Description
Signed first edition of Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, inscribed and dated in both volumes.
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 in very good condition, solid text block, faint toning to endpapers. Blind stamp to rear endpaper of both volumes. In publisher’s first state dust jackets, $5.00 on front flap, light toning to spines of both jackets, tape remnant to the lower quarter of both. (Burns 0016) Inscribed by President Harry S. Truman in both volumes: “To Rick Hill from Harry S. Truman. 9-9-68.”
