‎Femmes (les)‎

‎[THEATER -- POSTCARDS/WOMEN].‎

‎Album of 36 artistic colored post cards of popular actresses faithfully reproduced from original photographs. First Series. . . .‎

‎London: G.D. & D. ca. 1905. 4to. 6 leaves composed of 36 colour-tinted postcards w/ perforated edges. Green softcovers yapp edges gilt lettering on front cover & spine very minor shelfwear rust marks at spine from staples slight sunning to fore-edges still VG copy stapled as issued. Early edition of this very scarce and complete souvenir album of colour-tinted postcards of famed Edwardian actresses. Such actresses as a very young Billie Burke of Wizard of Oz fame in her breakout School Girl role 1905 Pauline Chase before she shot to stardom as Peter Pan from 1906-1913 as well as many others including Julia Neilson Zena Dare Doris Stocker Lettice Fairfax Sybil Arundale Gertie Miller Gaynor Rowlands just before her death in 1905 Evelyn Millard Sara Brooke Winifred Hare and many others. G.D. & D., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46855

‎[THEATRE -- CALIFORNIA/WOMEN]. IJAMS, Mattie [Martha Adelaide]‎

‎Ces diables de verbes par Mlle. Mattie Ijams English version by Ernestine Wollenberg. Girls’ High School Auditorium April 17th 1896.‎

‎San Francisco CA: Girls’ High School 1896. 8vo. 2 15 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art showing a devil dancing with girl in white and rear cover featuring beautifully rendered Victorian woman in red & black dress polk-a-dot umbrella reminiscent of Denslow signed E. Pitchford slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce theatre program for a satirical production about a California girl’s struggle to learn French featuring the delightful illustrations of fellow Girls’ High School students Emily H. Pitchford Hussey 1878-1956 whose artwork is reminiscent of W.W. Denslow and Ethel Frances Hanks 1878-1952. This wonderful 19th-century program also features ads vor City of Paris Dry Goods at G. Verdier & Co. Moss Gloves on Market and Newman & Levinson bathing suits for women on 209 Sutter St. Girls High School was founded in 1864 and by 1896 was located in a four-story red brick building at Geary O’Farrel & Scott nearly leveled in 1906 Fire & Earthquake. No copies located in Worldcat. Girls’ High School, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 55632

‎[THEATRE -- CARTER, Mrs Leslie (DUDLEY, Caroline Louise)/WOMEN], [BELASCO, David, BERTON, Pierre, & SIMON, Charles].‎

‎Mrs. Leslie Carter as Zaza: with a history of her stage career and the successful production of the play. . . ; Harlem Opera House. Last appearance here of Mrs. Leslie Carter as Zaza in David Belasco’s play Week commencing Monday Evening December 24. Theatre Program.‎

‎New York: David Belasco; Harlem Opera House 1899; 1901. Two pieces. 1st. Oblong folio. 16 pp unpaginated photo illustrations throughout red illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art and lettering in dark red yapp edges minor dustsoiling minor edgewear; 2nd -- 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. Illustrated ads printed on light pink-coloured paper minor dustsoiling couple minor closed tears edgewear still VG set. First editions thus of these scarce theatre programmes detailing the life and successful rising career of the actress often called “The American Sarah Bernhardt†who appeared in wildly successful The Heart of Maryland in 1898 the long running Zaza beginning in 1898 and later Madame du Barry afterwards. She was the Progressive Era’s great dramatic actress and would later star in silent films and vaudeville as well. Her film biography appeared in 1940 as the Warner Bros. film Lady with the Red Hair starring Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley and others. David Belasco; Harlem Opera House], paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 52060

‎[TRANSPORTATION & ADVERTISING/WOMEN AUTHORS]. EARLE, Alice Morse‎

‎Stage-coach and tavern days. . . .‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Co. 1900. Thick 8vo. xvi 2 449 1 pp. Title in red & black. Frontisp. numerous plates text illustrations photos. Pictorial light gray cloth illustrated & lettered in green front cover & spine t.e.g. minor darkening & scuffing to spine shelfwear minor soiling to covers very slight bumping to couple corners still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition of this well-illustrated work examining traveling by stage-coach and tavern life in Colonial America with examples drawn from Massachusetts Rhode Island Maryland Connecticut New York New Hampshire and other colonies. Ms. Earle addresses typical tavern food accommodations and their issues drinking Puritanism attitudes over taverns and also examines the development of packhorses Conestoga Wagon stage-coaches and other wagons in America. She concludes with fascinating chapter on Tavern ghosts. The Macmillan Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 60009

