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1981réf. 57947NY: Holiday House 1981. First edition. 64 pp. Light sunning to spine else fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations by Edward Gorey. SIGNED by Gorey on the title page. NY: Holiday House unknown books
1896réf. 08466Boston/London: Robert Bros./John Lane 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First American Edition issued as the 26th title of 33 in the "Keynotes Series" published by John Lane in London and by Roberts Bros. in Boston. Near fine copy bound in original light blue cloth decoated in green gilt lettering spine. Binding design by Patten Wilson. Illustrated tite page. 210 pp 10 pp. Ads. Robert Bros./John Lane hardcover books
1938réf. s02287Little Brown and Company 1938. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lawson Robert. 2nd printing one month after first edition. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering illustrated endpapers; 8-1/2" tall; 139 pp; illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some soiling to boards and page edges nice solid binding. White dust jacket has tiny hole to edge of front panel price-clipped sticker residue to spine panel. Overall a nice copy of this Newbery Honor book and one of my all-time favorites! Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1938réf. 107884Boston:: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. Newbery Honor Book. Stated first edition "Published September 1938." Age toning to cloth covered boards else very good in gray cloth with blue lettering and design. No dust jacket. Text is clean and binding is sound.; 139 pages . Little, Brown and Company, hardcover books
1947réf. 447036New York: Watson-Guptill Publications 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 155pp. Orange cloth. Boards soiled and a little sunning on the spine about very good lacking the dustwrapper. Gift Inscription to David G. McCullough from his mother as well as his ownership signature likely the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who would have been 15 at the time and the later bookplate of actress Ruth Gordon and her husband the director Garson Kanin. Gordon is caricatured in the book. Watson-Guptill Publications hardcover books
1934réf. 257054New York: The John Day Company 1934. Hardcover. 172p. first edition minor edge wear else very good condition inscribed and signed by Converse's lover Vida Scudder - "Margaret Heaton this work of her comrade and companion to be from another companion Vida D. Scudder S.C.H.C." Converse active for years in the Socialist movement was the life long companion of Vida Scudder. The John Day Company hardcover books
1937réf. 238492Boston: American Photographic Publsishing Co 1937. Eleventh Edition. Illustrated. 247 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. In dust jacket with some staining at edges dust jacket only Good. Eleventh Edition. Illustrated. 247 pp. 1 vols. 4to. American Photographic Publsishing Co unknown books
1960réf. 544738Salvador Brasil: Tipografia Manu Editora 1960. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 61 1pp. Printed wrappers. Modest soiling on the wrappers very good or better. Warmly Inscribed by Goodrich to poet Niles Bond. [Tipografia Manu Editora] unknown books
1923réf. 17762New York: Henry Holt and Company 1923 First edition inscribed by the author with her signaiture. In this memoir Florence Jaffray Harriman née Hurst 1870 – 1967 narrates her involvement in the suffragist movement the New York social scene and her frontline observations of both World War I and the Mexican Revolution. Chapter five of the book discusses the Colony Club New York's first woman-only private social club which Harriman co-founded in 1903. Much of Harriman's activism at the time was focused on improving conditions in New York factories and tenements and she eventually broadened the scope of her activism to farmworker rights in Texas—which put her on the bank of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Revolution in 1915. During World War I Harriman worked with Eleanor Roosevelt and the Red Cross and served as the chair of the National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry from 1917 to 1919. The memoir ends shortly after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment: Harriman closes the book with chapters on her organizing with women voters and the postwar peace movement. . Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is bright and clean. . Octavo. With twenty-six plates including frontisportrait of the author. Splitting to endpapers at gutter. Contemporary bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. A very good fresh copy inscribed by the author "with affectionate admiration." Though the scope of this memoir ends in the early 1920s Harriman's political career flourished for several more decades. During World War II she served as the minister to Norway where she organized evacuation efforts for American citizens and members of the Norwegian government under the 1940 Nazi invasion. She is credited with safely evacuating Crown Princess Märtha and her three children. She published her account of the events in Mission to the North 1941. In 1944 Harriman wrote the foreword for the first English-language edition of Natalia Zarembina's Oswiecim Camp of Death one of the first publications on the Holocaust available in English. Henry Holt and Company, hardcover books
