RARE PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION COPY, ONE OF ONLY 60 COPIES, TRUMAN’S 1951 ADDRESS AT THE RATIFICATION OF THE JAPANESE PEACE TREATY, WARMLY INSCRIBED AT CHRISTMAS BY TRUMAN IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION TO HIS SECRETARY OF LABOR

(TRUMAN, Harry). Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty, September 4, 1951. Washington: White House, Christmas 1951. Slim octavo, original half crushed russet morocco, uncut; pp. 12, [6]. WITH: Laid-in partial letterhead envelope (3 by 5 inches) addressed in typescript. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

Special limited first edition, number 13 of only 60 copies, with the text from Truman’s speech at the Japanese Peace Conference, printed for President Truman at Christmas 1951, an exceptional presentation/association copy warmly inscribed in the month of publication, “To Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, with best wishes for a Merry Christmas, Harry Truman, Dec. 25, 1951.” Recipient Tobin, Truman's Secretary of Labor and a powerful supporter of his administration, was credited by Truman as key to his victory in the close 1948 election,

With his ratification of the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco on September 4, 1951, President Harry Truman brought to a conclusion, in his own words, "a bitter and costly war." That historic event is commemorated here in a special limited edition of only 60 copies, containing the complete "Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty." Within Truman speaks of the "long and patient negotiations… fair to both victor and vanquished," which produced the treaty, and his hopes for moving the world toward "a firm and lasting peace." With gilt-embossed Presidential Seal to front board. Recipient Maurice J. Tobin, Truman's Secretary of Labor, was a mayor of Boston, a supporter of FDR's New Deal, and a governor of Massachusetts prior to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, "where he spoke out in defense of President Truman's stand on civil rights… Nominated as secretary of labor on 7 August 1948, Tobin accepted the job at great risk to his own political career (since all political experts had predicted Truman's inevitable defeat) and campaigned indefatigably for the president. After the 1948 election Truman credited Tobin as one of those to whom he was indebted for his victory… Tobin continued to campaign for Truman's social agenda and defended the president's foreign policy, becoming one of the administration's foremost advocates" (ANB). With laid-in partial White House letterhead envelope, addressed in typescript to Tobin, with small Christmas sticker affixed to upper right corner.

A fine inscribed presentation copy with a distinctive association.