‎[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. PECK, Annie S[mith].‎

‎A search for the apex of America. High mountain climbing in Peru and Bolivia including the conquest of Huascaran with some observations on the country and people below. With numerous illustrations.‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1911. Thick 8vo. xviii 370 pp. Frontisp. photo 1 large folding map numerous photo illustration. Illustrated gray cloth w/ image of mountain & glaciers on front cover outlined in gilt & white gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor rubbing shelfwear ex-lib markings on spine rear endpapers small stamp on title still a G copy. First edition of this compelling memoir by the first person to scale Peru’s Mount Huascaran after 4 years and 5 attempts. At the time because of previously inaccurate measurements she believed that she had climbed the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and broken the world’s altitude record for women and men. Peck 1850-1935 noted mountain climber adventurer and suffragette first climbed Mount Shasta in 1888 ascended the Matterhorn in 1895 peaks in Mexico founded the American Alpine Club and even raised a Votes for Women pennant on Peru’s Mount Coropuna in 1911 at the age of 61. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46844

‎[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. HOFFMAN, Ruth & Helen‎

‎Our Arabian nights. With illustrations by the author.‎

‎New York: Carrick & Evans Inc. 1940. 8vo. 307 1 pp. Illust. title numerous text illustrations. Beige-coloured cloth red black & white colour plate mounted front cover red black & white spine label minor shelfwear minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art by the Hoffmans minor chipping to couple corners minor scuffing couple closed tears price-clipped VG/G copy. First edition of this often-amusing and occasionally shocking memoir of the twin sisters lives in Baghdad Iraq where Ruth Hoffman’s husband was an engineer building railroads. They mixed with the Prime Minister native princes Royal Air Forde officers and bedouin chieftains including the harem and assembled a menagerie of birds cats a wild boar gazelles storks rabbits and peacocks. Carrick & Evans, Inc., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 60837

‎[TRAVEL -- WOMEN]. ABBOTT, Katharine M[ixer].‎

‎Twentieth Century trolley trips: Boston the Blue Hills of Milton and Plymouth Lexington Concord Medford Lowell Marblehead Gloucester Newburyport Hampton Beach Dover Rochester N.H.‎

‎Boston MA: Charles B. Webster & Co. 1901. Oblong 12mo. 6 x 4 in. 128 pp. With photo illustrations text illustrations maps 1 large folding map in red & black at rear illustrated ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of young Progressive Era woman holding umbrella looking down upon her lodgings ads on back cover minor dustsoiling slight shelfwear still NF bright copy. First edition thus of this updated travel guide by Abbott 1865-1913 who wrote extensively on walking bicycle riding and traveling by trolley throughout Massachusetts and New England. She includes specific travel notes on the scenery and “places to see†as well as breezy notes on all the local areas a visitor would find when hopping on and off the trolley lines. Charles B. Webster & Co., paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62628

‎[Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala); Women of Trinity Guild]‎

‎The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Second Edition‎

‎Florence Ala: The Church 1931. Octavo 22.5 x 14.5 cm. x 151 xxix pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated Second Edition likely a corrected printing of the first edition. An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous with the same 151 pages. Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread Okra Gumbo Bishop Whipple Pudding Ambrosia Owendaw Asparagus Loaf Blackeye Peas Elder Blossom Wine Creole Pralines. But it would be misleading to truncate the story there for the Women of Trinity Guild could venture out as eagerly as their counterparts elsewhere from Almond Bisque and Lobster Canapes to Queen of Trifles and Banberry sic Tarts. Marginalia on page 110 comments on the Sponge Cake fine “…grand but a lot of workâ€. For more local color an advertisement on the rear of wrappers is for “Dowdy’s Pit Bar-B-Q Fish-Chili Lee Highway.†~ Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama’s northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama – Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa – Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. ~ Several pages splash-stained but text unobscured throughout. Stapled in blue wrappers titled in black; stained and faded but nonetheless intact. Good. A lengthy gift presentation handwritten in ink on page ix addressed to “a bride†as per page 48 with corresponding recommendations marking several recipes. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this second edition though one copy of the first edition and three copies of the revised third edition of 1943 are reported; none of these editions in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5467

‎[United Farm Women of Manitoba]; Josephine Gibson (editor), et al‎

‎Recipes Contributed by the Members of the United Farm Women of Manitoba Compiled by the Executive‎

