Search Results: Social Life and Customs from Bygone Books

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Hardcover. As New. Copyright page reads "First published in 2005" / number line begins with 2. Two volumes, large 8vo, glossy illustrated boards, 804 pages over the 2 volumes, b/w illustrations throughout, extensive bibliography and index. Condition is AS NEW. A must-have invaluable resource for, well, "all things Austen.

New York: J. B. Ford, 1870. Hardcover. VG+. Printing of 1870, c1869. 8vo, green cloth beveled boards with gilt decorated spine and gilt author names on front cover, brown endpapers, all edges gilt, 500 pages, [8] pages publisher adverts, engraved frontis (Reuter-Stewart) and title page with tissue guard, text engravings throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ : light rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, tiny tear front cover, scratch to rear cover, a few faint foxing stains to tissue guard, clean and tight throughout. A lovely copy of this important book on the domestic lives of American women. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-78), was an educator and women's rights activist who wrote a number of educational treatises and handbooks for housewives, this one with her more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). The work is dedicated "To the Women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the Republic.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1890. Full-Leather. G+. 367p. 2nd edition. Full burgundy leather. GOOD+/ - : edge and corner wear; sl soiling to pg edges and endpapers; front hinge cracked; spine head torn; quarter-sized stain on pgs 206-286 (text unaffected).

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. Hardcover. VG+. ...written to those girls, who have not time or inclination to think and study about the many important things which make up life and living." Copyright date is 1887, this is the 1888 printing. 16mo, navy cloth with gilt titles on front cover, 139 pages. VERY GOOD+ with slight rubbing to the spine head and tail and corners, slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight. The Tuesday evening gatherings spent together in "Practical Talk" - which later grew into the first Working Girls' Society. Dodge was a prolific writer; her papers are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. A very nice copy of this rare book.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,, 1898. Hardcover. G+. E. S. Holloway.. 9th edition (1898, first published in 1895). 12mo, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 248 pp, b/w illustrations, frontispiece photograph of Gunston Hall, VA. Condition: GOOD+ : a mildly cocked spine, small tear to spine head gutter, brownish stain to front board, some scattered soiling to rear board and spine, internally clean throughout. Wharton covers topics on colonial days in America: women in the early settlement, early poetesses, colonial dames, old landmarks, weddings and merry-makings, and legend and romance. See also Wharton's companion volume "Through Colonial Doorways.

Weston, VT: Countryman Press, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/G+. F.W.P. Tolman. Book designed by Vrest Orton of Vermont. 1st edition [NAP], 12mo, blue plaid cloth w/paper spine label in gilt, 912 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD book / GOOD+ jacket: board edges faded; spine faded; owner bookplate and name on front endpapers; jacket is edgeworn, spine toned, in protective mylar.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1906. Hardcover. VG. ...Good manners for all people, especially for those 'who dwell within the broad range of the average'." A later printing (originally published in 1892), 24mo, green cloth with white lettering and black decoration, 203 pages. VERY GOOD condition with light rubbing to spine head and tail, spine lettering is lightly faded, internally clean and tight...a very nice copy.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Description: Girls I Have Met. Arranged by A. F. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, no date [1914]. Lg 16mo (7 ¼"), brownish cloth hardcover with color illustration on front cover (repeated as frontispiece; unattributed), in original glassine wrapper, boxed with label with title on top of box. No pagination, includes many blank pages for filling in with "Girls I Have Met" - each recto page includes spaces for keeping records for four listings of: Name, Date, Place, Comments" - verso page is blank. The first two pages offer places for filling in "The Twenty-five Most Remarkable Girls: Prettiest, Homeliest, Most Sincere, Greatest Flirt, Most Religious, Wickedest, Most Athletic, etc. (list alone is worth the price of admission!). Book is clean with nothing filled in. Owner name on recto of frontispiece: "Miss Verlie A. Buckley, Proctor… Read More

New York: NY: Coward-McCann, 1928. Hardcover. VG. A.B. Read.. 8vo, green cloth, 302p. b/w illus. VERY GOOD / no jacket: lite soiling to covers, sl. yellowing. owner name in pencil.

