Signed book: The Story of My Life. NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903. Hardcover, 5.25 x 8, 441 pages. Signed and inscribed in pencil on the first free end page to poet Edmund C. Stedman quoting his description of her in his poem ‘Helen Keller,’ “To Edmund C. Stedman From His ‘mute, sightless, visitant,’ who speaks through the printed page and sees with the eyes of those who read it. Helen Keller, March Sixteenth, 1903.” Autographic condition: fine, with expected light soiling and slight rubbing. Book condition: VG/None. Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and gilted upper textblock edge; minor bumps at corners; light rubbing, mostly along spine-edges; front hinge and one interior hinge cracked; textblock edges and feps slightly yellowed; two previous owners’ bookplates to front pastedown, along with a small address written in pencil; vertical crease down rfep. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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