New York: Abner Schram, 1974. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 66, [2]; plates in color and black & white; fine in original beige cloth, very good dust-jacket with light edgewear, plain cardboard slipcase. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped-in. More
Wynnewood, PA: Heden-Livingston, Inc., [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 148; 110 illustrations, mostly from photographs; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
London: printed in the year 1754 [but Philadelphia? Saunders, 1968]. Facsimile edition of the first edition of 1754, large folio, pp. [4], [39] leaves, XXXIX leaves of plates; original half brown calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration n spine, publisher's brown cloth folding box, gilt-lettered spine; fine copy. ..... More
Philadelphia: from the press of Matthew Carey, 1792. 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-167, [1] ads ("Books and pamphlets printed by Mathew Carey"); dampstaining to the prelims and terminals; original full sheep, covers dampstained and sheep peeling, spine with small chips out; all else good and sound. Bookplate of "E. C...... More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1971. First edition; 8vo; pp. [4], 81; near fine copy in original purple wrapper, creased on spine. More
[New York]: The Olympia Press, Inc., [1970]. Second printing, 12mo, pp. xxxvi, 52, [8] ads; original pictorial wrappers; near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. "A radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. It argues that..... More
Urbana, Illinois: at the Finial Press, 1970. Edition limited to 30 numbered copies (this, no. 3) signed by Solt; small folio, consisting of 3 bifolia, unbound, in a printed blue sleeve; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. Wikipedia notes that Mary Ellen Solt, née Bottom (1920-2007) was an..... More
Boston: Light and Horton, 1836. First American edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [3], 8-24; removed from binding and without wrappers; very good. She was an English poet and the second wife of Robert Southey who she nursed during his dementia. Her private education was largely from William Gilpin, the writer and..... More
Leningrad: Nauka, 1968. 8vo, 2 vols (the second published in 1989]; text in Russian, blue printed paper wrappers; spines creased, pages toning but clean, gift inscription inside wrapper of vol. 1, very good. Sova was one of the first linguists to apply computer analysis to philology. Her work was a...... More
[Saigon]: Ky nguyên, [1969]. 8vo, pp. [5]-518; pages toning, binding a bit cocked, some staining, spine tears at joints, else good in original printed wrappers. Novel concerning young women and country life by a leading Vietnamese literary figure and Communist mole (Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Vietnamese Literature: a brief survey, San..... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, 188; endpapers lightly dampstained, else very good in original orange cloth-backed boards, in a slightly edge worn white pictorial dust jacket. "A passionate account of a Catholic woman's personal mission to meet the women of the East--in search..... More
Norman: University of OK, [1953]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 281, [3]; slight trace of rubbing at the top of the spine of the dust jacket, else fine throughout. From the library of Jacob Chernofsky. More
London: E. Farrington, 1853. 16mo, pp. [4], 154; 2 frontispiece plates; contemporary green wrappers backed in cloth, original paper title trimmed and laid down; covers soiled and rubbed, small chip on two leaves just touching text but preserving legibility, tide stain on top edge, good and sound. BAL 19528. More
Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868. 8vo, pagination varies; original green cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover; green cloth spine sample mounted to front pastedown; two leather spine samples mounted to the rear pastedown; illustrations are complete with 18 steel engravings of American historical figures; includes an advertorial broadside and blank..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First American Edition, 12mo, pp. 311; original green cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers; pages slightly browned, else very good. Written under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield. BAL 19448. More
New York: John F. Trow, printer, 1842. First edition, 12mo, pp. 285, [1]; original purple cloth; blind-stamped ornamentation on covers; gilt lettering on spine; attractive lithographic frontispiece of Plater; a cancel with updated copyright information pasted over the original copyright information on p. 4; spine extremities slightly chipped; corners scuffed;..... More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1851. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [3], 14-356, [4] ads; 2 engraved frontispiece portraits; top and bottom of spine chipped level with the textblock, bookp[late of Minnesota Histoprical Society (no external markings); all else good and sound. Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was one of the first..... More
Providence: Cranston & Hammond, 1834. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxii [i.e. xxxii], [2], 98; original green cloth boards, brown leather label on spine; boards and label worn, textblock in rough shape, with endpaper, flyleaf, and final few leaves in back reattached, pp. 5-10 torn through the middle, retaining all text;..... More
Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2001. First edition, square 8vo, pp. [80]; text in Japanese; full color illustrations throughout; red padded cloth with pictorial onlay, fine with fine book band. Takada was artist on the shows Creamy Mami and Kimagure Orange Road. Madoka is largely a collection of soft portraits of women..... More
Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1972. Nineth printing, 8vo, pp. 253, [3]; six pages of illustrations; full yellow cloth, black title on spine, fine in slightly wrinkled glassine dust jacket and fine pictorial slipcase. Qui Jun was a noble orator, women's rights activist, and revolutionary. The title of her biography refers to..... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1983]. 8vo, pp. 287, [1]; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Includes Partei (1960) / Kurahashi Yumiko; Lingering affection (1963) / Setouchi Harumi; The last time (1966) / Kōno Taeko; Boxcar of chrysanthemums (1967) / Enchi Fumiko; The three crabs (1968) / Ōba Minako;..... More
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1991. 8vo, pp. x, 186, [2]; old women's center rubberstamp on title page and previous owner's sticket; very good and sound in original printed wrappers. More
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[Providence]: 1787-90. Folio (approx. 12¼" x 7½"), in ink and a clear hand; previous folds, light wrinkles, very good. Itemized bill from Amey Carter's dressmaker, covering 21 sewing jobs from Nov. 5, 1787 to March 19, 1790, itemized, with prices for each, including "mending a frock & thread," "making body..... More
Chicago: The Water Tower Press, 1949. First edition, 12mo, pp. 15, [1]; 5 illustrations by Philip Reed; original card wrappers with printed blue dust jacket; fine. "Printed at the Printing Office of Philip Reed. Poems on Wrigley Field, The El, Stagg Field, Symphony, and others in and around the Chicago..... More
