Signed books: Memoirs (Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope) in two volumes. Special Kansas City Edition limited to 11,500 copies. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Hardcover with dustjacket (Volume II missing dustjacket), 6 x 8.5, 594 and 596 pages. Signed on the half-title page of second volume, “With best wishes to Merrill Meigs from Harry Truman 12/14/56.” In very good condition, with lightly toned pages, soiling to the dustjacket spine, and a bit of discoloration at the bottom of each dustjacket spine from past exposure to moisture. Merrill Church Meigs (1883-1968) was an executive of the Chicago Herald and Examiner in the 1920s. Inspired to become a pilot by Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became a booster of Chicago as a world center of aviation. He gave flying lessons to President Truman. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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