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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. His last collection of essays, a powerful book with essays on a variety of topics including his crippling accident, a moving farewell to Richard Yates, and an essay on why he gave up his handgun.
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MEDITATIONS FROM A MOVABLE CHAIR
by DUBUS, Andre
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SIGNED ENGRAVING of "The Miracle Worker"
by [KELLER, Helen] SULLIVAN, Anne Mansfield
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[pre-1905]. Engraving. Old dampstaining and soiling to bottom blank margin with only a very slight effect on the signature. Easily Very Good or better. Early 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" engraving from a photograph on a 7" x 10" sheet tipped to a slightly larger sheet of Helen Keller's famous teacher, subject of the play and movie THE MIRACLE WORKER, SIGNED in ink below the image: "Anne Mansfield Sullivan." At the age of 7, nearly blind from an illness two years before and recently having suffered the loss of her mother, Sullivan was abandoned by her father in an orphanage with no formal educational facilities. Through her own will she managed to be placed in the Perkins Institute for the Blind from which she graduated as class valedictorian after regaining much of her eyesight from a series of operations. She began teaching Helen Keller when the deaf and blind child was seven and, by all accounts, quite undisciplined. Sullivan attended classes with Keller and tutored her through the Perkins Institute, The…
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