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2009réf. 385858New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 211pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1938réf. 382743New York: Samuel French 1938. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate edition. Printed green wrappers. Small nick at the bottom corner of front wrap and first leaf else near fine. Campbell and Ryerson were married to each other and both screenwriters Ryerson best known for co-scripting The Wizard of Oz. Samuel French unknown books
1969réf. 376034Toronto: The Macmillan Company 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Wrappers. 163pp. Creasing curled wrappers and toned pages else very good. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1913réf. 359131Oklahoma City: Published by the authors 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 185pp. Gilt green cloth board with ink owner names written serveral times no title page and front pastedown. Good or better with wear to the extremities the front hinge starting and one page torn and repaired. Includes short biographies and portrait photos of the members of the legislature. OCLC locates five copies. Published by the authors hardcover books
1984réf. 97166New York: Holiday House 1984. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Holiday House hardcover books
1968réf. 102670New York: Grune & Stratton 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fifth printing. Light bumping to the spinal extremities and the previous owner's stamp on the front fly else fine in near fine dustwrapper. Grune & Stratton hardcover books
1931réf. 85444Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Owner name and light overall wear a sound very good copy in very good dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears and some overall age-toning. Young bride in Kenya despairs when her husband goes astray. Scarce. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
1944réf. 48853New York: Books Inc 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition a photoplay edition. Lacking the front fly else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chipping to the spinal extremities and an internal tape repair. Jacket illustrated with a still from the film showing a menacing Boris Karloff. A novelization of the Universal thriller directed by George Waggner and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak and Lynn Starling. Books, Inc hardcover books
1864réf. 3103Hampstead: np 1864. First edition. nb. Good. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE REJECTS THE FIRST GENEVA CONVENTION NINE DAYS AFTER ITS SIGNING: "IT IS LIKE AN OPERA CHORUS". A foundation-era manuscript of international humanitarian law: Florence Nightingale's private rejection of the First Geneva Convention written to Britain's Geneva delegate nine days after its signing-the primary source the ICRC's own historians have long identified as the more accurate record of her views and which the Collected Works anticipated without having. -------- This letter sits at the precise intersection of everything Florence Nightingale most fundamentally believed and everything for which she is remembered. Her life's work rested on a single conviction: that the mass death of soldiers from disease neglect and institutional failure was preventable and that the remedy was systemic reform not charitable supplementation.The Geneva Convention of 1864 proposed a different answer to the same problem. She thought it was wrong and this letter says so privately and without diplomatic qualification to Thomas Longmore the man who had just helped negotiate it. On August 22 1864 twelve European states signed the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. The Convention established the neutrality and protection of wounded soldiers medical personnel and hospitals and adopted the red cross on a white ground as their identifying emblem. It represented a revolutionary proposition: that even in war international law could impose limits upon belligerent states. Nine days later Nightingale rejected the premise that such an agreement could meaningfully alter the conduct of war. The War Office had sent her the manuscript copy of the Convention's articles - materials furnished to them by the letter's recipient Longmore from the Geneva Conference - and asked for her opinion before Britain's accession was finalized. She was the obvious person to ask: no one alive had more direct experience of the conditions the Convention was designed to address. Her response in this letter is devastating: "It amounts to nothing more than a declaration that humanity to the wounded is a good thing. It is like an Opera chorus. And if the principal European characters sing 'We never will be cruel more' I am sure if England likes to sing too 'We never will be cruel more' I see no objection." For Nightingale the fundamental problem was enforcement. A promise of humane conduct had little value because governments willing to observe it required no treaty while governments unwilling to observe it would simply disregard one: "But it is like vows. People who keep a vow would do the thing without the vow. And if people will not do it without the vow they will not do it with." She applies that reasoning directly to the signatories: "England & France will not be more humane to the enemy wounded for having signed the Convention. And the Convention will not keep semi-barbarous nations like Russia from being inhuman." And Nightingale refuses to disguise the realities of warfare beneath humanitarian rhetoric: "I do not reckon myself an inhuman person I can conceive circumstances of 'force majeure' in war where the more people are killed the better." Her conclusion is political and administrative. The question ultimately belongs not to humanitarian volunteers but to government: "For the question appears to me really one for Lord Palmerston to settle." NIGHTINGALE AGAINST HENRY DUNANT: The letter captures one of the fundamental disagreements at the birth of modern humanitarianism. Nightingale and Henry Dunant Swiss humanitarian