[Los Angeles]: American International Pictures, 1962. Insert movie poster approx. 36" x 14". Light soil, a few insignificant creases; very good. The 1961 Silvio Armadio French/Italian pirate adventure thriller "set in 1675, was a film was about a group of convicts being transported from London to the New World as..... More

Philadelphia, etc. 1860s. A collection of family letters, totaling 48 leaves, exchanged among a large American clan during the later 1860s and into the early 1870s. The majority of the letters are addressed to an Anne, (maiden name likely Chipman), although some are also addressed to William C. Starr, likely..... More

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1989. 8vo, pp. xiii, 42, [1]; engraved portrait frontispiece reproduction, facsimile reprint; original pale grey printed wrappers, "Soldier, Female" written in pencil at head of upper cover, else fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 257. More

London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by S. Robinson, 25, Paternoster-Row; and W. Fearman, New Bond-Street, June, 1820. 8vo, pp. [1], 282-336, [4] (ads); engraved frontispiece by Heath after Strothard, 2 engraved plates and plate of music; original printed paper wrappers; untrimmed, light foxing to plates, near fine. Uncommon..... More

Washington: G.P.O., 1905. Slim 8vo, pp. 89; frontispiece of the statue; front hinge cracked, spine ends rubbed, else a very good copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover. Includes addresses by various dignitaries on the life and character of Willard, as well as an account of..... More

Chicago: Tuesday, September 14, 1886. 23" x 17¾", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page. Special correspondence from N.H. bear-slayer, "Mr. and Mrs. Jake" by Sidney Luska, earthquake incidents, education of women, the republican party, notes on women, George William Curtis on the wife's vow of obedience in the marriage services..... More

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1833. 12mo, pp. [5], iv [i.e. vi]-viii, [13]-164; original muslin-backed paper-covered marbled boards; printed spine label; bookplate on front pastedown of John Todd with his signature dated 1833 (likely the American minister who also wrote several books on moralistic principles of the time), corners bumped, covers..... More

[Fredonia, N.Y.]: White Pine Press, [1992]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [104]; 23 illustrations from photographs; about fine in original pictorial wrappers. This copy inscribed "To Alan [sic] Kornblum - with respect Marjie Agosin." The photographs are largely of Iowa women taken 1957-1975. Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean-American writer. She has..... More

Lowell: Nathaniel L. Dayton, 1846. 12mo, pp. 160; contemporary blindstamped green cloth; boards soiled and lightly rubbed, textblock cocked, occasional spotting, ink burn on lower edge, good and sound. According to her autobiography, the author suffered an illness in late childhood that rendered her deaf, then traveled throughout the US..... More

London: Blackie & Son, 1862. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 408; [4], 408; without a half-title in volume 2 and volume 1 undated; contemporary half brown calf, gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; lightly scuffed, else very good, sound, and clean. Bookseller's ticket in each..... More

Providence: H. H. Brown, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Fund, 1831. 12mo, pp. 60; original drab front wrapper; some browning, very good. Preceded by several other editions between 1774 and 1820, this poignant autobiography chronicles the spiritual journey of an independent woman in a patriarchal world. Born in England..... More

New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Book club edition, published the same year as the first by the same company, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 351, [1]; text illustrations; yellow pictorial cloth, top edge red-stained; spot of foxing to half title, text otherwise clean and sound..... More

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1905. First edition, 12mo, pp.[4], xii, [2], 285, [1], [6] ads; frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt, white and green on upper cover and spine, pictorial pastedown on upper cover; very light..... More