SIGNED BY HARRY TRUMAN
TRUMAN, Harry S. Memoirs: Year of Decisions. WITH: Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955-56. Two volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jackets. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Special Kansas City first editions, signed on the half title of Volume I by President Truman.
"Truman's Memoirs are an invaluable record of the former president's tumultuous years in office, his early days in Missouri, and his rise in local and state politics. There are delightful glimpses of his family life, striking appraisals and anecdotes of world leaders such as Churchill, Stalin, Chiang and De Gaulle, and candid disclosures about the background of national and international events. But overshadowing all is the story of the glorious task of bringing a war to an end, of working for an enduring peace and leading the free world into a new age" (Doubleday). Precedes the first trade edition; issued the same year as a limited number of specially bound presentation copies. Volume I is one of 20,165 copies; Volume II is one of 11,500. Without scarce slipcase. Bookplates of McDonald's president and chief executive Harry J. Sonneborn.
Books fine, price-clipped dust jackets with mild wear, a bit of fading to spines. A near-fine copy.