53 69KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York, 1956. Octavo, original half black cloth boards, dust jacket. $18,500 First Edition Of Profiles In Courage, Inscribed By John F. Kennedy First edition, first printing, of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,” inscribed: “To Donald Cook with very best wishes. John Kennedy.” “A series of sketches of American politicians who risked their careers in the cause of principle… ‘A man does what he must,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality’… The book was popular history of high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957” (DAB 7: 420). First printing, with “First Edition” and publisher’s code “M-E” (December 1955) on copyright page. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with mild wear, marginal creasing to top edge of back panel, faint toning.
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