Women Writers
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A Durable Fire: New Poems by May Sarton
by Sarton, May
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1972. Paperback. Very Good -. 80 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. Gift inscription on half title page. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; covers curl up; closed 0.5-cm. tear from fore-edge of one leaf; clean and tight.
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$13.00
The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture and the Graphic Arts; Vol. III, No. 7, April 1899
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. Covers are grubby. Leading corners and edges are torn, chipped and creased. Bookseller's stamp on rear cover. Torn and tanned spine has chipped ends. Leading edge of front cover and spine have been repaired with tape. Page edges are roughly cut. Several early pages beginning to detach from binding, with one inch-long tears at spine foot. Pages are lightly tanned. Edges of some pages are nicked. Lower leading corners of several early pages are lightly creased....
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£15.35
Hallie Farmer: Crusader for Legislative Reform in Alabama
by Edwards, Carolyn Hinshaw
Huntsville, Ala: Strode Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 112 p.: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Red paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title. Illustrated dust jacket. Sponsored by American Association of University Women, Huntsville Branch, 1979. Includes bibliographical references and index. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from Ruth Jurenko to Mary [Purcell], dated 1985. Inscription, as noted; otherwise book is in Fine Condition. Dust jacket is in...
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$13.00
For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Rand, Ayn
New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, in lightly worn Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. A signed statement of beliefs from the originator of Objectivism and novelist who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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$3000.00
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
by Rich, Adrienne
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1995. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by poet on title page, inscribed to former owner. (x), 79 pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on front board, blue metallic lettering on spine. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear, else Fine. A collection of the late American poet's work in the early nineties, uncommon signed in the cloth issue.
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$250.00
The Home
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good with cloth rubbed at extremities; faint cup ring and deep indent to front cover. Rubber ownership stamp of the College Equal Suffrage League to the front and rear free endsheets. Gilman's scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century, asserting that liberation requires getting women out of the house. A nice copy with a suffrage-related provenance.
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$500.00
The Gastronomical Me
by Fisher, M.F.K
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1943. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition in first issue dust jacket with Hurrell photo of author in reclining pose on back panel. 295 p. Green cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges and spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket with an internal chip to the spine panel, light wear at extremities and tape reinforcements made to the blank verso. Fisher's acclaimed food memoir, uncommon in the first issue dust jacket.
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$550.00
Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life Designed as a Manual of General Information
by Killikelly, Sarah H
Philadelphia, Pa: Keystone Publishing Co, 1890. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. I. xxvii, [1], 373 p., frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Half leather with marbled paper over boards. Endpapers are dark brown printed with a floral pattern. Top page endges are gilt. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded. The author, Sarah H. Killikelly, also wrote The History of Pittsburgh (1906). This book is based on questions raised by her students. The 275 questions answered here are listed in the Table of...
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$11.00
Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans
by Scott, Natalie & Caroline Merrick Jones
New Orleans, LA : Scott & Jones , 1937 Scott, Natalie & Caroline Merrick Jones. Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: Scott & Jones, 1937, Fourth Edition, 108 pages plus table of contents. Illustrated brown and cream soft cover wraps, cover art by Olive Leonhardt. Very good, fourth edition. Edges moderately rubbing, wear to rear wrap. Previous owner name inside front wrap. . Fourth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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$45.00
Introduction to the Theory of Employment
by Robinson, Joan
London: Macmillan & Company, 1937. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first impression. ix, 127, (1), (2, ads) pp. Crimson pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good sans jacket with a few tiny stains to edges, owner inscription on paste down above vintage bookseller's ticket, a four or five underlines in text. Gilt lettering quite bright. Distinguished British economist Joan Robinson brought Keynes' theories of employment to a lay audience with this work. Decades later she would become...
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$125.00
Colette. A Life
by Lottman, Herbert
London: Minerva. 1992. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Date inked to lower corner of first page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 344 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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A$13.00
Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays
by Gordon, Mary
New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/fine. x, 253 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with copper stamped spine title and beige paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on lower page edges. In the title essay, Gordon examines novels by Dreiser, Faulkners, and Updike, where she finds "an abundance of female corpses and a certain heroism attributed to the men responsible; she finds an ideology which suggests that men are active, eager, gold creasures--except when...
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$10.00
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From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan [Hindustan]
by Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in the English language. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing the the cloth, light waer at spine ends, light marking to rear cover. Thin blemish to front pastedown, stray mark to rear paste down. A sharp and bright copy.
