[Rarebooks] FS: Harry Truman Inscribed to his Secretary of Treasury

[Charles Agvent]

An example from our upcoming Fall list to be posted on our website next 
week. It will contain a fine miscellany of 50-75 items, most of this 
caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Early Printing, Americana, etc.

(TRUMAN, Harry) HILLMAN, William. MR. PRESIDENT. THE FIRST PUBLICATION 
FROM THE PERSONAL DIARIES, PRIVATE LETTERS PAPERS AND REVEALING 
INTERVIEWS OF HARRY TRUMAN. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1952). 
First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in full blue synthetic leather 
with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover consisting of a quote 
by Truman. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of Truman's writing, 
drawings, and photographs in color and black and white. This is one of 
only 250 numbered copies. Instead of a number, Truman has written the 
initials "J.W.S." of the recipient of the copy. Further the book is 
INSCRIBED by Truman as President below the initials "To: Hon. John W. 
Snyder,/From: The President./White House./August 9, 1952." In addition, 
in the blank margin beneath the color frontispiece photograph of Truman 
at his desk, the President has written: "From one goodl friend to 
another!" Snyder was appointed U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1946 by 
his close personal friend President Harry S. Truman, with whom he had 
served in World War I. He developed programs to promote greater 
efficiency within the Treasury Department, including a streamlining of 
the Internal Revenue Service, which assured a more impartial 
administration of tax laws, and a reform of the federal accounting 
system. Snyder resigned at the end Truman's term. There is a full-page 
color photograph of Truman and Snyder in the book, as well as several 
mentions of Snyder in the text. Snyder has highlighted these with 
pencil, including this passage: "Took Ross, Snyder and Rosenman to the 
'House' for lunch.... Told the three of them that they were most in my 
confidence and that I wanted frank and unadulterated statements of facts 
to me from them--and that when they could not treat me on that basis, 
they would be of no use to me." Minor rubbing to edges. Near Fine, 
lacking the slipcase.                            $6,000.00	

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