Itinerary of General Washington and Washington After the Revolution.
a gift set inscribed by filmmaker Pare Lorentz
Baker, William Spohn. Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1892.
8vo.; discreet book ticket to front pastedown; tan half-cloth, stamped in black and gilt.
First edition. A gift copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: For – Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt / Christmas, 1956 / Pare Lorentz. The inscription is beneath an ink signature, “L.C. Lovey.”
Baker, William. Washington after the Revolution 1784-1899. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898.
8vo.; discreet book ticket to front pastedown; tan half-cloth, stamped in black and gilt.
First edition. A gift copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt / Christmas, 1956 / Pare Lorentz. The inscription is beneath an ink signature, “L.C. Lovey.”
Two volumes inscribed to Eleanor by documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz, twenty years after FDR commissioned him to document the plight of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Lorentz, who had impressed the Roosevelts with his articles on censorship as well as The Roosevelt Year: 1933 went on to write and direct The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), The River (1938), The Fight for Life (1940), Nuremberg (1946), and Rural Co-op (1947).
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