Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Martin, Prestonia Mann. Scrapbook of responses to her "Is Mankind Advancing?" 8vo, publisher's cloth cover for "Is Mankind Advancing?", worn; pages all blank and used as a scrapbook containing 31 signed letters from various parties, numerous clipped reviews and press notices, with the author's manuscript publicity notes and list of presentation copies written in. Vp, 1910-13
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"Is Mankind Advancing?" was a well-received analysis of the dire state of human civilization, its answer essentially being "No." The author, a resident of Staten Island, NY who published as Mrs. John Martin, later published "Feminism, Its Fallacies and Follies" and "Prohibiting Poverty." Among the responses included in this scrapbook are a brief typed Letter Signed from Theodore Roosevelt, New York, 27 February 1911 a partial Letter Signed from H.G. Wells, Eure, France, circa April 1911 and Autograph Letters Signed by Andrew Carnegie and John Burroughs.