[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by Susan B. Anthony

[Charles Agvent]

One of several SIGNED Susan B. Anthony items on our web site: 
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(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 volume of three, with the last not 
published until 1908. Original blue cloth with paper spine label; xxiv, 
513 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Anthony and other 
plates and facsimiles. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the subject 
on the front endpaper: "Dr. Fernand Deschamps of Belgium/With the hope 
that principle/not prejudice -- will govern all of/his reports on the 
great question/of Woman's enfranchisement/Susan B. Anthony/17 Madison 
Street/Rochester N.Y./Sept. 26, 1901." Books inscribed by this great 
American have become quite scarce. Near Fine.

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." (#011452)        $4,500.00

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