August 2020 Catalogue

F i n e N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s 48 “What Was Loaned By Our People Through Their Government Must Be Repaid By Foreign Governments To Our People...” 46. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Hand-corrected manuscript for Looking Forward. No place, 1933. 235 leaves (8-1/2 by 11 inches), with corrections in Roosevelt’s hand on 22 leaves, other corrections throughout in pencil, black binder. $48,500. Click for more info Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a “new deal” that was published in the month of his inauguration, with Roosevelt’s handwritten corrections in ink on 22 pages. Published amidst the devastation of the Great Depression and in the same month as his inauguration, FDR’s Looking Forward draws on major articles and speeches; it was an immediate best-seller. This extraordinary final draft, containing all but FDR’s Inaugural Address (which had not been yet been delivered), has additions, corrections and emendations by Roosevelt himself in ink on 22 pages, and numerous other pencil corrections and additions in an unknown hand. An important hand-corrected manuscript from a revered head of state.