The Trial of Mary Ann Tocker, For an Alleged Libel, On Mr. Gurney, Vice-Warden...With the Defence Verbatim as Delivered by the Defendent
by [Women in Law] Tocker, Mary Ann
London: Printed & Published at the Request and for the Benefit of Miss Tocker by Henry White, 1818. First edition. Fine. One of two issues with no clear priority, which constitutes the first account of the libel charges against Tocker as she became the first woman to represent herself in British court. Measuring 202 x 132mm in modern... Read More
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Geography notebooks of two young women pupil-teachers
by [Women's Education] Mary Barker, Pupil Teacher and Allison Jane Gillespy
[United Kingdom], 1870. Geography notebook of Mary Barker: Quarter black roan over marbled boards measuring 9 x 7 inches. Comprised of a calligraphic title and frontis plus 59 hand drawn-and-colored maps done by a young woman in her first three years of teacher training. Throughout, Mary annotates on the margins which year and term she is in and occasionally... Read More
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Elsie Ainslie, A Victim of Social Wrong
by [Women and Race] [BIPOC] Mecracken, Sara L.
Springfield, Mass: Star Publishing Co, 1885. First edition. Near Fine. Two variants of the first edition, both in publisher's printed wraps lettered in red to front. Both exceptional survivors, one in untrimmed wraps with some offsetting to the rear and fore-edges a bit chipped. Preliminary and terminal leaves uniformly toned, else internally fresh. Collating [2], 108 with adverts... Read More
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The Wife's Manual
by [Women's Conduct] Calvert, William
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. First edition. Original yellow publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. Red endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities largely concentrated to spine ends; corners bumped. Offsetting to front board. Hinges starting but sound. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Georgiana Trench. Oct 22 1854" in ink with "Harriet Trench" beneath it... Read More
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Cats at School
by Woodhouse, C.S. Louis Wain (illustrator)
London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1911. First edition. Quarter green cloth over color pictorial, heavy-card stock boards. Some soiling to boards, upper corners creased. Tall octavo. Collating [2], 4-23, [1, blank]. With twenty full-page color plates, including frontispiece. In all an excellent copy. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist,... Read More
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Two Cats at Large. A Book of Surprises
by Woodhouse, S.C. Louis Wain (illustrator)
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1910. First edition. Publisher's quarter red cloth over full color pictorial boards. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in; 258 x 212 mm). Twenty-four verso-only leaves with twenty large full color illustrations by Louis Wain. Small closed tears to bottom edge of leaves 19 and 22, small tears to half title at staples,... Read More
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A Sermon Preached at Scipio, N.Y. at the Execution of John Delaware, a Native; for the Murder of Ezekiel Crane
by Woodruff, Hezekiah N.
Albany: Charles R. and George Webster, 1804. First edition. Very Good +. Printed paper self wrappers. 122 x 204 mm. 24 pp., complete. Front wrapper partially loose from binding, but still holding. A remarkably fresh copy overall despite some foxing to last couple leaves. A clean and fresh copy, Very Good+ The killing of Ezekiel Crane by... Read More
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The Double Suicide. The True History of the Lives of the Twin Sisters, Sarah and Maria Williams..
by [Sensational Literature] [True Crime] [Sex Work]
New York: H.H. Randall, 1855. First edition. Printed self wraps, stitched at spine. Measuring 220 x 140mm and complete in 64 pages. Some rubbing along spine, and scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; toned throughout, else clean. A scarce piece sensationalizing the tragic affairs and subsequent suicides of Sarah and Maria Williams, OCLC reports fewer than twenty copies... Read More
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Fulton Pittsburgh School District School Exercise Book
by [Women and Education] Flora Yagle
Fulton, Pittsburgh, 1900. Faux cloth over marbled boards with ownership label to upper left corner with school district and compiler information. Measuring 9 x 11.5 inches and comprised of 22 pages of sketches, herbal specimens, and sample essays (all recto). Firmly bound and with some dampstaining to the lower gutter not affecting text. Representing a range of exercises completed... Read More
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Revolutionary Road
by Yates, Richard
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, clean and appearing unread. In a Near Fine dust jacket that is a bit faded on the spine and with one tape repair to the verso of the jacket. Despite their youthful fantasies that they are different and more original... Read More
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Last Poems and Plays
by Yeats, W. B.
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1940. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A very sharp copy of the book. Dust jacket a bit toned at the spine and extremitites, small chips at the spine ends, but a lovely copy overall. The dust jacket design by Thomas Sturge-Moore is... Read More
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The Silent Traveller in London
by Yee, Chiang
London: Country Life, 1938. First edition. Fine. A Fine Copy. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 145 mm.). xix, [i, blank], 255, [1], [4, blank] pp. Thirteen plates including two in color. Specially bound by Leighton-Straker ca. 1938 (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in). Full red morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt with Chinese characters,... Read More
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