[KELLER, HELEN]. CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Mark Twain's Autobiography. New York: Harper 1924. 2 vols., large 8vo, maroon half morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, wear to spines, outer joints and fore-corners, spines faded. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (sequence tentative), introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine, frontispieces, INSCRIBED BY HELEN KELLER to Russell M. Keith in pencil on the front free endpaper of each volume; in vol. 1: "to Mr. Russell M. Keith, In grateful appreciation of his many courtesies and helpful kindness. Helen Keller. The comfort of having such a Friend as Mark Twain may be taken away, but not that of having had his Friendship. His Love was a lamp in my darkness. H.K."; in vol. 2: "'Through such souls alone God, stooping, shows sufficient of his Light For us in the dark to rise by.' Helen Keller, June 21, 1925"; photograph of Helen Keller (?) pasted to verso of front free endpaper in vol. 2. In a section recounting his friendship with Helen Keller in vol. 2 of his Autobiography (pp. 297-303), Twain writes: "I need not go into any particulars about Helen Keller. She is a fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is to-day." BAL 3537.Provenance: Robert Wetherill, Jr., bookplate. (2)

[KELLER, HELEN]. CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Mark Twain's Autobiography. New York: Harper 1924. 2 vols., large 8vo, maroon half morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, wear to spines, outer joints and fore-corners, spines faded. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (sequence tentative), introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine, frontispieces, INSCRIBED BY HELEN KELLER to Russell M. Keith in pencil on the front free endpaper of each volume; in vol. 1: "to Mr. Russell M. Keith, In grateful appreciation of his many courtesies and helpful kindness. Helen Keller. The comfort of having such a Friend as Mark Twain may be taken away, but not that of having had his Friendship. His Love was a lamp in my darkness. H.K."; in vol. 2: "'Through such souls alone God, stooping, shows sufficient of his Light For us in the dark to rise by.' Helen Keller, June 21, 1925"; photograph of Helen Keller (?) pasted to verso of front free endpaper in vol. 2. In a section recounting his friendship with Helen Keller in vol. 2 of his Autobiography (pp. 297-303), Twain writes: "I need not go into any particulars about Helen Keller. She is a fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is to-day." BAL 3537. Provenance: Robert Wetherill, Jr., bookplate. (2)

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[KELLER, HELEN]. CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Mark Twain's Autobiography. New York: Harper 1924. 2 vols., large 8vo, maroon half morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, wear to spines, outer joints and fore-corners, spines faded. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (sequence tentative), introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine, frontispieces, INSCRIBED BY HELEN KELLER to Russell M. Keith in pencil on the front free endpaper of each volume; in vol. 1: "to Mr. Russell M. Keith, In grateful appreciation of his many courtesies and helpful kindness. Helen Keller. The comfort of having such a Friend as Mark Twain may be taken away, but not that of having had his Friendship. His Love was a lamp in my darkness. H.K."; in vol. 2: "'Through such souls alone God, stooping, shows sufficient of his Light For us in the dark to rise by.' Helen Keller, June 21, 1925"; photograph of Helen Keller (?) pasted to verso of front free endpaper in vol. 2. In a section recounting his friendship with Helen Keller in vol. 2 of his Autobiography (pp. 297-303), Twain writes: "I need not go into any particulars about Helen Keller. She is a fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is to-day." BAL 3537.

Provenance: Robert Wetherill, Jr., bookplate. (2)