New York: House of Field, Inc, [1939]. First edition. Inscribed on ffep to Col. Don S. Rockwell. Read More about Passport to Adventure. [Foreward by Major General William75 C. Rivers

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

London: Printed for R. Hunter ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-row, 1817. First edition. Read More about Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale. In Three Volumes

Paris: Henri Nicolle ... [and] Renard, 1813. First (?) French edition. French edition of one of Miss Edgeworth's "Tales of Fashionable Life," first published in London in 1809. Loeber lists two Paris 1813 editions of Dubuc's translation, priority is unknown. Read More about Vivian: Scenes de la Vie du Grand Monde ... [translated by Pierre Louis Dubuc

Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co, 1865. Second edition. The experiences of a woman who diguised herself as a man and entered the Union Army with the Army of the Potomac. She was born in New Brunswick, Canada. It is not clear when the first edition of this book appeared. probably... Read More about Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in...

Fine Original Illustration by Reginald Birch. Published as an illustration to George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss in St. Nicholas Magazine, this is a typically fine and engaging turn of the century magazine drawing for which the artist was noted. Reginald Birch (1856-1943) was known as “The children's Gibson”..... Read More about "The Fish Pond"

Frenich, Foss: K.D. Duval, 1986. First Edition, one of 500. With Prospectus. Includes essays by John Harthan, Dorothy Harrop, Mirjam Foot & Elizabeth Greenhill herself. Read More about Elizabeth Greenhill Bookbinder. A Catalogue Raisonné

London: 5 June 1974. Responding to Hartley's letter asking whether she would have some advice for his writing students to help them to their literary goals. She emphasis the drive to write, the examination of the market, mentions the possibility of writing fictionalized biographies as possibly being a starting point... Read More about Typed letter signed “Susan Ertz”

London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Third Edition. Read More about The Romance of Biography or Memoirs of Women Loved and celebrated by Poets from the Days of the...

London: Printed for J. Johnson, J. Murray and J. Evans, 1793. Second 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... Read More about Lectures on Female Education and Manners

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. First edition, no. 349 of 351 copies signed by the Author on a special tipped-in page. Signed Limited. Read More about A Peculiar Treasure

Glen Ellen, California: May 10, 1984-February 11, 1985. A charming series of letters from the legendary food writer and memoirist M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), written from her final home in Glen Ellen, to one Maurice Gordon, a recently befriended fellow northern Californian, who shared with Fisher a love of food and... Read More about Collection of 7 Typed Letters Signed ("Mary Frances," "MFKFisher,"...