Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (PRESIDENTS--1938.) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. The Public Papers and Addresses. 5 frontispiece photograph plates. 5 (of 13) volumes. 8vo, publisher's full morocco with gilt-stamped signature of the author on front boards, rubbed at extremities, front board of volume 5 starting; some hinges split, otherwise internally clean; one of 500, signed by the president (with no inscription) on the first free endpaper. New York, 1938

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The first volume covers Roosevelt's term as governor of New York from 1928 to 1932, and the remaining volumes cover his first term as president--one volume for each year. The final eight volumes were issued later, in 1941 and 1950.