Hartford: Belknap & Hamersley, 1847. First edition, 12mo, pp. v, [4], 14-372; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine; very good. After battling a long illness which kept her bedridden through much of 1841, she spent a year teaching Sunday school, and in 1843 married the Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep..... More
Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Company, [1942]. 4to, pp. [6], 120; original red cloth; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; photographic frontispiece of Eddy; dampstaining in bottom left corner of the front cover; otherwise very good. More
Providence, R.I. The Roger Williams Press, 1934. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 259, [1]; frontispiece, original quarter buckram over green marbled paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover and spine; gift inscription dated 1953 on the front pastedown; very good and sound. More
Philadelphia: Sorin and Ball, 1845. 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 21-347, [1]; portrait frontispiece of the author, engraved title page, and four additional engraved plates; original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on both covers and spine; contemporary owner's name and the annotation "pretty" above Ms. Hemans' portrait, light foxing, small..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1958]. Second printing (same date and format as the first), 8vo, pp. xvi, 528; frontis portrait and 4 plates; spine of jacket slightly sunned, else fine. Draws extensively on thousands of unpublished letters, diaries, journals, and documents of a biographical, social and historical interest. More
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1921. 8vo, pp. [4], 279, [1], [4] ads; 4 plates from photographs; original printed brown wrappers with a photographic nude pastedown; some spotting and light wear; generally very good. OCLC locates 8 copies, 5 in the U.S.: Yale, UCLA, SUNY (Binghamton), Duke, and Nazarath College... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1847. 4to, pp. [16], 40, 4 (testimonials); engraved frontispiece of the author; 1 colored anatomical lithograph with five flaps; 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original leather-backed pictorial boards; some dampstaining and foxing, more prevalent on the pastedowns and endpapers; neatly rebacked. Bookplate of James Mead..... More
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Worcester: Leonard Worcester, 1799. First edition, 12mo, pp. 380; full contemporary sheep; spine ends chipped, the binding rubbed and worn; a good copy. Early American bookplate of Enoch Sawyer. Sarah Osborn was an early American Protestant and Evangelical writer who experienced her own type of "religious awakening" during the birth..... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First edition, limited to 1000 copies, this is copy no. 1 of only 10 numbered and signed by the author; 8vo, pp. 226, [2]; blue cloth, title gilt on spine; lower board worn and dampstained, spine a little spotted, page 155 chipped at corner, a...... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First ordinary (i.e. second) edition; 8vo, pp. 226, [2]; original blue cloth; corners rubbed, near fine. Poor women! was Hoult's first published book. It enjoyed critical success and saw a second printing, with Hoult going on to write 28 books total, but she has since..... More
London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1735. 3rd edition 12mo, pp. 83, [1]; engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red and black; bound with: Otway, Tho[mas]. The history and fall of Caius Marius. A tragedy. London: printed by John Darby... for Mary Poulson..., 1724. 5th(?) edition, pp. 80, [4] (ads);..... More
New York: J. Tiebout & Sons, 1817. 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 161, [1]; text in French and English, original printed paper boards, mostly unopened; spine label perished, joints split, binding sound. Includes the first American printing of the 1793 French Constitution along with a collection of important documents relating..... More
Dublin: printed by Isaac Jackson, in Meath-street, 1754. 12mo, pp. 164, [4] ads; 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards; flyleaves perished, joints cracked; textblock sound. First published in Philadelphia in 1747. Born in Charleston, Hume was married to a landowner, lawyer and public official, and led a life of aristocratic leisure..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [5], 354; chapter headers illustrated by Shirley Wang, red publisher's cloth, illustrated spine; marginal marks in pencil on a couple of pages, one page stamped (not a library stamp), dust jacket price clipped and split and chipped at..... More
New York: published at 128 Nassau-Street, 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. [11], 8-72, [1], 8-48, [1], 122-138; large wood engraving on copyright page; publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine, upper hinge and joint split; light foxing. The whacky pagination is borne out by three separate tables of contents. Laid in is..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 373; 56 full-p. illustrations; fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. More
Norwich, Conn. Russell Hubbard, 1816. First edition, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-252; original printed gray paper-covered boards; front joint cracked, cords holding, covers rubbed, spine perished; all else good and sound. The last 10 pages constitute a subscribers' list of primarily Connecticut names. Ownership inscription on title page of Charles P...... More
Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, [1971]. 3 volumes, large 8vo; text in two columns; original illustrated paper wrappers; light wear to edge and corners, spines creased, ocassional pen markings, 3 pages loose but present; good. One of the earliest major reference books of women's biography in the West. More
St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1966. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 171; illustrated; original green cloth; fine. More
New York: R. Worthington, 750 Broadway, 1878. 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 324; frontispiece map, one full-page map, 18 wood-engraved illustrations on 15 plates; original decorative terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; old owner's rubberstamp on title page, otherwise, a bright, sound copy. More
West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1983. Edition limited to 1475 copies (this, no. 50 of just 75 copies signed and numbered), slim 4to, pp. [48]; 6 full-page text illustrations; original brown and tan cloth over boards, paper spine label; 2 small tape residues on endpapers, else fine. Signed by the..... More
London: A. R. Mowbray, [1911]. First edition, 16mo, pp. xi, [1], 138, [2] ads; frontispiece, 2 plates (1 folding); very good copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], viii, 238; bound with: Hall, James. The wilderness and the war path. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. pp. [6], 174, x; navy cloth boards, spine sunned, light wear to boards, pencil signature on inner page, very good. Wright..... More
Buffalo: Moulton, Wenborne & Co., 1888. 12mo, pp. [8], 65, [1]; original cream wrappers printed in gilt; spine a little cracked and slight toning; very good. Koopman (1860-1937) was a native of Maine and worked briefly at the Astor Library, Cornell University as a cataloguer, and also in the libraries..... More
Boston and New York: Lamson Wolffe and Co., 1895. 16mo, pp. [2], ix, [1], 3-197, [1]; engraved tailpieces; biographical introduction by Rydingsvard; tan publisher's cloth with red, blue, black and silver printed design with strong Russian motifs, uncut, t.e.g.; boards soiled, upper free endpaper excised, very good in a custom..... More
