Description
The Memoirs of Henry Kissinger, all first printings, inscribed to his lifelong friend, biographer, and Harvard classmate, Stephen R. Graubard.
Thick octavo, [three volumes], xxiv, 1521pp; xvi, 1283pp; 1151pp. All bound in cloth, titles in gilt on spine. All first printings. All previously read, light soiling to fore-edge, wear to cloth boards. In the publisher’s first state dust jackets, with retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, faint sunning to Volume III, near fine examples.
All three volumes signed by the author, with the following inscriptions: “To Stephen Graubard / With the affection and good wishes of his friend / Henry A. Kissinger / July 1982” in Years of Upheaval. In Years of Renewal, the inscription reads: “To Stephen Graubard / A long-time friend / Henry A. Kissinger.” The White House Years is simply signed by Henry Kissinger, without an inscription.
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.
