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"Bunty" for Girls 2003
Dundee United Kingdom: D.C.Thomson & Co Ltd 2002. Hard Cover. Very Good . 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. D.C.Thomson & Co Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042548 ISBN : 0851168116 9780851168111
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Agenda des Grands Magasins du Printemps 1932
Paris: Printemps 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 516 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Green covers with a faux leather look; gilt spine title: Au Printemps 1932. Gilt decoration and an illustration of a bird on the front cover. All page edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers with a stylized bird and flower illustration in blue. For the customers of the Paris department store Printemps for 1932. Contains one page per day designed for financial records with columns for receipts and spending. Each month is followed by a page for a summary of the month's finances and a page with menus and recipes. There are also pages with information about Paris and its suburbs. Preceding that section are two detachable cards with "Au Printemps Paris" and an illustration printed on one side. Apparently a map and a guide to using that map have been removed from the back endpapers. In Very Good Condition: corners are rubbed; small scrape at lower corner of front cover; pages are browning but clean and tight; lacking map. <br/><br/> Printemps hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005509
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Annual Catalogue of the Packer Collegiate Institute: Joralemon Street between Clinton and Court Streets Brooklyn N.Y.
New York: Marion Press 1900. Hardcover. Very Good -. 94 p.: tables; 18 cm. Light blue cloth with dark blue stamped cover title: The Packer Collegiate Institute 1899-1900. Some pages are unopened. The Packer Collegiate Institute is a college preparatory school founded in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy. It has always been located at 170 Joralemon Street Brooklyn Heights New York City. This catalog lists the students enrolled in the 1899-1900 academic year as well as the faculty and trustees lists the classes and describes the school. In Very Good- Condition: both boards are faded along the edges; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. <br/><br/> Marion Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004922
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no. 291-295 vol. 47 Jan.-May 1840
New York: Jemima M. Mason 1840. Hardcover. Very Good -. 716 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red leather label in second compartment: "Blackwood's Magazine." Remains of small paper label at head of spine. Five issues bound together each with its title page. Front fixed endpaper bears the bookplate of the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College indicating that the volumes were acquired by the library in 1841; the bookplate is signed by librarian W. L. Spotswood. Blue oval stamp of Dickinson College Library below the bookplate. "Union Philosophical Society" written at head of first title page. Contents include reviews of Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau "Miss Martineau's genius is essentially feminine though its vigour and reach are those of a man" and of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik; and articles on the plagiarism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and China and the opium trade. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; lacking front free endpaper and pp. 689-690; light soiling and foxing; solid. <br/><br/> Jemima M. Mason hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007430
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Bunty for Girls 2003
London: D C Thomson. Good/No Jacket. 2002. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall 0-85116-811-6 . D C Thomson unknown
Bookseller reference : 010215 ISBN : 0851168116 9780851168111
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Charles Muehlhauser Estate Release of Dower 1915 to Jacob B. Kline
1915. Near Fine. 5 typescript leaves in blue folded cover stamped "May 17 1915." Charles Muehlhauser died intestate on Dec. 24 1874 leaving his widow Mary Muehlhauser and seven children. Mary Muehlhauser died on 3 April 1915 and by this document her remaining heirs released the dower righst to four tracts of land in Upper Salford Township Montgomery County Pa. to Jacob B. Kline. Signed on May 15 1915 by Hattie R. Reiff Allen G. Reiff William F. Dannehower William F. Muehlhauser Alfred F. Muehlhauser Morris F. Muehlhauser William D. Rowland Katharine H. Fox and T. Darl Buckwalter. Embossed stamp of Katherine H. Fox the notary public on the last leaf. In Near Fine Condition: very slightly soiled. <br/><br/> unknown
Bookseller reference : 001336
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Collins Girls' Annual
London: Collins. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. An exceptionally fine example. First story is 'Susan's school play' by Jane Shaw. Collins unknown
Bookseller reference : 000448
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Dancer by Hewett Lorri
3. EX - library copy with usual stickers stamps - TIGHT copy --> FAST SHIPPING!! unknown
Bookseller reference : 525459685 ISBN : 0525459685 9780525459682
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Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad Runyon Randolph and Davis William Albert
