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1938ref. 5428Virginia City MT 1938. 45 items. Varying sizes. Printed and manuscript. All material very good. This collection of material was archived by Flora McKay McNulty with the vast majority of it concerning her in particular either as correspondence or records kept by. McNulty acted in a variety of positions and capacities in both the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World and the Ancient Order of United Workmen it appears to be primarily she was the recorder for both. Both of the groups appear to have been very active in the Montana mining town of Virginia City Montana. The Ladies of the Maccabees of the World were the female auxiliary for the Knights of the Maccabees a fraternal organization that primarily offered low-cost insurance to members. The Degree of Honor were the female auxiliary for the Ancient Order of United Workmen which was a fraternal benefits society that was formed shortly after the American Civil War. Flora McKay McNulty 1861-1945 was an influential community leader in Virginia City where her accolades are lengthy McNulty was a doctor one of the first female M.D.s in the state was instrumental in the building of the Library patron of the arts paid for the higher education of numerous local young adults and with her sister Mary were at the center of social life in Virginia City for many years. The McNulty home is intact and located in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark District. This collection spans four decades but most of this collection dates from 1896 to 1902. Includes a manuscript roll-call; printed notices from the L.O.T.M.O.T.W headquarters in Port Huron Michigan; printed L.O.T.M.O.T.W. reports with blanks to be filled in; TLS on L.O.T.M.O.T.W. letterhead; various printed ephemera from the L.O.T.M.O.T.W.; manuscript financial report for the L.O.T.M.O.T.W.; program for Madison County Federation of Women's Club; semiannual reports for the A.O.U.W. that are printed with manuscript entries; Degrees of Honor from the A.O.U.W.; printed/manuscript receipts from the A.O.U.W. unknown books
1918ref. 123908London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1918. Finely bound example of this collection of forty one fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Octavo bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine pictorial endpapers illustrated with sixteen full-page color plates including frontispiece. In near fine condition. Macmillan & Co. Ltd unknown books
2014ref. 174673Nashville TN and London: Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 31 2014 through January 25 2015. Edited by Trinita Kennedy who contributes essays as do Donal Cooper Holly Flora Amy Neff and Janet Robson. Includes numerous color illustrations. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers unknown books
1950ref. UBAISOM00NJThe Museum 1950. Very Good. Bailey Flora L. Some Sex Beliefes and Practices in a Navaho Community. Cambridge MA: The Museum 1950. Reports of the Ramah Project Report Number 2. 108pp. 4to. Paperback Wraps. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. The Museum paperback books
2007ref. UGEYMAO00DPENational Geographic 2007. Very Good. Geyer Flora. Mao Ze Dong. Washington DC: National Geographic 2007. 64pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. Glossary. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. National Geographic hardcover books
1987ref. ULEWEUR00MJSimon and Schuster 1988 c1987. Very Good. Lewis Flora. Europe : a Tapestry of Nations. New York: Simon and Schuster 1988 c1987. 587pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Simon and Schuster paperback books
ref. 129731Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1964. Later printing. Part two of the "Elementary Concepts of Modern Mathematics" series. Addresses calculus in various forms and includes solutions to problems and an index. Light foxing to the page edges and endpapers else Near Fine in printed wrappers. Prentice-Hall unknown books
1970ref. 48787Falls Church VA: Woman Activist 1970-1976. First Edition. 37 staplebound newsletters 27.5cm. with publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1 nos. 1-13 1970/1; Vol. 2 no. 1-11 1972; Vol. 3 no. 12 1973; Vol. 4 nos. 1 3 & 8 1974; Vol. 5 nos. 1-6 & 9 1975; Vol. 6 no. 8 1976. Vol. 2 no. 8 titled "The Woman Activist Guide to the 1972 Elections: August 26th Commemorative Issue"; Vol. 2 no. 12 titled "The Woman Activist Guide for Woman Candidates--Campaign 73: December Gift Issue 1972"; Vol. 3 no. 12 titled "The Woman Activist Guide for Woman Candidates--Campaign 74: December Gift Issue 1973"; Vol. 4 no. 8 titled "The Woman Activist Guide to Lobbying: August 26 Commemorative Issue 1974." Accompanied by broadsheet order form verso providing a photocopy of the New York Times article "Feminists Rate House Members" Thursday January 20 1972. Trivial wear and occasioal toning to extremities else Near Fine overall. Newsletter published under the banner "An Action Bulletin for Women's Rights." The Bulletin was the brain child of Virginia feminist Flora Crater who also founded the Virginia chapter of the National Organization for Women NOW. Crater published The Woman Activist as an information newsletter on the activities of the National Ad Hoc Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment. Woman Activist unknown books
