New York: March 18, 1941. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul... Read More about Portrait photograph of Agnes de Mille in "Three Virgins and a Devil"
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New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of..... Read More about Those Not Elect
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Hampton, Virginia: 1938. The program of the 31st annual conference of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, founded in 1907. Read More about National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, Inc. Thirty-first Annual Meeting. Hampton Institute
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Durham, N.C: 1932. The North Carolina State Nurses Association precluded African American membership, leading to the formation of the North Carolina Colored Graduate Nurses Association in 1923. The name of the group changed in 1931 to the North Carolina State Association of Negro Registered Nurses, Inc The program included lectures by..... Read More about Program and Annoucements. Tenth Annual Convention North Carolina State Association of Colored...
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London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More about Memoirs of the Court of James the First
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Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady Evelyn..... Read More about Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert
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Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Mauresque d'Alger. (Costume d'intérieur)" from "Galerie...
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Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705; 1705; 1702. The eighth impression of “The Ladies Calling;”; early impression of “The Art of Contentment;” the sixth impression of “The Government of the Tongue”. Read More about The Ladies Calling In Two Parts [AND] The Art of Contentment [AND] The Government of the Tongue
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N. P: n.d. Inscribed “To Wes Hartley-a bright and dignified Sport-With Adminration… Gloria I. Alley. Read More about Autograph note signed “Gloria I. Alley
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Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, (1934). First edition. Inscribed to Colonel Donald Shumway Rockwell by the author. Read More about In Eastern Seas. With a Visit to Insulinde and the Golden Chersonese
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New York: 27 September 1958. Hartley had written to Anthony regarding the biographical information in ‘Twentieth Century Authors” and whether she had some additions which she responds that she does not and that “In a general way it covers the situation…It may interest you to know that I have a...... Read More about Typed letter signed “Katharine Anthony”
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Boston: Published by the Convention [Andrews & Prentiss], 1848. Signed by William Lloyd Garrison, with Lucretia Mott on the Business Committee. Read More about Proceedings of the Anti-Sabbath Convention, held at the Melodeon, March 23 and 24, 1848
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[Philadelphia]: Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1913. Mrs. A.J. George of Brookline, Massachusetts argues against woman suffrage on the grounds that the majority of women do not wish to vote and that enfranchise them will upset traditional gender roles. An amusing account in Woman's Journal of Mrs. George's testimony..... Read More about Speech of Mrs. A.J. George before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate 1913...
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[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
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Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
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London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
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Pasadena, California: The Ampersand Press, 1948. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Read More about Jane Austen
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N.p. [American]: ca. 1780s? A somewhat bleak collection of four sacred poems, accomplished in a neat manuscript hand with a lovely calligraphic title, and signed by Mary S. Austin. The titles include "On the Death of Miss Hamilton By a Lady of Hudson," "A. Hymm," "Maria," and "Mortality." Read More about Four Manuscript Poems
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Novel about Shepherds in the San Joaquin Valley. Read More about The Flock
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London: Printed by Richard Olton for Ralph Mabb, 1637. First edition. Austin (1587-1634), a barrister of Lincoln's Inn was also author of Devotionis Avgvstininae Flamma, or, Certaine Devovt, Godly, and Learned Meditations, printed in the same year as this early work advocating legal and public liberties for women. His works..... Read More about Haec Homo, Wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is described, By way of an Essay
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N.P. [Hollywood]: n.d. [ca. 1950]. Young Man with a Camera: Bacall & Douglas. Bacall & Douglas starred together in YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950), in which Douglas plays a jazz trumpeter involved with the strange and beautiful (and possibly lesbian) Amy, played Bacall. The inscription is reproduced in EISENSTAEDT'S..... Read More about Autograph Inscriptions Signed ("Best Always, Lauren Bacall" and "to Alfred...
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London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al This book was published to get..... Read More about A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and |Brown, 1823. First edition. Read More about A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
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London: printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme, ater-Noster Row, 1804. First Edition. Read More about Miscellaneous Plays
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