1886réf. 405690Boston: D. Lothrop and Company 1886. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Pictorial papercovered boards. Illustrated. Faint dampstain on page edges and on boards extremities worn and frayed thus a fair to good only copy. Containing thirteen juvenile short stories: "A district messenger boy" by James Otis "Wagon-Tire Camp" by Kate Foote "The Gypsies" by Mary Hartwell Catherwood "Hunted by a wild stallion" by J.E. Collins "Wild horses" by Ernest Ingersoll "How Walter found his father" by Flora Haines Apponyi "After the buffalo" by C.E.S. Wood "Osito" by F.L. Stealey "Jap" by Ellen Olney Kirk "The rich man of the mountains" by Helen E. Sweet "One way to be brave" by Alice Wellington Rollins "The Gypsy's prophecy" by Anna Leach "Plum blooms" by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Scarce. D. Lothrop and Company hardcover books
1910réf. 17899Seattle and Portland: Lindsay Publishing Company 1910 First edition. OCLC lists four copies . Original stiff green wrappers slight creasing to edges with gilt lettering. . Small octavo. . Tipped in photograph of the author. Untrimmed bright pages. A fine copy. Little is known about the author. Presumably she was related to the publishers of the present novel Lindsay Publishing Co. and to the Lindsay's Psychology Literature series an advertisement for which is included in the novel's end-matter. A synopsis of this series reads "Books that give formulas for doing things as well as possessing the highest thought." This is evidently Flora Lindsay's only book. Lindsay Publishing Company, unknown books
1909réf. 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
1903réf. 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
1924réf. 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
1965réf. 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
1962réf. 160805Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 film. Based on the 1957 novel "The Midwife of Pont Cléry" by Flora Sanström. When the men of a Sicilian village obsess over the beautiful American expatriate midwife Jessica played by Angie Dickenson the women of the town revolt and refuse to have sex with their husbands. Featuring Maurice Chevalier as narrator and village priest Father Antonio. Set in and shot on location in Sicily Italy. 81 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with faint rubbing and creasing and several pinholes in the margins. United Artists unknown books
1951réf. 590179Stanford California: Stanford University Press 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. vii 217pp. Gutter starting between pages 70-71 cloth modestly soiled spine ends and corners lightly bumped very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with age-toning and chips and tears along extremities and on the spine. An affectionately long gift inscription from the author on the front fly Signed by the author. Scarce Inscribed copy of one of her most notable books with most copies being held in institutions. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1971réf. 604171Enugu Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd 1971. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Printed wrappers. A trifle worn still easily a fine copy. A collection of stories by "the Mother of Modern African Literature" centered around life for women in Nigeria. From the lower wrap: "Skilfully sic she recaptures in print the frustrations Lagos life holds for our women and naturally places a lot of the blame on men who have proved to be unreliable." According to the Nigerian newspaper The Guardian Nwapa was the first female African novelist to be published in in Britain in English partially financed by a supportive Chinua Achebe who is listed as Editorial Advisor for this title. Her first two were novels published as part of Heinemann's African Writers Series. In 1970 she founded the Tana Press becoming one of Nigeria's first female publishers. An important collection by a pioneering Nigerian feminist author. Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd unknown books
1959réf. 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
1972réf. RSCHSYB00tpmHenry Regnery 1972. Good. Schreiber Flora Rheta. Sybil. NP: Henry Regnery 1972. Galley. 218pp. Thin folio. Wraps with comb binding. Book condition: Good with slightly toned edges. Covers have light soiling and stains from moisture. Laid in letter from the publisher adressed to Sam Weller signed by Terry Scott Wybel. Scarce. Henry Regnery paperback books
1951réf. 71742Dallas: The Story Book Press 1951. First edition 12mo pp. 38; illustrations in the text; fine copy in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver and in a near fine silver dust jacket printed in blue. This copy inscribed June 23 1952 "To two little girls of long ago I knew & loved & called them 'Nellie & Luna.' Miss Tiko . Mrs. Whedon & Mrs. Plemb of 'my old home town' - Montana Kansas" "A collection of thirty-one tales from Tibet gathered within the refugee community and illustrated with traditional Tibetan-style drawings" amazon.com. The Story Book Press unknown books
