harry helm (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Small abrasion on rear pastedown, moderate foxing on the cover with a small tear along the joint, very good, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Spine and edges sunned, very good being poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First edition of Harry Truman: A Political Biography by William Helm, signed by President Harry Truman. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vii, 241pp. Black cloth, title in red on spine and front cover. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, internally clean. In the publisher's dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, closed tear along front panel, light shelf wear, a very good example. (Burns, 0080) Signed by Harry S. Truman on the front free endpaper. A scarce title to find signed by President Truman. William Helm, the author of Harry Truman: A Political Biography, was the Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Journal-Post. He had a long association with Senator Truman and continued to cover his career after he ascended to the Vice Presidency. This work focuses mainly on Harry Truman's time as a Senator. Truman noted that this account of his early years was "not very accurate.". Signed.