Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century
by [Women's Education] Caroline D. Waters
[Great Britain], 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions, tables, methods, and exercises in a single hand, with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding, measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere... Read More
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Unconditional Surrender (Presentation copy)
by Waugh, Evelyn
London: Chapman and Hall, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A signed presentation copy inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper "For John, the ? of Belgrave Square, with love from Evelyn, I can't see a part for Graham's protégée here I'm afraid." A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.... Read More
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Picture Pages for Little Folks of All Ages
by Weatherly, Fred E. and Clifton Bingham. Louis Wain (illustrator)
London/New York: Ernest Nister/E.P. Dutton, 1894. First edition. Quarter blue cloth over chromolithographed pictorial glazed boards. Neat gift inscription dated 1895. A stunning copy with only the slightest hint of wear at corners. Chromolithograph and black and white illustrations throughout. Printed in Bavaria. Ernest Nister (1842-1909) "produced more than five hundred mostly undated illustrated books for children, but... Read More
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea…
by Weddell, James
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. iv, [errata slip], 276 pp. Complete with hand-colored frontispiece, seven folding maps, and seven other plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Twentieth-century bookplate to upper pastedown. Some foxing and offsetting from plates. One map with paper repair... Read More
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The Time Machine
by Wells, H.G.
London: William Heinemann, 1895. First U.K. edition. Very Good +. First issue, with the 16 pp. catalogue in the rear starting with "The Manxman." Publisher's tan buckram stamped in purple, a bit faded. Top edge and fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. Early twentieth century bookplates to upper endpapers. Offsetting to flyleaves but otherwise clean throughout. Partially unopened.... Read More
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Mr. Britling Sees It Through
by Wells, H. G.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1916. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, extremely clean and bright on account of the original dust jacket. Dust jacket Near Fine with only trivial signs of use and age. A work from Wells' middle career period, when his novels became "discussions of social or political themes that... Read More
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In Black and White: Photographs of the 30's and 40's (Signed limited edition)
by Welty, Eudora; Anne Tyler (introduction)
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1985. First edition. Fine. Presentation copy, one of 400 numbered and one hundred deluxe copies. A Fine copy, signed by the author on a leaf before the half title, and by Anne Tyler at the end of the introduction. Bound in black and white marbled boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt title to... Read More
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Acrobats in a Park (Signed limited edition)
by Welty, Eudora
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First thus. Fine. Presentation copy, outside of the three hundred numbered and signed copies and the hundred deluxe editions, signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine copy bound in green cloth boards, with embossed design of acrobats on front board and right marbled endpapers. Interior as new. One... Read More
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Signed limited edition)
by Whistler, James McNeill
London: William Heinemann, 1890. First edition. Very Good +. Number 97 of 250 copies of the large paper edition, initialed by the author with his signature butterfly monogram on the limitation page. Original cloth backed boards with gilt stamping on the front board and spine, and black titling on the spine. A Very Good+ copy with slight wear... Read More
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Plea of the Negro Soldier (Inscribed first edition)
by White, Charles Frederick
Easthampton, Mass: Press of Enterprise Printing Company, 1908. First edition. Very Good +. Inscribed by the author on the upper pastedown: "Yours truly - Charles Fred. White." Publisher's straight-grained blue cloth. Octavo. 171, [1] pp. With a photographic frontisportrait of the author. A bit of soiling and rubbing to upper board at fore-edge. Some foxing to frontispiece and... Read More
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Stuart Little
by White, E.B.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition (stated on copyright page with 10-5 and I-U). A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 134 mm.). viii, 131, [1 blank] pp. Five full-page line drawings (including frontispiece) and numerous line-drawings in the text. Publishers gray... Read More
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Stuart Little
by White, E.B.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition (stated on copyright page with 10-5 and I-U). A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 134 mm.). viii, 131, [1 blank] pp. Five full-page line drawings (including frontispiece) and numerous line-drawings in the text. Publishers... Read More
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The Sword in the Stone
by White, T. H.
London: Collins, 1938. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Black cloth printed in white on the spine. Book with slight foxing to the closed textblock and a previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Dust jacket entirely unrestored and is not price clipped. Minor chips and tears to the spine ends... Read More
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The Complete Writings (in 10 vols)
by Whitman, Walt
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. The Paumanok Edition. Limited to 300 numbered sets printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper (of which this is #92), signed by the publisher. Ten large octavo volumes (236 x 166 mm) occupying approximately 18 1/2 inches (47 cm.) of shelf space. Publisher’s three-quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines lettered... Read More
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
New York [San Francisco]: Random House (Grabhorn Press), 1930. First thus. Very Good +. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Printed by the Grabhorn Press (of San Francisco) in an edition of 400 copies, this number 133. A Very Good+ copy with some wear to the Oak boards at the corners, and some superficial rubbing to the morocco spine at... Read More
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![The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier [with] Life and Letters of... (Artist's Edition in 9 vols.)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/976/350/1501350976.0.m.jpg)
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier [with] Life and Letters of... (Artist's Edition in 9 vols.)
