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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. The ad for the Dumpy Books for Children series in the present item notes nineteen titles so far, which date from 1897 to 1902. Twenty-one additional books were also published by Grant Richards and then, later, by Chatto & Windus and Sampson Low. The.....

London: John W. Parker... 1848. First edition of the leading textbook of economics in the English-speaking world for the best part of fifty years. Complete with the initial blank in the second volume. A very good, crisp copy. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt-ecorated spines with burgundy morocco labels.....