[Rarebooks] FS: THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE, 1950, INSCRIBED by Harry Truman

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of fine SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL items in our inventory 
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(TRUMAN, Harry) DANIELS, Jonathan. THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE. Philadelphia 
& New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1950). First Edition. Fourth 
Impression. The first full story of the President's rise from a Missouri 
farm to the White House written by his presidential secretary who helped 
Truman in his transition from Vice-President to President. His father, 
Josephus Daniels, as the Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson, was 
Franklin D. Roosevelt's first boss in the federal government. This copy 
is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President on the half-title page: 
"To Judge Abraham L. Marovitz/kind regards from/Harry Truman." Truman 
has also dated this "12/9/60" and added a note: "(Read it carefully!)." 
Marovitz was United States District Court Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois. His ownership stamps are on the front pastedown 
and endpaper. Near Fine in a Good or better, attractive dustwrapper. 
(#013784)        $1,000.00

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