[Rarebooks] FS: White House Christmas Book INSCRIBED by FDR to FDR Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

Another one of the 65 exceptional items from our new Spring Catalog 
recently posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. THE FOURTH WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS BOOK.
Inscribed  to  FDR, Jr.. Washington: Government Printing Office  1939.
First  Edition.  PROCEEDINGS AT THE CEREMONY IN COMMEMORATION  OF  THE
ONE  HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST
CONGRESS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION  AT  A  JOINT
SESSION  OF THE CONGRESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH  FOURTH
NINETEEN  THIRTY-NINE. 76th Congress, 1st Session. House Document  No.
212.  Specially bound in black morocco, covers with single-fillet gilt
border,  front  cover  gilt-lettered; blue watered silk  linings,  the
front  lining  centering  the  Presidential   seal  stamped  in  gilt.
Illustrated  with photos; 47 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT TO  HIS
SON  on  the front endpaper: "FDR Jr. from FDR 1939." Included in  the
text  is  FDR's  address on pages 35-42. One of the  scarcest  of  the
Christmas  book series, this title has neither a printed nor autograph
colophon,  and the number of copies made remains unknown. While  never
achieving  the renown of his father, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.  was a
successful  congressman (1949-1954) who twice ran for governor of  New
York  and who was a close friend and early backer of John F.  Kennedy.
He  later  became  a successful businessman. Text block  pulling  from
covers  a  bit but still very tight; some spotting to leather.  Housed
in  a  custom  blue  silk clamshell box  with  a  gilt-lettered  black
morocco  label on the front cover. Near Fine in custom clamshell  box.
                                                             $30,000.00

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