Description
Signed first edition of Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, inscribed and dated by President Truman.
Octavo, [two volumes], xi, 596pp; xi, 594pp. Black cloth, titles in silver on spines, signature of the author in gilt on front covers. Stated “first edition” in both volumes. Top edge dyed green. Both volumes with solid text blocks, faint toning to endpapers, touch of wear to cloth panels. Front hinge of Volume II starting, but stable. In publisher’s dust jackets, price clipped, bright illustrations, archival tissue repairs to closed tears on spine. (Burns 0016)
Inscribed by President Harry S. Truman in Volume II: “Best wishes to Ivery + Mabel Madsen from Harry Truman 10/1/59.”
