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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., editor. Records of the Town of Hyde Park Dutchess County. Hyde Park: [Dutchess County Historical Society], 1928.
4o. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, with original peach dust jacket numbered in FDR's hand; d/j slightly chipped along edges and soiled; in a specially made brown cloth clam case.
First edition, 100 signed copies. A testament to FDR's passion as an antiquarian and local historian, Roosevelt issued this book the same year he began his great political comeback by winning the governorship of New York state. Halter notes "FDR also numbered each jacket in longhand-a thoroughly disagreeable task which he accomplished in one grumpy sitting." Halter T458.
4o. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, with original peach dust jacket numbered in FDR's hand; d/j slightly chipped along edges and soiled; in a specially made brown cloth clam case.
First edition, 100 signed copies. A testament to FDR's passion as an antiquarian and local historian, Roosevelt issued this book the same year he began his great political comeback by winning the governorship of New York state. Halter notes "FDR also numbered each jacket in longhand-a thoroughly disagreeable task which he accomplished in one grumpy sitting." Halter T458.