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  "In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity": First Edition of If You Ask Me; Warmly Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt with a Lock of Her Hair

  ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.

  If You Ask Me. [AND] Eleanor Roosevelt Lock of Hair.

  New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946.

  First edition of this discussion of socio-political questions. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Olga with good wishes Eleanor Roosevelt." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by a group of ephemera which includes: an autograph note signed by the recipient, the note reads in full, "I took care of her hairstyle for this picture! Olga Meyer;" a newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt talking with Professor Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party, at an atom bomb forum; and an autograph envelope which reads, "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevet's [sic] First Tip to me Olga Meyer October 11, 1945," containing a lock of Mrs. Roosevelt's hair bound by a silk ribbon. An extraordinarily rare and unique example.

  Price: $1,800.00     Item Number: 146912

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