![Museum of Modern [F]art. Yoko Ono – one woman show. Dec. 1st – Dec. 15th. For. Yoko Ono.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/325120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690410527)
New York: n. p, 1971. First edition, stamped "Copyright 1972 / By Yoko Ono" (Most cataloguers note this... Read More about Museum of Modern [F]art. Yoko Ono – one woman show. Dec. 1st – Dec. 15th. For...
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Novel about Shepherds in the San Joaquin Valley. Read More about The Flock
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N.P. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1950]. Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas. Bacall & Douglas starred together in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950), in which Douglas plays a jazz trumpeter involved with the strange and beautiful (and possibly lesbian) Amy, played Bacall. The inscription is reproduced in EISENSTAEDT'S..... Read More about Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred...
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New York: William Wood & Co., Publishers, 1868. First Edition. Read More about “Spinal Irritation;” or, the Causes of Back-Ache Among American Women
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London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al This book was published to get..... Read More about A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and |Brown, 1823. First edition. Read More about A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
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London: printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme, ater-Noster Row, 1804. First Edition. Read More about Miscellaneous Plays
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Tallulah Bankhead Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. The actress writes, “To Alfred--Many thanks for your understanding and human traits / Bless you, Tallulah”. Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968) was a more than competent actress (she won the Drama Critics award for her performances in The Little Foxes (1939), and The Skin of Our..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., n.d
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Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of..... Read More about ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Derry, New Hampshire: 25 May 1959. Replying to Hartley's enquiry about her writing and education. She describes how one teacher greatly affected her by introducing her to contemporary literature and having them keep “thought books.” She writes that college helps in exposing one to a wide range of ideas, “One..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Shirley Barker”
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London: for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1818. First edition thus. Barrett (1786-1820) first published a poem entitled ' Woman' in 1810; in this version of 1818 ' I determined to rewrite the poem ... I have found so much omission, alteration, and new matter necessary, that..... Read More about Woman, A Poem
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New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. First edition, Number 221 of 265 copies, Signed by the Author, on special paper. Signed Limited. Read More about Memories: An Autobiography
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London: nd [c. 1880]. Later edition. Read More about Alone among the Zulu by a Plain Woman. The Narrative of a Journey through the Zulu Country
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1931. Inscribed Picture of Bernard Baruch. Isabel Leighton (Mrs. Frederick A., later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker), actress, writer, translator, playwright, radio personality, foreign correspondent, and editor of the best-selling The Aspirin Age, was a very close friend of Baruch over many decades until his death. Read More about Photograph of oil painting of the great financier and presidential advisor, inscribed on the...
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New York: Robert M. De Witt, Publisher, 13 Frankfort Street, nd [1860]. First edition. This case was quite juicy. There was adultery on both sides. Read More about Report of the Beardsley Divorce Case, containing the Full and Unabridged Testimony of All the...
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Paris: Chez J.-B. Garnery, Librairie, rue de Pot-de-Fer, No. 14, [c. 1823]. Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a Royal Governess, Teacher, Popular Novelist, Educational Writer for Women and Children. She settled in London and started a Monthly Magazine for Women: "Nouveau Magasin" and the first woman editor of..... Read More about Le Magasin des Jeunes Dames, ou Instructions pour les Personnes qui entrent dans le monde et se...
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Inscribed to her American editor. Inscribed to her editor, "Mr. Targ, avec toute ma sympathie S. de Beauvoir". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and collector. During his tenure at Putnam's, 1964-1978..... Read More about Photograph signed ("S de Beauvoir") and inscribed to William Targ
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New York: The Misses Selby, [c 1920]. Inscribed "To Isabelle Leighton, with best wishes, affectionately David Belasco. Nov. 22nd 1920. " Signed in pencil below image "The Misses Selby, N.Y." and with their label "The Misses Seby 628 Fifth Avenue." on the back. Read More about Portrait photograph of David Belasco writing with quill pen
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![Item #324152 TLS. To Mrs. [Naomi] Mitchison (1897-1999). Arnold Bennett](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/324152.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690410276)
London: 75, Cadogan Square, 14th, April, 1926. "...I have been Reading 'Cloud Cuckoo Land." You are too devilish clever for words...:" Read More about TLS. To Mrs. [Naomi] Mitchison (1897-1999
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Philadelphia: Printed for W. Spottiswood, and H. & F. Rice, Market-street, 1793. Second American edition. Read More about Strictures on Female Education; chiefly as it relates to the Culture of the Heart, in Four...
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New York: Published by Sea Cliff Press, [1983]. First edition, #36 of 90 copies. Read More about Prayers & Sermons for the Stations of the Cross
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
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[Pondicherry, French India: Published by Miss Christabel Bevan, Sri Aurobindhu's Ashram ... printed by D.A.Lakin at the Statesman Press, Calcutta, 1950]. ‘Tibet is changing fast’. "Now this year 1950 is highly important as it marks the beginning of a New Era in the world as well as the beginning of..... Read More about “The most Difficult Journey in the World”. A Pilgrimage to Tibet and Back [Cover title
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Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1808. First edition. Rare American Bible in Contemporary Full Black Morocco – Printed and Likely Bound by Jane Aitken. "Charles Thomson (1729-1824) made the first translation of the Septuagint into the English language, and the first English translation of the New Testament in the western..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Covenant ... Translated from the Greek by Charles...
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New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
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Philadelphia: Edward Earle. J. Maxwell, Printer, 1816. Contemporary notes in pencil on endpapers. Read More about Reflections on Suicide. Translated from the French of Madame de Stael by an American Lady
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