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[NURSING HOSPITAL ALBUM -- BELGIUM/WOMEN].
A nicely composed album with 22 excellent original silver gelatin photos documenting a Belgian nursing hospital nurses quarters training classes including with papier mache mannequin medical & surgical procedures and lectures in 1913 just before the outbreak of World War I.
Ghent Belgium: n.p. 1913. Oblong 8vo. 8 x 5.5 in. 46 pp unpaginated. on thick gray/brown paper stock. With 22 sepia-tinted silver gelatin photos mounted sized from 2 x 4.25 in. up to 3.25 x 4.25 in. most sized larger on the first half of the album w/ all protected with glassine tissue guards. Textured paper faux crocodile skin post-binder punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG exemplar w/ metallic gilt & green four-leaf clover label for “Charm Ghent Belgium†on front pastedown. This artistic photo album captures the changes in Belgian nursing practices during the years leading to World War I. The nursing staff is all neatly dressed in their white uniforms with the wards all featuring heating furnaces down the center aisles backed enamel and painted wicker furniture all easily cleaned freshly scrubbed floors and very apparent active participation between nurses and doctors with patients and training. All of the patient beds feature gantries above for possible lifting bedding neatly tucked-in and dressings being changed with light flowing into the rooms. One of the photos show a class of nurses training on a jointed papier-mache mannequin while others show nurses bedside with doctor checking a patient’s pulse operating in a surgical suite several patients being treated in the ophthalmology clinic as well as administering to children. This album reveals the substantial changes wrought by the Pastorian revolution on medical practices with emphasis on ventilation lighting hospital cleanliness seen as a force to offset possible spread of bacteria and germs through patients. These images were also taken contemporaneously with the impact of the reforms led by Edith Cavell and influence of British nursing practices. Cavell had by 1907 been appointed the matron of the newly established nursing school in Brussels Belgium which subsequently influenced the rest of the nursing programs and hospitals across the Netherlands and by 1911 had so advanced the respect of the nursing profession for women in Belgium she was a training nurse in three different hospitals 24 schools and even 13 primary schools. Tragically she was executed by the German Army Oct. 12 1915 after harboring and aiding to escape French & British soldiers. See: Valerie Leclercq & Veronique Deblon The Material Culture of Caring and Curing Medical Histories of Belgium Nov. 16 2021; Moya Peterson Medicine in the First World War Edith Cavell -- Nurse and Martyr Base Hospital #28 Univ. of Kansas School of Nursing 2023. n.p., unknown
Bookseller reference : 60737
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[OPERA -- PHOTOGRAPHS & POSTER ARCHIVE/WOMEN]. TALLEY, Marion Nevada.
This small archive of press photos studio photos travel images together with the large opening night colour lithograph poster document the early career of this young artist who in 1926 was the youngest prima donna to have made a debut at the Metropolitan Opera and would later star in one of the first Vitaphone sound films.
New York NY; Hollywood CA; Taos NM: Underwood & Underwood Anderson Lumiere Guard Vitaphone Studios Metropolitan Music Bureau 1924-1927. Twenty seven items. With 24 photographs 3 sized 3.5 x 5.5 in.; 6 sized 5 x 7.75 in.; 1 w/ colour-tinted blue sized 7.25 x 9.5 in.; 16 sized 8 x 10 in.; many w/ annotations dating the photos in pencil some of the press photos and studio photos stamped on versos with attached newsreel information blurbs many w/ text in negative at lower corner of image; 1 very large colour lithograph poster printed on linen showing the young opera star seated and colours of pink gold and black sized 40 x 80 in. w/ wood bars at upper & lower for hanging some minor creasing from rolling but in Fine condition; and TLS from Lawrence H. Smith at Underwood & Underwood Inc. News Picture Division to Miss Marion Talley. These photographs and giant lobby poster provide splendid artifacts for the lavish attention paid to a young star at the beginning of her career during the Jazz Age. The very large poster is a beautiful example of colour lithography showing her demurely seated against a pink lozenge background with advertisements at the foot of the poster for Steinway Piano and Victor Records. Marion Talley 1906-1983 was the daughter of a telegraph operator for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and by 15 she was appearing in the Kansas City Grand Opera Company of Mignon by Abroise Thomas and quickly became a local celebrity often performing benefit concerts. She studied with music teacher Frank LaForge famed soprano composer who maintained a close relationship with the Metropolitan Opera and was placed under contract in 1925 by Giulio Gatti-Casazza at age 19 becoming the youngest principal female performer in the Met’s history to that point. Her debut performance was Feb. 17 1926 as Gilda the daughter of the title character in Verdi’s Rigoletto. The press photos show her surrounded by the many flowers she received in the 18 encores her performance on stage meeting the opera diva Ernestine Schumann-Heinck d. 1936 as well as her appearance on radio with Marguerite D’Alvarez and Giovanni Martinelli singing Home! Sweet Home!. In addition she also starred in the first Vitaphone short sound films released in 1926 with Don Juan starring John Barrymore and another Vitaphone short performing “Bella figlia dell’amore†from Rigoletto but the critics were savage criticizing her performances and her lack of appeal on camera. During this period she traveled extensively to Europe and through the southwest as evidenced by the series of photos showing her in Taos with the burros young Native American children and adults in regalia as well as her automobile. The photo of the young star by Samuel Lumiere 1878-1971 is a very nice example of his portrait work during the height of the 1920s when he was under contract to shoot celebrities for the Chicago Tribune. See: Barrios A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film pp. 20-29; Vitaphone Marks 80th Anniversary Vitaphone News The Vitaphone Project Vol. 8 No. 1 2006; Crafton The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound 1926-1931 1999. Underwood & Underwood, Anderson, Lumiere, Guard, Vitaphone Studios, Metropolitan Music Bureau, unknown
Bookseller reference : 51696
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[OPIE (Amelia)]
Poems by Mrs. Opie.
First Edition, iv,192pp., engraved frontis., (offset), cont. half morocco, uncut. These poems combined many previously published pieces with new work.
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[OREGON -- AURORA COLONY/WOMEN]. LESPINASSE, Cobie de.
Second Eden. A romance. This story is . . . based upon the early settlement of the Oregon Country.