Very Good. Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky Date of Publication: 1996 Binding: hardcover with DJ Condition: Very Good Description: Black ink mark inside front cover otherwise like new. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26023 ISBN : 0813119669 9780813119663
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Eighteenth Annual Report of the Executive board and of the Ladies' Board of Managers of the Union Benevolent Association
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson printers 1849. Paperback. Very Good . 31 1 p.; 22 cm. Yellow wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it provides grants to projects to fight poverty. This report contains the constitution and by-laws of the Union Benevolent Association as well as detailed data about the people with whom the association had worked in the previous year. The male officers of the Association are listed; none of the members of the Ladies' Board of Managers are named although the majority of the report is theirs. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled; lower corner of front wrapper creased; lower corner of title page lightly soiled; minor damage at lower edge of back wrapper and final pages; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> Merrihew & Thompson, printers paperback
Bookseller reference : 006191
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Eliza Thornton
New York: American Tract Society 1848. Paperback. Very Good -. 16 p.: frontispiece and title vignette; 14 cm. Stitched paper wrapper printed in light red with front wrapper illustration and title within decorative frame. This is no. 31 of the American Tract Society's Series III. Publisher's address on title page: 150 Nassau St. No date of publication but the American Tract Society was first located at 150 Nassau St. New York in 1832. This copy was printed in the new typeface introduced in 1848. Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper slightly soiled; old faint dampstain in lower section of back wrapper and along gutter of last 8 leaves; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> American Tract Society paperback
Bookseller reference : 001235
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ELSIE BAILEY;
Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Soc. 1863 . Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. plates. 18mo �orig. brown cloth lacks fr. free endpaper <br/><br/>Not in LC or Osborne Mass. Sabbath School Soc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : DEMO009352I
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First Aid Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound pamphlet
Lynn Mass: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co 1930. Paperback. Near Fine. 32 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Stapled; wrappers printed in yellow and black with a front wrapper photograph of a girl in a nurse costume taking care of her patient collie signed: Anne Shriber. No date of publication but there is a reference to the number of bottle sold in 1929. The hair and clothing styles are circa 1930. This booklet combines useful first aid information with advertising and testimonials for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound available in liquid and chocolate-coated tablets. In Near Fine Condition: starting to separate at tail of spine; pages are browning; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co paperback
Bookseller reference : 005297
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Folie Bergere: M. Paul Derval a le Plaisir de vous presenter Ah! Quelle Folie: Superspectacle en 2 Actes et 40 Tableaux de Michel Gyarmathy
Paris: Folie Bergere 1958. Paperback. Good . 48 p.: illustrations some in color; 32 cm. Stapled dark brown velvet cover with gilt-stamped cover title and illustration. No date of publication; includes Micheline Roine who replaced Yvonne Menard in 1958. The choreography was by Georges Reich. Performers shown include: Frederic Rey Rita Cadillac Edith Georges Veronica Bell Alicia Marquez Nita Raya Micheline Roine and Leone Alex. In Good Condition: cover is rubbed; minor loss at ends of spine; several closed tears of 1 cm. or less from edge of cover; lacking lower corner of back cover; pages are clean and bright. <br/><br/> Folie Bergere paperback
Bookseller reference : 007441
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Forty Eight Current Short Stories: Adventure Romance Mystery
New York: Robert Edwards Co 1950. Paperback. Very Good -. 128 p.; 19 cm. Paperback; color illustration on front with map of continental United States on back. No date of publication but the superimposition of the title over the continental United States on the back suggests that the 48 stories were meant to correspond with the 48 states that existed prior to the admittance of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Several of the stories have World War Two-related subjects. Wrapper title: 48 Current Short Stories. Includes stories by Al Burns Hugo A. Vogt Frank Bennett Jim Fabick Virginia Bowes Evelyn Searnes Rita O'Brien Dwight M. Bannister Sheila John Daly Corey Ellis Harry Fielo Lea Sherman Elizabeth Yarnell Virginia Owen P.J. Kosmoff Fred Gould Hamilton Don Freeman Janet Matter Joseph Chadwick Edith Perry Freda Carson Robert T. Allen Mary A. Liang Helen Casebier Adelaide Kay Silvie C. Marchese Holbrook Seltzer Jonathan Barry Frances B. Keller Yetta Karney Earl Cattell Alice Jane Johnson Herbert Kackey and Helen Hannon. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled and rubbed; lower corner of front cover creased; a few page corners creased; pages are clean and tight. <br/><br/> Robert Edwards Co paperback
