A Change of World. With a foreword by...
New haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition, one of 551 copies. Published when Rich was a 21-year-old... Read More about A Change of World. With a foreword by W. H. Auden
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The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.
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..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
Price: $650
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the...
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...
Price: $250
Martha Washington's Letter Written from Philadelphia, June 15, 1794 to Mrs. Frances Washington [Introducation by W. K. Bixby].
Saint Louis: Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby [By D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [October], 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Mrs. Frances Washington was the widow of George Augustus Washington. The original of this letter was in Bixby's fine collection. Read More about Martha Washington's Letter Written from Philadelphia, June 15, 1794 to Mrs. Frances Washington...
Price: $100
The Black Family ReunionCookbook.
Tradery House National Council of Negro Women, Inc, [1991]. First Edition. Read More about The Black Family ReunionCookbook
Price: $200
Portfolio.
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1947. Portfolio number 5. First Edition. Read More about Portfolio
Price: $350
AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, CONTRIBUTING MONEY TO THE CREW OF THE SHIP LINARIA, DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL...
Cambridge: March 12, 1937. Brief letter written by Alice Stone Blackwell to Mr. Paine, offering assistance to the crew of the British merchant ship Linaria, who refused to put into port in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. She writes: "Dear Mr. Paine: Here is a small contribution for the..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, CONTRIBUTING MONEY TO THE CREW OF THE SHIP...
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Letter, Signed, from ALICE STONE BLACKWELL to REV. GEORGE L. PAINE.
Cambridge: June 23, 1949. Letter signed by suffrage leader and activist Alice Stone Blackwell, less than a year before the end of her life. The letter, to Rev. George L. Paine, simply reads: "Dear Friend: Your kind communication has wholly bewildered me. I do not know in the least what..... Read More about Letter, Signed, from ALICE STONE BLACKWELL to REV. GEORGE L. PAINE
Price: $450
Songs of Russia. Rendered into English Verse.
[Chicago]: Published by the Author [Charles H. Kerr], 1906. First edition. Translation sof Russian songs by the noted suffragist, Alice Stone Blackwell. Read More about Songs of Russia. Rendered into English Verse
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“Women Do Not Want It.”.
[Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association, c. 1914]. Suffragette circular arguing that women have always been complicit in their own subjugation, citing women’s conservative reactions to Vassar College and female education in general. Blackwell argues that the suffragist movement must persist despite the indifference or opposition of those who stand..... Read More about “Women Do Not Want It.”
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Hand-colored print of Caprifolium (Honeysuckle). Plate 25 from Herbarium Blackwellianum.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Lonicera caprifolium, the Italian woodbine, perfoliate honeysuckle, goat-leaf honeysuckle, Italian honeysuckle, or perfoliate woodbine, is a species of perennial flowering plants in the genus Lonicera of the family Caprifoliaceae. Mrs. Blackwell had taken on the task of producing an up-to-date illustrated text of medicinal plants for the purpose..... Read More about Hand-colored print of Caprifolium (Honeysuckle). Plate 25 from Herbarium Blackwellianum
Price: $130
Hand-colored print of Cardamomum minus. Plate 585 from Herbarium Blackwellianum.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Elettaria cardamomum, commonly known as green or true cardamom, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the ginger family, native to southern India. It is the most common of the species whose seeds are used as a spice called cardamom. It is cultivated widely in tropical regions and reportedly..... Read More about Hand-colored print of Cardamomum minus. Plate 585 from Herbarium Blackwellianum
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Hand-colored print of Curcuma (Tumreric). Plate 396 from Herbarium Blackwellianum.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Mrs. Blackwell had taken on the task of producing an up-to-date illustrated text of medicinal plants for the purpose of extricating her husband from debtor's prison. Producing the original watercolors, engraving the plates and then handcoloring the engravings, Blackwell raised the money to regulate her husband's affairs, but..... Read More about Hand-colored print of Curcuma (Tumreric). Plate 396 from Herbarium Blackwellianum
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A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet.") Compiled from Family...
Washington, D.C: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to "Miss Ada C. Bradley [?] from the Author" Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), a descendant of Signer of the Declaration Charles Carroll and the daughter of the Governor of Maryland, became active in politics..... Read More about A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of...
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With an Early American Woman's Letterpress Booklabel
Forma sacra, or, A sacred platform of natural and revealed religion; : exhibiting, a scriptural and rational account of these...
Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham, 1774. With an Early American Woman's Letterpress Booklabel. With the early booklabel of Jane Plumer (1748-1832). Read More about Forma sacra, or, A sacred platform of natural and revealed religion; : exhibiting, a scriptural...
Price: $350
With the Fictionalized Indian Captivity of Maria Kittle
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, In Prose and Verse. To which is added, A Collection of Essays, Prose...
New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793. First Edition. With the Fictionalized Indian Captivity of Maria Kittle. Among the works is this volume of early American literature is the first printing of The History of Maria Kittle. The work is a fictionalized story of the real-life captivity of..... Read More about The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, In Prose and Verse. To which is added, A Collection...
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'Stanzas by the Countess of Blessington' and 4 Autograph Letters Signed
Collection of 4 autograph letters to various recipients and one fair copy poetical manuscript, in addition with one autograph letter...
n.p: v.d., ca. 1818-1839. 'Stanzas by the Countess of Blessington' and 4 Autograph Letters Signed. 1: “Stanza’s [sic] by The Countess of Blessington.” 1p. on folded sheet. A 16-line, 4 stanza poem opening with the line, “Like some lone Bird who in a Cage Confined …” 2: Autograph letter signed..... Read More about Collection of 4 autograph letters to various recipients and one fair copy poetical manuscript, in...
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Author's First Book
Body of Death.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $150
Author's First Book
Body of Death.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $225
Sarah K. Bolton. Pages from an Intimate Autobiography. Edited by Her Son.
Boston: Thomas Todd Company, 1913. First Edition. Privately Printed, one of 210 copies. Writer, editor, secretary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She graduated from the seminary in Hartford founded by Catharine Beecher. Read More about Sarah K. Bolton. Pages from an Intimate Autobiography. Edited by Her Son
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ANS.
Maud Ballington Booth, was an Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Read More about ANS
Price: $75
The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest Ornaments of the Fair Sex...
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. Translation of Boudier de Villemert's L'ami des Femmes, first published anonymously in Paris in 1758; the first American edition was published by Dunlap in 1771. Read More about The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest...
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‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’
Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino].
The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino
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American Wollen Co.
Lawrence, MA: 1935 (Printed c. 1998). Number 15 of 250 prints. Bourke-White's striking image of man and machine, reminiscent of her earlier work in the Soviet Union, was published in a FORTUNE story on the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile industry. Read More about American Wollen Co
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Out of the World.
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World
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My Farm in Lion Country.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika, and she recounts adventures, hartebeest and zebra [sic]. Elephants were also collected, as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good..... Read More about My Farm in Lion Country
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