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House 1951. 8vo. 338 pp. Green cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j. cover art by Clark Moor Weir Will minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear couple small closed tears still a NF/VG copy from the library of Elaine Eberle Tompkins detailing in her notes on the frnt pstedn how her ancestor Adam Schuele had sold his land and possessions in Phillipsburg Pennsylvania in the 1850s to move out and join the Aurora Commune with William Kiel in the Oregon Territory. First edition of this fascinating historical fiction based on historical documents of the Aurora Colony and was the first attempt to bring the story of William Kiel and his Commune into the public view through a fictionalized approach. The book was quite controversial and does expose many of the unexplored aspects and elements of the Aurora Colony by subtly presenting the issues of his multiple mistresses and sexual exploits. The Commune was founded in 1856 and prospered until the early 1870s when Keil began transferring title to some of the land to individual households but died in 1877 before he finished. Cobie De Lespinasse b. 1883 grew up in Hubbard OR near Aurora and her novels often focused on religion and its impact on gender roles. De Lespinasse based her novel on a wealth of original letters and historical material accumulated by Clark Moor Wier Will who had previously held much of the material from public view and had intended on writing a history. The names and the colony were renamed in the book at his request. See James Kopp Novel Views of the Aurora Colony Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 110 No. 2 pp. 169-180. The Christopher Publishing House, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44076
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[OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL -- PANORAMIC PHOTO/WOMEN].
Second annual picnic of the O.regon E.piscopal S.chool Bonneville ORE July 4th 1914. Photo by Marcell of Portland No. 303. Panoramic silver gelatin photo showing the OES staff students & family lined up in front of the Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Co. excursion railcars in 1914.
Bonneville & Portland OR: Edward F. Marcell 1914. One large silver gelatin panoramic photo sized 36 x 8 in. text in lower part of image excellent contrast very minor creasing slight wear still NF. This souvenir panoramic picnic photo was taken of the staff and students for the oldest Episcopal School west of the Rocky Mountains originally founded in 1869 as St. Helen’s Hall and operated as boarding and day school for girls. Bonneville OR was a popular picnic and excursion spot in the Columbia River Gorge which was located 41 miles East of Portland and amenities included a large dance pavilion band stand refreshment stand dining tables recreational facilities and even a baseball diamond and bleachers. The O-W R & N Co. initially operated as an independent carrier with the Union Pacific and formerly was named the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company in 1910. Edward F. Marcell son of Milward B. “Doc†Marcell of Marcell Studios -- best known for the 1912 Calgary Stampede Photo postcards -- operated Doc’s in-and-out film processing shop in Vancouver WA which was the first in America catering to WWI soldiers and veterans. [Edward F.] Marcell, unknown
Bookseller reference : 52964
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[PACIFIC NORTHWEST WOMEN -- ALS ARCHIVE]. [KLADY GEER, Sara Isabelle].
An interesting small archive of 27 original manuscript letters from Sara Isabelle Klady Geer living in London Oregon a small town founded by Levi Geer East of Cottage Grove to her daughter Awilda May Guild and granddaughter Emily Graciebelle “Grace†Guild in Woodland WA boldly scrawled on leftover Calapooya Springs Co. letterhead and promotional material discussing domestic matters illnesses educational job opportunities for Grace following World War I.
London OR & Woodland WA: Sara Isabelle Klady Geer 1920-1927. Twenty-seven original ALS largely written in ink some in pencil MS and primarily on Calapooya Springs Co. Mineral Water letterhead ruled invoices and even 1 w/ advertising promotional letterhead with testimonials consisting of about 100 total pp. in content consisting of approximately 9500 words nearly all w/ the original postmarked cover envelopes 5 separate letters w/o envelopes and 4 individual envelopes as well as individual Lane County OR history on the Calapooya Mineral Waters Co. some creasing occasional soiling minor tears edgewear still a VG legible grouping. Sara Geer was the daughter of Hamilton & Clarissa Lackey who had emigrated into the Oregon Country over the Oregon Trail and when she was born in 1860 was the first Euro-caucasian baby born in the small hamlet 20 miles out of Walla Walla Washington Territory. May Klady Guild and husband Jesse Jacob Guild had purchased the historic Guild-Klady farm and farmhouse in 1912 following the death of Columbia Klady and Sara remarrying with Levi Geer in 1909. She had not only co-managed the family farm with Columbia Klady but also worked as a local music teacher. The house and farm still remain in family hands as a working farm and in 1989 was named a “Centennial Farm†by the Washington State Department of Agriculture reflecting continuity of ownership and operating farm. Much of the former land has now been taken over and used by the Groat Brothers Inc. for materials storage while the United Bulb Company farms much of the land. Grace Guild graduated from Woodland High School in 1921 attended Washington Normal School in Ellensburg WA now Central Washington Univ. earned her teaching certificate by 1922 and after marrying Fred Marion Davis 1890-1968 would spend the next 30 years teaching music in Woodland as a telephone operator for 15 years and later ran an answering service.This small archive of letters not only addresses assorted domestic issues in the Geer and Guild households but also reveals the daily concerns of navigating travel issues managing properties from a distance ensuring the correct amount of food treating illnesses and even job and education opportunities for young Grace and brother Robert. Sara Klady Geer 1860-1938 had taught school in Woodland WA while her husband Columbia L. Klady 1845-1906 farmed and also served as Superintendent for the rural and often struggling local school district. After the death of her first husband she later married Levi Geer 1852-1944 at the time a very successful entrepreneur and owner of the Calapooya Springs Co. who were bottlers and wholesalers of Cal-A-Poo-Ya Mineral Water and Saline operated the Calapooya Springs Hotel and Spa featuring fishing hunting hiking and manicured grounds with dancing and partying. These letters largely penned on old Calapooya Springs Co. illustrated letterhead stationery focus on the period during the 1920’s following the failure of Geer’s bottling plant hotel and hot springs spa as Sara and Levi worked their land as a commercial farming operation. A late Western Oregon snow is mentioned in her March 31 1920 letter to Awilda May Guild 1879-1973 detailing that “last Friday morning everything was covered with snow and snowed several times during the day†while she also describes Levi and the boys being sick and mentions sending her raspberries and a double-cooker. Sara after her marriage to Levi Geer years earlier had retained her properties in Woodland WA to rent out and be managed by May and her husband Jesse Guild. She writes Jan. 15 1922 encouraging May to collect the rent due to her from Mrs. Rikes as “she said she would pay in advance pay to you or Jesse. Don’t ask her to send it as she may not. I can’t trust her.†Again Sara as businesswoman laments in her June 22 1922 missive to May about one of her Woodland houses that she had received the a letter from “Mrs. Bert yesterday saying they were going to move to a small house the last of this month and could not keep my things. I just don’t know what to do with them. Seems like everything has gone wrong ever since Columbus’ death. They wanted my house. I wish now I had not told Mrs. Rikes she couldn’t have it longer than last month.