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1958ref. 017474New York: Gold Medal 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Vintage Paperback PBO Gold Medal #b761. Sharp Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original April 1958. $.25 cover price. Square tight and clean throughout with a hint of toning and a touch of rubbing to the front hinge though quite minor and almost unnoticeable. Fresh and bright with no chipping creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved. A gorgeous collectable copy. Gold Medal unknown books
1941ref. 003171Spencer IN: Samul R. Guard & Co. Inc 1941. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCARCE and invaluable resource for the collector of Indiana artists. Fine nice prior owner bookplate front pastedown. 181 pages with 2 pages of advertising. Illustrated profusely. Samul R. Guard & Co., Inc Hardcover books
1924ref. 98385New York: Macmillan Company 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two small nicks at the corners of the crown. Very scarce. Beautiful Indian woman educated in the West returns home to purify a tantric cult encounters intrigue. Very scarce. Macmillan Company hardcover books
1903ref. TK0347London: Published at 17 Furnival Street E.C. 1903-04. 1903. 21 issues bound in 2 large volumes. Tall 4tos. vi 324; vi 392 pp. 40 chromolithographic plates tissue guards the tissues are foxed profusely illustrated. Modern half black cloth dark blue cloth boards new endsheets leather gilt-stamped labels. Handsome set. Edited by W. Robinson Gravetye Manor. Illustrated with plates by Henry George Moon 1857-1905. This is the first two years of the publication. There was also issued a third annual in 1905 not available here. In fact with the artist's passing in 1905 this nobly illustrated periodical was forced to cease production. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY. Published at 17, Furnival Street, E.C., 1903-04. hardcover books
1864ref. 14589New York: Currier & Ives 1864. Lithograph. Lithograph. Near fine. From Currier & Ives The Old Oaken Bucket by Frances Flora Palmer published in 1864. Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau St. New York. Short closed tear along top edge archival tissue repair. Printed on wove paper. Includes 2 stanzas and 4 lines of verse by Samuel T. Woodworth. Original artwork by Frances Flora Bond Palmer. Image measures 15 15/16 x 23 3/8. Conningham 4576 In wood frame not examined outside of frame. An attractive work. "When Frances "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer moved to New York from England in 1844 she was thirty-two and an accomplished artist and printmaker. Initially Fanny and her husband Seymour operated a small print-shop in lower Manhattan similar to one they had run in Leicester United Kingdom. In 1849 the couple moved to Brooklyn after the business closed. Nathaniel Currier recognized Palmer's talent and began to buy her drawings to use as print designs. After Currier & Ives was established in 1857 she became a staff artist. As a designer able to transfer images to lithographic stones for printing Palmer produced more than 200 prints for the firm and today is regarded as a leading woman lithographer of the period." - Met Museum 2023. Currier and Ives was a prominent American printmaking firm that operated from 1834 to 1907. They are best known for their lithographs which depicted a wide range of subjects including landscapes historical scenes portraits and everyday life in 19th-century America. Their prints were widely popular and affordable making them accessible to a broad audience. Some of the famous lithographs produced by Currier and Ives include: American Homestead Winter Clipper Ship 'Flying Cloud' The Life of a Fireman The Four Seasons of Life: Middle Age and American Railroad Scene. Currier & Ives unknown books
1991ref. 2331927New York: Simon & Schuster 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1x6x9. First edition. Jacket spine head bumped jacket lightly soiled. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. 604 pp. "Moving the Mountain" tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved 'half a revolution' between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book the most complete history of the women's movement to date Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the prejudices and unspoken rules governing a woman's place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle "Moving the Mountain" conveys the excitement the frustration and the creative chaos of feminism's Second Wave. This title includes a new afterword that assesses the movement's progress in the 1990s and prospects for the new century. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1985ref. 2305363New York: Harry N. Abrams 1985. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 11x8x0. Rome Stuart. First edition. Top corner faintly bruised. 1985 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Includes 245 illustrations 81 plates in full color. "Essays on Mayan culture iconography sculpture ceramics and architecture are accompanied by photographs. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1968ref. 56478New York: Burt Franklin. Fine. 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. A Reprint Edition in Fine condition ; The Supplement to the Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling is an extensive and detailed resource that covers Kipling's life and writings from 1892 to 1927. The book includes bibliographical information on Kipling's poetry short stories novels plays and non-fiction works as well as an exhaustive index.; 8vo; 333 pages; Price . Burt Franklin hardcover books
1968ref. 56912New York: Burt Franklin. Fine. 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. A Reprint Edition Fine with no blemishing; This book is a supplement to the Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling compiled by Flora V. Livingston. It contains over 1100 citations to Kipling's writing ranging from articles and short stories to poems plays and novels.; 8vo; 333 pages . Burt Franklin hardcover books
