Helen Keller, Signed (46 results)

Condition: Fair. DTS (illustrator). Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by co-author Tony I. Herrera on front endpage. Front board damaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Very good paperback. Inscription by Ray Silverman (Revision of text). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. DTS (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). Salt Lake City, Utah: CMOE Press, 2014. Signed by Tony I. Herrera directly on the front free endpaper (his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). SIGNED copies are SCARCE. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. Near PERFECT condition (only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear to the jacket -- like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black boards. From the dust jacket: "Why is it that we as bright, articulate, and caring human beings have such difficulty holding effective conversations regarding important issues? Do you, like many people, vacillate between avoiding emotionally charged issues and going into attack mode in order to win and dominate discussions and debates? Are you tired of coaching communication models that seem to rely on disguised manipulation instead of clear and candid dialogue? Courageous Coaching Conversations is a leadership fable that uses a unique approach making you the center of the story to present key steps in preparing for and successfully navigating through the challenging and important communications we all face. Whether you are a leader or an individual contributor in your organization, there will undoubtedly be many times where you will find yourself in a difficult situation. These situations come in all shapes and sizes, and typically involve people with different goals, opinions, and interests, in varying kinds of work relationships boss-to-subordinate, peer-to-peer, or even subordinate-to-boss. These situations impact results and the performance level of the person, team, or organization, as well as the emotions of the people involved. The inability of people to effectively connect in these situations leads to an overall dissatisfaction in relationships, team culture, performance, and results. To avoid these pitfalls, people need the skills to have a courageous coaching conversation. You know that you are in need of a courageous coaching conversation when you encounter the following situations: -You need to get beyond the surface level of the situation and understand the heart of the matter. -Your messages are not being received or are misunderstood by the other person or persons involved. -Your ideas are met with continuous resistance. -People are not following through on assignments and commitments. -Controversial and uncomfortable situations are not being addressed. -Problems remain unresolved. Research reveals that there are some very predictable traps that we fall into when discussing challenging issues or topics with others. This innate reaction is tied to the fight-or-flight response. Regardless of who we are, these very predictable patterns emerge during important, complex, and sensistive conversations. Understanding what these patterns are and how to craft more productive conversations is the goal of this book. The concepts underlying courageous conversations aren t abstract, and they aren t theoretical. They re really, really simple. The beauty of this framework is its simplicity. Put yourself in Adrian s shoes and go on a journey of discovery that will guide you toward developing your own courageous coaching conversations. Walk with Adrian and discover how the Courageous Coaching Conversations Model will help you: -Focus on the issue or problem rather than the personality of the person. -Be direct, honest, and open, but not overbearing, when communicating with others. -Learn how to foster conditions that will enable people to act with high levels of candor, respect, and responsibility as they engage in difficult, complex issues.". Signed by Tony I. Herrera. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. xiv, 127pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Helen Keller typed autographed letter & Let Us Have Faith The typed letter is on Helen Keller's personal overhead and dated November 27, 1953 when she lived in New York City. It is addressed to a Mr. Hamill. It is signed in blue ink by Helen Keller and is a poignant solicitation for funding for the deaf/blind. Condition: VERY GOOD. Darkening of vertical center fold line and some fold lines from being put in an envelope. The book, Let Us Have Faith, was published in 1940 by Doubleday Doran in New York. In its original green cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped Helen Keller "HK" insignia on top cover. Octavo. In its original dust jacket. The book is in VERY GOOD+ to NEAR FINE condition. Square spine, firm hinges and joints. Some spotting on top edge of text block. Sunning to head of book and along the foot's bottom edge. Some light jacket offsetting and light toning on endpapers. Pages are clean and bright and sharp. No writing, no ex libris marks, no foxing. The dust jacket is in Good collectible condition. Price clipped and all 4 flap corners clipped. Rubbing to panels and folds. Large chip from head of spine and 2" tear along top panel fold. Other edge wear chipping, creases and some tears. Sun-toning. Rear panel with some heavier dust soiling and some spots of soiling to jacket blindside. Letter will be mailed flat in a large protective case for protection. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. FIRST EDITION. Helen Keller shares, in this volume, the story of her later years starting with her life as a student at Radcliffe College. Chapters include remarkable and inspiring memories meeting Mark Twain, attending a woman suffrage demonstration in 1913, and her friendships with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Anne Sullivan. Her signed inscription is to Rev. R.C. Williamson who wrote about plantation economy during Keller's childhood. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Frontispiece, xxiii, List of Illustrations, Index, 362 pp. CONDITION: Hardbound blue boards entitled on faded spine. Wear-through to tail of spine, edges and corners show normal shelf use. Some soiling, rubbing to covers, small white spots on front and rear covers. Top edge red stained, fore edges deckled. Binding is tight. Full refund if not satisfied. Signed by Author.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 390pp. Inscribed on half-title: "For Tom Mahoney with fond regards Ishbel Ross June, 1975", with Mahoney's ownership label to front pastedown. Modest rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.00), with tanning, faint dampstain and peeling to lower spine panel, and chips and tears to extremities; Good. Outlines the history of education of the blind throughout the world, and individuals discussed include Haüy, Maria von Paradis, and Samuel Gridley Howe. Includes a foreword by Helen Keller. [84250].

