ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM JULY 19, 1940 TO JANUARY 20, 1941

[Washington]: The White House (Government Printing Office), Christmas 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight browning to gutters. Close to Fine in a Very Good slipcase lacking most of the top edge. Small slim quarto (7" x 10") bound in parchment-backed marbled boards, printed paper title label to spine, top edge gilt; vignette on title partly printed in red and blue, initials printed in red; 24, [1] pages. Copy #20 of only 75 INITIALED by the President "F.D.R." on the colophon page, this a Presentation copy also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President on the front endpaper: "For Harry H. Woodring/With a Happy Christmas from/Franklin D. Roosevelt." An especially (truncated) poignant inscription to Roosevelt's former Secretary of War just days after the invasion of Pearl Harbor.

Harry Hines Woodring (1887-1967) served as Governor of Kansas from 1931 to 1933 at which point he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War under Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 he was promoted to Secretary of War by Roosevelt, serving until 1940. (Inventory #: 021115)