[Rarebooks] FS: FDR's ADDRESSES, #20 of 75 INITIALED copies, INSCRIBED to his Secretary of War days after Pearl Harbor

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT 
OF THE UNITED STATES FROM JULY 19, 1940 TO JANUARY 20, 1941. 
[Washington]: The White House (Government Printing Office), Christmas 
1941. First Edition. Small slim quarto (7" x 10") bound in 
parchment-backed marbled boards, printed paper title label to spine, top 
edge gilt; vignette on title partly printed in red and blue, initials 
printed in red; 24, [1] pages. Copy #20 of only 75 INITIALED by the 
President "F.D.R." on the colophon page, this a Presentation copy also 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President on the front endpaper: "For Harry 
H. Woodring/With a Happy Christmas from/Franklin D. Roosevelt." An 
especially poignant inscription to Roosevelt's former Secretary of War 
just days after the invasion of Pearl Harbor. Slight browning to 
gutters. Close to Fine in a Very Good slipcase lacking most of the top edge.

Harry Hines Woodring (1887-1967) served as Governor of Kansas from 1931 
to 1933 at which point he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War under 
Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 he was promoted to Secretary of War by 
Roosevelt, serving until 1940. (#021115)        $20,000

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