EASTON PRESS: Eleanor and Franklin by best Joseph P. Lash, Library of American History, Leather bound, 2 volumes

VERY GOOD condition. Straight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Previous owner name/date inscribed on volume 1 inside front cover. Please see photos for condition details.

This two volume set was featured in the Easton Press series "Leather-Bound Library of American History". Published in 1991, the set is 1st Edition thus.


Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.


Included with the book is an insert of Collector's Notes on the work published by Easton Press.

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" 'Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers' is a 1971 biography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Joseph P. Lash. Its companion volume, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), covers her life as a widower after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death.

The biography won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize best for Biography."


"The #1 New York Times Bestseller—Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

In his extraordinary biography of the major political couple of the twentieth century, Joseph P. Lash reconstructs from Eleanor Roosevelt's personal papers her early life and four-decade marriage to the four-time president who brought America back from the Great Depression and helped to win World War II. The result is an intimate look at the vibrant private and public worlds of two incomparable people."


The above text derives from, repectively, Wikipedia and W. W. Norton Publishers (via Google Books)
[Lash, Joseph P.. Eleanor and Franklin. United States: W. W. Norton, 2014.]