The John F. Kennedys: A Family Album
[New York]: Farrar, Straus, [1964]. First Printing. 28 cm, 159, profusely illus., DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ somewhat worn, book somewhat worn especially at edges. More
[New York]: Farrar, Straus, [1964]. First Printing. 28 cm, 159, profusely illus., DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ somewhat worn, book somewhat worn especially at edges. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 32 cm, 161, illus. (some color), index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy. Shepard was a freshman in pre-med when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, sending his life in a different direction – to the U.S. Naval Academy. He was off to war by the age of 22. Shepard earned the Navy Cross – the Navy’s highest award for heroism – for his efforts in Guadalcanal in 1942. He was an ensign on the USS San Francisco as it engaged Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands. The award citation says: “With great coolness and courage, Ensign Shepard remained at his post until his director station could no longer be operated.” He rescued the wounded and organized a first-aid station, which “resulted in the saving of many lives,” the citation says. Shepard served as an aide to Kennedy in 1961-63, during which he oversaw the care and staffing of Camp David and the yachts, and advised the president during the Bay of Pigs incident. Shepard earned 2 master’s degrees–one in strategic warfare and another in nuclear engineering. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 162 pages. DJ is in a plastic cover. DJ scuffed and somewhat worn: small tears, small pieces missing. Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy. Profusely illustrated (some in color), Illus. appendix, index. Inscribed by the author on the free end paper. Inscription reads: December, 1965. To Barbara and Howard Burris--with admiration and warm friendship. Tazewell Shepard. Howard Burris was a military assistant to President Johnson. Barbara Burris was the daughter of Texas Governor Beauford Jester. She and other Texas women accompanied Lady Bird Johnson on a 1,600 mile campaign trip through the South to promote Johnson's civil rights agenda. Shepard was a freshman in pre-med when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, sending his life in a different direction – to the U.S. Naval Academy. He was off to war by the age of 22. Shepard earned the Navy Cross – the Navy’s highest award for heroism – for his efforts in Guadalcanal in 1942. He was an ensign on the USS San Francisco as it engaged Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands. The award citation says: “With great coolness and courage, Ensign Shepard remained at his post until his director station could no longer be operated.” He rescued the wounded and organized a first-aid station, which “resulted in the saving of many lives,” the citation says. Shepard served as an aide to Kennedy in 1961-63, during which he oversaw the care and staffing of Camp David and the yachts, and advised the president during the Bay of Pigs incident. Shepard earned 2 master’s degrees–one in strategic warfare and another in nuclear engineering. More
New York: Trident Press, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 287, DJ worn and soiled, several large edge chips to DJ. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 22 cm, 634, illus., facsimiles, list of witnesses, list of exhibits, index, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some lettering faded. More
New York: F. Fell, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 275, illus., some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Bethesda, MD: National Press Books, 1990. First? Printing. 23 cm, 244, illus., index, slight wear to DJ. More
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 608, [2] pages. The Kennedy Court. Preface. Illustrations. Source Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sarah Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1996. Previously, she was a cultural news reporter for New York Times and Time. She has written biographies of political, cultural, and business figures in the United States and members of the British royal family. She earned her Master of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the Robert Sherwood Memorial Travel-Study Scholarship and the Women's Press Club of New York Award. From a Publishers Weekly article: Smith, narrates scenes from the Kennedy White House. Publicity for this volume emphasized that Smith has interviewed "scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before". Smith waltzes through portraits of the Kennedys entertaining, with the likes of Gore Vidal, Ben Bradlee, William Walton and Mary Meyer. Not a few of the people who loom large in Smith's volume have previously—as Smith's profuse footnotes attest—written their own accounts of the Camelot scenes in which they play. Endeavoring to interweave her eloquently rendered social history with the political history of the Kennedy administration, Smith tends on occasion to oversimplify and understate major strategic discussions and initiatives. For those who seek a highly readable account of the White House milieu shaped by John and Jackie Kennedy, Smith's book does the job. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Signed Limited Edition, Number 268 of 1963 copies. Hardcover in somewhat worn slipcase, with tear at bottom edge. viii, [2], 783, [7] pages. Appendices. Index., This was printed on special paper from the original type and specially bound. Minor discoloration inside the back cover. Slipcase has some wear and soiling. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (May 8, 1928 – October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank". During the early months of the administration, Sorensen's responsibilities concerned the domestic agenda. After the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy asked Sorensen to participate with foreign policy discussions as well. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Sorensen served as a member of ExComm and was named by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara as one of the "true inner circle" members who advised the president, the others being Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, General Maxwell D. Taylor (chairman of the Joint Chiefs), former ambassador to the USSR Llewellyn Thompson, and McNamara himself. Sorensen played a critical role in drafting Kennedy's correspondence with Nikita Khrushchev and worked on Kennedy's first address to the nation about the crisis on October 22. More