Bookseller reference : 003573
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Girl Scout Leader's Guide: Intermediate Program
New York: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. 1955. Near Fine. 8 278 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Grey cloth spine with grey and green paper over boards. Green spine and cover titles. Brown patterned endpapers. Former owner's name on half title page covered by a small label bearing the name of another former owner; same label also at head of title page. In Near Fine Condition: ends of spine and corners very lightly rubbed; signs of former ownership noted above; otherwise clean and bright. <br/><br/> Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001292
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Happy Hours: A Magazine for Children -- Vol. 3 no. 11 Sept. 1930
Salem Mass: A. N. Webb & Co 1930. Paperback. Good . 32 pages paginated: 321-351 1 p.: illustrations; 17 cm. Stapled illustrated wrapper; front wrapper printed in pink and blue. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Former owner's name at head of front wrapper: Miss. B. Krewson. Includes a story by Mary A. Nourse about a little girl in China who is saved from footbinding and illiteracy by American women missionaries. Advertisements on final page and both sides of back wrapper including one for a rolmonica a combination of a harmonica and a player piano mechanism. A very scarce children's publication. In Good Condition: wrapper is rubbed and soiled; light soiling throughout primarily in lower margins. <br/><br/> A. N. Webb & Co paperback
Bookseller reference : 006082
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Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage DuBois Professor Ellen Carol
Very Good. Publisher: Yale University Press 1997 hardcover with DJ : Very Good signed by author SIGNED BY AUTHOR sticker on front. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13615 ISBN : 0300065620 9780300065626
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Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Spring 1982 Number 6
Kansas City Mo: Helicon Nine 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 95 1 p.: illustrations record; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Feminine Experience by Katherine Hoffman -- Notes on a Morning Gory: Mary Lou Williams an appreciation by Terry Teachout -- The Architecture of Julia Morgan by Richard W. Longstreth -- Beauties Blooming in a Dung Heap: The Corsican Sisters by Marie and Robert Secor -- Our Surroundings Seen Slowly photographs by Fleur Weymouth -- My Sister in this House 2 scenes from the award-winning play by Wendy Kesselman -- Studio: Paintings by Lee Anne Miller -- Unearthing America's Past an interview with Barbara Liggett by Jane Mitchell -- Maria: A Renaissance in Pottery Maria Poveka Martinez by Susan McGreevey -- Living Poetry: Song for a Friend Muriel Kuyeyser by Dennis Bernstein -- Rukeyser Speech and Poems and Amy Beach's Theme and Variation for flute and string quartet Evatone Soundsheet record -- Mrs. H. H. A. Beach Composer by E. Lindsey Merrill. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; otherwise clean and tight; the record is still attached. <br/><br/> Helicon Nine paperback
Bookseller reference : 006412
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Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 11
Kansas City Mo: Helicon Nine 1984. Paperback. Very Good . 93 3 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: A Candle for Edna Millay by Robert Erwin -- Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Portrait poem by David Ray -- Three poems by Ruth Whiteman -- Alice Pole: A Renaissance Woman in Baroque Opera by Heather Jimenez -- Two Poems by Carolyne Wright -- The Gihon Art Collection -- Two poems by Alexis Khoury -- Three poems by Susan Wheeler -- Studio: Two Vermont Photographers: Ellen Foscue Johnson and Gisela Gamper The Tomato Plant by Ann Dunnington -- Hitchcock's Women by Kenneth Johnson -- Marie Bullock: Founder of the Academy of American Poets: an interview by Elizabeth Kray -- If Lenin Crosse the Street poem by Suzanne M. Levine -- Susana Thenon's distancias by Renata Treitel -- Five poems by Susana Thenon translation by Renata Treitel -- Selections from Susana Thenon's distancias a reading by the poet record. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; otherwise clean and tight; the record is still attached. <br/><br/> Helicon Nine paperback
Bookseller reference : 006414
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Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Numbers 12 & 13 Special Peace Issue
