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Kennedy | John. F.

Profiles In Courage

First Edition / Early Printing

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Description

Signed by President John F. Kennedy, an early printing of Profiles In Courage.

Octavo, xix, [3], 266pp. Red leather, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. An early printing, with “L-G” on copyright page. Floral endpapers, dust remnant along top of text block, blue pen mark to page 126. Intermittent foxing to black and white illustrations. Solid text block, an attractive presentation. (Newcomb, 6) Bound in red leather for a personal library collection. This copy is signed on the front flyleaf: “To Dr. John Huss – with very good wishes. John Kennedy.”

Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.

Additional information

Location Published

New York

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Edition

First Edition / Early Printing

Date Published

1956

Binding

Leather bound

Condition

Near Fine

Author

Kennedy | John. F.