Kennedy, John F., thirty-fifth President

The Burden and the Glory. New York: Harper & Row, 1964

8vo (8 x 5 1/4 in.; 200 x 135 mm). Full navy calf, double-filleted gilt border and presidential seal on upper cover, smooth spine ruled in blind, lettered gilt, and stamped with 3 gilt stars, blue marbled endpapers, edges gilt; spine dry with craquelure, upper joint rubbed. Blue marbled slipcase, extremities rubbed.  

8vo (8 x 5 1/4 in.; 200 x 135 mm). Full navy calf, double-filleted gilt border and presidential seal on upper cover, smooth spine ruled in blind, lettered gilt, and stamped with 3 gilt stars, blue marbled endpapers, edges gilt; spine dry with craquelure, upper joint rubbed. Blue marbled slipcase, extremities rubbed.
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First edition, inscribed by Mrs. Kennedy on the flyleaf: "For Bob and Marge | with appreciation | Jackie."  There is a note (probably in Mrs. McNamara's hand)  indicating that Mrs. Kennedy presented the book to the McNamaras at a dinner given in her honor at the Regis Hotel by her sister-in-law Jean Kennedy Smith and her husband Stephen. According to Lady Bird Johnson in her White House Diary, this was Mrs. Kennedy's first appearance at a public social function after the President's assassination (pp. 170-171).