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LADY LIBERTY'S COMING OUT PARTY (SCULPTURE.) Inauguration of The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World by the President of the United States on Bedlow's Island, New York, Thursday, October 28, 1886. Includes the poem "The Bartholdi Statue," by John Greenleaf Whittier. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth, small area of red paint stain to lower front cover, spine ends and tips slightly rubbed; top edges trimmed and gilt, partially unopened. New York: Appleton & Co., 1887
scarce first edition. with original engraved invitation to the inauguration, inscribed and signed by richard butler, Secretary of the American Committee, to George R. Turnbull, Second Vice President of The Guarantee Trust Co., bound in as frontispiece. The officially published proceedings of the inauguration of Auguste Bartholdi's enduring sculpture commemorating the alliance between France and the United States.
