Description
Signed first edition of Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective by Yousuf Karsh.
Large quarto, 191pp, [1]. Full red cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners, a fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, light shelf wear, a near fine example.
Signed on the front free endpaper: “To Jerome F. Riordan, with the warm personal wishes of Yousuf Karsh / Oct. 27, 1983.”
The recipient of this copy, Reverend Jerome F. Riordan, was the founding pastor of St. Ansgar Catholic Church in Hanover Park, Chicago.
