[Rarebooks] FS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, both volumes INSCRIBED by Anthony, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $6000 NET

(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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