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1972rif. 194271972. LGBTQ Miller Isabel pseudonym of Alma Routsong. Patience and Sarah. New York: McGraw-Hill Book and Company 1972. First edition. Red hardcovers with blue lettering. Illustrated dust jacket by Stephanie Tevonian of a Lesbian couple in a pastoral setting. Set in the nineteenth century Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship and "Boston marriage" between Patience White a painter and Sarah Dowling a farmer whose romantic bond is tested by their puritanical New England town. First self-published in 1969 titled A Place for Us in an edition of 1000 copies the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. The pages are clean and crisp; this book is in very good condition. unknown books
1969rif. 420992New York: Bleecker Street Press 1969. Unbound. Good. First edition. Paperback original. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated wrappers. Large chip on front wrap removing much of the author's name thus good only. A lesbian novel based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson about two women living together in Greene County New York in 1816. The original self-published edition was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award in 1971. Routsong had written two Now very uncommon mainstream novels under her own name based on her experience as a wife and mother of four before she entered a relationship with economist Elisabeth Deran. She wrote under the pseudonym in order not to embarrass her four daughters choosing the name Isabel as an anagram of the word "Lesbia" This edition has become exceptionally uncommon. Bleecker Street Press unknown books
2004rif. 420927Dans L' Engrenage 2004. Softcover. Fine. Second French edition. Illustrated wrappers. Octavo. 282 5pp. Fine in wrappers. Afterword by Elisabeth Deran Routsong's partner during the writing of the book. A lesbian novel based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson about two women living together in Greene County New York in 1816. The original self-published edition was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award in 1971. This edition is uncommon. Dans L' Engrenage unknown books
1984rif. 420926Barcelona Madrid: Editorial Egales 1984. Softcover. Fine. First Spanish edition. Illustrated self-wrappers. Octavo. 197pp. Fine in self-wrappers. A lesbian novel based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Wilson about two women living together in Greene County New York in 1816. The original self-published edition was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award in 1971. This edition is uncommon. Editorial Egales unknown books
1986rif. 420964Tallahassee: Naiad Press 1986. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Trade paperback original. Octavo. 210 4pp. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. A lesbian novel by the author of Patience and Sarah. Naiad Press unknown books
1973rif. 420998New York: Fawcett 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Mass market paperback edition. A trifle soiled near fine. A lesbian novel based on the life of American folk artist Mary Ann Willson about two women living together in in Greene County New York in 1816. The original self-published edition was sold by Routsong outside meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah won the American Librarians Association's first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award in 1971. Routsong had written two Now very uncommon mainstream novels under her own name based on her experience as a wife and mother of four before she entered a relationship with economist Elisabeth Deran. She wrote under the pseudonym in order not to embarrass her four daughters choosing the name Isabel as an anagram of the word "Lesbia Fawcett unknown books
1959rif. 419549Guatemala and Mexico 1959. Near Fine. A collection of 79 gelatin silver prints ranging in size from 7" x 7" to 8" x 10" and four smaller 5" x 4" prints by Alma Lavenson collated and housed in 11 handmade paste-paper portfolios. The collection consists of 51 prints taken in Guatemala in seven portfolios and 32 prints taken in Mexico in four portfolios. Each print is captioned by Lavenson on the versos in green ink giving place names and in her smaller hand underneath in blue ink giving additional information. All are in fine condition. Also included is a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalog 1984-85 Inscribed by Lavenson. This portfolio is Lavenson's first book solely devoted to her photography. A remarkable assemblage of images made by the famed California photographer of Guatemalan and Mexican women children and men including several Mayan peoples from various rural regions and towns throughout both countries. The images date from a trip Lavenson made in 1959 during which she also visited her son Albert who was conducting