Helen Keller: Signed (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Impression. Signed by author on fep. Maroon hardcovers. Color illustration on dj by Ellen Thompson. Int. good. Black and white photos. 95 pages. Chapter book. Photos (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by both illustrators, John & Alexandra Wallner, on Title Page. Dated 11/15/90 and including small drawings beneath each signature. A little shelf worn but looks unread. Wallner, John; Wallner, Alexandra (illustrator). Signed By Illustrator.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover is in excellent condition. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Author has signed title page. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LeBarr, Terry (illustrator). Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing with full number line 1-10. Inscribed by illustrator (James Ransome) on front flyleaf along with a drawing of a flower and butterfly. Otherwise, inside is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has wear and creaing at edges. See photos. Ransome, James (illustrator). Inscribed by Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, no other dates, plus 2015 date on rear jacket flap. * SIGNED * by the author DIRECTLY ONTO TITLE PAGE (Signature only). A Perfect volume, clean and tight with no markings. Illustrated with bright primary colors throughout - a wonderful inspiring biography. Has a circular PBS Kids label on front panel, which can be removed. Hard to find Meltzer signature Unpaginated. Christopher Eliopoulos (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. 208 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Used: Very Good. SIGNED by author. Near fine book & jacket. Warmly inscribed.

Paperback. 302p., wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, illus., very good condition; inscribed and signed by Garner on the title page. Text in French. Speculative fiction with Helen Keller, the conceptual artist Sh?saku Arakawa (who was also Gins's partner), and Gins herself as characters.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Lambert, Joseph (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1965,1st edition,minor rub scuff & tiny chips DJ, F/VG. Signed by Author.

Broschur. Condition: Gut. 3. Auflage. auf Titel mit Widmung, Ort und Datum signiert von der deutschen Schriftstellerin Katja Behrens (1942-2021), leichte Gebrauchspuren. signed by author Size: 8°. Vom Autor signiert. Buch.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brooks' portrait is based on a 20-year personal relationship with Keller, and more than just a biographical sketch, Brooks' reveals his appreciation for Ms. Keller's mental and spiritual qualities. About fine with a touch of wear to the edges of the spine and a bookplate affixed to the inside front board; the near fine p/ dw is rubbed on the front panel, with a small chip atop the spine. Warmly and contemporaneously INSCRIBED by Brooks on the front end paper. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 7" x 8 3/4", 309 pp., printed in varying sized types, with photo & short biography of Gins on p. 309 & list of Arakawa works mentioned in the text, & "sources". Bound in black cloth with titles stamped in blue on spine, blindstamped design of braille dots on front cover, black & blue, initial-designed: HK oA endpapers; printed dustjacket with titles, braille dot design, by Michael Sumner. Signed by artist Arakawa above the black & white illustration (of Arawaka viewing one of his works) preceeding the titlepage; and by Madeline Gins on the titlepage, and dated on the titlepage: N. Y. 1994. Weight: 2 lbs. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st, black cloth, good only, no dj. Book is fairly tight with clean pages, but the spine looks terrible, faded, soiled, worn at ends and with a 1" rip in the front side about halfway down. Also corners bumped. INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep: "For Vivian and "Buddy", with many pleasant recollections of a summer in the Les Chenaux with the skipper, Nella Braddy Henney. Pre-publication copy/Sept. 1, 1933". 'Les Chaneaux' refers to France's Channel Islands. 365 pp. incl. index. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition : Signed. Square octovo hardcover in fine black cloth, very tight and square spine/binding, pages white and compellingly white, covers unworn, else FINE in bright DJ, tiny fold on top, else FINE in clear mylar jacket protector. Signed by Arakawa on top of silhuette page in front and by Madeline Gins on title page with her brief flurish. Very nice copy. Braile dots from front and on, considered 'speculative fiction.' ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. Small 8vo. Pp. 166. Blue cloth lettered in white. In price-clipped dust jacket, some rubbing, scuff to spine panel, closed tear top edge of rear panel. Affixed with tape on the second half-title is her signature taken from a letter: "I am / Sincerely yours, Helen Keller" Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector. Signed.…

