[Rarebooks] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt Inscribed to FDR's Secretary

[Charles Agvent]

 From one of the finest collections of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt material 
offered in many years, part of our catalogue of SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL material now 
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signed and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt.

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. THIS IS MY STORY. New York & London: Harper &
Brothers  1937. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED  by the author on the half-title page: "Inscribed  for/Toi
Bachelder    with/good  wishes   from/Eleanor   Roosevelt."   Toinette
Bachelder  contracted  polio  as  a child, leaving her  with  one  leg
paralyzed.  On  a  trip to Warm Springs, Georgia, as a  teenager,  she
struck  up  a friendship with the future President, and in  1933,  she
went  to  Washington  to  work for him at the White  House  where  she
stayed  for  33 years retiring during the Johnson administration.  She
was  at  Warm Springs with Roosevelt when he died there in April  1945
and  rode  on  the  special  train  that  carried  his  body  back  to
Washington.  As  with  all of the women who worked for  FDR,  she  was
always  under  some suspicion by Eleanor, perhaps accounting  for  the
rather  restrained  inscription in this book to someone who worked  so
closely  with  her  husband. Uncommon to find trade editions  of  this
book  signed, let alone association copies. Fading to the top edge  of
the  covers  and to the spine. Donated to a public library by Toi  and
her  mother  Mable, a Correspondence Reviewer at the White House  from
1936  until  1951,  this copy bears a presentation  bookplate  on  the
front  pastedown and small ink stamps on the endpapers and title  page
as  well  as a card pocket and some writing on the rear pastedown  and
small  white numbers on the spine. The dustwrapper is very nice.  Very
Good in a supplied Near Fine dustwrapper.                     $2500.00

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