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Lot 25

BIDEN, Joe. Promise Me, Dad. A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose. New York: Flatiron Books, [2017].

Estimate: $200 - $400
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$100

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BIDEN, Joe. Promise Me, Dad. A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose. New York: Flatiron Books, [2017]. 8vo. 260pp. Publisher’s full cream boards, front board stamped in blind, spine stamped in red, publisher’s unclipped (“$27.00”) dust jacket.

Condition

Cloth spine a bit bumped, ffep. and following 30 pages or so with two paperclip markings at top edge, small ink marker spot on upper edge of text-block (partially bleeding into upper edge of the touched pages); upper edge of jacket lightly rubbed, upper edge of rear jacket panel lightly soiled. Near fine.  (minor rubbing to binding). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THE “SIGNED EDITION” WITH A LEAF SIGNED BY BIDEN INSERTED. 

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