Condition: Good. - An original 5-3/4 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide black & white photograph of Edna Porter, attired in a sleeveless floral dress, playing the accordion. Portrayed full-length in front of an ivy covered bannister or fence. The photograph is mounted on 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide plain buff mat board. Inscribed & signed in ink by Edna Porter to the American cartoonist Art Young on the mat under the image. Typed on the verso of the mat is a poem by Edna Porter entitled "Lure of the Sea", dated 1927. This 4-stanza poem is annotated in type by the poet as "From 'Around and Back' World Tour Poems To - Helen Keller". The photograph is rubbed, soiled and slightly creased. The mat is soiled with faint glue stains along the right edge of the photo and with a pinhole centered at the top of the mat. Good. A close friend of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, the poet, activist and actress Edna Porter edited the book "Double Blossoms: Helen Keller Anthology". The work was an anthology of short works about Helen Keller written by renowned writers. Several of the Harlem Renaissance poets contributed to the book.Most famous for his socialist political cartoons, the American cartoonist and author Arthur Henry "Art" Young (1866-1943) contributed extensively to the magazine "The Masses" between 1911 and 1917. Young was also close to Helen Keller, who was a socialist and shared his politics.We have been unable to locate any evidence that Edna Porter's poem "Lure of the Sea" was ever published. "The Sea, The Sea is calling me! / The Sea, The Sea comes after me / To sing a song and laugh with me / I know the Sea The Sea knows me.".…

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed, First Edition. This first edition has a severe bump upper corner of the front cover, other corners have slight bumpings. Cloth of the back hinge beginning to seperate in the middle. Light wear at the head and foot of the spine. Library catalogue mark near foot of spine. Some minor wear and scratches of cover cloth. Library stamp upper and lower textblock edges, very light dirt lower corner of textblock. Endpaper gutters are solid, little shadowing. Front paste-down has two library bookplates. Lower fep has a stamp just below author's inscription. Frontisportrait quite good. Small library stamp bottom of title page. Stamp repeats near gutter of page 34, slight crease upper corners of pages 88 & 159, slight break between 192/193, Library stamp lower back fep, pocket with card on back paste-down. The author's inscription reads as follows {very carefully done}: "To Luisette with my love. Helen Keller. April 11th, 1938". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and Inscribed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offsetting in the gutters of front and rear covers. ; Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Book is in excellent condition. "Always, in large things and small, there is this intense aliveness, this vivid interest, this quick grasp and eager response. Miss Keller quotes a number of beautiful tributes to Anne Sullivan Macy, and all that she herself writes of her is beautiful. But the mere existence of such a journal as this is the one great and comprehensive tribute. Here in our own day is the true Pygmalion, more beautiful, deeper, more significant, than the ancient myth. It was the touch of life that the young teacher brought to the deaf and blind child half a century ago, and that touch goes on to other prisoned clay, and is itself undying." [NY Times] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 313 pages; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Second Revised Edition. An anthology of tributes to Keller by Robert Frost, Clarence Darrow, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. DuBois, Witter Bynner, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Rabindranath Tagore, and many others. SIGNED on the front endpaper in pencil, as always: "Cordially/Helen Keller." Braille at the top of the front endpaper, possibly a previous owner's name. Light edgewear. