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Young America's Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Man of Action
by [Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Lowitz, Sadyebeth and Anson
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition, first printing of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of Action by Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz, published in 1933, in the publisher's exceptionally rare dust jacket.. Octavo, xiv, 250pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in black on spine and front cover. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Top edge stained red. This copy appears unread. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 39 full page illustrations. (Halter T-290) In the publisher's dust jacket, partially clipped retail price on front flap, shelf wear, light soiling to covers, a bright example. The only recorded copy of this work with the publisher's dust jacket still present. President Grover Cleveland to a young Franklin Roosevelt, on his first visit to the White House in 1887: "I'm making a strange wish for you, little man...A wish no one else would be likely to make - I hope you'll never be President of the United States." (Page 20). Man of Action by Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz is a biography for young adults, assembled from interviews with his mother, childhood friends, and intimates from each phase of his life.
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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Title
- Young America's Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Man of Action
- Author
- [Roosevelt, Franklin D.] Lowitz, Sadyebeth and Anson
- Illustrator
- First edition, first printing of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of Action by Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz, published in 1933, in the p
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- This Is My Story, Its Up To The Women, This I Remember, Great Depression, United Nations, President Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Sunrise at campobello, Warm Springs, Equal Rights Amendment, Women in defense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fala, Elliot Roos
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- Shelf Wear
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