[Rarebooks] FS: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Prize Cruise INSCRIBED to His Son

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. LOG OF THE CRUISE OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. 
ROOSEVELT ABOARD THE SCHOONER YACHT SEWANNA TO MAINE, NOVA SCOTIA, & NEW 
BRUNSWICK. [Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1937]. First 
Edition. A record of a two-week cruise in July, 1936. Original blue 
cloth with an anchor in gilt on the front cover; [8], 19, [1] pages. 
Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece of the yacht and a large 
folding chart bound at the end. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President on 
the front endpaper: "For Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr./from his affectionate 
Father/Franklin D. Roosevelt." Franklin, Jr., along with his brothers 
John and James, were piloted by their father aboard this charted 
schooner in a trip James called "Pa's prize cruise." Authorship of this 
log, along with the other eight pre-war logs of presidential 
cruise-vacations, has not been established, but according to Halter's 
bibliography, "it is probable that they were the work of several members 
of each cruise. As far as I had been able to check before this book went 
to press, a total of 17 logs were issued from 1934-1945." All were 
privately printed in very small numbers and are virtually unobtainable. 
When they do show up they are usually not signed or inscribed. 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. A scarce book on the market, this 
is an Association Copy of the highest order. Near Fine. (#013347) $40,000

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