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 32 Volumes. In Near Fine condition with Near Fine condition dust jackets. Solid color spines with cream colored lettering outlined in black. Dust jackets are all wrapped in mylar coverings, Volume 3 has a pricing sticker adhesively attached to the rear cover, Volume 16 has a white "Autographed" sticker on the front cover and a grey stain on the rear cover, Volume 17 has a white "Autographed" sticker on the front cover and Volumes 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 28 have a tan "The Series That Inspired." sticker on the front covers. Volumes 17 and 32 are signed twice by author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos. Volumes 1-16 and 18-31 are only signed by author Brad Meltzer. Volumes 3, 17, 20, and 23 contain a loose bookmark between front end-pages and title pages. CONTENTS: Vol. 1, "I am Amelia Earhart", 38 pages - Vol. 2, "I am Albert Einstein", 38 pages - Vol. 3, "I am Abraham Lincoln", 38 pages - Vol. 4, I am Rosa Parks", 38 pages - Vol. 5, "I am Lucille Ball", 38 pages - Vol. 6, "I am Jackie Robinson", 38 pages - Vol. 7, "I am Helen Keller", 38 pages - Vol. 8, "I am Martin Luther King, Jr.", 38 pages - Vol. 9, "I am Jane Goodall", 38 pages - Vol. 10, "I am George Washington", 38 pages - Vol. 11, "I am Jim Henson", 38 pages - Vol. 12, "I am Sacagewea", 38 pages - Vol. 13, "I am Ghandi", 38 pages - Vol. 14, "I am Harriet Tubman", 38 pages - Vol. 15, "I am Neil Armstrong", 38 pages - Vol. 16, "I am Sonia Sotomayor", 38 pages - Vol. 17, "I am Billie Jean King", 38 pages - Vol. 18, "I am Marie Curie", 38 pages - Vol. 19, "I am Walt Disney", 38 pages - Vol. 20, "I am Leonardo da Vinci", 38 pages - Vol. 21, "I am Anne Frank", 38 pages - Vol. 22, "I am Benjamin Franklin", 38 pages - Vol. 23, "I am Frida Kalo", 38 pages - Vol. 24, "I am I. M. Pei", 38 pages - Vol. 25, "I am Oprah Winfrey", 38 pages - Vol. 26, "I am Malala Yousafzai", 38 pages - Vol. 27, "I am Muhammad Ali", 38 pages - Vol. 28, "I am Dolly Parton", 38 pages - Vol. 29, "I am Temple Grandin", 38 pages - Vol. 30, "I am John Lewis", 38 pages - Vol. 31, "I am Mister Rogers", 38 pages - Vol. 32, "I am Ruth Bader Ginsberg", 38 pages. JW. consignment. Shelved above WWII. Brad Meltzer was born April 1, 1970 and has had an eventful career. A very successful writer, he has won awards for his Justice League of America comic books and has been on the bestseller lists for various works including the "Ordinary People Change the World" series, of which "I am Amelia Earhart" and "I am Abraham Lincoln" stood at the top. Meltzer is credited as being partially responsible for finding the missing American flag raised at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center on 9/11, being the one to unveil it at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. Meltzer is also notable for preserving the house which Superman was created in, founding the Siegel & Schuster Society named for Superman's creators and auctioning the story of the house for $100,000 which went further towards it's maintenance. Meltzer has cited former president's Bush and Clinton as fans of his works, even being one of four authors to entertain at Barbara Bush's 90th birthday party. Christopher Eliopoulos was born September 30, 1967 in Queens, New York. He is known as a prolific letterer, in particular for his work on the Savage Dragon comic series which he hand-lettered on request by the comic's creator Erik Larsen, who preferred the look to the now commonplace computer-generated fonts. Eliopoulos would go on to design the fonts for Marvel Comic's in-house computer lettering unit, as well as contributing lettering work to Valiant Comics and DC comics. He did illustration and writing work for Dark Horse comics on some Star Wars stories. Eliopoulos is also well known for his comic strip Desperate Times who's art style is greatly inspired by Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic series, the art of which also inspired his illustration work on the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. "Ordinary People Change the World" is a children's book series which focuses on various historical figures and their lives and contributions to the world. There are 36 entries in the overall series with 3 books on the DC superheroes Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman, and several compilation books. The first entry, "I am Amelia Earhart" and third entry "I am Abraham Lincoln" would stay at the top of the bestseller lists for children's books of 2014, the rest of the series remaining highly popular. 1384939. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover with DJ. blue/gray cloth spine with maroon boards. Binding good and tight. DJ clean and complete, though faded from age. Title page and Copyright page dated 1947. Stated First Edition. 489 pages. All clean and appropriate for carefully kept book of this age. This extraordinary copy has three inscriptions on the front endpaper. First, it is signed and inscribed by Van Wyck Brooks, "For the Clarks with thanks of Helen and Polly, Van Wyck Brooks. November 1947." Below that inscription it is signed by Helen Keller, who has written, "With Loving Greetings from, Helen Keller. Christmas 1947." She has signed and inscribed in her unmistakeable boxy letters, in pencil. Finally, it is signed by Polly Thomson, her secretary and companion for many decades. Brooks and Keller were friends and neighbors for many years; Brooks would go on to write a popular biography of Keller in 1956. This wonderful volume with all their signatures offers a glimpse into the community life in their Connecticut neighborhood, joining their names on this Christmas gift for another friend. The recipients are Cameron and Agnes Clark. He was the architect who designed the Keller House; she was a landscape architect. This is the only book we've seen (other than another we got from the same collection) that is signed by Both Keller and Thomson. The Brooks signature is a nice bonus as well. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Cream cloth spine with maroon boards. Gold lettering on the spine. Binding good and tight. DJ clean and complete, though faded from age. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1940. This is the eighteenth printing. 557 pages. All clean and appropriate for carefully kept book of this age. This extraordinary copy has three inscriptions on the front endpaper. First, it is signed and inscribed by Van Wyck Brooks, "To the Colonel and his Lady, with the regards of Van Wyck Brooks. November 1947." Below that inscription it is signed by Helen Keller, who has written, "A Christmas Remembran/ce, Helen Keller. December 1947." She has signed and inscribed in her unmistakeable boxy letters, in pencil. Finally, it is signed by Polly Thomson, her secretary of companion for many decades. Brooks and Keller were friends and neighbors for many years; Brooks would go on to write a popular biography of Keller in 1956. This wonderful volume with all their signatures offers a glimpse into the community life in their Connecticut neighborhood, conspiring on this Christmas gift for another friend. The recipients are Cameron and Agnes Clark. He was the architect who designed the Keller House; she was a landscape architect. This is the only book we've seen (other than another we got from the same collection) that is signed by Both Keller and Thomsen. The Brooks signature is a nice bonus as well. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very good condition. Signed note written by Burroughs inviting Mr. Warner to come with him to a meeting with Hellen Keller the next morning. Dated February 25th. Complete with envelope, also signed. Single fold, toned.

Archive of Four Honorary Certificates Recognizing the International Disability Advocacy and Literary Contributions of Helen Keller, Including a Certificate Awarded toher teacher Anne Sullivan. 1936-1948. Four printed certificates with manuscript entries and applied seals, each mounted to period cardboard supports. Subjects: Disability rights; Deaf and Blind advocacy; Women reformers; International humanitarian organizations; Helen Keller Certificate Archive. This archive comprises four formal certificates honoring Helen Keller's lifelong service as a deaf-blind intellectual, disability rights advocate, political activist, lecturer, and author, spanning the 1930s-1940s, the mature phase of her international public life. Three certificates are awarded directly to Keller; a fourth recognizes her teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, whose pedagogical work made Keller's public career possible. Together, these documents materially document Keller's global reputation and the institutional recognition she received across literary, scientific, humanitarian, and disability-advocacy organizations during the interwar and immediate postwar periods. The first certificate, issued by the National Geographic Society, records that "through the Board of Trustees at a meeting held in Washington District of Columbia in the United States of America," Helen Keller of Forest Hills, New York, "has elected . a member of that Society," dated March 5, 1936, bearing the Society's embossed seal and signed by the secretary. The second, from the Eugene Field Society National Association of Authors and Journalists, certifies Keller's Honorary Membership, explicitly citing that "by her writings [she] made an outstanding contribution to contemporary literature," dated February 1, 1939, with applied seal featuring a silhouette of Eugene Field and manuscript signatures in blue ink. A third certificate, richly illustrated with an allegorical female figure bearing wings and halo and surrounded by foliage, is a Diploma of Honor / Eerediploma / Diplôme d'Honneur issued by the Société Protectrice des Aveugles [Society of Protection ot the Blind] (Antwerp), recognizing Keller as an honorary member for her service on behalf of the blind; the multilingual presentation underscores the international scope of her advocacy. The fourth certificate, issued by the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria (Australia), certifies that at a meeting of the Life Governors and Subscribers held on October 28, 1948, "Miss Helen Keller, L.H.D., L.L.D. was elected a Life Governor of the above Society," whose stated objective was "the after school welfare of the whole of the deaf and dumb of the state," and is signed by the Society's president and honorary secretary, with Keller's name and date entered in manuscript. Physically, the certificates are folio and range from approximately 8.5 × 10.5 inches to 19 × 10.5 inches, each mounted on period cardboard supports measuring between roughly 12 × 14 inches and 23 × 16 inches. All four documents are in good to very good condition, with light toning and handling wear consistent with age, and with seals, signatures, and printed elements intact and legible. Overall condition: Very Good. Signed.…