1918réf. 1286430New York: Macmillan 1918. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; White cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; Boards have light edge wear minimal rubbing; Binding tight; Text block toned previous owner's name on limitations page otherwise free of marking all illustrations clear; Upper edge gilt with some light scratches bottom corner of text block thumbed; Book is numbered 245 of a limited edition of 250; LP Consignment. Shelved: Case 14. 1286430. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Macmillan hardcover books
1960réf. 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
1913réf. 13040New York: Hodder & Stoughton 1913. Near fine. First US edition of this lovely illustrated alphabet adapted uncredited from Barrie with a brief synopsis of the full story followed by 26 related alphabet verses. 9'' x 7''. Original green cloth spine brown and lavender pictorial boards with pictorial paste-on. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 25 color plates by White. Contemporary visiting card with gift inscription mounted to front pastedown. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1918réf. 50SUBERB COPY OF ENGLISH FAIRY TALES - AN UNCOMMON ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED BOOK. This is the AMERICAN FIRST EDITION of 1918. SIXTEEN BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES WITH CAPTIONED TISSUE GUARDS BY RACKHAM as well as MANY LOVELY B/W DRAWINGS WITHIN THE TEXT. Thick large 8vo red gilt cloth top edge tinted yellow decorated endpapers 363 pgs followed by 4 additional pgs of advertising . This is a very clean tight copy with light edge wear at top edge of spine there is 1/8" neatly repaired closed tear - not affecting look or strength of the book. There was a flower put inside pages 326/327 - no longer present but there is offset from that plant. UNCOMMON RACKHAM TITLE - IN VG BRIGHT CONDITION. Macmillan Co. hardcover books
1900réf. 5954Fulton Pittsburgh 1900. Faux cloth over marbled boards with ownership label to upper left corner with school district and compiler information. Measuring 9 x 11.5 inches and comprised of 22 pages of sketches herbal specimens and sample essays all recto. Firmly bound and with some dampstaining to the lower gutter not affecting text. Representing a range of exercises completed by state normal school student Flora Yagle the book presents researchers with a range of study opportunities including turn of the century pedagogical practice and curricula as well as genealogical and social history work regarding the family structure work and education of first-generation immigrants living on the East Coast. One of seven children born to German immigrants Flora Yagle b. 1886-7 clearly grew up in a family that emphasized education and upward mobility. The paper label identifies Yagle as an eighth-year student indicating that she was probably in her early teens when she completed these lessons. Census documents from around the time of her birth and childhood list her father as a foundry worker; and into her adulthood they shift to record him as the general manager of the foundry. Similar ambition was instilled in his children who are documented in census information as students or unemployed during their childhoods with work only appearing in their adulthoods. During Flora's youth she had brothers working as clerks and bookkeepers. By the time of her adulthood she has become a school clerk while her sister has obtained a position as a librarian. Part of Flora's training would have been conducted at the Fulton Elementary School located in Pittsburgh's Highland Park. A neighborhood for the rising middle class Highland Park and its schools were still in their infancy while Flora was in hers; while the residential district had been opened in 1879 the school was founded in 1894 and both intended to provide fresh air open spaces and pleasant living to skilled workers and their families who were flocking to Pittsburgh for its work opportunities. Historically Pennsylvania had been a vanguard for public and progressive education. "In his 1830 address to the state legislature Governor George Wold championed the cause of universal public education" as a scaffold for "the security and stability of the individual privileges we have inherited from our ancestors" Explore History. Before the decade was over "more than 1000 local school districts under a single statewide system of instruction" had been founded working to regularize "educational standards curriculum and instructional credentials" in tandem with the 1857 Normal School Act which founded "a network of ten state academies to prepare public school teachers" Explore History. Flora's generation was a beneficiary of these policies. Her notebook shows a range of work with creativity and visual arts central to her learning. In addition to pressed floral specimens likely from the school grounds or her home garden her book also contains a visual and textual representation of the spectrum of colors in a rainbow; illustrated lotus blossoms with a short essay on the botanical facts and cultural uses of the flower in Egypt; black and white sketches focused on perspective and shading; geometrical figures designed to be cut out and folded but here present; and figure drawings of children in Victorian clothing much like she and her classmates would wear. US Census 1890 1900 1910 1920. unknown books