1983ref. 160493London: Virago 1983. Octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition of this text. Prints the full text of the novel first published in 1947 as Tomorrow and Tomorrow in a version cut by Australian government censors. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 82. Clute and Nicholls The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 374. Blackford et al. Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction p. 225. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 232. Reginald 00879. Tuck 1974 p. 156. A fine copy. #23103 Virago unknown books
1929ref. 40935London: Macmillan and Co 1929. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; xi129312pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Spine toned and chipped at crown corners bumped a few early leaves wrinkled at bottom fore-edge corners else Near Very Good and sound albeit lacking dust jacket. Autobiography of the British novelist most of whose works deal with British Indian relations. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1973ref. 36226Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1973. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 20359pp. Signed by the author on title page. Jacket quite chipped and worn with a number of losses along bottom edge of upper panel and spine foot affecting text without loss of sense brief tape repair corners worn. Not a beautiful copy though internally fine. "The true story of a woman possessed by 16 separate personalities. Henry Regnery Company unknown books
1894ref. 157578London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1894. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-v vi-ix x-xi xii-xiii xiv-xv xvi 1 2-395 396: blank illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling original dark green cloth printed paper label affixed to spine panel fore and bottom edges untrimmed cream endpapers. First edition. The second selection of Indian stories 43 in all collected and written down by Flora Steel with scholarly aids by Richard Carnac Temple the first selection was WIDE-AWAKE STORIES: A COLLECTION OF TALES TOLD BY LITTLE CHILDREN BETWEEN SUNSET AND SUNRISE IN THE PUNJAB AND KASHMIR 1884. In 1894 Flora Steel and Richard C. Temple once more collaborated to produce TALES OF THE PUNJAB TOLD BY THE PEOPLE. Again Mrs. Steel collected the stories and selected them with a view to youthful tastes while Temple provided the scholarly annotations and appendixes pp. 299-395 ." - Dorson The British Folklorists p. 341. Spine label a bit tanned mild foxing to page edges a very good attractive copy. #157578 Macmillan and Co. unknown books
1970ref. 28946Guelph: The Library of University of Guelph 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.75cm.; original orange printed spiral-bound wrappers; 641 typescript leaves. Top edge of upper wrapper a bit toned else Near Fine. Bibliography Series no. 1. The Library [of] University of Guelph unknown books
1971ref. 27709Enugu Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd 1971. Second 1972 Printing. Octavo 19cm; illustrated wrappers; 117 5pp. Some shelfwear and light dustiness to wrappers; Very Good. First story collection by Nigeria's first published female novelist consisting of ten pieces of short fiction usually centered around women. Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd unknown books
1971ref. 20229Enugu Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers 1971. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 124pp. Some trivial rubbing to backstrip on rear wrapper else a Fine unread copy. Anthology collection fiction about Nigeria during war and peacetime with contributions by Chinua Achebe Andre Aletta Chukwuma Azuonye Victor Nwankwo Samuel Ifejika Flora Nwapa and Nathan Okonkwo Nkala et al. Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers unknown books
1984ref. 23103Garden City: The Dial Press / Doubleday & Company 1984. Octavo pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition of this text. Prints the full text of the novel first published in 1947 as Tomorrow and Tomorrow in a version cut by Australian government censors. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 82. Clute and Nicholls The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 374. Blackford et al. Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction p. 225. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 232. Reginald 00879. Tuck 1974 p. 156. A fine copy. #23103 The Dial Press / Doubleday & Company unknown books
1934ref. 116859New York Toronto: Longmans 1934. Octavo original orange cloth stamped in black top edge stained maroon. First U.S. edition. Posthumously published collection of thirty-seven short stories selected and introduced by the author's daughter Mrs. J. E. Webster. The U.S. edition was printed from the plates of the UK edition. Steel brought up in Scotland married an official in the Indian Civil Service and spent twenty-two years in the Punjab teaching herself the language and holding office as Inspectress of Girls' Schools. She became known as an author and translator of folk and fairy tales for children and of novels for adults that combined an interest in Indian culture with a respect for imperial values as well. A nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges dust soiling and several internal tape mends. #116859 Longmans unknown books
