[Rarebooks] FS: Helen Keller INSCRIBED to a Descendant of Cotton Mather
Charles Agvent
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Sun Nov 29 11:18:21 EST 2020
KELLER, Helen. MIDSTREAM. MY LATER LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday Doran,
1929. First Edition. Early Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author
in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel
Mather/Lest he forget me/with every good wish/From Helen
Keller/December." Samuel Mather was an American industrialist and
philanthropist from Cleveland who co-founded Pickands Mather and
Company, a shipping and iron mining company which dominated these two
Great Lakes industries from 1900 to 1960. His grandfather, Samuel
Mather, Jr. (1745-1809), was one of the original founders and
shareholders in the Connecticut Land Company, which bought the
Connecticut Western Reserve (which constituted what later became
northern Ohio) in 1792. Other ancestors include Cotton Mather and
Increase Mather. Inscribee's tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown;
slight darkening to the spine with light fraying to the tips. Very Good
or better, lacking the dustwrapper. (#020274) $850
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