The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1937. Special issue, one of 100 printed copies. 4to. IX pp. Laid-in is an official White House card, 3 x 4 1/4 in., signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gray printed wrappers; light soiling at top of first few pages from paper clip. Lot includes a typed letter signed by Congressman Jennings Randolph, dated February 2, 1939, in part: "...Replying to your letter of January 23, let me say because of a ban, at the present time, on the signing of photographs, speeches, etc. it was not possible to get the President's signature on the Inaugural Address, which I am sending you under separate cover. I am pleased to enclose a White House card which the President has signed..." Halter T627

Rare special printing of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address delivered on January 20, 1937, with a signed White House card.