ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., editor. Records of the Town of Hyde Park Dutchess County. Hyde Park: [Dutchess County Historical Society], 1928. 4to. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, spine rubbed, gilt lettering faded on spine, upper and lower hinges cracked. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. Docketed on the flyleaf and signed: "No. 96 of 100 copies Franklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park, 1928." 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.

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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., editor. Records of the Town of Hyde Park Dutchess County. Hyde Park: [Dutchess County Historical Society], 1928. 4to. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, spine rubbed, gilt lettering faded on spine, upper and lower hinges cracked. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. Docketed on the flyleaf and signed: "No. 96 of 100 copies Franklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park, 1928." 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.