[Rarebooks] F/S Call It Sleep first edition and signed limited Eleanor Roosevelt

[Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following net to all and postpaid at the prices below;

Roth, Henry. Call it Sleep. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934.  					 $650.00
First Edition; octavo; pp; v, (iii), 599; blue cloth, top edge stained blue, spine title tile in darker blue lettered in gray; The first printing lacking the scarce jacket, the spine darkened, moderate wear, abrasion at spine foot, else a clean tight copy of a very scarce 20th century American highpoint. The American Jewish literary classic, which was nearly forgotten shortly after publication, to be revived some thirty years later after receiving a front page review in the New York Times Book Review. The life of the lower east side ghetto made brilliant in this first novel by Roth.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper and Brothers 1949. 			           $1000.00
First edition, one of one thousand (1000) copies Signed by the author, this is copy #947. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 387, index; illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and forty-one additional black and white photographs; blue buckram with a paper spine label in original glassine in the slipcase; Fine in original unprinted acetate dust wrapper in a very good cardboard slipcase with light wear. One of 1000 copies Signed by the author. Memoir of the author's years as First Lady.

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