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1981réf. 20066New York: Holiday House 1981. First printing. Fine in about-fine jacket. Signed first edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books. 6'' x 7''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped $7.95 green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey with full-page black-and-white images facing each page of text. 64 pages. Signed by Gorey on the title page crossing out his own name. Slight sunning to jacket spine. Holiday House unknown 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
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
1947réf. 16351New York: Capitol Publishing Company 1947. Near fine. Charming mid-century Santa novelty featuring the classic Victorian poem in the form of a Santa Claus shape book - with a beard made of real cotton. 11.25'' x 9.75''. Original spiral-bound color pictorial boards die-cut in the shape of Santa on a sleigh. Illustrated in color by Florence Kent. 24 pages including boards on card stock of varying thickness. Minor edgewear and soil. Capitol Publishing Company unknown books
1938réf. 621806Darien Connecticut: Educational Publishing Corporation 1938. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. 38pp. Stapled wrappers. Offsetting on the wrappers and corners bumped very good. For voice and piano. Features nine programs each with multiple songs "Auditorium Exercises" " Santa's Recovery" "Farewell to Toyland" "Santa Finds That Old Toys Are Best" "The Coming of Spring" "The Flower Parade" "The Awakening of the Roses" "The Magic Hammer" and "The Safety Circus." Unrecorded by OCLC. Educational Publishing Corporation unknown books
1964réf. dacs254Coral Gables: University of Miami Press 1964. Second Printing. Signed by the author. Octavo green cloth viii 214 pp. Fold-out map photos. Fine in a dust jacket that has several chips and tears around the perimeter. University of Miami Press, 1964. Second Printing. hardcover books
1952réf. 609890Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Thin octavo. 80pp. 36 plates. Contemporary gift inscription else about fine in very good modestly worn dust jacket with a few small internal repairs. Interesting and attractive title. Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover 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
1914réf. 606026Chicago: Historical Feature Film Company 1914. Unbound. Near Fine. Film program. Octavo folded once to make 4pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Two old horizontal folds a couple of thin stains on the front panel a bit of rubbing about near fine. A program for the film Money Talks in Darktown starring Florence McLain Frank Montgomery Bert Murphy and Jimmie Marshall. The Historical Feature Film Company was a White-owned production studio in Chicago producing films with largely Black casts but which still incorporated all of the racial stereotypes of the period. The company is largely credited with being established in 1915 though this program is for a film releasing on November 30 1914. Following poor public reception to their early films the company changed their name to the Ebony Film Corporation in 1917 in an attempt to appeal to the Black audience and hired Luther J. Pollard a young Black entrepreneur who was given the title of president and general manager. The company officially shut down just a couple of years later. Very scarce. Historical Feature Film Company unknown books
1974réf. vot263Boston Massachusetts: Boston University Mugar Memorial Library Nursing Archive 1974. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters 69 pp. Very Good with former-owner inscription and light foxing age darkening to endpapers. Boston University Mugar Memorial Library Nursing Archive, 1974. hardcover books
1932réf. 589678Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Publisher's file copy so stamped on front fly and on the front panel of the jacket else near fine in good or better dust jacket with chipping at the spine ends and old internally repaired tears. Woman writer hates men and takes a yacht to a tropical paradise where she meets a man who hates women. Love ensues. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
1941réf. 570609Boston: Little Brown and Company 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by W. Prentice Phillips. About fine in near very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the foot of the spine and several other small nicks and tears. A cook book "written especially for very young cooks." Very scarce. Little, Brown, and Company 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
1938réf. 556372Boston: Little Brown and Company 1938. Hardcover. Good/Good. Later printing. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. A good copy with sunning to the spine light foxing to the edges and ink notations throughout with some paragraphs X'ed out though the text remains perfectly legible in a good only dust jacket with tears along the foot of the spine and some of the rear panel foxing to the spine and publisher's price sticker over the printed price on the front flap. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1984réf. 299097Ontario: Northern Book House 1984. Paperback. 94p. wraps 5x8 inches very good condition. On Solidarity the CIA and the Vatican. Northern Book House paperback books
1964réf. 554009New York: Scholastic Book Services 1964. Softcover. Very Good. First Scholastic Book Services edition. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Mass market paperback. Very good with foxing and rubbing to the wrappers. Scholastic Book Services unknown books
1860réf. 540671New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition wrappered issue. Small octavo. 140 4pp. Owner signature of Mrs. Annie H. Kimball on front wrap some light spotting on the wrappers and first and last leaf lacks about the bottom third of the paper covered spine but a sound and attractive about very good copy in the fragile wrappers. The record of Nightingale's experiences as a manager of nurses in the Crimean War the book was heavily relied upon during the American Civil War. The first American edition is moderately uncommon the wrappered issue is excessively so. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1955réf. 533059New York: M. Barrows and Company 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 256pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips light rubbing and tiny tears. M. Barrows and Company hardcover books
1909réf. 9858gcsConcord: The Rumford Press 1909. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters ix 220 pp. Near-Fine with slight toning to endpapers; in a Very Good original paper wrapper. The Rumford Press, 1909. hardcover books
1965réf. 468287New York: John Wiley & Sons 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 645pp. Stamp and signature of a noted psychologist on the front fly else fine in spine-toned else near fine dust jacket. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
1945réf. 468520New York: Grune and Stratton 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition revised and enlarged. Octavo. 331pp. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly modest wear very good. Grune and Stratton hardcover 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
1895réf. 515565New York: D. Appleton and Company 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Lightly rubbed at tips of spine small surface abrasion and spot of glue residue on front and rear pastedowns else a fine copy. The English-born author She wrote more than 150 novels primarily mysteries and gained fame for her mystery novel The House on the Marsh. Uncommon. Hubin. Crime Fiction p414 published in England in the same year. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1935réf. 506018New York: Newson & Company 1935. Hardcover. Fine. Second printing. Illustrated by Nils Hogner. Small octavo. 80pp. Just about fine in decorative cloth. Inscribed by Florence Romaine on the front flyleaf: "To the Lenox Library Association-with the hope that those who love the music and folklore of our American Indians may find an echo of them in this book. Most sincerely Florence Romaine. Apr. 29th 1947." Our Changing World series edited by Rollo G. Reynolds. Newson & Company hardcover books
1915réf. 524849Harrisburg Pa: Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association 1915. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Small broadside or leaflet. Single sheet measuring 6.25" x 7" printed on both sides. Horizontal crease where once folded verso is unevenly browned with line of tanning on recto else a very good copy. A leaflet promoting woman suffrage in Pennsylvania the text begins: "Never before in the history of the human race have children and young women formed as they do to-day an important part of the working force of great industrial communities wholly apart from their parents and the family life." Text closes: "Women Vote in Wyoming Colorado Idaho Utah Washington California Oregon Arizona Kansas Nevada Montana and Alaska. Why Not in Pennsylvania" OCLC locates a single holding; as well as three holdings of a variant issue with a "New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association" imprint. Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association) unknown books
