[Rarebooks] FS: PROFILES IN COURAGE, First Edition Inscribed by John F. Kennedy

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 fine items from our Spring Catalog recently posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

KENNEDY, John F. PROFILES IN COURAGE. New York: Harper &  Brothers
(1956).  First Edition. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography  of
various  American politicians who put principles before self-interest.
Illustrated  with  photographs. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author  on
the  front  endpaper:  "To Louise S. May--/with every  good  wish/John
Kennedy."  A quick scan of the internet will reveal a number of signed
JFKs,  most  of  them  worth  the   weight  of  their  fancy  forensic
certificates  of  authenticity  (haven't enough of these  jokers  been
caught  and  revealed  yet?).  Genuine signed copies  of  PROFILES  IN
COURAGE,  especially  in the true First Printing as is this copy,  are
difficult  to  come  by.  This copy comes  with  irrefutable  proof: a
photograph  clipped from the 22 April 1956 edition of Washington's THE
SUNDAY  STAR newspaper showing Kennedy signing this very book for Mrs.
May,  chairman  of  the  annual rummage sale for the  benefit  of  the
Prevention  of Blindness Society. Some offsetting from the clipping to
the half-title page with slight resulting shadowing to adjacent pages;
slight  spotting  to  rear endpaper. A previous  owner  has  written a
date  below Kennedy's inscription. The dustwrapper is soiled with some
staining  but  is  still  attractive.  Very   Good  in  a  Very  Good,
price-clipped dustwrapper.                                  $12,500.00


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