THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT: November 10--November 25, 1963 By William Manchester. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1967). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, $10.00 printed to the jacket's flap. Manchester, a journalist and military history and political biography author, was commissioned by the Kennedy family to write this now classic detailed account of the activities of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, prior to, during, and after the assassination, leading to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone. Jacqueline demanded certain parts be omitted just prior to the book's publication, and then as a bestseller, it was widely considered suppressed in republication until 1988. Very nearly fine in blue linen with gilt embossed titles and torch depiction to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, blue with black type chronology to the front end-papers, blue, black and white map-illustrated rear end-papers; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with minute crimps to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; original printed $10.00 price and date code 0467 still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 710 pages; appendixes; index; plus glossary; plus foreword. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION STUDIES THANKS! |