A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.

LASH, Joseph P.

$65.00

Item Number: 146857

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.

Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt by Peter Fiore specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition, illustrated with black and white photographs and a genealogical table. Signed by Joseph Lash on the front flyleaf. In near fine condition with a small abrasion to the top edge.

Joseph P. Lash was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for his book 'Eleanor and Franklin.' In 1939, having been summoned to testify before a House Committee, he crossed paths with Eleanor Roosevelt, and the two became fast friends. "Now here in 'A World of Love,' is a biography-in-letters of Eleanor Roosevelt -- with Lash writing the moving narrative of continuity that places each letter in its historical perspective, explains the background of events in which it was written, and takes you behind the scenes to clarify references she made personally -- with no idea that the letters would ever be published" (Joseph Sloves, Publisher).