†Besides real estate Sara often writes to May about her grandson Robert Guild including frequently worrying about his education opportunities writing May July 20 1922 that he had done well and asking “will he go to the State Agricultural School now WSU Is all his expenses paid Don’t forget to write about it as Levi thinks I imagines it.†She also sends several letters to her granddaughter Grace Guild 1901-2000 over securing teaching contracts school board politics and related issues. June 22 1922 Sara details to Grace that “you have no idea how hard I have longed for you to get our school yet have had a feeling that it was best for you to not get it as it is a hard school. The children are all right but some of the parents are real fault finders and that makes the scholars harder to manager. One director and his wife Mable’s father & mother are just awful & dreaded to think of you in the school.†July 23 1922 she pens to Grace over a failure to secure a teacher’s contract for saying “I have built our castels sic all the past week but yesterday Mrs. Cox told me Howard took your application to the other directors as soon as he got it and found another teacher had just signed the contract. She said she is very sorry as this one they got has never taught any and has no Normal School training. Your Aunt Grace Klady 1881-1910 was a firm believer in Providencial sic ruling.†By August 20 1922 young Grace Guild had secured a post and Sara notes to her she “was so glad to get your letter. Was so afraid you would not get a school. Am so glad you can come. We had the thrashers yesterday as you may come soon. . . bring some music there are 3 pianos in the neighborhood. Bring the 2 songs you learned at my house.â€Her letters to May continue over the next few years detailing how she wishes she had sent more meat to May and the family but much of it had been used for ground sausage instead; a July 2023 fire in the house which burned her glasses and caused damage to the house and early warning had been ignored by Levi; or in 1925 writing about her “big washing this forenoon the men are busy with spring work. We have tomatoes & lettice sic up. I was so tired out with the house work I haven’t much desire for spring work.†A hard winter with lots of ice follows Levi deals with family cancer scares and business issues in 1926 and a myriad of other small domestic issues. Nov. 5 1927 she writes to May about local Woodland WA Church history detailing “that it came to me last evening that Mr. Cook can find Mrs. Burkholder and found out a lot from him. . . if I remember rightly he was the second minister we had and you know Mr. Scott remembers things well. They were there when the Church was built. Also Mrs. Hatch may know quite a bit as she used to attend. . . we moved back from Ridgefield the summer after Grace was 4 years old that was 1886. . . Mr. McKinzie preached at Pekin’s Woodland awhile after he moved back.†See: Klady Guild Davis Bozarth Washington Territory & State Education Photo Archive Seattle Public Library; Smith & Gall Cultural Resource Survey of the Guild Road Industrial Park Project Area Archaeological Services Report No. 16346 2016; Howard Horowitz The Landscapes of Hot Springs and Mineral Springs in Western Oregon 1973. [Sara Isabelle Klady Geer], unknown
Bookseller reference : 63614
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[PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION -- TYPEWRITERS/WOMEN]. KENNEDY, J. Clifford.
The “Underwood†in the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building Pan-American Exposition Buffalo 1901. . . one chromolithograph souvenir trade card depicting the Electric Tower recto and photo illustration of Underwood typewriter exhibit on verso.
Buffalo NY: Wagner Typewriter Co. 241 Broadway 1901. One chromolithograph cabinet-sized card 4.25 x 6.25 in. printed photo on verso minor dustsoiling slight edgewear still VG bright copy. First edition of this scarce promotional trade card from the Wagner Typewriter Co. which not only featured an elaborate display of their latest mechanical and electrical “Underwood†typewriters but also featured the prodigious competition by two Massachusetts women Mary Esther “Mae†Carrington 1878-1944 and Alice Mary Schreiner 1878-1961 renowned competitive speed typists earning $ 100.00 per week typing up to a 144 words per minute with accuracy. “Lady Betty†columnist of the Buffalo Evening Times wrote that the “exhibit of American typewriters at the Exposition was the most elaborate and comprehensive ever attempted at any exposition and that augmented by the presence of these two wizard-like operators.†No copies in Worldcat U of DE does hold a 4 pp. Underwood Typewriter Catalogue; See: Richard Polt The Classic Typewriter Page Underwood No. 5 2020; Buffalo Evening Times Women’s Realm May 18 1901; Robert Messenger ozTypewriter April 18 2019. [Wagner Typewriter Co.]., [241 Broadway], unknown
Bookseller reference : 60904
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[PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION -- FAIRY TALES/WOMEN]. PERRY, Stella George Stern.
Little bronze playfellows: a phantasy for children and grown-ups.
San Francisco CA: Paul Elder & Co. 1915. 12mo. 26 pp. Photo frontisp. w/ original printed tissue guard 11 photo plates. Publisher’s boards w/ golden illustrated d.j. on thick paper stock bronze lettering yapp fore-edges minor chipping & wear head & foot of spine fore-edges still VG/VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this charming fairy tale celebrating the bronze statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which featured at its’ opening as well an allegorical fairy tale silent film. Stern Perry 1877-1956 was class poet and founding member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority wrote advertising for the John Wanamaker Department Store in New York opened her own agency and later married George Perry in Sept. 1906 after the Earthquake & Fire. She wrote several fictional novels non-fiction accounts was a suffragette socialist and Unitarian and wrote two books on the art and sculpture of the PPIE. Paul Elder & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60888
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[PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION -- WOMEN]. SIMPSON, Anna Pratt.
Problems women solved. Being the story of the Woman’s Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. What vision enthusiasm work and co-operation accomplished.
San Francisco: The Womans Board Press of the Blair-Murdock Co. under the direction of John Henry Nash 1915 1916. Thick 8vo. xvii 1 191 1 pp w/ 108 pp of tipped-in portrait photos. Frontisp. photo numerous tipped-in photo plates. Quarter-beige cloth over brown boards printed paper spine-label minor rubbing & scuffing minor wear to corners still VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this informative and well illustrated report issued by the Woman’s Board detailing their efforts to coordinate efforts with the Red Cross assorted Woman’s Auxiliary organizations and created a California Chapter of the Travelers’ Aid Society. The Woman’s Board representatives all wore a uniform badge met every boat and train arriving into San Francisco and aided nearly 140000 visitors at a cost of nearly $ 30000. They were essential in not only organizing venues for entertainment but also aiding visitors in finding housing and amenities. The Womans Board, [Press of the Blair-Murdock Co., under the direction of John Henry Nash], hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60870
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[PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION -- ARCHITECTURE/WOMEN]. RAYMOND, Maud Wotring, & [HAMLIN, John]; MULLGARDT, Louis C. (I
The architecture and landscape gardening of the Exposition: a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. . . with an introduction by. . . .
