Description
Signed first edition, first printing of You Learn By Living by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Octavo, xii, 211pp. Green cloth boards, title stamped in gold and silver on spine over black cloth. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with “G-K” code below. Bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Small paper puncture along front hinge. Tape remnant to rear pastedown. Handwritten note on front free endpaper, noting this copy was signed by the author at the “TCU Select Series Reception” on March 22, 1961. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap, faint soiling to white panels, a bright, near fine example. (Edens B26)
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at Texas Christian University on March 22, 1961, where she favorably compared the first days in office of President Kennedy with her late husband. She noted during the lecture: “There is a great deal of similarity. They both come to office in difficult times. Congress now is not under the same compelling crisis it was when my husband came to office…” A reference to the Great Depression, which was gripping the country in 1933.
