If You Ask Me. [AND] Eleanor Roosevelt Lock of Hair.

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.

$1,800.00

Item Number: 146912

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946.

First edition of this discussion of socio-political questions. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Olga with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by a group of ephemera which includes: an autograph note signed by the recipient, the note reads in full, “I took care of her hairstyle for this picture! Olga Meyer;” a newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt talking with Professor Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party, at an atom bomb forum; and an autograph envelope which reads, “Mrs. Eleanor Roosevet’s [sic] First Tip to me Olga Meyer October 11, 1945,” containing a lock of Mrs. Roosevelt’s hair bound by a silk ribbon. An extraordinarily rare and unique example.

In If You Ask Me, Eleanor Roosevelt gives candid and insightful answers to questions posed by Americans from all walks of life. It gives remarkable insight into the mind of one of the greatest women of the twentieth century.