1927réf. 78641San Francisco: Florence R. Keene 1927-1930. The first twelve issues of this poetry magazine. The first two issues are near fine in sewn wrappers with a bit of edgewear the rest fine in stapled wrappers. Contributors include Lawrence Hart Ina Coolbrith Arthur Price Gelett Burgess Don Blanding Yone Noguchi Robert Louis Stevenson Joaquin Miller Rosalie Moore and many others. For the first volume: San Francisco: Florence R. Keene, unknown books
réf. 7188LEWIS Florence. CHINA PAINTING. London: Cassell 1884. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece 52 pages 15 plates. Second edition. Being an instructional manual on the techniques for painting decorations on china with sixteen full-color plates and specific recommendations for choosing colors. Cover darkened and spotted. unknown books
1937réf. TB31603New Haven: Yale University Press 1937. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spines Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 1/8 inches. Both are in good unclipped dust jackets with numerous chips and closed tears. Volume I contains 459 pages of text illustrated with a fold-out map and images from black and white photographs. Volume II contains pages 461 to 973 which includes an index to both volumes and is illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. Yale University Press hardcover books
1931réf. 600198Newark New Jersey: Art Craft Publishing Co 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 60pp. Green cloth lettered in red. Name of a noted psychologist faint tidemark from a light dampstain along the edges of some of the pages a good or better copy. Scarce. OCLC locates only six copies. Art Craft Publishing Co hardcover books
1941réf. 17927New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. c.1941. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped light shelfwear very slight bumping at a couple of corners; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities and the bottom one-third of the spine has gotten scrunched with resulting wrinkling and chipping at base of spine. B&W photo frontispiece "The leading woman penologist of our country presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves." Ms. Monahan the stern yet somehow motherly type to judge from her frontispiece portrait photo had headed up a number of penal institutions including the California State Prison for Women at Tehachapi. At the time of writing she was Superintendent of the Shakopee Minnesota State Women's Reformatory which transitioned to a new facility in 1986 but is still in operation as the state's only women's prison. She dedicates her book "to the hundreds of women prisoners I have known who are now good citizens." The Foreword is by Lewis E. Lawes ex-warden of Sing Sing who was well-known for his own chronicles of penal life "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" et al. Homosexuality among women prisoners is discussed in Chapter XVI "The Sex Problem." Very scarce especially in the jacket. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover books
1885réf. 242017London: W. Stevens 421 Strand 1885. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff gray paper over boards. Very good. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wolff 7052 W. Stevens 421, Strand unknown books
1895réf. 243578London: F.V. White 1895. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Originally published in 1893 under the title A Passage through Bohemia in three volumes. Glover/Greene 449; Wolff 7045 note F.V. White unknown books
1984réf. 9005329New York: Norton 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. Norton hardcover books
1949réf. 200581949. African American Murray Florence Editor. The Negro Handbook 1949. New York: The Macmillen Company 1949. First Edition. Lacking dust jacket. 368 pages. An intricate presentation of the ".current factual information in a concise and handy medium.to give a picture of the status of the Negro in the American life" by a Black female editor Florence Murray. Murray's series of "Negro Handbooks" published in 1942 1944 1947 and 1949 are considered to be among the most comprehensive and accurate portrayals of African American life from in the 1940s. Notably viewed as "the World Almanac of current facts and figures about America's largest minority group" Murray compiles vital information and statistics concerning Black education organizations housing authors businesses cases from World War II sports and more. An ex-library copy with common markings including stamps taping to spine and plates on endpapers and title page. Title is covered on front board but the text pages are clean crisp and bright. Overall in good to very good condition. unknown books