Kansas City Mo: Helicon Nine 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 178 6 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: The Black & White Legacy of K�the Kollwitz by Carol Jacobsen -- Flying in Your Own Food by Padma Perera -- Dreams & Rhubarb by Katherine Mansfield -- An Interview with Maxine Kumin by Enid Shomer & Sheffield Sanford -- -- The Natives by Karen Fowler -- Morning: The World in the Lake by Linda Hogan -- On Psychic Numbing by Helen Caldicott -- Nuclear Lullaby by Dennis Bernstein -- To Hold Just a Little Piece of the Sun by Annie Prutzman -- How I learned to Sweep and Second Chances by Julia Alvarez -- A Rebel for Peace by Connie Blitt -- Music for Peace by Mary Lou Williams -- Excerpts from Mary Lou's Mass by Mary Lou Williams record -- The Wounds of War by Joanna L. Stratton; photographs by Lotte Jacobi Margaret Bourke-White Julie Alane Simons Lee Frey; art by Philomene Nebbett Dorothy M. Woody Miriam Schapiro Miriam Brofsky by Ann Sperry Laurie Anderson Kristin Struebing-Beazley Helen Levitt Janet Kuemmerlein Elizabeth Layton Therese May; and poems by Muriel Rukeyser Edna St. Vincent Millay Maxine Kumin Barbara Gibbs Marie Luise Kaschnitz translated by Francis Golffing Joan Fishbein Laurel Speer Heather McHugh Carol Adler Lyn Lifshin Leslie Adrienne Miller Kathleen Spivack Marie De Le Welch Penelope Scambly Schott Kelly Cherry Layle Silbert Grace Paley Barbara Baldwin Mary Gilliland Ceci Miller Elizabeth Cohen and Debra Kaufman. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; otherwise clean and tight; the record is still attached. <br/><br/> Helicon Nine paperback
Bookseller reference : 006415
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Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 10
Kansas City Mo: Helicon Nine 1984. Paperback. Very Good . 91 5 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Homage to Jane Austen by Marianne Langner Zeitlin -- My Father Dying poem by Barbara Elovic -- Elizabeht "Grandma" Layton: A Drawer of Pictures by Lynn Bretz -- Six Poems by Doris Radin -- Adrienne Rich: The Evolution of a Poet by Wendy Martin -- Mombi by Judith Waring -- Four Poems by Martha McFerren -- Studio: Paintings by Frances Cohen Gillespie -- Poem by Juliet Chayat -- Two Poems by Fredda S. Pearlson -- The Poetry-Worm: A Portrait of Colette Inez by Dennis Bernstein -- A Colette Inez Sample and Waldseligkeit by Alma Mahler record -- The Murderous Marriage of Alma & Gustav Mahler by Jack Diether -- Two Poems by Patricia Beam -- To the Woman Who Sleeps through the Poetry Reading poem by Diane Glancy. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly rubbed; otherwise clean and tight; the record is still attached. <br/><br/> Helicon Nine paperback
Bookseller reference : 006413
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Holiday Stories for Girls
London: Hamlyn 1970. 1st. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Reg Gray. Hamlyn London 1970. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. . Gray Reg illustrator. First Edition. Book itself is clean apart from removed bookplate mark to inside of front board. A dozen stories aimed at girls. Authors include Robert Bateman James Stagg J.S. Storrie Arthur Catherall Clare Robinson Neil Rogers Ida Melbourne Frances Towers Peter Grey Jane Davis and two stories by Anne Wade. 359 pages. Hamlyn hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000254
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Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal Sigler Hollis
Fine. Publisher: Hudson Hills Press Date of Publication: 1999 Binding: hardcover with DJ Condition: As New/As New hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002534 ISBN : 1555951759 9781555951757
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IN MEMORIAM. JESSIE HARVEY ROBINSON 1868 - 1918
No place 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. portrait. 12mo grey cloth unpaginated. <br/><br/>Memorial services for this prominent Chicagoan and Presbyterian lady. Frontispiece portrait Facsimile of a holographic letter from Nancy F. McCormick : Ex libris Cyrus Hall McCormick II Nancy's husband. hardcover
Bookseller reference : DEMO015572I
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Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia
Boston Massachusetts: Warner Books Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0446577081 . Hardcover 206 pages in very good condition. Dustjacket very good 1 small wrinkle on top corner inside foldover of jacket. 1st edition 1st printing. Carmen Bin Ladiin chronicles her nine years of married life in a puritanical. male-dominated community where women are no more than house pets. The book is a diary style account of her struggle to cope with rules and strictures as suffocating as the desert climate.; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall . Warner Books Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000480 ISBN : 0446577081 9780446577083
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Japanese Postcard Album with Lacquered Cover and Hand-Colored Real Photo Postcards
Japan 1910. Hardcover. Very Good -. 15 x 20 cm. album containing 52 postcards 47 of them hand-colored. Black lacquer boards; front board illustrated with scene of a woman and a man painted in gilt and red. None of the postcards have been used and none have dates of publication. Some of the cards were produced by Tonboya in Yokohama; the firm was actively publishing hand-colored postcards from about 1910 to about 1930. The first postcard is a view of Mt. Fuji with a foreground illustration painted in gilt and black. The next two are portraits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken in black with a gilt emblem above each of their heads. The hand-colored views are of streets scenes temples and parks in Yohohama Kamakura Tokyo Kyoto Nara and Kamata; a number include geishas. There are two views of women in Yoshiwara. A complete list is available on request. In Very Good- Condition: front board is detached and is chipped along the lower edge and upper corners; color is bright on front board; postcards are clean and bright without chipping. <br/><br/> hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005262
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Ladies' Note Book and Calendar
