[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Harry Truman MR. PRESIDENT

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(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 two-toned cloth and 
illustrated with numerous facsimiles of Truman's writing, drawings, and 
photographs in color and black and white. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
former President as usual in the large blank margin beneath the color 
frontispiece photograph of Truman at his desk: "To Kenneth Young, with 
kind regards/from/Harry Truman" and dated 22 February 1958. A Kenneth 
Young was the U.S. ambassador to Thailand from 1961 to 1963, likely the 
subject of this inscription. Very Good or better, lacking the 
dustwrapper. 		$1,000.00

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