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Heiress
by Nigel Dempster
The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film by Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richardson as Dr. Sloper.
Carrie
by Stephen King
First published in 1974, Carrie was Stephen King's first published novel. This dark tale introduces the reader to Carrie White, a social outcast in her highschool, menaced by bullies while at school, and her religious nut of a mother at home. Carrie gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, and woe to her tormentors...
Women's Biography Books & Ephemera
The American Way of Sex: An Informal Illustrated History
by Smith, Bradley
New York: Two Continents Publishing Co, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. "A Gemini Smith Inc. Book." [2], 254 p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title and front cover illustration. Illustrated endpapers. White dust jacket printed in red and blue. Book is in Near Fine Condition: edges of cover slightly rubbed; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: rubbed and lightly soiled; closed 6-cm. tear from upper edge of back section; minor chipping along upper...
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$16.00
The Thorn of a Rose: Amy Lowell Reconsidered
by Ruihley, Glenn Richard
Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 191 p.: frontispiece portrait of Amy Lowell; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Light blue dust jacket printed in red. Red endpapers. Archon is an imprint of the Shoe String Press. The author, Glenn Richard Ruihley (1924-2011), was also the editor of A Shard of Silence: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (1957). Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; ends of...
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Gracious Goodness: St. John's, Concord, Church Episcopal Women Concordville, Pensylvania
Concordville, PA: St. John's Episcopal Church, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. [6], 136, [26] p.; 22 cm. Dark brown comb-style binding; white card covers printed in dark brown. Cover title. Printed by North American Press, Kansas City, Mo. No date of publication; refers to the 275th anniversary of the church in 1977. Begins with a "V.I.P. Section," which contains recipes by famous and semi-famous poeple (Pat Nixon's Continental Salad). Interesting recipes include: harvest pear jam, ginger meat balls,...
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$25.00
The Scarlet Thread An Indian Woman Speaks
by Barton Rachael
151 page account of a young 15 year old Indian girl shipped off to England for an arranged marriage to a husband who beat and abused her, and at the age of 19, with two children to care for, her escape to start life fresh as a single woman. Prev owner named blacked out inside front cover light edge wear. mil 11
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$10.00
![The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Arts; Vol. II no. 4 Jan. 1899 [New Series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/266/625266973.0.b.jpg)
The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Arts; Vol. II no. 4 Jan. 1899 [New Series]
by Housman, Laurence; Hudson, Gertrude Reese
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. Very Good. 90, viii p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; advertisement for Calvert's carbolic ointment on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Contents: Martini Luigi Implora Pace: A Poem by Stephen Phillips; The Defence of Farvingdon: A Story by Laurence Housman; New Year's Greetings Four Hundred Years Ago: An Illustrated Note by Campbell Dodgson; Berceuse (words by Diana Gardner and music by...
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$46.00
Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath -- In Love
by Tytell, John
New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. vi, 328 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Blue and white cover with white spine title. Dust jacket. The author examines "how these writers lived on the cutting edge of passionate intensity and shows how their own love affairs influenced their writing." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Conditin: soiled; intact.
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$14.00
![The Legal Wrongs of Women [in The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review Vol. 14 no. 71 May, 1844]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/949/861/1105861949.0.b.jpg)
The Legal Wrongs of Women [in The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review Vol. 14 no. 71 May, 1844]
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. [3], 448-556 p., frontispiece engraved portrait of Morgan Lewis; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Bound with the issues for March and June 1840, and April 1842, all of which lack their frontispieces. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this book was...
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$36.00
Past Meridian
by Sigourney, Lydia H
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good -. iv, [3], 10-239 p.; 18 cm. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Front free endpaper inscribed: "Madam Noyes with the respects of LH Sigourney Christmas 1854." A delightful look at those, like the author, in the P.M. of their life, this first edition appearing when popular American author Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) was in her 60s. Inscribed by the author in the year of its...
