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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.
Women's Biography Books & Ephemera
Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell ob. 1723; From the Original of Cooper in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford
by Cochran, John
London: Harding & Lepard, 1830. Very Good -. 1 leaf 28 x 19 cm. Image is 12 x 9.5 cm. "Engraved by J. Cochran." Stipple engraving of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell. Rachel, Lady Russell (1636-1723) was an English author whose second husband, William, Lord Russell, was involved in the Rye House Plot, for which he was convicted of treason and executed. In Very Good- Condition: closed 1-cm. tear from right edge; light foxing and soiling.
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$26.00
Jes' a Lil' Black Lamb: Darkey Lullaby
by Johnson, Alice
New York: F.A. Mills, 1899. Sheet_music. Very Good -. [8] p.: music; 31 cm. Illustrated front wrapper in green and pink, with photograph portrait of a woman, presumably Alice Johnson. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrappers included in page count. Caption title: Jes' Ma Lil' Black Lamb. Publisher's advertisements on inside front wrapper, and both sides of back wrapper printed in green, consisting of the first lines of various examples of sheet music. Possibly written by Alice...
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$19.00
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
by Erdrich, Louise
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. [12], 158, [2] p.; 24 cm. Black and maroon cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Louise Erdrich often draws on Native American themes in her work. Book is in Near Fine Condition: black remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: rubbed at head of spine; otherwise, clean and bright.
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$12.00
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
Roses and Thorns of Paris and London: A Historic and Descriptive Review of the Virtues and Vices of the Two Greatest Cities of the Earth
New York: s.n., 1900. Hardcover. Very Good +. 518 p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 27 cm. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; black and red spine and cover illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. No publication information other than the place. Copyright 1900 by C.R. Graham. Advice for Americans travelling to Paris and London by someone who thought they should really stay in the United States. "It is an undeniable fact that Europeans do not...
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$67.00
One Above & One Below: New Poems
by Belieu, Erin
Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. Paperback. Fine. First Edition, First Printing. viii, 85, [3] p.; 23 cm. Paperback with cover design by Valerie Brewster; cover art by Jordana Munk. Wonderful poetry from the Nebraska-born poet. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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$13.00
Touching the Earth
by Bondar, Roberta
Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Square hardcover. 144 pages including a Glossary, a Select Bibliography and an Index. Color photography. First Canadian Woman to travel in space.
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$20.00
A General Collection of Forms and Precedents in Conveyancing: in Which the Most Abundant Examples are Introduced in sufficient variety to enable the scrivener, conveyancer, and man of business, accurately to draw instruments of writing, legally and correctly
by Getz, George
Reading, Pa: George Getz, 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Title continued: "Besides many other forms, useful to the farmer, mechanic, and trader." Second edition, enlarged and improved. xi, [1], 143, [1] p.: facsimiles, tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Getz' Forms. Complete imprint: "Reading, Pa. George Getz....
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$98.00
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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$13.00
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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$19.00
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
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 story---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. Fine...
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$14.00
Mary Through The Centuries : Her Place In The History Of Culture
by Pelikan, Jaroslav
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1996. First Printing. Hard Cover. 267 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#005926: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Jaroslav Pelikan, world-renowned historian and author of the best-selling Jesus Through the Centuries and many other books, examines all of Christian history and culture to create the most complete portrait of the Virgin Mary ever written. Pelikan assesses the ways...
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$39.00
Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis
by DEMPSTER, Nigel
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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$20.00
Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford; edited by Maxine Scates & David Trinidad
by Stanford, Ann
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001. Paperback. Fine. First Printing. viii, 190, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback; cover design by Valerie Brewster. A Lannan Literary Selection. Anne Stanford (1916-1987) was an American poet who spent her entire life in California. She received the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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$13.00
Rememb'ring
by Duncan Sisters (Vivian Duncan and Rosetta Duncan)
New York: Irving Berlin, 1923. Sheet_music. Good. 5, [1] p.: music; 31 cm. Front wrapper illustrated, printed in red and black. Sheet music for voice and piano. Front wrapper illustration by P.M. Griffith is a photo of Vivian and Rosetta Duncan as Eva and Topsy (in blackface) with list of 12 titles from the musical "Topsy and Eva," book by Catherine C. Cushing (suggested by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin). Publisher's advertisements inside the front wrapper and...
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$15.00
A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico by Edith O'Shaughnessy (Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy)
by O'Shaughnessy, Edith
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Hardcover. Good. Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz." [12], 355, [1] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 11 leaves of plates; 21 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and front-cover titles and illustration. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. The author's letters...
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$10.00
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Executive board, and of the Ladies' Board of Managers of the Union Benevolent Association
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1849. Paperback. Very Good +. 31, [1] p.; 22 cm. Yellow wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter, along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it...
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$129.00
Individual Recipes in Use at Drexel Institute
by Spring, Helen M
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1905. Paperback. Good +. Sixth Edition. 80 p.; 19 cm. Grey wrappers with black wrapper title. Black repair of spine. Anthony J. Drexel established the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in 1891 as a non-degree-granting institution (in 1914 the school began granting bachelor of science degrees). This cookbook would have been used by the Department of Domestic Science and Arts. The author, Helen M. Spring, was the first instructor of cookery at the...
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$17.00
When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele; words and music by Chas. McCarron & Nat. Vincent
by McCarron, Charles, and Vincent, Nathaniel
New York: Broadway Music Corp, 1915. Sheet_music. Very Good -. 5, [1] p.: music; 35 cm. Wrapper printed in blue and orange. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrapper illustration by Andre de Takacs of an older black man playing a ukulele with two Hawaiian women peeking through the bamboo behind him. Publisher's advertisements inside front wrapper and outside back wrapper. Bill Bailey plays his "old guitar" called Ukalele in Honolulu; the lyrics include references to the hula and to...
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$129.00
Bennett & Walton's Almanac, for the Year of our Lord 1815, Being the Third After Leap Year: Calculated by Joshua Sharp
by Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa: Bennett & Walton, 1814. Paperback. Good +. [48] p.: woodcut title vignette and illustration, tables; 18 cm. Publisher's advertisement on last page. Although Sharp is named as the calculator of this issue, the calendar pages and the eclipse predictions (except for changes at the head and foot of the former) are offprints from Bailey's Rittenhouse Almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey) calculated by William Collom. Sharp's name has, apparently...
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$34.00
Afterward
by Rice, Ruth Mason
New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. [16], 75 p.; 21 cm. Light green cover with printed paper spine and cover labels. Introduction by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With 2 typed letters (one laid in on the front endpapers and both signed by the author) and one telegram from the author, Ruth Little Mason Rice (1884-1927), to poet Caroline Giltinan Harlow (1884- ). Also with a handwritten letter from Mary A. Taylor, sister of Rice, to Harlow referring to the publication of this book and...
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$149.00
Marian Anderson: A Catalog of the Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library
by Westlake, Neda M.; Albrecht, Otto E
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. vii, [3], 89 p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with maroon covers printed in white. In Near Fine Condition: spine is slightly sunned; clean and bright.
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$26.00
Men, Maids, and Match-Makers: An Up-to-Date Comedy in Three Acts
by Crane, Eleanor Maud
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1901. Paperback. Good +. 60 p.; 19 cm. Stapled. American author Eleanor Maud Crane was a very active playright from 1897 into the 1920s. This comedy has roles for 5 women and 5 men (one playing a cat?). This part was used by Camille Stark Miller playing the role of Katherine Howard, with relevant pencil marks. In Good+ Condition: "Camille" in pencil on the title page; lightly creased; first and last pages are lightly soiled; pencils marks; otherwise,...
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$25.00