Buffalo N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association 1903. Paperback. 1903. 32 p.: illustrations; 14 cm. White wrappers stapled along top edge. Front wrapper photo-illustration of a smiling woman in a big hat. Copyright date on front wrapper. Back wrapper woodcut illustration of the World's Dispensary building in Buffalo N.Y. Odd-numbered pages 1-15 contain calendar for Jan. 1904-April 1905 and memorandum space. The remainder of the pages and inside wrappers contain advertisements and testimonials for Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines--Dr. Pierce's cures for various maladies effecting women: Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Favorite Prescription Lotion Tablets Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories Mothers' Friend All-Healing Salve Anodyne Pile Ointment and Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed or Water-Pepper. In Near Fine Condition: staples starting to rust; lower right-hand corner of front wrapper slightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> World's Dispensary Medical Association paperback
Bookseller reference : 003231
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LadyBird Johnson: A White House Diary
NY: Dell 1971. 1st thus. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Unread and as new except for slightly skew. "an intimate glimpse of power in its private moments�part history part family album part self-portrait of an exceptional woman�" 893 indexed pages with 8-page photo insert. Dell paperback
Bookseller reference : 99P013
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Oct 21 2004. hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: Viking Press Date of Publication: 2004 Binding: hardcover with DJ Condition: Very Good. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 25477 ISBN : 0670033537 9780670033539
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Oct 21 2004. hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: Viking<br>Date of Publication: 2004<br>Binding: hardcover<br>Edition: <br>Condition: Very Good<br>Description: <br> hardcover
Bookseller reference : 009098 ISBN : 0670033537 9780670033539
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Mandy Annual 2003
London: D C Thomson. Good/No Jacket. 2002. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall 0-85116-812-4 . D C Thomson unknown
Bookseller reference : 009841 ISBN : 0851168124 9780851168128
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My Little Book About Jonah & the Whale
Publications International Ltd. 1992. Wraps have only light wear. Pages are clean text is unmarked. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Torrisi Gary. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Publications International, Ltd. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 328954 ISBN : 1561738077 9781561738076
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Executive board and of the Ladies' Board of Managers of the Union Benevolent Association
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson printers 1850. Paperback. Very Good. 32 p.; 23 cm. Green wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it provides grants to projects to fight poverty. This report contains a list of people who contributed to the Union Benevolent Association for the previous year with the amount given as well as detailed data about the people with whom the association had worked. The male officers of the Association are listed; none of the members of the Ladies' Board of Managers are named although the majority of the report is theirs. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled and creased; 3-cm. closed tear at upper corner of front wrapper; internally clean and tight. <br/><br/> Merrihew & Thompson, printers paperback
Bookseller reference : 006192
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Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life from Harpers Weekly; Illustrated by Hoppin
New York: Rudd & Carleton 1857. Hardcover. Good. 68 p. frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates included in page count; 18 cm. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Dark green endpapers. Bound in at the front a sheet with "Recent Publications" of the publisher printed on one side only. BAL 2228. Half title and title page are printed in red. Green bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper verso for E. S. R. Butler Wilmington Delware. A humorous poem about well-to-do women in antebellum New York City and their struggle to find the right thing to wear. In Good Condition: edges rubbed; loss at ends of spine; front hinge cracked; back fixed endpaper scraped; foxing and light soiling. <br/><br/> Rudd & Carleton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006340
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Practical Helps for Club Women: Compiled by the Good Citizenship Bureau of Woman's Home Companion
Springfield Ohio: Woman's Home Companion 1937. Near Fine. 4 p.; 22 cm. Pamphlet. Contains suggestions of biographies of women books "Dealing with Modern Opportunities for Women" and books "on the Woman-Movement." Also contains "the names of women whose achievements are worth studying" which includes women in the sciences social work literature and the arts and "Women Who Are Doing Interesting Things Today." No date of publication; the latest date in a list of relevant magazine articles is Feb. 1927. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: one horizontal crease; clean and bright. <br/><br/> Woman's Home Companion unknown