Condition: Good. - An original 5-3/4 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide black & white photograph of Edna Porter, attired in a sleeveless floral dress, playing the accordion. Portrayed full-length in front of an ivy covered bannister or fence. The photograph is mounted on 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide plain buff mat board. Inscribed & signed in ink by Edna Porter to the American cartoonist Art Young on the mat under the image. Typed on the verso of the mat is a poem by Edna Porter entitled "Lure of the Sea", dated 1927. This 4-stanza poem is annotated in type by the poet as "From 'Around and Back' World Tour Poems To - Helen Keller". The photograph is rubbed, soiled and slightly creased. The mat is soiled with faint glue stains along the right edge of the photo and with a pinhole centered at the top of the mat. Good. A close friend of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, the poet, activist and actress Edna Porter edited the book "Double Blossoms: Helen Keller Anthology". The work was an anthology of short works about Helen Keller written by renowned writers. Several of the Harlem Renaissance poets contributed to the book.Most famous for his socialist political cartoons, the American cartoonist and author Arthur Henry "Art" Young (1866-1943) contributed extensively to the magazine "The Masses" between 1911 and 1917. Young was also close to Helen Keller, who was a socialist and shared his politics.We have been unable to locate any evidence that Edna Porter's poem "Lure of the Sea" was ever published. "The Sea, The Sea is calling me! / The Sea, The Sea comes after me / To sing a song and laugh with me / I know the Sea The Sea knows me.".

Paperback. 1943. Keller writes commenting on the war and pressures on democracy. She also asked for a contribution to The American Foundation for the Blind. 1 Fair to good. Edges of one side torn when opening the envelope.(enclosed). Signed by the author.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed, First Edition. This first edition has a severe bump upper corner of the front cover, other corners have slight bumpings. Cloth of the back hinge beginning to seperate in the middle. Light wear at the head and foot of the spine. Library catalogue mark near foot of spine. Some minor wear and scratches of cover cloth. Library stamp upper and lower textblock edges, very light dirt lower corner of textblock. Endpaper gutters are solid, little shadowing. Front paste-down has two library bookplates. Lower fep has a stamp just below author's inscription. Frontisportrait quite good. Small library stamp bottom of title page. Stamp repeats near gutter of page 34, slight crease upper corners of pages 88 & 159, slight break between 192/193, Library stamp lower back fep, pocket with card on back paste-down. The author's inscription reads as follows {very carefully done}: "To Luisette with my love. Helen Keller. April 11th, 1938". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offsetting in the gutters of front and rear covers. ; Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Book is in excellent condition. "Always, in large things and small, there is this intense aliveness, this vivid interest, this quick grasp and eager response. Miss Keller quotes a number of beautiful tributes to Anne Sullivan Macy, and all that she herself writes of her is beautiful. But the mere existence of such a journal as this is the one great and comprehensive tribute. Here in our own day is the true Pygmalion, more beautiful, deeper, more significant, than the ancient myth. It was the touch of life that the young teacher brought to the deaf and blind child half a century ago, and that touch goes on to other prisoned clay, and is itself undying." [NY Times] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 313 pages; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Second Revised Edition. An anthology of tributes to Keller by Robert Frost, Clarence Darrow, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. DuBois, Witter Bynner, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Rabindranath Tagore, and many others. SIGNED on the front endpaper in pencil, as always: "Cordially/Helen Keller." Braille at the top of the front endpaper, possibly a previous owner's name. Light edgewear. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

