Author: HENDRICKSON, Henry
Title: Out from the Darkness; an Autobiography. Unfolding the Life Story and Singular Vicissitudes of a Scandinavian Bartimaeus
Description: Chicago, The Western Sunday-School Publishing Company, 1879. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth over bevel-edged boards with black rules and gilt lettering. 399pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Quite mild edgewear -- overall an exceptionally tight and handsome first edition, internally fine. Norwegian-born Hendrickson, who became blind at six months, came to Wisconsin as a child and thrived, making his way in the world -- wife, career -- and became a shining pre-Helen Keller example of how much a blind person could accomplish. Purple inkstamp of The Swedish Club of Chicago on inner flyleaf. A superb example of a title often found in far-from-superb condition. .

Keywords: Biography


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