[Rarebooks] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt Inscribed to FDR's secretary and fellow Warm Springs patient

[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 
posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent.  Also included are important 
signed and association copies of LBJ, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt.

ROOSEVELT,  Eleanor.  MY  DAYS.  New York:  Dodge  Publishing  Company
(1938).  First  Edition. "A first-hand chronicle of every day  in  the
life    of   the  First  Lady."   Illustrated  with   a   photographic
frontispiece.  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED  by  the  author  on  the  front
endpaper:   "Inscribed  for/Toi   Bachelder/with  good  wishes/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. One of Roosevelt's more difficult
books  to  find signed, let alone with any association.  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  with   some  soiling  to  the  white
background  on  the  rear  panel. Very Good in a  supplied  Near  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                  $2750.00

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