signed first edition, 1938. garden city, new york: doubleday, doran & company, inc. 6 x 8 inches. 313 pages. hardcover. bound in blue cloth-covered boards. deckled edges. book condition. faint toning to leaves. near fine. absent dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. The large-paper, limited edition of The Story of My Life, signed by Helen Keller, and her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Octavo, xv, [1], 441pp, [5]. Publisher's gray paper boards, title on label affixed to the spine. Gray endpapers. Partial bookplate on front pastedown. Notable wear and soiling to all boards, hinges stable. Text block stable, but the first four pages of Chapter I are partially torn, lower quarter missing. A few points of marginalia in pencil. This work is complete with two signed frontispiece portraits, and 13 photographic plates. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell, title in gilt over black morocco label on spine. From a limited edition of 60 copies for subscribers, this copy is unnumbered, like many known examples. Signature of Helen Keller, pasted from cut letter, affixed to front free endpaper. Additional signatures of Helen Keller and Anne Mansfield Sullivan on their frontispiece portraits. Helen Keller began writing The Story of My Life in 1902, while a student at Radcliffe College. The work was serialized in Ladies' Home Journal in 1902 and published in book form by Doubleday in 1903.

First edition of Keller's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with plates from photographs. Signed by the author in pencil on the front free endpaper, "Helen Keller," beneath her name embossed in braille. In very good condition with light toning throughout the textblock, lacking front free endpaper. Foreword by Nella Braddy. Helen Keller was an author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum[1] and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 78 pages. In Good plus condition, with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Dust jacket spine blue with white lettering. Moderate wear to dust jacket, including chipping with material loss to head, tail, corners, and along hinge of back cover ("H" and "K" missing from author's name at head of spine; back flap fragile yet remains attached); rubbing and age-toning to covers (lettering on spine affected yet legible); price uncut "$1.50" (partially crossed out, with small stamp underneath stating "NET $1"); dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Green cloth boards with bronze lettering to spine. Mild wear to boards, including bumping to head, tail, and corners; sun-fading to head, tail, and along margins of boards (bronze lettering affected yet legible); rubbing with material loss to bottom half margin of back board; age-toning to text block, staining to bottom fore corner; light age-toning to endpapers and interior pages (text and author's inscription affected yet legible). Inscribed by Keller on front free endpaper, dated Christmas 1940: "To Malson and Bert, Whose artistic appreciation has sweetend the toil of my literary endeavors. Affectionately, Helen Keller". WK consignment. Shelved Case 1 1/2. 1285216. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover with DJ. blue/gray cloth spine with maroon boards. Binding good and tight. DJ clean and complete, though faded from age. Title page and Copyright page dated 1947. Stated First Edition. 489 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, "For the Clarks with thanks of Helen and Polly, Van Wyck Brooks. November 1947." Below that inscription it is signed by Helen Keller, who has written, "With Loving Greetings from, Helen Keller. Christmas 1947." She has signed and inscribed in her unmistakeable boxy letters, in pencil. Finally, it is signed by Polly Thomson, her secretary and 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, joining their names 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 Thomson. The Brooks signature is a nice bonus as well. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).

Leather Binding. Condition: Good. Reprint. Signed and inscribed, with a half-page inscription by Helen Keller in her characteristic hand in ink, to one of those helping the efforts to develop the California School for the Blind: 'For Mrs Marie Clisham With warmest wishes for her good work for the dwellers in dark silence. Helen Keller.' Original full red calf stamped in gilt (wear to binding, rebacked in matching red leather preserving most of original spine, creasing and some wear to text margins on several leaves).

