Author: TITTLE, WALTER
Title: Roosevelt: As an Artist Saw Him
Description: NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1948. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's full salmon cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped norders on cover, fore-edge deckle. 8vo. 191 pp. Illustrated with B&W portraits, sketches and drawings by the author. Brief gift inscription dated 2-28-52 on ffep, otherwise unmarked. Tight and square, clean and bright, corners sharp. The price-clipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) is chipped, with some loss at the head and heel of the spine. FINE/GOOD. "This book is the verbal picture of the Roosevelt that painter and etcher Walter Tittle came to know in the library at Hyde Park. As Tittle made numerous sketches, he and the President chatted. The book is richly illustrated with a selection of Tittle's brilliant drawings and etchings of the late president and his home.". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Roosevelt; Fdr; Art; Presidents Illustrated Books


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