1950réf. 24004475West Springfield Massachusetts 1950. Very good. Some light toning spotting sunning or offsetting. Red pencil offsetting to floral card. Three 3 examples of original artwork for greeting cards designed by the artist Florence Tarbell b.1938. Each example has been hand-illustrated on card with original pen and watercolor with a hand-lettered greeting card message either underneath the image or on an accompanying scrap of paper. They include: Tarbell Florence. Birthday Peacock Greeting. West Springfield 1950s. Pen watercolor gouache on card measuring approx. 5.25" by 7.5" with message in pen on scrap of paper measuring approx. 3" by 5". Image shows blue peacock under stylized tree blowing in the breeze. Message reads: "It isn't so. It can't be true Another birthday's come to you. For as you go upon your way You're growing younger every day." Tarbell Florence. Floral Friendship Greeting. West Springfield 1950s. Pen and watercolor on card measuring approx. 7.75" by 5.5" with message in pen on scrap of paper measuring approx. 3" by 5". Image shows a woman in a green dress harvesting bright red hollyhocks. Message reads: "Dear Friend Upon this happy day I hope that everything's O.K. And you are out a-picking posies Hollyhocks or maybe roses. And may each petal on each flower Mean joy for you hour after hour." Tarbell Florence. World Map Valentine Card. West Springfield 1950s. Pen watercolor colored pencil on card measuring 6" by 5.25". Penned message below world map reads: "If you search the whole world over From shore to shining shore You'll find a lot of people But not one that loves you more. unknown books
1940réf. 158569N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage photograph of journalist and progressive activist Florence Welch and famed milliner Mr. John at a nightclub along with an unknown woman circa 1940s. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Welch worked as a newspaper journalist and activist for women's suffrage in Topeka Kansas later moving to California and marrying prominent artist and writer Rob Wagner. In 1929 the pair founded "Script" a left-leaning weekly literary film magazine that often published interviews and articles concerning progressive and radical topics in Hollywood. Welch was also an early supporter of writers William Saroyan and Ray Bradbury publishing their work extensively in the magazine. After Wagner's death Welch would remarry early aviator James L. Breese with whom she lived in New Mexico and California until her death in 1959. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear at the corners even age toning and a couple tiny splashes on the recto. N.p. unknown books
réf. 006118Boston: D Lothrop 1898. Color pictorial boards with cloth spine edges and corners worn through but cover and interior clean and bright. Stories and poems about and for children. Nice line art borders around the text and 6 fine and lovely color plates similar in style to Maud Humphrey. . First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. D Lothrop hardcover books
1922réf. 126253Culver City CA: Selznick Pictures 1922. Vintage hand-tinted half sheet poster for the lost 1922 silent film. Conway Tearle starrs as Russell Carrington a man who accepts a murder charge to protect Rita the woman he loves played by Florence Billings and flees to a fishing village where he falls in love with the town belle Dorothy played by Winifred Westover. Shot on location in Fort Lee New Jersey. 26.25 x 20 inches margins slightly trimmed down from 28 x 22 inches see image. Very Good with moderate edgewear including loss to the top and bottom right corners several closed tears to the margins and one 2.25 inch closed tear to the top center. Selznick Pictures unknown books
1905réf. 213819London: A. & C. Black 1905. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter green morocco marbled boards a.e.g. Spine tanned light rubbing to extremities else Fine. Bookplates of Edward Lawrence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A. & C. Black unknown books
1985réf. 601203Claremont California: Claremont Graduate School 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. Student dissertation. Quarto. 164pp. 14pp. appendix. Red textured paper boards with gilt spine letters. Near fine with some light general wear. Inscribed by Lenz to children's book author Charlotte Zolotow: "May 1985 To Charlotte Whose gentleness and grace inspired this work." An educational dissertation published at Claremont University by Karen Champan Len that studied the productivity of 80 female American children's book author over their careers and features multipage interviews with Elizabeth George Speare Jean Craighead George Adrienne Jones Florence Parry Heidi Lorriaine Henriod Barbara Cohen Natalie Babbitt and Georgess Mc Hargue. Claremont Graduate School hardcover books
1920réf. 19634London: Joseph Johnson 1920. Very good. Terrific large-format Peter Pan imitation in which two children grow wings and have an adventure with fairies. 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Anderson with 12 full-page color plates and line illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Some rubbing to boards subtly infilled one dark spot to rear board. Interior with light foxing and toning. Bright. Joseph Johnson unknown books
