[Rarebooks] FS: LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY Inscribed by SBA
Charles Agvent
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Tue Dec 9 09:05:05 EST 2014
(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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