This I Remember

1949. First Edition. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Large octavo, original blue cloth, paper spine label, original acetate, original slipcase. $2800.Signed limited first edition, number 720 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. Book in fine condition; slipcase lightly sunned.