London: Webb & Bower, 1977/1989. LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 15. Signed by Holden's great niece, Rowena Scott... Read More about The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, and the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
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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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Boston: Published by David Reed, 1826. First American editions. First published in London in 1825 and 1826. Wendell Copy. Read More about The Works of Anna Ltitia Barbauld With a Memoir [and] A Legacy for Young Ladies [edited by Lucy...
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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: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co, [ca. 1879]. Second edition, with new preface. Read More about Alone Among the Zulus. The Narrative of a Journey through the Zulu Country, South Africa
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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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[Washington, D.C.]: [late March or early April 1869]. "The undersigned beg to introduce to your Excellency Miss Clara Barton, a lady who by her active and upright course during and since the war has won the gratitude of the country and our own confidence in her entire integrity and capacity..... Read More about Manuscript letter signed by Senator Carl Schurz and Senator James W. Grimes, to President Ulysses...
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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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Paris: Gallimard, [1968]. Read More about La Femme Rompue. L’âge de discrétion. Monologue
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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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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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Elliot Stock, 1880. First edition of this imprint. A photographic facsimile, reproduced on hand-made deckle-edge paper, with an interesting introduction. "One of the best facsimiles ever executed" - Westwood & Satchell. Read More about A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the...
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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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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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London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Presentation Copy. A lively account of the author's adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan, Ladakh, and Kashmir. Very scarce. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half title: “Robert Frazer from his old schoolfellow, the writer, February 1898”. Read More about Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the Baltistan and...
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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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Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
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London: John Murray, 1882. Seventh edition. The classic in a fine binding. Read More about The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Coral Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes
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London: The Religous Tract Society, 1894. First edition. Early travels by famous woman in Tibet. Read More about Among the Tibetans
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London: George Newnes, 1900. First edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society..... Read More about Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the...
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