1968ref. 57619New York: Burt Franklin. Fine. 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. A mildly shelfworn Reprint Edition in otherwise Fine condition ; This book is a supplement to the Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. It contains an annotated bibliography of the works of Rudyard Kipling as well as notes bibliographies and indexes.; 8vo; 333 pages . Burt Franklin hardcover books
1968ref. 55547New York: Burt Franklin. Fine. 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. A Reprint edition in Fine condition no discernable blemishes; The authoritative bibliography of 1907 Nobel Laureate Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 18 January 1936 English short-story writer poet and novelist often remembered for his celebration of British imperialism his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children; 8vo; 333 pages . Burt Franklin hardcover books
1987ref. 54919New York London ET AL: Simon and Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0671440187 . A first edition/first printing in Fine condition housed in a like dust-jacket; This book traces the history of Europe from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the present day. It covers a vast array of topics from political and economic history to cultural and religious life. The book is divided into thirteen sections each covering a different period in European history.; 8vo; 587 pages; 54860: two volume set . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1891ref. 43840San Francisco: C.A. Murdock & Co. 1891. 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. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. hardcover books
1868ref. 62595New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Scene of African-American Life on the Mississippi During Reconstruction by an Important Woman Artist An excellent Currier & Ives Mississippi River scene created just a few years after the Civil War after an original illustration by the important and prolific artist Frances Palmer. Though ostensibly presented as a nostalgic representation of the South a modern interpretation might conclude that it demonstrates a new sense of freedom and independence felt by formerly enslaved people in the first few years of Reconstruction. This image also demonstrates a simple but poignant and even uncomfortable truth about how life on the Mississippi River is contingent upon external circumstances most notably the whims of the weather. Low Water portrays former slaves dancing merrily outside their cabin with the plantation house in the deep background as the great steamship Robert E. Lee and another riverboat roar down the river. The Lee passes by a small barge on which sits a cabin labeled "Grocery." The water here is indeed low sitting several feet below the top of the riverbank. The sense of celebration among the African-American subjects is palpable. The lithograph is signed "J.M.I. Del." in the image indicating that James Ives drew the lithograph from Palmer's original artwork. The illustration for this Currier & Ives print was created by the important artist Frances Flora Bond Palmer. Palmer 1812-1876 was the first woman in the United States to work as a professional artist and to make a living with her art. She produced more Currier & Ives prints than any other artist. Known as Fanny she was according to Gloria Deák "the foremost woman lithographer of her time." Born and raised in England by a cultivated family she was already an accomplished painter and lithographer when she came to America in 1844 at which time she exhibited two works at the National Academy of Design. By 1849 she was working for Currier producing landscapes and still lifes lithographing these prints herself usually after her own sketches. She worked for Currier & Ives from 1849 into the 1870s bringing in much needed income for her family and producing about 200 of the company's best scenes and landscapes. Palmer was one of the most important and prolific artists and lithographers ever employed by Nathaniel Currier and she gave important assistance to Charles Currier in inventing a superior lithographic crayon. This Mississippi River scene is one the most popular pictures among the thirty-plus Mississippi River lithographs produced by the company. "In 1868 three years after the Civil War ended James Ives who had found Palmer to be an excellent collaborator on his visions of broad symbolic images of American life worked with her on eight large important lithographs.Among them is a pair of lithographs - 'High Water' in the Mississippi and Low Water in the Mississippi - this time portraying the mighty river's fickle moods. The subject was particularly timely because Southern levees had been destroyed during the war and serious flooding had occurred in 1862 1865 and 1867" - Rubinstein. Rubinstein notes that the Currier & Ives audience had always enjoyed scenes of natural disasters and of the Mississippi River but goes on to find significant allegorical content in the image depicted in Low Water as well as noting significant changes between Palmer's original artwork and the published lithograph: "Low Water a peaceful scene of the river at low tide shows a group of brightly dressed African American adults and children dancing and playing the banjo in front of their cabin while white owners of the plantation house stroll about their land.Scholars have critiqued Palmer's presentation in Low Water of childlike African Americans enjoying their lives on the old plantation - reminiscent of the 'Sambo' minstrel show character. In fact Low Water demonstrates how the heavy hand of her employers affected her work. Palmer had originally drawn a fully developed pencil study for Low Water in the Mississippi in which two shirt-sleeved African American men are ferrying three white men to the other side of the river while a group of well-dressed white people seated at leisure in front of the plantation mansion enjoy the view. For the final lithograph however someone perhaps James Ives who signed his name as the lithographer on the print had removed the hard-working black boatmen and substituted the usual minstrel show clichés.Low Water suggested that everyone would be better off if freed black people went peacefully back to work for their former masters instead of demanding their own land or trying to vote and run for office." A fantastic Currier & Ives handcolored lithograph which was originally intended as a companion piece to "High Water" in the Mississippi. Toning in the margins from previous matting. Closed marginal tears a few intruding into the image repaired on verso and with no loss of image. Very good overall with excellent visual appeal. Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist Syracuse NY 2018 item 3-77A pp.144-45 203. PETERS CURRIER & IVES pp.110-16; items 3944 3946. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 3057 4149. CONNINGHAM 2819 3824. GALE 3057 4150. DEÃK PICTURING AMERICA 647 ref. unknown books
