[Rarebooks] FS: Harry Truman Inscribed as President to the future Speaker of the House

[Charles Agvent]

(TRUMAN, Harry) HILLMAN, William MR. PRESIDENT. THE FIRST PUBLICATION 
FROM THE PERSONAL DIARIES, PRIVATE LETTERS PAPERS AND REVEALING 
INTERVIEWS OF HARRY TRUMAN
Farrar, Straus & Young New York (1952) First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11") 
bound in two-toned cloth and illustrated with numerous facsimiles of 
Truman's writing, drawings, and photographs in color and black and 
white. An incredible copy, INSCRIBED by Truman as President in the large 
blank margin beneath the color frontispiece photograph of Truman at his 
desk: "To Hon. & Mrs. John W. McCormack with/kindest regards for their 
good friend./White House,/Harry Truman/Dec. 17, 1952." McCormack was a 
Democratic member from Massachusetts of the United States Congress from 
1928 to 1971, serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives under 
Kennedy and Johnson from 1963 to 1971. Only Tip O'Neill served a longer 
term as Speaker (10 years). Binding a bit cocked; lacking the 
dustwrapper. Very Good and a superb presentation.    $5000.00
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