Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty, A.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Copy
Roosevelt, Eleanor. A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, (1935).
8vo.; black and white photographs throughout; gutters browned; red cloth, stamped in white; lightly soiled.
First edition of Roosevelt’s exceedingly scarce second book for young readers, and the inaugural volume in the publisher’s “Seeing America” series. (Lowell Thomas would accompany the suspiciously well behaved Bobby and Betty on their “trip” to New York.) In contrast to her first children’s book, the civics primer When I Grow Up and Vote, this amply illustrated story—with full and half-page photographs on nearly every pair of pages—is strictly a guide for the young tourist, taking the reader beyond the political institutions of the capital and into Arlington Cemetery, the Smithsonian, the National Zoo, even the Folger Library. Could Bobby’s and Betty’s grandchildren be coaxed to darken the door of that famous research institution today? With Mrs. Roosevelt as a guide they just might.
Provenance: Eleanor’s own copy, by descent to her son John, thence to his wife Irene Roosevelt Aitken, from whom it was acquired.
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