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Auction archive: Lot number 53

TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen . [New York]: Bernard Geis, [1960]. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original brown quarter calf, marbled boards, front cover with gilt-lettered calf lettering piece, gilt-lettered on spine; original publisher's board slipcase, ...

Auction 14.02.2001
14 Feb 2001 - 15 Feb 2001
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$28,200
Auction archive: Lot number 53

TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen . [New York]: Bernard Geis, [1960]. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original brown quarter calf, marbled boards, front cover with gilt-lettered calf lettering piece, gilt-lettered on spine; original publisher's board slipcase, ...

Auction 14.02.2001
14 Feb 2001 - 15 Feb 2001
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$28,200
Beschreibung:

TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen . [New York]: Bernard Geis, [1960]. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original brown quarter calf, marbled boards, front cover with gilt-lettered calf lettering piece, gilt-lettered on spine; original publisher's board slipcase, printed portrait panel mounted. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT on the half-title: "To Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt from her good friend and great admirer Harry S. Truman Independence August 8, 1960." IN A PRESENTATION BINDING, the front cover label reading "Author's Edition." Mr. Citizen collects Truman's essays written after leaving office "to point out this long neglect in not making available to our country the counsel and knowledge of former Presidents."

Auction archive: Lot number 53
Auction:
Datum:
14 Feb 2001 - 15 Feb 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

TRUMAN, Harry S. Mr. Citizen . [New York]: Bernard Geis, [1960]. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original brown quarter calf, marbled boards, front cover with gilt-lettered calf lettering piece, gilt-lettered on spine; original publisher's board slipcase, printed portrait panel mounted. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT on the half-title: "To Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt from her good friend and great admirer Harry S. Truman Independence August 8, 1960." IN A PRESENTATION BINDING, the front cover label reading "Author's Edition." Mr. Citizen collects Truman's essays written after leaving office "to point out this long neglect in not making available to our country the counsel and knowledge of former Presidents."

Auction archive: Lot number 53
Auction:
Datum:
14 Feb 2001 - 15 Feb 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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