Description
Signed first edition of On My Own by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Octavo, xii, 241pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt over blue ink on spine, black signature on front panel. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. In publisher’s very good dust jacket, retail price on front flap, chipping along top edge, some fading to spine. Inscribed and dated by the author: “Book + Author Luncheon, October 15th, 1958. Eleanor Roosevelt.”
On My Own, by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, follows her life after the death of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1945. It details her time as a delegate to the United Nations, chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and a political activist for Democratic causes throughout the United States. It was one of the last publications of Mrs. Roosevelt, before her death in 1962.
