LEE, Harriet, & Sophia Lee

Canterbury Tales, Vols. 1 & 2 (of 5) Only

1799. LEE, Harriet (& Sophia Lee). CANTERBURY TALES. Volume the first (the Second). The Second Edition. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1799. The second edition of Volumes 1. and 2. in which Harriet Lee was assisted by her sister Sophia, who authored the second volume, and which first appeared in 1797-8. The final three volumes did not appear until 1805. Octavo. xxiii,396 pp.; [ii],564 pp. Disbound: Bookblocks are whole, with worn leather backs. However, volume 1. lacks boards, and volume 2. has detached boards. A 2 cm. strip has been removed at the top of the first two leaves of volume 1. and from the top of the first text leaf in volume 2. (presumably removing an ink ownership) but without loss of text. Otherwise text leaves are clean. The Tales are a series of twelve stories told by travellers accidentally thrown together. We offer five tales in volumes 1. and 2. .

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LESLIE, Amy

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. .

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Mann, Mary Peabody

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 is very worn and soiled, with loss at heel and crown, and weak joints. Ex-library, with all of the usual marks. One signature is parially sprung. A scarce title, it is offered with all faults. .

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MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent

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 from bookplate on front pastedown, where the previous owner's personal bookplate is affixed, and rear pastedown. Text fine. We have never handled a signed Millay that was not a limited edition; this is not the limited edition, but the first trade edition, personally signed by her. .

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NEWBERRY, Julia

Julia Newberry's Diary

1933. (WOMEN'S STUDIES). JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY. Introduction by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank. New York: W.W. Norton, (1933). (?)First edition. The journal of a young Chicago girl in 1869-70. Frontis. portrait. Pink cloth, wear to extremes and spine faded. Very good. .

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NEW YORK PEOPLE'S ORGAN

Women's Rights [Editorial]

1853. NEW YORK PEOPLE'S ORGAN, A Family Companion. WOMEN'S RIGHTS [EDITORIAL]. 1853. Tabloid editorial refuting the views of women's rights advocates such as Rev. Antoinette Brown. About very good. .

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ORNE, Caroline F.

Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with Other Poems

1844. ORNE, Caroline F. SWEET AUBURN AND MOUNT AUBURN, WITH OTHER POEMS. Cambridge, MA: John Owen, 1844. viii + [4] + 196 pp. 12mo. light brown paper covered boards (spine missing, with title label detached, laid in). Light soil and a few dampstains to boards, moderate foxing in text. Owner has affixed a newsprint obituary of Orne (1905 in pen above) to the blank page facing the inscription, causing offset toning, and another poem, The Star and the Earth-Fires, is clipped from a periodical and affixed to the rear flyleaf. Quite scarce. As is. .

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PALLISER, Mrs. Bury

History of Lace

1910. PALLISER, Mrs. Bury, ed. M. JOURDAIN & Alice DRYDEN. HISTORY OF LACE. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd. 1910. 4th edition (see above). xvi + 536 pp. 8vo. pale cloth stamped in red, black and gilt. Gilt edges. Cloth soiled, corners and spine show moderate shelfwear. Hinges cracking. Foxing to endpapers through list of illustrations, and edges of text. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. With 266 b/w illustrations. .

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PARRY, Edwin Satterthwaite

Betsy Ross: Quaker Rebel; Being the True Story of the Romantic Life

1930. PARRY, Edwin Satterthwaite. BETSY ROSS: QUAKER REBEL; BEING THE TRUE STORY OF THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF THE MAKER OF THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG. Illustrated by J. L. G. Ferris and Edwin John Prittie. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. First edition. One of 285 copies (unnumbered) signed by the author. xix + 252 pp. 8vo. blue and brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. TEG. Spine slightly rolled, owner's personal bookplate to front pastedown. Color frontispiece and plates with captioned tissue guards in fine condition. Near fine overall. .

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PEABODY, MRS. MARK

Miss Slimmens' Window

1859. PEABODY, Mrs. Mark (pseudonym of Mrs. Metta V. Victor). MISS SLIMMENS' WINDOW, and Other Papers. With Humorous Illustrations. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. + ads. with frontispiece, other illustrations in text. Publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Book label on front pastedown, slight soil and foxing to text, cloth somewhat faded, extremes worn. Still very good in all. .

