Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1940. No. 189 of 520 numbered copies. Inscribed Copy, In Box. A superb copy of... Read More about I Married Adventure: The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson
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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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[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. Inscribed 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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Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie Incorporated, (1941). First edition. The Author is the great-granddaughter of Emily Donelson who herself was the niece of President Andrew Jackson and who served as Hostess at the White House for him. Inscribed to Howard C. Smith "The author joins with Mary Phelps in Christmas..... Read More about Emily Donelson of Tennessee
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Southern Pines, North Carolina: 21 November 1958. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. She writes “First, I never had ahigh-school education just an old fashioned private school. College experience is not necessary for the writer of..... Read More about Autograph letter signed “Katharine N. Burt”
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New-York: Samuel Campbell, 1794. First American Edition. "Female Mind. . .sufficient for the acquisition of knowledge" Burton lectures on the expected topics: obedience, duties of a wife, daughter, etc., but he also strongly recommends reading for ladies as necessary to keep them from being insipid and to prepare them as..... Read More about Lectures on Female Education and Manners
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. First American edition. First of acclaimed British actress Fanny Kemble's journals of her four-year residence in America, this work the record of her tour in 1832. The year before publication, she married Pierce Butler of South Carolina, in what proved to be a disastrous..... Read More about Journal. In Two Volumes
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[New York]: Warner Communications, [1987]. First edition. Read More about Dawn. Xenogenesis
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December 29th, 1815, BYRON TO LADY HOLLAND ON THE BIRTH OF HIS DAUGHTER, ADA LOVELACE. UNPUBLISHED BYRON LETTER TO LADY HOLLAND. In a brief letter, Byron encloses "of being indebted to you" in quotes. Most famously, it was at a dinner of Lady Holland's that Byron was introduced to Lady..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Byron") to Lady Holland on the birth of his daughter, Ada...
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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1941]. First edition. A follow-up to the successful formula of You Have Seen Their Faces. Read More about Say, is this the U.S.A
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[London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893]. One of 400. One of 25 photogravure portraits published in ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS, a posthumous appreciation of Julia Margaret Cameron. Read More about Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1866
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[London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893]. One of 400. One of 25 photogravure portraits published in ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS, a posthumous appreciation of Julia Margaret Cameron with “Reminiscences” by Mrs. Thackeray. Read More about Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie
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Hutchinson & Co. Number 72 of 100 copies of the Edition De Luxe, signed with her signed card laid in. Mrs Patrick Campbell (February 9, 1865 – April 9, 1940) was one of the most successful British stage actresses of her generation. Her first marriage, from which she took the..... Read More about My Life and Some Letters
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London: Cassell & Company Ltd, [1951]. First edition. Read More about Out in the Midday Sun
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