OPTIMISM, AN ESSAY

by Helen Keller

$750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

New York: T. Y. Crowell and Company. Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press , 1903. 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

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