First edition of this small book of wisdom by Helen Keller. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs Warren Monk, whose sweet faith is a bond between us. Affectionately, Helen Keller, July 24th, 1940." In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed. Helen Keller became a well-traveled lecturer, activist, and prolific writer despite the rare illness she contracted at 19 months of age which left her both blind and deaf. Much of Keller's success was attributed to the 49-year relationship she had with governess and companion Anne Sullivan who initially taught Keller to communicate by spelling words into her hand. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, becoming the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. She went on to become a world-famous speaker and author, best remembered for her work as an advocate for persons with disabilities, the deaf community, and women's suffrage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Herbert White/with sincere regards/Helen Keller/Dec. 1929." Herbert White helped found the Connecticut Institute for the Blind in 1893 and served as treasurer for the American Foundation for the Blind. A nice association copy. Faint evidence of removal of bookplates on the front and rear pastedowns; dulling of the spine with neat removal of library numbers. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1908 1ST EDITION hardcover cover book VERY GOOD Teal cloth with gold guilted on cover/spine, pages have aged in color book is Free of markings, binding is GOOD, No Dustjacket, SIGNED with Greeting by author HELEN KELLER (book was purchased at an auction. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Early Printing. Illustrated with photographs. Includes accounts of interactions with Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and others. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel Mather/Lest he forget me/with every good wish/From Helen Keller/December." Samuel Mather was an American industrialist and philanthropist from Cleveland who co-founded Pickands Mather and Company, a shipping and iron mining company which dominated these two Great Lakes industries from 1900 to 1960. His grandfather, Samuel Mather, Jr. (1745-1809), was one of the original founders and shareholders in the Connecticut Land Company, which bought the Connecticut Western Reserve (which constituted what later became northern Ohio) in 1792. Other ancestors include Cotton Mather and Increase Mather. Inscribee's tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown; slight darkening to the spine with light fraying to the tips. Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. First Edition. One of an unspecified limitation SIGNED by the author in pencil, as usual, on a tipped-in leaf. Gutters browned, tasteful bookplate with name neatly inked out on front pastedown. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued, in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Uncommon in this condition.

Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth, housed in a custom 1/4 brown morocco leather and cloth slipcase with a gilt-lettered spine, and a cloth chemise. Illustrated with photographs. A special copy INSCRIBED in an unknown hand to Helen Keller's nephew and two nieces--Brooks, Candice and Margo--and SIGNED in pencil on the front endpaper by Keller. The inscription dated 25 February 1961 reads: "Someday when you read this/remarkable story, I hope you will/find it as enjoyable and unique/a book as I have./With a warm kiss and hug for/each of you./Devotedly your aunt." Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper but in a very attractive Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. First Edition. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") in original blind-stamped black cloth; viii, 39 pages. Housed in a custom 1/4 green morocco leather and cloth slipcase with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, and a cloth chemise. One of Keller's scarcest books, this copy even more so as it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED in pencil on the front endpaper by Keller to her brother Phillips Brooks Keller: "To Phillips/with affection/From/Sister Helen/February 5th 1940." Helen Keller was 11 when her brother Phillips was born in 1891. When she heard about his birth, Keller and "Teacher" (Anne Sullivan) were in Boston in school, and she sent back word to her family in Dallas that she wanted her brother named after her good, and as it turned out, lifelong friend, Bishop Phillips Brooks, the rector of Christs Church in Boston and the author of the Christmas song "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Fine in chemise and a Near Fine slipcase with minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., green cloth lettered in black; spine slightly sunned. First edition, first printing. A lovely copy, signed in pencil, "Faithfully Yours, Helen Keller," on the front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, green cloth with gilt and red cover design lettered in gilt; slightly soiled with minor edge-wear. First edition, later printing, with tipped-in portrait frontispiece. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Mrs. [Carol] Wainwright, with warm greetings, Helen Keller, July 29, 1929," on the front free endpaper. The recipient, Carol Wainwright (1895-1973), taught high school English "for decades" in Springfield, Massachusetts, according to her grandson Jacob Wainwright, from whom this volume was acquired. A fine presentation copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition. Small 8vo. 76 pp, Chapter head and tail-piece vignettes; title page printed in red and black. Laid in are a 1928 typed fund raising letter for the American Foundation for the Blind from Keller, signed by her in pencil, on her Forest Hill., N.Y., letterhead, to "Mr. Calkins" (probably Earnest Elmo Calkins, 1968-1964, a deaf advertising executive who pioneered "consumer engineering"), a small foundation card printing the Braille alphabet and numerals, and a foundation leaflet, with a mounted portrait photograph of Keller on the front cover, printing a brief history of education for the blind and testimonials for several state and local associations and schools for the blind. Very good. Original red and gilt-stamped decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (11091).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Original blue cloth with a complete dust jacket. The jacket is not price-clipped and retains the original $3.00 price. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The date of 1929 is present on the title page. There is no first edition statement on the copyright page though the D & D seal is present. This is an early copy, issued in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. The jacket has received some professional restoration, mostly involving the removal of tape along the top edge. An altogether lovely copy in excellent condition. Very Good / very good.

First Edition. Grey paper-covered boards. Inscribed by Helen Keller in dedication to her uncle "Ed." Includes 8 plates with b&w photographs. Gilt design to front board. Loss of spine paper. Wear to corners and foredge. No further damages or defacements. A nice, historic copy.