Memoirs: Year of Decisions and Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1946-1952.

TRUMAN, Harry S.

Item Number: 72010

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955-56.

First editions of the memoirs of President Harry S. Truman. Octavo, two volumes, original black cloth, blue topstain. Inscribed by the author in both volumes one and two, “To Edward I. Wolf D.D.S. Kind regards Harry S Truman  3/28/58.” Both volumes are near fine with a contemporary inscription in near fine dust jackets with light wear. Jacket design by Sidney Butchkes. Jacket photograph by Eliot Elisofon. Uncommon and desirable signed in both volumes.

"Truman’s Memoirs are an invaluable record of the former president’s tumultuous years in office, his early days in Missouri, and his rise in local and state politics. There are delightful glimpses of his family life, striking appraisals and anecdotes of world leaders such as Churchill, Stalin, Chiang and De Gaulle, and candid disclosures about the background of national and international events. But overshadowing all is the story of the glorious task of bringing a war to an end, of working for an enduring peace and leading the free world into a new age" (Doubleday).