[Rarebooks] FS: Life & Work of Susan B. Anthony, two volumes, each INSCRIBED

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 fine 
pieces and now posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

(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 & 1898. First Edition. The first two volumes of three,  with
the  last  not published until 1908, two years after Anthony's  death.
Recent  brown  morocco,  preserving  on  the  front  panels  the  gilt
medallion  profile portrait of Anthony from the original binding;  all
edges  gilt.  Illustrated with frontispiece portraits of  Anthony  and
other  plates  and facsimiles. Each volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by
this  principal  leader of the woman suffrage movement in  the  United
States  on  the front endpapers to a suffragist from Michigan. In  the
first  volume,  Anthony has written: "Mrs. Olivia B.  Hall/Ann  Arbor-
Michigan-/From    her   affectionate  friend   &   coworker/Susan   B.
Anthony/Rochester  N.Y./Jan.  1,  1899."  On the same  date  she  also
INSCRIBED the second volume: "Mrs. Olivia B. Hall/Ann Arbor- Michigan-
/May  the New Year bring/added causes for happiness to/her and all the
loved  ones  of  her  chome/circle  & to all homes-  is  the  wish  of
her/affectionate    friend  &   coworker/Susan  B.   Anthony/Rochester
N.Y./Jan.  1,  1899."  Books  inscribed by this  great  American  have
become quite scarce. Fine copies with great inscriptions.     $8500.00

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