Women
MRS. HILL'S JOURNAL - CIVIL WAR REMINISCENCES
1980. HILL, Sarah Jane Full. MRS. HILL'S JOURNAL - CIVIL WAR REMINISCENCES. Edited by Mark M. Krug. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1980. The Lakeside Classics: Christmas, 1980. First edition. Illustrated. xlvii,350 pp. 12mo., brown cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and publisher's device to upper board..... More
MEMOIR OF MRS. SARAH HUNTINGTON SMITH
1845. HOOKER, Edward D. MEMOIR OF MRS. SARAH HUNTINGTON SMITH, Late of the American Mission in Syria. Third Edition. New York: American Tract Society, (1845). 8vo., brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Bookplate. Rubbing and fading to cloth, wear to cloth at heel, crown, corners. Hinges cracked, foxed throughout..... More
THE HOWE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OF SEWING MACHINES & CASES
1876. [HOWE, Elias]. THE HOWE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OF SEWING MACHINES & CASES. New York: Kronheim & Co. [n.d. ca. 1876]. 32 pp. 8vo., stapled green wrappers printed in five colors including gilt, minor wear to spine, light soil to rear cover. Light occasional foxing to margins within. B/w illustrations of..... More
ELEVENTH HOUR IN THE LIFE OF JULIA WARD HOWE
1911. (HOWE, Julia Ward). THE ELEVENTH HOUR IN THE LIFE OF JULIA WARD HOWE. By Maud Howe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911. First edition. 8vo, purple cloth backed, grey paper-covered boards. Slightly skewed, offsetting at pp. 1,4,5. With soiling at boards and paste-downs, this copy is good... More
ATALANTA IN THE SOUTH
1886. HOWE, Maud. ATALANTA IN THE SOUTH. A Romance. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. First edition. 8vo, green cloth, spine in gilt; 345pp. + ads. Light wear at edges and spine, else very good. More
WORK AND WAGES
1843. HOWITT, Mary. WORK AND WAGES: or, Life in Service. A continuation of "Little Coin, Much Care." New York: D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton. 1843. One of Appleton's "Tales for the People and their Children." First American edition. Engraved title-page and frontispiece. 178 pp., + 16 pp..... More
BETWEEN WHILES
1887. JACKSON, Helen. BETWEEN WHILES. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First edition. 8vo., green cloth boards stamped in black, gilt spine. One corner bumped and worn, spine lightly soiled, previous owners bookplate on back cover pastedown, otherwise tight, clean and fine. (Wright III, 2898). More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED
18. JAMESON, Anna. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. Three pages written on a single sheet (approximately 8 3/4 x 7 in.) folded once at the center to form four pages, and further creased for mailing. Written at Wootton Park and dated September 26, though without a year (however, the paper is watermarked..... More
LIFE OF NANCY
1895. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. THE LIFE OF NANCY. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1895. First edition. 8vo, green cloth, gilt. Minor sun to spine with small patches of shelfwear to spine and board perimeters. Crown is gently bumped. Quite clean and fresh within. Very good..... More
QUEEN'S TWIN and Other Stories
1899. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. THE QUEEN'S TWIN and Other Stories. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co.; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1899. First edition. 8vo., green cloth, lettered and decorated in silver gilt. Pencil ownership to ffep. Some overall exterior soil. Shallow loss to crown cloth due to critter..... More
TORY LOVER
1901. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. THE TORY LOVER. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1901. First edition, first printing. 8vo., green cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, armorial emblem stamped in gilt to the front board. Illustrated by Marcia and Charles Woodbury, including..... More
TORY LOVER
FE. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. THE TORY LOVER. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. First edition, second issue. The cloth slightly sunned on spine and a touch worn at heel, crown and corners, otherwise a very nice, crisp copy. More
DEEPHAVEN
1877. JEWETT, Sarah O[rne]. DEEPHAVEN. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition, second or third printing, one of 500 copies. 253 pp. 16mo., mauve cloth stamped in gilt and black. blue-black coated endpapers, red edges. Minor shelfwear to boards, moderate shelfwear to spine. Front and rear hinges cracked. With a...... More
CEASE FIRING
FE. JOHNSTON, Mary. CEASE FIRING. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition. Frontispiece and three color plates by Wyeth. Grey cloth, stamped in darker grey and gilt. Cloth mildly soiled and worn; plates quite fresh. Very good in all... More
HILLTOP SUMMER
1894. KEITH, Alyn Yates. A HILLTOP SUMMER. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. First edition. 8vo., decorative beige cloth, gilt; illustrated. Overall, a fine, tight copy, in a the remnants of a mildly soiled dust jacket. Scarce in the dust jacket. More
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF TUMOURS OF THE ABDOMEN II
1889. KEITH, Thomas & Skene KEITH. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF TUMOURS OF THE ABDOMEN. PART II: ELECTRICITY IN THE TREATMENT OF UTERINE TUMOURS. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1889. 255 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in in darker blue. Minor shelfwear, faint soil to cloth. Thomas Keith was also..... More
SOME PLAYERS
1900. LESLIE, Amy. SOME PLAYERS. New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900. First trade edition. 8vo., olive cloth stamped in gilt, 624 pp.. Spine and perimeters browned by sun, gilt tarnished. Tight, and internally a bright clean copy with handsome plates. Very good. Drama... More
DIARIES OF COURT LADIES OF OLD JAPAN
1920. [LOWELL, AMY]. OMORI, Annie Shepley and Kochi DOI, transl. DIARIES OF COURT LADIES OF OLD JAPAN. Introduction by Amy Lowell, with her gift inscription on the front flyleaf dated the year of publication. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. xxxiii + 201 pp. 8vo., quarter pale cloth..... More
MORAL CULTURE OF INFANCY, AND KINDERGARTEN GUIDE, WITH MUSIC FOR THE
1869. MANN, Mrs. Horace (Mary T. Peabody) & Elizabeth P. Peabody. MORAL CULTURE OF INFANCY, AND KINDERGARTEN GUIDE, WITH MUSIC FOR THE PLAYS. New York: J. W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1869. Second edition, materially revised. Frontisp., 266 pp., + 10 pp. music. 12mo. Original publisher's binding of brown cloth which..... More
THE WOLLASTON WOMAN'S CLUB MAGAZINE
1916. [MASSACHUSETTS - WOMEN]. THE WOLLASTON WOMAN'S CLUB MAGAZINE. Wollaston (Quincy), MA: [Wollaston Woman's Club, 1916]. 208 pp. 8vo., printed grey wrappers with grey cloth spine. Near fine, very minor wear to edges. With presentation in ink by the owner, Frank Gurney, who contributed a poem (p. 47). Articles on..... More
AMERICAN VEGETABLE PRACTICE
1841. MATTSON, Morris. THE AMERICAN VEGETABLE PRACTICE, OR A NEW AND IMPROVED GUIDE TO HEALTH, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841. Illustrated with ten black and white medical illustrations and 26 full-page colored botanical illustrations, all called for. Two volumes in one. xii, 706 pp..... More
CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT
1937. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Signed by Millay on front flyleaf. 126 pp. 8vo., half black cloth with blue paper covered boards, paper spine label. Book very good, minor shelfwear to corners, spine label slightly spotted. Residue..... More