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...
London: Harding & Lepard, 1830. 1 leaf 28 x 19 cm. Image is 12 x 9.5 cm. "Engraved by S. Freeman." Stipple engraving of Catherine of Braganza as queen, with her hair in ringlets, wearing a loose gown and mantle fastened on her right shoulder. She is seated with her...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992. Hardcover. [10], 110 p.; 22 cm. Green cloth spine with green paper over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes 26 lyric poems as well as 3 longer poetic monologues that present American history through the eyes of 19th-century women: Sacagawea, Louisa May Alcott...
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889. Hardcover. 448 p., frontispiece portrait of Charlotte Bronte; 17 cm. Dark green cloth spine with gilt-stamped title on black spine label; black-and-green marbled paper over boards. Top page edges green. Publisher's advertisements on two pages following text. Most pages are unopened. This is no...
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989. Paperback. First American Edition. xxiv, 342 p., 24 unpaginated pages of illustrations, some in color; 23 cm. Paperback with cover design by Syndi Becker. Remainder mark on lower page edges. The English artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932) was associated with the Bloomsbury Group and...
Reading, Pa. George Getz, 1837. Hard Cover. Title continued: "Besides many other forms, useful to the farmer, mechanic, and trader." Second edition, enlarged and improved. xi, [1], 143, [1] p.: facsimiles, tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red...
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1987. Paperback. 166 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback. First paperback edition. ISBN: 0316313173. Gift inscription from Phyllis Belk to Mary [Purcell], dated 1989, inside front cover. Many of these pieces first appeared on National Public Radio. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; scraped at...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Hardcover. [10], 117, [1] p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 21 cm. Light blue paper over boards with white spine title and emblem of Barnard College on front cover. White dust jacket printed in purple. With, loose, a letter to the alumnae of Barnard...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. First American edition. xvii, [1], 300 p.: 16 p. of unpaginated illustrations; 24 cm. White cloth with blue spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Gun Larson. Book is in Near Fine Condition: red remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise clean and...
New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. x, 253 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with copper stamped spine title and beige paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on lower page edges. In the title essay, Gordon examines novels by Dreiser, Faulkners, and Updike, where she finds...
Providence, R.I. B.T. Albro, 1841. Hardcover. 128 p.: frontispiece portrait; 14 cm. Brown cloth spine with green printed spine label. Marbled paper over boards. The life of a free black woman of Rhode Island whose property had been illegally seized and sold when she was ill, presented by Frances Harriet...
South Brunswick, N.J. A.S. Barnes, 1977. Hardcover. 59 p.; 21 cm. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Margaret M. Reilly, loyal colleague and friend, Affectionately, Rose Basile Green, April 12, 1978." The author's fifth volume of poetry...
Chicago: Stein Co., 1902. Hardcover. 510 p., frontispiece portrait of the author, 8 unpaginated pages of illustrations: many in-text drawings; 22 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown stamped spine and cover titles and front cover illustration. Includes index. The author, Joseph H. Greer (1851-1928), argues against wearing corsets and...
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Anglais, 1793. Hardcover. Nouvelle Edition. [24], 264 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. 19th-century repair of joints with dark brown linen; later repair of front joint with white linen. Small bookplate of the Lynn Public Library on front fixed endpaper; "Rules and...
New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2001. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., February 9-April 8, 2001. 48 p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Interior black metal comb binding with illustrated paper over boards. Black spine title; front cover illustration is embossed. Black faux calf fixed endpapers. Introductory...
Worcester, Mass. Isaiah Thomas, 1793. Hardcover. "Sold by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester; by Thomas and Andrews, Boston; and by Thomas and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire." vi, 7-351, [1] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: A-X8 (8vo). Full calf; red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: Female Family Physician. Woodcut head- and tailpieces...
Trevoux, France: L'Imprimerie de S.A.S., 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. "Et se vend à Paris. Chez Jacques Etienne Libraire." 94, 145, [7] p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "L'Inec aux Hommes." Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining...
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1996. xi, 369 p.; 22 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. The author presents 47 tales "told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and this book...
Philadelphia: Godey's Lady's Book, 1853. Hardcover. vi, 572 p., 22 leaves of plates (including partially handcolored fashion plates): many in-text illustrations, music; 25 cm. Dark green library cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Contents include: illustrated articles about Philadelphia businesses J. & M. Baird [steam marble works], and Cornelius, Baker, &...
Greensboro, N.C. Lifestyles Press, 2000. Hardcover. viii, 345 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed to Mary by the author on front free endpaper, dated Nov. 2001. The Mary to whom she inscribed this book was Mary Hamilton Purcell, who served...
Cleveland, Ohio: W.A. Ingham, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [15]-362 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author; 20 cm. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Introduction by C.C. Baldwin; "A Word Commendatory" by Sarah K. Bolton. Ex-library: bookplate of the Silas Bronson Library...
London: Pandora / HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. ix, [1], 240 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Blue textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author reexamines the life of Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), wife of D.H. Lawrence, partially through Frieda Lawrence's own words. Book and...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. Hardcover. viii, 383 p.: tables; 23 cm. Publisher's brick red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Rebound with original boards and original spine laid over matching cloth; new endpapers. Printed by Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. Contents: Amusements of the People -- The Rationale...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1986. Hardcover. 286, [2] p., [24] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with silver spine title; off-white paper over boards. Dust jacket designed by Royce Becker with cover photo of Gelsey Kirkland by Max Waldman. Patterned endpapers. Book is in Near Fine Condition...
Philadelphia, Pa. Temple University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg. [12], 247 p.; 22 cm. Red cloth with silver-printed spine title; color dust jacket. No price listed. First Edition. The author provides the first coherent picture...
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