TAYLOR, Myron C. (1874-1959, editor). Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII, New York, 1947, large 8vo, original cream parchment, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden.

TAYLOR, Myron Charles (1874-1959, editor).  Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII. With an Introduction & Explanatory Notes by Myron C. Taylor, Personal Representative of the President of the United States of America to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Large 8vo (235 x 160mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, preface by Harry S. Truman, coloured portraits of President Roosevelt, Pope Pius XII and Harry S. Truman. Original cream parchment, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, partly unopened, slipcase, silk ribbon. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, THE EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To The Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, with best regards, Myron C. Taylor, April 12, 1947." Following Roosevelt's death on 12 April 1945, Pope Pius XII's final letter in the collection (numbered XXVIII) is dated 13 April and is addressed to Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman. Truman provided the preface for the book, which ends with the (printed) words, "These messages, written during a momentous period of history, constitute a record of incalculable value. That records belongs to all who sought through victory, and continue to seek, the blessings of universal peace and security and well-being. It will be read with interest and appreciation by our contemporaries and will have a permanent place in the history of the greatest war in the annals of mankind."