Description
Octavo, 64pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on front panel and spine. Top edge dyed blue. In publishers scarce glassine tissue cover. Housed in publishers blue dust box, in fair condition. From a limited edition publication of 100 copies, with number 21-100 for public sale. Letters A-T are reserved for distribution to “Members of the Cabinet and for presentation.” This is copy number 53 of 100. An incredibly scare copy by itself, but one a kind with the glassine dust jacket and blue box. (Halter T-742)
Comments: The lettered copies of this publication were bound in blue morocco and distributed to members of Roosevelt’s cabinet. As with this copy, number 21-100 were bound in blue cloth and sold to the general public. The work contains Roosevelt’s speech to congress on December 8th, 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent addresses relating to the oncoming war with Japan and the Axis Powers. Provenance: Sotheby’s The Library of Frederick B. Adams Jr., sold in 2001.
