[Rarebooks] FS: Helen Keller "from the little girl who sees with her soul"

[Charles Agvent]

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[CLEVELAND, Frances Folsom] KELLER, Helen. HELEN KELLER. SOUVENIR
OF  THE  FIRST SUMMER MEETING...TO PROMOTE THE TEACHING OF  SPEECH  TO
THE DEAF Inscribed to Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Washington, D.C.: Volta Bureau
1892.    Second  Edition.  Folio  (10-3/4"   x  13-1/2")  in   printed
string-tied  white wraps. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece  of
Keller  and  facsimiles of two of her letters. Includes  contributions
by  Keller,  Alexander Graham Bell, Annie Sullivan, and  others,  much
expanded  from  the  First  Edition.   INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED  by  the
twelve-year  old  Keller  on  the front free endpaper  in  pencil,  as
Keller  always  used,  to  Frances Cleveland, the  wife  of  President
Grover  Cleveland: "To Mrs. Cleveland -- From the little girl/who sees
with  her soul/Helen Keller/Tuscumbia, Alabama/November Fourth  1892."
Certainly  one  of the finest and earliest inscriptions by  Keller  in
existence,  with  the added value of the association and date  of  the
inscription,  only  four  days  before Cleveland was  elected  to  his
second  term.  Cleveland was the only President married in  the  White
House,  to  Frances in June 1886, whom he met when he was 27  and  she
was  an  infant. After her father's death when she was  11,  Cleveland
became  administer  of  his estate, and when  Frances  graduated  from
college  he  proposed to her. Front cover detached but present.  First
text  page  with  a clean tear with no loss. Heavy  chipping  to  rear
cover  with  loss  and slightly less to rear blank pages  and  to  one
facsimile  page. Stain in outer right margin increasing in size toward
the end. Fair copy but with a superb inscription!             $5000.00

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