[Rarebooks] FS: From FDR's White House library, Signed shortly after Pearl Harbor

[Charles Agvent]

One of three books from FDR's White House library in our list of  103 
New Arrivals:  Poets & Presidents, Part II.   The list also includes 
many wonderful signed books, broadsides, and letters by John Berryman, 
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[ROOSEVELT,  Franklin Delano] HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.  THE
        GOLDEN  TOUCH.  [Mount Vernon, NY]: Peter Pauper Press  n.d..
        First Edition.  Quarto  (7-1/4"  x 10") bound in  silk  cloth
        with a  paper  label on the spine and a  circular  decorative
        paper device  by  the illustrator on the front cover. One  of
        385 copies   printed  with  hand-set   type,  decorated   and
        illuminated  in  gold  by  Valenti  Angelo.  Franklin  Delano
        Roosevelt's  copy  with his large, dark, and  bold  SIGNATURE
        "Franklin  D. Roosevelt/1941" on the front endpaper below the
        inscription  to  him by a member of his  private  secretarial
        staff,  Toinette  Bachelder:  "For   the  President  with  my
        best/wishes   for  a   happy   Christmas/Affectionately/Toi."
        Autographs  of FDR dated 1941 are obviously of some interest;
        in this  case his signature, though not dated to the day, was
        most likely  written on or just after Christmas Day, not much
        more than  two  weeks after the Day of Infamy. Laid into  the
        book are  the original Christmas gift tag inscribed, "For the
        President/Affectionately  Toi"  and a note about the book  by
        noted bibliophile  and former director of the Pierpont Morgan
        Library  Frederick  B. Adams, Jr. on his  stationery.  Adams,
        whose mother  Ellen  Walters Delano was FDR's  first  cousin,
        notes Roosevelt's  fondness  for  Peter Pauper  Press  books.
        Also laid  in  is  an  index   card  bearing  an  inscription
        presenting  the  book  to Adams from John and  Jo  [Fleming].
        About Fine in Very Good slipcase.                    $3000.00

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