[Rarebooks] FS: One of the finest & earliest Helen Keller Inscriptions, this to First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland

[Charles Agvent]

[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. Cleveland
Volta Bureau Washington, D. C. 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 was11, 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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