Description
Thick octavo, [five volumes], xliii, 911pp; xxi, 622pp; xx, 564pp; xix, 675pp; xxiv, 721pp. Gray leather, title in gilt on spine, library sticker on spine, library stamps on first free endpapers. Wear at edges, some separation at seams. Top edge gilt. From a limited edition of 500 copies, many of which were signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This copy was not inscribed. Published without dust jackets or slipcase. (Halter T-656)
Comments: This limited edition was published simultaneously with the first trade edition in 1938. It was compiled by Samuel I. Rosenman. Later editions would cover the years 1937-1940, then 1941-1945.