Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
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

Additional Details

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."