Bookseller reference : 007496
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years DiPrima Diane
Fine. Publisher: Viking Press Date of Publication: 2001 Binding: hardcover with DJ Condition: As New hardcover
Bookseller reference : 031079 ISBN : 0670851663 9780670851669
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Remembering Mrs. George W. Dixon 1874-1926
Chicago: Privately Printed 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 165 pages clothbacked boards <br/><br/>Marion Martin Dixon - and her husband George - vied for their abiliity to use their wealth for philanthropic purposes. Their successes are verified by the many many notes amd memoirs printed in these pages. The were hailed both in Chicago and at their summer home in Oconomowoc Wisconsin. Privately Printed hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0009477
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Richtlinien f�r die Leibeserziehung der M�dchen in Schulen; herausgegeben vom Reichsministerium f�r Wissenschaft Erziehung und Volksbildung
Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1941. Paperback. Very Good. 79 1 p. 4 large folded tables to be kept inside back wrapper: tables; 20 cm. Brown wrappers with black cover title. Four-digit number written in black at top edge of front wrapper. Circular stamp of Hochschule f�r Lehrerbildung Bayreuth on blank p. 6; each of the 4 tables is also stamped. "Instruction in physical education for girls in schools" written in red ink on title page. Bookplate inside front wrapper of Dr. Russell Sturzebecker 1916-2005 who was chairman of the Health and Physical Education Dept. at West Chester University. In Very Good Condition: minor loss of wrapper at spine ends; wrapper starting to separate from tail along back joint; wrapper slightly creased; creasing at some lower page corners; band meant to hold tables has separated at lower end; tables are present and intact; clean and tight. <br/><br/> Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung paperback
Bookseller reference : 003993
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Roses and Thorns of Paris and London: A Historic and Descriptive Review of the Virtues and Vices of the Two Greatest Cities of the Earth
New York: s.n. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good . 518 p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 27 cm. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; black and red spine and cover illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. No publication information other than the place. Copyright 1900 by C.R. Graham. Advice for Americans travelling to Paris and London by someone who thought they should really stay in the United States. "It is an undeniable fact that Europeans do not know how to live; they have no idea of luxuries and very little of comforts." p. 47 The anonymous author emphasizes the scandalous aspects of life in Paris as much as possible the can-can "consists of high kicking and lascivious posturing by depraved women.". Contains amusing descriptions of restaurants cafes and theaters; parks monuments cemeteries and catacombs; cultural and educational institutions; horse races and festivals; and street life with the types of people to be seen: students artists' models vendors socialists anarchists gamblers and criminals. In general the section on Paris presents the fascinating and slightly scandalous world first dramatised for the world in Puccini's La Boh�me. The section on London emphasizes the city's history and architecture. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed; cover is lightly soiled; slightly shaken; pages are clean and bright. <br/><br/> s.n. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003159
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Sisterhood of the Night Usry Becky
Fine. Publisher: New Horizon Press 1995 hardcover with DJ As New. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005286 ISBN : 0882821342 9780882821344
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The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature Science Art and Politics Volume 77 January - June 1896
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co 1896. Hardcover. Near Fine -. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt -- Pirate Gold in 3 parts by F. J. Stimson -- the first appearance of two works by Henry James: Glasses and The Old Things the latter appeared in book form in 1897 as The Spoils of Poynton -- The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent -- An Elegy by Louise Imogen Guiniey -- Two New Social Departures by John M. Ludlow about the foundation of the Industrial Union of Employers and Employed and the holding of the first International Cooperative Congress -- articles by G. Stanley Hall and F. W. Atkinson about the responses from 1189 teachers and superintendents to a questionnaire about public school teaching -- articles by Lafcadio Hearn: China and the Western World and A Trip to Kyoto -- A Son of the Revolution by Octave Thanet pseudonym of Alice French -- The first appearance of Pilgrim Station by Mary Hallock Foote retitled The Maid's Progress when it appeared in a collection of her stories later. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Near Fine- Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and tight. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007244
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The Deportation of Women and Girls from Lille; Translated textually from the Note addressed by the French Government to the Governments of Neutral Powers on the conduct of the German Authorities towards the population of the French Departments in the occupation of the enemy
