EBB OF THE RIVER; a fictional memoir
NY: Wyndham Books, (1980). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 205. Signed by the author. A very good copy in price clipped dj. More
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THE SEW-IT BOOK; Things to make with needle and thread and odds and ends
NY: Rand McNally, (1929). Marjorie Hartwell. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 57. Bound in printed boards, ex-library with many stamps, hinges repaired, final page loose. Just good. More
WORKS IN PROGRESS; number two.
NY: Literary Guild of America, (1971). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 237. Printed wraps. A very good copy, signed on the end paper by author Louis Simpson. An early piece with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Huighes, A, B. Guthrie, James T Farrell, Henry Roth, John Hawkes and others. More
THE GLORY OF THIER TIMES; The story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it, with a foreword by John K Hutchens
NY: Macmillan, (1967). Fifth printing. 8vo, pp. 300, illustrated with photos. A very good copy, without dj. More
NIGHT CADRE; poems
[NY]: Viking, (1991). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 94. A fine copy in dj. The first collection of poems by the lyricist for the Greatful Dead. More
ANTI-SUFFRAGE ESSAYS BY MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN; with an introduction by Ernest Bernbaum, PhD. (Harvard University)
[Boston]: The Forum Publications of Boston, 1916. First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix-xvii, [2], 21-152, [2]. Bound in red cloth, Each chapter is preceded by a short biographical sketch of the author. A very good tight copy. Krichmar 1431. Scarce. This prints 17 essays and includes a list of anti-suffrage publications... More
THE YOUNG WOMAN'S FRIEND; or the duties, trials, loves, and hopes of woman.; Designed for The Young Woman, the young wife and the mother.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881. New edn. 8vo, pp. 250, + adv. VG tight copy, in original cloth. Young Ladies' Library. Includes chapters on the Mission of Woman, Motherhood, Female education, etc. More
DE NAMIN' OB DE TWINS; and other sketches from the cotton land. Illustrated by Edward H. Potthast
NY: Dodge, 1908. Edward H. Potthast. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 139. Untrimmed. Bound in green/gray covers stamped in black and white and gilt. A very good copy. A book of humorous poems about Blacks, in dialect. More
MEMOIRS OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SOVEREIGNS.; in two volumes.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1840. Third edition. 12mo, pp. xv,[1],328; 1, 362. With half title in vol. 1. Uncut, Cloth backed boards (spine frayed and nick to vol. 1.) Scattered light foxing, a very good copy. NCBEL III, 1288. Includes chapters on Isabella of Castille, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth... More
NOBLE DEEDS OF WOMAN;; or, Examples of Female Courage and Virtue.
Boston: Phillips, 1859. 8vo, pp.[viii]-xxiv, [25],470. Bound in little worn red cloth, stamped in gilt. The author searched history to find instructive role models for contemporary women. More
FEMALE POLICY DETECTED; or, the arts of a designing woman laid open by E. W.
London: for the booksellers, [1822?]. from the 100th edition. 12mo, pp.iv, [5]-106. Bound in little soiled printed boards with a reproduction of the frontispiece on the rear cover. Some soiled and little worn. To the apprentices of England and America, this is armour to defend you from the darts thrown... More
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Boston: Lee and Shepherd, 1867. First edn. 8vo, pp. 27. Maroon cloth, a fine copy. Krichmar 2064. A scarce little anti-feminist monograph by the author of a number of books addressed to boys and girls. Todd notes the wide-spread uneasiness,!a discontent with woman's lot, impatient of its burdens, rebellious against... More
THE PORTSMOUTH MISCELLANY, OR LADY'S LIBRARY IMPORVED: designed as a reading book, for the use of Young Ladies' Academies ...
Portsmouth: N. H.: Pierce, Hill, Pierce, Nov. 1, 1804. First edn. small square 8vo, Pp. 344. (lacks pp. 201-240)Scuffed contemporary sheep, lacking the free endpapers, a very good copy. Imprints 7000. Not in Bobbitt or Aresty. Scarce. The only edition of an early American courtesy book. The editor uses selections... More
THE YOUNG MAIDEN.
