Women Writers
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Mastering the Art Of French Cooking
by Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone Child
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by American author Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle, both of France. Written for the American market, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961 (Volume 1) and 1970 (Volume 2). Widely credited with bringing French cuisine into the American home, it has since become a standard in the culinary world. Originally, a third volume was planned but Child lost interest in the project as her television career took off and...
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique, published 19 February 1963, is a book written by Betty Friedan which brought to light the lack of fulfillment in many women's lives, which was generally kept hidden.
Original Fire
by Louise Erdrich
In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire.
The Lonely Doll
by Dare Wright
The Lonely Doll is the first children's book in a series by photographer and author Dare Wright. The story is told through words and photographs. It was first published in 1957, went out of print for years, and was reissued by Houghton Mifflin in 1998. It is in its 10th hardcover printing since then. Wright, whose own life was speculated upon as being reflected in this tale of a lonely, yet mischievous doll "adopted" by two bears, wrote 10 books starring Edith and the bears.
The Death and Life Of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the...
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Women Writers Books & Ephemera
Blue Pastures
by Mary Oliver
Blue Pastures by Mary Oliver. 1995 Harcourt Brace/ Harvest Original, first paperback edition, 122 pages. Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer and National Book Award winning prolific poet who was greatly inspired by nature. Her career in poetry was unusual in that her books actually sold well. In her New York Times obituary: "For her abiding communion with nature, Ms. Oliver was often compared to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. For her quiet, measured observations, and for her fiercely private personal mien (she...
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$28.00
Elizabeth Fry: A Biography
by Rose, June
London, Eng: Macmillan, 1980. First Edition. Fine/very good. [14], 218 p.: frontispiece, 4 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Includes sources, bibliography, and index. First Edition. ISBN 0-333-23806-0. Former owner's name on half-title page: Craig Horle, a noted historian of early Quakerism and early Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister and mother of eleven...
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$19.00
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
The Hudson Review, Volume 22, Number 3 (XXII; Autumn 1969)
by Morgan, Frederick (ed.), Vernon Young (on Susan Sontag), Raymond Durgnat (quotes Velvet Underground), E. M. Cioran, W. H. Auden, Wendell Berry, et al
New York: The Hudson Review, Inc, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Classic late-1960s issue, includes a Raymond Durgnat essay on Symbolism and the Underground that quotes two songs from The Velvet Underground and Nico. Also a Vernon Young essay on Susan Sontag's Styles of Radical Will (Poague & Parsons H17). Unmarked copy, minor wear.
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$40.00
The Kossuth Offering and Family Souvenir: A Gift Book for All Seasons: 1852
New York: Mark H. Newman & Co, 1851. Hardcover. Good -. Sartain, John. iv, 241, [1] p., engraved frontispiece portrait of Kossuth and 15 leaves of engraved plates: music; 25 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped portrait of Kossuth on front cover, with the same blind-stamped on back cover; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Gift inscription on front free endpaper: "From M. H. Bidwell Jany 1st 1852...
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$129.00
The Sea Around Us
by Carson, Rachel L
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition, first printing, second state in glossy boards. Signed by Rachel L. Carson on the title page. Very Good+ with rubbing to extremities, pages toned, browning to preliminary pages with an exposed hinge. In a Very Good third state dust jacket with toning, shallow chipping to crown and top edge, light wear with a small scrape to the front flap and a corresponding ding the board below; several tape reinforcements made...
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$3,500.00
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
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
Not So Deep as a Well
by Parker, Dorothy
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of her collected poems, signed limited issue. Copy number 324 of a limited 485 signed by Dorothy Parker. Bound in publisher's reddish-pink paper covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine cloth, endsheets a little browned, former owner bookplate to front pastedown and small bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. In publisher's original gold paper-covered slipcase,...
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$1,650.00
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
MOON TIGER
by Lively, Penelope
New York:: Grove Press,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Booker Prize winner. As a woman lies dying, she reflects back on her long and adventurous life, as a newspaper correspondent, historical novelist, wife, mother, lover - but her thoughts focus repeatedly on a passionate love affair in Cairo during World War II. 208 pp.
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$27.50
Crossing the Water
by Plath, Sylvia
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature to the title page. Bound in half tan cloth lettered in silver with lavender paper covered boards. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, slight fading to edges of boards. Endpapers slightly toned at gutters. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight foxing to blindside. A lovely copy with a...
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$1,500.00
The Second Coming Magazine, Volume 1, Number 4 (June 1962) - contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer (slightly revised as Death and Art and the Utility of Despair)
by Edwards, Samuel Pitts (ed.), Susan Sontag (on Cesare Pavese), Pauline Kael, Paul Blackburn, Gottfried Benn, et al
New York: The Second Coming Magazine, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon sixties cultural magazine, includes the original appearance of Susan Sontag's review of Pavese, "Death and Art and the Utility of Despair" (Poague & Parsons D4; later reworked slightly as "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer" in "Against Interpretation"). Clean copy with some rubbing to covers, original newsstand contents...
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$45.00
![The Frugal House Wife [Housewife]: or, Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/725/929/1592929725.0.b.jpg)
The Frugal House Wife [Housewife]: or, Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole
by Carter, Susannah
Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury, 1765. First Edition. Near Fine. Evident first edition, this Dublin imprint was functionally published simultaneous with the London imprint (see Maclean, pages 23-24). Bound in contemporary full speckled calf; five raised bands, later gilt-tooled red morocco spine label. Spine rebacked with original laid-down and early repairs to edges, 6.5 x 4", 18mo. Near Fine with small patches of worming at front pastedown and bottom margins of the first...
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$40,000.00
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
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
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
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
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
The Everyday Way and Other Poems
by Bennett, Carolyn
New York: Slow Motion Press, 1985. Paperback. Fine. Cover illustration from a painting by Teresa Ratel. [6], 18 cm. 22 cm. Stapled wrappers; front wrapper illustrated. Stated First Edition. Gift inscription by the author on title page. (The front wrapper looks rubbed in the center section of the illustration, but that is the way the illustration was printed -- all copies look the same). In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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$13.00
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
Green Mountains Review -- 10th Anniversary Double Issue -- American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
Johnson, VT: Johnson State College, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine. New Series, vol. 9, no. 2 Fall/Winter 1996-97 and vol. 10, no. 1 Spring/Summer 1997. 271, [17] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Contains essays and poetry. Contributors include Robert Pinky, Maxine Kumin, Robert Bly, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, and Molly Peacock. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; one name underlined in table of contents; otherwise, clean and tight.
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$13.00
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
![The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known -- May 1898 Vol. IV, No. 5 [Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/763/753/868753763.0.b.jpg)
The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known -- May 1898 Vol. IV, No. 5 [Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson]
by Watson, Rosamond Marriott
Portland, Me: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1898. Paperback. Good +. Printed by Smith & Sale, Portland, Maine. [6], 163-184, [4] p.; 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. In this issue he reprints Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson. In Good+ Condition: front wrapper and upper edge of back wrapper are sunned; wrappers are separated along spine and chipped along some edges; pages are clean and bright.
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$13.00
ROSES IN THE MIRROR / ROSAS EN EL ESPEJO
by De Burgos, Julia
Translated and edited by Carmen D. Lucca, Bilingual Edition, b/w photo of the poet, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Near fine clean, tight and bright with a few surface crease to the pages.
Hispanic Feminist Poems
Hispanic Feminist Poems
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$30.00
