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1903réf. 6778London New York & Bombay: Longmans. Green & Co 1903. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. A near fine copy of a popular Golliwogg adventure where the doll finds a poster of the circus joins up and participates in nearly every act. Longmans. Green & Co unknown books
1905réf. 6780London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1905. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. A very good tight copy with some soiling to outer cover corners bumped free endsheets evenly discolored. Hinges fully intact. The Golliwogg and friends go on a fox-hunt and meet with much trouble as usual. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1912réf. 4537New York New York; Salem Ohio 1912. Typed Letter Signed by Florence Woolston editor of The Woman Voter on letterhead; single page dated June 27 1912 measuring 8.5 x 11 inches with writing to recto and with by the transmittal envelope. Accompanied by a one page Autograph Letter unsigned but composed by the recipient Homer Boyle in response to Woolston's TLS; dated June 29 1912 on blank stationery measuring 5.25 x 8.5 inches with writing to recto. Together these letters give insight into the relationship between national suffrage publications and local grassroots organizations as the women's movement entered the final push toward the 19th Amendment. In her capacity as editor of The Woman Voter Florence Woolsten writes to Homer Boyle of Salem OH regarding his offer to "write something about the early Suffrage movement in Ohio"; and she notes that an acquaintance "Mrs. Peck is confident that you will give us a charming sketch." Much as her own letter is concise Woolston requests that Boyle be efficient as well: "I must ask you not to run over 1500 words. I should like you to have one illustration for your article but unless you can furnish cuts I am afraid I cannot do so our funds are very low." In many women's activist groups members themselves often took on the extra expenses of printing and distributing materials; and Woolston's appears to be in a similar state working on tight budgets. But because of the critical campaign happening in Ohio at the time she presses Boyle for a quick turnaround as "I hope that this effort of ours will help the campaign in Ohio a step toward victory." The Woman Voter a monthly periodical that ran from 1910 to 1917 was founded by Mary Ritter Beard before being run by Woolston in April of 1912. This letter sent only a few months into her leadership show her taking charge at a critical juncture and considering how to best use the journal as an organ for supporting the movement throughout the country. Ohio would vote to ratify the 19th Amendment in September of that year. Homer Boyle the proprietor of a plumbing shop according to the U.S. Census of 1910 also occasionally published progressive pieces in Salem's local newspaper. Within two days of receiving Woolston's letter he displays his serious commitment by "enclosing matter for your acceptance or rejection." Yet he also reveals a struggle to meet Woolston's professional requirements. "As to the 1500 word limit guess I have exceeded it but I couldn't think of giving up a word.As to cuts I could furnish one Sojourner Truth and as I say very little about her I do not send it." Seeming to recognize his possible missteps he closes by appealing to another more local female authority. "I imagine Miss Elizabeth Hauser must be preparing a Salem article for you. She was in town about 3 days; asked me what I had written you and commended it." A pair of letters ready to spark research into the role of men in the suffrage movement their responses to women's authority the publication and processes of woman suffrage journals the depiction of suffrage history and its key figures and the relationships among more grassroots contributors to the movement. unknown books
1896réf. 6777London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1896. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. The second Golliwogg title issued in 1896 where the Golliwogg's bicycle club encounters all sorts of obstacles perils and close-calls in far away lands. A near fine copy with slight wear to spine and small water stain very fine internally with hinges in tact and virtually no sign of wear. Scarce thus. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1902réf. 6779London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1902. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. Near fine copy of a creative Golliwogg book wherein the makeshift air balloon meets with near disaster landing on a chimney. ending up wrecked and floating around in the water with friends and toys. Scarce thus. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1930réf. 421849Nevada / Mexico / Illinois / Wisconsin 1930. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong quarto. Measuring 11½"x 8". String-tied black leather boards with embossed decorations. Contains 169 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 2"x 2½" and 5½" x 3½" with captions. Lightly bumped corners else fine with fine photographs. A California family travel album of Florence D. and Joseph Spenker and their son Thomas dating from 1915 to 1930. During the 15-years span the family visits various cities and states mostly on the West Coast including Tacoma in Washington State Santa Monica and Santa Cruz in California and Tijuana Mexico. They also venture inland to Nevada Wisconsin Illinois and even as far as Virginia Beach. Each destination has a couple of pages of photographs that include shots of the landscape and of the family together. Some of the pictures show the family traveling with larger tour groups posing with mountains waterfalls or other dramatic landscapes behind them. A couple of the photos show Mrs. Spenker smiling and dancing during their travels while her husband is pictured doing handstands on the beaches they visit. A charming family photo album of family travel in the first part of the 20th Century. hardcover books
