Inscribed to Jayne Wrightsman

Lot 115
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Lot 115 | Inscribed to Jayne Wrightsman
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Inscribed to Jayne Wrightsman

by Jacqueline Kennedy

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



Jayne Wrightsman's copy of Kennedy's collected speeches 1962-1963. A special gift to Jayne from Jacqueline Kennedy, a volume of Kennedy's speeches edited by Alan Nevins and forward by Lyndon Johnson, published the year after his assassination in Dallas on 23 November 1963. Jacqueline Kennedy adds a short inscription on the front endpaper: "For Jayne with my love Jackie / Christmas 1966".



Octavo (204 x 138mm), bound in blue morocco gilt with Presidential seal in gold and Wrightsman's initials "J.W." at lower right. (A few scuffs to spine and boards, spine sunned.) With Jayne Wrightsman's bookplate.

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