![Riding for Ladies. The Common Sense of Riding. With hints on the stable. Illustrated by A[lfred]...](/pictures/thumb/16857.jpeg?v=1601587982)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. The present edition is uncommon with only eight copies on OCLC (seven in the Northeast and one in Ohio). With frontispiece of the author, 13 plates, and 55 illustrations (most half-page). Pages 346 to.....
London: John Murray, 1849. First Milman/Jones edition. Eight chromolithographed pages by Owen Jones, each with a tissue guard; hundreds of woodcuts (statues, bas-reliefs, coins, gems, people, etc.) by George Scharf, Jun.; initial letters. Title page printed in black and red. A bit of wear to joints, but sound. Small stains.....
London: c. 1895-`1901. Twenty items including lecture announcements, business and greeting cards, tracts, a convention coupon book, a letter with an envelope, and more. Ten items relate to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in America and ten relate to the British Women’s Temperance Association and the World’s Woman’s Christian.....
![Peep show. Garden Party Scene with Fountain ]. Presentation eines schonen Spasiergang met...](/pictures/thumb/16853.jpeg?v=1601586590)
Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, [c. 1750 ]. First edition. 6 panels, 5 in. x 3 in. Each panel richly hand-colored to produce a scene of people strolling around a large fountain topped with a bronze statue. First five panels cut out to reveal the following card; last panel is whole to.....
![Broadside]. A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” [and] “A Bad Case of the Jitters.”...](/pictures/thumb/16852.jpeg?v=1601587262)
[ Los Angeles: 1982]. With an illustration (8” x 7”) of a danse macabre (with skeletons labeled Sales, Service, Costs, and Charts) on Gutenberg’s grave above the poem “A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” by John Henry Nash. Also, with anecdote, “A Bad Case of the Jitters,” by.....
![Nursery Rhymes for Healthy Habits Posters..]. Mary S. Haviland, Fanny L. Warren](/pictures/thumb/16851.jpeg?v=1600557710)
New York: National Child Welfare Association, 1921 – 1922. First edition. The National Child Welfare Association published theset posters during the height of the Progressive Movement in America. They illustrate the importance of health eating and exercise for children, based on recent advances in health science and conveyed in familiar.....
![Healthy Habits Posters ]. Mary S. Haviland, Fanny L. Warren](/pictures/thumb/16850c.jpeg?v=1600557710)
New York: National Child Welfare Association, 1923. First edition. The National Child Welfare Association published the present posters during the height of the Progressive Movement in America. They illustrate the importance of health eating for children, based on recent innovations in nutrition science, and would have been used as teaching.....
![Athletic Handbook…1936 – 1937. [Compiled by the] Women’s Athletic Rules and Editorial...](/pictures/thumb/16849.jpg?v=1600556286)
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, [1936]. First edition. Handbooks were released by the American Physical Education Association annually from about 1923 to the late 1930s. The handbooks circulated the quickly evolving rules for women’s sports. The present edition includes expanded sections on track and volleyball. All editions of the.....
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1910. One of 350 copies, of which 250 were for sale. Photogravure frontisportrait, three other photogravure plates, and two original etchings, one by R.W. Macbeth and one by Frederick Goulding. Four additional engravings in text. Spine a bit soiled, contemporary bookplate on front free endpaper. A very.....
London: Macmillan, 1868. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Intermittent light foxing and minor marginal tear on p. 96. First few gatherings have been re-inserted. Contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. A very good copy and an example of a vulnerable deluxe trade binding that has remarkably survived. Publisher's brown morocco. Front.....
Chicago: Published by Way & Williams, 1897. First edition.Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty, 1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels. She wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899). Initially, her stories were published in a variety of magazines (Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine.....
