Description
The signed limited large-paper edition of This Is My Story by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a fine example.
Quarto, x, [2], 365pp, [1]. Blue-gray cloth boards, gilt title on spine over blue printed label. Top edge gilt, uncut edges. Faint sunning to the spine. Bookplate affixed to second free endpaper, dated 1937. Complete with 42 black-and-white photographic plates. Clean throughout, solid binding. Includes the publisher’s slipcase, with matching limitation number on the side panel label, a fine example.
From a limited edition of 258 signed copies, with 250 for public sale, this being number 207 signed by Eleanor Roosevelt.
(Halter, T423) (Edens, B8)
Scarce to find with the publisher’s original slipcase, only a handful of known examples still exist.
This work was part of a series of autobiographies written by Eleanor Roosevelt, which included This is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and finally The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). This work was first serialized for Ladies’ Home Journal, from May 1937 through January 1938. (Edens, B158) This book edition was published in November of 1937, and later published in England (1939), with the revised title of “The Lady of the White House.”
