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INSCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT, IN A PRESENTATION BINDING ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 9 frontispiece plates. 9 volumes. 4to, full navy crushed morocco with gilt floral borders and red and green calf inlays, doublures front and rear with similar fine patterns and central burgundy calf panels, backstrips faded with minor wear, heavier in the first volume; navy watered silk endpapers; inscribed on flyleaf of Volume I "for A.E. Giegengack, from his friend Franklin D. Roosevelt," with typed White House mailing label laid in. In original morocco-edged slipcases, sturdy with minor wear. New York, 1938, 1941
The first volume contains Roosevelt's addresses from 1928 to 1932, as Governor of New York and as a presidential candidate. The remaining eight volumes cover his first two presidential terms, from 1933 to 1940--the Great Depression and his administration's aggressive response. The series was edited by Samuel I. Rosenman. This presentation binding was commissioned by public printer Augustus E. Giegengack (the family believes it was an edition of 10), with this set then presented to Giegengack by the president. The final four volumes of the series were published in 1950, after Giegengack had retired as public printer. Giegengack later recalled that "the late President Roosevelt, a noted bibliophile, was one of the most exacting customers of the Government Printing Office. He always knew what he wanted. Even when the cares and burdens of his office were the heaviest, he found time to sit and discuss the style and lay-out of volumes we were planning for him. . . . He was always assured of getting a fine piece of printing and binding"--"Government Printing Office Contributions to the Fine Art of Printing," Print Magazine 4:4 (Winter 1945-46), page 49. This binding not in Halter, Collecting First Editions of Franklin Roosevelt; see T656 and T730 for the limited edition of 500.