San Francisco CA: Paul Elder & Co. 1915. 8vo. x 202 4 pp. With tipped-in photo frontisp. 94 tipped-in photo plates throughout. Tan publisher’s linen gilt lettering front cover & spine minor minor rippling to partially uncut textblock w/ d.j. closed tears & chipping old tape repairs still VG-/G copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. Second edition of this revised work examining the architectural impact and achievements of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition which had a tremendous economic influence on San Francisco which had survived the devastating 1906 Fire & Earthquake. Wotring Raymond b. 1867 taught classics in Longmont CO married Paul Raymond in 1895 and was active in Christian mission work best remembered for her 1913 “The King’s Business: A Study of Increased Efficiency for Women’s Missionary Societies.†Mullgardt 1866-1942 was a major influence in the Bay Area’s Arts & Crafts movement and designed the Court of the Ages at the PPIE lobbying hard to save the Fair structures after the Exposition closed. See: Paul Elder Two California Expositions 1915. Paul Elder & Co., unknown
Bookseller reference : 60886
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[PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION -- ARCHITECTURE/WOMEN]. RAYMOND, Maud Wotring, & [HAMLIN, John]; MULLGARDT, Louis C. (I
The architecture and landscape gardening of the Exposition: a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. . . with an introduction by. . . .
San Francisco CA: Paul Elder & Co. 1915. 8vo. x 202 4 pp. With tipped-in photo frontisp. 94 tipped-in photo plates throughout. Tan publisher’s linen gilt lettering front cover & spine minor tidemark to lower fore-edge front cover w/ d.j. minor closed tears minor chipping still G-/G copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. Second edition of this revised work examining the architectural impact and achievements of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition which had a tremendous economic influence on San Francisco which had survived the devastating 1906 Fire & Earthquake. Wotring Raymond b. 1867 taught classics in Longmont CO married Paul Raymond in 1895 and was active in Christian mission work best remembered for her 1913 “The King’s Business: A Study of Increased Efficiency for Women’s Missionary Societies.†Mullgardt 1866-1942 was a major influence in the Bay Area’s Arts & Crafts movement and designed the Court of the Ages at the PPIE lobbying hard to save the Fair structures after the Exposition closed. See: Paul Elder Two California Expositions 1915. Paul Elder & Co., unknown
Bookseller reference : 60885
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[PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION -- POETRY/WOMEN]. [MacLAFFERTY, James Henry, COOLBRITH, Ina, HARTE, Bret, MILLER, Joaqu
Undaunted 1915. San Francisco’s Welcome from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
San Francisco CA: Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co. 1915. 8vo. 20 pp unpaginated. w/ colour-illustrated borders throughout numerous illustrations 1 in colour 1 double-page. Dark purple coloured softcovers raised embossed decoration of California bear standing atop San Francisco w/ arrow and date embossed in blind yapp fore-edges minor shipping edgewear minor sunning to fore-edges still VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this uncommon and nicely printed anthology of poetry organized by two San Francisco businessmen MacLafferty & Taylor along with the Bolte & Braden printing Co. to celebrate the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Featured alongside Bret Harte & Joaquin Miller are poems by California women poets Ina Coolbrith 1841-1928 a co-editor of the Overland Monthly and the first woman to become an honorary member of the Bohemian Club became California’s first poet laureate in 1915; and Hester Benedict Dickinson 1838-1921 who was a founder of the California Writers Club and served as president of the Pacific Coast Women’s Press Assoc. The work was originally issued as a banquet souvenir held in Feb. 1911 at the Riggs House Washington D.C. Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 60861
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[Patent Medicine / Women]. [Pierce, Ray Vaughn].
Ladies' Note Book and Calendar.
Buffalo N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association 1902. Very Good. 14 cm. 18pp. White self-wrappers printed in black bound at the top edge. Light wear. Promotional piece for Ray Vaughn Pierce "an outstanding period example of a man who combined scientific or quasi-scientific credentials remarkable business acumen an accurate sense of the public temper and an unabashed capacity for self promotion" per Atwater 2798 and his consultation and manufacturing center the World's Dispensary. Marketed toward women the booklet primarily advertises "Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets" as a cure-all for everything from general weakness to constipation and the pain of childbirth. Additional plugs are included for Pierce's Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute his People's Medical Advisor and various salves and ointments. ATWATER S-1529.OCLC locates 1 definite holding and 6 potential holdings listed as serials only. [World's Dispensary Medical Association] unknown
Bookseller reference : 1649
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[Penn State], Women Education
First Woman at Penn State' s Mineral Industries Program 1934: "Taking a Man's Course
Women’s Education Penn State First women enrolled in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. October 17 1934. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. 8 x 6 in. Original press caption typed on image verso. “Taking a Man’s Course. Alexandra Tillson the first girl to enroll in the school of Mineral Industries at Penn State with Dean Edward Steidle who is showing her around the school’s Museum of Minerals. Miss Tillson is taking the metallurgy curriculum which deals with the study of iron and non-ferrous metals. She is the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Tillson noted mining engineer of Montclair N.J. Miss Tillson can’t be discouraged from pursuing a study which may eventually take her to the steel mills or to the mines. 10/17/34.†The Steidle Building one of the most iconic pieces of architecture at Penn State was named in honor of Dean Steidle pictured with Tillson. Some wrinkling to center right edge. Good to very good condition. A groundbreaking woman pictured at the start of her academic career. unknown
Bookseller reference : 16862
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[Peru]. [Women]
Carte-de-Visite of a Young Peruvian Woman in Traditional Dress
Lima: Fotografia Central Courret Hermanos 1880. Very good. Carte-de-visite photo 4.25 x 2.75 inches. Minor soiling pencil notation at foot of card. Handsome image of a young Peruvian woman in traditional dress. Pictured in three-quarter length she holds a wide straw hat a printed skirt peeking out of the bottom of the photos beneath a traditional shawl wrapped around her shoulders. Her hair is in two braids and she wears elaborate earrings. The pencil notation at the bottom reads "Native of Peru." The photographer Eugene Courret was a French native who moved to Lima in 1860 to work in a photography studio; he opened his own studio with his brother in 1863 and returned to France in the 1890s. Fotografia Central Courret Hermanos unknown
Bookseller reference : 5806
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[PETER RABBIT - WOMEN AUTHORS]. ALMOND, Linda Stevens.
