based on the very real Cabbage Row in Heyward’s hometown of Charleston—Gershwin recognized his material. He [...]