[Rarebooks] FS: Special Edition of Truman's Memoirs Inscribed to his Secretary of Treasury

[Charles Agvent]

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TRUMAN, Harry. MEMOIRS. YEAR OF DECISIONS and YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE. 
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955 & 1956. First Edition. Two 
volumes. A special and obviously limited edition of this book bound in 
full blue cloth with gilt-lettered black spine labels, rather than the 
black cloth of the regular and Kansas City editions, and also larger in 
size than those editions (6" x 9-1/2"). This edition appears to have 
been reserved for the author's use and presented by the President to 
those close to him. Each book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to 
his former Secretary of the Treasury on the half-title pages. The first 
volume is inscribed: "To my friend and long/time comrade, John W. 
Snyder,/the greatest Secretary of the/Treasury the country ever 
had,/with affectionate regards from/Harry Truman/Independence/Dec. 17, 
1955." In addition each book is housed in its original slipcase, each of 
which the President has also INSCRIBED and SIGNED to Snyder with his 
initials, though the ink on the slipcases is badly faded. The second 
volume bears a simpler inscription: "To Honorable Johbn W. Snyder/from 
his good friend/Harry Truman/5-5-56." Snyder has highlighted a number of 
passages with both pen and pencil. He is cited many times in the text. 
Tear along gutter of half-title page in first volume, page still very 
much intact. Both volumes Fine, original glassine still partly present 
on the second volume. Slipcases Very Good with light wear. $8,500.00	

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 of Truman's second term.

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