When Peter Rabbit went to school. With illustrations by J.L.G. Altemus’ Peter Rabbit Series.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co. 1921. 12mo. 58 2 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Colour frontisp. colour plates througout. Quarter-red cloth over decorated lilac-coloured boards colour plate front cover minor shelfwear rubbing w/ d.j. cover art by J.L.G. minor soiling thumbing still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition of this installment in the Altemus’ Peter Rabbit Series which they were able to publish and release in the United States as Frederick Warne had failed to secure a copyright for Beatrix Potters’ beloved originals in 1904 and initially as part of the Wee Books for Wee Folks Series. Henry Altemus Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61071
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[PHOTOGRAPHY: WOMEN FIGHTERS]
A Group of 58 Female Boxing and Wrestling Photographs Attributed to Bernard Kobel.
N.p.: N.p. ca. 1940-1960. This group including posed and candid shots of scantily clad women boxing in the ring with an audience and sometimes a coach or en plein air; also with a series that appears to show mud-wrestling approximately 17. Silver and silver copy prints the images measuring 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches 15.9 x 11.4 cm. and slightly smaller and the reverse the sheets 7 x 5 inches 17.8 x 12.7 cm. two measuring 4 1/4x 3 1/2 inches 10 x 8.9 cm. the sheets slightly larger many with letter or numeric hand stamps and/or notations in pencil and four with the subjects identified in ink on verso. Someone has outlined many of the fighters a bit hard to notice unless under a bright light. An interesting assembly of photographs of women fighters likely viewed as distasteful at the time. "Bernard Lyle Kobel lived a very full life during in his 79 years. He was a Lone Scout photographer photojournalist writer stamp collector cartoonist poet World War II Army veteran and more. His parents started a mail-order business which he took over selling photographs of all sorts of unusual subjects including odd houses freak animals and vegetables unusual epitaphs women weight lifters and tattooed people" Tattoo Archive N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 75133
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[PHOTOGRAPHY -- WOMEN]. HANSON, Eugene Montgomery.
Glamour guide: how to photograph girls. . . .
Minneapolis MN: The American Photographic Publishing Co. 1950. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 188 2 pp. Photo portrait frontisp. photos throughout. Blue cloth red lettering w/ d.j. slight shelfwear very silght sunning still NF/NF copy. First edition stated of this classic methods manual for all photographers including tips and pointers from the noted Santa Monica CA photographer including pin-ups nudes publicity fashion portraits and more. The American Photographic Publishing Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63555
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[Photography] [Women Photographers] Gilpin, Laura
Temples in Yucatan: A Camera Chronicle of Chichen Itza
New York: Hastings House Publishers 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. SIGNED. 124pp. Small square quarto 24 cm Green paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Patterned endpapers. Light wear to the spine ends. Previous owner's name and brief notation on verso of front free endpaper. In a price-clipped dust jacket with a small loss from the bottom edge of the dust jacket obscuring a bit of the author's name along with a few smaller closed and open edge tears. Laura Gilpin's brilliant camera study of Chichen Itza and a tribute to the Maya and to the group of scientists who have restored and reconstructed the beautiful temples. Laura Gilpin 1891-1979 born in Colorado was a 1917 graduate of the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Her career of fifty years was varied and wide-ranging and established her as one of the most outstanding photographers of our time. <br /> <br /> Inscribed by Gilpin on the half title: "For ____ / with best wishes / Laura Gilpin. Hastings House, Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 68551
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[POESIES ECRITES PAR DES FEMMES]
La Guirlande des Dames : 10ème Année
1824 Paris, Marcilly fils aîné, 1824 In-18, cartonnage éditeur vert et or sous emboîtage, dos orné, titre doré en plein, tranches dorées. Faux-titre, (11) ff., 152 pp., (1) f., (8) pp. de musique gravée, (6) ff. Titre-frontispice et gravures hors-texte.
Bookseller reference : 4540
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[Portrait] Marie STUART
Portrait (en pied) gravé représentant Marie STUART -
Eau-forte originale en couleurs (coloris d'époque) - Format 26 x 17 cm environ - vers 1845 - piqures - mouillure en angle et petite tache -
Bookseller reference : GF20751
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[Portrait] Madame GEOFFROY
Portrait (en pied) gravé représentant Madame GEOFFROY -
Eau-forte originale en couleurs (coloris d'époque) - Format 26 x 17 cm environ - vers 1845 -
Bookseller reference : GF20752
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[Portrait] Mademoiselle de SCUDERY
Portrait (en pied) gravé représentant Mademoiselle de SCUDERY -
Eau-forte originale en couleurs (coloris d'époque) - Format 26 x 17 cm environ - vers 1845 - piqures - mouillure en angle et tache sur le visage -
Bookseller reference : GF20753
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[Politics – Women – New York City] Committee for Judge Nanette Dembitz
“Judge Nanette Dembitz for Court of Appeals†Campaign Poster
New York City 1972. 15 ½ x 22 ½ inches. Masking tape at top and bottom; some folding to upper left edge some marginal chipping; fine contrast. Overall excellent. Nanette Dembitz 1913–1989 graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan then attended Columbia Law School where she edited the Columbia Law Review graduating in 1938. She was unable to find work in private practice because of her gender; as her April 1989 obituary in The New York Times reports she was told in an interview “that she might find a spot as a secretary if she could typeâ€. Dembitz instead went into public law and in 1967 was appointed to the Family Court by Mayor John Lindsay. This campaign poster is from Judge Dembitz’s 1972 run for New York State Court of Appeals. Dembitz successfully challenged Democratic appointees in the primary but Republicans swept the general election. unknown
Bookseller reference : List2862
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[PRINCETON], [WOMEN Education]
Special Report from 1968 that Opened Princeton to Women Inscribed by the Author
1968. Princeton University “Princeton Alumni Weekly†Princeton N.J. Sept. 24 1968. Vol. LXIX No. 1. Titled “The Education of Women at Princeton: A Special Report; On the Desirability and Feasibility of Princeton Entering Significantly into the Education of Women at the Undergraduate Level.†Inscribed by the Author on cover. In 1968 amid controversy and uncertainty concerning the acceptance of women at Princeton the President and Trustees authorized this extensive study to cover all aspects of the coeducation question. Published as an entire issue of the “Princeton Alumni Weekly†the result interprets multiple examples from other schools addresses arguments and concerns and imagines a coeducational Princeton of the not-so-distant future. It also includes the virulent minority opposition of Prof. Arthur Horton who fought the presence of women well after they became a normal feature of campus life. The positive decision came just in time for the April 1969 letters when for the first time the student body was joined by 148 women. Very good condition. This copy is notably inscribed to a woman “With the complement of the author/ 16 Sept 1968/ Princeton N.J.†An important historical artifact of 1960’s feminist academic reform. unknown
Bookseller reference : 15971
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[Quakers – Women – Philadelphia] Cathrall, H.
