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. Hardcover. 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. Item #013391
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