8vo. xii, 241pp, [1]. With half-title and 24 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth, with printed signature to upper board, contrasting navy lettering-piece. With original photographic dust-wrapper. Front endpapers browned, owing to newspaper clipping loosely inserted, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt's (1884-1962) memoir of the thirteen tumultuous years following the death of her husband, President F. D. Roosevelt. As touching and personal as her previous autobiographical works, This Is My Story (1937) and This I remember (1949), On My Own preceded The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), the longest-serving First Lady's complete record of her early life, activism, and of course, her time in Office.