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John F Trow, Printer and Stereotyper, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. This 1868 edition features a front cover gold gilt embossment of the New York Institute of the Blind and spine title decoration bound in green hard cover boards, well preserved inner hinges with clean brown end papers, 191 pages with gold gilt decks, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, period signature to front fly

New York: John F. Trow, 1863. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint (first was 1850). Original cloth. Tiny tear at the crown, a couple insignificant spots in the text, else a nice, about fine copy. Memoirs of a woman blinded and widowed in the same month.

New York: John F. Trow, 1866. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint (first was 1850). Octavo. Original blue cloth gilt. Contemporary ink name, light wear at the spine ends, very good or better. Often reprinted memoirs of a woman blinded and widowed in the same month.

New York: John F. Trow, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Endpaper neatly clipped out. Extremely scarce collection of letters from a woman who went blind. Much on early American treatment of the blind. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait. Binding is cloth boards.

New York: Trow, Printer, 1868. Later edition (one of many) of an apparently self-published book. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “ ‘A Place in thy memory, dearest, and a memory in thy prayers!’ ” S. Helen DeKroyft. March 30th 1868.” Contemporary owner (or recipient’s) signature below. Original cloth; spine ends worn; very good. The frontispiece (a bit foxed and darkened) is of the New York Institution for the Blind. Widowed and blinded early, the author actively lectured and inspired others for about a half-century.