New York: George H. Doran Co 1917. Hardcover. Very Good -. "With extracts from other documents annexed to the note relating to German branches of international law during 1914 1915 1916." 2 81 p.; 26 cm. Brown speckled paper over boards with title printed in black on spine and front cover. Bookplate of Washington County Historical Society on front fixed endpaper indicating that the book was given to the Society by Sir Gilbert Parker on Jan. 26 1917. Parker had headed Britain's propaganda efforts in the United States since 1914. Eight days after Parker gave this book to the Washington County Historical Society President Woodrow Wilson severed diplomatic ties with Germany and Parker resigned as head of propaganda in the United States feeling that his work was done. Shelf number in ink at head of front cover and front free endpaper. Additonal bookplate for Washington County Historical Society on back fixed endpaper. The documents reproduced here relate to Germany deporting over 20000 civilian women and teenagers from Lille and environs and making them into forced agricultural laborers in April 1916. In Very Good- Condition: spine is scraped; slight loss of paper at tail of spine; some fading on front cover; pages are clean and tight. <br/><br/> George H. Doran Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001674
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The Kingfisher Book of Great Girl Stories : A Treasury of Classics from Children's Literature
Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0753452073 . Beautiful glossy illustrated hardcover 160 pages in fine condition with near fine dustjacket 1 small repaired tear on jacket bottom. A treasury of classics from children's literature. Gathering together some of the best-loved stories and celebrated heroines of childhood All beautifully illustrated. A short introduction to each character as well as notes about the authors are included. To be loved and cherished by girls of all ages. Would make a great gift.; 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall . hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001933 ISBN : 0753452073 9780753452073
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The Legal Wrongs of Women in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol. 14 no. 71 May 1844
New York: J. & H. G. Langley 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 448-556 p. frontispiece engraved portrait of Morgan Lewis; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Bound with the issues for March and June 1840 and April 1842 all of which lack their frontispieces. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1842 by J. V. Follensbee. Joseph Vinton Follansbee Sappington Md. was a member of class of the 1846 but did not graduate. The May 1844 issue is of particular interest because it contains a poem by Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"; The Legal Wrongs of Women by an anonymous woman; and Female Novelists by W. A. Jones. It also includes book reviews of several works on the death penalty. The March 1840 issue contains an article about Bacon's Rebellion based on material in the first two volumes of Peter Force's Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin Settlement and Progress of the Colonies in North America. Lacking one or more frontispieces; otherwise in Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; occasional foxing; a few pencilled marginal notations; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> J. & H. G. Langley hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006255
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The Museum of Foreign Literature Science and Art Vol. 5 New Series May to Aug. 1838 Whole Number vol. 33 // Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine Oct. 16 1843 // Godey's Lady's Book May & April 1849 provenance: Charles Albright 1830-1880
Philadelphia: E. Littell & Co 1838. Hardcover. Good. Imprint includes: "And by G. & C. Carvill & Co. New York; Otis Broaders & Co. Boston; N. Hickman Baltimore." 5 450-68 1 306-448 p. 6 leaves of plates; 1 218-288 p. engraved frontispiece; 303-370 2 231-300 p. 16 leaves of plates including 2 hand-colored plates: in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules and red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Museum." In binder's error contains Aug. and July 1838 of The Museum of Foreign Literature Science and Art bound with Oct. 16 1843 of Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book for May and April 1849. The Museum includes biography travel poetry and parts of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens; Zicci by Edward Bulwer Lytton; and The Narrative of John Ward Gibson by Charles Whitehead as well as shorter works of fiction. Godey's contains fashion and architectural plates and music I Pray for Thee at Nightfall by Carl Linley and arranged for piano by W.J. Wetmore M.D.; Leaflets of Memory words by D.W. Belisle music by James Piper. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicates that the volume was given to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College by Charles Albright of Berks County Pa. Small oval label at head of spine with handwritten number. Charles Albright 1830-1880 attended Dickinson College; passed the bar in 1852; led a group of anti-slavery settlers to Kansas in 1854; was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention; was commissioned a major with the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in 1862; was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General in charge of the 202nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in 1865 which guarded the Manassas Gap railway in Virginia; and elected to Congress in 1872. In Good Condition: front board is attached only by cords; loss of leather at head of spine; light foxing throughout; otherwise clean; text block is solid. <br/><br/> E. Littell & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005967
