First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Harmon Meigs kindest regards from his father’s friend Harry Truman 6/7/60”. Harmon Meigs’s father was Merrill C. Meigs, vice-president of the Hearst Corporation, who gave flying lessons to Truman. Mr. Citizen gives an account of Truman’s years after leaving the presidency. Octavo. Original white and blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to cloth and jacket, the latter a little toned; a very good copy. £1,250 [158155] 151 TRUMAN, Harry S. – HILLMAN, William. Mr. President. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952 inscribed by the president First edition, inscribed by beneath the frontispiece, “to my good friend Maple T. Harl with kindest regards. Harry Truman White House, May 7, 1952”.
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149 THOMAS, Dylan. Collected Poems 1934– 1952. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1952 “i sang in my chains like the sea” First edition, signed limited issue, number 10 of 65 copies only, signed by the author, printed on handmade paper, and specially bound. The book, published just a year before Thomas’s death, collects all his significant poems. Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Dylan Thomas after the painting by Augustus John. Boards very slightly bowed, some marks to sides, light spotting to edges and endpapers, very good condition. £6,000 [157315] 150 TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen. New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1960 inscribed to the son of his flying instructor
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