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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stern's first book. A fictionalized autobiography of a young Polish immigrant, her assimilation into American life, and the strains that puts on her relationship with her mother. Blue boards with orange and gilt lightly bumped and rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Several small, faint drip marks on the front board. Previous owner's name on the front end paper (T.E.Rankin, English Professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota at the time.) Three word note on the rear pastedown, and a number of short lines in the margins next to notable passages.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Stern, Elizabeth Gertrude. My Mother and I. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$123.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. WITH A FOREWORD BY: Theodore Roosevelt. EXCERPT: FOREWORD - Sagamore Hill. This is a really noteworthy story--a profoundly touching story--of the Americanizing of a young girl, who between babyhood and young womanhood leaps over a space which in all cultural and humanizing essentials is far more important than the distance painfully traversed by her fore-fathers during the preceding thousand years. When we tend to grow disheartened over some of the developments of our American civilization, it is well worth while seeing what this same civilization holds for starved and eager souls who have elsewhere been denied what here we hold to be, as a matter of course, rights free to all--although we do not, as we should do, make these rights accessible to all who are willing with resolute earnestness to strive for them. I most cordially commend this story.--Theodore Roosevelt. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
[ROOSEVELT, THEODORE] STERN, E.G.. My Mother and I. New York: Macmillan, 1917, 1917.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Foreword by Roosevelt. Fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.