1789 Letter from a Philadelphian to a Friend Discussing a Women’s Quaker Meeting
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1789. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with large tears at folds; excellent. A letter from H. Cathrall in Philadelphia to her friend Amey Thurston dated October 20th 1789. The letter discusses her health and the health and lives of their mutual friends. She also describes her experience of hearing ministry at a women’s Quaker meeting:<br /> <br /> “our yearly Solemnity was uncommonly large and much sisterly condescension was comfortingly evidencd; and thro the condescension of Isarels Israel’s King and Shepherd we were made in some sittings reverently to rejoice in that the Lord in wondrous Mercy had not forgotten Sion ‘nor yet in Anger cast off his People’~â€.<br /> <br /> Though Quaker worship meetings did not exclude women Philadelphia did have a women’s monthly meeting as well; Haverford College holds its membership book for 1793 Cathrall does not appear in it but at least one other name mentioned in her letter does.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of Philadelphia’s long Quaker history especially the role of Quaker women. unknown
Bookseller reference : List2987
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[Revillon]-SEXE (Marcel).
Histoire d'une famille & d'une industrie pendant deux siècles, 1723-1923.
1923 PARIS, Librairie Plon,Draeger, Plon-Nourrit & Cie Editeurs, 1923, C.27, 5x20, cartonnage éditeur marron marbré, titre et motifs estampés en doré sur plats et dos; 125 et (3) pp.; 13 hors-texte photo N&B recto hors-pagination, bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe ornés, cartes, photos ou reproductions en noir; papier glacé. Cartonnage petit frottis au dos,
Bookseller reference : 5469
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[Revue : Crapouillot], Galtier-Boissière Jean
Histoire de l’amour en France. Tome 2. Janvier 1960
Le Crapouillot, n° 47 1960 In-4 agrafé 31,5 cm sur 25. État correct d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 98967
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[Revue : Le Crapouillot, Magazine non conformiste]
Les Superfemmes. Nouvelle série N°72. Novembre-Décembre 1983. D’Yvette Roudy à Catherine Deneuve
Société d'Editions Parisiennes Associées 1983 In-4 agrafé 31,5 cm sur 25. Bon état d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 98950
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[RETIF DE LA BRETONNE Nicolas Edme]:
Les Françaises, ou XXXIV Exemples choisis Dans les Moeurs actuelles, Propres à diriger les Filles, les Femmes, les Épouses & les Mères.
A Neuchâtel, et se trouve à Paris, Chés Guillot, libraire de Monsieur, rue Saint-Jacques, vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins, 1786. 4 volumes in-12 de 272; 312; 312; 324-[16] pages, pleine basane blonde, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, pièces de titre en veau rouge, tranches mouchetées de rouge.
Bookseller reference : 18502
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[RETIF DE LA BRETONNE Nicolas Edme]:
Les Françaises, ou XXXIV Exemples choisis Dans les Mœurs actuelles, propres à diriger les Filles, les Femmes, les Épouses & les Mères.
A Neuchâtel, et se trouve à Paris, Chés Guillot, libraire de Monsieur, rue Saint-Jacques, vis-à-vis celle des Mathurins, 1786. 4 volumes in-12 de 272; 312; 312; 324-[16] pages, plein cartonnage de papier marbrés du temps, dos lisses, étiquettes de titre rouges, de tomaison sables; tranches mouchetées rouges.
Bookseller reference : 20929
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[Rowing; Women] Rogers, F.
Woman Rower cover art in The Saturday Evening Post
New York: Curtis Publishing 1906. Print. Very good condition. Attractive color image of a woman in sailor type shirt and a hat with insignia holding two blue oars. 11 1/4 x 16" verso has 4 ads for novels. Curtis Publishing unknown
Bookseller reference : 28207
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[Rowing; Women] Stovell, Ruth (?)
Woman Rower cover art in Harper's Weekly
New York: Harper & Brothers 1910. Print. Very good condition. Attractive color image of a woman in sailor type shirt at the oars of a narrow skull waving off to her left. 11 1/4 x 16" verso has 4 ads for novels. Harper & Brothers unknown
Bookseller reference : 28206
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[RUBBER TIRE MANUFACTURING -- PHOTOS/WOMEN]. [LADD, Charles Archibald & Goldie Emelia Belanger (Photographers).].
Five striking photographs shot of the workers in the newly completed Vulcanized Products Co. factory completed in 1915 to manufacture rubber automobile tires. The series of images show the overhead powered machinery cutting tables tire moulds and workers completing the mounting of the finished tires.
