[Derby]: October 23, 1880. "I am very glad that there is to be a real life of the... Read More about Autograph letter, signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to explorer David Livingstone's daughter Mrs....
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New-Haven: Published by John Babcock & Son, Sidney's Press, 1820. Text includes selections from the writing of Countess Huntingdon (Selena Hastings), Mrs. Rowe, Miss Harvey, Dr. Watts, Mr. Perin, Mr. Smith, and others. Read More about A Real Treasure for the Pious Mind. Compiled by a Lady. From the Collections and Writings of the...
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Cleveland: Printed by the Leaderr Company, 142 Superior Street, 1865. Read More about Criminal Abortion. A Lecture, Introductory to his Course for the Session of 1865-6...in the...
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Boston: Published by Gray and Bowen, 1832. INSCRIBED BY STEPHEN HIGGINSON. "Notices in continuation", by Mrs. Hannah F. Lee: p. [45]-110. Inscribed on flyleaf: "To Mrs. Nichols, Portland, from her affectionate Father, S Higginson, Cambridge, May 1832." Stephen Higginson (1770-1834), merchant and philanthropist in Boston, was steward of Harvard University..... Read More about A Memoir of Miss Hannah Adams, written by Herself. With additional notices, by a friend
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New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of..... Read More about Those Not Elect
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London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More about Memoirs of the Court of James the First
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Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. My Boys, Etc
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG: My Boys, Etc
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady..... Read More about Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert
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Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Mauresque d'Alger. (Costume d'intérieur)" from "Galerie...
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Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705; 1705; 1702. The eighth impression of “The Ladies Calling;”; early impression of “The Art of Contentment;” the sixth impression of “The Government of the Tongue”. Read More about The Ladies Calling In Two Parts [AND] The Art of Contentment [AND] The Government of the Tongue
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N. P: n.d. Inscribed “To Wes Hartley-a bright and dignified Sport-With Adminration… Gloria I. Alley. Read More about Autograph note signed “Gloria I. Alley
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London: Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition. A curious fictional biography or biographical fiction. Uncommon in dust jacket. Read More about A Childhood
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[Philadelphia]: [circa 1778]. An extraordinary group of 18th century silhouette portraits of notable Philadelphia women: Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (who would later become Mrs. Benedict Arnold), Margaret "Peggy" Chew and Rebecca "Beckey" Redman. The dating of the silhouettes is ascribed based on the J. Whatman watermarks (Heawood 1846 and 1846a, dating..... Read More about Revolutionary War-era hand-cut silhouette portraits of Peggy Shippen, Becky Redman and Peggy...
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Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association, 1884. First edition, Boston imprint; variant issue (unrecorded by OCLC), with Massachusetts Man Suffrage imprint [also seen with no publisher's imprint and variant title]. Issued by Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. OCLC lists no holdings of this issue, published by the Boston Man Suffrage Association;..... Read More about LETTER FROM MRS. CLARA T. LEONARD: Formerly Member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and...
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Boston: Published and sold by James Loring, No. 132 Washington-street, 1827. First edition, four titles, bound in single publisher's(?) binding [the separate titles were published individually]. Four separate juvenile titles bound together. Read More about The Beautiful Grape Vine by Betsey Saunders, and Many Other Stories Suitable for Sabbath...
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New York: 27 September 1958. Hartley had written to Anthony regarding the biographical information in ‘Twentieth Century Authors” and whether she had some additions which she responds that she does not and that “In a general way it covers the situation…It may interest you to know that I have a...... Read More about Typed letter signed “Katharine Anthony”
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[Philadelphia]: Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1913. Mrs. A.J. George of Brookline, Massachusetts argues against woman suffrage on the grounds that the majority of women do not wish to vote and that enfranchise them will upset traditional gender roles. An amusing account in Woman's Journal of Mrs. George's testimony..... Read More about Speech of Mrs. A.J. George before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate 1913...
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[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
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Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
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Leicester: Ratcliffe College, 1894. First edition. MEMOIR OF LADY MARY ARUNDELL, WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. "Lady Mary Anne Grenville Nugent Temple, the subject of this Memoir, was the only daughter of George, second Earl Temple, and first Marquess of Buckingham, by his wife Mary Elizabeth, Baroness Nugent, daughter and heiress of..... Read More about Memoir and Letters of Lady Mary Arundell, with Photographic Illustrations. By the Very Rev....
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London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First U.S. edition. SIGNED. Read More about The Handmaid's Tale
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London: J.M. Dent and Company at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street, 1895-1896. The classic novels in a nice late nineteenth-century edition: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey. Read More about Jane Austen's Novels. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson
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