[Rarebooks] FS: THIS TROUBLED WORLD: Her Own Copy Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt to her Daughter

[Charles Agvent]

Another one of the 65 exceptional items from our new Spring Catalog 
recently posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
Also included are a bevy of Signed Presidential books (J. Q. Adams, Van 
Buren, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cleveland, Taft, McKinley, Wilson, both 
Roosevelts, Eisenhower family copies, Kennedy, etc.), wonderful letters 
by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Virginia Woolf, a signed copy of ON THE 
ROAD, a McKenney and Hall INDIAN TRIBES folio volume, a 1609 
hand-colored herbal, a 1621 edition of Agricola's DE RE METALLICA with 
wonderful woodcuts, early baseball and aviation, scarce signed modern 
first editions, and more.

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. THIS TROUBLED WORLD. New York: H. C.  Kinsey &
Company  1938.  First  Edition.  A small, slim  volume  of  47  pages.
Roosevelt's  own copy with a bookplate from the publisher on the front
endpaper  stating,  "This is your editorial copy" with  a  publication
date  of  3  January  1938. Above the bookplate  the  First  Lady  has
INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED the book to her daughter and  son-in-law:  "For
Anna  &  John/My  good  critics   &  best/readers!  With  love/Eleanor
Roosevelt."  We  have handled many signed books by Eleanor  Roosevelt,
but  this is only the third signed example of this title we have  come
across  and one of the very very few of any of her titles inscribed to
a  family  member. Joints and gutters of book darkened but a  superior
copy  in both condition and association. Near Fine in a close to  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                  $5000.00


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