[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition in Dustwrapper of Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Book, 1926

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. WHITHER BOUND? Boston & New York: Houghton 
Mifflin Company, 1926. First Edition. The future President's first book, 
comprising the text of a lecture delivered at the Milton Academy on the 
Alumni War Memorial Foundation on 18 May 1926. Fine in a lightly soiled, 
Near Fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the top front near the 
spine.

FDR delivered this address in commemoration of fallen First World War 
alumni. His thesis is that the young rightly experiment with life and 
with moral standards, "for it is through unrest and experimentation that 
civilization is advanced." Of this edition, 1,000 copies were printed 
and Halter (T453) notes: "The book was so unsuccessful that even twenty 
years later it was still in print, and mint copies in perfect 
dust-jackets were available from the publisher. Today, however, it is 
definitely a scarce book." (#015331)        $250.00

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