[Rarebooks] FS: THE DEMOCRATIC BOOK 1936 with a handsome image of the White House SIGNED by Franklin Roosevelt

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 fine items from our Spring Catalog recently posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

[ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.]. THE DEMOCRATIC BOOK 1936. First Edition.
Folio  (11"  x  14")  in the original full  brown  leather  with  gilt
lettering  on  the front cover and the original pictorial wraps  bound
in;  384  pages. SIGNED by the President beneath a color image of  the
White  House  on the limitation leaf, #1531 of an unstated  limitation
of  2500  copies,  which is often found removed from the  book  as  it
makes  a beautiful display piece. A voluminous book of information and
advertising  (many liquor ads) that was used as a fund raiser for  the
Democratic  Party  containing FDR's acceptance speech, the  Democratic
Platform  of 1936, and biographies of all the Cabinet members as  well
as  articles on Congress, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet  departments,
and   reproductions  of  the  Declaration   of  Independence  and  the
Constitution.  Some  light  and  scattered  foxing  with  the  typical
discoloration  to  the  edges of the endpapers. The  page  with  FDR's
signature  is Fine. This is a presentation copy, as a number of copies
were,  with  the recipient's name in gilt at the bottom of  the  front
cover,  in this case the "Bethlehem Steel Company Library." Though  it
was  in  that  once powerful company's library, there are  no  library
markings  whatsoever. The binding has some wear to the spine tips with
slight  loss  of  leather at the heel and light wear to  the  corners.
Very Good copy and increasingly uncommon.                     $4000.00

Footnote:  The former main plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company in 
Bethlehem, PA, re-opened very successfully less than two weeks ago as a 
Sands Casino.
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