[Rarebooks] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt's copy of a WPA book

[Charles Agvent]

[ROOSEVELT,  Eleanor]  Federal  Writers'   Project  of  the  Works
Progress  Administration.  U.  S.  ONE. MAINE TO  FLORIDA.  New  York:
Modern  Age Books, Inc. (1938). First Edition. Illustrated with thirty
photographs  and  a  folding map. Foreword by Harry Hopkins.  This  is
ELEANOR  ROOSEVELT'S  COPY  with both Roosevelt's  bookplate  and  the
small  circular  estate  label,  this   numbered  992,  on  the  front
pastedown.  On  the front endpaper is the ink-stamped statement  "From
The  Collection of/Eleanor Roosevelt/John A. Roosevelt" SIGNED by John
A.  Roosevelt.  It  was Eleanor Roosevelt's husband,  of  course,  who
established  the  WPA  by  executive order.  Near  Fine,  lacking  the
dustwrapper.                                                   $250.00

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