TRUMAN, HARRY Mr. President. The first publication from the personal diaries, private letters, papers and revealing interviews of Harry S. Truman, Thirty-Second President of the United States of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Presentation copy, "To Hon David Edelstein with best/wishes and kindest regards/Harry S. Truman/White House/May 10 1952." Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. 11 x 7 7/8 inches (27.5 x 20 cm); viii, 253, [1] pp., plates. Several tears to jacket, in all a very good copy . Inscribed by Truman as President. David Norton Edelstein, the recipient of this copy, was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who received a recess appointment from President Harry S. Truman on November 1, 1951. At his death in 2000 he was the last federal judge continuing in active service to be appointed by Truman. C Estate of Florence and Judge David Edelstein
TRUMAN, HARRY Mr. President. The first publication from the personal diaries, private letters, papers and revealing interviews of Harry S. Truman, Thirty-Second President of the United States of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Presentation copy, "To Hon David Edelstein with best/wishes and kindest regards/Harry S. Truman/White House/May 10 1952." Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. 11 x 7 7/8 inches (27.5 x 20 cm); viii, 253, [1] pp., plates. Several tears to jacket, in all a very good copy . Inscribed by Truman as President. David Norton Edelstein, the recipient of this copy, was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who received a recess appointment from President Harry S. Truman on November 1, 1951. At his death in 2000 he was the last federal judge continuing in active service to be appointed by Truman. C Estate of Florence and Judge David Edelstein
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