[Rarebooks] FS: Franklin Roosevelt ON OUR WAY Inscribed to his secretary and fellow polio victim

[Charles Agvent]

 From one of the finest collections of Franklin Roosevelt material offered in 
many years, part of our catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material now posted on 
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and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt.

ROOSEVELT,  Franklin Delano. ON OUR WAY. New York: The  John  Day
Company  (1934). First Edition. Early issue with errors on pages x and
162,  here  corrected by Roosevelt in ink, with the errata  slip  laid
in.  An important book, the recently elected President's  presentation
of  his  plans, referred to as the "New Deal" by the people,  to  pull
America  from  the pit of the Depression. According to Ernest  Halter,
Roosevelt's  bibliographer,  FDR inscribed copies of the  first  trade
edition  as his Christmas book "correcting the typographical errors by
hand."  This  copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author as  President
on  the front endpaper: "For Toinette Marya Bachelder/Merry  Christmas
from/her  old friend/Franklin D. Roosevelt/1934." Bachelder contracted
polio  as  a child, leaving her with one leg paralyzed. On a  trip  to
Warm  Springs, Georgia, as a teenager, she struck up a friendship with
the  future President, and in 1933, she went to Washington to work for
him  at the White House where she was a member of his inner circle and
where    she  stayed  for  33   years  retiring  during  the   Johnson
administration.  She  was at Warm Springs with Roosevelt when he  died
there  in  April 1945 and rode on the special train that  carried  his
body  back  to Washington. Donated to a public library by Toi and  her
mother  Mable, a Correspondence Reviewer at the White House from  1936
until  1951,  this  copy bears a presentation bookplate on  the  front
pastedown  and  small  ink stamps on the endpapers and title  page  as
well  as  a  card pocket and some writing on the  rear  pastedown  and
small  white numbers on the spine. The dustwrapper is very  attractive
with  a  small  snag on the rear. Very Good in a  supplied  Near  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                  $7500.00

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