London: Henry J. Drane, [1909]. Original red cloth titled in gilt. Some soiling to front cover. Endpapers somewhat toned and foxed; otherwise, clean throughout. Contemporary pencil signature to half-title. A very good, tight copy of this scarce suffrage novel. First edition. Octavo. 258 pp. The suffrage movement empowered a new.....
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Akron, Ohio [and Mount Angel, Oregon:]: Saalfield Publishing Co., [1917-1921]. With forty-six mounted silver gelatin photos, plus letters (manuscript and typed) in envelopes, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, school report cards, theater programs, pressed flowers, business cards, and more. Fully annotated in manuscript with reminiscences, songs, poems, and lists of students.....
London: Gye & Balne, [1814], First edition. With three large folding tables of probabilties (on two plates) and tables throughout. Engraved title-page vignette. Clean throughout aside from some foxing to first and last few leaves and to plates. Creases on plates reinforced with document tape. Reference library stamp to verso.....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. First edition. Only two hundred copies were printed. Chromolithograph title-page and section title, plus fifty-three chromolithograph facsimile plates. Beautifully chromolithographed in more than twelve colors by W.R. Tymms from the original copies drawn by J.O. Westwood. Text by Westwood. Wear to calf; hinges tender. Marbled endpapers.....
. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. One of 175 copies. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol’s wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill’s Perpetua. A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Quarter black Oasis goatskin.....
London: Printed for the Author...at the Literary-Press, 1791. First edition/ A cosmography for children that includes ample illustrations of human anatomy, fashion and customs across the globe, scenes of exploration and travel, and scientific concepts. With wood engravings and elaborate tailpieces throughout. Engravings attributed to John Bewick (Oxford DNB). Some.....
New York: Grolier Cklub, 1995. One of 225 copies printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The first book in the new Grolier Fine Printing Series. This copy unnumbered. With a mounted frontisportrait of Keats and two other mounted plates (a facsimile of a Keats letter and a map.....
L[os Angeles:]: Historical Society of Southern California, June 1947. Five full-page illustrations including a collection of bookplates of early Los Angeles booksellers, portraits of booksellers, and a map of southern California. Spine rubbed. Blue marbled endpapers. With an issue of Hoja Volante (February 1995) laid in. A very good, clean.....
New York: Macillan, 1900. First edition. The present work explores a variety of career prospects for women, including running a boarding house, nursing, typewriting and stenography, working in retail, “hack writing,” editing, advertising, philanthropy, teaching, and more. Some dustsoiling to top edge and a few scuffs to back cover. Still.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First edition of the author’s first publication, which was drawn from the letters that Bray wrote to her mother and brother while on her honeymoon to France with her first husband. Twenty-two plates (including frontispiece), some beautifully hand colored. Plates.....
London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1832. First edition in English. In the preface, James Atkinson attributes the work to Kulsúm Naneh (or Kuls m Nah’Nah) and six other women, including “five matron law-givers.” That name may have been a pseudonym, as the work has also been attributed to.....
Los Angeles: Bruce McAllister, 1931. First edition, signed by Landacre in the colophon. One of five hundred copies. One of the most important and influential illustrated California books, this is generally considered to be Landacre’s masterpiece. The wood engravings include views of Berkeley, UCLA, Malibu, Big Sur, Indio, Point Mugu.....
Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1964. One of 139 copies, printed letterpress on handmade paper, in Romanée type. Hand-colored initial letters, and thirty-three woodcut illustrations from the original work by Caxton. Light spot on front of box. Otherwise a fine copy. Three sections of unsewn signatures in the French style, each.....
London: Printed for A. Millar.... 1766/. First edition. Some rubbing to boards. Ink ownership signature of an Elizabeth Marton to title-page of volume one, as well as an ink notation (probably by Marton) reading “By Miss Scott sister of Mrs. Montague.” Some foxing to leaves. Ink mark to front free.....
London: Bosworth & Harrison, 1856. First edition. A guide for wealthy women on how to cultivate friendly and trustworthy relationships with their servants. The author observes that experienced servants are hard to come by and encourages her readers to set an example of moderation and religious observance when dealing with.....
Warren, Ohio: National American Suffrage Association, [n.d., 1900-1910]. First edition of this tract that spotlights illiteracy among children and encourages women to become politically active to remedy the poor educational standards in the United States. Date inferred from the reference to 1900 census data in the text (but not 1910.....
[ Memphis: Memphis City Courthouse, ], February 25, 1854.]. Printed on one side and completed in manuscript. Some chipping to one edge and some toning. Document tape reinforcing a few folds on verso. A very good original document recording the legal history of slavery in the last years leading up.....
London: Published by the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, [1912]. First edition. Translated by Catherine Ursula Holmstedt, née Gittins. Light dustsoiling and toning to wrappers. With three contemporary materials laid in: an October 1912 letter (4 pp.) from a suffragist named Ailsa to her mother, which Ailsa sent along with the.....
Little Rock and St.Louis: WKKK, [n.d.,and1927]. Latest date shown in this collection is 1927. Some are undated. Sixteen pieces of ephemera: “Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan” (46 pp.), “The Code of the Flag” booklet (16 pp.), “Installation Ceremonies” ritual instruction booklet (16 pp.), “Musiklan”.....
[ London: ]: The Primrose Academy, 1998. One of 225 copies designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press for the Primrose Academy. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator. Fifty or so engravings (mostly of cats). Printed on Zerkall mold-made paper with text in black, light brown, and light.....
New York: Winchell M. French, 1862. First edition. Two dozen half-page and full-page illustrations throughout. Neat repairs to edges of boards. Some toning to margins and minor foxing to a few leaves. Yankton College Library ink stamp to top edge. Ink numerals to bottom edge of title-page. A very good.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Second edition. With a new preface by Shirreff in which she defends her strategy for the education of girls from the criticism that the recommended lessons (in Greek, Latin, arithmetic, history, and more) were too challenging for the average girl (pp. iii-v). The work.....
[Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: The Pear Tree Press, 1905]. Published in a small edition, though the exact number of copes is unknown. This is a presentation copy from the compiler. Title page printed in green and red; colophon printed in red. Illustrated with small green vignettes. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and.....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977. One of 253 copes printed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Fine Arts. With engraved title-page vignette and twelve other striking engravings by Barry Moser. Printed from hand-set Bembo type and Moser’s original wood blocks in Gutenberg.....
London: Printed by William and John Innys, 1718. First edition of this collection that compiles Ray’s letters on natural history, philology, chemistry, and more with figures including Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Henry Oldenburg, and Edward Lhywyd. Decorative headbands, tailpieces, initial letters, and two figures in text. Title-page attractively ruled in.....
