INSCRIBED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. If You Ask Me. New York & London: D. Appleton-Century Company, (1946). Octavo, original black cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $2800.
First edition, first printing, of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's engaging and thoughtful responses to questions posed by leading figures such as Albert Einstein as well as everyday Americans, presentation copy: "Inscribed for —- —- by Eleanor Roosevelt."
Written in question-and-answer form, Eleanor Roosevelt's If You Ask Me "reads like courtroom drama… Added up, page by page, belief by belief, the book pictures the pattern of Mrs. Roosevelt's personality, warm, generous, sincere and sympathetic… She loves America, but beyond that she loves people" (New York Times).
Book fine; light edgewear to very good dust jacket.