anthropological field research in Chiapas Mexico. Lavenson was a self-taught photographer from the Bay Area whom Edward Weston told to abandon the soft-focus style of the times and adopt the crisp style of the Modernist movement. She took the advice to with such verve that she was invited to participate in a San Francisco gallery show that featured work by Weston's newly formed photo group f/64. The attention- getting show which also featured the work of Ansel Adams Imogen Cunningham and Consuelo Kanaga exposed her work to wide acclaim leading to three solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art inclusion in Edward Steichen's "The Family of Man" exhibition and showings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Like many women of the time Lavenson largely set aside her career as a photographer after her marriage in 1933. Lavenson died in 1989 at age 92 just a year after her final solo exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art but today is gaining in reputation as an important photographer of the first part of the 20th Century. A detailed list follows: Guatemala 47 prints 4 small prints Portfolio 1. Almolonga Quetzaltenango 5 prints. In a red and purple paste paper wrapper. Some fraying and short tears to the edges else all other wrappers are near fine. Portfolio 2. San Francisco el Alto 6 prints. In a dark green/blue paste paper wrapper. Includes several images of "Friday Market Day". Portfolio 3. Chichicastenango 8 prints. B & W and multi-colored paste paper wrapper. Portfolio 4. Antiqua 3 prints. Light amber and multi-colored paste-paper wrapper. Includes an image of a man stitching on a loom. Portfolio 5. San Antonio Aguas Calientes 3 prints. B & W and multi-colored paste-paper wrapper. Portfolio 6. Palín Nahualá and Quetzaltenango 10 prints. Light purple paper wrapper. Portfolio 7. Lake Atitlán 16 prints including the four smaller prints. Light purple paper wrapper. Includes images of Guatemalans in Panajachel Santiago and San Antonio Palopó. The four smaller prints are landscapes of Puerto Barrios and the Rio Dulce. Mexico 32 gelatin silver prints Housed in 4 orange and black paste-paper wrappers very good or better Portfolio 1 12 prints Pátzcuaro 6 and Taxco 6. Portfolio 2 4 prints Janitzio 3 and Cuernavaca 1. Portfolio 3 9 prints San Miguel Allende 5 and Guanajuato 4. Includes one print: "Child with Sugar Cane" owned by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona; and images of the woman "Caretaker of Church Guanajuato". Portfolio 4 7 prints San Juan de las Lagos 2 and Morelia 5. Includes images of "Fiesta dancers Guadelupe Day" and of a "Fire-Works Family". Also: Exhibition Catalog Inscribed. Portraits of Artists; Faces Photographed; 9 December 1984 - 24 March 1985. Inscribed by Lavenson: "For Judy Nan / from Alma" on p. 37 underneath her photograph printed in the catalog: San Idelfonso Indians 1941. unknown books
1971rif. 389655Passaic New Jersey: Passaic Citizen 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boxing style poster. Measuring 14" x 22". Printed in red in large block type on thin yellow cardstock. Shrinkwrapped on foam core. One corner bumped age-toning mostly at the extremities very good. Nice vintage soul poster. Passaic Citizen hardcover books
1975rif. 364941Miami: Dade County Board of Public Instruction 1975. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Roblan. Small octavo. 32pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Printed in black and green. Text in Spanish. Some soiling and use but at least very good. Elementary school reader a biography of Marti a unit in the Cuban Cultural Supplement Reading Series. Very scarce OCLC locates no copies. Dade County Board of Public Instruction unknown books
1954rif. 95128Chicago: Rand McNally 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 1954. 12mo. Illustrated boards. Illustrated by the George Schlining Studios. Slightly soiled near fine. An Elf Book. Rand McNally hardcover books
1916rif. 64676N.p. ca. 1916. Inscribed twice by Clemens 1874-1962 the sole surviving child of Samuel Clemens. On the photograph itself she has written: "To Miss Howland with the cordial wishes of Clara Clemens." The recipient is further identified by the inscription on the verso from Alma Gluck the Romanian-born American soprano accompanied by a clipped portrait photo from a magazine to "Enid Howland." Additionally Clemens has inscribed the mount: "Most cordially Yours Clara Clemens Sept. 16th 1916." Clara was after her father's death the controversial custodian of his estate and literary rights. She published her biography of him in 1931 along with books on other subjects and worked at a career in singing with which this artifact is likely connected. Mounted and evidently extracted from an album amicorum or scrapbook with another party's photo and inscription on verso. Mount a bit chipped and edge-torn faint crease on photo otherwise good. Enclosed in oversize half-morocco slipcase. unknown books
