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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.27.

paperback. Condition: LikeNew. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark.

Condition: Used - Like New. 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small publisher's mark on text block. Fine. Dust jacket is Fine.

magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. ; "approximately 8 x 10, from our extensive vintage paper collection, in mylar with stiff backing"; ; 8 x 10; 3 pp pages; Note: THIS IS NOT A BOOK BUT AN ARTICLE FROM AN OLD JOURNAL.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. This is an advertisement/article from a Vintage Journal and not a book or magazine ; 8 x 11; 3 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. With the '1' in a number line. Introduction by Jill Lepore for this first complete book publication of Mrs. Roosevelts' Depression-Era book of advice for women on all aspects of American life, including politics. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. As new , looks unread. "tracks her contributions from the 1920s, when she entered journalism and public life; through the White House years, when she campaigned for racial justice, the labor movement, and "the forgotten woman; " to the postwar era, when she served at the United Nations and shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. " 600gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Second Printing Before Publicati. No dust jacket. The grey cloth boards are rubbed at the corners, a little soiling on front, small dent bottom edge front, spine darkened with wear head/tail. Pen name inside front cover, front hinge weak. Second printing before publication October 25, 1933. Eleanor Roosevelt's first book published at the time of FDR's inauguration. "Women are different from men. They are equals in many ways, but they cannot refuse to acknowledge the differences." All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The October 1950 (# 1205) Centennial Issue of Harpers Magazine. The Century, an article reflecting the last 100 years (1850 - 1950) in America by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Bernard DeVoto, Precious Five, a poem by W H Auden, Women have Come a Long Way, an article by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, The Prisoner, a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, A Name for a City, a short story by William Faulkner, The Easy Chair, a column by Bernard DeVoto, and others. Light edge wear. there is a small bore hole to the bottom edge of pages 46 - 100 (no text affected). There is a faint fold crease to the top corner ofpages200 - 288. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.6.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover, as shown. First edition, 1933. No jacket. Inside tight, clean and unmarked, very good. Binding tight and very good. The cover has two scuffs, or the whole would grade much higher. After recent political events, the title seems prophetic. Shelf R.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Parker, Al; Spreter, Roy F. (illustrator). First Edition. 148 pages. Charming cover illustration by Al Parker depicts mother and daughter arranging their WWII-era ration stickers. Features: War and the Standard of Living; If You Ask Me (by Eleanor Roosevelt); There Never Was a Marriage Like Yours; How America Lives: Meet Reverend & Mrs. Sanborn - Arthayer Russell and Ruth Sanborn, Jr.; "The Church Just Doesn't Think"; and "Catching" Diseases. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (including recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising for Campbell's Soup, Coca-Cola, and French's Mustard. Full page colour vintage Lucky Strike Cigarette print advertising with American Artist James O. Chapin (1887-1975) painting. Full page colour ad with Rosalind Russell promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Short stories illustrated by Roy F. Spreter and Al Parker. Complete, clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy of this wartime issue.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Al Parker, Standard of Living, Eleanor Roosevelt); There Never Was a Marriage Like Yours; How America Lives: Meet Reverend & Mrs. Sanborn - Arthayer Russell and Ruth Sanborn, Jr.; "The Ch.

8Vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ltd. 263pp. Gray boards, black lettering and green graphics on spine and front board, unclipped jacket. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages, tissue page intact. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners, deckled foredge. Moderate overall book shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and corner rubbing, foxing on inner boards and textblock edges, pageblush throughout, written name on inside front, moderate+ jacketwear, jacket edgewear, rubbing, chipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, First printing. The Book is in fine shape with no mars or marks, tight and clean. The DJ has considerable edge wear and chipping. No major missing parts. Now repaired and protected. This amazing woman wrote directly to address the needs of women in 1933, a trying time for all America.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, First printing. The Book is in fine shape with no mars or marks, tight and clean. The DJ has considerable edge wear and chipping. No major missing parts. Now repaired and protected. This amazing woman wrote directly to address the needs of women in 1933, a trying time for all America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 263 p. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Clean pages and sturdy binding, tissue guard intact. Foxing to edges and endpapers. Former owner's name and address penned on fep. Jacket chipped at extremities, front panel creased along top and bottom edges, light staining, fading to blue on spine panel, small piece of tape on verso, foxing, price intact ($1.25). rare in jacket.

Hardcover. First edition. This is a first edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's first book, It's 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 Women's 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 FDR's 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 It's 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 husband's 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).

