Description
Hardcover, bound in genuine black leather with real 22 kt gold decoration. 647 pages. All edges gilt, silk ribbon marker sewn-in, raised spine. Index. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white photographs. Two-page broad-side Collector’s Notes from The Library of the Presidents folded once horizontally and laid-in loose. First edition thus. The saga of Roosevelt’s colorful life, as the Collector’s Notes describes it, “is an important addition to the body of American literature and is unquestionably one of the finest and most poetic literary accomplishments of any of America’s presidents.” No previous ownership marks. A pristine copy, clean, fresh, unmarked and like new. As new.