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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945), President. Wither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.
8vo, blue cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, with crest of Milton Academy stamped in blind on front cover, with dust jacket. Light foxing on endpapers, tips very slightly rubbed, slight chipping along edges of d/j. WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HIS SON AND SIGNED ON FRONT FLYLEAF: "For my son & namesake Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. from his affectionate Father Franklin D. Roosevelt Senior." ALSO SIGNED ("FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT") ON TITLE PAGE.
First edition, one of 1,000 copies. The only edition of this (at the time) poorly sold FDR work, now a scarce title. In this address, Roosevelt presages his later interventionist policies: "isolation of individual nations will be as difficult in [the] future as would be the isolation of New England or the South today. The same laws of the history of progress apply. First, the self-sufficient small community, then the grouping of several communities, then the small state, then the nation, then alliance between nations, and now a permanent congress of nations." Halter T453.
8vo, blue cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, with crest of Milton Academy stamped in blind on front cover, with dust jacket. Light foxing on endpapers, tips very slightly rubbed, slight chipping along edges of d/j. WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HIS SON AND SIGNED ON FRONT FLYLEAF: "For my son & namesake Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. from his affectionate Father Franklin D. Roosevelt Senior." ALSO SIGNED ("FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT") ON TITLE PAGE.
First edition, one of 1,000 copies. The only edition of this (at the time) poorly sold FDR work, now a scarce title. In this address, Roosevelt presages his later interventionist policies: "isolation of individual nations will be as difficult in [the] future as would be the isolation of New England or the South today. The same laws of the history of progress apply. First, the self-sufficient small community, then the grouping of several communities, then the small state, then the nation, then alliance between nations, and now a permanent congress of nations." Halter T453.