Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (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
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Signed book: Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: July 1940 to Jan. 1941. Limited edition printing. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Hardcover, 7.25 x 10.25, 114 pages. Signed on the first free end page, “With a Happy Christmas from Franklin D. Roosevelt,” and initialed “F.D.R.” on the colophon page following the printed text: “Seventy-five copies of this book have been printed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the U.S. Goverrnment Printing Office. December Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One, This copy is number,” with “45” added by Roosevelt. In fine condition, with a block of toning to last free end page and back pastedown, scattered staining to covers and spine, and a few dings to head and tail of spine.
Just a few short weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the thrusting of the United States into World War II, FDR—a noted book collector—presented copies of this book to his closest friends. Ten of Roosevelt’s addresses are included, beginning with his July 19, 1940 speech announcing that he had decided after his 1936 reelection not to run in 1940 and “when the conflict broke out last September, it was still my intention to announce clearly and simply, at an early date, that under no conditions would I accept reelection.” Roosevelt changed him mind, after asking himself “whether I have the right, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to call on men and women to serve their country or to train themselves to serve and, at the same time, decline to serve my country in my own personal capacity.” A scarce offering from America’s first Christmas in a world at war.
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