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114 ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. India and the Awakening East. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953 presented to her official biographer First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author “To dear Joe & Trude, with love, Eleanor Roosevelt”. An outstanding provenance: the journalist and political activist Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) has been described as the First Lady’s “spiritually adopted son, confidant and counselor” (cited in ANB ). Born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in New York City, Lash was dubbed a “boy prodigy” by the metropolitan press. He played a prominent role in student radical politics during the 1930s and after leaving university became “the most prominent and persistent campus radical leader in depression-era America” ( ANB ). In 1939 his radicalism brought him to the attention of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). “Though battling Communist domination within the student movement himself, Lash had no desire to help HUAC in its crusade against leftist and liberal causes” (ibid.). Eleanor Roosevelt, in her role as “something of a patron saint of progressive student activism” (ibid.), attended the hearing at which Lash appeared and invited a group of them, including Lash, to the White House. It was the beginning of a friendship that would last until her death in 1962. In the 1940s it was Eleanor Roosevelt who helped bring Lash together with his future wife, Trude Pratt, an International Student Service organiser. Lash’s biography of the First Lady and her husband, Eleanor and Franklin (1971), won the Pulitzer Prize. India and the Awakening East records the First Lady’s impressions from her 1952 visit to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Pakistan, and India. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, terracotta paper- covered sides. With dust jacket. Housed in custom green cloth solander box. Numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs, map endpapers. A few nicks at head of spine, very good in good jacket, price-clipped, sunned and worn. A very good copy. £2,250 [140640]
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113 ROHAN, Henri, duc de. A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome. London: Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641 First edition in English to be printed in the British Isles, preceded only by a Parisian English-language edition of 1640; a well- preserved, complete copy in contemporary sheep. Henri, duc de Rohan (1579–1638) was the leader of the French Huguenots during the reign of Louis XIII. His De l’intérêt des princes et estats de la chrestienté was first published in Paris in 1638, at the height of the Thirty Years War, and offers a realist, Machiavellian discourse on the current crisis of relations between European states and the balance of power. “Rohan’s book was a compact reflection on European international affairs that offered pithy advice to rulers regarding what courses of action best served the aims of security and influence, in light of the precarious balance of power between Spain and France in its time” (Mathiowetz, p. 68). Duodecimo (133 × 77 mm). Contemporary ruled sheep, light brown speckled edges. Complete with two initial signed blanks and terminal ruled blank leaf. Free endpapers sometime neatly excised. Residue of old shelf label to spine, light rubbing with small chip at head of spine, faint running damp staining but contents generally crisp without marking; a very good copy. ¶ ESTC R24499; Wing R1868. Dean Mathiowetz, Appeals to Interest , 2015. £750 [150451]
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