Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
KELLER, HELEN. Helen Keller's Journal. Signed and Inscribed: "To Mr Shaefer / Whose cheery friendliness / smile[s] upon my thoughts / of him and New York," in pencil, on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher's cloth, small stain on front board, some fading to spine gilt titling; dust jacket front flap tipped to front pastedown with cello tape, faint scattered staining to signature page. First edition. Garden City: Doubleday, (1938); inscription: December 1938

Additional Details

With--Group of 7 items: Two Autograph Letters Signed by Polly Thomson to Conrad A. Schaefer, about missing the visits she and Helen used to take to Schling's [flower shop at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in NY]. Together 4 pages. 12mo, "Helen Keller" or "Arcan Ridge" stationery, written on the recto and verso of two sheets. Each with the original envelope. Westport, 19 January 1944; 12 July 1949 • 5 small original photographs, unsigned, each showing Helen Keller, [some including Mr. or Mrs. Schaefer]. 1940s.