New York: Sotheby's, 1996. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 584 p. : ill. (some col. ); 30 cm. Glossary of Terms. Sotheby's auction catalogue, 6834. From Wikipedia: "Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 May 19, 1994), was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; they remained married until his death in 1975. For the final two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a career as a book editor. She is remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, her style, elegance, and grace. A fashion icon, her famous pink Chanel suit has become a symbol of her husband's assassination and one of the lasting images of the 1960s. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Printing. 348, bibliography, index. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1981. 24 cm, 383, illus., remainder mark on bottom edge, DJ and boards show some damp staining. More
New York: Citadel Press, [1964]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 48, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers, small piece missing at top of spine, cover reglued. More
Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, c1997. First Printing. 18 cm, 211, wraps, illus., references, index, covers somehat worn and soiled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Quarto, 127, illus., slight foxing inside boards and to fore-edge, DJ foxed & somewhat soiled: small tears, small chips missing. More
New York: Macfaccen-Bartell Corporation, 1964. A Macfadden original, not previous published in book form. Mass-market paperback. 157, [3] p. 18 cm. : Illustrations, Portraits. More
Washington DC: The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Newspaper. 76 pages. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, firing in ambush from a nearby building. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting; Connally recovered. Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police Department 70 minutes after the initial shooting. Oswald was charged under Texas state law with the murder of Kennedy, as well as that of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit, who had been fatally shot a short time after the assassination. At 11:21 a.m. November 24, 1963, as live television cameras were covering his transfer from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. After a 10-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, that Oswald had acted entirely alone, and that Ruby had acted alone in killing Oswald. Kennedy was the eighth and most recent US President to die in office, and the fourth (following Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) to be assassinated. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson automatically became president upon Kennedy's death. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. 48 p. Includes illustrations. Two newpaper format compilations of articles from The New York Times coverage of the assassination of Kennedy, Oswald, and the state funeral. More
New York: Random House, c1995. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 368, acid-free paper, illus., index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 135, illus., boards heavily spotted. More
n.p. American Heritage Publishing, 1964. quarto, 143, profusely illus. (some in color), app, discolor ins bds, ink inscript ins fr flylf, DJ foxed & stained: sm tears, sm pcs mis. More
New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1993. Reprint edition. First printing [stated]/. Hardcover. Quarto. 143, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated (some in color). Appendix. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Introduction by Bruce Catton. An account of the death of President Kennedy. Told through words and photographs. Compiled by the United Press International and the American Heritage Magazine. This book, now a classic, was republished on the thirtieth anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. It contains all the pictures and words of the original edition, including a preface the by historian Bruce Catton and the Pulitzer Prize-winning eyewitness account by Merriman Smith, White House reporter for United Press International Here is a full presentation of the incredible events that affected the nation and the world as few incidents have done in the memory of men., More
Washington, DC: Tatler Publishing Company, 1963. quarto, 102, wraps, pictorial work containing 202 black and white photographs, map, foxing to covers. More
New York: Cowles Educational Corporation, 1968. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 272 p. 24 cm. Illustrations, Portraits. More
Palm Beach, FL: Baron and Baroness W. Langer von Landendorff of Eyvan Perfumes, Inc., 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. 28 pages plus covers. Tassels. One sheet of Donors and Gifts laid in. Worn and soiled. This is a program from a benefit event held in the Everglades Club March 1961. This was a benefit event held in the Everglades Club. The event was sponsored by Baron and Baroness W. Langer von Landendorff of Eyvan Perfumes, Inc. This event has Palm Beach’s Great Ladies modeling replicas of gowns worn by First Ladies from 1860-1961. Prizes for the event included a 1961 Lincoln Continental. Gold and diamond jewelry, and a week in Las Vegas. There are 13 full color images of the “First Ladies”. 9” x 12” and 28 pages. Numerous pages of text and 2 full pages of advertising for Great lady Perfume by Evyan. The outer covers do have some discoloration. Internally good. Anything original from the Everglades Club is rare! The story goes that the Austrian baron, who immigrated to the U.S. during World War II, founded Evyan perfumes with his first wife, Evelyn Diane Westall. The war weighed on French perfume houses, and Langer was a chemist and his wife a savvy marketer. Their company made them millionaires as women across America bought into the brand, which the couple turned into a lifestyle (their home echoed their perfume’s packaging, and the Evyan logo was featured on their mausoleum). Popular fragrances included Golden Shadows, the actual name of their Westport, Connecticut home, and White Shoulders, later taken over by Elizabeth Arden. Dr. Langer, who had a doctorate in chemistry, worked in his field in Austria before coming to the United States. More