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$191.00
Gracious Lady
by Rita S Halle Kleeman
D. Appleton Century 1935 1st ed. with (1) to last page. 333 pp. Signed by author on front free endpaper, with a gift inscription from the previous owner underneath. "with love from Charles and Lucinda December 25, 1935" Good condition with binding cracked, holding well, after the half title page, light foxing and toning to endpapers and frontis. "20"in red pencil to front pastedown top inside corner. Sunning to spine ends, light bumping to corners, light stining to heel of spine and rear panel, overall...
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$300.00
Folie Bergere: M. Paul Derval a le Plaisir de vous presenter Ah! Quelle Folie: Superspectacle en 2 Actes et 40 Tableaux de Michel Gyarmathy
Paris: Folie Bergere, 1958. Paperback. Good +. [48] p.: illustrations (some in color); 32 cm. Stapled dark brown velvet cover with gilt-stamped cover title and illustration. No date of publication; includes Micheline Roine, who replaced Yvonne Menard in 1958. The choreography was by Georges Reich. Performers shown include: Frederic Rey, Rita Cadillac, Edith Georges, Veronica Bell, Alicia Marquez, Nita Raya, Micheline Roine, and Leone Alex. In Good+ Condition: cover is rubbed; minor loss at ends of...
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Reaching for the Summit
by Sawyer, Margaret Merry
Gardiner, ME: Steele Publishing Co Inc 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by John J. Pullen This copy has been inscribed and signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. Memoirs/autobiography of a senior citizen Boston Marathon runner, climber of Mount Washington, etc. 190 pages, dozens of illustrations [mostly black-and-white photographs Near Fine with a trace of wear in edge rubbed jacket with some wear to the spine ends and a creased 3/4" tear to the upper right corner of the...
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Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up
by Barbara Feinberg
Boston: Beacon Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0807071447 . First edition. "A completely original memoir about the place of stories in children's lives". 209 pages, notes and further thoughts, acknowledgments. Fine copy in Fine Dust Wrapper. 192
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$14.60
Cotton Field Of Dreams A Memoir
by Janis F. Kearney
Chicago: Writing Our World Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0976205807 . First edition. This copy has been dated in the year of issue ["12-07-04"] and signed by the author on the half-title page. "An American sotry---in black and white---a poignant tale of Janis F. Kearney, former diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton, and her journey from the cotton fields of Lincoln County, Arkansas, to the West Wing of the White House". 341+ pages, photo-illustrated. Promotional bookmark laid in....
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Moliere by Mrs. Oliphant and F. Tarver
by Oliphant, Margaret; Tarver, Francis B.C
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 192 p.; 18 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt and black spine title; black series title on front board with black decoration on both boards. Dark brown endpapers. Part of the publisher's series Foreign Classics for English Readers edited by Mrs. Oliphant. Series list before title page indicates that this was no. 6 in the series. Gift inscription to Emily B. Dain on blank page following front endpapers dated May 1879. No date of publication;...
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$26.00
Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Spring 1982, Number 6
Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 95, [1] p.: illustrations, record; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Feminine Experience by Katherine Hoffman -- Notes on a Morning Gory: Mary Lou Williams an appreciation by Terry Teachout -- The Architecture of Julia Morgan by Richard W. Longstreth -- Beauties Blooming in a Dung Heap: The Corsican Sisters by Marie and Robert Secor -- Our Surroundings Seen Slowly [photographs] by Fleur Weymouth...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art -- May to August, 1860
New York: W. H. Bidwell, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. 572 p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of engraved plates; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands and gilt-tooled title in second compartment; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Contains fiction and nonfiction including science; the many articles reviewing books include a review of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Also contains an article extolling the virtues of the new steamship Adriatic. In...
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The Freeman and Other Poems by Ellen Glasgow
by Glasgow, Ellen
Pottstown, PA: Americanist Press, 1973. Paperback. Fine. 56 p.; 21 cm. Blue-grey wrappers with wrapper title in red and black. This is the 2nd printing of a limited facsimile edition of the 1902 printing by Doubleday, Page & Co., printed for the Americanist Press. Title page in red and black. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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$15.00
Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis
by Hejaiej, Monia
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Near Fine. xi, 369 p.; 22 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. The author presents 47 tales "told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and this book examines its role in their shared world and its significance in the lives of the three tellers." The introduction provides "an overview of the history and culture of Tunis and...
