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59 KENNEDY, John F. To Turn the Tide. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962 inscribed by president kennedy First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the 35th president on the title page “For Adolph Toigo – with very best wishes – John F. Kennedy 1962”, with a letter on White House letterhead dated 7 March 1962 mounted to the front free endpaper. The letter reads “Dear Mr. Toigo: The President asked me to send you the enclosed copies of ‘To Turn the Tide’ which he was happy to autograph for you and Mr. Cramer. The President enjoyed seeing you yesterday and extends his warm regards. Sincerely, Priscilla Wear, Office of the President”. The recipient Adolph J. Toigo (1905–1981) was president of Lennen and Newell, one of the country’s largest advertising agencies. Toigo had listed himself in Who’s Who as a committed Republican and was a veteran of the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign. Kennedy’s close friend Lem Billings, however, records that Toigo was a staunch Kennedy supporter since the pair met in 1959, prior to Kennedy’s running for president (Billings, p. 513). The event to which the letter refers was the 18th annual Washington conference of the Advertising Council, which Kennedy addressed on 6 March 1962. Kennedy later appointed Toigo to serve on the President’s Business Committee for the
National Cultural Center. To Turn the Tide collects Kennedy’s public statements and addresses from his first year in office. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Letter mounted to front free endpaper with archival adhesive, former mounting has slightly creased and discoloured the endpaper and facing title page; jacket a little soiled and rubbed, price intact. A good copy. ¶ “Kirk Lemoyne Billings: Oral History Interview”, 15 January 1965, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Archives, digital identifier JFKOH-KLB–07. £7,500 [158283] 60 KENNEY, Annie. Memories of a Militant. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924 with the scarce jacket First edition, first impression, of Kenney’s autobiography, a passionate account of the militant suffrage movement by one of its “leading actors” (foreword). This copy is exceptional for retaining the original dust jacket correctly priced 16/- net on the spine; as a result, the cloth is particularly bright and unmarked. Although well represented institutionally, we can trace no copies in commerce. After hearing Christabel Pankhurst and Teresa Billington speak about women’s suffrage in her local town of Oldham, Annie Kenney (1879–1953) became one of the leading figures in the WSPU, co-founding the first London branch with Millie Baldock and encouraging the policy of militancy within the group. When
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