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Whither Bound
by Roosevelt, Franklin D
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Small octavo, vii, [blank], 34pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, embossed illustration on cover. Bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams affixed to front endpaper. Lacking dust jacket, but contains a cutout of the front panel from dust jacket, laid in opposite title page. This printing was limited to 1000 copies. This book captures a speech that Franklin Roosevelt gave at Milton Academy in 1926. It was the first publication for the future President of the United States.
This book belonged to Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City and respected bibliophile.
This book belonged to Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City and respected bibliophile.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1325
- Title
- Whither Bound
- Author
- Roosevelt, Franklin D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- President Roosevelt, Hyde Park, This Is My Story, Its Up To The Women, This I Remember, Great Depression, United Nations, President Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Sunrise at campobello, Warm Springs, Equal Rights Amendment, Women in defense, Franklin
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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