Item #011439 India and the Awaking East. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 -1962.
India and the Awaking East
India and the Awaking East
India and the Awaking East

India and the Awaking East

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Publisher's cloth to paper boards, map endpages, photo illustration. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page. Dust Jacket is price-clipped with a sun-faded spine and light edge wear. 8.5 inches tall; 237 pages with index. First Edition, First Printing.

Very Good / Very Good. Item #011439

Out of a journey through the East comes this revealing and warmly personal book about the problems and hopes of peoples now coming of age. [from the dust jacket]

Background Information:
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Price: $24.00