Miracle Worker, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. signed by two actresses on cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by William Gibson on a card affixed to dedication page (signature only). DJ rubbed with some edge wear and small chip on top rear; spine lightly sunned; $3.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. From the 1959 Broadway prduction of the play (and also starring in the 1962 Movie) attached to the front end page are two leading stars: a card SIGNED by ANNE BANCROFT (played 'Annie Sullivan'--winning Academy Award for Best Actress); and a bookpate SIGNED by PATTY DUKE (played 'Helen Keller'--winning Academy Award for Best Supporting-Actress) and attached to the half-title page is a bookplate SIGNED (inscribed) by ARTHUR PENN (famed Director of both the play and movie-Nominated for Best Director). Also from the movie version of play attached to free-fly page are cards SIGNED and inscribed by ANDREW PRINE (played 'James Keller') and INGA SWENSON (played 'Kate Keller'). Unique copy for the Gibson--Miracle Worker fan or collector. Note: No International orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Großfoto (4°), eigenhändig signiert.

Engraving. Early 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" engraving from a photograph on a 7" x 10" sheet tipped to a slightly larger sheet of Helen Keller's famous teacher, subject of the play and movie THE MIRACLE WORKER, SIGNED in ink below the image: "Anne Mansfield Sullivan." At the age of 7, nearly blind from an illness two years before and recently having suffered the loss of her mother, Sullivan was abandoned by her father in an orphanage with no formal educational facilities. Through her own will she managed to be placed in the Perkins Institute for the Blind from which she graduated as class valedictorian after regaining much of her eyesight from a series of operations. She began teaching Helen Keller when the deaf and blind child was seven and, by all accounts, quite undisciplined. Sullivan attended classes with Keller and tutored her through the Perkins Institute, The Cambridge School for Young Ladies, and Radcliffe College, all along achieving a measure of success with her unusual student previously unheard of. After Keller's formal education, Anne Sullivan continued to assist her by accompanying Keller on her travels and on various lecture tours. Sullivan married a young Harvard instructor, John Albert Macy, in 1905, and started going by the name Anne Sullivan Macy, thus dating this engraving before that date. The three lived together until 1912 when the Macys separated. After Keller's death in 1968, her ashes were placed next to her beloved companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson, in the St. Joseph's Chapel of Washington Cathedral. Old dampstaining and soiling to bottom blank margin with only a very slight effect on the signature. Easily Very Good or better.

First Edition. Signed by actresses Patty McCormick and Patty Duke, the first two women to play the role of Helen Keller in this classic tale. The Miracle Worker was originally written as a television play by William Gibson with the stimulus of director Arthur Penn who cast Patty McCormick. Gibson and Penn then took the play to Broadway where Patty Duke, then first played the role. As Hollywood called, Penn took Duke and directed the film version for which Duke won an Academy Award. Near fine in a near fine lightly used dust jacket.