Description
The limited edition of “Prayers Of The Cabinet Meetings,” a parting gift to members of the president’s Cabinet in 2009.
Octavo, v, [1], 51pp, [1]. Blue leather, title, and presidential seal stamped in gilt on the front cover. Silk endpapers, red silk bookmark. Produced by “Distinctive Bookbinding and Leather Designs” of Rockville, MD., with their binders’ imprint on the rear pastedown. Includes 49 individual prayers, delivered by members of the Cabinet of the United States, from 2001-2009. Housed in a matching blue cardboard box, wrapped in white tissue paper.
This copy is from the private collection of Colin Powell, with associated auction tags. The only known example to reach the public market.
From Distinctive Bookbinding: “…these books were given by President Bush to each of his cabinet members…it was a parting gift.”
(From the Estate of Colin Powell, Potomac Auction House, Lot 1090, Sale IT254.)