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$11.00
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; edited by Harriet Monroe -- March, 1917 -- vol. IX no. VI
by Monroe, Harriet, editor; Kilmer, Joyce; Pound, Ezra; Ford, Ford Madox; Hunt, Violet; Lowell, Amy
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1917. Paperback. Very Good -. pp. 277-332, [10], viii, [2] p.; 20 cm. Brown wrapper printed in red and black. Decorated initial letters. A few pages are unopened. This volume includes the preliminary pages needed to have all of the vol. 9 issues bound together. Contents: City Pastorals I-XI by Helen Hoyt -- Country Rhymes I-IV by Orrick Johns -- A Blue Valentine [and] The Thorn by Joyce Kilmer -- A Nun by Odell Shepard -- What the Orderly Dog Saw by Ford Madox...
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Silenzi; Emily Dickinson; A cura di Barbara Lanati
by Dickinson, Emily
Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. xxvii, [1], 201, [3] p.; 19 cm. Paperback. Contains poems by Emily Dickinson, each poem in English facing its translation into Italian by Barbara Lanati. Part of the publisher's series Universale Economica Feltrinelli. Gift inscription on series title page. In Very Good Condition: inscription on first page; 6 page corners creased; clean and tight.
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$19.00
![Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- October 1938 vol. 16 no. 1 [Katharine Cornell -- Sing Out the News]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/461/741461539.0.b.jpg)
Stage: The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment -- October 1938 vol. 16 no. 1 [Katharine Cornell -- Sing Out the News]
by Sedgwick, Ruth Woodbury; Huston, Walter; Franklin, Irene
New York: Stage Publishing Co, 1938. Paperback. Good +. 80 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Victor Moore. Contents include: I Wanted To Be an Actress as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick by Katharine Cornell [part 2 of 6] -- There's No Place Like Broadway by Walter Huston -- Long Night of Waiting by Kathleen Hoyt [auditioning before George Kaufman and Moss Hart for The Fabulous Invalid] -- How to Keep From Improving Your Mind At the World's Fair by John Paxton -- The...
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We Have Been Friends Together: Ballad; words written by Hon. Mrs. Norton; music composed and arranged by H. Russell
by Russell, Henry; Norton, Caroline E
Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co, 1846. Sheet_music. Good. [4] p.: music; 32 cm. Wrapper title. Front wrapper printed in red and blue. Imprint includes: New York: E. Ferrett & Co.; Boston: S. Colman, 30 Cornhill. The Hon. Mrs. Norton was Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877), an English social reformer, author, and composer. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." No date of publication. Samuel Colman was only located at 30...
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![Stage: The Magazine of After Dark -- January 1939 vol. 16 no. 4 [Lauritz Melchior -- Katharine Cornell -- Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/461/741461551.0.b.jpg)
Stage: The Magazine of After Dark -- January 1939 vol. 16 no. 4 [Lauritz Melchior -- Katharine Cornell -- Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians]
by MacLeish, Archibald; Melchior, Lauritz; Saroyan, William; Sedgwick, Ruth Woodbury
New York: Stage Publishing Co, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. 74 p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Beatrice Lillie by Vandamm. Contents include: Propaganda vs. Hollywood by Archibald MacLeish [the failure of Hollywood to take sides in political crises] -- Are Tenors Lousy Lovers? by Lauritz Melchior -- Some Like It Sweet by Katharine Best [Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians] -- Americans by William Saroyan -- I Wanted To Be an Actress as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick by...
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H. D., The Life and Work of an American Poet
by [Doolittle, Hilda]. Janice S. Robinson
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xxii, 490. Illustrated: (8) leaves of plates. Index.
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$20.00
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by Mary Chesnut , Vaan C. Woodward (Editor)
Fine. This is a like new hardcover with dust jacket. Only hint not new is the date 4/18/84 neatly written inside first blank page. Otherwise, rest of book crisp and clean, like new, no other marks etc seen. The binding is tight and straight like new. The dust jacket is clean and shiny with only a hint of shelf wear from display. Excellent collectible like new copy. We love our books and want you to love them too!! Thank you for looking
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$29.00
