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Lot 403

CUSTER, Elizabeth Bacon. Boots and Saddles. 1885. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. [With:] [JOHNSON, Lady Bird]. SMITH, Marie. The President's Lady: An Intimate Biography of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY JOHNSON.

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CUSTER, Elizabeth Bacon (1842-1933). Boots and Saddles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 


8vo. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (bumping to head and tail of spine). Provenance: Charles Schreyvogel (signature). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH CUSTER: "Motto on General Custer's Spanish sword, 'Do not draw me without cause / Do not shield me without honor'." 

[With:] [JOHNSON, Lady Bird (1912-2007)]. SMITH, Marie. The President's Lady: An Intimate Biography of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. New York: Random House, 1964. Publisher's blue cloth gilt; original dust jacket (chipping along extremities). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LADY BIRD JOHNSON: "With best wishes."

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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