Service and Sacrifice: Poems. 1 slipcase for this with 5299 and 5300.
Inscribed To ER By Her Aunt
[Roosevelt, Eleanor]. Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt. Service and Sacrifice: Poems. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919.
8vo.; careful paper repair to first blank, not affecting inscription; preliminaries faintly foxed and offset, else pages fresh and bright; black cloth, stamped in gilt with angel motif and decorative borders; a nice copy. In a specially made cloth slipcase with two other Robinson titles.
First edition of her third book. A presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank: For my dear niece Eleanor with not only love, but admiration from Corinne Roosevelt Robinson May 15th 1919.
The inscription reflects both the familial closeness shared by Eleanor Roosevelt and her aunt (as documented above in the description of One Woman To Another and Other Poems) as well as their work as political allies in the fight for women’s suffrage. It was probably this political bond that lead Aunt Pussie to sign the book with “admiration” for Eleanor: Service and Sacrifice was published in 1919, during an historical moment that constituted the apex of the struggle for women’s right to vote in the United States.
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