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First edition, a deluxe edition reserved for President Truman, which he financed himself: one of 101 copies bound in morocco for the American President.
Precious copy presented to the current British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden:
Inscribed: "To the Right Honorable Sir Anthony Eden from Harry S. Truman, Independence Dec. 31, 1955" in Volume 1,
and
"To the Right Honorable Sir Anthony Eden with great respect from Harry S. Truman, Independence July 14, 1956" in Volume 2.
Harry Truman became President on Roosevelt's sudden death on April 12, 1945, and it was Anthony Eden who represented Great Britain at Roosevelt's funeral. Both volumes were published, and donated, during Eden's term as Prime Minister (April 1955 to January 1957). Truman had just completed his second term as President of the United States (April 12, 1945, then November 2, 1948 to January 20, 1953).
Anthony Eden was Churchill's Foreign Secretary for most of the Second World War, from December 1940 to July 1945. He served Churchill loyally… Read More

First edition.
A deluxe copy in a special cardboard binding, with gold gilt embossing on the front cover of the United States Congress, with a name sheet added at the head, addressed to Anthony Eden:
"For the Lord Avon from John F. Flynt Jr A Representative in the Congress of the United States of America 24 January 1966".
This precious copy is dedicated to Anthony Eden, Churchill's former Foreign Secretary during the war and British Prime Minister in 1951, following Winston Churchill. The volume is a gift from Representative John J. Flynt Jr. of Georgia, a Democrat who served in the US House of Representatives from 1954 to 1979.
Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965 at the age of 90: it was the first state funeral for a non-royal since Edward Carson and will remain the most recent state funeral in the UK until Queen Elizabeth II's funeral on 19 September. With President Johnson unwell, the United States sent Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Dwight D. Eisenhowern, Secretary of State Dean… Read More

"Houston we've had a problem".Kennedy Space Center, 1970. Access card, under a Plexiglas badge holder, (80 x 55 mm).Original Access card for the launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Houston.Apollo 13 (11 April 1970 - 17 April 1970) was the third mission of the American Apollo space programme, which was to bring a crew to the surface of the Moon. Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were to land near the Fra Mauro geological formation, the site of one of the most significant asteroid impacts on the Moon's surface, while Jack Swigert was to remain in orbit. But a serious accident, which could have been fatal for the crew, occurred during the transit between the Earth and the Moon and forced the abandonment of the mission and the return to Earth.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Mission Apollo 13 Kennedy Space Center, 1970Un carte d'accès, sous porte-badge plexiglas, (80 x 55 mm)."Houston we've had a problem"Carte d'accès au lancement au Kennedy Space center de Houston.Apollo 13 (11 avril 1970 - 17 avril 1970) est… Read More