[Rarebooks] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt Inscribed to actress Katherine Cornell
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Thu Mar 8 10:35:28 EST 2007
From our recent Internet Catalogue posted on our website:
http://www.erols.com/agvent
It contains 39 Signed Presidential Books and Pamphlets including items
by John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt,
and more.
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. ON MY OWN. New York: Harper & Brothers
(1958). Early but not first printing. Illustrated with photographs.
Her third volume of memoirs: The Years Since the White House.
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "Inscribed
for/Catherine Cornell/With good wishes/Eleanor Roosevelt." We are
fairly certain that this is inscribed to actress Katherine Cornell
(1893-1974), a leading stage actress of the 1920s and 1930s, best
known for her performances as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." About
Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. $1000.00
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