KELLER, Helen.
Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937.
Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937.
Stock Code 119971
Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938.
This volume chronicles Keller's grief and recovery from the death of her teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, and a trip to England and Scotland. 'It is a story of deep sorrow and of the conquest of sorrow by faith, by duty, by a vital interest in life and in life's impersonal values' (Woods, 'Helen Keller's Journal', The New York Times, June 5, 1938).
First edition, first printing; 8vo; contemporary bookplate, small spot on page 151, otherwise contents clean; original burgundy cloth, titles to spine and monogram to upper board gilt, top edge dyed red, a very good copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks, short splits and creasing at the edges, and faint toning of the spine panel; 313pp.
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