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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.
Inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States.
Delivered at the Capitol Washington D.C. March 4, 1933.
Publisher: Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933
Stock code: 49726
Price: £4,750 Currency Conversion
The advance issue, first published version of FDR's inaugural address, annotated in pencil on the upper cover as one of the White House file copies, with the signature of Stephen T. Early, Roosevelt's secretary with responsibility for liaison with the press. Halter notes that this advance issue is "one of very few copies … probably released the day before the inauguration … intended as reading copies for FDR, but at the last minute he decided to read his address from the typescript which he corrected in his own hand." Early met Roosevelt in 1912 when covering the Democratic Convention for the United Press, and from 1913-7 he was Associated Press correspondent at the Naval Department during which time his friendship with the future president, at the time Assistant Secretary of the Navy, grew. He worked on Roosevelt's 1920 vice-presidential campaign and, following the election of 1932, joined FDR's White House staff, remaining there until 1945. This copy given by Early to Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., businessman and bibliophile, second director of the Pierpont Morgan, who was married to Ellen Walters Delano, Roosevelt's first cousin.
Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original wraps. In quarter dark blue cloth on patterned paper portfolio, typed label to upper panel, black silk ties. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. to the front pastedown of the portfolio. Light vertical crease, else very good.
