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ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. On My Own. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958]. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, A DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HER SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW on the half-title: "To Johnny & Anne With love from Mother (Eleanor Roosevelt) Xmas 1958." The book is dedicated to Malvina Thompson, Maureen Corr, Anna Roosevelt Halsted, James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., John A. Roosevelt, David and Edna Gurewitsch, Joe and Trude Lash. Eleanor Roosevelt recounted her experiences in the thirteen years since the death of FDR in which she entered upon an important new career as a public servant.
FIRST EDITION, A DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HER SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW on the half-title: "To Johnny & Anne With love from Mother (Eleanor Roosevelt) Xmas 1958." The book is dedicated to Malvina Thompson, Maureen Corr, Anna Roosevelt Halsted, James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., John A. Roosevelt, David and Edna Gurewitsch, Joe and Trude Lash. Eleanor Roosevelt recounted her experiences in the thirteen years since the death of FDR in which she entered upon an important new career as a public servant.