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$800.00
April Twilights
by Cather, Willa Sibert
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of Willa Cather's first book of poetry and her first published book. Signed by Cather in inscribed "Twenty years later!" on the front free endpaper. Bound in original drab grey boards with paper title label to upper board and spine. Near Fine with light toning to covers, subtle glue repair to crown, toning to spine and slight chipping to title label there. Still a very bright example of this otherwise fragile...
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$6500.00
Lena Richard's Cook Book
by Richard, Lena
New Orleans: Rogers Printing Co, 1939. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lena Richard below her frontis portrait in blue ink.139pp. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth titled in gilt; without a dust jacket, as one was almost certainly not issued. Very Good or better with some bubbling to cloth and tanning at the edges of the covers, light rubbing to extremities. Pages tanned and with several small stains at the textblock edge, several light pencil notations...
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$9500.00
Memories of Old Friends: being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871; edited by Horace N. Pym
by Fox, Caroline
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good +. xxviii, 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jack Fox with illustration of a fox with a book. Caroline Fox (1819-1871), a member of an English Quaker...
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$67.00
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
by Keckley, Elizabeth
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, Publishers, 1868. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. 371, [1], [8, ads] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, some reinforcement to tips, blue endpapers with old Lockwood, NY bookseller's ticket on paste down. About Very Good overall with bottom corner of front board worn, cloth slightly stained and rubbed, spine cloth shows rubbing along now-smoothed-over creases, light staining along fore edge, former owner's names on...
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$2500.00
Poems: Second Series
by Dickinson, Emily
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in gilt with Indian pipe stem motif, top edge gilt. 230pp. with four page facsimile manuscript poem at the front and tissue-guarded title-page as noted by Myerson in some copies. Very Good with darkening to spine, light wear at spine ends and corners, slight lean to binding, minor wear and soiling to cloth and light wear to bottom edge. Contemporary ink gift inscription to...
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$7500.00
The Love Book
by Kandel, Lenore
[no place]: [none], 1966. First Edition. Fine. [1966]. The correct first edition, self published by the poet. Bound in original printed wraps, not over-printed in blue and verso of the rear free endpaper is blank; this was printed later the same year by Stolen Paper Review Editions and went through various printings under that imprint. Fine, with minor browning to rear cover. An attractive copy of an uncommon banned book, it became a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as...
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$1650.00
Letty Landon
by Ashton, Helen
London: Collins. 1951. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners which is age toned at edges and spine. Small scattered stain to the lower fore-edge. 320 pages. The biography of Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, L.E.L., as she called herself. An early 19th century literary prodigy and somewhat scandal-prone. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. ....
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A$25.00
Jean Ames (Portfolio of six large prints)
by Ames, Jean Goodwin
[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Six loose 20 3/4" x 16" black-and-white prints housed in a mustard yellow portfolio with the artist's name on the front wrap. A little scuffing and slight wear to the portfolio, bright prints in Fine condition. A collection of pencil drawings reminiscent of the illustrations of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire by Southern California based artist Jean Goodwin Ames (1903-1986). She and her husband Arthur were both educators and artists. She taught at Scripps College and the...
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$500.00
American Poetry Since 1900
by Untermeyer, Louis
New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Copyright 1923; printed March 1930. xiii, [3], 405 p., frontispiece portrait of Robert Frost and 16 leaves of plates; 22 cm. Red cloth with black spine title; blind-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Top page edges red. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Mary McKenzie. In Very Good Condition: a few pencil marks in the Introduction; otherwise, clean and tight.
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$19.00
Poems: Second Series
by Dickinson, Emily
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early Printing. Very Good. Early reprint with 1892 on title page (the first was 1891). Bound in publisher's grey cloth over bevel-edged boards stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling, toning, and rubbing, glue repair evident at front and rear inner hinge; hinge after ffep exposed. Pages toned.
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$950.00
The Love Book
by Kandel, Lenore
[np]: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. Fine. First edition, very early issue with cover printed in brown (rather than black) ink with no blue overprinting, text printed sideways, publisher specified on verso of rear endpaper but partial with no address (first issue apparently has no publisher listed there). [10] pp. printed on rectos only. Illustrated wraps with pale green endpapers. Basically Fine with tiny corner crease to one page, hint of shelf wear. An attractive copy of an uncommon banned...
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$250.00
The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers
by Shattock, Joanne
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. ix, [1], 493, [9] p.; 20 cm. Paperback; illustrated cover. Publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. A biographical dictionary of British women writers from Eliza Acton to E. H. Young. In Near Fine Condition: small puncture marks in lower corner of front cover and first few pages; clean and tight.
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$10.00
