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PRESENTATION COPY BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT. John Brown's Body. 8vo, original cream boards lettered on spine; custom cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-lettered brown morocco spine label. Ex-collection Helmut N. Friedlaender. Garden City, 1928
first limited edition. number 142 of 201 large-paper copies signed by benét, presentation copy, inscribed to mrs. kermit roosevelt with sixteen lines of verse by Benét, on front endpaper. Dated November 1928. The verse begins: "Autumn is filling his harvest bins / With red and yellow grain / Fire begins and frost begins / And the floors are cold again."
