The Happy Warrior by Roosevelt, Franklin D - 1928: Alfred E. Smith

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Slim octavo, 40pp. A crisp, clean copy, very near fine, lacking the scarce jacket. Nice copy of FDR's endorsement of 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith. Smith would lose to Hoover, who in turn lost re-election to the author just four years later.

Houghton Mifflin, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small 8vo. Cloth. 40 pp. Book with light shelfwear, as well as a rubbed/faded area at tail of spine. Jacket with some soiling to front and rear panels, some chipping to the top and bottom edges, and a few pen marks to the front panel. Very good in a very good minus jacket.

Houghton Mifflin, 1928 First edition, first printing; closed tears and staining to fragile dust jacket with "75 cents" price intact; shallow chip on top of spine extending onto top of rear panel of dust jacket; light wear to book with no markings; o/w VG+/VG; pictures available on request. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.. vi,40pp. Original publisher's cloth, printed paper label. Corners rubbed. Bookseller's label on lower inner corner of front pastedown. Author's presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. In dust jacket with minor wear, price clipped on upper and lower corners. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, gilt. Roosevelt's speech supporting Alfred E. Smith for the Democratic presidential nomination. Smith was the out-going governor of New York, an office in which Roosevelt succeeded him. This copy is signed boldly on the fly leaf by Roosevelt, with a presentation inscription to a collector: "For Mr. H.D. Trevillian / from Franklin D. Roosevelt / Albany March 4th 1932."