Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: D-Day Prayer. Limited private printing of 100 copies (this No. 37). Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1944. Hardcover with slipcase, 7.25 x 10.25, 16 pages. On colophon page following the text is printed: “One hundred copies of this book have been printed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington, December Nineteen hundred and forty-four. This copy is number,”and Roosevelt has penned “37.” Signed at the top of the first free end page, “For Christmastide 1944 from Franklin D. Roosevelt,” with the recipient’s name having been professionally and virtually imperceptibly removed. Book description: VG/None. Marbled paper-covered boards and cream spine with affixed leather title; textblock edges deckled except upper, which is gilted; lower portion of cream paper on front cover has a scuff and several thin scratches; discoloration from binder’s glue; bump at spinehead with small tear in paper over front hinge. In blue paper-covered slipcase with discoloration, scuffs, and light soiling.
Roosevelt is said to have written this prayer during the night as the news of the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion began to reach the White House. He rarely attended church, but according to his wife Eleanor, FDR "had a strong religious feeling and his religion was a very personal one.” While FDR publicly spoke of his beliefs less than many presidents, his wartime speeches often referenced his creed. In his 1942 State of the Union address, he invoked Christian principles to justify the war: “We are fighting, as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God." A noted book collector himself, he presented this keepsake prayer to select friends and relatives at Christmas 1944. This would be his last Christmas in the White House; he died less than four months later. Few copies of this book were printed and autographed by the president, and fewer contemporary writings better represent FDR’s presidency and indeed the war itself.
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