When You Grow Up to Vote.

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.

$4,500.00

Item Number: 124558

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first book, published the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. In good condition with some spotting to the cloth. First editions are rare, signed copies exceptionally so, this is the first example we have seen.

In the voice of one of the most iconic and beloved political figures of the twentieth century comes a book on citizenship for the future voters of the twenty-first century. Beginning with government workers like policemen and firefighters, and moving up through local government to the national stage, the book explains how government workers ultimately work for the voter.