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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London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World
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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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1969). First Borzoi edition. Inscribed First Edition. Inscribed "March 1963 With my greetings and my gratitude to Paul Horgan/Kay/Wesleyan, Conn." Read More about The Smoking Mountain. Stories of Germany during the Occupation. With a foreword by William L. Shirer
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London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, nd. Stereotyped edition. Read More about Charlotte's Inheritance. A Novel
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[Newport, Rhode Island?]: Re-printed from the second Edition [by Anne Smith Franklin and James Franklin, Jr.?], 1758. Second American edition, and the earliest obtainable one. Poems by the First American Woman Author. Although this edition is traditionally ascribed by Evans and others to have been printed in Boston, Stoddard and..... Read More about Several Poems Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight ... By a...
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First expanded edition. Chapters include: "The Law for Women," "Woman's Legal Status," "Marriage and Divorce," "Child Labor and Minimum Wage," etc. Bres (1869-1927) was the associate editor of the ERA, a woman's publication. "When Bres moved to New York City in 1910..... Read More about Maids, Wives and Widows. The Law of the Land and of the Various States as it Affects Women
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1932. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. "In 1925 she and her children accompanied her husband abroad to a diplomatic posting in Beijing, China. She returned to England in 1927 because of a sick child and began writing to supplement the couple's income. In 1932..... Read More about Peking Picnic
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Northridge, California: 15 October 1958. Responding to Hartley's letter enquiring about her literary career and the importance of her education on her writing. She writes that she recommends them both for writers, finding them very important even though “some writers have done excellent work in spite of having had little..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Gwen Bristow”
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Bombay [India]: March 1918. 'The Same Pleasure and Advantages as the British'. A British Raj era letter, written by the Marchioness of Willingdon, while in India with her husband, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who was serving as Governor of Bombay. Lady Willingdon organized the Bombay Presidency War and..... Read More about Typed letter signed Lady Marie Willingdon ("Marie Willingdon") to the Rajsaheb...
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London: The Folio Society, [1997]. Seventh edition. Read More about The Complete Novels. Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant...
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London: The Folio Society, [2004]. Ninth edition. Read More about The Complete Novels. Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant...
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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Read More about The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott
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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Read More about The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott
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London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Co, 1938. Later printing. Handsome set of the novels of the Brontë sisters. Read More about Works] The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë. Jane Eyre; Villette; Wuthering...
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[Memphis, Tennessee: privately printed, 1947]. First edition. Warmly inscribed to the author's cousins on the title-page: "Safari Greetings / to / Marie and Lucien Beckner / My charming Kentucky cousins. / With sincere admiration. / Virginia Field Walton Brooks / Epping Forest Manor / Memphis, Tenn. / Aug. 15, 1950"..... Read More about Screed of Safari Scribe
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London: Richard Bentley, 1873. First edition. Read More about Nancy. A Novel
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London: Duckworth, [November 1926]. In Unknown Tribes: Uncharted Seas (1924), her only book published "Mabs' writes of her adventures in the Caribbean and Panama, recalling the crossing of oceans and the many tribes they encountered. In one extraordinary story she recounts how the pair were staying with the Chucunaque tribe..... Read More about Unknown Tribes Unchartered Seas
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nd (c. 1870?). Reading in part: "Today's my birth-day-I'm fourteen, How quick the years pass by!" Read More about Manuscipt of Poem, "To my Mother." Four quatrains
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Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1845. Presented by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Edith Marion Story, from her affectionate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rome - Dec 26 - 59.” Edith Story (1844-1907) was the daughter and youngest child of the expatriate American sculptor, lawyer..... Read More about Margherita Pusterla, racconto di
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1860. First American Edition. One of two novels by Brunton, it was wildly successful and Jane Austen's family, who eventually read it with not a little bit of enjoyment, even had difficulty in locating a copy, which she found to be "an..... Read More about Self-Control. A Novel
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Inscription reads "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-with appreciation, Pearl S. Buck. October 18, 1956." Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, October 18, 1956
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New-York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church/ J. Collord, Printer, 1833. First American edition. Agnes Bulmer (nee Collison) 1775-1836 was born in London [for a detailed biography see Keeling. 'Eminent Methodist Women,' p 148]. Read More about Messiah's Kingdom. A Poem in Twelve Books
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852. First American edition of author's first novel. Issued as Library of Select Novels No. 164. A novel, set in Ireland, about a young girl "placed in difficult circumstances." Edwina Jane Burbury (1818–1870), wife of Thomas Potter Burbury, was from the West Midlands, England..... Read More about Florence Sackville; or, Self-Dependence. An Autobiography by Mrs. Burbury
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London: Gollancz, 1937. First edition. In Dust Jacket. ‘not begotten, not born of a woman, but Exploded’ Outstanding copy of the prescient, alarming novel of Nazism triumphant, written by Katharine Burdekin and published as by Murray Constantine. The pseudonym was not unlocked until the mid-1980s, long after Burdekin’s death, when..... Read More about Swastika Night by Murray Constantine
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