Description
The large-paper, limited edition of The Story of My Life, signed by Helen Keller, and her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan.
Octavo, xv, [1], 441pp, [5]. Publisher’s gray paper boards, title on label affixed to the spine. Gray endpapers. Partial bookplate on front pastedown. Notable wear and soiling to all boards, hinges stable. Text block stable, but the first four pages of Chapter I are partially torn, lower quarter missing. A few points of marginalia in pencil. This work is complete with two signed frontispiece portraits, and 13 photographic plates. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell, title in gilt over black morocco label on spine.
From a limited edition of 60 copies for subscribers, this copy is unnumbered, like many known examples. Signature of Helen Keller, pasted from cut letter, affixed to front free endpaper. Additional signatures of Helen Keller and Anne Mansfield Sullivan on their frontispiece portraits.
Helen Keller began writing The Story of My Life in 1902, while a student at Radcliffe College. The work was serialized in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1902 and published in book form by Doubleday in 1903.
