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Memoirs by Harry S. Truman; Year Of Decisions / Years Of Trial And Hope
by Truman, Harry S
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- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. Limited Edition. Full leather. Fine. Limited edition of the Memoirs of Harry S. Truman, for the personal use of former President Truman.. Thick octavo, [in two volumes], xi, 596pp; xi, 594pp. Blue leather, title in gilt on spine of each volume. Top edge gilt. Each volume in a publisher's cardboard slipcase, title on label affixed to side panel. This set is not signed. This leather-bound set was produced for the personal use of President Harry Truman when he maintained an office at the Truman Presidential Library. Only a handful of signed sets are known to exist, all given to close associates and family members of President Truman. The remaining volumes were eventually sold by the library as unsigned sets. (Burns 0016).
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13474
- Title
- Memoirs by Harry S. Truman; Year Of Decisions / Years Of Trial And Hope
- Author
- Truman, Harry S
- Illustrator
- Limited edition of the Memoirs of Harry S. Truman, for the personal use of former President Truman.
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- first edition President Truman, first edition Memoirs Truman, Murder in the White House Truman, Murder on Capitol Hill Truman, Years of Trial and Hope, first edition Margaret Truman, Mr Citizen Truman
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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- Octavo
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