[Rarebooks] FS: 2 volumes set INSCRIBED in each volume: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Charles Agvent
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Thu Oct 18 12:54:22 EDT 2012
One of several SIGNED Susan B. Anthony items in stock:
(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
& 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 leather, 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.
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." (#014366) $7,500.00
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