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

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

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

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 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

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: 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

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More