Boston: William Crosby, 1841. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 264. Original cloth, little worn, a very good copy. Muzzey also wrote The Young Man's Friend and Sunday School Guide, etc. Includes chapters on "The capacity of woman, female influence, female education, etc. " Scarce. Muzzey quotes scripture to reinforce the traditional... More
FROM A VENETIAN CALLE (poems).; Pen sketches by Clara Montalba.
London: Paul, 1908. First Edition. 8vo, pp. (66) + adv. Stamped full calf (front hinge loose) VG. Lady Linday (1844-1912) was best known as a poet althought she was also a novelist and painter. Her Lyrics and Other Poems went into a second printing and a number of her other... More
THINGS AS THEY ARE; OR THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF CALEB WILLIAMS; three volumes in one
London: S. Fisher, 1824. Reprint edition. 12mo, pp. 340. Bound in contemporary full calf (spine faded), stamped in gilt with marble end papers. With an engraved frontispiece, title page vignette and six full page engraved plates by W[illiam] Hopwood. see CBEL, II, 655 for the first edition of 1794. This... More
A FEW DAYS IN ATHENS,; being the translation of a Greek Manuscript discovered in Herculaneum. Republished from the original London edition
Boston: Josiah P. Mendum, 1877. First Edition, thus. 8vo, pp. vii, 149. Bound in blind stamped brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, rubbed at the xtremitieis of the spine, front hinge tender and repaired, a good copy. This is a very scarce later reprint of a book that was published... More
HUSSEIN; An entertainment by R. P. Russ (pseudonym)
London: Oxford University Press, 1938. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 300. Contemporary name on end paper. Bound in black cloth, a very good tight clean copy. O'Brian's second novel. Hussein is a tale of the adventures of a young Indian boy growing up under the Raj. More
WITH A WOMAN'S UNIT IN SERBIA, SALONIKA AND SEBASTOPOL
London: Williams and Norgate, (1928). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 302. Frontis portrait and 12 black and white photos. VG in little soiled publisher's cloth. Memoir of a Scotswoman who became a physician and served in the Serbian Army in the First World War. This is a book of recollections of... More
COLLECTED POEMS 1923;-53
NY: Noonday, (1954). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 127. Bound in yellow cloth with printed dj. A very good tight copy. Inscribed and dated by the author to John Pearce of Seattle, WA. Laid in is 5 line autograph post card to Pearce. Bogan offers and greeting to Pearce and "Lorraine"... More
TIMELESS MEETING; Poems
London: Privately Printed, Distributed by Bertram Rota, 1973. Signed Limited Edition. 'This edition consists of 536 copies of which 500 numbered and signed copies are for sale'. 8vo, pp. 19. A near fne copy in slightly nicked dj. Printed by Bill Hummerstone at the Stellar Press.. This is copy #... More
WOMEN AND WORK; With 13 pictorial charts in colour designed by the Isotype Institute and 65 photographs. [general title: The New Democrarcy, edited by John L Edwards
London: Nicholson & Watson, (1945). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 128. Bound in publisher's cloth, a very good copy. With the ownership signature and address of Edith Clews. Recognizing the failures of countries establishing permant democracies after the end of WWI, This series of books was created to give information to... More
SOLITUDE; A Poem
BY: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. First USEdition. 8vo, pp. 56. Bound in little dusty blue cloth in a very good dj. This is a long poem, printed from the English sheets with a cancel title page. More
THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE FROM MASSACHUSETTS:; A record of one year's personal service with the British Expeditionary Force in France Boulogne - The Somme 1916-1917, with an account of the imprisonment, trial and death of Edith Cavell.
Boston: Butterfield, (1917). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 95. Bound in cloth backed boards in little chipped and torn white dj, printed in silver and red. Born in the UK, Edith Cavell trained as nurse in London. In 1907, she was appointed head of the Belgian School for Trained Nurses. When... More
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.; The story of the Lord's dealings with . .. the colored evangelist, containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, with an intro. by Bishop Thoburn of Africa.
Chicago: Meyer and Brother, 1893. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 506, frontispiece portrait and 25 illustrations. Former owner's signature on the end paper, hinges loose, rubbed at the extremities, a good clean copy. Few pencil scores in the margins. Scarce. Born a slave in 1837, Smith was described by Frances Willard... More