co-founder of the Red Cross had confronted essentially the same problem-the catastrophic failure of military systems to care for wounded and sick soldiers-but arrived at profoundly different solutions. Nightingale believed the answer was to reform the state and its military medical administration; Dunant believed the inadequacy of those systems required an independent humanitarian structure capable of supplementing them. Nightingale had already objected to Dunant's proposal for voluntary relief societies arguing that such organizations would assume responsibilities properly belonging to governments. Contemporary accounts record her warning that this would relieve governments of duties "which they alone are in a position to assume." The present letter goes further. Written after the Geneva Convention had actually been signed it addresses not merely Dunant's voluntary relief societies but the international legal mechanism intended to protect the wounded. Her objection was fundamental: no treaty could conjure humane conduct in governments that lacked the will or the administrative capacity to provide it. Critically this was not a position confined to her private correspondence. Lynn McDonald's scholarly edition of the Collected Works records that Nightingale communicated the force majeure argument directly to Dunant himself warning him simultaneously of "the very great danger of taking the responsibility off governments of providing for wounded and sick." The present letter to Longmore is the only known primary document in which she makes this argument in full in her own hand to the man who had negotiated the instrument she was critiquing. It has not previously appeared in the scholarly record. THE SYSTEMS REFORMER BEHIND THE "LADY WITH THE LAMP": The letter also exposes the inadequacy of the sentimental popular image of Nightingale as merely the compassionate "Lady with the Lamp." Nightingale was a formidable researcher statistician administrator and systems reformer. She pioneered the use of statistical information and data visualization to demonstrate preventable military mortality and became the first woman elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1858. Her experience during and after the Crimean War convinced her that preventable military suffering resulted principally from failures of administration sanitation organization and accountability. Her solution was therefore not to create a parallel charitable apparatus but to force governments and military institutions to perform their existing responsibilities. That distinction remains central to scholarship on Nightingale and the Red Cross. The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC itself acknowledges that although she and Dunant shared the objective of alleviating wartime suffering their "values and approaches differed significantly" and specifically recognizes her skepticism that an international convention protecting the wounded would actually be respected on the battlefield. The ICRC further cautions scholars against confusing "the public declarations of a woman well versed in the art of public relations with her private opinions." The present letter is precisely the private opinion the ICRC's own historians have flagged as the more accurate record of her views. NIGHTINGALE AND THE RED CROSS - PUBLIC MYTH AND PRIVATE OPINION: The historical irony is considerable. In 1872 Henri Dunant publicly credited Nightingale as an inspiration for his humanitarian work declaring that although he was known as founder of the Red Cross and originator of the Geneva Convention "it is to an Englishwoman that all the honour is due." Nightingale consequently became associated in popular memory with the humanitarian movement whose foundational assumptions she had challenged. The International Red Cross Conference of 1907 sent her a formal message saluting her as "the pioneer of the first Red Cross movement." She spent forty years privately maintaining that the movement was built on a false premise. That distinction gives the present manuscript particular force. Written "Private" to Britain's representative at Geneva while the Convention was scarcely a week old it records Nightingale without commemorative hindsight or diplomatic polish. She calls the new international agreement an "Opera chorus" compares its promises to ineffectual vows predicts that civilized powers will behave according to circumstances regardless of their signatures and argues that states inclined toward brutality will simply ignore it. The document thus places one of the nineteenth century's greatest humanitarian reformers at the precise historical moment when two competing models for alleviating suffering in war confronted one another: Dunant's international humanitarian law and voluntary relief movement versus Nightingale's insistence upon state responsibility and systemic military reform. History ultimately incorporated both. Modern military medical systems bear Nightingale's legacy while the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross embody Dunant's. Their apparently contrary paths ultimately became complementary. This letter captures the disagreement at its source. PROVENANCE: From the personal papers of Sir Thomas Longmore 1816-1895 Professor of Military Surgery at Netley and British delegate to the Geneva Conference of August 1864; thence by family descent. Marked "Private" by Nightingale herself the letter remained among Longmore's papers. Autograph Letter Signed "Florence Nightingale" to Sir Thomas Longmore rejecting the First Geneva Convention nine days after its signing. Hampstead N.W.: August 31 1864. One sheet 7x9 in folded into four pages. Hole at top center. Originally folded to create six panels. Top two panels completely separated at both folds bottom panels separated along vertical fold; other panels just barely attached. There is no loss at the folds and when the panels are placed together everything appears complete and attached. Text throughout legible and unfaded. Signature crisp and fully legible. References: Boissier Pierre. "Florence Nightingale and Henry Dunant: Similarities and Differences." International Review of the Red Cross 1964. McDonald Lynn ed. Florence Nightingale and the European Wars: From the Crimean to the Franco-Prussian War. The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale University of Guelph. Mohr Charlotte. "Florence Nightingale: Portrait of a Pioneer of Modern Nursing in Writings." ICRC Library / Cross-Files August 2018. Angela Countess of Limerick. "Florence Nightingale." International Review of the Red Cross 1964. np unknown 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
