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This Is My Story
by Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Used
- good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth. Good/very good. Signed copy of This Is My Story by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.. Octavo, x, 365pp. Blue cloth boards, title printed on spine. Cloth is worn and fraying along bottom edge, soiled from handling. Stated "third edition" on copyright page. Even toning throughout, free of any marks or notations. In publisher's scarce dust jacket, $4.00 on front flap, some shelf wear and wear to panels, exceptionally bright colors. (Edens B8) Inscribed on the half title by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: "To Joan + Clifford - With the good wishes of the author. Eleanor Roosevelt." Part of a series of three books written by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt about her life, with This Is My Story detailing her experiences through the 1924 presidential election.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10346
- Title
- This Is My Story
- Author
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- Signed copy of This Is My Story by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Third Printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- President Roosevelt, Hyde Park, This Is My Story, Its Up To The Women, This I Remember, Great Depression, United Nations, President Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Sunrise at campobello, Warm Springs, Equal Rights Amendment, Women in defense, Franklin
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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