HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Volumes I - III, Each INSCRIBED to Noted African-American Educator John Smallwood
by ANTHONY, Susan B. & HARPER, Ida Husted
Rochester [NY]/London/Paris: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight occasional foxing, mostly to frontispiece portraits; otherwise very clean. A Fine set of these important volumes with a superb association linking the causes of women and African Americans in gaining their rights. The first three volumes of what eventually would be complete in six volumes, in publisher's sheep,... Read More
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THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY INCLUDING PUBLIC ADDRESSES, HER OWN LETTERS AND MANY FROM HER CONTEMPORARIES DURING FIFTY YEARS. A STORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN
by (ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted
Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges rather clumsily repaired with small loss of paper at gutter of the second volume, not affecting the inscription; ink a bit light but very clear. Covers rubbed and somewhat soiled. Overall about Very Good. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until... Read More
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ARCHIVE OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, EPHEMERA, AND PRINTED DOCUMENTS of Adelaide Johnson (1859-1955), Feminist & Sculptor of Famous Bust of Susan B. Anthony
by [ANTHONY, Susan B.] JOHNSON, Adelaide
Washington DC, 1929-1938. Documents. Good to Very Good condition with expected wear. Archive includes 10 SIGNED Handwritten Letters (29 pages) of various sizes dated January 1929 to February 1938, including one on Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee stationery; several other SIGNED pieces including a postcard of her Susan B. Anthony sculpture and a multi-page typed PROCLAMATIONS BY STATE... Read More
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HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Volume IV
by ANTHONY, Susan B. & HARPER, Ida Husted
New York: Susan B. Anthony, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name in ink at the top of the front pastedown. Professionally rebacked retaining the original spine. Near Fine and an important Association copy. The fourth volume, eventually complete in six volumes, in publisher's purple cloth. Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Anthony on her... Read More
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THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY INCLUDING PUBLIC ADDRESSES, HER OWN LETTERS AND MANY FROM HER CONTEMPORARIES DURING FIFTY YEARS. A STORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN
by (ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted
Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899 & 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copies with a fine association. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until 1908, two years after Anthony's death. Original full brown-burgundy morocco leather with a gilt medallion profile portrait of Anthony on the front panel of each volume, recently... Read More
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HAND-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE TO HER SISTER
by ANTHONY, Susan B
Autograph. Fine. An envelope (6" x 3-1/4") with a lengthy printed statement by The Citizens' Suffrage Association. Although not signed by her, it is addressed in the hand of Susan B. Anthony to her younger sister: "Miss Mary S. Anthony/Rochester -- N. Y./U. S. America." On the side of the envelope is written "Zurich/Apr 23rd 83," likely in... Read More
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WITH MANY VOICES. EUROPE TALKS ABOUT AMERICA
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books... Read More
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SOME BOYS AND GIRLS IN AMERICA
by APPLEGARTH, Margaret T
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1923). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a scarce, Very Good dustwrapper with edgewear. Margaret T. Applegarth. A collection of Home Mission stories illustrated by the author.