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto sheets. Measuring 8½" x 8". Two pages in pencil on laid paper with watermark of a crane and "Japanese Linen 1886," written on two sheets, rectos only. Old creases from prior folding, some wear and discoloration, but near fine. An astonishingly sophisticated letter by the 7-year-old Helen Keller to her cousin Anna Keller Turner and her husband George, describing a train trip to Huntsville, Alabama, that she took with her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Keller began studying with Sullivan in March of 1887. This letter, written only months later, demonstrates Keller's remarkable progress in learning to communicate, and it is one of the earliest known Keller letters. Michael Anagnos, the director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, describes Keller's gains after beginning her studies with Annie Sullivan: "In the course of four months Helen mastered more than four hundred and fifty common words -- nouns, verbs transitive and intransitive, adjectives and prepositions which she could use correctly and spell with perfect accuracy. At the same time she learned to read raised characters with the tips of her fingers almost spontaneously and with very little effort on the part of her instructress, to converse freely by means of the manual alphabet, to cipher, to write a neat 'square hand,' and to express her elementary ideas in correct composition" (Anagnos, "Helen Keller. A Second Laura Bridgman," in Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For The Blind, 1888). Anagnos describes a letter written by Keller to her mother on 12 July 1887 during a trip to Hunstville and then briefly mentions the present letter: "On her return to Tuscumbia from her visit to Huntsville, Helen wrote a long letter to her cousin George, giving him a minute account of everything that occurred on her way home. She speaks of her meeting in the steam-cars a kind lady, who gave her a drink of water but who 'did talk wrong on fingers.'" The letter reads in its entirety: "helen will write letter to cousin george[.] helen and teacher did go to huntsville[.] steam car does go fast[.] george did give helen soda water[.] anna did buy helen pretty new hat[.] helen did play with pinky horse[.] does like sugar[.] mr. rea did kiss helen[.] carlotta will come to see helen in tuscumbia[.] corinne and may and louise did come to see helen[.] robert did shoot little bird wrong[.] helen and teacher did come home. lady did talk wrong on fingers. conductor did take ticket and punch. teacher did buy orange and helen did put orange in bag for mother[.] leila has little new baby[.] new baby is bessie[.] bessie is eva sister[.] mildred is helen sister[.] helen is sick[.] doctor will give medicine to make well[.] helen does love george and anna[.] helen will kiss george and anna[.] good-by[,] helen keller[.]" The letter is accompanied by a Cabinet Card Photo of Keller, by Collins of Huntsville, Alabama; as well as 20 additional 19th Century cabinet cards of other close Keller family members, including three images of Anna Turner, the recipient of this letter. In addition, there are six more 19th Century photographs (all but one are cabinet cards) of more distant Keller family relations, all photographs identified on the backs in a later hand. Keller's autobiography (*The Story of My Life,* 1903) contains a section on her letters. A short note to her cousin Anna is listed as her first letter (June 17, 1887) followed by a longer letter to her mother (on July 12, 1887). The chronology then skips to September 1887 when Keller writes an encouraging letter to the blind girls at the Perkins Institution. An August 21, 1887 letter by Annie Sullivan mentions a "beautiful time in Huntsville" which would place the present letter sometime in mid-July - making it perhaps the third earliest known Keller letter. The handwriting and grammatical constructions, especially the use of "did" in past tense constructions and the omission of articles, is consistent with Keller's early letter-writing style. One of the earliest known letters by Helen Keller, written just months after beginning her studies with Annie Sullivan, with additional family photographs. A remarkable artifact, and possibly the earliest Keller letter not held in an institution. Signed.