Edward Moxon , 1847. First edition of one of Tennyson’s best-known works, with such famous lyrics as “Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white,” and “Tears, idle tears.” This is also a work with themes of gender, with the heroine envisioning a future in which “The man [may] be.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition of Lynch's scarce first book. Engraved title, and nine engraved plates, additional vignettes in text. Occasional light foxing, some old pencil on back endpapers, but a remarkably fine, bright copy, in what appears to be a gift binding. Original royal blue cloth.....
Glasgow: Printed by Robert Urie, 1752. First Glasgow edition and the first printing of any of Jonson’s works in Scotland. Robert Urie was going to publish and sell the plays separately, but soon had them bound together and likely exported, given that there are more copies located outside of the.....
London: Strahan and Company, Publishers, 1869. First edition. 64 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Hinges neatly strengthened. Binding extremities rubbed. Head and tail of spines lightly frayed. Front cover of volume II slightly bumped. Endpapers of both volumes foxed. Light intermittent foxing. A good, bright copy. Green sand-grained cloth. Covers ruled.....
![Works]. Fairy Tales; Story Book; Wonderful Tales from Denmark; Famous Stories; and The Danish...](/pictures/thumb/16837.jpg?v=1598726343)
New York: Allen Brothers, 1869. A collected American edition of Andersen’s works with prefaces to two of the volumes and a memoir by British writers Charles Boner and Mary Howitt. Two of the volumes are dated 1869 with the others being undated. The binding title incorrectly refers to the tales.....
Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897. First edition of a novel that influenced Jack London’s own pre-historic fantasy novel, Before Adam (serialized in 1906-1907 in Everybody’s Magazine). Waterloo eventually accused London of plagiarism, though the latter denied the charges and insisted he was merely inspired by it. Map frontispiece. Title-page printed.....
Paris: Chez Treuttel et Würtz…de l'Imprimérie de Didot Jeune, 1803. First edition of a history of women in Biblical times, classical times, the Middle Ages and modern times that went through numerous editions in the next twenty years, with revisions by Barginet, Ratier, and most notably Charles Nodier, who added.....
Berlin: Chez Arnold Wever, 1786. An attractive Berlin edition of Leprince de Beaumont’s periodical for teenage girls, which first appeared in 1764. This edition is edited by C. Thiébault de Laveaux (1749-1827), who was professor of French at the University of Berlin. It includes engravings by Eberhard Siegfried Henne (1759-1828).....
New York:. First edition. Wear to head and tail of spine and extremities. Joints cracked but sound. Foxing throughout, most significantly to endpapers. Still a decent copy of an uncommon work by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, a scientific writer, leader in women’s educational reform, and the sister of Troy Female.....
New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1855. First edition. xi, [1, blank], 450, [6, ads]; vi, 437; [3], [1, blank], 478 pp. Bibliography and index. The ads in Vol. I are in BAL’s State B, no sequence determined. Light rubbing to corners, minor wear to spine extremities with a few.....
Provo, Utah: Tryst Press, 2001. One of 230 copies printed. Color engravings. Printed letterpress on handmade paper by Robert Buchert. A fine copy. Quarter purple silk over red paper-covered boards. Title in black on front cover. Octavo. [54] pp. This is a compilation of the poems of James Whitcomb Riley.....
Salem [Mass.]: Printed for the Author, 1853. With two illustrations printed on inside of wrappers. Uniform toning and some foxing to front cover. Lacking lower cover. Some toning to the first and last few leaves, and a bit of foxing, but otherwise clean throughout. Faint pencil signature on verso of.....
London: William Heeinemann, 1898. First U.K. edition. Though the author was British, this book was first published in America by Appleton in 1897. Edges lightly foxed, light shelfwear. Former owner's signature, dated March 15th 1908. A very good, bright copy. In a publisher's variant binding of dark blue cloth with.....
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Designed in England, Printed in Germany, [n.d., ca. 1895]. First printing? The present item was probably part of the Panorama Toy Booklets series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. The title-page indicates that it is “No. 25.” A set of twelve of the Panorama Toy.....
