Lot 129
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John F. Kennedy

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Description

The John F. Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede: Dedicatory Remarks...May Fourteenth, Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Five. Privately printed and bound for Mrs. John F. Kennedy, December 1965. Polished red calf, covers with double gilt-fillet border, front cover gilt with Presidential seal, front cover lower left embossed in gilt, J.B.K., marbled endpapers. With laid in card signed by Mrs. Kennedy.



JACQUELINE KENNEDY'S PERSONAL COPY, LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED FOR MRS. KENNEDY.

Catalogue Note

In memory of John F. Kennedy, Great Britain gave to the United States an acre of English ground at Runnymede, where the Magna Carta had been signed in 1215. The present volume contains the addresses of the principal speakers at the dedication of the memorial: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, and Dean Rusk.