Philadelphia: Daniels & Smith, 1846. Hardcover. Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Altered from the original work of Rev. John Hill, by G. T. Bedell, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Phil'a. Reprint ed, originally published in 1832-3. 32mo (4 ½"), brown blind-stamped publisher's cloth with gilt decoration on cover and spine, all pages gilt, yellow eps, 109 pages. Condition is NEAR FINE: slight bumping to spine head and tail and corners, otherwise this little book is like new - somebody took very good care! It is Well; or, Faith's Estimate of Afflictions seems to be a companion piece to Bedell's work "Is It Well? or, Three serious and interesting Questions to Wives and Mothers" also first published in 1832-3.

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1995. First American edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st American ed. (number line). Lg. 8vo, maroon boards, 128 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: like new - appears unread. Covers the social and domestic life in Jane Austen's time, how food features in her novels and letters, and many recipes from the period - including a "Mr. Darcy's Dinner or the Dinner Which Never Happened.

Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Paperbacks/ The University of Michigan, 1959., 1959. Soft cover. G+. 1st pb edition, 8vo, 407pages. Condition is GOOD+: light edgewear; spine creased.

Boston, MA: Priscilla Publishing Co., 1913. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An Illustrated Journal Devoted to Art, Needlework, Fashions, Home Decoration, and other Household Matters." Published monthly. Original price of 10 cents. Folio, illustrated wraps, 34 pages + covers. Condition: VERY GOOD- with some edgewear, light soiling. Cover of two women around a fountain, one is embroidering; contents include the usual collection of fashion, embroidery, ideas for picnic luncheons and afternoon teas. Story by Annie Page Jones "The Blue Lady," illustrations by Philip Lyford, Henry Vallely, and others; the usual fabulous advertisements to help you improve your hair, your face and body, and fashion patterns of all kinds. [Annie Page Jones was born on 23 May 1867 in New Store, VA, she died on 05 Apr 1950; married Matthew Joel Cox on 31 Dec 1913].

Union City, Tennessee: Pioneer Press., 1974. Soft cover. VG+. Reprint ed. 4to, illustrated stapled wraps, 53 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : slight wear.

Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Co., 1902. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. G+. ... edited from the best authorities." 1st thus edition, 8vo, beige cloth / black titles, 436 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is GOOD+: light cover and edge wear, corners bumped, owner name on endpapers, internally clean and tight, excepting pencil sribbles on the front endpapers and bottom page edge, and pen scribbles on the back endpapers which leaves a few tiny punctures and tears: this is the only flaw to the otherwise very nice condition of this book (looks as though a small child was playing school...thankfully he/she never went past the endpapers...!)

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. Hardcover. VG-. 13th edition, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 237 pp, b/w illustrations, ribbon bookmark. Condition: VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light edgewear; owner bookplate; front hinge slightly loose. Wharton covers such topics as: the Meschianza, New York balls and receptions, the American Philosophical Scoiety, the Wistar parties, old love letters, and Philadelphia dancing assemblies. See also Wharton's companion volume "Colonial Days and Dames.

Philadelphia, PA: American Sunday-School Union, 1850. Hardcover. G+. 24mo, marbled paper-covered boards backed in black leather / gilt titles on spine, 34 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is GOOD+ : edgewear to boards, scattered foxing throughout, the signature of pages 5-8 is detaching, but all is present tand the book is otherwise tight, penciled math notation on front endpaper. A moral treatise on the value of a neatly-kept home: "The misery and discomfort which families and individuals have to endure that live in the midst of dirt and untidiness, and the comfort and enjoyment found among those of opposite habits, are well shown in the following account given by one the parties who paid the visits there mentioned."....

NY: Henry Holt, 1926, c1913., 1926. Hardcover. VG-. ... including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl." Later printing of the new and enlarged edition. 225p. photographs; frontispiece of the author; red cloth / black titles. VERY GOOD- book / no jacket: lt. edgewear, 3 sm. stains to front cover, spine lt. sunned, spine has a few sm. stains. The villages which the author writes of are all in New York State.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book Two in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 113 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, tiny spot to fore edge, internally clean and tight.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book One in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 105 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, a slight darkening to a portion of the front board, internally clean and tight.