[Rarebooks] FS: Commemoration of the First Congress of the U.S. INSCRIBED by FDR to his Son

[Charles Agvent]

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano. THE FOURTH WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS BOOK. 
PROCEEDINGS AT THE CEREMONY IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND 
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE 
UNITED STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AT A JOINT SESSION OF THE CONGRESS 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH FOURTH NINETEEN THIRTY-NINE. 76th 
Congress, 1st Session. House Document No. 212. Inscribed to FDR, Jr. 
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Specially 
bound in black morocco leather, covers with single-fillet gilt border, 
front cover gilt-lettered; blue watered silk linings, the front lining 
centering the Presidential seal stamped in gilt. Illustrated with 
photos; 47 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT TO HIS SON on the front 
endpaper: "FDR Jr. from FDR 1939." Included in the text is FDR's address 
on pages 35-42. One of the scarcest of the Christmas book series, this 
title has neither a printed nor autograph colophon, and the number of 
copies made remains unknown. 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. Housed in a custom blue silk clamshell box with a 
gilt-lettered black morocco label on the front cover. Text block pulling 
from covers a bit but still very tight; some spotting to leather. Near 
Fine in a custom clamshell box. (#014871)        $30,000

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