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New York: Pocket Books Inc, 1945. Soft cover. Near Fine. Two copies of the first edition, first printing, published on April 18th 1945. The paperbacks are both near fine, covers very lightly marked with a couple of creases. Internally fine and seem to be in unread condition. These books come from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Near Fine 1945