[Rarebooks] FS: Harry Truman Inscribed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of fine signed Presidential items that will be part of our 
latest catalogue to be posted on our website by Monday: 
http://www.erols.com/agvent.  Also included will be important signed and 
association copies of FDR and Teddy Roosevelt books.

TRUMAN,  Harry.  MEMOIRS. YEARS OF TRIAL AND  HOPE.  Inscribed  to
Franklin  Delano Roosevelt, Jr.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1956.  First Edition.  An outstanding Presentation Copy INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  by the author to the son and namesake of the man he served  as
Vice-President  and  whom he succeeded in office: "With  kind  regards
to/my good friend/Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr./from/Harry Truman/
Independence/July  14, 1956."  While never achieving the renown of his
  father,  Franklin  D.   Roosevelt,  Jr.  was  a   successful
congressman  (1949-1954)  who twice ran for governor of New  York  and
who  was a close friend and early backer of John F. Kennedy.  He later
became a successful businessman.  Light dampstain to the very  bottom
of the cloth not affecting the contents.  Very Good in a Good
dustwrapper.                                                  $7500.00

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