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Keller, Helen.
The Story of My Life.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London;
Date of Publication: 1911
Stock Code: 15296
Early British printing after the American first of 1903. Octavo, pp., ix, [7], 441, [1], plus tissue-guarded frontispiece, and 13 further photographic plates, as called for; Braille alphabet printed to double-page spread within text. Prize binding of full flame calf; spine on five raised bands; titled in gilt to black morocco spine label; gilt ornaments to spine-panels; armorial stamp in gilt of Ripon Training college to upper board within border of gilt rolls; gilt rolls to edges of boards; rolls to dentelles in blind; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. Binding sympathetically re-cased; slight rubbing to lower corners; binding otherwise strong and square, the gilt bright. Internally clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A handsome prize binding of the autobiography of deafblind author and activist Helen Keller (1880-1968), which recalls the story of her life up to the age of 21. £65.00