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1894. First edition. Fine. Number 440 of 750 sets. Bound by the Riverside Press in full crushed olive morocco, spines uniformly faded. Nine volumes (6 x 8 1/2 inches) occupying approximately 16 1/2 inches (42 cm.) of shelf space. Top edges gilt. Raised bands and gilt floral... Read More
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Lady Windermere's Fan
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. First edition. One of 50 large-paper copies on hand-made paper. A Fine copy. Quarto (8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 220 x 169 mm.). [i, blank], [i], limitation], [iii-xvi], 132 pp. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1897 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) and with their exhibition stamp in black on rear... Read More
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Suffrage Argument Outline for Speech or Debate
by Wilson, Justina Leavitt
New York: National Woman Suffrage Association Publishing Company, 1917. First edition. Near Fine. Original self-wraps with adverts to rear. Measuring 160 x 90mm and complete in 19 pages. Some faint offsetting and soiling along spine and outer margins of wraps. Internally clean and unmarked. A scarce pocket-sized guide and part of the NWSA's "Efficiency Series," it is recorded... Read More
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Angelica's Ladies Library; or, Parents and Guardians Present
by [Women's Education] Kauffman, Angelica and Henry Bunbury
London: Printed for J. Hamilton, 1794. First edition. Finely bound in half morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lower front corner skinned. Light offsetting to endpapers. Faint gift inscription to outer margin of title. Header of titlepage shaved close without any loss to text, with textblock wide margined and clean. Pages measure... Read More
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Correspondence Regarding Publications Promoting Women's Suffrage
by [Women's Suffrage] Woolston, Florence, and Homer Boyle
New York, New York; Salem, Ohio, 1912. Typed Letter Signed by Florence Woolston, editor of The Woman Voter on letterhead; single page dated June 27, 1912, measuring 8.5 x 11 inches with writing to recto and with by the transmittal envelope. Accompanied by a one page Autograph Letter unsigned but composed by the recipient Homer Boyle in response to... Read More
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A Bill Concerning the Rights and Liabilities of Married Women
by [Women's Property Rights] [Cutler, Hannah, Frances Gage and Elizabeth Jones] Mr. Key, from the Committee on Women's Rights
[Columbus, Ohio]: [Richard Nevins], 1861. First edition. Bifolium slip bill printing measuring 330 x195mm and complete in 3 pages. Lower blank portion of conjugate leaf trimmed; some splitting along fold lines. Early pencil annotations throughout. Slip bills such as this, with widely spaced, numbered lines, were designed for in-session discussion, debate and annotation; and they were printed exclusively for... Read More
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Memoirs of Mrs. Hetta L. Ward with Selections from her Writings (Presentation Copy)
by [Women's Education] [Companionate Marriage] Ward, Hetta L.; Reverend Ward; Susan Hayes
Berkeley: T.R. Marvin, 1843. First edition. Very Good +. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to front board. Minor loss of cloth to crown of spine. Faint residue of removed library label to spine and front board. Peach endpapers. Light scattered foxing as is typical of the period. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Ward's husband, the compiler:... Read More
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The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise Under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution..
by [Women's Suffrage] Clephane, J. O.
Washington DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1871. First edition. Disbound and complete in 16 pages. Measuring 215 x 140mm. A pleasing example, with a touch of staining to the title page and light foxing and soiling to the verso of the terminal leaf, else internally clean. Currently the only copy on the market, it has appeared only once at auction,... Read More
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G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces. General Orders No. 73
by [Women in the Military] Pershing, John
France: AG Printing Department, 1919. First edition. Handbill measuring 195 x 127 mm with text to recto only. A Fine example of a scarce piece, which is not listed in OCLC. As the American Expeditionary Forces under General Pershing faced the violence of the European warfront, women also took on more official military positions than they had... Read More
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Behind the Scenes; or, Nine Years at the Four Courts of Saint Louis
by [Women's Employment] Harris, Louisa
St. Louis: A. R. Fleming & Co, 1893. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. Some wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Some staining to covers and corresponding dampstaining to corners of endpapers. A very good copy, internally clean and unmarked. Collating viii, 9-220:... Read More
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