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84 JOHNSON, Amy. Sky Roads of the World. London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettered in black at the spine. With the dust jack- et. Portrait frontispiece. Very good in slightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with just a few chips and short closed tears to edges. first edition, with a signed album leaf with clipped news- paper photograph mounted on the front free endpaper. Sky Roads of the World is an autobiographical account of the pioneering aviator’s record-breaking endeavours, published two years before she disap- peared on an Air Transport Auxiliary flight in 1941. £200 [125517] 85 KELLER, Helen. The Story of My Life. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, some pages unopened. Portrait frontispiece and 13 photographic plates. Bookplate to front pastedown, date lightly inked to front free endpaper, pencil ownership inscription and tipped-in printed photograph of Keller to half-title, bookseller’s catalogue description mount- ed to recto of frontispiece. Spine ends and tips slightly rubbed, covers a little marked and scuffed, pale foxing to a couple of pages. A very good copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dear Dr. Hale Who has taught me that even the prison-places of Life may be made to blossom like Aaron’s rod with flowers. Helen Keller, March tenth 1903”. The recipient was Keller’s close friend and relative Dr Edward Everett Hale (1822– 1909), an author and Unitarian minister, whom Keller had known since she was eight years old. Keller referred to Hale as her “dearest cousin”, and wrote to him in 1889, “I often think about you and I love you dearly” (p. 166). Written when she was a student at Rad- cliffe, the book includes transcriptions of five letters from Keller to Hale, and a photograph of them together. £3,750 [125684]
working as a winder at the local mill and edited and produced the anti-fascist journal the Clear Light during the 1920s. See Goodridge, John, & Bridget Keegan (eds.), A History of British Working Class Lit- erature , Cambridge University Press, 2017. £650 [130069] 83 JESENSKÁ, Milena. Mileniny recepty. Druhé vydáni. Prague: Nakladatelství Prazské akciové tiskárny, 1925 Octavo. Later purple moiré half cloth, spine lettered in gilt, patterned paper boards and endpapers, top edge red. Faint previous ownership signature to title page in red pencil, else a fine copy. the distinguished czech journalist and translator’s exceptionally uncommon cookbook, Milena’s Recipes , in the stated second edition, the first published the same year. OCLC lo- cates no copies of the first or second editions, and just seven copies of the third, a facsimile published by the Franz Kafka Publishing House in 1995. Jesenská’s daughter, Jana Cerná, remembers that Mileniny recepty was “immediately sold out” upon first appearance (Iggers, p. 265). Jesenská (1896–1944) was a prolific writer of political commen- tary, human-interest stories, and fashion journalism, contributing regularly to a number of major Czech newspapers (like Tribuna and Narodni listy ), editing the prestigious political journal Prítomnost , and translating a wide variety of foreign language works, from chil- dren’s literature like Peter Pan and Wendy to the works of Rosa Lux- emburg (see 96). She is, however, best known for her relationship with Franz Kafka, whom she met in October 1919; their famously passionate correspondence was published in various languag- es during the 1950s as Letters to Milena . She translated a number of his short stories into Czech; her translation of his short story “The Stoker” appeared in the Czech socialist weekly Kmen in April 1920, thus constituting the first translation of Kafka’s writings into Czech. Due to her outspoken anti-Nazi articles published in Prítom- nost , and her involvement in an underground resistance movement which assisted Jewish and political refugees to emigrate from the German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Jesenská was detained in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died in 1944. See Iggers, Wilma, Women of Prague , Berghahn Books, 1995. £750 [129784]
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