Description

The Inaugural Edition, the 1963 issue published only days after the assassination of President Kennedy, in December. With a section of illustrations from photographs and early prints. 8vo, publisher's blue boards backed in black cloth, gilt lettered on the spine and with gilt facsimile signature on the upper cover, in the original dustjacket handsomely decorated in blue, white, red and gold. xxiii; 266pp. A fine copy very well preserved, the dustjacket in very pleasing condition with minimal evidence of shelving to the edges, the book in excellent condition, the verso of the jacket with a little age mellowing, the recto bright.

Edizione: a very early issuance of the inaugural edition of this important pulitzer prize winning book. profiles in courage is the most famous and long-enduring of the president’s writings. this was kennedy’s second book, written when he was a senator from massachusetts. it earned for him the pulitzer prize.