‎Winnipeg Manitoba: Executive United Farm Women of Manitoba 1929. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 3 4-166 1; leaves 167-172 originally blank now filled with charming manuscript recipes. Small octavo 22 x 15 cm. Original lacquered cloth boards with teal lettering; printed index to rear pastedown. Front board detached; lacking initial six leaves; rear board present but tenderly attached; textblock remains sound. The group's "first cook book" it comprises a rich selection of recipes compiled by the women’s auxiliary of the United Farmers of Manitoba founded 1903 with each recipe attributed to its contributor and hometown. Sections include Bread Buns Biscuits and Muffins Cookies Pies Cakes Icing and Fillings Sandwich Fillings Puddings and Desserts Egg Dishes Cheese Dishes Soups Meat and Fish Vegetables Salads and Dressings Canning Jams Pickles and Candy. Richly illustrated with many period advertisements by a varierty of local provincial and national businesses and firms including an early advertisement for the Manitoba Telephone System farm implements cooking supplies e.g. Purity Flour home water systems and other period firms and products. Covers rubbed occasional light spotting to leaves but otherwise clean and legible; a delightful and rare artifact of rural women’s domestic and cooperative life. Overall fair. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/>¶ Bibliographical note: Elizabeth Driver records copies in four public repositories see Citation No. M57.1; see also Peel #5388. Executive, United Farm Women of Manitoba hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7564

‎[United Farm Women of Alberta]‎

‎Recipes Contributed by the Members of the United Farm Women of Alberta‎

‎Calgary: United Farm Women of Alberta 1946. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. pp. 240. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth. General scuffing corners bumped binding shaken adhesive stains to ffep; good. [United Farm Women of Alberta] hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0107124

‎[VAUDEVILLE -- SILENT FILMS/ WOMEN]. BRYAN [STREETER], Blanche‎

‎Blanche Bryan Leading Lady Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. Real Photo Postcard featuring 16 miniature images of Bryan with banner at lower fore-edge for the company.‎

‎Chicago IL & Santa Monica CA: Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter ca. 1915. One silver gelatin real photo postcard sepia-tinted AZO stamp box on verso bearing four triangles at corners point upwards carefully trimmed to 3.5 x 4.5 in. as advertising trade card slightly over-exposed minor dustsoiling still very bright image from the collection of Blanche Bryan Streeter. This promotional sample RPPC advertising the talents of the Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. prima donna with miniature “head-shot†photos tracing her career from Vaudeville ingenue to successful singer along the circuit. Bryan 1879-1976 starred and promoted with her husband Morrill Streeter 1866-1948 playing in productions across the Midwest Oklahoma and Southwest. She starred in three silent movies in 1915 including The Man in the Attic The Sons of Satan and His Vindication. Their “Land of Joy Girls†ran in 1917 for months and were noted for their magnificent costumes & scenery from the Rose Company of Chicago. The pair were also well known at the time for their 1923 automobile vaudeville tour “Plugging Expedition†through Illinois Missouri Colorado Texas New Mexico and California featuring well-appointed automobile and trailer with camping equipment and supplies. Streeter-Bryan Stock Co., Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59794

‎[VOTES FOR WOMEN].‎

‎THE STATUTES OF NEW ZEALAND:‎

‎<b>FIRST EDITION.</b> <i>4to pp. viii 539 1 blank; light foxing to title and a few minor spots in places but otherwise clean throughout;</i><br /><br />in contemporary cloth spine lettered in gilt expertly recased spine and boards rather sunned back board creased along centre; with the contemporary ownership stamps of 'Hampden Borough Council' at head of title and front free endpaper; a very good copy of this important document.<br /><br />In spite of it's dour title and rather dry subject matter this is a significant work indeed a landmark publication in the history of 'votes for women': The Statutes of New Zealand fourth session of the eleventh parliament 1893 contains the first printed acknowledgement of a woman's right to vote.<br /><br />On 19 September 1893 the governor Lord Glasgow signed a new Electoral Act into law. This is found in the present work as Act 18 'An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to the qualification and registration of electors and the conduct of elections of members of the house of representatives' p. 35 in which it is noted that where the context of "person" is stated this 'includes woman' p. 37. As a result of this landmark legislation New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. <br /><br />'The suffrage campaign in New Zealand began as a far-flung branch of a broad late-19th-century movement for women's rights that spread through Britain and its colonies the United States and northern Europe. This movement was shaped by two main themes: equal political rights for women and a determination to use them for the moral reform of society through for example the prohibition of alcohol. <br /><br />New Zealand's pioneering suffragists were inspired both by the equal-rights arguments of philosopher John Stuart Mill and British feminists and by the missionary efforts of the American-based Women's Christian Temperance Union WCTU. A number of New Zealand's leading male politicians including John Hall Robert Stout Julius Vogel William Fox and John Balance supported women's suffrage. In 1878 1879 and 1887 bills or amendments extending the vote to women or at least female ratepayers only narrowly failed to pass in Parliament. <br /><br />Outside Parliament the movement gathered momentum from the mid-1880s especially following the establishment of a New Zealand WCTU in 1885. Skilfully led by Kate Sheppard WCTU campaigners organised a series of huge petitions to Parliament: in 1891 over 9000 signatures were gathered in 1892 almost 20000 and finally in 1893 nearly 32000 were obtained – representing almost a quarter of the adult European female population in New Zealand' see http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/brief-history. <br /><br />In most other democracies - notably Britain and the United States - women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. Not listed separately on OCLC but found amongst various sets of the Statutes recorded. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3210176

