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Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1937, Fourth Edition,, 1937.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, large 8vo, xii,365pp, illustrated, pages browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, rubbed, spine dull, Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This is My Story. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1937.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition. 365 pp. plus illustrations. The boards are bowed. The text block is somewhat ripply. An unmarked copy in a sound binding with hinges intact. The dust jacket is frayed with small chips at the spine ends and corners. There is a short tear on the rear panel. The price, $3.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper & Brothers Publishers,, New York and London, 1937.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated. Jacket in one piece with storage wear on top and bottom of spine and a stained on the back. Inside in MINT CONDITION
Seller: Casa del Libro A Specialty Bookstore, Sultan, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$164.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover Ausgabe befriedigender Zustand - Ohne Schutzumschlag - Erscheinungsjahr: 1937 - Buch mit Abbildungen und 365 Seiten - Der Einband des Buches weist Gebrauchsspuren auf - Index: Archiv 164
Seller: Sammlerantiquariat, Krukow, Germany
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1937.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Octavo. [x] 365pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt to spine and embossed signature in dark blue to front. Some offsetting from dust jacket. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chipping to edges and original price of $3.00 to front dust flap. The first of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies describing her life up until the presidential election of 1924.
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor.. This is my Story. **SIGNED**. Harper & Brothers Publishers,,, New York, 1937.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Description: VG with fading to spine, blue cloth, SIGNED by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half title in pencil. Front hinge has been repaired.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1937.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, x, 365pp. Blue cloth boards, title printed on spine. Cloth is worn and fraying along bottom edge, soiled from handling. Stated "third edition" on copyright page. Even toning throughout, free of any marks or notations. In publisher's scarce dust jacket, $4.00 on front flap, some shelf wear and wear to panels, exceptionally bright colors. (Edens B8) Inscribed on the half title by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: "To Joan + Clifford - With the good wishes of the author. Eleanor Roosevelt." Part of a series of three books written by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt about her life, with This Is My Story detailing her experiences through the 1924 presidential election.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR.. This Is My Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 'Third Edition' (issued in November, 1937). Inscribed by the author. Front hinge cracking; very good in a worn, torn and chipped dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Eleanor Roosevelt. This Is My Story, signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1937.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: This is a signed first edition, presumed second printing of the first of Eleanor Roosevelts biographical writings (followed by 1949s This I Remember and 1958s On My Own). On the half title page, below the printed title, she signed "Eleanor Roosevelt" in black ink. The copyright page neither explicitly states "First Edition" nor makes mention of further printings. Since we have observed that the third printing was so-stated on the copyright page, we speculate that this is a second printing of the first edition.Condition is good plus in a good plus dust jacket. The light blue cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded, though slightly mottled with shelf wear, including a few dents to the bottom edges and a hint of sunning to the edges where sun snuck past the dust jacket. The publishers name "HARPER" is ghosted onto the spine from the dust jacket. The contents are clean, with no previous ownership marks and light spotting confined to the endpapers. Differential toning of the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. The dust jacket front flap is neatly price-clipped, but the jacket is otherwise substantially complete and respectably bright, with only the slight color shift between the gold and blue fields on the spine and front face. The jacket shows edge wear and moderate overall scuffing, most notably a roughly 1.25 x 1 inch (3.18 x 2.54 cm) abrasion to the upper left of the front face (not affecting any text or images). The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.This first of Eleanor Roosevelts memoirs covers her early years and family up until the 1924 Democratic Convention, and was originally serialized in Ladies Home Journal. The book was written in 1936 and published in 1937. Herein, Eleanor simply and frankly discloses her personal narrative, and gives cause and context to the liberal influence which anchored her life and politics. 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. She did so, and in so doing " she became a fearless international champion of progressive causes and perhaps the most influential American woman of the twentieth century." (ANB). Eleanors famous partnership with Franklin D. Roosevelt ended with FDRs death, in April 1945 at the start of his fourth presidential term. Of that partnership, Eleanor wrote in This I Remember "He might have been happier with a wife who had been completely uncritical Nonetheless, I think that I sometimes acted as a spur, even though the spurring was not always wanted " She could as easily be speaking of her relationship with the world, which she loved as earnestly as she goaded, undaunted by its challenges and disappointments.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. THIS IS MY STORY. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1937.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition; # 154 of 258 large paper copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. 365 pages in very good condition; top edge gilt. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Blue hardcovers with gilt spine titles. Spine and edges slightly yellowed. Corners not bumped. VG+. Book comes in a blue slipcase with black titles on a beige label. Front edges are a little yellowed and chipped. Tape mending on the bottom edges. Slipcase is a little scuffed and stained. GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story.. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1937.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's first autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, near fine in a bright near fine with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition and signed. This Is My Story begins with Eleanor Roosevelts childhood and covers the beginnings of her own and her husbands life in politics, culminating with the Democratic National Convention of 1924. Contains over 40 photographic images of the Roosevelt family.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.