(ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D) Higley Edwin H Exercises in Greek Com

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SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT AS A STUDENT AT GROTON (ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.) Higley, Edwin H. Exercises in Greek Composition. xvii, 170, [4] pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth, worn; hinges split, minor worming, notes by a later owner on rear free endpaper; signed on front free endpaper "Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1899," and also by his Harvard classmate Cecil Thayer Derry. Boston, 1898

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The future president flunked Greek during his first year at Groton, but presumably improved his record by the time he owned this textbook. Provenance: Sotheby's Nathaniel E. Stein sale, 25 January 1979.