Signed book: Profiles in Courage. Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed neatly on the first free end page in crisp black ink, "John Kennedy." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with rubbing and staining to spine cloth and boards, ownership inscription to front pastedown, and a stain to textblock edge; the binding is tight and interior generally clean.
Kennedy underwent several life-threatening spinal operations in the 1950s. During his convalescence in 1954 and 1955, he wrote the book Profiles in Courage, which described eight instances in which US Senators risked their careers by standing up for their personal beliefs. It became a bestseller upon its release in 1956, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.
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