[Rarebooks] FS: Life & Works of Susan B. Anthony, Inscribed by Anthony

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Thu Jan 24 10:57:40 EST 2008


(ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted. THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN
B.  ANTHONY INCLUDING PUBLIC ADDRESSES, HER OWN LETTERS AND MANY  FROM
HER  CONTEMPORARIES.... Indianapolis & Kansas City: The  Bowen-Merrill
Co.  1899. First Edition. The first volume of three, with the last not
published  until  1908.  Original blue cloth with paper  spine  label;
xxiv,  513 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of  Anthony
and  other plates and facsimiles. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by
the  subject  on  the  front   endpaper:  "Dr.  Fernand  Deschamps  of
Belgium/With  the hope that principle/not prejudice -- will govern all
of/his  reports on the great question/of Woman's enfranchisement/Susan
B.  Anthony/17  Madison Street/Rochester N.Y./Sept. 26,  1901."  Books
inscribed  by this great American have become quite scarce. Near  Fine
                                                               $4500.00

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