Claremont, California:]: Scripps College Press, 2000. One of sixty copies signed by Kitty Maryatt and the eleven student contributors. Each student was inspired by one word, mostly onomatopoeias (including Brrr, TIC TIC, Bang, etc.). Illustrated on about fifty pages, mostly in color, with linocuts, decorative paper designs, photopolymer plates, vinyl.....
Boston: L. Prang & Company, [ 1889 ]. First edition of “the first biography of the celebrated author, [which] includes important selections of Louisa May Alcott’s now lost diary on life at the Fruitlands commune—the ill-fated social experiment of… [her father] Amos Bronson Alcott,” (ANB). Note that, while the copyright date.....
[ Sherman Oaks, California: [: Ninja Press, 2019. One of 70 copies designed, printed, and bound by Carolee Campbell with assistance from Farida Baldonado Sunada of the Ophelia Press. Text was printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in Wisconsin. Eight additional hors commerce copies were also.....
[ Vancouver, British Columbia:]: Byzantium, 2022. With approximately 140 sample leaves of herbaria, drawings, and prints, plus a folder with extra oversized sample leaves from eleven different sources. The leaves originate from broken volumes of botanical texts from the last 350 years or were created by the authors for the.....
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St. Louis: 1854. In the spring of 1854, William A. Jackson was hired to kill James B. Laidlaw, a scene painter employed at the Varieties Theater in St. Louis, Missouri. A young actress at the theater had fallen in love with Laidlaw, which prompted her spurned lover (not named here).....
South Laguna, CA: Weather Bird Press,], 1969. One of fifty copies in boards in a total edition of seventy-five (twenty-five were bound in paper wrappers). This is one of the earliest books of Vance Gerry’s Weather Bird Press. Most of the earliest items were ephemeral pieces, or in wrappers. With.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1791. First edition of the first English version of Brucker’s text, adapted by William Enfield (1741 – 1797), accessible here to English readers for the first time. Brucker (1696 – 1770) published his monumental Historia Critica Philosophiæ, in five volumes at.....
Philadelphia: Printed by John Omrod, 1798. First American edition of this educational classic that shows the influence of Rousseau on the work of Erasmus Darwin (1731 – 1802). First published in London the previous year. Included in this edition is an American printing of Mrs. M. Peddle’s Rudiments of Taste.....
[Alhambra, California:]: Ophelia Press, 2017. The decorations, which include slithering serpents and a blood-stained river, are handcut from Tengucho and Yatsuo kozo papers made in Kochi and Toyama Prefectures, Japan. The Fuschia and plum-colored papers, which are interspersed throughout, were handmade in Nepal from the lotka plant. The poems are.....
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[British Columbia, Canada:]: Barbarian Press, 2022. One of fifty-five regular copies in a total edition of 125 copies. This is the fifty-first book from the Barbarian Press. With five engravings in black and red by Richard Wagener, printed at Mixolydian Editions in Petaluma, California. Text hand-set in Walbaum by Apollonia.....
[Santa Ana, California: n.d., ca. 1973-1980. The machine sewing samples in the present item include different styles of stitches (both simple stitches and machine embroidery), cuffs, collars, hems, buttonholes, monograms, and more. The samples are expertly executed and neatly organized, and the typewritten instructions are thoroughly annotated. Some of the.....
St. Louis: The Queen’s Work, 1947. First edition. An anti-birth control argument in the form of supposed correspondence between a mother and the author, a priest. The young mother argues that women should remain in the home and raise children, and access to birth control impedes this mission. Minor dustsoiling.....
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1943. Illustrated on every page with vignettes of women in black. The illustrations indicate what personal style women should adopt to accentuate their physical features, e.g., a woman with a “short fat nose, high forehead, oval face” shouldn’t part their hair down the middle; a woman.....
[Warren, Ohio: Mullins Manufacturing Corp. 1945 ]. First edition. Before World War II, Youngstown steel cabinets were too expensive for middle-class homes, but wartime innovations in assembly-line manufacturing drove costs down. By the end of the war, then, Youngstown products could be marketed to a much broader audience of women.....
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[Nappanee, Indiana: Published with the Permission of the Emerson Engineers, Coppes Brothers & Zook, n.d., 1920s]. First edition. The present item advertises the Napanee Dutch Kitchenet, a labor-saving kitchen outfit, and explains the time and motion studies conducted to test the utility of the outfit. The Napanee was a set.....
Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press, [1945]. First edition. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary pencil signature (Mrs. William C. Parker) to half-title. Very clean internally. A very good, fresh copy of this prisoner of war memoir written by a woman medical doctor and nurse. Original paper wrappers printed in pinkish.....
Helena, Montana: Independent Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Article IX, sections ten and twelve, are crucial to the history of women’s suffrage in the United States. Section ten states, “Women shall be eligible to hold the office of county superintendent of schools or any school district election.” Section twelve stated.....
London: Printed by and for William Darton, Jun. 1815. First edition. One engraved plate. Several gatherings sprung or partially sprung, but a very good, tight copy. Original black roan-backed drab boards, gilt flat spine. Twelvemo. [4], 191, [1] + [20] pp. publisher's catalogue ("A List of Improved Books, &c. for.....
London: A.K. Newman and Company, 1836. A New Edition,” revised and altered by the author. OCLC gives early dates of 1820 (Philadelphia imprint, also described as a “new edition”) and 1827. Hofland notes in “To the Reader” that she was “induced to alter the original, in so far as to.....
Cincinnati: William T. Truman, 1844. First edition. Title-page with wood engraved ornamental border with 9 vignettes of playing children. 6 full-page engravings of Biblical scenes throughout, including depictions of the crucified Christ and Saul’s blinding in Acts 9. Some foxing throughout and some wear and soiling to wrappers. A very.....
London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, 1803. Second edition. The first edition was published in 1800. All editions are scarce, known in just a few copies. Engraved frontispiece by J. Scott after Satchwell, dated Jan. 1, 1800. Binding extremities a bit rubbed and worn, spine slightly soiled.....
London: Printed for John Harris [by S. and R. Bentley, 1828]. First edition, a work of rudimentary theology, astronomy, natural history, and geography for youth, supposedly published from the papers of a deceased “friend,” with a few of Fletcher’s own “emendations” and “improvements.”. Engraved frontispiece, dated 1828. Binding extremities slightly.....
Wellington, Salop: Printed by and for F. Houlston and Son, 1817. Tenth edition. Although Oxford DNB states that the first edition was published in 1815, OCLC records an 1814 edition held by eight libraries, though it seems this date is taken from the engraved frontispiece. OCLC records no copies of.....
London: Printed for E. Newbery by J. Cundee, 1799. First edition. The Advertisement states, “The Subject of this Volume is the Escape of a Canary-Bird from his Cage: - the Design – to present to young Readers a little Miscellany of Natural History, Moral Precept, Sentiment and Narrative.”. Engraved frontispiece.....
[ New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, [1942 ]. First edition of this children’s book that was sold to raise money for the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (CCFRS). “It often happens that my American friend say: ‘Of course it is terrible to see French children starving.....
