Description
First edition of Youth – Millions Too Many?, signed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Bruce L. Melvin, with the publisher’s dust jacket.
Octavo, [2], 220pp. Blue cloth, title printed on label affixed to spine and front cover. No additional printings noted. Solid text block. Free of marks or notations. Splash mark along fore edge of text block, offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. In the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, $2.00 on the front flap, large chip on front panel, closed tears, light sunning to the spine.
The foreword for this work was contributed by Eleanor Roosevelt, who signed the front free endpaper. Also signed by the author.Â
A scarce signed book by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Youth – Millions Too Many? describes the efforts made by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration to help the unemployed youth of America. Mrs. Roosevelt notes that “…whether we solve our economic problems depends again on our cooperation with youth.” The author of this work, Dr. Bruce Melvin, spent his career working in the research division of the WPA.
