B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 4 9 BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY HELEN KELLER: PRESENTATION COPY OF LET US HAVE FAITH 9. KELLER, Helen. Let Us Have Faith. New York, 1941. Slim octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $2500 Early edition, published one year after the first, presentation copy inscribed by Keller on the front free endpaper: “To Lorna, whose spirit vibrates to the light and the harmony that have kept my life sweet. Affectionately, Helen Keller. January 1th, 1946.” Keller became a Swedenborgian in 1896, when she was 16 years old. “Although she did not refer to it conspicuously Miss Keller was religious, but not a churchgoer. While quite young she was converted to the mystic New Church doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. The object of his doctrine was to make Christianity a living reality on earth through divine love, a theology that fitted Miss Keller’s sense of social mission” (New York Times obituary, 1968). In the eight brief inspirational essays presented here, Keller describes the role faith played in overcoming her physical disabilities and in helping her campaign on behalf of deaf and blind people throughout the world. First published in 1940. Text clean, cloth gently toned at spine and edges. Dust jacket with shallow edge-wear, closed tear to rear panel, old tape reinforcements to verso, extremely good. Scarce inscribed.
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