[Rarebooks] FS: Harry Truman's MEMOIRS, 2 volumes, both SIGNED, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

On this day in 1951, President Harry S. Truman's opening speech before a 
conference in San Francisco 
<http://www.history.com/topics/san-francisco> is broadcast across the 
nation, marking the first time a television program was broadcast from 
coast to coast.

Price reduced:     Was $2000,      Now $1500

TRUMAN, Harry. MEMOIRS. YEAR OF DECISIONS and YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE. 
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1955) & (1956). Early but not 
first printings of each volume. Each copy is INSCRIBED "To Dr. & Mrs. A. 
Von Striffe" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title pages on 
12/8/67. On the same page at the bottom are inscriptions from another 
doctor presenting the books at Christmas 1967. Truman usually only 
signed one volume, most often the first, of the set, and it is uncommon 
to find both volumes signed, especially when inscribed to the same 
person. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrappers. (#014358)        $1,500.00

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