Profiles in Courage

  • New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1959
By John F. Kennedy; Allan Nevins [fwd.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1960]. Later printing with code "B-K" indicating publication the year of Kennedy's election (February 1960) to copyright. Octavo. 266 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket with $3.95 price present. Blue and black boards stamped in gilt.

Light edgewear, creasing, and scuffing to dust jacket; spine sunned. Boards show light shelfwear and spine a bit cocked. Binding sound. Interior with off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked. Overall a Very Good and serviceable copy of Kennedy's famous series of biographies, this copy published while he was still a Senator. Profiles in Courage won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

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