Description
Signed by Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, In Search of Identity: An Autobiography.
Octavo, viii, 360pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine. Book club edition with mark on rear cover. Tape remnant on rear endpapers from previously attached dust jacket. Light wear from handling to cloth and text block, an overall near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, bright illustrations, wear both ends of the spine, a very good example. Signed on the half-title: “To Mr. Louis _, Best Wishes, Anwar el-Sadat. 20.2.79.”
Anwar el-Sadat (1918-1981) served as the President of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination on October 6, 1981. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, for their work to secure peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
