[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by Harry Truman to the man to whom he gave the order to bomb Hiroshima

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of fine SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL items in our inventory 
including letters, ephemera, photographs, and signed books, all of which 
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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 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 "G.M.E." of the recipient of the copy. Further the book is 
INSCRIBED by Truman as President below the initials "To: Hon. George M. 
Elsey,/From: The President./White House./August 10, 1952." In addition, 
in the blank margin beneath the color frontispiece photograph of Truman 
at his desk, the President has written: "To an able & efficient public 
servant!" George Elsey worked in the White House Map Room during WWII 
before becoming an Administrative Assistant to President Truman from 
1949 until the end of 1951 when he left the White House staff to be the 
senior assistant to Averill Harriman who was named to the new post of 
director for Mutual Security in the Executive Office of the President. 
Elsey remained in that position until January 1953 and the end of the 
Truman administration. As Truman's assistant, Elsey worked on most of 
Truman's important speeches and had an important role in shaping them to 
conform to Truman's natural, off-the-cuff, forceful style. It was to 
Elsey in 1945 that Truman handed his historic handwritten note to be 
transmitted to the War Department authorizing the dropping of the first 
atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Minor rubbing to the spine tips of the 
book.Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Outstanding association. 
(#010708) $15,000.00

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