Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937.

£350 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

First edition, first printing and an attractive copy in the fragile dust jacket. 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.

• Binding: Hardcover

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