“TO USE MY OWN MIND AND ABILITIES FOR MY OWN AIMS”: THIS I REMEMBER, INSCRIBED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.
Early trade edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations, inscribed, “Inscribed for Lawrence A. Lieber with good wishes, Eleanor Roosevelt.”
“Franklin often used me to get the reflection of other people’s thinking,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, “because he knew I made it a point to see and talk with a variety of people.” A fascinating personal account of the Roosevelts’ life and times. Illustrated with 41 black-and-white photographs. See Edens B17.
Interior fine; one small smudge below inscription, not affecting handwriting. Slight soiling to cloth boards. Very light wear to extremities of fine, bright dust jacket. A fine inscribed copy.