The Roosevelt Year, A Photographic Record

Lorentz, Pare

Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company / Literary Digest Books, 1934

About this Item

THE ROOSEVELT YEAR, A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD, Pare Lorentz with assistance of Clare Booth Brokaw (Luce in 1935), hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, stated first edition (April 1934), illustrated with several hundred photographs. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. The pages are age-toned. There is a small amount of adhesive residue on the first free endpaper caused by the unprofessional plastic covering put over the official dust jacket. For the same reason the final free endpaper is adhering to the rear pastedown. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. Since the plastic covering the dust jacket cannot be removed, I can only tell that the cloth boards have bumped corners and spine, whose top appears to be faded). Dust jacket is in poor condition (torn edges, worn covers). 12 x 9, 197 pages, 32 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] THIS is a photographic record - a newsreel if you will - of the nationally significant events during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office. The two-hundred-odd pages of pictures have caught, as only pictures can, the drama and tension, the sense of great things impending which characterized one of the most momentous years in American history. Beginning with January 1933 when our economic tide was at its ebb, and despair was widespread, it carries swiftly through the crowded days of the most dramatic year since the World War. In the captions and running heads Mr. Lorentz has succeeded in intensifying the effect of the pictures themselves. His short and pithy comments admirably supplement the living history of the pictorial story. Seller Inventory # 002453

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Roosevelt Year, A Photographic Record

Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company / Literary Digest Books

Publication Date: 1934

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Poor

Edition: 1st Edition