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.....
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.....
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.....
[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.....
[[ Seattle: Wessel and Liebeman, 2008. Edition of sixty copies signed and numbered by Hodgson. These pamphlets were printed as a companion to Hodgson and Cohen’s The Temperamental Rose (Heavenly Monkey, 2007) for an exhibition of Hodgson’s art and publications organized by Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers in Seattle. Each with.....
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[Boston: Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1837]. Parts of this obituary first appeared in The Liberator (April 7, 1837) and The Reformer (April 1937). The version printed here, which includes additional writing from members of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, later appeared in the Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery.....
New York: James Eastburn and Co., 1817. First edition. Text foxed and toned, as usual. A very good copy. Rebound in early twentieth-century quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt spine. Recent endpapers. Twelvemo. 186 pp. Robert Charles Sands (1799-1832) was a New York-born poet, author, and the son of merchant.....
A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1784. First edition. 'Ces anecdotes sur la noblesse et la bourgeoisie montrent la. Hinges cracked, but sound. corners worn. Bottom corner torn off on p.p. 211-12 of Vol. I, touching a couple of letters, but with no loss. A......
London: Edward Arnold, 1924. First edition. With 8 plates from portrait photographs of Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Lytton, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and other important women’s suffrage figures. Fading to cloth at spine. Faded rectangular mark to cloth of front board, probably from a removed lending library label. Some toning to.....
Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1826. First American edition. Covers have light soiling, browning, and/or dampstaining. Spines of all three volumes chipped. Some hinges are starting or tender. Foxing throughout, as usual. Contemporary ink signatures on front free endpaper and half title of each volume. Light blue paper covered boards with.....
Amsterdam und Paris: Hochereau und Gogue, 1765. First edition, a work that explores the role of women in literature, philosophy, and religion from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Engraved title-page vignette. Binding extremities a bit worn, hinges cracked, but sound. Trivial scattered foxing, the occasional small stain, not affecting text.....
[ n.p.:]: [nd., ca. 1900]. With eleven paper-weaving samples in black and mint green (otherwise the album is blank). Buff paper leaves accordion bound with black cloth strips at edges. Some toning and offsetting, mostly from one sample onto a facing blank. A very good example of a Froebel Gift.....
[ Sherman Oaks, California:]: Ninja Press, 1999. ]. First edition. One of a small number of copies printed by Carolee Campbell at Ninja Press. Campbell’s note reads: “Dear Hugh — I hope this complementary keepsake finds you well in all ways. It all comes with a wish for a fine.....
Springfield, Mass. Milton Bradley Co., [1926]. First edition. A complete set of these color-printed paper dolls and blank paper dolls for children to cut out and color. There are sixteen dolls total: one girl and one boy to represent eight nationalities and cultures. The dolls are titled Children of Italy.....
Paris: Guillaumin et Ce, Libraires, 1865. Spine partially faded and a little scuffed. Some foxing to the acidic endpapers, but none internally. A very good copy. Contemporary leather over decorative boards, gilt spine. Octavo. . [4], 444 pp. The author, whose dates are not known to us, was the proprietor.....
Milano: Nella Stamperia di Antonio Agnelli, 1760. First edition of a rare treatise on marriage by the Italian priest Tommaso Campastri (d. 1778), published eleven years before his more famous work, La Donna qual si Vorrebbe. Engraved frontisportrait, engraved vignette on title-page, woodcut headband, initial letter, and tail-pieces. Covers a......
[Claremont, California:]: Scripps College Press, 2005. One of ninety-nine copies. Made by students Amelia Neptune, Kristin Knaebel, Sara Hoberman, Isla Falis, Marie Sophonapanich, Theodore Weber, and Jessica Duffett under the direction of Kitty Maryatt. Signed by the students and Maryatt on the colophon. Each booklet was designed by a student.....
[ Claremont, California: ]: Scripps College Press, 2001. One of seventy copies. This is the thirtieth collaborative book project directed by Kitty Maryatt for the book arts classes at the Scripps College Press. The student collaborators were Gretchen Lindsay, Catherine Templeton, Jillian Wallis, Candice Cetrone, Shannon Kelly, and Sarah Boyer.....
[Flansham, Bognor Regis: The Pear Tree Press, 1937]. Number 17 of a purported 100 copies. OCLC notes seven copies only worldwide: Columbia, Stanford, Boston Atheneum, Trinithy College Dublin, Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. 8 bifoliate leaves, printed on recotos only, comprising the half-title, frontispiece, title.....
