Sale 694: Rare Books & Manuscripts at the Pasadena Book Fair (#694) 02/06/2020 10:00 AM PST

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Lot 46 of 168:
Eleanor Roosevelt's This I Remember Limited Signed Edition  

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Title:
This I Remember
Author:
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Place:
New York
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Date:
1949
Description:

 xii,387,[1] pp. (8vo) blue cloth with printed title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate overlay and cardboard slipcase. No. 981 of 1,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author.

Handsome edition of the second volume of Roosevelt's autobiography, a follow-up to her 1937 memoir This Is My Story, covering her life from the 1924 political campaign through her departure from the White House after the death of her husband.

Donated by Lorne Bair, Winchester VA.

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Condition:
Slipcase sunned with short splits to upper and lower joints; acetate dustjacKet with several losses, splits, and tears; volume spine sunned with owner's name to front endpaper; near fine volume in poor acetate in very good slipcase.
 
Item number:
270138
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