‎[WESTERN AMERICANA - WOMEN]. POWERS, Mary Rockwood‎

‎A woman’s overland journal to California. Edited with an introduction by W.B. Thorsen.‎

‎Fairfield WA: Ye Galleon Press 1985. 8vo. 73 3 pp. Decorated title in red & black frontisp. numerous text illustrations plates decorated initials colophon in red & black. Burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & printer’s armorial front cover gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Ye Galleon Press edition of this very scarce diary of coming over the Oregon Trail and California Trail in 1858 recounting the grueling experiences of Mary and Americus Power. Ye Galleon Press, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 50113

‎[WESTERN AMERICANA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. POE, Sophie‎

‎Buckboard days. Edited by Eugene Cunningham. Illustrated with many photographs from the famous Rose Collection of San Antonio. . . .‎

‎Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1936. Tall 8vo. 292 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Gray publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine illustrated map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by L.D. Cram slight chipping edgewear price-clipped still NF/VG copy from the library of Jack C. Best. First edition of this firsthand account of the thrilling experiences on our Southwestern frontier of John William Poe buffalo hunter United States Marshal sheriff rancher and banker by his wife Sophie Poe. She relates John Poe’s work as detective for the Canadian River Cattlemen trailing Billy the Kid and how as deputy sheriff under Pat Garrett he witnessed the killing of Billy in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom. Sophie Poe relates much of her life on the New Mexico frontier her experiences with old Roswell and John Chisum and more. See: Herd 1813 Six-Guns 778 Dykes 234. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64236

‎[WESTERN AMERICANA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. SANDOZ, Mar [Susette].‎

‎Old Jules. Illustrated.‎

‎London UK: Chapman and Hall 1937. 8vo. x 4 424 pp. Photo frontisp. 18 photo & facsmile illust. Three-quarter burgundy-coloured calf over marbled boards marbled endpapers Anchor Steamship Line anchor on spine gilt 3-stack insigna on cover raised bands gilt lettering on spine minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy. First British edition of Sandoz’s biography awarded The Atlantic Monthly nonfiction contest prize of $5000 detailing the life of her often brutal and eccentric father trapper farmer and hunter in the upper Niobrara County in western Nebraska. Chapman and Hall, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63944

‎[Women - Domestic Life - Race Relations] Author Unknown‎

‎Letter Describing a Lonely Holiday Spent Cooking Alone Cool Sulphurs Arkansas 1854‎

‎Arkansas 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds near fine. Fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “â€Alone†and laments her holiday spent alone. She writes:<br /> <br /> “Mother gave the D—--- free ticket and it was either work or starve so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking such as making cakes and nick knacks but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money.†She then elaborates on her loneliness stating: “It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe even for the mountains. One snow after another. “<br /> <br /> The letter is signed as “Lizzie†and we are unable to identify the author by last name. We believe her location to be in Arkansas despite not finding an exact match for the town Cool Sulphurs based on the provenance which included several other family papers from Arkansas. An interesting letter overall documenting a woman’s loneliness with insight into the domestic sphere of the time. <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Jennie<br /> <br /> I have just received Tesh's letter which I assure you was quite welcome enthroned in solitude as I am now. Mat and Saraph have been in Lexington for some time and I am all alone. <br /> <br /> I am alone the last light tread<br /> And laughs have died upon my ear; <br /> And I may weep unchecked - nor dread<br /> The scorn that forces back the tear.<br /> <br /> You see the blues have moved me to poetry. <br /> <br /> Oh! How much I would like to see you all. It is so terribly lonely here. I will give you an account of my Christmas Holidays. Mother gave the Darkies free ticket and it was either work or starve so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking such as making cakes and nick knacks but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money. I don't know what I would give for some of Aunt Cynthia's nice hot biscuits. We had a nice molasses stew and eggnog. Tesh did not give me a description of her holidays. Write me all about them. <br /> <br /> Well now I will interrogate you a while. <br /> <br /> Who is it Mr. Taylor visits so often you or Tesh<br /> Who are you traveling up to F- so often to see<br /> I will acknowledge the last is rather a straightforward question but you know I am interested. These and those visits to Cousin Addis excite the Green Eyed Monster. Mr. Jones who is he after Answer these in your next. I haven't seen hair nor hide of a man since I came home but once. There has been such a marrying about here lately that all the beaus that were presentable have disappeared. <br /> <br /> What has become of Pet Perry and Fannie married yet Tell Eliza to write and give me an account of the conquest she made in L- how Cora was dressed and everything. Mother intends commencing your apron as soon as Mat gets back from L as she was compelled to send there for the articles to work with. I am in hopes it will be pretty. <br /> <br /> It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe even for the mountains. One snow after another. Mat writes that the sleighing is fine in L. She has been attending several parties but they were dancing parties and I guess Saraph's conscientious scruples prevented her attending. Tell Tesh not to let anyone but Moses out. Give Aunt C a great deal of love also Uncle O. I would give anything in this world to see you all. Kiss Joe for me and Ned. Much love to Cousin Will. Tell him Mother intends writing to him in a few days. Tell Uncle Oscar Cook says he intends sending him a nice venison ham. He came in yesterday with a very nice fine deer on his shoulder. You never saw such a prouder creature. He is going to have the skin tanned to make us some gloves. He almost furnishes us with meat. It distresses me to see him leading such a roving life but he is yet young enough to enter College. Mother does not care about his graduating so soon. He studies very diligently at nights but I guess you are tired of home details so I will close with much love to all. Answer this soon and believe me ever your Dear Cousin <br /> <br /> Lizzie<br /> <br /> P.S. Give my love to Cousin Em when you write. Adieu. unknown‎