1917réf. 514571Watervliet New York: Century Printing Co 1917. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Broadside. Single sheet measuring 6" x 9" printed on recto only. A few small early light brown stains in margins faint crease at tip of one corner small tape repair on verso a very good copy of a fragile publication. Printed announcement for "The Final Suffrage Mass Meeting." Flora McDonald Dennison served as President of the Canadian Woman Suffrage Association. OCLC locates four holdings. Century Printing Co unknown books
1923réf. 260827002San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed by The Grabhorn Press 1923. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Lange Dorothea; H. Von Schmidt. One of 400 copies quarto size 140 pp. in a deluxe binding with slipcase. A tribute to Oscar Weil 1839-1921 born in New York and educated as a musician. When the Civil War started he enrolled in the Northern cause as a private and by the end of the war he was a Major; however injuries received during the war meant he could no longer be a violinist. He therefore turned to composing and settled in San Francisco where he also served as the music critic for the Argonaut newspaper; he was a man much loved by the community as attested to by this memoir. Frontispiece a tipped-in photograph by Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga M. Ackerman; when this photograph was taken Dorothea Lange 1895-1965 was living in Berkeley having recently married the western painter Maynard Dixon. Printed by the Grabhorn Press the renowned publishers/printers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. This copy in a deluxe leather binding beautifully executed but with no binder's stamp or ticket that we can find. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full tan leather both boards with horizontal ruled borders one gilt and one black gilt lettering on the spine the spine bands extending slightly onto both boards with their tips decorated with a gilt star top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut pastepaper endpapers tissue-guarded frontispiece the photograph by Dorothea Lange of a painting of Oscar Weil as referred to above title page in red and black almost every page of text has red lettering for marginal notes and capital letters some of which are blue; binding quarto size 11 1/2" by 7 3/4" pagination: i-xiv 1-119 blank 120 divisional title page "Compositions of Oscar Weil" 121 blank 122 3 pp. of compositions 123-125 colophon page 126 issued in an edition of 400 copies this no. 343. Housed in a slipcase covered with pastepaper with the opening trimmed in leather. ___CONDITION: The volume fine the leather smooth and supple and utterly without wear the corners straight and unrubbed a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a stunning example. The slipcase near fine strong and sturdy with no splits to the seams the paper covering the case mostly clean other than a few light stray spots and showing minimal wear the leather guarding the opening well-rubbed at the top edge. ___CITATION: BCC 100 no. 19; Grabhorn Bibliography no. 58. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press] unknown books
1955réf. 20505New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1955. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. James Flora. WARMLY --LENGTHILY-- INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR JAMES FLORA on the half-title's verso. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the 1955 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright price-intact $2.75 Near Fine dustjacket with several tiny closed tears along the panel edges. Quarto wonderfully illustrated throughout in rich color and black-and-white by James Flores himself. Also includes a 1 pg. TLS from the author to a close friend of his with whom he had just shared a trip. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1966réf. 563306Dublin: Allen Figgis 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Illustrated in color by the author. Quarto. ix 101pp. Light foxing to the page edges and a tiny bit of tanning on the endleaves else fine in a fine dust jacket with just a hint of foxing and creasing at the crown. Inscribed by Mitchell to a couple "To remember Dublin as they knew it." Fifty of Mitchell's critically acclaimed watercolors of Dublin are reproduced here along with descriptions. Only 600 copies were printed and the plates used to reproduce the paintings were destroyed shortly after. A beautiful copy. Allen Figgis hardcover books
