[Rarebooks] [b] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt's Copy of PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESIDENTS

[Lee Kirk]

Have you tried the First Ladies Library with this? I sold them some Frances
Garfield correspondence a while back....Lee Kirk

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Subject: [b] FS: Eleanor Roosevelt's Copy of PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESIDENTS

[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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