The Story of My Life. (Signed/Limited of 60 copies signed by Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan beneath their engraved portraits. "This large paper edition is limited to sixty copies, made for subscribers. This copy is number 42. (On the special limitation page.) Edited by John Albert Macy. With her Letters (1887-1901)and a supplementary account of her education and the reports and letters of her teacher Annie Sullivan.

Keller, Helen.

Published by Doubleday, Page, 1903

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"A thick, sturdy volume bound in the original gray paper-covered boards and printed on heavy creamy white stock with numerous illustrations throughout, including a splendid photo of Keller with Mark Twain and one with her dog Phiz. With the two engraved photographic frontispieces of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, signed respectively by each beneath her portrait. In the original gray paper boards and professionally respined by The Green Dragon Bindery; with a new paper spine label with the title and author printed in black; uncut and partially unopened. The Honorable George F. Hoar s personal copy with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Light edge wear and rubbing at the corners. Internally very clean and tight throughout; some pages unopened. A wonderful and inspiring volume detailing the legendary story of Helen Keller's life with her patient tutor and compassionate friend and companion Annie Sullivan. Helen Keller remains a symbol of human potential and the indomitability of the spirit" (ANB). "As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly… 'w-a-t-e-r… That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!" Annie Sullivan's breakthrough moment in teaching Helen Keller has been enshrined in popular culture thanks to William Gibson's The Miracle Worker (1959). In these pages, over a half-century before the popular play, Keller sets down the full story of her education and subsequent early achievements in her own words. "Profoundly and permanently deaf and blind, she was to carve out a life that astonished nearly everyone… Her protean accomplishments caused Mark Twain to dub her 'the greatest woman since Joan of Arc" (ANB). Keller also presents an extensive selection of her letters to such correspondents as Alexander Graham Bell, Edward Everett Hale, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Phillips Brooks. The book also includes Sullivan's reports on teaching Keller. Illustrated with 14 photographic plates, including frontispiece portraits of Keller and Sullivan (counted as a single plate). The first portion of the book, Keller's autobiography proper, previously published in serial (and abbreviated) form in the Ladies' Home Journal (see Shattuck, xv). A very scarce edition of 60 copies only. First edition & signed/limited edition with matching dates of 1903 on the title and copyright pages; and with "Published March, 1903" on the copyright page.". Seller Inventory # 1445

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Story of My Life. (Signed/Limited of 60 ...

Publisher: Doubleday, Page

Publication Date: 1903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: Limited Edition.