1944rif. 90719n.p. 1944. Paperback. Good-Very Good. We offer 5 of these reports for 1944 1946 1947 1948 and 1950. All are small softcover booklets containing 18-20 pages.15-16 cm. Condition varies but all are Good-Very Good. J.A Gregg was Presiding Bishop for the first three of these reports. George W. Baber was the Presiding Bishop for the 1948 and 1950 reports. The Fourth Episcopal District including six conferences: Ontario Michigan Northwestern probably Iowa and Minnesota Chicago Illinois and Indiana. The last 4-5 pages in each report provide space for entering statistics about an individual church. Someone has filled in at least some information in 4 of the reports for Institutional AME Church in Chicago. n.p. paperback books
1944rif. 90724n.p. 1944. Paperback. Good-Very Good. 18p. Softcover in original wrapper.15 cm. George W. Baber was the Presiding Bishop. The Fourth Episcopal District including six conferences: Ontario Michigan Northwestern probably Iowa and Minnesota Chicago Illinois and Indiana. The last 5 pages in this report which provide space for entering statistics about an individual church are unused. n.p. paperback books
1929rif. 24904Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped book is moderately worn top front corner bumped with slight fraying to cloth exposing board a bit light rectangular stain from removed label on front pastedown; jacket has various chips along top and bottom edges and at corners. Biography of a pioneering advocate for women's rights "the outstanding figure in the movement for the higher education of women in America . . . the first woman to make definite experiments to prove the female mind capable of comprehending higher studies and the first woman publicly to take a stand for the higher education of women." Among her many accomplishments Willard 1787-1870 founded the first school for women's higher education in the U.S. the Troy Female Seminary in Troy New York later renamed the Emma Willard School and still in operation today as a college-prep day and boarding school. She also wrote a number of geography and history textbooks the latter of which somewhat radically for their day chronicled the achievements of women as well as men and promoted the idea that the status of women in a given society was the primary measurement of whether that society could be described as "civilized." . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
rif. 1418185London: James Osgood McIlvaine and Company. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavo two volumes. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's light brown cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spines. Boards have moderate plus wear including age toning and some chipping to the edges. Text blocks have moderate wear including age toning to the edges and slight foxing to the interiors. Mixed editions. CONTENTS: Vol. One 1892 vi viii 130 pages -- Vol. Two 1894 Second Series vi viii 130 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Office Case #4. . 1418185. FP New Rockville Stock. James Osgood, McIlvaine and Company hardcover books
2006rif. 63711Stockholm: Amaryllis 2006. First and only edition 8vo pp. 151 1; CD inserted in pocket insde back cover; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. Silenced takes up questions about the media censorship and human rights in China and Tibet. It tells about how censorship bodies operate in China about why Chinese authorities do not tolerate critical voices and about why they largely escape international condemnation. The book comes with a CD-ROM that covers the same themes in addition to having sound picture and video recordings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. English text. Amaryllis unknown books
1962rif. 50042n.p but United States: s.i. 1962. Near Fine. United States: ca. 1962 or later. Blank show flyer with text and photos printed in red only on recto 28x21cm. Edges lightly toned otherwise Near Fine. Blank space has been left for the venue or promoters to fill in the place date time and price of admission for a concert featuring The Derbys Thomas Gadson guitarist for The Derby's Lee Vester Haynes and The Derbetts. While there is little information on the latter two Gadson and The Derbys originally named The Carpets recorded from 1962 to 1967 under Nat King Cole's label KC Records. Gadson went on to be a guitarist in his own right playing for The Jackson 5 and James Brown and supposedly giving guitar lessons to Jimi Hendrix. s.i. unknown books
