Description
The Author’s Limited Edition of Mr. Citizen, inscribed by President Harry Truman to the first female Treasurer of the United States, Georgia Neese Clark.
Octavo, 315pp, [5]. Half brown morocco, title in gilt on spine over black label. Top edge dyed pink, marbled endpapers. Includes the publisher’s scarce wax paper dust jacket, often lacking. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, photographic label on side, light shelf wear. Includes 16 halftone photographic plates. (Burns, 0017) This is the Author’s Edition of Mr. Citizen, which was specially produced by Doubleday for the personal use of President Truman.
Inscribed on the half title: “To Georgia Neese + Andy Gray / from / their good friend, with kindest regards and with great appreciation of their friendship / Harry S. Truman / Independence / Sept. 21, 1961.”
Georgia Neese Clark (1898-1995) was the first woman appointed Treasurer of the United States, serving from June 1949 to January 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. A graduate in economics from Washburn College, she worked briefly as an actress in New York before returning to Kansas to manage her family’s bank during the Great Depression. A committed Democrat, she became Kansas’s Democratic National Committeewoman in 1936 and supported Truman’s 1948 presidential campaign. Following his victory, Truman appointed her Treasurer, making her the first woman whose signature appeared on U.S. currency.
