[Seattle:]: The Windowpane Press, 2014. No limitation given, probably one of about a hundred copies. Designed and produced in a class taught by Bonnie Thompson Norman in collaboration with Dawn Hobson, Margaret Johnson, Ben Melhuish, and Caroline Williams. Each of the six panels forming the cube is printed on both.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1938]. First edition, second printing, of this memoir by journalist, author, and pioneering radio reporter Irene Corbally Kuhn (1898 – 1995). Kuhn tells the story of her international reporting career, from Paris and London to Shanghai and Manila. Binding is bright and attractive. In the original color-printed dust jacket.....
Oakland: Mills College, 1016, First edition. Each of the ten sections (salads, vegetables, cakes, etc.) opens with a quote from a Shakespeare play, like “A morsel for a monarch” from Antony and Cleopatra for the entrees section. With a vignette of the Mills College clock tower facing title-page. The last.....
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.....
[ 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.....
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.....
[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.....
[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.....
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.....
[ 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.....
New York: Charles L. Webster. 1889. First American edition, published four days after the London (Chatto & Windus) edition. The Chatto & Windus edition was published as A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. Without the fly-title that is sometimes printed on p. [i]; both forms of the book.....
Paris: Chez P. Blanchard & Cie Libraires pour l'Educatn [sic], [n.d., 1818?]. Likely first edition. Though this is undated, the ads suggest a date of 1818. Engraved frontispiece, included in the pagination, engraved pictorial title-page, and four engraved plates. Some light shelfwear, two wormholes in spine and one in lower.....
Philadelphia: Fisher and Brother, [n.d., ca. 1850]. Later edition. First published by Truman, Smith and Co. in 1834. Later editions of the present work are often misdated as 1834 because of the copyright date on the verso of the title- page, but Ruth E. Adomeit gives a date range of.....
Wellington: Printed & sold by F. Houlston & Son, [n.d., circa 1817]. Sixth edition. The first edition was printed in London in 1772. All editions are scarce, with OCLC recording three copies or less of the first, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions (and no copies of the second, third or.....
