Description
First edition, fifth printing of Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy.
Octavo, xxx, 252pp, [5]. Red cloth boards, title stamped in white over blue, light wear to top edge of spine. The fifth printing, printed “September, 1940,” as stated on the copyright page. Solid text block, free of any marks or notations. Transference to endpapers, previous ownership stamp and number on front endpaper, otherwise fine. (Newcomb 10) In publisher’s fifth state dust jacket, with “Fifth Large Printing” statement on front cover, $2.00 price on front flap, shallow chipping along top edge, exceptionally bright spine.
Why England Slept is an expansion of John F. Kennedy’s Harvard Thesis, which examines England’s lack of preparedness for the rising threat of World War II.
