A m e r i c a n a 62 Signed Limited First Edition Of Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember 79. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York, 1949. Large octavo, original blue cloth, acetate, slipcase. $2800. Signed limited first edition, one of only 1000 copies printed on special paper and signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. “Franklin often used me to get the reflection of other people’s thinking,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, “because he knew I made it a point to see and talk with a variety of people.” This fascinating personal account of the Roosevelts’ extraordinary life and times contains 41 photographic illustrations of the Roosevelt family, including a frontispiece of the First Lady, after a portrait taken circa 1944 by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh. Edens B17. A fine copy. “Nothing Short Of The Loss Of My Life Shall Prevent Me From Becoming Their Historian” 78. CATLIN, George. North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. Edinburgh, 1926. Two volumes. Large octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth, custom slipcase. $3500. Later edition of Catlin’s monumental history, with 309 chromolithographs on 180 plates and three color-printed maps (one folding). A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out for the West from his home in Pennsylvania in 1830 to record on canvas North American Indians and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an enormous collection of artifacts, as well as more than four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. His North American Indians, first published with uncolored plates in 1841, is “one of the most original, authentic and popular works on the subject” (Sabin 11536). Gift inscriptions. Bookplates. Interiors fine, mild wear and toning to spines, gilt exceptionally bright. A near-fine copy.
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