![]() ![]() ![]() Keller also presents an extensive selection of her letters to such correspondents as Alexander Graham Bell, Edward Everett Hale, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Phillips Brooks. “Profoundly and permanently deaf and blind, she was to carve out a life that astonished nearly everyone… Her protean accomplishments caused Mark Twain to dub her ‘the greatest woman since Joan of Arc” (ANB). In these pages, over a half-century before the popular play, Keller sets down the full story of her education and subsequent early achievements in her own words. “As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly… ‘w-a-t-e-r… That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!” Annie Sullivan’s breakthrough moment in teaching Helen Keller has been enshrined in popular culture thanks to William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker (1959). ![]() Cambridge, May 14th, 1903.” Quite scarce. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of the autobiography of a remarkable woman and “a symbol of human potential and the indomitability of the spirit” (ANB), inscribed by her in the year of publication, “Helen Keller. ![]() Octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. INSCRIBED BY HELEN KELLER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION: THE STORY OF MY LIFE, FIRST EDITION ![]()
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