Muskegon MI: Vulcanized Products Co. Ladd & Son Photographers ca. 1916. Oblong 4to. Five silver gelatin photos sized 7.75 x 9.75 in. mounted on 14 x 12 in. embossed gray studio board photographer’s imprint on versos very minor rubbing slight bumping to couple corners still a NF set of mounted photographs. These sharp industrial photographs show the early manufacturing of rubber automobile & truck tires by workers and machinery at the Vulcanized Products Co. factory in Muskegon MI. By December 1915 the company had completed the buildings and installed the manufacturing equipment for their expanded automobile tire factory. Upon opening the company was producing 200 completed tires daily and continued to ramp up later as the U.S. entered World War I. In addition they were the original manufacturer for Peninsular Tire & Rubber Co. tires later Gillette Tires before they set up their own factory in Eau Claire WI. Two of the images show women working the production line. Ladd & Son was founded originally in Detroit MI in 1872 by B.W. Ladd who later brought his son Charles Ladd 1870-1925 into the business and moved to Muskegon MI in 1891 quickly establishing themselves as popular portrait & commercial photographers in Muskegon. Goldie Ladd 1874-1931 began working the business with her husband and continued the studio after his death selling out before her death at the beginning of the Great Depression. See: Headlight Flashes Along the Grand Trunk Railway System November 1897 pp. 22-23; Medrano-Bigas Gillette Tires and the Mighty Polar Bear The Forgotten years of Bibendum Michelin’s American Period in Milltown 2018; Muskegon Business Boosting Notes Pere Marquette Service No. 7 December 1915 p. 7. Vulcanized Products Co., Ladd & Son, Photographers, unknown
Bookseller reference : 58408
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[RÉGIONALISME - NANTES] FRANCOIS DUBOIN, PROCUREUR AU JUGE PRESIDIAL DE NANTES - EVRIEN ET GUIHARD NOTAIRES ROYAUX DE NANTES
ACTE DE VENTE D'UNE MAISON SITUEE RUE DU PUY D'ARGENT, PAROISSE ST NICOLAS, POUR LA SOMME DE 4800 LIVRES, PAR DEMOISELLE MARGUERITE LAMOUREUX, VVE DE NOBLE HOMME GABRIEL GEOFFROY SIEUR DE LA PANNETIERE, AUX FEMMES JACQUETTE REDHOR ET MARGUERITE LEMAITRE, FAIT A NANTES, LE 24 DECEMBRE 1742
nantes 1742 un acte de vente, manuscrit à l'encre brune sur vélin parchemin de 8 pages, format : 29 x 21 cm, cachet fiscal gravé et historié en noir en haut de la première page : "BRETAGNE - 13 sols 1 denier", ACTE DE VENTE D'UNE MAISON SITUÉE RUE DU PUY D'ARGENT, PAROISSE ST NICOLAS, POUR LA SOMME DE 4800 LIVRES, PAR DEMOISELLE MARGUERITE LAMOUREUX, VVE DE NOBLE HOMME GABRIEL GEOFFROY SIEUR DE LA PANNETIERE, AUX FEMMES JACQUETTE REDHOR ET MARGUERITE LEMAITRE, FAIT A NANTES, LE 24 DÉCEMBRE 1742, signature manuscrite des notaires royaux in-fine : EVRIEN ET GUIHARD,
Bookseller reference : 28612
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[SALES MANUAL -- ARMSTRONG FLOORING/ WOMEN].
The salesmanship guidebook: a manual for the retail salesman of hard surface flooring prepared by. . . .
Lancaster PA: Armstrong Cork Products Co. Floor Division 1936. 8vo. 128 pp. With numerous photo plates throughout. Blue publisher’s cloth silver & gilt lettering front cover minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG bright copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated sales handbook designed for Armstrong Cork sales floors focused on selling housewives and women their linoleum and other floor coverings produced by Armstrong Cork Company during the Great Depression. The Armstrong Company has detailed septs of style & beauty ease of cleaning sanitation comfort quiet economical and durability as the top reasons to encourage sales. In addition specific instructions are presented on how the salesforce was to explain and demonstrate with samples and colour schemes their Art Deco inspired flooring in private homes and commercial spaces. The linoleum products at the time included Jaspe Marbelle Monobelle Heavy Gauge inlaid linoleum inlaid Linofloor and many others. Armstrong -- which began in 1860 by Thomas Armstrong who carved bottle stoppers from cork by hand -- eventually grew to be the world’s largest cork supplier by the 1890s and began moving into producing linoleum flooring in 1906. Produced from linseed oil recycled wood flour cork dust and limestone linoleum proved to be incredibly durable and when properly marketed by Armstrong the company quickly dominated the field. Worldcat locates 3 copies Columbia Hagley & Duke. Armstrong Cork Products Co., Floor Division, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63624
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[SANTA CLAUS -- AUTOMOBILES/WOMEN].
Kriss Kringle and other stories. Kris Kringle story book. No. 832 cover title.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1904. 4to. 280 pp unpaginated. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. woodcut engraved borders throughout in red illustrated title page illustrated throughout some full page plates many woodcuts woodcut decorated initials & lettering. Quarter-brown publisher’s cloth over colour chromolithograph illustrated boards cover art of an a Brass Era Santa Claus whizzing along in his 1904 Locomobile steamer which was the last year Locomobile manufactured the runabout which retailed for $ 750.00 decorative endpapers minor bumping slight shaken front inner hinge starting some occasional toning edgewear still a VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition thus of this expanded holiday anthology issued by the McLoughlin Bros. for the Christmas season of 1904 with many of the stories hold-overs from the previously released versions in 1897 1898 1899 & 1901. The anthology of short stories morality tales poems anecdotes and more were mostly written by women authors and served as a key entree into publishing for aspiring authors during the Progressive Era. Racial awareness and cultural opinions are reflected in the stories including Louise Church Brooks’s story of Little-Baby-Not-Afraid-To-Cry an orphaned Native American child who after trying to decorate her hair & clothing was feathers was disciplined and encouraged in the future to act like “a quiet little American gilr†rather than a “real Indian.†Depictions of Santa Claus driving automobiles began as early as 1898 with Santa driving a runabout and in 1899 an ad for the Akron Tribune depicted a “Twentieth Century Santa Claus.†Santa Claus driving an automobile never received wide acceptance but featured in novelty holiday books holiday postcards cards and advertising through the 20th Century into the 21st. McLoughlin Bros., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60815
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[Scudéry] :
Conversations sur divers sujets : par Mademoiselle Scudéri.
Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1680 ; 2 tomes in-12, demi maroquin brique (rel. du XIXe) ; (36), 380 ; 371 pp.
Bookseller reference : 17209
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[SCUDÉRY (Madeleine de)].
Mathilde. Dédié à Monsieur frère unique du Roy.
Paris, Chez Edmé Martin et Français Eschart, 1667. 2 parties en 1 vol. in-12 de (4)-122 pp. 1 f. blanc, 518 pp. 1f. blanc, frontispice, maroquin janséniste rouge, dos à nerfs, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées sur marbrure (Duru et Chambolle 1863).
Bookseller reference : 42633
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. PADGETT, Lewis. [pseud. of KUTTNER, Henry & MOORE, Catherine Lucille].
A gnome there was and other tales of science fiction and fantasy.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1950. 8vo. 4 276 pp. Red tweed boards silver lettering front cover & spine minor spotting shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Edd Cartier minor edgewear couple minor chips VG/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of 11 tales of fantasy science fiction interplanetary adventure and more by the famed husband and wife duo. Simon and Schuster, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61123
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. LUKENS, Adam. [pseud of DETZER DE REYNA, Diane].
Alien world.
