[Rarebooks] FS: Public Papers of the State of New York INSCRIBED by Franklin D. Roosevelt to his son, "my own boy Jimmy"

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of fine SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL items in our inventory 
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. STATE OF NEW YORK. PUBLIC PAPERS OF FRANKLIN 
D. ROOSEVELT FORTY-EIGHTH GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1929. 
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1930. First Edition. Original full red 
crushed levant morocco leather with gilt-lettered maroon calf label on 
the spine, recently and neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. 
Halter T-482. James Roosevelt's copy with his name in gilt on the front 
cover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blank: "For my own boy 
Jimmy/from his affectionate Pa/Franklin D. Roosevelt." Roosevelt had 
copies of this book specially bound for his children. James, eldest son 
of FDR, would become an assistant to his father in the White House and a 
decorated Marine brigadier general in World War II. As a ten-year member 
of the House of Representatives, he was one of the first politicians to 
attack the tactics of Joseph McCarthy and was the only member of the 
House to vote against giving the House of Un-American Activities money. 
Near Fine with wonderful inscription. (#013391)        $25,000.00

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