[Rarebooks] FS: JFK's PROFILES IN COURAGE with a genuine SIGNED inscription

[Charles 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. (#014880)        $12,500.00

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