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Signed book: Profiles in Courage. First edition. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover, 6 x 8.5, 266 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in black ink as president to historian and biographer John Maxwell Taylor, “For John Taylor, with every good wish from his friend – John Kennedy, August 1961.” The front cover bears Kennedy’s facsimile signature. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with John Maxwell Taylor's personal bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and minor rubbing to the spine.
The recipient, John Maxwell Taylor, is the son of General Maxwell D. Taylor, who served as JFK's primary military advisor as his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A superb association between a sitting American president and the son of the highest-ranking military officer in the United States.
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