Description
The first edition of Crisis by Henry A. Kissinger, inscribed to his lifelong friend, biographer, and Harvard classmate, Stephen R. Graubard.
Octavo, [12], 564pp. Blue hardcover, title stamped in gilt on the spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page. A few notations and underlined passages in pencil, primarily in the first half of the text. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $30.00 retail price on the front flap, short closed tear at head of the spine, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the half-title: “To Stephen Graubard / friend of a lifetime / Henry A. Kissinger.”
Stephen R. Graubard (1924-2021) met Henry Kissinger as a fellow Harvard graduate student in 1951. He was the longtime editor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1961 to 1999, while continuing to teach at Brown and Harvard. Graubard wrote a biography of Kissinger’s early days, titled “Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind” (1973), focusing on his early writings while at Harvard.