1864réf. 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
1918réf. 81587London: Macmillan 1918. First Limited Edition. Large Quarto. 28.5cm. Limited Edition #216 of 500 signed by Rackham to the limitation page. Full twentieth century dark blue morocco by Syston Bindery titled in gilt to spine ruled and decorated in gilt to spine compartments and boards.341pp. Some very light wear to the binding otherwise a very good copy indeed. Top edge gilt. Internally clean marbled endpapers original vellum sprine laid in at the rear. A beautiful professionally rebound signed copy of Rackham's interpratation of numerous classic tales including Goldilocks and the Three Bears Jack and the Beanstalk Little Red Riding Hood etc. Macmillan unknown books
1898réf. 425944Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24mo. Measuring 5.5" x 6". Brown leather boards with beveled edges gilt decorations with the name "Flora Haedrich" embossed in gilt on the front board and lacking one metal clasp. Contains 43 ferrotype and ambrotype black and white photographs measuring between 0.5" x 0.5" and 3.5" x 2" with captions. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners with slight edgewear thus near fine album with fine photographs. Philadelphia woman Flora Haedrich's family album containing portraits of her immediate and external family members from 1865 with later pictures from 1898 and notes written in 1925. The photographs feature Flora's sisters brothers and parents and also include shots of her uncles aunts cousins and grandparents with captions including names and connections to her family written below. The photographs are professionally shot ferrotypes and ambrotypes developed by J. Fenton's photo miniature shop located on South Street in Philadelphia during the mid-19th Century. Several family members identified as business men and women are of interest. Haedrich's father Henry G. Haedrich Jr. started a company Haedrich and Sons Co. for leather working harness and saddlery for carriages in Philadelphia. According to a contemporary newspaper "Haedrich's establishment and the opinion prevailed universally has excelled by far any harness ever manufactured in this city. The whole style design finish and workmanship of this elegant set of harness are in the main original and if placed in fair competition with the finest productions of European manufacturers would undoubtedly secure the highest honors." Another member of the family Augustus Haedrich manufactured carriages and was president of the building association in Philadelphia. Lastly Emma Kirkham née Wootton is captioned as the cousin to Haedrich. Kirkham was a practicing Mormon who was active in the Young Ladies Retrenchment Association as second consular in Lehi Utah. On the last page of Haedrich's album she writes her new last name after marrying William John Bok. An aesthetically pleasing collection of professionally shot photographs of a Philadelphia family taken between 1865-1898. hardcover books
1920réf. 601729London: Hodder and Stoughton 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 263pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked spine toning on the endpapers and slight wear on the board edges thus very good. According to the preface of the revised edition; "After training to be a doctor at the London School of Medicine for Women Flora Murray became an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. At the outbreak of the First World War she and her fellow suffragists laid down their banners and sought to aid the Allied war effort. Working within the newly formed Women's Hospital Corps Murray and her colleague Louisa Garrett Anderson overcame initial prejudice and established two military hospitals in France in the period 1914 -1915. Their success prompted an invitation from the War Office to open the Endell Street Military Hospital in London staffed entirely by women. First published in 1920 Murray's account illustrated with numerous photographs records important steps in furthering the acceptance of women in the medical profession. For female doctors surgeons and nurses the war provided not only the 'occasion for service' but also 'get professional opportunities.' In Beatrice Harraden's preface in the original text she writes "This record of the work of the Women's Hospital Corps in France and especially at the Military Hospital Endell Street is a valuable contribution to the literature of the Women Movement. Dr. Flora Murray and Dr. Garrett Anderson made history at Endell Street. Through their initiative endeavor and efficiency they opened the doors to further fields of opportunity for women physicians and surgeons and not only for medical women but for all women who are setting out or have already set out to conquer fresh territory. We owe them a debt of gratitude the recognition of which will become even more accentuated as the years go on." A nice copy of an important women's medical text. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
