Description
The first edition, first printing of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Colonial Ancestors by Alvin Page Johnson, in the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, 222pp, [2]. The first printing, with no additional printings noted on the copyright page. Illustrated with portraits and genealogical tables. Publisher’s blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, light sunning along top quarter. Internally clean. In the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on the front flap, a few short closed tears, light soiling to the spine, a very good example.
(Halter, T226)
Johnson traces Roosevelt’s ancestry through the Roosevelt, Delano, Aspinwall, Howland, Church, Lyman, and Robbins families.
Also issued in scarlet cloth by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard in 1933, no priority established.
