[Rarebooks] FS: Helen Keller on The Miracle Worker, SIGNED by Keller and "Teacher's" replacement

[Charles Agvent]

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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