Optimism Essay by Keller Helen, First Edition (10 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine in green cloth with gilt and red lettering and decorations, top edge gilt. The bookplate of Edna Johnson, longtime assistant professor of English at Indiana University, which features a lady reading. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 75, [1] pages, frontispiece (portrait). A lovely copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Top edge with gilt and fore edge uncut. Title page printed in orange and black. Frontis piece, portrait of Helen Keller. This is her second published book. After losing both her sight and hearing at age 19 months, she went on to write 14 books and numerous speeches and essays on a vast array of subjects. Small 8 vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, decorative cloth, frontis., 76pp. First edition & printing. Bears a warm contemporary inscription by Felix Frankfurter to one Hattie McCormack. The latter is unknown to us, the former was an associated justice of the Supreme Court (1939-62) and one of the co-founders, with Helen Keller amongst others, of the ACLU (1920). The book was inscribed during Frankfurter's first year at Harvard Law School and, to the best of our knowledge, long...

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 76 pp. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, with top edge gilt. Minor marks to the boards and bubling to the rear. Binding firm and internally clean, with slight toning to the pages. Contemporary gift inscription in ink to the front endpaper and orginal book seller's sticker to the rear paste down. Title-page printed in orange & black. Tipped-in black and white frontis portrait. Helen Keller was a prominent American author and disability rights activist....

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine. First edition, first printing, 1903. Green cloth with gilt and red title. Some speckling on front board toward spine. Text block is unmarked and in great condition. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, green cloth with gilt and red cover design lettered in gilt; minor offsetting to endpapers. First edition, with tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Richard Watson Gilder's copy, inscribed to the iconic editor of Century Magazine by a colleague, beneath which Gilder has written, "Received June 14, 1904, RWG." Gilder often advised the young Keller about her writing, and even penned the tributary verse, "Of One Who Neither Sees Nor Hears," for Keller, which was...

Hardcover. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is in excellent condition except for the foxing which is variable throughtout the book. The dust jacket has some chips missing and some stains and tears. Mylar cover. Photos on request. 76 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., green cloth with gilt and red cover design lettered in gilt; slightly soiled with minor edge-wear. First edition, later printing, with tipped-in portrait frontispiece. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Mrs. [Carol] Wainwright, with warm greetings, Helen Keller, July 29, 1929," on the front free endpaper. The recipient, Carol Wainwright (1895-1973), taught high school English "for decades" in Springfield, Massachusetts, according to her grandson Jacob Wainwright, from whom this volume was acquired. A...

First edition. Small 8vo. 76 pp, Chapter head and tail-piece vignettes; title page printed in red and black. Laid in are a 1928 typed fund raising letter for the American Foundation for the Blind from Keller, signed by her in pencil, on her Forest Hill., N.Y., letterhead, to "Mr. Calkins" (probably Earnest Elmo Calkins, 1968-1964, a deaf advertising executive who pioneered "consumer engineering"), a small foundation card printing the Braille alphabet and numerals, and a foundation leaflet, with a...

Condition: Green cloth. Fine. First edition, printed by Merrymount Press. Portrait frontispiece. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Keller dedicates this book to her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy with whose help she graduated from Radcliffe in 1904. Portrait frontispiece. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, printed by Merrymount Press.