Description
Signed first edition, first printing of This Is My Story by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Octavo, x, [2], 365pp, [1]. Blue cloth boards, title printed on spine. The first printing, with “First Edition / K-M” stated on the copyright page. Sunning to the blue cloth, with transference from the dust jacket. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 on front flap, light shelf wear to panels, closed tear at heel of spine, bright illustrations. (Edens, B8)
Signed on the half-title by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Part of a series of four autobiographical books by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, beginning with “This Is My Story” (1937). It was followed by “This I Remember” (1949), “On My Own” (1958) and “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” (1961), a combination of the prior three autobiographies.