1903réf. 461495London: Longmans Green and Co 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Foxing on the front board else a nice very good or better copy. The black-skinned Golliwogg doll is inspired by a poster to start a circus with his friends other dolls and toys. Longmans Green and Co hardcover books
1862réf. 51111Paris: A La Librairie Académique Didier et Ce Libraires - Éditeurs 35 Quai des Augustins 1862. 1st French translation Goldie 7iii. Period publisher's black half leather binding with black pebbled cloth boards gilt spine lettering. Red edgestain. General wear with stress lines showing at top portion of front joint. Modern bookplate of one Damian Conals . Light age-toning to paper. A VG copy. lxxx 301 1 blank pp. Publisher ornament to t.p. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" Scarce 1st French edition of Nightingale's classic work the first time we've been able to offer it. A La Librairie Académique Didier et Ce, Libraires - Éditeurs 35, Quai des Augustins hardcover books
1906réf. 006377London: Longman's Green and Co 1906 Illustrated boards with red cloth spine light shelf wear small chip from top corner internally bright clean and unmarked. A Golliwogg Robinson Crusoe! Wonderful full page color plates on nearly every other page. The nicest copy I've seen in a long time. First Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Oblong 4to. Longman's Green and Co hardcover books
1898réf. 6775London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1898. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. Fishing boating boat-wrecks all in a summer's fun for the Golliwogg. Fine condition with only a few minor blemishes to cover internally very fine. Scarce thus. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1909réf. 6785London: Longmans Green & Co 1909. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Six Separate Titles Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. Offered here is a small grouping of six Golliwogg books in various conditions all firsts except one revised edition. "The Golliwogg's Circus" 1903 near fine with discoloration to free fly leaves bumped corners; "The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club" 1896 very good with corners bumped some wear to endsheets; "The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures" 1903recased in flexible boards; "The Golliwogg's Air-Ship" 1902 good with cover wear hinges weakened; "Golliwogg's African Jungle" 1909 good with cover wear front hinge weakened and discolored; "The Golliwogg's Desert-Island" 1906 fair with substantial cover wear discoloration stains but fairly nice internally. A mixed set but priced accordingly considering the nice condition of the first two. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1907réf. 17839London & New York: Blackie & Caldwell 1907. Near fine. First edition American issue printed on dark green paper that contrasts vividly with the tipped-in color plates in Harrison's distinctive style. Given the clear Pre-Raphaelite characteristics in her work it is unsurprising to note that she was the first woman to be a commercial illustrator for the work of Christina Rossetti - indeed it was in part due to the success of RHYME OF A RUN that the Glaswegian publisher Blackie asked her to take on a major project. One of Harrison's particular touches is the heavy black outlines around characters giving her Art Nouveau-influenced illustrations an effect not unlike stained glass. It is thanks to the work of book collector Mary Rosalind Jacobs that Florence Harrison was identified only in the 21st century as the Australian-born Florence Susan Harrison not the English artist Emma Florence Harrison. A beautiful copy of Harrison's second book scarce in the American issue and in this condition. 9'' x 11.25''. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Green patterned endpapers. Printed on heavy dark green paper. Illustrated by Harrison with elaborately ornamented title page lettered in red 21 tipped-in color plates 10 full-page black-and-white designs and many black-and-white vignettes. A bit of the creasing to some plates as in virtually all copies due to a finishing fault with the publisher. Faint spotting to rear board and very minor rubbing to extremities. Blackie & Caldwell unknown books
1905réf. 463919New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated "Autograph Edition". Octavo. 394pp. Blue cloth gilt. Collotype frontispiece portrait of the author. Old archival stamp on front fly one corner bumped light dampstains on the boards a bright about very good copy. Signed by the author in ink beneath her portrait. Florence Elizabeth Chandler the Alabama-born American wife of the socially prominent English cotton merchant James Maybrick was accused of poisoning him in 1889 after a tumultuous marriage and convicted at the end of a sensational trial on dubious evidence and despite highly irregular judicial proceedings. Mrs. Maybrick's admitted adultery was allowed to create enormous prejudice against her. She was sentenced to death but was eventually reprieved after much public outcry. She served 15 years in prison and upon her release spent the rest of her years penniless in America. Her case inspired many books and several novels including Strong Poison by Dorothy B. Sayers. The first copy of the autograph edition that we've seen. Funk & Wagnalls Company hardcover books
1942réf. 173093New York City: E. Weyhe 1942. Number 201 of 250. Hardcover. VG-/VG- light foxing to text blocks moderate edge wear to glassine jacket. Red boards with gilt stamped lettering in a glassine jacket. 164 pages 76 pages of plates. Illustrations. Numbered 201 of 250. Includes bibliographical references pages 139-146 and index. E. Weyhe hardcover books