New York: Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy & Co. Inc. 1963. 8vo. 192 pp. Black cloth gilt lettering on spine faint tidemark to lower fore-edge of textblock w/ d.j. cover art by Ed Emshwiller tidemark to spine and back cover edgewear still G/G copy. First edition of this Avalon Science Fiction title set against the backdrop of colonists adapting to an unforgiving world. Detzer de Reyna b. 1930 wrote under Lukens and Jorge de Reyna pseudonyms writing popular genre fiction for Avalon and other publishers after attending Barnard College and Penn State. Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61417
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. LUKENS, Adam. [pseud of DETZER DE REYNA, Diane].
Conquest of life.
New York: Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy & Co. Inc. 1960. 8vo. 221 1 pp. Brick-red cloth black lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ed Emshwiller minor shelfwear slight sunning to spine still NF/NF copy. First edition of this Avalon Science Fiction installment in the author’s Intergalactic League duo. Detzer de Reyna b. 1930 wrote under Lukens and Jorge de Reyna pseudonyms writing popular genre fiction for Avalon and other publishers after attending Barnard College and Penn State. Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61418
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[SCIENCE FICTION -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. MOORE, C.[atherine] L.[ucille].
Doomsday morning.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1957. 8vo. 216 pp. Blue boards red lettering on spine slight interior toning w/ d.j. cover art by Ruth Ray minor shelfwear NF/NF copy signed by author on tipped-in card. First edition signed of this apocalyptic novel set in California. Doubleday & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 50323
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. DuBOIS, Theodora.
Solution t-25.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1951. 8vo. 218 pp. Black boards blue lettering on spine very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art by Richard Powers slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this post-apocalyptic science fiction set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union winning World War III by using nuclear weapons and a resistance which develops Solution t-25 removing their Soviet leaders authoritarian tendencies. DuBois would write only one more science fiction novel written as a satirical critique of McCarthyism entitled Seeing Red 1954 causing her to be blacklisted and dropped by Doubleday. Doubleday & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 55562
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. HOLLY, J. Hunter [pseud. of HOLLY, Joan Carol].
The dark planet.
New York: Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy & Co. Inc. 1962. 8vo. 224 pp. Red cloth black lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ed Emshwiller minor dustsoiling slight rubbing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this scarce Avalon Science Fiction title of this post-apocalyptic alien invasion novel in which nearly all life on Earth is extinguished and resistance of a guerilla army. Holly 1932-1982 was a noted Lansing Michigan science fiction author who also published short stories and even a title in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61408
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. HOLLY, J. Hunter [pseud. of HOLLY, Joan Carol].
The gray aliens.
New York: Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy & Co. Inc. 1963. 8vo. 192 pp. Beige-yellow cloth black lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ed Emshwiller minor dustsoiling slight rubbing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this rare Avalon Science Fiction title of this menacing science fiction/horror novel with possible alien ghosts seances and truth of life beyond. Holly 1932-1982 was a noted Lansing Michigan science fiction author who also published short stories and even a title in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61407
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. HOLLY, J. Hunter [pseud. of HOLLY, Joan Carol].
The mind traders.
New York: Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy & Co. Inc. 1966. 8vo. 192 pp. Tan publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Gray Morrow slight rubbing very minor sunning to spine still a NF/VG copy. First edition of this scarce Avalon Science Fiction title of this science fiction/detective investigation into millions of kidnapped humans on an alien world. Holly 1932-1982 was a noted Lansing Michigan science fiction author who also published short stories and even a title in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61409
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[SCIENCE FICTION -- WOMEN]. BRACKETT, Leigh.
The sword of Rhiannon.
London & New York: T.V. Boardman & Co. Ltd. 1955. 12mo. 207 1 pp. Black tweed boards silver lettering & silver SciFi logo on front board minor shelfwear dustsoiling to fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. Sword & Sorcery cover art of Matt Carse holding the sword of Rhiannon minor chipping & tears to head & foot of spine minor creasing still VG/G copy. First British edition of Leigh Brackett’s famed homage to Burroughs and Robert E. Howard first issued as an Ace Double No. D-36 with Howard’s Conan the Conqueror. The noted Los Angeles author “Queen of Space Opera†also shows the influences of Clark Ashton Smith Catherine Moore and Henry Kuttner of this Sword and Sorcery title set against the backdrop of ancient Mars. Brackett 1915-1978 was born in Los Angeles CA daughter to a young Pasadena socialite as well as up-and-coming real estate developer and promoter but by 1920 was only child to a widowed mother. By 1940 she was regularly contributing as author during the golden age of science fiction pulp magazines wrote the Newbery Award winning children’s Western “Ride the Free Wind†and also worked as screenplay writer for some of the most significant Hollywood films in the 20th Century. She co-wrote the screenplay for “The Big Sleep†with William Faulkner; as well as director Howard Hawks’ most successful films such as Rio Bravo Hatari! El Dorado and Rio Lobo all starring John Wayne. After marrying fellow science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton in 1946 collaborated together on science fiction as well as writing some of her own classics including “The Sword of Rhiannon†which had first appeared in shorter parts in pulps. She also wrote the screenplay for George Lucas’s critically acclaimed “Empire Strikes Back 1980†later refined into the final version by Lawrence Kasdan. See: Sven Mikulec Leigh Brackett: A Terrific Writer Ahead of Her Time just as She Was Ahead of Her Colleagues Beyond Cinephila 2025; Steve Swires Leigh Brackett Writer of Two Worlds Starlog Interview -- from 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington D.C. Feb. 1987. T.V. Boardman & Co., Ltd., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61565
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[SCIENCE FICTION - WOMEN AUTHORS]. DICK, Philip K./ST. CLAIR, Margaret.
The world Jones made. D-150/Agent of the unknown. . . .
New York: Ace Books A Division of A.A. Wyn Inc. 1956. Two works in one. 12mo. bound dos-a-dos. 192; 128 pp. Colour-illustrated softcovers slight edgewear very slight bumping to 1 corner still VG bright copy. First edition Ace Double No. D-150 of Dick’s post-apocalyptic science fiction examining precognition and the rise of a messianic dictator analogous to the rise of Hitler’s rise and fall of the Weimar Republic. The obverse science fiction was the second of St. Clair’s science fiction novels issued the same year as her “The Green Queen.†Ace Books, A Division of A.A. Wyn, Inc., paperback
Bookseller reference : 61385
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[Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers]
Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
Panda Books 1982. Used - Good. Good condition. Mass Market Paperback edition. Chinese fiction 20th Century Women authors. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. Panda Books, 1982 paperback
Bookseller reference : B16OS-00262
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