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket and book in very good condition. Tall 8vo, cloth, dust jacket, 309pp. First edition/printing. Inscribed by author. HELEN KELLER OR ARAKAWA gives rise to a new form of speculative fiction, conveying the potential for human experience now and here rather than depicting worlds distant in space or time. The novel tracks consciousness and identity through the intermingling paths of its three protangonists: the historical person Helen Keller; the iconoclastic artist Arakawa; and the writer herself, Madeline Gins. At the same time, this innovative work advances and upsets key tenets of contemporary critcal theory. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Archive of Honorary Certificates Awarded to Helen Keller for National and International Service to the Blind and Women. United States and International. Circa 1936-1944. Four original folio certificates and scrolls, each mounted to contemporary cardboard supports, with mounted sizes ranging from approximately 12 x 14 inches to 23 x 16 inches. This significant archive comprises four formal certificates awarded to Helen Keller during the late 1930s and early 1940s, recognizing her sustained leadership in disability advocacy, women's service organizations, and international humanitarian work. After losing her sight and hearing in early childhood, Keller emerged as one of the most influential disability rights advocates of the twentieth century, combining public lecturing, political organizing, and authorship with direct service on behalf of marginalized communities. A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Keller wrote fourteen books and delivered hundreds of speeches addressing blindness, labor rights, women's suffrage, pacifism, and social justice. The certificates in this archive reflect both national and international acknowledgment of her role as a moral and civic leader whose activism bridged disability advocacy with broader movements for equality and peace. The earliest Award is the Kate Smith Award for Distinguished Personal Heroism, dated November 5, 1936, and signed by Kate Smith, honoring Keller through the legacy of Anne Sullivan Macy and celebrating unselfish service broadcast and acclaimed nationwide via radio. The award includes an attached gold medal with a red, white, and blue ribbon and was likely issued in New York, where Smith's national radio programs originated. A Scroll of Honor from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, awarded during the organization's Golden Jubilee Convention on May 19, 1941, recognizes Keller's "outstanding service in the field of Social Service for the Blind" and her global leadership among women; the Federation's conventions at this period were held in major U.S. cities, underscoring the national stature of the recognition. A further certificate from American Women's Voluntary Services, a wartime organization headquartered in New York and active nationwide during World War II, honors Keller for achievements that "furthered the economic, cultural, and social prestige of women," situating her work within the context of women's mobilization for national service. The most explicitly regional document is a certificate issued by the Florida Council for the Blind, dated January 12, 1944, and signed by its chairman and executive director, with Keller's name and date entered by hand and stamped with the state seal of Florida. This award cites Keller for "conspicuous, meritorious and unselfish work" in advancing services for the blind, reflecting her extensive lecture tours and advocacy efforts across the United States during the war years. Also included is a Diploma of Honor from Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of Catholic relief and social service organizations operating across more than 200 countries and territories, symbolically linking Keller's work to an international humanitarian framework. Together, these four certificates form a cohesive archival record of Keller's public recognition across civic, religious, women's, and disability-focused institutions, documenting the breadth of her influence during a critical period of global upheaval and reform. Condition: Certificates show light toning and minor edge wear to mounts consistent with age and display; printed and handwritten text remains clear and legible. Medals and seals intact. Overall condition: Good to very good. Signed.…

Keller, Helen. Typed letter advocating support for the American Foundation for the Blind written by the American author and activist whose life and public work transformed public understanding of disability and education for the blind and deaf. Helen Keller became internationally known after overcoming the combined disabilities of blindness and deafness with the assistance of teacher Anne Sullivan, later emerging as a prominent public speaker and reform advocate. For decades Keller worked with the American Foundation for the Blind to promote education, employment opportunities, and social support for visually impaired individuals. Written in 1964, the letter reflects her continued commitment to fundraising and advocacy after more than four decades of work