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‎[Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion‎

‎Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey as Well as Current Events 1838‎

‎Claremont 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. Fine. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont New Hampshire defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837 which apparently had been the subject of previous correspondence between the two. She makes an interesting reference to “female rights†which she says she does not support perhaps also in reference to an earlier conversation. She writes “Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We as individuals it is true felt the change and with others echoed the cry 'hard times' but still in comparison with many suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise we retrenched our expenses adopting this plain sentiment 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics however interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic I confess but being neither an advocate of female rights and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence I leave such like to father and Congress. “ <br /> <br /> The next section contains a detailed defense of the yankee character:â€And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you Cousin suppose us to be an antisocial class of people & in order to lead you to a different conclusion I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings is perhaps equally so; but may not this in the end result to mutual benefit if a friendship is longer in maturing will it not stand a longer & severer test and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater than those based upon supposed merit liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings though concealed by a cold exterior can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains' we have imbibed a free independent spirit both in thought & action.†She also discusses the prospect of visiting Newark and writes that it is perhaps more appealing in her imagination than in reality. <br /> <br /> Overall an interesting rumination on the culture of New England and a woman’s perception of life further south during the period. <br /> <br /> $300<br /> <br /> Full transcription follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Cousin <br /> <br /> The receipt of your kind letter was to me a new and fertile source of gratification. Crowding thoughts that stranger hearts might yet be endeared in the sweet influences of friendship that we though far separated might commune on themes of kindred interest and kindred feeling that I occupied a place in the memory and affections of one under the fond appellation Cousin combined to excite deep and lively emotions and brighten the pleasing visions of the future. As long-tried friends we cannot recall the thoughts and sports of our school-going days; the past is a blank in our acquaintance which memory regrets but for which the present will most cheerfully make amends. Natural impulses of feeling prompt me to lay aside reserve and must excuse me if I betray a spirit of egotism or selfishness by placing ourselves first in importance and write of present plans and expectations. <br /> <br /> Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We as individuals it is true felt the change and with others echoed the cry 'hard times' but still in comparison with many suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise we retrenched our expenses adopting this plain sentiment 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics however interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic I confess but being neither an advocate of female rights and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence I leave such like to father and Congress. In regard to our long contemplated visit I am allowed Hobson's choice or in other words may stay at home and be content. A dear Aunt in the last stages of consumption has required the close attention of my mother for the last four weeks; this with the advanced state of the season the numerous calls in my father's profession will render a journey for the present altogether impracticable. <br /> <br /> Of the general character of the society of your more favored region I have ever entertained the highest opinion. Where superior natural advantages exist we are accustomed to associate with them ideas of a people of a truly open-hearted warm and generous temperament & in so doing are seldom mistaken. Newark and its sister city has in imagination presented many attractions. The unrivalled beauty of the scenery of New York and its environs the works of art as well as nature a desire of novelty have contributed to form a very agreeable picture & make me ardently wish to partake of the hospitality and luxuries of your land; but those I must forego and persuade myself that the pleasures of anticipation are greater than those of participation until circumstances are favorable or I can show a more adventurous spirit than at present. <br /> <br /> And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you Cousin suppose us to be an antisocial class of people & in order to lead you to a different conclusion I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings is perhaps equally so; but may not this in the end result to mutual benefit if a friendship is longer in maturing will it not stand a longer & severer test and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater than those based upon supposed merit liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings though concealed by a cold exterior can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains' we have imbibed a free independent spirit both in thought & action. As to honesty little can be said; the venders of wooden nutmegs and pumpkin seeds have in this point injured us much. Pumpkin seeds reminds me of a partial promise of a "Pumpkin Pie'. Now I can pledge you in return not only a pie from one of the sweetest pumpkins of the valley of the Connecticut but the many good things that accompany it & which make it so grateful to the true Yankee. I would mention some of the peculiarities & delights of N.E. but my limits will not permit. <br /> <br /> Accept my warmest thanks for opening a correspondence & be assured that I will cheerfully very cheerfully contribute in my sober way as often as is agreeable to yo. Remember that a friendly letter from you will beguile the long evenings that are fast coming & receive the best wishes of us all. <br /> <br /> Affectionately Yours <br /> Marion Richards<br /> <br /> to <br /> <br /> Sarah C. Richards.<br /> <br /> Claremont Oct. 11th 1838. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : List2323

