New York: 12 May 1958 (postmark date). Letter. A brief 1-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER in green ink on both sides of personal stationery headed "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt," completely in Eleanor Roosevelt's hand, to her son James Roosevelt SIGNED as "Mother." In part: "I had forgotten about Mother's Day so thank.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. "A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Her first book.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Her third volume of memoirs: The Years Since the White House. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.
Photograph. A superb 9" x 12" photograph printed on stiff paper depicting Mrs. Roosevelt standing in a formal white gown by a window presumably in the White House. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by her on the white dress that drapes across the floor: "To Mr. Eugene List/with good wishes/Eleanor Roosevelt." Although.....
1960. Photograph. An 8" x 10" silver print photograph portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt wearing pearls and smiling. SIGNED by her on a light portion of the photograph: "To Miss Emily(?) Sachs/With warm good wishes/Eleanor Roosevelt." Accompanied by a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the former First Lady dated 25 March 1960.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #653 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. This copy with both the original glassine, which has roughly an inch on one side lacking, and the slipcase which is lightly soiled.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #678 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. This copy with both the original glassine and the slipcase.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to White House Librarian Mary Eben who is mentioned once in the book.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #812 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. This copy with both the original glassine and the slipcase. Receipt from Bauman Rare Books dated 1998 laid in.
New York: H. C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. A small, slim clothbound volume of 47 pages. Roosevelt's own copy with a bookplate from the publisher on the front endpaper stating, "This is your editorial copy" with a publication date of 3 January 1938. Above the bookplate the.....
Washington DC: 8 December 1939. Letter. On White House letterhead SIGNED by the First Lady to Florida Senator Claude Pepper. In full: "Could you get this boy an appointment if you find he is worthy? Also, could you answer the mother's question about a place to live, as you know.....
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the First Lady on the front endpaper to old friends Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his wife Marcelle: "To Henry & Marcelle/A Merry Xmas & a happy New Year/from/Eleanor Roosevelt/Xmas 1958." Henry Morgenthau was.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S COPY with both Roosevelt's bookplate and the small circular estate label, this numbered 2856, on the front pastedown. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S COPY with both Roosevelt's bookplate and the small circular estate label, this numbered 3279, on the front pastedown. Advance Copy with publisher's business card with publication date laid in.
1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (11" x 14") in recent half brown morocco leather with matching corners and gilt lettering on the front cover, in the spirit of the original binding but not reproducing it, the original pictorial wraps bound in; 384 pages. SIGNED by the President beneath a color.....
1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (11" x 14") in original gilt-lettered brown leather with the original pictorial wraps bound in; 384 pages. SIGNED by the President beneath a color image of the White House on the limitation leaf, #2212 of an unstated limitation of 2500 copies, which is often found.....
[1939]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in full gilt-lettered red morocco leather; 12 pages. An ORIGINAL typed Andy Hardy radio script by Carey Wilson that followed the birthday broadcast for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939. This copy is INSCRIBED to Wilson and SIGNED by Roosevelt on.....
[Washington]: The White House (Government Printing Office), Christmas 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Small slim quarto (7" x 10") bound in parchment-backed marbled boards, printed paper title label to spine, top edge gilt; vignette on title partly printed in red and blue, initials printed in red; 24, [1] pages. Copy #20.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Specially bound in black morocco leather, covers with single-fillet gilt border, front cover gilt-lettered; blue watered silk linings, the front lining centering the Presidential seal stamped in gilt. Illustrated with photos; 47 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE PRESIDENT TO HIS SON on the.....
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1937]. First Edition. Hardcover. A record of a two-week cruise in July, 1936. Original blue cloth with an anchor in gilt on the front cover; [8], 19, [1] pages. Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece of the yacht and a large folding chart bound at the end.....
New York: The John Day Company, (1934). First Edition. Hardcover. A dummy copy with half-title, title page with copyright on verso, a printed explanatory page, an excerpt from Chapter 7, a printed statement of upcoming publication, and several pages of order forms. The bulk of the full-sized book is composed.....
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Original full red crushed levant morocco leather with gilt-lettered maroon calf label on the spine, recently and neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Halter T-482. James Roosevelt's copy with his name in gilt on the front cover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on.....
Warm Springs, GA: 30 November 1928. Letter. An interesting one-page letter on personal stationery to Mary O'Connor Eben of the Democratic National Committee. In full: "Dear Mary O'Connor:-- Many thanks for your mighty nice Thanksgiving greetings. All goes well here and the Tully child is behaving as well as possible.....
Washington DC: 25 March 1941. Ephemera. A pair of miniature Hellenic shoes, 4" long including the tassels, red wool knitted over boards, gifted to Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a description and inscription to him written on the insole and inner side lining. From the estate of White House Librarian Mary.....
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blindstamped brown cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in 1834, this is an enlarged edition with a biographical sketch of the author by his son. Howes S-1130; Sabin 93559: "An attack on Thomas Jefferson and a......