No binding. Condition: Very Good. Typed Letter Signed, to John Godfrey Saxe, June 22, 1925. On "New York State Women's Democratic News, Inc." stationery. 1 p., 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. Complete Transcript June 22, 1925.Mr. John Godfrey Saxe,30 Broad Street,New York, N.Y.Dear Mr. Saxe: Your article is exactly what we want. Do you want me to show the proff [proof] to Judge Olvaney,[1] or do you want me to send you the proof to go over it with him yourself. I will get it put up in type as soon as possible, and send you the printed proof for correction. I think the best time to run it will be in the September Number, as I do not want to run it until the campaign has aroused preliminary enthusiasm. With it I want to make a special appeal for volunteers to do the work you so clearly point out as necessary. Very sincerely yours, Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt)[1] Judge George Washington Olvany (1876-1952) was a New York General Sessions Court judge, deputy New York City Fire Commissioner, and leader of Tammany Hall from 1924 to 1929. Historical BackgroundAs a member of the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1922 to 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt served as editor and columnist for the Women's Democratic News newsletter. She eventually wrote a monthly column entitled "Passing Thoughts of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt."On April 30, 1925, Roosevelt wrote to attorney and former state senator John Godfrey Saxe II, asking if he would write an article of approximately 1,500 words on the inspection and watching of polling places on both primary and general election days, or two or three shorter articles. She wanted him to explain what a woman who suspected fraud at the polling place should do about it. Her goal was "to educate the women workers in the party upstate who are as yet extremely timid and have very little knowledge of what kind of work they can do and what rights they have." Because the Women's Democratic News was not issued in July and August, she could place Saxe's article(s) in the June, September, or October issues.Saxe also served with Roosevelt on The Citizens' Committee on Constitutional Amendments, which urged voters to approve all four state constitutional amendments on the ballot on November 3, 1925. The first two permitted the government to issue bonds for the construction of public buildings and the elimination of railroad grade crossings, respectively. The third reorganized several state departments and reduced the number of elective offices, and the fourth involved a reorganization of the state court system. All four amendments passed, with majorities ranging from 50.6 percent to 60.5 percent.In elections in the state, Democratic candidate Jimmy Walker overwhelmingly defeated his Republican rival for mayor of New York City with 65.8 percent of the vote. Walker served as mayor for nearly seven years before being forced to resign in a corruption scandal.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was born in New York City into the prominent Roosevelt family. She was tutored privately and attended an English finishing school from 1899 to 1902. In 1905, she married her distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, and they had six children, one of whom died as an infant. She actively supported her husband's political ambitions, campaigning for him, and representing him when he was Governor of New York (1929-1932) and President of the United States (1933-1945). She redefined the position of First Lady into a much more activist one with a heavy traveling, speaking, and writing schedule. Her syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," reached millions with her views on many issues, and she continued it for more than a decade after leaving the White House. After Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, his successor Harry S. Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as the first U.S. Representative to the United Nations, where she served from 1947 to 1953. She also served as the first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Righ. (See website for full description). Typed Letter Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Signed first edition, second printing of It's Up To The Women by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. (illustrator). First Edition, Second Printing. 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.".

No binding. Condition: Fine. Typed Letter Signed, to Mrs. E. M. Hartman, August 24, 1933, New York, New York. On "1933 Mobilization for Human Needs" stationery. 1 p., 8.5 x 11 in. "We have been passing through a period of depression longer than that of the World War and more corrosive in its effects. We have before us a work of recovery and reconstruction." Complete Transcript August 24, 1933Mrs. E. M. Hartman / College Campus / Lancaster, PennsylvaniaMy dear Mrs. Hartman: I am requesting you to serve as Chairman of your local Women's Crusade, which will be a part of your welfare fund or chest campaign this year. Our committee relies upon your Crusade to arouse public opinion which will express itself in generous support of the social agencies essential to our civilization. Women know from experience how to make a little money go a long way in providing for their families and they can therefore appreciate the task of the community fund agencies in budgeting their income so that no essential service shall be sacrificed. They know how important are the growing years of babyhood, the play time of boys and girls, the worries and heartaches of burdened mothers, the anxieties of the old folk. They are the conservators of family life. During the World War, women gave their time and energy unsparingly. We have been passing through a period of depression longer than that of the World War and more corrosive in its effects. We have before us a work of recovery and reconstruction. May we count on you? With every good wish for your local Women's Crusade, I am Yours sincerely, Eleanor Roosevelt Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Historical BackgroundThe Mobilization for Human Needs campaign began as early as 1931 to aid local community charities, and Eleanor Roosevelt became the chair of the National Women's Committee in 1933. The campaign in 1933 involved thirty-four national welfare and health organizations and community chests of four hundred cities across the nation. The 1933 national campaign began on October 20 and continued through November 1, though in some areas it continued longer.In September 1933, President Roosevelt addressed a two-day conference on the Mobilization for Human Needs on the lawn of the White House: "As you know, the many Governments in the United States, the Federal Government, the forty-eight State Governments, and the tens of thousands of local Governments are doing their best to meet what has been in many ways one of the most serious crises in history. On the whole, they have done well. The Federal Government cannot, by any means, accomplish the task alone." He explained that private charities, local governments, and state governments needed to do what they could, and only when their efforts were insufficient to meet the need would the federal government step in: "while it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation." He told the local activists, "You have a very great opportunity, not merely to keep people from starving. You have a further opportunity of inculcating the understanding that we have to build from the bottom up-not merely to supply food from the top down."[1] President Roosevelt also used his radio addresses throughout his presidency to support the annual campaigns of the Mobilization for Human Needs.Late in December 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about "The Mobilization for Human Needs" in a series of articles for The Evening News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: "The Mobilization for Human Needs 1934 campaign received real impetus at the Chicago conference last month. Speaking for myself, I can say that I have never met a more purposeful body of public spirited women than those I found in this conference. This woman's crusade was launched in advance of the work of raising community chest funds for various social services in different communities throughout the United States." She concluded, "though these . (See website for full description). Typed Letter Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. The scarce signed limited edition of It's Up To The Women, inscribed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. (illustrator). First Edition / Limited Edition. 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.

