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KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963). Why England Slept. With an Introduction by Henry R. Luce. New York: Wilfred Frunk, Inc., 1940.
8vo. Original red cloth stamped in blue and white, dark blue top stain (head slightly bumped); original unclipped dust jacket with price “$2.00” (some small creases near head, light wear at foot and top fore-corners, else fine).
FIRST EDITION of Kennedy’s first published work, which was a thesis written in his first senior year at Harvard College on the subject of British appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany that was conceived as a follow-up to Churchill’s While England Slept.