Lot 59
  • 59

Kennedy, John F., thirty-fifth President

Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description

  • paper, ink
As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, 1945

8vo (9 x 6 in.; 225 x 150 mm). Illustrated with halftone photographs; light spotting through page 8. Maroon cloth, black and gilt label on upper cover, spine lettered gilt, endpapers and edges plain; light foxing to top edge.

Condition

8vo (9 x 6 in.; 225 x 150 mm). Illustrated with halftone photographs; light spotting through page 8. Maroon cloth, black and gilt label on upper cover, spine lettered gilt, endpapers and edges plain; light foxing to top edge.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, inscribed by Robert F. Kennedy to the McNamaras on the front free endpaper: "For Bob & Margie | from their friend | Bob Kennedy." JFK edited all and wrote one of the twenty collected essays about his eldest brother Joseph P. Kennedy, who was killed in 1944 while serving in the United States Navy.