‎[WOMEN -- EDUCATION]. TEGETMEIER, W[illiam] B‎

‎A manual of domestic economy: with hints of domestic medicine and surgery prepared at the request of the Committee of the Home and Colonial School Society. . . .‎

‎London: Published for the Society at the Depository Gray’s Inn Road 1860. 12mo. viii 176 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Numerous text illustrations diagrams floor plans. Recent black cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine light uniform interior toning a few leaves w/ slight creasing still VG bright copy. Fifth edition revised & expanded of this compact manual on domestic economy designed as a succinct education tool for girls in Victorian Era training schools including descriptions on house design heating ventilation cleanliness cooking food & drink household finances and even managing livestock. Tegetmeier and the Committee possibly with influence from Florence Nightingale’s essay “Cassandra†1852 that women should be receiving far more training and information in medicine and surgery for possible future employment in nursing and other related fields. Tegetmeier 1816-1912 was a noted naturalist domestic animal breeder beekeeper and frequent correspondent with Charles Darwin receiving mention in both the groundbreaking Origin of Species as well as The Descent of Man on his studies and efforts in sexual selection and inheritance experiments through the 1860’s. Worldcat locates 3 copies British Library DLC NLM; See: Veak Exploring Darwin’s Correspondence: Some Important but Lesser Known Correspondents and Projects 2003; Sayaka Nakagomi English Middle-Class Girls’ High Schools and ‘Domestic Subjects’ 1871-1914 2016; Amanda Serpi The Education of Women in the Victorian Era 2024. Published for the Society, at the Depository, Gray’s Inn Road, hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- ICE SKATING PHOTO ARCHIVE]. [MUNSTER BLOW, Sharlee Janet].‎

‎A sensational archive documenting the exceptional career of a Flushing NY professional ice skater during World War II and afterwards encompassing 300 silver gelatin photographs studio photos over 100 clippings ice show theatre programs and other ephemera. She performed and starred with Sonja Henie’s Rockefeller Center ice shows as well as 100s of ice shows from 1941 through 1948 on and off Broadway often appearing twice a night at the Iridium Room at the St. Regis or The Bowman Room at the Biltmore. The photographs clippings and documents reveal she was not only an excellent ice skater but also professional fencer skier and by the age of 20 had earned her pilot’s license with the intent to become a charter pilot after the War.‎

