[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, two volumes, both INSCRIBED by Anthony

[Charles Agvent]

We will be cataloging this summer a fine collection of Women's Rights 
material including letters and signed books by Anthony, Stanton, Howe, 
and others as well as unusual ephemera.

(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 home/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. 
         $8,500.00

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