255 pp. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on title-page, "To Rachel and Lew Rudin / For whom I shall always stand ready to demonstrate respect, admiration, Love, appreciation and Thanks for their Humanity, their generosity and their Friendship. Sidney Poitier". Poitier was the first African-American male to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Rudin headed one of New York City’s oldest real estate dynasties. Rudin was quietly instrumental in preventing the New York City’s bankruptcy during the 1975 fiscal crisis. Poitier was photographed clearly grieving when attending Rudin’s Memorial Service not long after this book was published. There is no public account of their apparently close relationship but it was rumored that the Black star was “blackballed” when trying to buy a Manhattan apartment and Rudin may have offered his assistance – as he later did to ex-President Richard Nixon.
255 pp. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on title-page, "To Rachel and Lew Rudin / For whom I shall always stand ready to demonstrate respect, admiration, Love, appreciation and Thanks for their Humanity, their generosity and their Friendship. Sidney Poitier". Poitier was the first African-American male to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Rudin headed one of New York City’s oldest real estate dynasties. Rudin was quietly instrumental in preventing the New York City’s bankruptcy during the 1975 fiscal crisis. Poitier was photographed clearly grieving when attending Rudin’s Memorial Service not long after this book was published. There is no public account of their apparently close relationship but it was rumored that the Black star was “blackballed” when trying to buy a Manhattan apartment and Rudin may have offered his assistance – as he later did to ex-President Richard Nixon.
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