[Rarebooks] FS: FDR's copy of an attack on Thomas Jefferson

[Charles Agvent]

 From one of the finest collections of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt material 
offered in many years, part of our catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material 
posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent.  Also included are important 
signed and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt.

[ROOSEVELT,  Franklin  Delano] SULLIVAN, Hon. William. THE PUBLIC  MEN
OF  THE  REVOLUTION:  INCLUDING EVENTS FROM THE PEACE OF 1783  TO  THE
PEACE  OF  1815. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. Philadelphia: Carey and  Hart
1847.  First  Edition. Original blindstamped brown cloth.  Illustrated
with  a frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in  1834,
this  is an enlarged edition with a biographical sketch of the  author
by  his son. Howes S-1130; Sabin 93559: "An attack on Thomas Jefferson
and  a  defense of the Federalist party." Franklin Delano  Roosevelt's
copy  with his bold SIGNATURE "Franklin D. Roosevelt/Hyde Park" on the
front  endpaper  along with the notation "Very fine  copy."  Roosevelt
was  sympathetic  toward Jefferson, identifying with him as  a  leader
who  brought the government back into the hands of the people and  who
fashioned  a  government that served the best interests of the  people
rather  than  the  interests  of  the  privileged.  On  the  pastedown
opposite  Roosevelt's signature is a pencil inscription by the  former
owner,  A.  Boyd  Hamilton,  State  Printer  of  Pennsylvania  in  the
mid-nineteenth  century,  dated 1887 presenting the book to  his  son.
Hamilton's  signature  dated 1847 is also on the title page in  ink. A
fine  example  of a book from FDR's library with  distinctly  American
content  including  much  on George Washington and  Thomas  Jefferson.
Some chipping to the head of the spine. Near Fine             $3000.00

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