on behalf of the organization. Keller, Helen. Typed Letter Signed. New York, 1964. Two pages on Keller's personal stationery bearing her 16th Street New York address, accompanied by the original mailing envelope. The letter solicits financial support for the American Foundation for the Blind and reflects on the length of Keller's advocacy efforts, noting that she had been engaged in fundraising work for forty one years. Keller opens the letter with a reflection on charitable action, writing: "It has been said truly that good deeds are angels. There is nothing, I am sure, more precious than the satisfaction of knowing, as you move through life's uncertainties, that you have sent such angels into the future to cheer sad lives or strengthen the brave who refuse to let fate overcome them." She continues by explaining her long commitment to the organization: "This is why during forty one years I have striven to provide the American Foundation for the Blind with an adequate endowment. Unfortunately I am still very far from my goal." The letter is signed by Keller in blue ink. Keller's advocacy for the blind extended across much of the twentieth century and helped transform public awareness of disability, education, and social inclusion. Through her work with the American Foundation for the Blind she promoted educational access, employment opportunities, and social services for people with visual impairments in the United States and internationally. The year this letter was written, Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the highest civilian honors in the United States, recognizing her lifelong contributions to humanitarian causes and disability rights. Light handling wear with two original mailing folds; otherwise clean and well preserved. Overall very good condition. Signed.…

Keller, Helen. Inscribed Color Photograph, mid-twentieth century. This presentation photograph documents Helen Keller in later life, dressed in academic regalia, accompanied by a handwritten manifesto-like inscription articulating her philosophy of collective disability rights. As the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and an international lecturer on disability, labor rights, and women's equality, Keller framed personal achievement as inseparable from communal advancement. Beneath the image she writes: "Never shall I seek or receive honors alone. Never shall I enter into final peace as an individual, but forever and everywhere I shall live and strive for the happiness of every handicapped creature throughout the world." Signed "Helen Keller." The statement positions disability not as private adversity but as shared political responsibility. Exceptional large-format color photograph of Helen Keller, depicting Keller in later life dressed in academic cap and gown, posed standing against a stone architectural setting. The image visually aligns Keller with formal academic authority and institutional recognition, underscoring her historic achievement as the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and her later role as an internationally recognized lecturer, author, and political activist. The photograph is mounted to a substantial presentation board, suggesting ceremonial or public display rather than private circulation. Beneath the image, Keller has inscribed in pencil, in her own hand, a quotation articulating the ethical core of her advocacy: "Never shall I seek or receive honors alone. Never shall I enter into final peace as an individual, but forever and everywhere I shall live and strive for the happiness of every handicapped creature throughout the world." The inscription is signed "Helen Keller." This statement encapsulates Keller's lifelong rejection of individualistic achievement in favor of collective liberation, situating disability not as a private condition but as a shared social responsibility. The pairing of academic regalia with this manifesto-like inscription powerfully frames Keller's public honors as inseparable from her commitment to marginalized communities worldwide. Very Large, Full board measures approximately 21 × 16 inches (54 × 41 cm). Color photographic image mounted to board; inscription executed in pencil directly on the mount below the image. While she is most famously associated with Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University), where she became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904, this specific image captures a later moment in her life. It was taken in June 1932 when she traveled to Scotland to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of GlasgowProvenance: Collection of Dr. Julius Dintenfass, adding scholarly and medical-humanities context to the piece's custodial history. Condition: Small loss to one corner of the board; one corner cracked; light toning and scattered small stains consistent with age and handling. Image and inscription remain clear and legible. Overall condition Good to Very Good. Signed.…