ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. The Sprout Incident. As Related by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mrs Kermit Roosevelt at the White House. March second 1945. [New York: Printed at the Thistle Press for Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, November 1955]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards; marbled paper slipcase. Provenance: The Library or Eleanor Roosevelt.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. The Sprout Incident. As Related by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mrs Kermit Roosevelt at the White House. March second 1945. [New York: Printed at the Thistle Press for Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, November 1955]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards; marbled paper slipcase. Provenance: The Library or Eleanor Roosevelt.

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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. The Sprout Incident. As Related by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mrs Kermit Roosevelt at the White House. March second 1945. [New York: Printed at the Thistle Press for Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, November 1955]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards; marbled paper slipcase. Provenance: The Library or Eleanor Roosevelt.

LIMITED EDITION, number 21 of 100 copies, signed at the prologue by Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter-in-law. This book recounts a practical joke played by FDR on Clementine Churchill involving the proper way to cook bean sprouts.

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