Speed the day
Washington: National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, 1942. Pamphlet. 15p., fancy presswork in dark blue and red on matte-white paperstock, a single sewn 7x5.5 inch signature with strong threads, first edition. This softbound pamphlet is additionally bound in full calf casing with five raised bands but no titling, an excellent treatment that is in poor shape, but we'll finish describing its plusses first: Good quality leather, text clean and unmarked, but, negatively, the item has developed eighth-inch gaps where blanks meet casing, threads are exposed rather confusingly, verso of that cover bears scribbles. The calf is abraded at top and tail of spine, more abrasion to all four corner-tips. An amateur job gone wrong. Text is complete (FDR quotes amplified by Morris Watson), a "reading copy" however peculiar. Find back-cover blurbs by Arthur Upham Pope, Jack Dempsey and Herbert Agar.
We have seen a second printing exemplar with different blurbs; that second quotes Thomas Mann, Eleanor Roosevelt and Andre Maurois, as well as boxer Dempsey.
Cat.No: 299403
Price: $15.00