1948réf. 1407921New York: The Macmillan Company 1948. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo x 241 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red black green and white with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price cut but stamped with "$3.00." Rubbing and moderate tearing along edges of dust jacket. Aging with light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards with red stamping to front board and spine. General shelf wear with mild visible rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards. Textblock clean. With a black-and-white photo of the author laid in. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1407921. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1931réf. 618900New York: The Mohawk Press 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. 159pp. 1934 gift inscription some offsetting to the endpapers near fine in very good dust jacket with three large chips on the rear panel and one on the spine tail sunned spine. Speller was the founder of the White Plains New York Garden Club. The Mohawk Press hardcover books
1945réf. 29671New York/Hollywood/Toronto: Samuel French Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1948 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. a good sound copy with only light shelfwear large library label on front pastedown see Notes; the jacket has a bit of paper loss at the spine ends which has been filled in by internal paper-tape reinforcement as have a diagonal tear and a small narrow chip at the bottom of the front panel and another bit at the top rear flap-fold. B&W photo frontispiece INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-writer Ryerson on the front endpaper to a fellow writer Alice D.G. Miller: "For Alice / with gratitude / and affection / Florence / November 1948." As blurbed on the front of the jacket the play a battle-of-the-sexes comedy set in 1896 San Francisco about a couple who agree to disagree on an important issue women's suffrage had a successful 7-month run on Broadway 229 performances January-July 1948. In addition to the inscription the material on the facing page the front pastedown fills in the story a bit more: first there is the inscribee's ownership signature her full name at the top of the page and there is also a large illustrated bookplate headed Motion Picture Relief Fund Inc. and stating that "This book has been donated to the Motion Picture Country House by Alice D.G. Miller." Miller 1894-1985 was a prominent movie scenarist during the 1920s with a few more scattered credits in the early talkie years; Ryerson 1892-1965 was more prolific who had dozens of screenwriting credits from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s including a shared credit on THE WIZARD OF OZ and often wrote in collaboration with Clements her second husband. Their joint output included not only screenplays but also mystery novels and stage plays. Beyond documenting a simple friendship though the two women collaborated on at least one stage play a 1950 comedy called "Little Scandal" a copy of which can also be procured from ReadInk if you are interested and so inclined. It might also be noted that Mr. Clements having died of a heart attack in January 1948 never got to enjoy the Broadway success of this play. Signed by One Author . Samuel French, Inc. hardcover books
1984réf. 222552University of New Mexico Press 1984-06-01. paperback. Good. 7x0x9. Minor overall wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. 284 pages. University of New Mexico Press paperback books
1907réf. 2343861New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1907. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Fisher Harrison. No jacket. Hinges starting bookplate and pencil name on front endpapers rear paste-down endpaper chipped. 1907 Hard Cover. 282 pp. Harrison Fisher inlay and frontispiece. The story revolves around a wealthy family the Browns who live in a luxurious mansion in New York City. The family consists of the father mother and their three children - two daughters and a son. The book explores the dynamics of the Brown family and their relationships with each other and the people around them. The characters are depicted as complex and flawed and the story delves into their personal struggles and challenges. One of the central themes of the book is the idea of social class and the divide between the rich and the poor. The Browns are shown as being privileged and insulated from the struggles of the working class but as the story progresses they begin to see the world from a different perspective. Another important theme is the exploration of LGBTQ identity. The book features a character who is struggling with their sexuality and the societal pressures that come with it. This was a groundbreaking topic for the time period in which the book was written. Overall Those Queer Browns is a thought-provoking and engaging novel that explores themes of family class and identity. It is a significant work in the history of LGBTQ literature and a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century society. "Florence Morse Kingsley July 14 1859 – November 7 1937 was an American author of popular and religious fiction. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1923réf. 30213New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1923. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1923. First Edition. Signed by Louise Lamprey with brief inscription at half title. Octavo. 368 pp. Illustrations some in color. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn with some scuffing and rubbing; corners bumped. Binding sound. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers; marginal spotting to interior pages but text else unmarked and legible throughout; overall Very Good. Part of the publisher's Great Days in American History series; books signed by Lamprey scarce in retail. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1942réf. 591015St. Albans Vermont; Northampton Massachusetts 1942. Softcover. Very Good. An archive of 83 letters written between a young woman and her family in Vermont mostly while she was attending Smith College. The letters are dated between 1898 and 1920 with one from 1942. All items very good or better with tears from opening. A collection of letters between Florence M. Merritt and her family in St. Albands Vermont beginning in 1898 through 1914. A majority of the letters are from her time at Smith College between 1902 and 1907 some written on Smith stationary. In earlier letters Florence visits friends and family in Northampton Massachusetts which seems to have helped her make her decision to attend school there. She writes of her studies friends and family and her daily activities. In one letter she writes “I have been very busy this last week with my studies. It is not going to be an easy year by any means.” Other letters talk about “cramming for exams” and pairing up for off campus housing. Her father was co-owner of Merritt & Pease Grocers in Vermont and some of his letters are on the company’s stationary. After graduating from Smith Florence began an elementary school teacher back in Vermont. Her family was very religious and she was a member and treasure for the First Baptist Church in St. Albans. A year before her death she was honored by the local library for being a trustee for 50 years. 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
1930réf. 568687New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. First American editions. Two volumes. Octavos. Illustrated. Bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown of each volume. Both volumes with the spines and shoulders soiled a few tiny tears at the crown and the endleaves tanned; The Later Years with bumping along the topedge of the rear board causing two tiny tears in the cloth and the top corner worn through a very good set. The text and illustrations are fine. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1986réf. 574704New York: Warner 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of Warner edition. Introduction by William Styron. 16mo. 176pp. Printed pink wrappers. Small sticker shadow on front cover light soiling toning on the spine and rear wrap very good. Contains an epilogue by co-author Tedd Thomey commenting on Florence Aadland's life death and her imprisonment. Addland details the sexual relationship her daughter Beverly had with actor Errol Flynn 33 years her senior that began when Beverly was 15. Basis for the one-woman Broadway show starring Tracey Ullman as Florence. First published by Lancer in 1961. Warner unknown books
1939réf. 562133New York: Samuel French 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Some foxing on the boards else a nice near fine copy in spine-toned very good or better dust jacket with light wear. Inscribed by the co-author to Barrett H. Clark: "Dear Barrett - this is more or less our idea of a high school play. Hope we're right! Colin. Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama aside from authoring many books he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French. Both of the authors who were married were successful screenwriters as well although Ryerson achieved the most success and is perhaps best known for her co-scripting of The Wizard of Oz. An uncommon play basis for the film Her First Beau. Samuel French hardcover books
1969réf. 521336New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Drawings by the author. Faint foxing on the foredge small tear on the rear corner very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate foxing on the spine and verso. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1915réf. 92305Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 volumes. frontises illustrations index 392 434p. Original cloth backed boards. Leather title labels on backstrips. 24 cm. Slipcase not present. Ends of backstrips lightly rubbed. Copy No. 290 of the Large Paper Edition which was limited to 450 copies. Undated and unidentified manuscrript piece by Howe mounted on leaf preceding frontis in first volume -- "My presence may be needed where it is far from being desired. I feel very sure of this in the current corrupt administration of the country. Many men do not want women to look after their own affairs . we had trouble deciphering the last two lines Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1895réf. 515641New York: D. Appleton and Company 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Front hinge mended to coated endpapers with rear hinge starting short tear on rear fly small surface abrasion on rear pastedown with a spot of glue residue on front pastedown very good. 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
1920réf. 524582London: Longmans Green and Co 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 280pp. Blue cloth stamped in black and white. 34 Illustrations by E.OE. Somerville. A near fine copy with binding fresh and bright in very good dust jacket tanned on the spine with half-inch chip at crown and with two small chips on front and rear panel. Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin met in 1886 and their literary collaboration lasted until 1915 with the death of Martin. Both worked for woman suffrage in Ireland and Somerville continued to write under their joint pseudonym believing in Martin's continued spirit-connection see Blain et al. Feminist Companion. p. 1006. A collection of short stories and sketches many with Irish themes; also includes "Not the Woman's Place" and a long article about Denmark. Scarce in jacket. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
