ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.

You Learn By Living.

First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Classic Work You Learn By Living; Inscribed By Her in the Year of Publication

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.

$1,600.00

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First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Robinson with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt 1960." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962. A very nice signed example.

One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this guide to living a fuller life. You Learn by Living is a powerful volume of enduring common sense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, Eleanor takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity and civic stewardship.