Search Results: Women from Attic Books

Waterloo: North Waterloo District Women's Institute, 1967. Card Covers. Good. 51 p. 23 cm. 46 b&w illustrations. Blue card covers with black print have slight fading at spine and minor soiling to front. Inside very good. Discusses the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, past Secretary-Treasurers of their branch, past Presidents of their branch, history of North Waterloo District WI, Winterbourne WI, Wellesley WI, Linwood WI, West Montrose WI, Centreville WI, St. Jacobs Friendly WI, Sunnyside WI, Bridgeport WI, Dorking WI, Helena Feasby WI, Bloomingdale WI, Woolwich Ever Faithful WI, Elmdale WI, Lexington WI, Rummelhardt WI.

Heronwood Enterprises, 2008. Softcover. Good. 100 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Covers have light wear to edges, some ceases. Ink stamps on front cover and title.

San Francisco: Frog In The Well, 1982. Softcover. Good. 212 p. 21 cm. Paperback. Light wear and a few marks to white covers. Old label on rear and a pink mark on lower edge. Ink signature inside front cover has slightly marked first leaf. Various authors on sadomasochism, pornography, the sexual revolution, eroticized violence, lesbians, etc.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. Hardcover. Fair. 269 p. 19 cm. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black trim. Chipped spine ends, spots to cloth, worn corners and edges. Hinges cracked internally. Spine in danger of loosening at front. Clipping of author's death notice on front pastedown. Rear free endpaper detached. Some stains to pages. A girl's adventures in a co-ed college as a member of the class of '70. The author touches a number of issues besides women's higher education, including marriage, faith vs. reason, corsets, a woman's hair length, etc.

Oberon Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 233, [5] p. 23 cm. Green cloth in dustjacket.

New York: The Gast Art Press, 1890. Hardcover. Good. Unpaginated. 31 cm. Colour frontispiece and 11 other full-page colour illustrations. Brown cloth with gold impressing. Cornes bumped, small dents in lower edges. Spine faded with softened ends. Thumbing. Includes a Druidess, Roman Maid, Saxon, Norman, White Rose of York, Tudor, Elizabethan, Puritan, Restoration, Queen Anne, Georgian, Regency. Monotiny by F. J. Boston.

2003. Softcover. Near fine. 148 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. Inscribed by author.

Leipzig; Paris: Bernhard Tauchnitz; Librairie Ch. Gaulon & Fils and The Galignani Library, Title page states 1883; rear cover publisher's listings dated June 1903. Copyright edition. Paperback. Good. Collection of British Authors, Tachnitz Edition, vol. 2197. Miss Thackeray 13. 287 p. 17 cm. Original paper covers. Ink stamps on front cover and first page. Chipped bottom front corner, dampstained spine and rear. Pages uncut. Bios of Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, Jane Austen.

Ottawa: The Ottawa Citizen, 1967. Staplebound. Good. Unpaginated leaves, printed one side only. 24 cm. 20 b&w illustrations. Staplebound booklet. Two tears in front cover and tiny tears in spine ends. Short bios of the wives of the representatives of the Crown, from the Countess of Durham to Mrs. Vanier.

Montreal: Maclean-Hunter, 1955. Vol. 8 No. 1, Spring and Summer 1955. Softcover. Good. 88 p. 35 cm. Mainly b&w illustrations with a few in colour. Softcover. Chips in lower spine, tear in front. Top corner of p. 15 cut out. Planning the wedding, wedding fashions, fitting out your first home, etc. Special feature "Marriage Is For Grown-Ups" by Sidney Katz.

London: preface publishing, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 485 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Black cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Front flap price clipped. Inscribed by author on title page.

London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, nd. ca. 1867. Vol. III (Second division). Hardcover. Good. viii, 337-664 p. 26 cm. Nearly 500 b&w illustrations, 4 blue designs for embroidery (3 of which fold out) and two fold-out colour fashion illustrations. Half leather with cloth boards. Leather is scuffed with worn corners. Tears in two of the fold-out blue pages. Chipped top corner on 587. Covers children's fashions, women's fashions, hair styles, music, theatre, needlework, poetry, and stories which are continuations of previous volumes. There is no copyright date on the book but plates dated 1867.

London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, nd. ca. 1868. Vol. IV. Hardcover. Good. viii, 168, viii, 169-224, viii, 225-281, viii, 281-328, viii p. 26 cm. Over 300 b&w illustrations and 8 fold-out colour. Half leather with cloth boards. Leather is scuffed with worn corners. First pull-out has one of the pictures cut out. Tear in p. 143. Front cover faded at top. Covers children's fashions, women's fashions, divination for the drawing room, hair styles, music, theatre, needlework, poetry, and stories which are continuations of previous volumes. There is no copyright date on the book but plates dated 1868

Toronto: Centre for Women's Studies in Education, OISE, 1990. Softcover. Near fine. iii, 349 p. 23 cm. Paperback.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Cloth. Good/Good. 118 p. 20 cm. Blue cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket lettering is wearing off front, some label residue, a little edge wear, front flap price-clipped. Light dampstains to bottom edges of text block. Tiny tears to p. 8. Jacket title is: "Florence Nightingale: A Play In Three Acts".

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. xxix, 495 p. 24 x 26 cm. B&w illustrations. Brown cloth in dustjacket. Scratches and marks on jacket rear panel.

W.C.T.W., 1900. Fair. Four 19 cm pages tied with twine. Colour illustrations. Quotes by Willard, temperance reformer and women's suffragist. Page with April, May, June missing. Stain top front. Small tears in last page.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1862. Copyright edition. Hardcover. Good. viii, 344 p. 16 cm. Half vellum with green paper boards. Spine darkened, crack in lower front hinge. Bookplate for Ridgely Hunt on front pastedown. Foxing. "My object has been to show how fr, for the last two centuries and more, women have contributed to the formation of the modern novel in the two great literatures of modern times - th Fench and he English. To this account of what they did I have prefixed biographical sketches to show also what they were." French writers only in this volume: Mademoiselle de Gournay; Mademoiselle de Scudery; Madame de la Fayette; Madame de Tencin; Madame de Genlis; Madame de Stael; others.

New York, ca. 1966. Softcover. Very good +. 27 p. 28 cm. B&w photos and diagrams. Stapled. Light soiling.

London: M&T, 2000. Softcover. Good. 282 p. 23 cm. B&w photos. paperback. Some creases and light scratches. Inscrbed by author on first leaf. P. 159 wrinkled.