Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors; Their Part in the Making of American History

Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned and soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges with some tears and chips. Blue cloth, toned at the spine and edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned at two pages from laid-in newspaper clippings and a ticket for Roosevelt's address at Chicago Stadium on October 14, 1936, clean otherwise. A work of geneaology and American history that proudly shares that "Roosevelt will be the first President with any considerable amount of Mayflower, German, or French ancestry, and the first descended from Swedish settlers.