Third Book, in Dust Jacket
Brothers and Sisters
London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1929. First edition. Third Book, in Dust Jacket. Compton-Burnett's third novel, the one by... Read More about Brothers and Sisters
Price: $1,500
London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1929. First edition. Third Book, in Dust Jacket. Compton-Burnett's third novel, the one by... Read More about Brothers and Sisters
Price: $1,500
Washington, D.C and New York: 1921, 1927, 1928 and 1932 respectively. RELIEF FOR WHITE RUSSIAN REFUGEES. A collection of four letters to American magazine and newspaper publisher, Cyrus H.K. Curtis, asking for contributions for the relief of White Russian refugees who fled the country in the wake of the Russian..... Read More about A collection of four letters signed ("Julia Cantacuzène Spiransky nee Grant") to Cyrus...
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N. P: n.d. The British author of “See How They Run,” “The Wife,” “The Mayflower Men,” “Merry Merry Maidens,” and “Together Again.”¶ Seymour Halpern was a Representative from New York. From 1931 to 1933 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Long Island Daily Press and the Chicago..... Read More about Photograph signed “Helen Grace Carlisle”
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New York: November 1, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Kitty Carlsle, 1933. Read More about Portrait photograph of Kitty Carlisle as the Prince in "Fledermaus"
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London: W. H. J. Carter, [circa 1860]. Brunel's Great Eastern was launched in 1858, but was damaged by an explosion on her maiden voyage. After only a half-dozen years as a passenger ship she was converted to a cable-laying ship, laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865. Ironically..... Read More about On Board the Great Eastern ... [Suite of 4 hand colored lithographs depicting the hazards of...
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Newark, N.J: Dodd, Starbuck & Anderson, Printers, 785 Broad Street, 1871. First edition. With Photo of School. Read More about Catalogue of the Miss Robinson's School Orange N.J. 1870-1871
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [June], 1913. First Edition, first issue with date on title-page and copyright page. Read More about O Pioneers!
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition, Number---of 115 copies on Croxley Rag Paper, signed by the Author. Read More about Lucy Gayheart
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Signed and Limited. No. 372 of 619 copies on Croxley hand-made paper. Read More about Shadows on The Rock
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bootom of spine. Read More about The Troll Garden
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Napoli: Gaspare Casella, [1927]. First edition. Inscribed to Alyse Gregory. First edition of this sought after volume of essays on the people and places of Capri, from Tiberius to F. T. Marinetti and Norman Douglas, as well as the palaces, historic sights, and “cosi” (things) on the island. Translated in..... Read More about Aria di Capri
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Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1872. First Edition. Spiritualist's Poems, Inscribed. Inscribed on flyleaf "Hiram B. Croisby With the Regards of the Author, June 17, 1872." Miss Chafa went on to become Mrs. H.S. Lake, speaker at the First Spiritual Temple. Her life was quite spirited. Her husband Mr..... Read More about Napoleon Bonaparte and other Poems
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Bagatelle: 1788; and Saint Lazare, Chez Donat Gourdin, n.d. First editions. The Ancient Love of Women for Fools. Attributed by Barbier to the marquis de Champcenetz, an unrepentant anti-revolutionary and acerbic wit, who was guillotined in 1790. Barbier cites Grimm with the following identifications: Mme de Valée ( i.e., de..... Read More about Petit traité de l'amour des femmes pour les sots. [with:] Petit commentaire sur le titre de la...
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Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1938. First Edition. Poem written for music by Harl McDinald, intended “to be a major work for a woman’s chorus and orchestra, a poem that had vigor and passion, a poem that voice a deep emotion in the hearts of contemporary American women.” (Author’s note). First..... Read More about Lament for the Stolen. A poem for a Chorus
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Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank, in Market-Street, 1786. New edition. The First American was 1783. Read More about Letters on the Improvement of the Mind addressed to a Young Lady
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London: Dilly, 1787. "New [Third?] Edition", preceded by editions of 1775 and 1777. Hester Chapone was member of Lady Montagu's "bluestocking" circle and the author of a book of advice to young ladies (LETTERS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND), singled out by Mary Wollstonecraft as one of the few..... Read More about Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by Mrs. Chapone, Author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
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Denver: 22 November 1959. Replying to Hartley's enquiry about her writing and education. High school was of importance to her due to her English and Latin teachers. The Latin helping her understand English grammar and the Latin teacher reciting poetry and the English teacher introducing her to Shakespeare. Of college..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Mary Chase”
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Boston: Lee & Shephard, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: “Miss Estelle M. H. Merrill “Pres. of the ___ (?) Association “from ED Cheny “January 13, 1903” A rare inscription from this Boston abolitionist (1824-1904), ardent women’s suffragist, secretary of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society, author of many..... Read More about Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (born Littlehale
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Canandaigua, New York: August 26, 1862. "I should be glad now and then to furnish a short story for children if you deem it desirable..."-- CAROLINE CHESEBRO. Caroline Chesebro [Chesebrough] (1825-1873), born in Canandaigua, New York, was a children's novelist, short-story writer and teacher. Her first book, 'DreamLand by Daylight'..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Caroline Cheesbro
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New York: John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition and first edition published in New York (originally published in Boston in 1833). Presentation copy inscribed to Caroline Weston. Inscribed by the author: "To Caroline Weston, from his affectionate friend, L. M. Child." Caroline Weston served as Vice President of the Boston..... Read More about An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
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New York: 1921-23. Mary Graham Bonner was a children's book writer and for some years wrote the daily bedtime stories syndicated by the Associated Press, and collected in her book "365 Bedtime Stories". These are 5 of the daily stories collected there, from the author's series in newspapers called "Daddy's..... Read More about Five Typescripts of short stories, each signed
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London: Morgan & Scott, 1901. Eighteenth Thousand. Third edition Re-cast and freshly Illustrated. Read More about In the Far East. Letters from Geraldine Guinness in China (now Mrs Howard Taylor
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London: Fisher Unwin, 1908. Second Edition. The authoress tries to outline the conditions in China before the Boxer Rebellion esp. in relation to foreigners. Read More about In The Land of The Blue Gown
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Richmond [VA]: Everett Waddey Co, 1911. First edition. Read More about The Journal of Julia LeGrand. New Orleans 1862-1863
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New York: The Sarabande Press, 1985. First Edition, one of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Clampitt, Laurens & Freeman on the colophon page. One of 26 Copies. First edition of Clampitt’s Homage, consisting of 8 meditative poems on Keats, each of which utilizes as a theme, a place central to..... Read More about A Homage to John Keats
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Cambridge, Mass: 1 April 1993. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. She writes “of course there have been many fine writers from all sorts of backgrounds short of the usual high education. But I think it..... Read More about Manuscript letter, signed “Eleanor Clark Warren,” with notation at top “Dictated-not my...
Price: $50