[Rarebooks] FS: Helen Keller's book on the Miracle Worker, SIGNED by Keller and Anne Sullivan's replacement
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Mon Apr 12 12:06:54 EDT 2010
From our recently posted illustrated new online catalog, the entirety
of which can be seen at
http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/catalogues.html
KELLER, Helen. TEACHER ANNE SULLIVAN MACY. A TRIBUTE BY THE FOSTER-CHILD
OF HER MIND. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. First
Edition. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the
author, in pencil as always, on the front free endpaper: "To
'Bessie,'/with our love/Helen Keller." Also SIGNED in ink just below by
Polly Thomson, who had joined the Keller household in 1914 and who
replaced "Teacher," Anne Sullivan, at her death in 1936 as Keller's
companion, a position she held until her own death in 1960. After
Keller's death in 1968, her ashes were placed next to her beloved
companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson, in the St. Joseph's Chapel
of Washington Cathedral. This is the last of Keller's many books,
published when she was 76 and capping a truly extraordinary life. Bessie
is Elizabeth Keller Harrison, likely a relative of the author's, and she
has written a presentation to a friend above Keller's inscription and
dated it 1957 below. Books signed by both Keller and Thomson are quite
scarce, this tribute to "The Miracle Worker," especially so. Near Fine
in a lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper. $1,000.00
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