Description
Minutes Of The Council of Appointment of New York, a scarce signed limited edition from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Octavo, [2], 97pp. Gray paper covered boards, cloth spine. Title on label affixed to front cover. Faint soiling to cloth spine, some wear to tips of boards. Originally published with brown paper dust jacket, with limitation in pencil on cover, but lacking here. Housed in custom blue quarter leather clamshell case. Includes the original sales receipt and correspondence from 1967, as this copy was purchased by Franklin Roosevelt Bookiana in Chicago (Hunt H. Unger). In 1923, Mr. Roosevelt purchased the 148 Page manuscript of the minutes of the New York Council of Appointments. In 1925, at Roosevelt’s urging, the New York Historical Society published sections of these minutes. They simultaneously agreed to produce 50 copies of this limited edition collection of the historical documents. (Horowitz, 22) (Not found in Halter)
This copy is hand numbered by Franklin D. Roosevelt on the colophon page, noting: “50 Copies Printed for me, January, 1925. No. 41. Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
An exceptionally scarce limited edition, hand numbered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Of the 50 copies produced in 1925, only 15 were distributed to members of the New York Historical Society and Roosevelt family members. In 1943, Margaret Suckley found the remaining 35 in storage and researched who had received copies in 1925. This copy, being number 41 of 50, is one of the “Suckley” copies, gifted to notable members of the Roosevelt Administration in 1943.
