[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY Inscribed by Anthony

[Charles Agvent]

One of several signed Susan B. Anthony items from our new catalog 
containing 45 items related to WOMEN AND THEIR QUEST FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, 
recently posted on our website.

(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 DURING FIFTY YEARS. A STORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE 
STATUS OF WOMAN. Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 
1899. First Edition. The first two volumes of three, with the last not 
published until 1908. Original green cloth with a gilt portrait on the 
front covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Illustrated with a 
frontispiece portrait of Anthony and other plates and facsimiles. This 
copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the first volume by the subject on the 
front endpaper: "To Mrs. Grace Bartholomew/Pioneer -- Michigan/I present 
these volumes because/of dear Mr. D. A. Blodgetts purchasing/so many 
Histories of Woman Suffrage to/give to his friends -- therefore 
please/accept these for his sake -- & oblige/Yours very sincerely/Susan 
B. Anthony/Rochester N.Y./Nov. 5, 1904."  Paper split on the front hinge 
of the signed volume but the cover is tight. Dampstaining to the upper 
right blank margin of the text to varying degrees to about half of the 
first volume, none to the second. Covers of both volumes with some old, 
rather faint staining. Overall Very Good with a fine inscription.

In a 1903 letter to Dodd Mead & Co., Harper detailed the unsatisfactory 
arrangement she and Anthony had with Bowen-Merrill. According to her 
there were only 225 bound copies and 858 unbound sets of sheets of the 
first edition. "As Miss Anthony is not likely to live very long, being 
over 83 and very feeble, she and I both thought it would be better for 
me to purchase her rights in the book, and I have done so, and am now 
sole owner of it." (#016099)        $4,500.00

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