New York: Published by the Author, 1905. First edition, presentation copy from the author. One of five hundred copies. Uncommon in commerce. With a frontisportrait of Walt Whitman. Some dustsoiling to cloth and sunning to spine. Clean and fresh throughout. A very good, clean copy, inscribed by the author (dated.....
London: Published by R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and decorative title-page. Some dustsoiling. Spine lightly faded. Clean and fresh throughout despite some offsetting to title-page and frontispiece. A very good copy. Uncommon in commerce. Original red cloth with gilt spine. Twelvemo. xxii, [2], 356, xxiii.....
London: The Folio Society, [n.d., 1963]. Contains an introductory leaf listing the works included and a brief description of each in addition to leaves from twelve different monumental works of English printing from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, each matted on gray card. Some offsetting from the adhesive that has.....
London: The Folio Society, [n.d., 1961]. Contains an introductory leaf listing the works included and a brief description of each in addition to leaves from twelve different monumental works of European printing from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, each matted on gray card. Some offsetting from the adhesive that has.....
[Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2022. One of ten special copies in a total edition of forty. Twenty-seven regular copies and three hors commerce copies were also produced. The special and hors commerce copies were issued in the clamshell box. Signed by Cohen, Hodgson, and Milroy on the colophon. The.....
London: Strahan and Co., 1868. First edition, presentation copy. A book of poetry and prose based on the author’s travels in France. With a frontispiece and eight plates. Spine darkened. Some soiling to endpapers. Bookplate (ca. 1903) to front pastedown. Author’s presentation inscription to front flyleaf, as well as a......
London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First edition of Harriet Martineau’s (1802 – 1876) assessment of American society developed during her travels between August 1834 and August 1836. In the ODNB, R.K. Webb writes that, “other than Alexis, comte de Tocqueville’s contemporaneous Democracy in America (1835; trans. 1835–40), [Martineau’s Society in America] be regarded as.....
Chicago: Meyer & Brother, 1893. First edition. With frontisportrait and twenty-five full-page engravings. Binding is bright and attractive despite some wear to extremities. Toning to versos of flyleaves and some marginal toning, as usual. Twentieth century bookplate to front pastedown. A very good or better copy of this important autobiography.....
[Salem, Oregon: Statesman Publishing Co.,], 1922. First editi9on. The present collection of letters and testimonials was assembled by Dr. Bethenia Angelia Owens-Adair (1840 – 1926) to commemorate her eighty-second birthday and the recent publication of her memoir. An important testimonial describes Owens-Adair as “a remarkable woman…she was responsible for the.....
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Philadelphia: Instructo Products Co., 1966. First edition. Box (9 x 11 x 3 in.) enclosing forty-nine (of fifty-two) die-cut, color-printed board figures. With a 2-pp. teacher’s instruction sheet on color-printed Instructo Products Co. letterhead and plastic stands for the figures. The figures include backgrounds of home interiors, family members, pets.....
Chicago: Cut Craft Cut Outs, American Colortype Co., [ca. 1920]. First edition. This is one in a series of four “One Room” kits (the other rooms shown on the envelope are a dining room, bedroom, and kitchen). All richly printed in color. The larger leaf is a rug and the.....
[ New York: Parenthood League, 1919 ]. First edition This treatise on the morality of birth control debunks myths and responds to anti-contraception arguments. The pamphlet discusses high infant death rates in impoverished populations with insufficient access to birth control, religions opposition to birth control, and the importance of scientists.....
New York: The Success Company, 1897. First edition. With a frontisportrait of Willard and seventy-five illustrations, most full-page, including numerous portraits of important women like Maria Mitchell, Margaret E. Sangster, Lady Isabella Somerset, and Alice Stone Blackwell. Spine sunned. Some rubbing and soiling to cloth. Some predation to front endpapers.....
Buffalo, New York: Dr. J.H. Dye Medical Institute, [ca. 1900]. First edition. The present work advertises the Mitchella Compound, an herbal remedy produced by patent medicine manufacturer J.H. Dye, that was purported to ease pain during pregnancy. Customer testimonials were essential to the sales of patent medicine—without the support of.....
New York: The Platt and Munk Co., 1931. First edition.This seems to be one of the earliest Platt and Munk children’s book catalogues. OCLC locates no copies, and we could not locate any other copies of the 1931 catalogue in the trade at this time (September 2022). Illustrated in black.....
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1923. First American edition, signed by the author. The first English edition was published by Putnam's the previous year. Some wear to joints and extremities, back cover slightly soiled. Partially unopened. Tear to fore-edge of advertisement leaf, not touching text. A very good, clean copy.....
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1853;. First edition. Some rubbing to corners. Contemporary ink signature to top margin of title-page. Foxing. A very good, tight copy. Publisher’s blindstamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine. Twelvemo. 310 pp. Eliza Leslie (1787 – 1858) was a prolific author of cookbooks, novels, etiquette books.....
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1880. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine and some faint soiling to cloth. Some marginal toning. A very good copy. Publisher’s brown cloth titled in gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Octavo. 363, [5, ads] pp.....
Chicago: The Stein Co., 1902. First edition. Guide to women’s health with chapters on hygiene, obstetrics, sex, menstruation, and other health topics, as well as childcare and early childhood education. A lengthy and thoroughly illustrated section focuses on the kindergarten and Friedrich Froebel (pp. 328-370). With frontisportrait of the author.....
Llondon: Allman & Son, Limited, [ 1912 ]. First edition. Some foxing inside. A very good copy of a scarce item. Original green paper wrappers titled in black. 12 x 7 in. 12 pp. A guide for girls on puberty and the changing gender expectations of girls during puberty and.....
Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son, [n.d., ca. 1899]. Third edition, revised. OCLC records only one copy of any edition (1899, at NYPL). It is unclear when the first edition was published. Twenty-seven full-page diagrams (twenty-three in color) and seven half-page diagrams (three in color) illustrating paper-folding projects. Clean and bright.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, [1878]. First edition of one of the first titles in the Harry & Nelly Marlow series of educational books for children on astronomy, botany, philosophy, history, and more. Another early title in the series was Eyes Right by Adam Stwin (pseudonym of James Richardson), which.....
[New York: The American Social Hygiene Association,], 1941. First edition under this title. The content of the work was first published under the title Sex Problems and Advice from the Private Papers of Mrs. Jardine McCree in 1938. Vignettes, diagrams of reproductive organs, and photo reproductions throughout. Some toning to.....
Akron, [Ohio]: Saalfield Pub. Co., [ 1933 ]. First edition. A paper doll kit that children could assemble into a grocery store scene. The cut-out bills (with various monetary values) could be used to practice math, budgeting, and buying. Every leaf printed in full color on one side with paper.....
Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A.,Antiquariat; München: Robert Wölfle, Antiquariat; Olten: Weiss-Hesse, Antiquariat, 1968. One of 200 sets. According to the colophon in the text volume, 100 of the copies were in German and 100 were in English, though a search of OCLC mentions only German language copies and reports six in.....