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The New Moon: A People's Magazine June 1890 vol. 9 no. 8
Lowell Mass: New Moon Publishing Co 1890. Paperback. Good . 2 32 2 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown wrapper title and illustration. "For Old and Young" -- on front wrapper. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla on outside of back wrapper. Advertisements on first 2 and final unpaginated pages and inside of wrappers. Contains fiction including The Old Laird's "Honor" by Emma Bennett poetry observations on Massachusetts politics and advice. In Good Condition: front wrapper is soiled; vertical crease throughout; pages are clean and tight. <br/><br/> New Moon Publishing Co paperback
Bookseller reference : 006060
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The Standard Diary 1920 of woman in western Philadelphia suburbs training to be kindergarten teacher
Cambridge Mass: The Standard Diary Co 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. approx. 100 p.: illustrations; 10 cm. Brown-red cloth with gilt-stamped emblem with "Standard Diary No. 512" on front. All page edges gilt. Illustrated title page. First pages contain miscellaneous information tides interest holidays astrology etc. The remainder are ruled calendar pages for 1920 with three days per page. Filled in by a young woman who unfortunately did not fill in the identification page. Her birthday was June 21 and she probably lived in the western Philadelphia suburbs. She went out with Edwin Sweeten frequently; in Jan. 1920 she began giving music lessons; and her friend Anna Boyd died on May 16 1920. She saw a Dr. Ring regularly for several months; was training to be a kindergarten teacher lectures and observation noted; frequently went to Cynwyd to dance presumably Bala Cynwyd; and attended Chautauqua the last week in July 1920. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; "1920" written on front cover; used but intact. <br/><br/> The Standard Diary Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005492
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The Treasure Chest Almanac for 1931
Buffalo N.Y.: Dr. Pierce's Clinic 1930. Paperback. Very Good -. 32 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Stapled wrapper with continuous illustration of pirates in orange and black. Dr. Ray Vaughn Pierce 1840-1914 practiced medicine in Pennsylvania before moving in 1867 to Buffalo where he began producing patent medicines many containing opium. Not surprisingly he opposed the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Dr. Pierce's Clinic continued producing patent medicines after his death in 1914. This almanac consists primarily of advertisements and testimonials aimed at women emphasizing that good health is essential for beauty and happiness. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is partially separated along spine; a round hole at the head of the spine where the former owner hung it up; "Carmel" written on back wrapper; front wrapper is lightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Very scarce. <br/><br/> Dr. Pierce's Clinic paperback
Bookseller reference : 005466
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The Violet: A Christmas and New-Year's Gift or Birth-Day Present; 1837
Philadelphia: E.L. Carley and A. Hart 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 18-212 2 p. frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates; 16 cm. Original calf boards with embossed decoration on both boards. Possibly late 19th-century spine replacement with brown silk with star pattern. Modern recasing with the silk spine and repair of front hinge. All page edges gilt. Faxon 822. Contents: Introductory Dialogue by Eliza Leslie -- Louisa Simons by Caroline Gilman -- The Partners by Catherine E. Gooch -- The Sale of the Water-Lily by Hannah Flagg Gould -- The Eagle's Speech by Horatio E. Hale -- The Broken Arm by C.M.W. of Philadephia -- The Strawberry by Catherine E. Gooch -- The Happy Trio by Sarah J. Hale -- The Bird's Home by Hannah Flagg Gould -- Childhood's Joys by Horatio E. Hale -- The Willow the Poppy and the Violet by Lydia H. Sigourney -- The Phials by Eliza Leslie -- The Little White Cottage by Mrs. H. Bayley -- Violets by Emma C. Embury -- The Invitation by E.H. of Philadelphia -- Emma and Her Brothers by Eliza Leslie -- Left Foot Foremost by Catherine E. Gooch -- The Dove: A Drama translated by Eliza Leslie from the French of Madame de Genlis -- Viola by Eliza Leslie -- The Christmas Gifts by C.H.W. of Philadelphia -- The Children's Pic-Nic by Catherine E. Gooch. Louisa Simons; or The Advantages of Application by Caroline Gilman has pencilled editorial marks. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; occasional foxing and staining; some pencilled notations; otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> E.L. Carley and A. Hart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004125
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