(ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D) The Democratic Book 1936

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LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY FDR (ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.) The Democratic Book 1936. Numerous illustrations. [40], 384 pages. Folio, original presentation morocco gilt, tasteful restoration of spine ends, with original illustrated wrappers bound in; minimal foxing on fore-edge, hinge split after page 362; copy #580, with limitation page signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt; cover stamped with name of original owner. Np, [1936]

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A lavish report on the administration's activities in the past year, with essays by many department heads, sketches of other party leaders, a history of the White House, and much more. President Roosevelt contributed a foreword in addition to his signature. The original owner of this copy, Howard Ross Tolley, was an economist who later headed the Bureau of Agricultural Economics under Roosevelt.