ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884-1962). This is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 155 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
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ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884-1962). This is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937.
8vo. Publisher's blue cloth (sunning to spine, rubbing).
LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 155 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. This is My Story was the first of four memoirs published by Eleanor Roosevelt; its serialization in The Ladies' Home Journal sold 250,000 copies and prompted its editors to remark that the book "was read...by everyone - in government, parlor, and slums."
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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