Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy.
Inscribed to Katharine Cornell
Keller, Helen. Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy. A tribute by the foster-child of her mind. Introduction by Nella Braddy Henney. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955.
8vo.; cloth; dust-jacket. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition of Keller’s biography of Anne Sullivan Macy, and her history of their association, with an introduction by Nella Braddy Henney and fifteen black and white photographs of Macy with Keller and others, and of Keller with friends, students, and communities worldwide. A complimentary copy, with the publisher’s printed slip loosely inserted.
A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: To dear Katharine Cornell, Whose loving insight has received and eloquently interpreted the message of Teacher's life. Affectionately, Helen Keller. October 3rd, 1955. Cornell narrated “The Unconquered,” the award-winning documentary film of Keller’s life which was released the year this book was published, when Keller was 74 years old: presumably the interpretation that Keller alludes to in the inscription. Comprised of narratively edited newsreel clips, stills, and contemporary footage of Keller, it includes a sequence with President Eisenhower shot specially for it by director-writer-composer-producer Nancy Hamilton, described by one film historian as “one of the true triple-threat pioneer film-women of the time.”
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