FDR, JR.'S COPY OF THIS I REMEMBER
FDR, JR.'S COPY OF THIS I REMEMBER
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FDR, JR.'S COPY OF THIS I REMEMBER

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, 1949

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FDR, JR.'S COPY OF THIS I REMEMBER
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, 1949
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884–1962). This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
Octavo (233 × 156mm). Frontispiece portrait, photographic plates (limitation page and frontispiece loose). Publisher’s blue cloth, paper spine label; slipcase with paper cover label (sunning, light wear to slipcase).
Provenance
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (gift inscription on limitation page, c.1949)
Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts,16 March 2023

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Peter Klarnet
Peter Klarnet Senior Specialist, Americana

Descriptif du lot

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.’s copy; first edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s memoir, inscribed to her son.

No. 5 of 1,000, signed on limitation page (“For Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. With love from his mother Eleanor Roosevelt”). Published four years after the death of her husband, This I Remember is the second of Eleanor Roosevelt four memoirs, covering her life up to her husband’s death in office in 1945. Her son FDR, Jr., to whom she gave this copy, is often mentioned.

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