Description
Limited edition of 100 copies of the Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, delivered to the White House in 1937.
Quarto, ix, [1]. Publisher’s gray wrappers, title printed on cover. Stapled at spine.
(Halter T-627(a)) An exceptionally scarce publication, with no records of this pamphlet coming to market.
Provenance: From the private collection of Frederick B. Adams, Jr., bibliographer of President Roosevelt and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. His collection was sold by Sotheby’s in 2001.
From Halter: The booklet entitled “Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt” in gray wrappers was a special printing of 100 copies delivered to the White House on February 18, 1937, on an order received by the GPO, January 25, 1937. It therefore does not qualify as a first edition.”
Full title: Inaugural Address Of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. Delivered At The Capital, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1937.
