Description
Signed first edition of India and The Awakening East by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Octavo, xvi, 237pp. Maroon cloth, black cloth spine, title in printed gilt. Stated “First Edition” with “F-C” date code on copyright page. Complete with 32 photographic plates, all in black and white. Illustrated endpapers. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 retail price, No.9634 code at bottom of front flap, lacking any blurbs, some wear to top edge of spine, closed tear along back panel, a very good example. (Edens B19)
Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on her bookplate, affixed opposite the title page.
A recount of Mrs. Roosevelt’s travels through Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Nepal and India.
