[Rarebooks] FS: From FDR's White House Library

[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 
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[ROOSEVELT,  Franklin Delano] HALDANE, A. R. B. BY  MANY
        WATERS.  A  RECORD  OF FISHING AND  WALKING.  London:  Thomas
        Nelson  (1940).  First  Edition. Illustrated  with  full-page
        photographs.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt's copy SIGNED by  him
        with his  initials:  "FDR/1942" on the front  endpaper.  Once
        tipped  to  the  bottom of the endpaper and  now  loose  is a
        small brown  piece  of paper on which is written:  "Dear  Mr.
        President--/from  Bishop  Atwood--/If he has no time to  read
        it/he may  like  to  put it/into the  White  House  Library."
        Bishop  Julius W. Atwood was head of the Episcopal Church  in
        Arizona,  having  come there in hopes the climate would  help
        his wife  Anna,  who  had tuberculosis and who  died  shortly
        after their   arrival.  Roosevelt  was   to  be  an  honorary
        pallbearer  at Atwood's funeral in April 1945, but his  death
        on April  12  while  in  Warm Springs came  first.  From  the
        library  of  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. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.     $900.00

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