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Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The Story of My Life, Inscribed Presentation Copy.

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Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The Story of My Life, Inscribed Presentation Copy.

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Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
The Story of My Life, Inscribed Presentation Copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935.

Later edition, octavo, inscribed by Keller to an identified recipient, "With sincere wishes for a Happy Christmas and New Year," dated Christmas 1935 on the front free flyleaf; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Keller and Anne Sullivan after the photograph by Marshall and seven black-and-white text illustrations; bound in original publisher's sage cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge tinted (foxing from plates; boards a bit dulled, spine sunned, corners bumped, endpapers foxed and browned); 8 x 5 1/4 in.

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Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The Story of My Life, Inscribed Presentation Copy.

Name: Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The Story of My Life, Inscribed Presentation Copy.
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Price: 400 USD
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