A Classic Scandal
Ruth. A Novel. By the Author of “Mary...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition. A Classic Scandal. Classic novel of scandal and redemption by Elizabeth... Read More
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MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III'S COPY
Twenty Years at Hull-House; With Autobiographical Notes.
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1910. Hamilton, Norah. No. 26 of 210 special copies. MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III'S COPY. Jane Addams, who is bound to appear on anyone's list of Great American Women, was a pioneer of social work whose establishment of the Hull-House settlement in a dingy area... Read More
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Memoirs of the Court of James the First.
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More
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Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”.
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
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IN DUSTJACKET
Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. IN DUSTJACKET. 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... Read More
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The Ladies Calling In Two Parts [AND] The Art of Contentment [AND] The Government of the Tongue.
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
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Autograph note signed “Gloria I. Alley.
N. P: n.d. Inscribed “To Wes Hartley-a bright and dignified Sport-With Adminration… Gloria I. Alley. Read More
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The American Ladies' Memorial : an indispensable home book for the wife, mother, daughter : in fact useful to every...
Boston: Published at 60-1/2 Cornhill, 1850. Read More
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In Eastern Seas. With a Visit to Insulinde and the Golden Chersonese.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, (1934). First edition. Inscribed to Colonel Donald Shumway Rockwell by the author. Read More
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Typed letter signed “Katharine Anthony”.
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
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Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William...
[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More
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Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More
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Archive of 13 Autograph Letters Signed ("Gertrude Atherton" or "G.A."), to Harper Brother’s editor James MacArthur,
London, Munich, New York, and Mt. Tamalpais [CA]: 1905-1907. An archive of letters from Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) to James MacArthur of Harper Brothers, publisher of Atherton’s Rulers of Kings (1904); The Travelling Thirds (1905); The Bell in the Fog (1905); Ancestors (1907); and California: An Intimate History (1914). The letters... Read More
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La bonne petite souris , conte, par Madame D***; suivi des proverbes français.
Troyes: Ve. André, imprim.-libraire et fabricant de papier, Grand'rue, “Imprimée cette annee” [between 1808 and 1832, according to the BN]. Scarce regional printing (CLC locates only the BN copy) of this ittle “conte de fée” from the pen of the author (1650-1705) who coined the very phrase which now describes... Read More
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Jane Austen.
Pasadena, California: The Ampersand Press, 1948. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Read More
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Four Manuscript Poems.
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
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The Flock.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Novel about Shepherds in the San Joaquin Valley. Read More
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Haec Homo, Wherein the Excellency of the Creation of Woman is described, By way of an Essay.
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
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ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of... Read More
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Wendell Copy
The Works of Anna Ltitia Barbauld With a Memoir [and] A Legacy for Young Ladies [edited by Lucy Aiken].
Boston: Published by David Reed, 1826. First American editions. First published in London in 1825 and 1826. Wendell Copy. Read More
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Typed letter signed “Shirley Barker”.
Derry, New Hampshire: 25 May 1959. Replying to Hartley's enquiry about her writing and education. She describes how one teacher greatly affected her by introducing her to contemporary literature and having them keep “thought books.” She writes that college helps in exposing one to a wide range of ideas, “One... Read More
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Woman, A Poem.
London: for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1818. First edition thus. Barrett (1786-1820) first published a poem entitled ' Woman' in 1810; in this version of 1818 ' I determined to rewrite the poem ... I have found so much omission, alteration, and new matter necessary, that... Read More
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Signed Limited
Memories: An Autobiography.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. First edition, Number 221 of 265 copies, Signed by the Author, on special paper. Signed Limited. Read More
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Inscribed Picture of Bernard Baruch
Photograph of oil painting of the great financier and presidential advisor, inscribed on the mount, “To Isabel Leighton with highest...
1931. Inscribed Picture of Bernard Baruch. Isabel Leighton (Mrs. Frederick A., later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker), actress, writer, translator, playwright, radio personality, foreign correspondent, and editor of the best-selling The Aspirin Age, was a very close friend of Baruch over many decades until his death. Read More
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Report of the Beardsley Divorce Case, containing the Full and Unabridged Testimony of All the Witnesses.
New York: Robert M. De Witt, Publisher, 13 Frankfort Street, nd [1860]. First edition. This case was quite juicy. There was adultery on both sides. Read More
Price: $175