Description
Signed first edition of Truman Speaks, by former President Harry S. Truman.
Octavo, xii, [2], 133pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine over red ink label. Previous owner’s sticker and stamped code on front endpaper. First printing, with no additional printings noted. Internally clean, solid text block. In publisher’s dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, light wear at edges, toning to spine.
Signed by President Harry Truman on half-title.
(Burns, 0105) An attractive signed piece.
Truman Speaks is a collection of speeches given by former President Harry Truman at Columbia University in 1959. Topics included the presidency, the Constitution, and the “menace of demagoguery to democracy.”
