[Rarebooks] FS: Signed by FDR with "The White House" added by him

[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, 
Jimmy Carter, Stevie Smith, and others.  Please visit: 
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> [ROOSEVELT,  Franklin  Delano] THORNBOROUGH, Laura.  THE         GREAT 
> SMOKY  MOUNTAINS.  New  York:  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  Co.         
> (1937).  First Edition. Illustrated with endpaper maps, black         
> & white  drawings  by  Vivian  Moir,  and  sixteen  full-page         
> photographs.    Several  pages  are   devoted   to   Franklin         
> Roosevelt's  visit  in 1936 which is also referred to in  the         
> author's  nearly  full-page SIGNED INSCRIPTION  to  President         
> Roosevelt  dated 15 April 1937 on the half title page.  Below         
> the author's  inscription  is   Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt's         
> SIGNATURE  with  the  additional notation in  his  hand  "The         
> White House."    On  the  facing  page   is  a  1955   pencil         
> inscription  from  John Fleming presenting the book to  noted         
> bibliophile  and  former  director  of  the  Pierpont  Morgan         
> Library  Frederick  B. Adams, Jr. whose mother Ellen  Walters         
> Delano  was  FDR's first cousin. Laid in is a catalogue  card         
> from the  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection with a  pencil         
> notation:  "W.  H.  Cabinet 3rd floor." Fine in a  Near  Fine         
> dustwrapper.                                         $2000.00 


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