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PERIODICAL

Peterson's Magazine. 1866

1866. (PERIODICAL). PETERSON'S MAGAZINE. Volumes 49 and 50, January - December, 1866. Philadelphia: [C. J. Peterson,] 1866. Steel and wood engravings illustrate the tales and sketches; also included are twelve hand-colored fashion plates (folded), patterns for needlework and knitting projects, and a song for each month. Twelve issues bound as one. Tall 8vo.: iv,438;iv,440 pp. Nineteenth century binding; half morocco with brown cloth sides, gilt title at spine, and marbled endpapers. Bookplates at front pastedown. Occasional light foxing, but a lovely copy overall. This volume contains a full year of Peterson's Magazine, a successful rival of Godey's Lady's Book; not only was it a lady's magazine, but thoroughly and consciously American. It was produced by American authors for American women. This volume contains a complete novel, which was published in twelve monthly installments, "The Soldier's Orphans," by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Stephens was immensely popular in the mid nineteenth century and wrote exclusively for Peterson's Magazine; one of her stories, Malaeska, was reprinted in 1860 as the first Beadle Dime Novel. It also contains two short stories by Louise Chandler Moulton, "The Second Wife's Story" and "Nora." (Sterm, We the Women). .

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FASHION - WOMEN'S - PERIODICAL

Petit Messager Des Modes Et le Confident Reunis

1847. [FASHION - WOMEN'S - PERIODICAL] LE PETIT MESSAGER DES MODES ET LE CONFIDENT REUNIS: TOME VII, NOS. 1-17, 22-24; TOME IX, NOS. 1-13, 15-17. Paris: Imprim. Schneider et Langrand, 1847 and 1849. Thirty-six issues illustrated with 72 lovely hand-colored engraved plates, of which 33 are by Heloise Leloir and 12 by Laure Colin Noel. Quarto. Text: 2,7-136,169-192; 104,113-128,121-128 pp. 10 1/4 by 7 in. Nineteenth-century binding: quarter black morocco, marbled boards, gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers. The binding is shelfworn, with top joint is starting and lower joint tender. The first issue is missing four text pages; otherwise, despite some misleading errors in pagination, all text is present. Most issues have a timbre royal mark (a French duty stamp) on one text page (but not on the plates). The plates are generally clean and fresh; however, there are a few exceptions: 1. - Both plates in Vol. VII, no. 1, have old paper repairs on the inner margin, and the top fore-corner of one has been clipped; 2. - The two plates in Vol. VII, no. 2, have been trimmed 1/4" shy of the fore-edge of the bookblock; 3. - One plate in Vol. IX, no. 15, which is the only horizontal image in the entire volume, has been trimmed to the top-edge of the image at the fore-edge. LE PETIT MESSAGER DES MODES was a bi-weekly publication, appearing on the 1st and 16th of each month, comprised of eight pages of text, that was to include 22 engraved plates and 3 large patterns in each six-month period. This volume is bound without any of the large patterns and, instead, an additional plate has been inserted wherever a pattern is called for. These `extra' plates have been supplied from issues that are not included in this volume. Although most issues are complete with text and appropriate plates together, there are twelve instances in this volume, including the plates-for-patterns substitutions, of plates being misbound or of a plate from another issue replacing the expected plate. And so, while the plates are lovely and in very good condition, it is for these reasons that the volume is offered as is. .

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PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART

Jonathan and David

PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart. JONATHAN AND DAVID. With Illustrations by W. T. Smedley. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First edition. Green cloth stamped in white with pictorial label. Inscription. The cloth slightly dulled, else a fine copy. Ill.: FE.

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PIOZZI, Hester Lynch

Retrospection

1801. PIOZZI, Hester Lynch. RETROSPECTION: or, A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations and their Consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the View of Mankind. With a portrait of the author. In two volumes. London: John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. 461, 540 pp. + [4] pp. adv. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume 1; it is heavily foxed. 4to. contemporary mottled calf, spines decorated in gilt, black lettering-pieces to spine. Early ink ownership to ffep. Light to moderate foxing throughout text. The calf is edgeworn with surface abrasions. The joints are starting; one board is nearly detached. Mrs. Piozzi's attempt at a popular history, Retrospection was drubbed by the critics; nonetheless, one cannot help but admire the woman and her plan. A good copy. .

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PORTER, Jane

Thaddeus of Warsaw, 2 Volumes

1809. PORTER, Miss [Jane]. THADDEUS OF WARSAW, 2 VOLUMES. Boston: Lemuel Blake, 1809. First American edition from the Fourth English edition. 307/296 pp. 12mo. calf with red gilt morocco spine labels. Front joints starting, moderate rubbing to boards and spines. Labels clear and only slightly dulled. Contemporary small printed bookplates to front pastedowns; ink ownership to front flyleaves. Some dampstaining to edges of pages, light to moderate foxing in the text and end matter. Porter's second work, preceded only by a children's story. A popular early effort in the historical novel genre (through twelve editions), it is based on the Polish independence movement of the late 18th century, and was lauded by the Polish patriot Kosciusko. Quite scarce. .

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