Whither bound?
by Roosevelt, Franklin D
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Blue cloth (hardcover), gilt title in original mylar protected dust-jacket, (6" x 9"). 34 pages. President's Roosevelt's first book from a lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926. Mr. Roosevelt's thesis was that youth quite rightly experiment with life and with moral standards, for it is through unrest and experimentation that civilization is advanced. The first publication for the future President of the United States. A clean, tight and bright copy in the scarce original dust-jacket showing some minor chipping at edges. Size: Tall Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004358
- Title
- Whither bound?
- Author
- Roosevelt, Franklin D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- U.S. PRESIDENTS
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About the Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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