1904302
George H. W. Bush
Scroll down to see images of the item below the description
The former President sends his autograph on a bookplate for his book, All the Best
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924–2018. 41st President of the United States. Autograph Note Signed, George Bush, on personal 4” x 6” bookplate.
Bush cleverly uses his personal bookplate to send his autograph. In a note that incorporates the title of his book All the Best, George Bush, the former President writes, “Jay Mason / All the best / George Bush.”
In 1999, six years after he left the White House, Bush agreed to publish a compilation of letters that he had written
over his lifetime. The book became All the Best,
George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings (1999).
Echoing a friend’s suggestion that the press “never really understood your heartbeat,” who he really was, Bush wrote in the preface that the book was “not meant to be an autobiography”
but instead was “all about heartbeat.”
This is a beautiful example of Bush’s holograph and signature.
The double-bordered bookplate is printed in blue and gold on self-adhesive Avery CrackN Peel®
paper. Bush has inscribed and signed with a black felt-tip pen.
The bookplate backing is intact, and there are a few small remnants of tape
on the backing from prior mounting of the piece in a mat. Otherwise,
this piece is pristine. Because of the mounting remnants, we must
grade it only very fine under the strict Manuscript Society grading
criteria that we follow.
Unframed.
|
