[Rarebooks] FS: PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESIDENTS from the library of Eleanor Roosevelt
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[ROOSEVELT, Eleanor] SMITH, Don. PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESIDENTS.
STRANGE AND INTIMATE FACTS NOT FOUND IN HISTORY. [WASHINGTON TO TRUMAN].
(Van Wert, OH): (Wilkinson Press), (1946). Fourth Edition, Revised.
Illustrated with portraits and drawings. This is ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S
COPY with both Roosevelt's bookplate and the small circular estate
label, this numbered 791, on the front pastedown. In addition there is a
Presentation bookplate SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper
with the following printed statement: "TO/Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt/I
admire her life and have/put this admiration in pages/171 to 179,"
referring to the chapter about Eleanor Roosevelt. Very Good, lacking a
dustwrapper, if it had one. (#016221) $350.00
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