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[ROOSEVELT, Eleanor, her copies.] Five presentation volumes, four inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt and one in a presentation binding, comprising: PERKINS, Frances. The Roosevelt I Knew. New York: Viking Press, 1946. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and plates. Original cloth (slightest fading). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "Dear Eleanor, I present this with many apologies for incompleteness but with much love & respect for you both. Frances Perkins Oct 17 1946." Frances Perkins, the first cabinetwoman in the United States, was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. -- SHERWOOD, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins An Intimate History. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1948]. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text. Original cloth (slightest age-toning). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "For Eleanor Roosevelt, with profound admiration, with abiding love -- and also with a considerable amount of trepidation, Bob Sherwood October 1948." Sherwood was a speechwriter for FDR and Director of the Overseas Division, Office of War Information, 1941-44. -- TITTLE, Walter. Roosevelt As an Artist Saw Him. New York: Robert M. McBride, [1948]. 8vo. Photographic plates and illustrations in text. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt with the best wishes of Walter Tittle 20 February 1949." -- RAUCH, Basil. Roosevelt From Munich to Pearl Harbor. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950. 8vo. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket (a few short tears and light soiling). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "For: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt with greatest respect Basil Rauch." Rauch was Head of the History Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. -- MERRIAM, Eve. The Real Book about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Garden City: Garden City Books, [1952]. 8vo. Illustrations in text by Bette J. Davis. Specially bound in blue crushed levant morocco, covers gilt with single- and double-fillet borders, a looping-fillet roll, stylized cornerpieces, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated with similar rules and devices, edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, original pictorial endpapers, by Bennett. FIRST EDITION, IN A PRESENTATION BINDING. (5)