The Gentlewomen's League of Washington was an organization particularly active during the Great Depression and was one of the most successful women?s exchanges in the country. Any funds which were collected above the necessary expenses of running the League were turned into a fund for helping the needy women who were constantly coming to the organization for aid. Many of these had once been of means, but had been financially stranded by the Depression. Moreover, every member of the board gave of her own private funds toward support of the League, and hundreds of women sold their goods through the League, giving them an income when money was hard to come by.Typed letter signed, on White House stationery, Washington, December 4, 1933, to Mrs. William Aspinwall, expressing her willingness to support the League financially. ?I have asked my housekeeper to keep the Gentlewomen?s League in mind and to buy what she can from there. I will also keep it in mind in respect to any other shopping.? It comes with the original envelope.An interesting insight into Eleanor Roosevelt and her own efforts to help women fight the Great Depression.

Ellen Gowen Hood was active in the Democratic party at both the local and national levels. An obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News in 1970 described her as "one of the earliest local advocates of women in politics." She was the chairman of the Democratic Women's Luncheon Club of Philadelphia for 20 years, and had regular correspondence with women such as Edith Bolling Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt. Democratic women's clubs became active across the country after the 19th amendment passed in 1920, and the democratic party sought to mobilize women voters. As chairman of the Democratic Women's Luncheon Club of Philadelphia, Hood organized events with prominent political speakers and then had the speeches printed in book format. Without Hood's side of the correspondence, we don't get insight into her philosophy of women's participation in politics. We do, however, get a sense for the role that the club played in the Democratic Party. Baker was a periodic guest of the luncheon club, and in his letters he praised the organization, saying "I think I have never addressed a more intelligent or obviously influential audience," and "I think there is no more useful forum anywhere. They print the addresses made at their luncheons and give them a wide circulation throughout the country, so that their pamphlets are now in libraries and in the hands of studious and thoughtful people everywhere." As an avid supporter of Wilsonian ideas and the League of Nations, Hood's political intention with the club seems more focused on bringing speakers that would highlight those causes, than specifically speaking to women's participation in politics. The letters from Baker to Hood reveal their shared political beliefs and goals. Their letters are ongoing conversations about the League of Nations and the World Court; the Democratic Conventions in 1924, 1928, and 1932; and how democrats should govern following the Great Depression and prohibition. Baker frequently recommends essays and speeches for Hood to read, and also helps connect her with potential speakers for the Luncheon Club. He addresses her as a political peer, and we also get a sense of her professional persistence and savvy -- in nearly every letter for twenty years, Baker responds to her requests for him to come and speak at the club. The letters give insight into Baker's political beliefs as they evolve through the 1920s and 1930s. In the 20s-30s, he writes as his thinking on the League of Nations changes from strongly feeling that the United States should join, to discouraging it until there is complete support. In one letter, Baker describes, in confidence, one of the only times he disagreed with President Wilson as Secretary of War -- when Wilson sent American troops to North Russia at the end of World War I. In a few memorable letters from 1932, Baker writes about his experience of the 1932 democratic convention, and his sense of relief when he was not chosen for nomination. The letters also exhibit Baker's writing style and his tendency to wax poetic about democratic politics. For example, speaking about the limitations of the Democratic Party, he writes, "The trouble about it all is that nobody has yet invented anything better for the long run and the steady pull than democracy, and so we just have to be patient with it as we are with the small misdoings of our children and take our joy out of the sure forecast of their fine performance when they have matured." Other correspondences in the collection include letters from Edith Bolling Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, historian and diplomat Claude Bowers, and Bess Truman. There are also several letters from Ralph Hayes, Baker's wartime secretary in the war department and a central figure in Baker's 1932 presidential campaign. These letters go into detail about Baker's role at the 1932 convention, his legacy on labor issues, and a rumor that he was Jewish. Overall the collection provides insight into Democra.

Hardcover. First Edition. "A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Her first book. Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in a Fair to Good dustwrapper with rubbing and some losses, without the slipcase.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Copy #35 of 250 copies signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on colophon at front. x, 263 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt with turquoise stamping, gilt topstain. Spine a little dust-soiled, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket with remainder stamp on front panel, typical wear at thumb pull, spine dulled. In original slipcase with sunning, dust-soiling and slight chipping along bottom panel. A signed limited edition from America's first lady, dispensing uplift and defending FDR's New Deal programs at the height of the Great Depression.