Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SHIP'S LOG FOR FDR'S "FLOATING WHITE HOUSE" ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on Board U.S.S. Potomac: 19 March-1 April 1941. Signed and Inscribed, to a member of the Secret Service detail aboard the ship, "For Mike Reilly / from FranklinDRoosevelt," on the title-page. 20 pages. 4to, publisher's wrappers, stapled binding, upper right corner of front cover nearly torn away, faint toning to edges. Np, [1941]; inscription: Np, nd

Additional Details

In March of 1941, Roosevelt took a trip from Washington, DC, to the Bahamas and back. The present log records the noteworthy events of the trip, many of which describe the fishing exploits of FDR and his entourage.