London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1833. First edition. Frances Trollope was an English novelist and writer who is said to... Read More about The Abbess, A Romance. By the Author of the "Domestic Manners of the Americans," &c
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London: Privately printed at R. Martin's Lithographic Office, 1827. According to the subscriber's list the privately-printed work was limited to only 100 copies, subscribed for by 97 individuals. Notable as an early such work done entirely in lithography. Read More about Flowers: A Series of Short Poems, original and translated: illustrated with figures drawn and...
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Greenwich, Connecticut: The New York Graphic Society Ltd, (1972). First American edition. Read More about Sonia Delaunay. Rhythms and Colours. Preface by Michael Hoog
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April 9, 1934. In 1933, Andrew Dasburg married for the second time, this time to poet Mary Channing "Marina" Wister (1882-1967), the daughter of famous author Owen Wister. She spent much time in Taos with Georgia O'Keefe and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Read More about Portrait Photograph of Andrew Dasburg's Wife, (Marina Wister
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Washington, D.C: April 28, 1930. 'Home and Country and Faith in God'. Reading in part: "In answering your question … may I say it is to my love of Home and Country and Faith in God. Also to the teachings of my grandmother, who never failed to have a "a..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Edith Irwin Hobart" to "Master Halpern" (Seymour...
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Limonto, Italy and Carmel Highlands, California: 15 August 1959 and 19 July 1981. Responding to Hartley's letter enquiring about the influence of her formal education on her writing. She responds “I do not feel that high school and university studies are essential as means of producing creative writing; that comes..... Read More about Two typed letters signed “Marcia Davenport”
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New York: March 18, 1941. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Fine portrait of the young choreographer in her first major successful work. Read More about Portrait photograph of Agnes de Mille in "Three Virgins and a Devil"
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New York: Foreign Policy Association, 19 July 1960. Hartley had written to Dean concerning the importance of her secondary education upon her writing. She writes that she was home-schooled in Russia following the curriculum of an excellent secondary school and later attended Radcliffe College. “I would say that the more..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Vera Micheles Dean”
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Decatur, Ill: 1910s. Showing mostly women sports (Field hockey) and sorority life probably at Millikin College founded in 1901. Read More about Decatur Illinois College Album
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New York: September 25, 1962. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee
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San Francisco: 22 March 1960. Hartley had written to DeFord concerning the importance of secondary education upon creative writing. She writes “One is either or is not born a writer, and short of technical training there is little a school or college can do, unless to encourage one (by publication..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Miriam Allen de Ford”
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Paris: Chez la veuve Cclouzier, et François le Breton, 1730. First edition. An unauthorized sequel. This French 'sequel' to Gulliver's Travels purports to be a translation from English by the Abbé Desfontaines, who was the original translator of Swift's Travels. Le Nouveau Gulliver is in fact an original work by..... Read More about Le Nouveau Gulliver ou voyage de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Gulliver. Traduit d'un...
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New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First edition, one of 10 copies specially printed for the author on Charcoal handmade paper, inscribed to her mother. INSCRIBED TO HER MOTHER, ONE OF 10. Inscribed on the ffep "For Dearest Mamma, with devoted love, Babette 9/III/31." Read More about Epistle to Prometheus
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Buffalo, New York: Intrepid Press / Pulpartforms, 1975. First edtion (?), no. 9 from “The Beau Fleuve Series”. “This is an unauthorized printing …”. Signed in ink on the front wrapper, and with a note from Di Prima attached. to collector Robert Wilson: “This is an unauthorized printing of this..... Read More about Brass Furnace Going Out. Song, After an Abortion
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New York: Harper & Brothers, [1945]. First edition. Containing over 650 previously unpublished poems. Read More about Bolts of Melody
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New York: The Sarabande Press, October, 1982. Number 18 of 20 copies. The paper designed by Karen Miles, and made, with the assistance of Beverly Van Ness, at the Russell-Fleming Papermill. Read More about A Poem by Emily Dickinson ("Under the Light, yet under"
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New York: Random House, [1957]. First American edition. Read More about Last Tales
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Trenton, NJ: November 28, 1853. Dix writes about her travel plans between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, as well about her most recent philanthropic cause–– the procurement of rescue boats and life-saving equipment for Sable Island, in Nova Scotia, a notorious site of shipwrecks on the east coast to which..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("D.L. Dix") to Eben Merriam
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New York: House of Field, Inc, [1939]. First edition. Inscribed on ffep to Col. Don S. Rockwell. Read More about Passport to Adventure. [Foreword by Major General William C. Rivers
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London: Sands, 1901. First edition. The extensive travels of the botanizing Miss Doughty, who “makes the glaciers and peaks of the Himalaya sound as tame as the South Downs … And after cataloguing the pleasures and perils of a Kashmiri holiday she has the effrontery to insist that any ‘idle..... Read More about Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys
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New York: 30 July, 1934. Variant of the portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Muriel Draper
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New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938. First American edition, with inserted signature leaf preceding the half title. Signed. The classic modern gothic tale, winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Read More about Rebecca
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New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1810. First edition. Black Female Charity Schools. Dwight's sermon on the importance of charity, especially the Charity Societies, citing one in particular that was of interest to him. A school that was established in New Haven to educate black female children. Dwight emphasized the responsibility to..... Read More about The Charitable Blessed. A Sermon Preached in the First Church in New Haven August 8, 1810
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Lahore: "Civil and Military Gazette" Press by E.A. Smedley, Manager, 1930. First edition. Read More about Trekking in Kashmir with a Family, --or without one
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Washington, D.C: William Cooper, 1812. Same years as First edition issued in London. Read More about The Absentee: A Tale
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