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Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D.. It's Up to the Women. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1933.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faint stain on the lower inch of the spine. Book plate on thefront paste down.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D.. It's Up to the Women. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$114.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover; Good Minus; No Dust Jacket; Scarce book, limited number printed. A piece of American history at this point. Eleanor Roosevelt's book on Women's issues that led to many discussions of even more changes to women's rights in the early 1900's. The Front cover has a light mark visible and some general wear however not overly distracting. Email us for a picture, we ship fast.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D.. It's Up to the Women. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$124.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover; Good Minus; No Dust Jacket; Scarce book, limited number printed. A piece of American history at this point. Eleanor Roosevelt's book on Women's issues that led to many discussions of even more changes to women's rights in the early 1900's. The Front cover has a light mark visible and some general wear however not overly distracting. Email us for a picture, we ship fast.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D.. It's Up to the Women. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$149.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover; Very Good Minus; No Dust Jacket; Scarce book, limited number printed. A piece of American history at this point. Eleanor Roosevelt's book on Women's issues that led to many discussions of even more changes to women's rights in the early 1900's. The Back cover has one small spot on it. There is a blind stamp on the first free page and the half title page from a previous owner. Email us for a picture, we ship fast.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
ROOSEVELT, MRS. FRANKLIN D.. IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN. FREDERICK A STOKES, NY, 1933.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small chip & edge wear to the rare, unclipped dj.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Eleanor Roosevelt. It's Up to the Women. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: This is a first edition of Eleanor Roosevelts first book, Its Up to the Women. Eleanor published this book in 1933, concurrent with the first inauguration of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in part as a declaration of her intended transformative approach to the role of First Lady. This example is a strikingly bright and clean, fine example in a very good minus dust jacket. The light teal cloth binding printed in dark teal and black is beautifully clean, square, and tight with sharp corners and no appreciable wear. The contents are likewise remarkably clean, free of spotting or previous ownership marks. The deckled fore and bottom edges are likewise immaculate. The top edge shows only a trivial hint of shelf dust. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original "$1.25" front flap price, and substantially complete, with only fractional loss to the joint and flap fold extremities. The jacket is also notably clean. There is a 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) closed tear with attendant wrinkling to the lower right of the front face, and light overall wear to the extremities and joints. The spine is evenly toned, but the blue title and author print (a notably unliberated "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt") remains clearly legible. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Called "First Lady of the World" by President Truman for her humanitarian work, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was the first US Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, a prolific writer (including dozens of books, hundreds of articles and editorials, and a daily newspaper column from 1936-1962), and the longest-serving first lady of the United States. When her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was running for president in the fall of 1932 as the likely election winner, Eleanor had already independently made for herself a name in Democratic politics as a spokesperson for the newly enfranchised woman voter, labor advocate in the midst of the Great Depression, a vocal promoter of civil rights, and the head of the Womens Division of the Democratic National Committee since 1928. She feared her impending role as First Lady, a heretofore purely social and apolitical role, would necessitate a quieting of her convictions and force her to step down from her political positions; she even told friends that she would divorce FDR should he win rather than lose her independence. After FDRs unprecedented victory securing 42 of 48 states, Eleanor made the decision to transform her new position rather than yield to it. In January she announced that she would write and publish a book before the March inauguration. The result was Its Up to the Women which was, as The Hartford Courant called it, "a book of general counsel and advice on pretty well everything, from dish-washing to high diplomacy." Topics ranged from recipes for "hot stuffed eggs" to advice for women in negotiating salaries equal to their male counterparts to counsel for women seeking public office. Critically, Eleanor tied her husbands promise of a New Deal to the civic engagement of the American woman. She wrote, "If women are really going to awake to their civic duties then we may indeed be seeing the realization of a really new deal for the people." (p.201)
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. It's Up To The Women. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, x, 263pp. Gray cloth, title printed in black on spine and in black and green on front cover. Stated "second printing" on copyright page. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Dust jacket in good condition, $1.25 retail price on front flap, loss and sunning to spine, archival repairs at along both edges. (Edens, B6) Signed on the front free endpaper by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: "To Mrs. Woods, in memory of a pleasant visit + with gratitude to my kind host + hostess. Eleanor Roosevelt / July 1935."
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. It's Up To The Women. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1933.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, x, [2], 263pp. Publisher's blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. In publisher's scarce limited edition dust jacket, expertly repaired, first class mail sticker on front cover, lacking retail price and "Edition de luxe" statement, whicn can be found on the first trade edition front flap. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Housed in custom clamshell case. From a limited edition of 250 limited edition copies signed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, this being number 132. (Edens B6) Additional inscription by Mrs. Roosevelt in green pen: "From Eleanor Roosevelt to Albertine Brewer Fitzsimmons on her 1935 Wedding Anniversary, January 30th, which also is Delano's 54th birthday." A scarce limited edition copy by itself, but the additional inscription by Eleanor Roosevelt noting her husband's birthday on January 30th makes this a truly unique copy.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.