‎Flushing NY & Beverly Hills CA: Sharlee Janet Munster Blow Raymond Blow 42-20 Kissena Blvd.; 9168 Beverly Blvd. 1941-1968. Two vols. Thick 4to. 163 mylar sleeves with 300 silver gelatin photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 35 of the photographs are signed or dedicated either to Sharlee or Ray many have photographer’s stamp on versos or embossed photographer’s stamps some have lengthy explanatory location and/or identifying annotations on versos several are sleeved in nightclub portfolio sleeves 10 colour transparency slides & 20 snapshot negatives in photo lab sleeves over 100 newspaper clippings magazine clippings articles printed certificates brochures theatre programs etc. Recent 3-ring binders with stamping on front covers. This amazing photo and ephemera archive offers an invaluable visual record of a young Flushing NY ice skater performing at Rockefeller Center with Sonja Henie’s ice shows off-Broadway cabaret and night club venue during World War II and post-War New York. Munster 1924-2016 was one of the thousands of young girls inspired to become professional ice skaters by Sonia Henie’s ice skating movies ice shows glittering costumes and production numbers. By 1941 Munster was appearing in “It Happens on Ice†which ran for 386 performances and included such ice skating performers as Dorothy Allan Jo Ann Dean Paul Castle Edwina Blades and Mary Jane Yeo. Photos in the archive show her early practice sessions as a teenager in Flushing Queens NY signed photos from Betty Atkinson Paul Castle and other stars who appeared in the production along with newspaper clippings and program. Within two years she was appearing in the Iridium Room Ice Shows which were twice nightly affairs and designed for before & after Broadway shows featuring a 20 foot square ice rink and often elaborate sets. She would perform in the “Newfangles†Ice Show at the Terrace Room alongside Carol Lynne Rudy Richards Dorothy Lewis Bob & Peggy White; “Ice Capers†at The Bowman Room in 1944 at the Biltmore Hotel; the “Circus Haze Ice Review†at the Hotel Roosevelt; and finally the long running “Hats Off to Ice†which ran for 889 performances from 1944 through 1946 and was Henie’s most popular show also represented in this collection by the souvenir Center Theatre Orchestra Seat Stub for the first performance in June 1944. The Iridium Room and other New York supper club ice shows featured live music during and after the war often featuring Freddie Miller Cab Calloway -- represented here in the archive with a signed photo showing Cab and his band dedicated to Sharlee The Harmonicats -- another signed photo all signed by the trio Gus Martel and others thriving through 1947. After a cabaret tax was imposed by the city on the supper clubs offering live entertainment hotels across New York eliminated the very popular ice skating shows. Of additional interest are the many production photos showing performance practices publicity shots while dressed in elaborate costumes the chorus lines of male and female ice skaters and the tremendous stage backdrops for such productions as Hats on Ice. Some of the photos show Sharlee Munster and her future husband Ray Blow in skates in costume along with many of their costars in these large productions. Sharlee had tremendous drive and in addition to her passion for skating and performing was inspired to become a pilot and at 18 years old began flying lessons 2-3 times a week weather permitting often working around her show and social schedule. There are photos of her at the Bendix airfield her standing beside a Piper J-3 Cub in which she had purchased a half-interest and successfully completed her first solo flight at Lime Ridge Airport in Poughquag NY August 11 1944 with Norman Sylvia as her flight instructor. She joined the Women Fliers Club and began studying and taking the tests for a commercial pilot’s rating intending to become a charter pilot after the War. Following the closing of most of the ice shows in New York Sharlee and her cousin Ray Munster became ski instructors fencing instructors and performed in ice shows at at the famed Concord Resort Hotel in the Borscht Belt part of the Catskills. In January 1948 she marries one of her fellow skaters Raymond Kenneth Blow 1924-1992 who had also appeared in many of Sonja Henie’s productions at Rockefeller Center as well as the Roxy Theatre and as a couple continued living in the family apartment on Kissena Blvd. through 1950 while Ray performed. By 1952 the young couple and their son Greg had moved to an apartment in Beverly Hills CA with photos showing the family frolicking and fishing at the California beaches visiting Palm Desert in 105 degree heat the opening of Disneyland and more. See: Laura Jacobs Sonja Henie’s Ice Age Vanity Fair Feb. 11 2014; Ryan Stevens Inside Edges in the Iridium Room Skate Guard The Ultimate Archive of Figure Skating’s Fascinating and Fabulous History July 2 2018. Sharlee Janet Munster Blow, Raymond Blow, 42-20 Kissena Blvd.; 9168 Beverly Blvd., unknown‎

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‎[WOMEN -- CREE INDIANS]. ANDERSON, William Ashley‎

‎Angel of Hudson Bay. The true story of Maud Watt.‎

‎Toronto & Vancouver Canada: Clarke Irwin & Co. Ltd. 1961. 8vo. 217 1 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight lean w/ d.j. cover art by Alexander Russo minor shelfwear price-clipped still VG/VG copy. First Canadian edition stated of this remarkable account of Maud Watt and her husband Jim who worked to preserve the livelihood of the Cree Indians in Hudson Bay at Fort Chimo and eventually became warden for the Hudson’s Bay Company at Rupert House. Clarke, Irwin & Co., Ltd., hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- AFRICA]. AKELEY, Mary L Jobe & Carl‎

‎Carl Akeley’s Africa: the account of the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. Foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn. . . .‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1929. 8vo. xix 1 321 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations & map endpapers by A.A. Jansson. Green pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of gorilla in black giraffe on spine gilt lettering slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art of gorilla in the jungle by Jansson 1890-1960 noted artist on the Akeley expedition best remembered for the diorama in the American Museum of Natural History very minor sunning to spine light edgewear slight creasing still NF/VG copy. First edition of this work largely written by Mary Jobe Akeley recounting the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to Africa in 1926. She has included here the long hunt for the 16-foot tall giraffe a family of 14 friendly lions in Tanganyika and the death of Carl Akeley 1864-1926 who sickened and died of fever on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo. Mary Jobe 1878-1966 completed the expedition mapped parts of the Belgian Congo Kenya and Tanzania finished collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History as well as plant specimens and hundreds of photographs. Mary Jobe is well remembered for her Camp Mystic founded in 1916 for girls aged 8 to 18 who promoted healthy experiences in camping boating swimming horseback riding dancing and field athletics and was even visited by such explorers and naturalists as Vilhjalmur Stefannson Martin & Osa Johnson and others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- SEX EDUCATION]. LOWRY, Dr E[dith] B[elle].‎

