London: Longman, Hurst, Heeb, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825. First Edition. 8vo, p. 296, 288. Bound with the half titles, early bookplate, in contemporary marble boards (rubbed along hinges), calf labels. A VG tight copy. Amelia (Alderson) Opie (1769-13) was known as a poet and novelist. She was close to... More
Habana, Cuba: Julio Arroyo, 1930. First Edition? Small 4to, (pp. 80) printed wraps, (corners bent), large fold out map of "Potter's Tourist Plan of the Heart of the City of Havana). Stamped, "Compliments of the Two Brothers Bar". Cover printed in blue with a photo of West Side of Central... More
Cincinnati: Howe's Subscription, 1869. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 447. Illustrated with full page engravings. Lacks the tissue covering the frontispiece. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, some faded, a very good tight copy. With the pencil ownership signature on the end paper of Harry S. Z. Matthias, editor of... More
NY: Harcourt, 2000. First edition. Tall 8vo, not paginated. With magnificent colored illustratuons on each page. A fine copy in dj. Inscribed by Wilbur to neighbor and fellow poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "For Bill and Sonja | With love | from Dick Wilbur" on the endpaper. More
Boston: Small, Maynard, (1914). Fifth edn. 12mo, pp. 217. Enlarged, with a total of 148 poems. Frontis portrait. Uncut. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover illustration stamped "MLP". TEG. Contemporary presentation signature on the e.p., o/w a near mint copy crisp and bright. The author's first book. A.... More
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 28. Removed. Title page toned. Good. S&S 5385 (4). More
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 28. Bound into a card board binder. ontemporary signature on the title page. Title page toned, Good. S&S 5385 (4). More
London: The New English Library, (1961). First Ace Books edition. Small 8vo, pp. 253 + adv. Bound in printed paper wraps, some light stains, a very good copy. Written after many personal interviews with prostitutes in the UK. More
London: George's, (ca. 1922). First Edition? small 8vo, pp. 40, illustrated throughout. Bound in paper wraps, a very good clean copy. Laid in is an 8 page small bookplate: "Descriptive Booklet of the Prentif Antiseptic Douching Cachets, together with special instruction for various uses. Also laid in is an unused... More
NY: Pathfinder Press, (1985). First Edition. 12mo, pp. 48, self wraps (little light water stain). A Marxist support of the right to have an abortion. More
[Chicago: Max Stein, [ca 1920?]. First Edition? 12mo, pp. 31. Illustrated. Self wraps (leaves little toned), very good. The traffic in girls. White Skavery as now practiced In America, including detailed descriptions of the customs and manners of the white women slaves and wives of Asia, Turkey, Egypt, etc. 29... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1872. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 291 + adv. Bound in green cloth stamped in gilt and black, little rubbed at extremities, a near fine copy. The well known essayist supports extending educational opportunities for women, but opposed the woman suffrage movement. She attacks the view that... More
NY: McClure, Phillips, 1904. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 395. Brown cloth stamped in gilt, little worn at the top of the spine, couple of small ink spots on the cover, o/w a very good copy. A scarce book. Activist Martha Gruening's copy with her 1908 ownership signature on the end... More
NY: Simon and Schuster, (1994). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 432. Top of the leaves little foxed, o/w a fine copy in dj. A biography of the 19th century feminist. More
Washington, DC: The Hirshhorn Museum, 1978. First Edition. 4to, pp.199. Foreword by Abram Lerner. Printed wraps, illustrated throughout. A very good copy. Includes a partialcChecklist of the Quinn Collections, with an index of Buyers from the 1927 sale. John Quinn, a prominent New York attorney, was one of America's foremost... More
NY: Henry Holt, (2008). First printing. 4to, pp. x, 273. Bibliography, index. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly curled at corners, o/w a nice copy. More
NY: League of Women Shoppers, n.d. Small 8vo, pp. 20. Paper wraps. Some leaves slightly dog-eared, cover little soiled, ow a VG tight copy. More
(NY): n.d. One sheet, 11x17, folded twice. Illustrated with two stills from the film, which opened the New York Women's Film Festival. A review by Marjorie Rosen, in Saturday Review at bottom. A few small staple holes; mailing label and postmark on back. VG. More
NY: The Population Council, 1979. Periodical. 4to, pp. 309-422. Paper wraps. Edges and cover slightly spotted, o/w a VG tight copy. Articles on women in rural Java, India, Nigeria, Kenya, Indonesia, among others. More
NY: National Campaign in Solidarity with ZANU, (c. 1979). 4to, pp. 31. Illustrated wtih photographs and drawings. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly soiled and creased, o/w a VG tight copy. Writings and documents from ZANU and the ZANU Women's League. More
NY: Total Sports, (2001). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 286. Index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Zimmer's and Madden's signatures on title. Paper over boards. A few small stains on edges, o/w about fine in dj. More
Paris: G. Quinet, 1680. First Complete Edition in French. 16mo, pp. [4], 323; [2], 336; [1], 297; [1] 283; [1] 226. Printed with woodcut initials and head pieces. Bound in contemporary calf, with modern rebacking, blank marginal tears to three leaves in volume 1 (without any loss of text]. Includes... More
Baltimore MD: Zora Neale Hurston Society, 1987-2000. Periodical. 8vo, pp. various. Paper wraps. A few covers slightly creased, but generally nice copies. 14 copies (includes 3 copies of Vol VII, # 2). The issues are: Vol. 1, No. 2; Vol. II, No. 2; Vol. III, Nos. 1 and 2; Vol... More
NY: Harper & Row, (1984). First printing. 8vo, pp. 170. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in price-clipped and slightly scuffed dj. Willie Ruff (piano) and Dwike Mitchell (French horn and bass) were a jazz duo. More
