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SIGNED FIRST EDITION AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARGARET SANGER WITH EPHEMERA

Offered by Dusty Jackets Books,
3130 E Grant Road,
Tucson, AZ 85716
520-326-8520

Margaret Sanger, a long time Tucson resident, was a renowned activist for women's rights and the founder of what is now Planned Parenthood.

Offered for auction is a first edition of her autobiography personally inscribed to Helena Duffen, her personal caregiver and assistant during the later years of her life. Also included are various related ephemera collected by Mrs. Duffen.

Scarce in dust jacket, rare with inscription - Only one signed copy can be located on the Internet with a price of $750. The book is clean inside except for the inscription, rated as better than very good. The dust jacket has minimal chipping as shown in the photos, but is not price clipped, rated as less than very good. If you can find one, the book can be married to a better jacket.

This auction, being offered with a $250 reserve, is a once in a lifetime opportunity for someone to own a significant piece of history!

The following tribute to Margaret Sanger, by Pearl S. Buck, is from the dust jacket:

“Margaret Sanger is one of the most courageous women of our times. Her name will go down in history as one of that company of pioneers who have not been afraid to do what was to be done in spite of the prejudices and powers of their times. Her name, in time to come, will be accepted as we accept today the names of the past great who in their time also fought to give freedom not only to those who lived with them but to those living after them. And in the future to come people will be astonished that the things for which Margaret Sanger fights should ever have been opposed or wondered at taken for anything else than a matter of in inevitable human right and reason. Her cause will live on beyond our short day. She has started the fire of great freedom for humanity and no one ever has been able to put down that sort of fire. Time itself will fan the blaze."

“No one has a more difficult task than hers. No cause ever fought has been fought against more blind social prejudice, not even the cause of the people against the divine right of kings, nor the cause of equal suffrage, nor any of the battles for freedom. The thing Margaret Sanger has done is to bring into the light of science and common knowledge a matter which involves every human being vitally. I give my admiration to Margaret Sanger, therefore, not only because she has been the pioneer in a great scientific and humane movement, but for this: that she has dared to attack fearlessly this great fundamental evil—a false attitude of mind, which, whatever its causes may have been in our past, today results in a serious refusal to recognize life as it is. Until life is seen for what it is, until we do cease to be afraid of life, of unhappiness, of wrongs in our social system, we can do no great things in our day. It is for what you have done in this, Margaret Sanger, that I thank you most.”

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