[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Helen Keller Autobiography

[Charles Agvent]

KELLER, Helen. MIDSTREAM. MY LATER LIFE. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & 
Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Early Printing. Illustrated with 
photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie 
Chaplin, and others. 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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