Profiles in Courage: Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition, first printing. xix, 266 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with black cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light edgewear, offset to endsheets. In an Very Good+ unclipped lightly soiled dust jacket with a darkened spine and small amounts of loss and wear to extremities, folds. Published when JFK was a senator from Massachusetts recovering from spinal surgery, it won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Item #140949978
Price: $750