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Harry S. Truman
by Margaret Truman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688000053
- ISBN 13
- 9780688000059
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1973 William Morrow and Company, New York. 1973. Hardcover. 8th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light sunfading around head and tops of boards. DJ; Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($10.95); chipping to jacket at spine head; light rubbing to panels; folds to edges of flaps. Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Gold endpapers. Speckled text block tint. 602 pp 8vo. This unique portrait of harry Truman by his daughter takes him from early days in politics in Missouri to his retirement at Indepencence MO. In the scope of his life, she covers the WWII years, the election in 1948, his days in the White House, his family and his interaction with them, and personal recollections of him from people who knew and worked with him. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015511
- Title
- Harry S. Truman
- Author
- Margaret Truman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688000053
- ISBN 13
- 9780688000059
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, Bess Truman, President Truman, White House, Election, 1948 Election, Thomas Dewey, personal recollections, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Potsdam, Churchill, Stalin, Marshall Plan,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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