On My Own: The Years Since The White House.
First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s On My Own; Inscribed By Her
On My Own: The Years Since The White House.
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
$875.00
Item Number: 92117
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.
First edition of Roosevelt’s last book of autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Inscribed for V____ M_____ by Eleanor Roosevelt.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Ben Feder.
"Convinced that ‘when you cease to make a contribution, you die,’ she remained at the center of American and global politics for nearly two more decades She became a fearless international champion of progressive causes and perhaps the most influential American woman of the 20th century" (ANB).