1914réf. 1312024Blackie and Son Limited London 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in a good dust jacket. The Jacket is very rare. The spine of the dj is separated from the front and back covers and there are a few tears; good condition; dj missing front and back flap. Book in very good condition. 20cm-26cm with 194 pp. 16 richly colored tipped-in plates by Florence Harrison. The book is further enhanced by many more of her decorations/illustrations. Blackie and Son Limited, London hardcover books
1818réf. 4414Florence: presso Niccolò Carli 1818. 8vo 193 x 125 mm. 45 3 bl.; 37 1 bl. pp. Letterpress tables. The second part is an Appendix separately paginated with half-title and approbation at end dated 1818. A few small spots to title and last few pages. Modern half linen and marbled boards original rear wrapper bound in. Only Edition of the rules for the main Florentine workhouse for the destitute mainly children established by Napoleon in 1812 to honor the birth of his son the King of Rome on the site of two former monasteries in the Florentine suburb of Montedomini. The architect Giuseppe del Rosso combined the two monastic edifices creating one main building in a neoclassical style and a complex of six smaller buildings for workshops etc. The Pia Casa di Montedomini as it came to be known was not only a poorhouse but was a center for poor relief generally. The various categories of candidates for aid are set forth in the introduction: children or adults who were taken in by Montedomini or by other “pious establishments” in the city as permanent residents known as Reclusi; those who were given work during the day and who returned to their families at the end of the day; those who were given work to carry out at home; and those few who were granted financial help. The Reclusi were divided by age: children under 3 went to the Spedale degli Innocenti those aged 3 to 10 and 10 to 15 to two different orphanages and those who were disabled or too old to work to another hospice Spedale di Bonifazio. Thus families were broken up: this is acknowledged in the text. Blank sample forms are provided for the admission of each category. Most of the rules are devoted to the main Reclusi aged 15 and up. The first chapter outlines admissions procedures; chapters 2 and 3 describe their general living conditions and daily routines and the following chapters address details of work food clothing and bedding all paid for through the inhabitants’ labor. Not surprisingly given the Napoleonic inspiration the Reclusi were organized in quasi-military “brigades” divided by sex and type of work. The brigades were led by the most compliant and hard-working individuals male “Caporali” and female “Maestre” who wore differently colored uniforms from the others. Every moment of the day was strictly regimented and other than eating and sleeping there was no time for anything other than work except for two hours of recreation on the occasional special feast day when only selected individuals were allowed to leave the Casa in strictly controlled groups. The daily life of these children and young adults who were imprisoned “for their own good” is hard to fathom for a modern reader: they rose at 6 or 6:30 prayed worked until noon finally were allowed to eat and then went back to work until 11 or 11:30 pm. Most of the work seems to have involved sewing or needlework; some worked for tailors or other textile workers. Dinner was followed by prayers and bedtime silence was imposed at 1 am. Meals were spartan: the rations of each ingredient are prescribed down to the ounce. Lunch was 2 ounces of soup 10 ounces of bread and 6 ounces of meat or a comparable quantity of vegetables. Dinner was bread and vegetables. One suspects that many barely survived in these conditions. Other chapters and the Appendix are devoted to the administration of the Casa accounting and record-keeping work assignments and payment and relations with extra-institutional employers. I locate no copies in American libraries. R. Uccelli Contributo alla Bibliografia della ToscanaC 1922 2575. presso Niccolò Carli unknown books
1903réf. 6774London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1903. New Edition. New Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. A fine copy of a scarce Golliwogg title where the Golliwogg attends basic training campfires and action all under the protectorship of the little dolls. This edition equally as scarce as the 1899 and virtually unchanged. Seldom seen in this condition. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1906réf. 6776London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1906. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original cloth-backed color pictorial glossy paper covered boards illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with full color illustrations every other page facing text pages with line drawings. Fine condition with minor and tiny holes to margin of spine barely noticeable. The Golliwogg sets out a boat with friends and is marooned on a desert island with sundry perils and pitfalls and making do in survival mode. Scarce thus. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1960réf. 133256N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film by photographer Andre Marinie. A candid on-the-set photograph of the film's reclusive director Robert Bresson behind the camera typically pensive and with cigarette in hand. Marinie's stamp and stamp from the film's production companies Agnes Delahaie Productions and Consortium Pathe on the verso. Linda Rasmussen at AllMovie notes: "Characteristically breaking with tradition director Robert Bresson presents a realistic unique view of the life and death of Joan of Arc. Using a script based on the actual transcript notes taken during her trial Bresson focuses on the psychological and physical torture that Joan had to endure showing how these techniques were used to break her resolve and cause her to eventually recant her faith. "With impeccable historical accuracy Bresson re-creates the story of the peasant girl who after leading an unsuccessful revolt against the government was brought to trial convicted of heresy and burned as a witch. However Bresson shows Joan Florence Carrez as a woman more sophisticated and calculating and less naive than she has normally been represented. His Joan while more real is no less heroic than the traditional Joan." In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1908réf. 38770London: Longmans Green & Co 1908. First printing. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated Edwardian fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who sets out to rescue a Princess on orders from a fairy. 9.75'' x 10''. Original red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page chromolithographs and additional line drawings in-text. Unpaginated. Some rubbing and wear to boards. Light soil to interior. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1907réf. 002788London: Blackie & Sons Ltd. 1907 Green cloth pictorially stamped in green black red and gilt slight cover soil book plate and gift inscription dated 1907. An extremely scarce and marvelous book by Florence Harrison about whom very little is known. A collection of charming rhymes by Harrison illustrated with 22 beautiful tipped in color plates a few ripples and small edge tears as is common with this book as well as full page line drawings printed on green paper. This by far one of the nicest copies of the book we've had. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Florence Harrison. Oblong 4to. Blackie & Sons Ltd. hardcover books
1897réf. 29161London: George Routledge & Sons Limited 1897. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of simply rhyming verses about the everyday life of little children at the turn of the century - quite scarce in this condition. 9.25'' x 8''. Original cloth spine paper pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout cw: depiction of golliwog doll. 62 2 pages. A bit of rubbing and light soil to boards hinges starting to crack but still firm. George Routledge & Sons, Limited unknown books
1928réf. 133223N.p.: N.p. 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928 showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto shows Lee Tracy later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen Osgood Perkins and Frances Fuller. The second a oversize 11 x 14 uncredited but by White Studios in New York City shows the star Walter Baldwin later played by Cary Grant onscreen Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most famously the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. N.p. unknown books
réf. 013719NY: Knoll Associates Inc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1962 catalog of the Knoll International Collection with over 100 photographs supplemented with detailed drawings and specifications for Knoll furniture for residences and offices. Over 150 pages excluding tab sheets. Many of the pages have multiple images so there are likely 600 images of different items. Vinyl covered multi-clasp silver ring binder measures approx 12x10x2". Catalog is organized into 8 categories: 1 Low seating 2 Chairs 3 Bedroom Furniture 4 Cabinets 5 Benches and Tables 6 Desks 7 Accessories 8 Textiles. Also included is a collection of 12 leather samples mounted on stiff paper with specs on verso each approx 3' square. Solid copy tabs are worn evidence of use by a practicing architect. Catalog features the work of famous designers including Florence Knoll Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Isami Noguchi and Eero Saarinen furniture and Anni Albers textiles. The graphics for the catalog are by Herbert Matter and photography by Robert Damora Scott Hyde Yuichi Idaka and Herbert Matter. Also includes later sheets for furniture in the later 50-57 Series which includes a chair designed by Marcel Breuer. Knoll Associates, Inc hardcover books
1951réf. 4205811951. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto measuring 10" x 11". Spiral bound green leatherette album with "photographs" stamped in white on the front cover. Contains 149 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 10" x 16" with captions. Detached but present front cover thus very good with near fine photographs. A photo album kept by a Wisconsin nurse Florence Jacksi beginning in 1949. Early pages show Florence on a trip to Washington D.C. for a Safety Patrol trip where she was the nurse on duty. One photo is captioned "100 men and a girl." Newspaper clippings from before the trip show her examining boys to see if they were healthy enough for the trip. A large portion of the middle of the album is from a road trip Florence and her friend Suzy went on in September of 1949. These photos are well captioned with long journal style entries written about each stop on their trip. It begins "Suzy and I off to the great Northwoods - for vacation - relaxation - and no routine and to view the beautiful vistas this time of the year - and not least - to see my relatives." Florence discusses the women's travels in detail including car conversations and various stops along the way. Many of the entries are humorous and talk about her terrible directional skills getting lost and "needing new glasses." After struggling with her luggage at a hotel she writes "we are surely 2 women who were not designed by nature for a suitcase existence." They spent their travels visiting the Great Lakes region forests and fishing areas of the North Woods. The trip portion of the album ends with a section of expenses which reads "expenses -hardly" and lists travel budgets for the journey. The album ends with a collection of family photographs from the late 1940s and early 1950s which include Christmas cards portraits and candids. Florence is seen working in the hospital at parties and on trips with friends. A nice collection of photographs detailing a woman's life and career in Wisconsin in the late 1940s with detailed captions. unknown books
