MIDSTREAM My Later Life by Keller, Helen - 1929

Collins, London, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo, First Thus. Book Condition: Good. Boards and interior very clean. Dust Condition: Good. Edgewear bottom with small piece missing bottom spine and bottom edge..

London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton. G/G. 1929. ........ Cloth w/DJ. Sm 4to., 362 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, cover faded, bumped, page toning, writing .

Doubleday Doran, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Author inscribed "Yours sincerely, Hellen Keller" 1929 Doubleday Doran missing the jacket otherwise tight and unmarked. Please email for photos.

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1929.. 8vo, XXI, 347pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, price-clipped d/w now protected by clear archival covering; internally in ex cond. Autobiography by the American born scholar and social reformer who overcame blindness and deafness to learn to read and who in later life became a reformer for a wide range of causes. This has been signed in block lettering and in pencil by Helen Keller on the front free endpaper.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint evidence of removal of bookplates on the front and rear pastedowns; dulling of the spine with neat removal of library numbers. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. 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. Herbert White/with sincere regards/Helen Keller/Dec. 1929." Herbert White helped found the Connecticut Institute for the Blind in 1893 and served as treasurer for the American Foundation for the Blind. A nice association copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. 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… Read More