New England: Indian Summer 1865-1915. [signed by Helen Keller, Polly Thomson and Van Wyck Brooks]

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Hardcover with DJ. Cream cloth spine with maroon boards. Gold lettering on the spine. Binding good and tight. DJ clean and complete, though faded from age. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1940. This is the eighteenth printing. 557 pages. All clean and appropriate for carefully kept book of this age. This extraordinary copy has three inscriptions on the front endpaper. First, it is signed and inscribed by Van Wyck Brooks, "To the Colonel and his Lady, with the regards of Van Wyck Brooks. November 1947." Below that inscription it is signed by Helen Keller, who has written, "A Christmas Remembran/ce, Helen Keller. December 1947." She has signed and inscribed in her unmistakeable boxy letters, in pencil. Finally, it is signed by Polly Thomson, her secretary of companion for many decades. Brooks and Keller were friends and neighbors for many years; Brooks would go on to write a popular biography of Keller in 1956. This wonderful volume with all their signatures offers a glimpse into the community life in their Connecticut neighborhood, conspiring on this Christmas gift for another friend. The recipients are Cameron and Agnes Clark. He was the architect who designed the Keller House; she was a landscape architect. This is the only book we've seen (other than another we got from the same collection) that is signed by Both Keller and Thomsen. The Brooks signature is a nice bonus as well. Please email with questions or to request photos. N° de ref. del artículo XXII-76

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