Description
The limited edition, deluxe issue of the Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, inscribed by President Roosevelt and the editor, Samuel Rosenman.
Thick octavo, [five volumes], xliii, 911pp; xxi, 622pp; xx, 564pp; xix, 675pp; xxiv, 721pp. Gray leather, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of “Samuel Falk” appears in each volume. Faint soiling to spines, leather rubbed at tips and along boards. Not issued with dust jackets. Housed in a custom gray cloth slipcase.
From a limited edition of 500 copies, many of which were signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(Halter T-656)
Inscribed on the front free endpaper of the first volume: “For Samuel Falk from Franklin Roosevelt.” Additionally signed by the editor, Samuel Rosenman: “For my friend Sam Falk / With regards from / Samuel Rosenman.”
This limited edition was published simultaneously with the first trade edition in 1938. It was compiled and edited by Samuel I. Rosenman. Later editions, also issued in gray leather and limited to 100 copies, cover the years 1937-1940. (Halter T 730)
Samuel I. Rosenman (1896-1973) was one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest advisers, beginning as counsel to Roosevelt when he was governor of New York and later becoming a key White House speechwriter and the first official White House Counsel. Rosenman helped shape Roosevelt’s public speeches and introduced the phrase “New Deal” into Roosevelt’s 1932 convention speech. In retirement, he wrote his memoirs, Working with Roosevelt, and finished editing the final volumes of The Public Papers of Franklin Roosevelt.
