signed first edition Half Leather
1939 · Washington DC
by Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1939. First Edition. Half Leather. Near fine. Inscribed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Explorations and Field-Work Of The Smithsonian Institution in 1938, a limited publication from the Smithsonian Institution, with descriptions of The Presidential Cruise of 1938 to the Galapagos Island.. Octavo, [8], 116pp. Half blue morocco, cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Publisher's original wrappers bound-in. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Frederick Adams Jr. on front endpaper. Decorative binding by James Macdonald Co. of New York. (Halter T860) Halter notes that this was a restricted edition, not for sale (truncated)