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5 ANGELOU, Maya. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie. New York: Random House, 1971 Octavo. Original red cloth-backed orange boards, silver titles to spine, titles to front cover in blind, pale brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. A couple of tiny spots to top edge; else a fine copy in the jacket with negligible creas- ing to extremities. first edition, presentation copy of angelou’s first book of poetry, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free end- paper, “For Bob, More Poetry, More Joy! Thank you! Write On! Di- rect On! Maya Angelou”. It was a rapid bestseller and was nominat- ed for the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. Inscribed copies of Maya Angelou’s works are notably uncommon; she customarily signed books with just her name and the salutation “Joy!”, making copies with lengthy inscriptions particularly unusual. £400 [131524] 6 ANTHONY, Susan B. History of Woman Suffrage. Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886–1902 4 volumes, large octavo (235 × 155 mm). Recent dark brown half morocco, spines ruled and tooled in gilt with twin red and green morocco labels and floriate centrepieces in blind, raised bands, marbled boards, tan endpapers. Numerous steel engravings with tissue guards to vols. 1–3; copperplate and photogravure engravings to vol. 4; all four with frontispieces. A few minor pencil annotations to front matter of vol. 1. Some dampstain to vols. 1–3, vol. 2 partly unopened with one tiny nick to fore edge of title page, else a very good set, the contents toned and clean. Presentation set of the four lifetime volumes of the “bible” of the women’s suffrage campaign, each volume affectionately inscribed by the author to her cousin , Anna Anthony Andrews, with didactic volume-by-volume commentary on the contents. Anthony’s warm and lengthy inscriptions to her cousin, dated 26 August 1905, are full of hope for the future of the women’s movement: “May you and your dear girls become familiar with these struggles for liberty is the wish of your affectionate cousin” (vol. 1); “Now it is left for the present and future generations to carry forward the work to final
success. How soon it will be an accomplished fact that women will stand the peer of man—socially, morally, industrially and political- ly—remains for the future to tell” (vol. 4). History of Woman Suffrage offers “a vast compendium of reminis- cences, reports, arguments, and commentaries unevenly shaped by the logic of the suffrage cause and its leading proponents . . . The making of the History was at once a profoundly personal and self-consciously political venture. Few social movements have been graced with leaders who could assemble, organise, and comment on such a vast amount of information [and] the prime mover for the History was Susan B. Anthony” (Buhle, pp. xvii–xviii). Handsomely bound, this set comprises mixed editions: vols. 3 and 4 first editions; vol. 1 second edition; vol. 2 a later reprint. These four volumes were the only ones published during Anthony’s lifetime; it was extended to six volumes in 1922. Buhle, Jo Mari, & Paul (eds.), The Concise History of Women Suffrage , University of Illinois Press, 2005. £18,750 [124579]
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