Description
The first edition of Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger, inscribed to his lifelong friend, biographer, and Harvard classmate, Stephen R. Graubard.
Octavo, 912pp, [2]. Blue cloth spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page. Previously read, a few underlined passages in pencil, wear to cloth spine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $35.00 retail price on the front flap, faint shelf wear, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the half title: “To Stephen Graubard / from his friend / 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.
