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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: May 1953 (Volume V, Number II) by VALENTINE, John (editor) - 1953

by VALENTINE, John (editor)

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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: May 1953 (Volume V, Number II) by VALENTINE, John (editor) - 1953

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: May 1953 (Volume V, Number II)

by VALENTINE, John (editor)

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Glendale, CA: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors' Association, 1953. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 30pp. Near fine. Tight, handsome issue of this short-lived semi-annual, which began in 1948 and appears to have halted in the mid-1950s. This issue contains Raymond L. Hazlet's "Will There Be an FDR Legend?" and Elmer Gertz's "Roosevelt and Stevenson: Their First Presidential Campaigns" -- and this copy bears a fine autograph addition, for tipped to the inside of the front wrapper, facing the title page, is a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly by Gertz (who adds "Sincerely") in black fineline. Gertz (1902-2000), known as "The Clarence Darrow of Chicago," was a controversial defense attorney remembered for defending novelist Henry Miller, Lee Harvey Oswald's murderer Jack Ruby and notorious child murderer Nathan Leopold.
  • Bookseller Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors' Association
  • Place of Publication Glendale, CA
  • Date Published 1953

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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: November 1948 (Volume I, Number 1) through May 1955 (Volume...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector: November 1948 (Volume I, Number 1) through May 1955 (Volume VI, Number 2)

by VALENTINE, John (editor)

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  • Paperback
  • first
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Glendale, CA: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collectors' Association, 1948. Paperback. Near-inclusive 11-issue run for this 8-year span, lacking 3 issues (November 1953, November 1954 and November 1955). Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. Various paginations (most issues ca. 25-42pp). Frontispieces (excepting May 1953 issue), occasional illustrations. Good plus to near fine. Most issues to very good to near fine, with only the second issue good plus (wrappers bit age toned and discolored, with wrinkling throughout). Fine grouping of 12 issues, accompanied by a printed letter from president Donald S. Carmichael that accompanies the first issue and introduces it and also a few subscription renewal notices. Seven issues are still in their original mailing envelopes. Also present are two Typed Notes Signed and four Autograph Notes Signed from Valentine, each on buff heavy stock 5½" X 3½" penny postal cards, the first two TNsS (chronologically) from Decatur, IL and dated 26 June and 7 July 1947, the second two… Read More
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