rif. 4227091996. Near Fine. A collection of six Inscribed books by Alma Routsong the real name of author Isabel Miller from the library of Elizabeth Deran her partner and the motivating force in her life along with Deran’s copy of Routsong's final book published shortly before Routsong’s death in the fall of 1996. Most notable is a first edition of the self-published lesbian classic A Place for Us 1969 later published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah 1972 which was selected by the American Library Association as the winner of its first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award. The group of books also contains two copies of Patience and Sarah the first hardcover edition and first French edition as well as three Naiad Press first editions: The Love of a Good Women A Dooryard Full of Flowers and the Dedication Copy of Side by Side. Overall near fine with light wear to the dust jackets or wrappers. unknown books
1923rif. 290638Zarephath New Jersey 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A book of poetry by the first female bishop in the United States and founder of the racist Methodist sect the Pillar of Fire Church. Under Alma White's direction in the 1920's and 30's the Pillar of Fire Church formed a close public bond with the KKK with the aim to liberate white Protestant women while also oppressing religious and racial minorities even regularly hosting cross burning ceremonies with the Klan on Pillar of Fire properties and giving speeches at Klan events promoting white supremacy. The introduction to this volume is quite bizarre as the author focuses on her husband's conversion to the "unscriptural and Satanic" "new cult" of the Pentecostals and their subsequent estrangement. This long-form poem in rhyming iambic pentameter details their breakup in about 55 pages of text with small text illustrations plates reproducing hymns written by the author and a section of reproduced correspondence between the two at the rear. Truly a messy breakup. Red cloth with gilt lettering. OCLC notes ten institutional holdings. Very Good binding. unknown books
1999rif. 628713New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Introduction by Lucia C. Stanton. Oblong small quarto. 160pp. Illustrated. Boards a trifle sunned at the edges still fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear. Stewart, Tabori & Chang hardcover books
1925rif. 1417271Zarephath: The Good Citizen 1925. Third edition. Softcover. Octavo 14 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown without print. Cover is brown with black print illustration; edge wear smudging/shelf wear. Text block has penciled marginal notation occasional foxing damp stain to rear pages. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait photograph drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K ND-K. 1417271. FP New Rockville Stock. The Good Citizen unknown books
1953rif. 420973Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive very good price-clipped dust jacket with small nicks and tears mostly at the spine ends. Author's autobiographical first novel about her seemingly happy hetrosexual married life in the early Fifties subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation." Routsong the mother of four daughters eventually dispensed with her husband and writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller produced the lesbian classic A Place for Us. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. A Gradual Joy is exceptionally uncommon and this is a very nice copy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1920rif. 2351315Zarephath New Jersey: Pillar of Fire 1920. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Boards soiled with scattered light spots endpapers foxed front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1920 Hard Cover. 138 6 pp. Includes four colorized photographic plates several dozen black-and-white photos and a map of Yellowstone National Park which was the first designated national park in the United States established by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. The author Alma Bridwell White was founder of the Pillar of Fire Church in New Jersey and the first woman bishop of the church. Though she was an advocate for feminism she also had problematic ties to the Ku Klux Klan and bigotry in general including public denouncement of the Roman Catholic Church racial and religious minorities. Pillar of Fire hardcover books
1999rif. 2321337New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x1x10. First edition. Bottom corner bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 160 pp. Retraces Thomas Jefferson's odyssey through the South of France from Arles to the Canal du Midi with breathtaking photographs period engravings portraits maps paintings excerpts from Jefferson's notes and letters he wrote to friends and family. Stewart, Tabori & Chang hardcover books
1953rif. 94436Nashville: Printed by A.M.E. Sunday School Union Press 1953. Paperback. Very Good. portrait 142 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Minor wear. George W. Baber listed as Presiding Bishop of the Conference. Printed by A.M.E. Sunday School Union Press paperback books
