Working with Roosevelt [Inscribed to Maria Cole]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First Edition, stated. Octavo. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $6.00 price intact; dark blue boards stamped in gilt; 560pp; black and white photographs. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with several closed tears. Boards edgeworn with a dent and adjacent tear to cloth along top edge of front board.

Signed at front free endpaper, "To Maria Elllington Cole, Who, with her husband, has contributed much to the dissemination of the principles of the hero of this volume - and who can be a very formidable witness! With kindest (truncated) regards, Samuel Rosenman." Maria Cole (née Hawkins) went by Maria Ellington following her marriage to Spurgeon Ellington, a Tuskegee Airman who died during a training flight. She worked as a jazz singer in the 40s with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, and eventually married Nat King Cole in 1948. We have yet to find what trial or situation Cole may have been a "witness" to Judge Rosenman, but nevertheless, an intriguing association copy of the judge and Democratic Party activist's memoir. Rosenman was very influential throughout the Roosevelt administration and coined the term "New Deal. (Inventory #: 32694)