‎Herself: talks with women concerning themselves.‎

‎Chicago: Forbes & Co. 1917. 8vo. 221 ppp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads. Text illustrations & diagrams. Blue publisher’s cloth green lettering & decoration on front cover & spine minor soiling spotting slightly cocked minor sunning to spine still G copy. Revised edition of this uncommon work on sex education and medical instruction for women issued during the Progressive Era in order to provide the latest concise and necessary information to young women who typically received little education or medical information on their sexual organs bodies and potential dangers. Lowry 1878-1945 was a leader in health reform and served as Acting Chief for the Bureau of Hospitals for the Dept. of Health in World War I and in this work details the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases incest masturbation rape abortion inter-racial pregnancies and more. Forbes & Co., hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- AFRICA]. MILLER, Janet‎

‎Jungles preferred.‎

‎Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1931. 8vo. 8 320 2 pp. Photo frontisp. plates. Black cloth white lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of woman trekking into the Belgian Congo jungle minor chipping head of spine creasing & closed tear on back cover old tape repairs on verso still NF/G copy. First edition 2nd printing of this memoir detailing the efforts of this doctor to set up a bush hospital in the Belgian Congo in 1926 to research sleeping sickness at Minga Hospital near Wembo Nyama among the Batetela tribe remaining until 1931. Miller 1873-1958 had originally been placed by the Southern Methodist Church to Japan and then was the superintendent of the largest women’s hospital the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai China before being sent to Africa. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- AFRICA]. AKELEY, Mary L Jobe & Carl‎

‎Lions gorillas and their neighbors. . . .‎

‎New York NY: Dodd Mead & Co. 1932. 8vo. xviii 2 260 pp. Photo frontisp. 20 photo plates. Orange pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of lion in black silhouette black lettering front cover & spine illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. cover art of lions by Arthur A. Jansson 1890-1960 noted artist on the Akeley expedition best remembered for the diorama in the American Museum of Natural History minor chipping head of spine edgewear light rubbing still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this sequel to Adventures in the Africa Jungle largely written by Mary Jobe Akeley recounting the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to Africa in 1926-1927. Although listed prominently as co-author Carl Akeley 1864-1926 sickened and died of fever on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo and Mary Jobe 1878-1966 completed the expedition mapped parts of the Belgian Congo Kenya and Tanzania finished collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History as well as plant specimens and hundreds of photographs. She details her two months studying gorillas in the Congo pigmy tribes buffalo & lion hunting. Mary Jobe is well remembered for her Camp Mystic founded in 1916 for girls aged 8 to 18 who promoted healthy experiences in camping boating swimming horseback riding dancing and field athletics and was even visited by such explorers and naturalists as Vilhjalmur Stefannson Martin & Osa Johnson and others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover‎

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‎[WOMEN -- FRANCE]. POMPADOUR, [Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson], Marchioness of; [CREBILLON, Claude Prosper Jolyot de].‎

‎Memoirs of the . . . written by herself. Wherein are displayed the motives of the wars treaties of peace embassies and negotiations in the several courts of Europe. . . .‎

‎London: Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand and W. Johnston in Ludgate-Street 1766. Two vols. 12mo. xvi 2 267 1; 2 252 pp. Uniformly bound in full tan polished calf Bickers & Son Leicester Square raised bands gilt fleur-de-lis on spines gilt & green morocco spine labels gilt ruling & inner dentelles a.e.g. very slight small scuff spot back cover vol. II still a NF set from the library of William C. Laurence 1870-1945 and Louise Buermann Laurence 1878-1963 former owners and managers of the famed George B. Lawrence Co. Western Saddlery and supply company for leather and cowboy goods until the 1950’s with their Mount Hood bookplate on front pastedowns of both vols. First edition in English of these “Memoirs†or “Letters†originally published in Liege in 1766 and subsequently quickly translted into English two years after the death of the famed mistress of Louis XV and powerful Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson Marquise de Pompadour. According to Joseph-Marie Querard these Memoirs consisting of a set of fictitious letters were most likely actually written by Crebillon 1707-1777 whose father had been elevated from poverty by Pompadour while detailing the descriptions of “the cabals and intrigues of courtiers; the characters of generals and ministers of state with the causes of their rise and fall; and in general the most remarkable occurrences at the court of France during the last twenty years of the Reign of Louis XV.†Pompadour protected both Voltaire and Montesqieu encouraged Diderot and d’Alembert in their efforts and was a noted political force in not only contributing to the circumstances leading to the Seven Years War but also suppression of the Jesuits in France. Printed for P. Vaillant, in the Strand, and W. Johnston in Ludgate-Street, hardcover‎

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