[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce First Signed Limited Edition of Truman's MR. CITIZEN Inscribed to his Secretary of the Treasury

[Charles Agvent]

 From our New Spring List of Rare Books & Autographs now posted on our 
home page: http://www.charlesagvent.com. This title, along with many 
others, is also at the New York Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory at 
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TRUMAN, Harry. MR. CITIZEN. (New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First 
Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his 
experiences after leaving the White House. The scarcest of the three 
issues of this book, this is the Author's Edition bound in half brown 
morocco and patterned paper boards with two gilt-lettered black labels 
on the spine and a larger label on the front cover noting this as the 
"Author's Edition." It is believed that only 100 copies were issued in 
this manner for use by Truman to give to families and friends. This copy 
is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to his former Secretary of the 
Treasury on the half-title page: "To Honorable John Wesley 
Snyder,/from/his good friend, comrade/and associate in most/trying 
times. He was the/greatest of the great Secretaries/of the 
Treasury./Sincerely/Harry Truman/Independence/November 11, 1960." Snyder 
has highlighted a few passages with pencil. Housed in the original 
pictorial slipcase which is also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author: 
"Honorable John W. Snyder/from/Harry Truman." This inscription and 
signature are rubbed and faded but still visible. Some rubbing to one of 
the spine labels. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. 		$4,000.00

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