1868ref. 62593New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Scene of African-American Life on the Mississippi During Reconstruction by an Important Woman Artist An excellent Currier & Ives Mississippi River scene created just a few years after the Civil War after an original illustration by the important and prolific artist Frances Palmer. Though ostensibly presented as a nostalgic representation of the South a modern interpretation might conclude that it demonstrates a new sense of freedom and independence felt by formerly enslaved people in the first few years of Reconstruction. This image also demonstrates a simple but poignant and even uncomfortable truth about how life on the Mississippi River is contingent upon external circumstances most notably the whims of the weather. "High Water in the Mississippi presents a scene of a Mississippi River flood in which several former slaves sit atop the roof of a house among the flotsam and jetsam two of the men with long poles trying to recover furniture floating in the river. One man tries to rescue a mule struggling in the water. A plantation house stands in the background with two White residents waving at the large steamship Stonewall Jackson which chugs by in the background. The lithograph is signed "J.M.I. Del." in the image indicating that James Ives drew the lithograph from Palmer's original artwork. The illustration for this Currier & Ives print was created by the important artist Frances Flora Bond Palmer. Palmer 1812–76 was the first woman in the United States to work as a professional artist and to make a living with her art. She produced more Currier & Ives prints than any other artist. Known as Fanny she was according to Gloria Deák "the foremost woman lithographer of her time." Born and raised in England by a cultivated family she was already an accomplished painter and lithographer when she came to America in 1844 at which time she exhibited two works at the National Academy of Design. By 1849 she was working for Currier producing landscapes and still lifes lithographing these prints herself usually after her own sketches. She worked for Currier & Ives from 1849 into the 1870s bringing in much needed income for her family and producing about 200 of the company's best scenes and landscapes. Palmer was one of the most important and prolific artists and lithographers ever employed by Nathaniel Currier and she gave important assistance to Charles Currier in inventing a superior lithographic crayon. This Mississippi River scene is one the most popular pictures among the thirty-plus Mississippi River lithographs produced by the company. "In 1868 three years after the Civil War ended James Ives who had found Palmer to be an excellent collaborator on his visions of broad symbolic images of American life worked with her on eight large important lithographs.Among them is a pair of lithographs - 'High Water' in the Mississippi and Low Water in the Mississippi - this time portraying the mighty river's fickle moods. The subject was particularly timely because Southern levees had been destroyed during the war and serious flooding had occurred in 1862 1865 and 1867" - Rubinstein. Rubinstein notes that the Currier & Ives audience had always enjoyed scenes of natural disasters but goes on to find significant allegorical content in the images depicted in "High Water" and Low Water: "Now in the Reconstruction period instead of focusing on the North's victory both black and white Southerners are seen bravely struggling to recover from the aftermath of a great flood the Civil War.Abolitionists and Radical Republicans could read 'High Water' as a poignant image of newly freed slaves struggling to salvage something for their future the 'forty acres and a mule' promised to them by General Grant but rescinded by President Johnson but to white Southerners and to many Northerners as well Low Water suggested that everyone would be better off if freed black people went peacefully back to work for their former masters instead of demanding their own land or trying to vote and run for office." A fantastic Currier & Ives handcolored lithograph which was originally intended as a companion piece to Low Water in the Mississippi. Toning in the margins from previous matting. Some very light surface wear. Overall very good plus with excellent visual appeal. Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist Syracuse NY 2018 item 3-59 pp.144-45 203. PETERS CURRIER & IVES pp.110-16; items 3944 3946. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 3057 4149. CONNINGHAM 2819 3824. GALE 3057 4150. DEÃK PICTURING AMERICA 647 ref. unknown books
1954ref. 140946058New York City: Lion Books Inc 1954. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 128pp. Bound in pictorial softcover wrappers. Very Good with slight lean to binding; dampstain to bottom right corner and light edge wear. Front gutter tender contents toned. Flora's debut and his best-known work a crime novel of one woman's descent into madness featuring lesbian characters. Lion Books, Inc unknown books
