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Illustrated. (8vo) publisher's green cloth, blindstamped with repeating bell patterns, gilt-lettered spine, bell patterned endpapers, tan dust jacket, lettered and decorated in black and red. First Edition.

Inscribed on the half title page from the author, "Christmas 1960. For Jackie, with love on a memorable Xmas. John." With Mrs. Kennedy's engraved bookplate laid in (was once on the front pastedown, as there is still glue residue there). This book was offered in the monumental Sotheby's auction in 1996 of The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as Lot 205. It sold for a hammer price of $5,750. The book comes with all the accompanying documentation from Sotheby's including the 584 page auction catalog, which lists 1,195 lots, plus the complimentary photographic chronicle of the auction provided by Sotheby's to its bidders. Plus the lot tag, invoicing paperwork, and some of the original packaging.