1914ref. 116858London: William Heinemann 1914. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-311 312: blank original olive green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Twenty-four stories. Steel brought up in Scotland married an official in the Indian Civil Service and spent twenty-two years in the Punjab teaching herself the language and holding office as Inspectress of Girls' Schools. She became known as an author and translator of folk and fairy tales for children and of novels for adults that combined an interest in Indian culture with a respect for imperial values as well. "The Birth of Fire" is a weird story about a fire worshipper. "A Maiden's Prayer" concerns Kali worship and a Tantric cult. "The supernaturalism of Hindu and Muslim customs and beliefs wafts through Steel's stories like an incense; a fantastic atmosphere clings to them whether they are objectively supernatural or not; indeed the uncertainty itself is part of the atmosphere. The author's knowledge of religious and occult lore is put to use neither sentimentally nor sensationally but with a more genuine sense of both humor and horror. Her work deserves a closer look by genre enthusiasts than it has yet received." - Robert Eldridge. Spine panel tanned some mild tanning and foxing to pages early and late small worm holes to margins of last few leaves a very good copy. #116858 William Heinemann unknown books
2004ref. 121550Madrid Spain: Sotohenar 2004. First edition. Softcover. 175 pages. Text in English and Spanish with essays by Francisco Jaruta Fernando Huici Javier Maderuelo Celia Montolio Juan Manuel Bonet Fernando Castro Florez Celia Montolio Alicia Murria Dominique Nahas Guillermo Solan Jesus Remon Penalver Mercedes Replinger Juan Manuel Bonet Fernando Castro Florez Marcos-Ricardo Barnatan. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers in a fine dust jacket. Sotohenar unknown books
ref. 02841London: Macmillan & Co. 1918. Edition De Luxe One of 500 Signed Copies RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. STEEL Flora Annie. English Fairy Tales. Retold by Flora Annie Steel. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan & Co. 1918. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies this copy being no. 295 signed by the artist. Large quarto 11 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 284 x 22 mm. 2 limitation leaf ix 1 blank 341 3 blank pp. Sixteen color plates mounted on textured white paper with captioned tissue guards and forty-one drawings in black and white. Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Some soiling to spine otherwise a fine copy. "Rackham's books for the English market in the early post-war years included Flora Annie Steel's English Fairy Tales Retold 1918 with its 57 illustrations." Hamilton p. 128 Amongst many others the fairy tales include: St. George of Merrie England The Story of the Three Bears Jack the Giant-Killer The Golden Ball Jack and the Beanstalk The Three Little Pigs Mr. Fox The Old Woman and her Pig Little Red Riding-Hood The Babes in the Wood The Ass the Table and the Stick The Rose Tree Latimore and Haskell p. 48. Riall p. 132. London: Macmillan & Co., 1918 unknown books
1927ref. 9019947San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1927. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. One of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in November of 1927. Grabhorn Press hardcover books
1996ref. 9004410New York: Knopf 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Knopf hardcover books
1915ref. 1663London: The Office of "The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's 1915. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A nice copy of this lovely early study of the crochet hook. c. 1915. IN THE VERY UNCOMMON ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. VG in a bright VG example of the scarce dustjacket. Minor chipping along the fore-edge crease of the jacket and along the spine crown. Still a very well-preserved copy of an attractive yet fragile book. Octavo 118 pgs. second edition. The Office of "The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's hardcover books
1891ref. WRCAM43840San Francisco: C.A. Murdock & Co. 1891. pp.135-196. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. This was the third in a series of monthly publications of short stories by Flora Loughead called "The Gold Dust Series." This is the story of a boy raised on a California mission who went on to a university education. Following that in this same publication is another short story called "Sealskin Annie." Under the name Flora Haines Apponyi from a previous marriage Loughead published a significant study of the private and public libraries of California. Her sons Allan and Malcolm would go on to form the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation forerunner of the aerospace giant. C.A. Murdock & Co. hardcover books
1878ref. WRCAM44378San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company 1878. 3046pp. Modern library buckram. Very clean internally. Very good. From an edition of 500 copies. Includes sketches of the libraries of Hubert Howe Bancroft the Society of California Pioneers the University of California Leland Stanford J. Ross Browne Charles and M.H. DeYoung Bishop William Kip J.D. Whitney and more. Many of these collections were damaged if not destroyed during the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. "A valuable and interesting record of these collections most of which have been long since dispersed" - Cowan. COWAN pp.17-18. A.L. Bancroft and Company hardcover books
