![[ROOSEVELT, Eleanor, her copies.] Five presentation volumes, four inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt, comprising: SOLLY, J. Raymond. Selected Thoughts from the French. London: Constable, 1913. 8vo. Half blue morocco. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Harry Hooker on the front fly-leaf: "To Eleanor with a thousand good wishes & Merry Xmas from Harry 1916." Hooker was Eleanor's lawyer and life-long friend. -- CLEMENS, Cyril. Mark Twain and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Missouri: International Mark Twain Society, 1949. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece. Original blue cloth-backed boards (binding defective). -- JOHNSON, Edgar. Charles Dickens. His Tragedy and Triumph. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. 8vo, 2 volumes. Photoreproduction frontispiece and plates. Original cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "For Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in esteem and admiration Edgar Johnson 24 October 1952." -- CLEMENS, Samuel L. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09690_0068_000(022903).jpg?w=1)
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[ROOSEVELT, Eleanor, her copies.] Five presentation volumes, four inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt, comprising: SOLLY, J. Raymond. Selected Thoughts from the French. London: Constable, 1913. 8vo. Half blue morocco. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Harry Hooker on the front fly-leaf: "To Eleanor with a thousand good wishes & Merry Xmas from Harry 1916." Hooker was Eleanor's lawyer and life-long friend. -- CLEMENS, Cyril. Mark Twain and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Missouri: International Mark Twain Society, 1949. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece. Original blue cloth-backed boards (binding defective). -- JOHNSON, Edgar. Charles Dickens. His Tragedy and Triumph. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. 8vo, 2 volumes. Photoreproduction frontispiece and plates. Original cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "For Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in esteem and admiration Edgar Johnson 24 October 1952." -- CLEMENS, Samuel L. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Platt & Munk, [1960]. 8vo. Specially bound in red hard-grained morocco gilt, gilt-lettered on cover with Eleanor Roosevelt's name, edges gilt. Later edition, IN A PRESENTATION BINDING AND INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER on verso of front free endpaper: "For Mrs. Roosevelt with high regard and profound respect of the publisher David B. Dreiman, August 18 1960." -- WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, n.d. 8vo. Photoreproduction frontispiece and illustrations in text after John Steuart Curry. Cloth-backed boards. WITH GIFT INSCRIPTION on the front paste-down endpaper: "With deepest gratitude -- Our best wishes for a happy New Year! The Staff, United States Student Assembly." Provenance (the lot): The Library of Eleanor Roosevelt. (6)