Description
The first edition of The Necessity For Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, inscribed to his lifelong friend, biographer, and Harvard classmate, Stephen R. Graubard.
Octavo, xii, 370pp, [2]. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated “First Edition” with “M-K” code below. Faint dust remnant along top edge of text block, light sunning to the spine. In the first state dust jacket, $6.00 retail price on the front flap, chip at head of the spine, shelf wear to panels, a very good example, scarce in any condition.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Stephen Graubard / with friendship / Henry K. 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.
