Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribee's tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown; slight darkening to the spine with light fraying to the tips. Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel Mather/Lest he forget me/with every good wish/From Helen Keller/December." Samuel Mather was an American industrialist and philanthropist from Cleveland who co-founded Pickands Mather and Company, a shipping and iron mining company which dominated these two Great Lakes industries from 1900 to 1960. His grandfather, Samuel Mather, Jr. (1745-1809), was one of the original founders and shareholders in the Connecticut Land Company, which bought the Connecticut Western Reserve (which constituted what later became northern Ohio) in 1792. Other ancestors include Cotton Mather and Increase Mather.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 020274
Title: MIDSTREAM. MY LATER LIFE
Author: KELLER, Helen
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Inscribee's tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown; slight darkening to the spine with light fraying to the tips. Very Good o
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: Signed, Disability Rights, Blind, Biography, Handicapped Literature, Autobiography, Helen Keller, Women's Literature
Bookseller catalogs: Inscribed; Blind;

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