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THE GOLDEN ASS
by APULEIUS, Lucius
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Spine evenly sunned. Light, inevitable wear to the gold paper-covered slipcase. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Percival Goodman. Large octavo (6" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural ass's hide leather, 414 pages. Newly translated and with an introduction by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated with drawings, many of a mildly and... Read More
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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS. SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS
by AQUINAS, St. Thomas
Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") in slate-gray pyroxylin-impregnated vellum cloth stamped in black pigment leaf with a checkerboard pattern of multiple crosses; 132 pages. Book designed by Will Carter. The translation of Father Thomas Gilby, selected and arranged by Dr. George N. Shuster... Read More
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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS. SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS
by AQUINAS, St. Thomas
Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") in slate-gray pyroxylin-impregnated vellum cloth stamped in black pigment leaf with a checkerboard pattern of multiple crosses; 132 pages. Book designed by Will Carter. The translation of Father Thomas Gilby, selected and arranged by Dr. George N.... Read More
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ORLANDO FURIOSO and I CINQUE CANTI
by ARIOSTO, Lodovico
Venice: F. Valgrisi and N. Moretti, 1603. Early Printing. Hardcover. Some of the impressions are weak, but most are quite presentable. Trimmed at the top close to the text and plate lines, affecting one line of text in the dedication; other margins quite adequate. Vellum soiled. Very Good or better. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in early... Read More
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THE BIRDS
by ARISTOPHANES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Small adhesive remnant from removed bookplate on front pastedown. About Fine in Fine chemise and slipcase. Marian Parry. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11") bound in classic parchment with decorations in ochre and blue with a polished black calf spine; 72 double-folded pages. Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Dudley... Read More
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THE BIRDS
by ARISTOPHANES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine chemise and lightly soiled slipcase. Marian Parry. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11") bound in classic parchment with decorations in ochre and blue with a polished black calf spine; 72 double-folded pages. Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Dudley Fitts.... Read More
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POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #1213 of... Read More
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POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #473... Read More
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POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard... Read More
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POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine somewhat darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure.... Read More
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STORMY WEATHER
by ARLEN, Harold and KOEHLER, Ted
(New York): Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc., (1961) but likely later. wraps. Skim mark and small tear on front cover not affecting the inscription. Small tape marks on front cover and a horizontal strip of loss of music on the rear cover. Still Very Good and attractive. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in illustrated wraps; 4 pages. Vintage... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) of 4 pages
by ARMSTRONG, Louis
14 June 1970. Letter. Some creases and wrinkling from mailing. Very Good. Fine 4-page letter written entirely in the jazz legend's hand with interesting personal content on the back of four 8-1/2" x 11" photocopies of his advertisement for "Lose Weight The Satchmo Way," often used by Armstrong as stationery to his frequent correspondent, Mr. Kauffmann. Armstrong mentions... Read More
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FULL MOON
by [ARMSTRONG, Neil] LIGHT, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Pictorial boards in dustwrapper (11-1/2" x 11-1/2") illustrated with photographs scanned and processed by Michael Light with an essay by Andrew Chaikin. A total of 129 full-page and oversize black-and-white and color reproductions of NASA photographs of the moon's surface primarily from Apollo... Read More
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BILL & MOYA LEAR. AN UNFORGETTABLE FLIGHT
by [ARMSTRONG, Neil; ALDRIN, Buzz; FORD, Gerald; et. al.] LEAR, Moya Olsen
Reno, NV: Jack Bacon & Co., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. Bound in half black leather and blue marbled boards. Illustrated with photographs. The story of the Lear Jet written by the widow of the founder in a personal, autobiographical manner. Of a total edition of 5000 copies, there were 26 lettered and signed... Read More
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LITERATURE AND DOGMA, AN ESSAY TOWARDS A BETTER APPREHENSION OF THE BIBLE
by ARNOLD, Matthew
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tightly bound; wear to tips of spine which is a little darkened. Very Good. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; 316 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blank: "with sincere regard and all/good wishes./Matthew Arnold.--/Indianapolis, Feb. 4th 1884." Arnold spent the latter months of... Read More
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THE LIGHT OF ASIA BEING THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF GAUTAMA, PRINCE OF INDIA AND FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM
by ARNOLD, Sir Edwin
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Ayers Houghtelling. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-1/2") bound in cotton with an all-over Indian pattern and a gilt-stamped green leather label; 220 pages. Introduction by Melford E. Spiro .Illustrated by Ayers Houghtelling with 8 full-page color plates, 8 two-color line drawings, and 8 part-page black-and-white... Read More
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THE LIGHT OF ASIA BEING THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF GAUTAMA, PRINCE OF INDIA AND FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM
by ARNOLD, Sir Edwin
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Touch of sunning to the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Ayers Houghtelling. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-1/2") bound in cotton with an all-over Indian pattern and a gilt-stamped green leather label; 220 pages. Introduction by Melford E. Spiro .Illustrated by Ayers Houghtelling with 8 full-page color plates, 8 two-color line drawings,... Read More
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