Washington, D.C. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1996. Paperback. [8], 144, [2] p.; 24 cm. Light grey wrappers printed in black. Gift inscription on first page to Ken Kusmer, Professor History at Temple University, from one of the authors, Bettye Collier-Thomas. Contents: Biography, Race Vindication, and..... More
New York: New York University Press, 2001. Paperback. xii, 363 p., [8] p. of black-and-white photographs; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Gift inscription by editor Bettye Collier-Thomas on half title. Includes personal narratives by Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter Gault, and Dorothy I. Height. In Fine Condition: clean and bright..... More
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Richmond, Va. T.W. White, printer, 1839. Paperback. [1], 514-572 p.; 27 cm. Green wrapper printed in black. Small "Withdrawn" stamp at head of front wrapper. Lists of subscribers and agents on wrappers. Pages are untrimmed. Disbound from a larger volume. Former owner's inscription at head of front wrapper: "S. Van..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1855. Hardcover. Full imprint: Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. [4], 124, [8] p.: 1 leaf of chromolithographed title page, many woodcut illustrations; 12 cm. Publisher's embossed dark blue cloth with gilt spine decoration gilt front cover title..... More
Paris: Didier et Cie. 1868. Hardcover. Sixième Édition. xvi, 588 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Very small gilt-on-blue label on front fixed endpaper reading: "Brown, Salisbury." The first of two biographical works by..... More
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1923. Paperback. [6], 50, [14] p., frontispiece and 4 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations, facsimiles, music, plans; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed on front and back in black. Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated Journal of the Art of the Theatre. Head- and tailpieces from..... More
Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1992. Paperback. Second Edition. xv, [1], 200 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the series America in the Modern World. Contents: Lydia Maria Child: Abolitionist Critic of American Foreign Policy by Edward P. Crapol -- "Plenipotentiary in Petticoats:" Jane M. Cazneau and American..... More
London, Eng. Routledge, 1993. First Edition. x, 268 p.: 12 pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with white-printed spine title; illustrated dust jacket. Includes notes and index. First edition. Part of the publisher's Christianity and Society in the Modern World series. Patricia Crawford in this groundbreaking study argues that..... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, 1860. Hardcover. "With legal forms for drawing the various necessary papers connected therewith together with the laws of different states for collection of debts, property exempt from execution, mechanics' liens, execution of deeds and mortgages, rights of married women, dower, usury, wills, etc., etc., etc." 384..... More
New York: Bon Ami Co., 1926. Paperback. [12] p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Stapled; color illustrated wrappers. Story told in verse of the Princess Bon Ami and her very clean castle, kept that way through the use of the cleaner Bon Ami. Each page features a large illustration of the..... More
Paris: Éditions Nilsson, 1930. Paperback. 268, [4] p., [6] leaves of color plates (pochoir on glassine, tipped onto leaf with printed caption); 24 cm. Glassine wrapper with pochoir illustrations over paper. Wrapper title in red. "Collection Lotus" -- on back wrapper. Half title in red; title page in red and..... More
London: Harding, Tripbhook, & Lepard, 1825. 1 leaf 28 x 19 cm. Image is 12 x 9.5 cm. "Engraved by T.A. Dean." Stipple engraving of Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby (1599-1664), granddaughter of William I, Prince of Orange. She was famous for her vigorous defence of Lathom House during the..... More
S.l. Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1928. Hardcover. 325 p.; 25 cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration; back cover mirrors front cover. Gilt-decorated turn-ins. Top page edges gilt. Brown endpapers. Decorative head-pieces and initial letters. This is no. 1950 of a limited edition of 3,000..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Paperback. xiv, [2], 388 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Former owner's name on half title page. Crystal Eastman (1881-1928) was an American journalist, feminist, lawyer, and antimilitarist. With her brother Max Eastman (1883-1969) she founded and edited The Liberator; she also was..... More
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New York: George F. Hopkins, 1801. Hardcover. "The First American Edition." 2 volumes: vi, [2], 344 p.; [4], 333, [11] p.: in-text tables; 21 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; red morocco labels in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Edgeworth on Education. All..... More
Huntsville, Ala. Strode Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. 112 p.: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Red paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title. Illustrated dust jacket. Sponsored by American Association of University Women, Huntsville Branch, 1979. Includes bibliographical references and index. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from Ruth Jurenko..... More
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Hardcover. [10], 221, [5] p.; 22 cm. Red and black cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Barbara Ehrenreich spent a year working as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Walmart sales clerk to investigate how..... More
San Francisco: Westgate Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Havelock Ellis; printed by the Grabhorn Press & published in Dec. 1929. [6], 30 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title: Marriage To-day & To-morrow. Salmon paper over boards with gilt-stamped decoration on both boards. Title page..... More
New Bedford, Mass. Mercury Publishing Co., 1916. Paperback. 24 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Stapled wrapper; wrapper title. Wrapper included in pagination. Reprinted from the Morning Mercury, Sept. 2, 1916. Wiliam M. Emery had been hired to find all of the descendants of Gideon Howland in order to settle a large..... More
East Canterbury, N.H. Shakers, 1927. Paperback. 16 p.; 18 cm. Stapled pamphlet. Cover title. Although published anonymously, this pamphlet has been attributed to Sister Jessie Evans. Explains the history of the Shakers and provides a look at life in the Shaker community of East Canterbury, N.H., in the early 20th..... More
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 328 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled armorial emblem of the Mill Hill School on the front board; both boards..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Hardcover. xx, 249 p.: illustrations, tables; 22 cm. Orange cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Women in the Political Economy. The author "documents and explains the transformation of clerical work from a male to a female occupation amidst the..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1882. Hardcover. xxviii, 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front fixed..... More
Chicago: Chicago Woman's Club, 1916. Hardcover. 389 p., frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature if Caroline W. Brown; 22 cm. Red library binding with gilt spine title and call number. Perforated stamped of the Chicago Public Library on title page. Note on title page verso that the book was given to..... More
New York: Stage Publishing Co., 1938. Paperback. 64 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color illustration on front cover from an unfinished painting of Katharine Cornell by Henry Meloy. Contents include: I Wanted To Be an Actress as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick by Katharine Cornell [part 1 of 6] -- Maggie..... More