1965ref. 140946062London: Horwitz Publications Inc 1965. First edition. Very Good. First edition. vi 194pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very Good with spine lean and creasing; corners bumped. Rear cover toned with former owner's name. Front gutter tender; former owner's name on front leaf contents lightly toned. A campy erotic thriller novel depicting various college student and faculty seductions by a "handsome" mathematics professor Bradley Cannon. Purports to expose the seedy underbelly of college life in the mid '60s. The front cover tagline presages Girls Gone Wild: "A daring novel of girls on the loose." One of Fletcher Flora's most uncommon novels. Horwitz Publications Inc unknown books
1960ref. 140946075New York: The Macmillan Company 1960. First edition. First edition. Signed by Fletcher Flora on dedication page in red ink inscribed to former owners. vi 153 pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth with dark crimson lettering. Contents well-toned with age else Fine in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket two short closed tears to the rear panel unclipped $2.95. A very rare signature from prolific American crime writer Fletcher Flora 1914-1969 best-known for his lesbian-themed pulp novels such as Strange Sisters. Journeyman crime authors of the '50s and '60s like Flora did not get many opportunities to sign their work. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1995ref. 71916Peebleshire: Traquair House 1995. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 175ppindex. Very good in publisher's wraps. Traquair House paperback books
1909ref. 1761Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1909. First edition. 1909 SCARCE REPORT OF VENEREAL DISEASE IN GIRLS ACQUIRED FROM INFECTED MEN SEEKING A CURE BY TRANSFERING THE PATHOGEN. 15 x 23 cm offprint stapled in printed brown paper wraps paginated 1-20 pp tables and graphs. Covers soiled edges worn residue of rusted paper clip top of covers staples rusted text pages browned but unmarked. A good but age-worn copy of a rare offprint in protective mylar sleeve. It represents an important study in pediatric infectious disease child abuse public health and society in turn-of-the-century urban America by a pioneering female physician. "FLORA POLLACK 1865 – 1938 attended the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore graduating in 1891 then interned at the Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia. From 1896-1897 she was a Lecturer on Embryology at the Woman's Medical College and she became Associate Professor of Embryology and Physical Diagnosis there in 1897. She studied in Berlin in 1897 and then returned to Baltimore. She became an assistant in the Department of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital specializing in women's venereal diseases in 1900 and worked there until 1913 with a leave of absence in 1912. In 1909 during her time at Johns Hopkins she published a report titled "The Acquired Venereal Infections in Children: A Report of 187 Children Treated in the Women's Venereal Department of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Dispensary" offered here. In the report she detailed a trend that she had been seeing in her patients at the hospital - that of "the unusually large number of young children brought there for the treatment of acquired venereal infections." After investigating this situation she formed what she called an "infectionist theory." Apparently at the time there was a superstition widely circulated that a person infected with either gonorrhea or syphilis could rid themselves of the disease by infecting another person with it. The preference was to infect a virgin which meant that children were often the targets. Pollack hoped to counter this superstition with accurate medical information which led to her giving numerous talks on hygiene at various women's and children's institutions over the years. Pollack was one of the first doctors to attribute the extreme spread of gonorrhea and syphilis in children to assault by infected adults rather than through transmission via shared linens or restroom facilities. Along with Dr. P. S. Bourdeau-Sisco she founded the Woman's Medical Society of Maryland in 1914. Her main connection to the suffrage movement came in 1910 when she traveled to Annapolis to speak at a hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Dr. Pollack argued for the right of women to vote based on the ability it would give them to protect their children through political action. Unfortunately this hearing did not lead to any concrete action by the Maryland Senate."-- Anna Assogba Research Librarian Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts. Johns Hopkins paperback books
2004ref. 304760New York: Knopf 2004. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated with color photographs. 478 pages. Thick 8vo two toned maroon boards dust wrapper. New York: Knopf 2004. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. Knopf unknown books
1987ref. 300450London: Barrie & Jenkins 1987. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated. 222 pages tall 8vo cloth d.w.; some very minor wear at foot of spine. London: Barrie & Jenkins 1987. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Barrie & Jenkins unknown books
ref. 03464STORIES TOLD TO CHILDREN Musson N.d. first Canadian edition from the English sheets a vg/near fine copy in the publishers original red cloth pictorial binding with eight full color tipped-in plates by Flora White. Musson hardcover books
1967ref. NF3599A BOOK OF DOLLS & DOLL HOUSES Charles E. Tuttle Company 1967 first edition fine in like dust-wrapper and publishers slipcase. Replete with over 300 black & white illustrations and 16 full color plates. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown books
1959ref. 300510New York: Harcourrt Brace and Comapny 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Oblong octavo in pale blue cloth with decoration in black and with publisher's dustjacket; the jacket is bright with only a trace of wear; it is now protected with a new mylar cover.~~There is a previous owner gift inscription on the front pictorial endpaper as well as small rubbed spot from what appears to have been a price-erasure. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Harcourrt, Brace and Comapny unknown books
