Carrie Chapman Catt. A Biography [SIGNED]
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Gray Peck on front free endpaper. Octavo. 495pp., 9 leaves of plates. Original black cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait. Title page with black triple frame and publisher's device. Laid in two newspaper clippings and event flyer of the New Rochelle Public Library, all involving Carrie Chapman Catt ("I have a cure that never will fail. It is made up of ten rules: go out among the people and perform one kind act...ten times." Carrie Chapman Catt. Philosophy Footnote). Biography of one of the most influential figures in the American suffrage movement. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs, including the signing of The Suffrage Resolution in Congress, 1919, Binding with very light wear along edges. Front cover with circular water traces, back cover with two small spots of white paint and slight ruffles from water stain in upper foredge corner. Front endpaper with slight scuffing from removed paper two inches above signatures. Back endpaper with offsetting from laid in clippings. Block with light age-toning. Goo to very good condition. Item #49512
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