Public Papers of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by FDR
Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Forty-Eighth Governor of the State of New
York. 1929. 1930. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1930, 1931.
2 vols., large 8vo.; specially bound in red morocco, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, with marbled endpapers. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First editions of two of the four volumes that comprise this work. Each has Eleanor’s name stamped in gilt on the cover: “Eleanor R. Roosevelt” and “Eleanor Roosevelt” respectively.
A presentation set, inscribed on the first blank of the first volume: For E.R. with all / my love / F.D.R. / April 1931.
As Governor of New York between 1929 and 1932, FDR produced over one hundred separately printed messages, either pamphlets or leaflets, which were gathered in Public Papers. “I have therefore attempted to give as far as possible the background and set forth the reasons for my every executive action,” he explained. As Frank Halter pointed out in his pioneering bibliography of FDR (Chicago, Privately printed, 1949), the gubernatorial papers also contained a wealth of FDR first edition material that
served as harbingers for the New Deal.
An extremely unusual set of books to encounter with a Roosevelt inscription; the only other we have handled – and that had only one volume inscribed – was given to journalist Ernest K. Lindley, an Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar who wrote the first, finest, and most laudatory campaign biography (Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy, 1931).
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