American Manuscripts & other Property from the Collection of Elsie and Philip Sang

American Manuscripts & other Property from the Collection of Elsie and Philip Sang

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT | Signed first edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography, This I Remember, accompanied by 3 letters

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, 

THIS I REMEMBER. NEW YORK: HARPER BROTHERS,1949


8vo (9 1/4 x 6 in.; 234 x 152 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, paper spine label; blue slipcase with minor water damage. 

[With:] Autograph letter signed ("Eleanor Roosevelt"), 2 pages, to Mrs. Kernan, on Hyde Park letterhead, "Hyde Park, N.Y. Telegraph Poughkeepsie" 27 June [n.d.]; folds, verso small piece of tape—typed letter signed ("Eleanor Roosevelt"), one page, to Henry Gordard Leach, Esq., on White House letterhead, "The White House Washington" 22 January 1934—typed letter signed ("Eleanor Roosevelt"), one page to Mr. Geffers on her personal letterhead, "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 211 East 62nd Street, New York 21 N.Y." 26 September, 1955; ownership stamp from the "Autograph Collection of Dr. Max Thorek Chicago." 


First edition, no. 441 of 1,000 copies signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, and accompanied by a miscellaneous collection of correspondence comprising 3 letters.