EATON, REBECCA

Abridgment of Milner's Church History

1817. EATON, Rebecca. AN ABRIDGMENT OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY for the Use of Schools and Private Families. Andover, Ma.: Flagg & Gould, 1817. First edition. xii, 324 pp. Small 8vo. brown leather printed in gilt to black lettering piece on spine. Pencil to text and end pages; ink ownership to flyleaf. Foxing to text and paste action to end pages. Boards are soiled, scuffed, bumped and edgeworn, with rubbing to spine, chipping at tail of spine and lower joint cracked 3" from tail. Serviceable. .

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Book number: 57955

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EDDY, Mary Baker

Seven Messages to the Mother Church

1935. EDDY, Mary Baker. SEVEN MESSAGES TO THE MOTHER CHURCH. Boston: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy (1935). 118 pp. 12mo. brown cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, but for ink gift inscription on first blank recto. Cloth and gilt bright and clean, no shelfwear. Texts from 1898- 1906. .

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Book number: 84294

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EDMONDS, S. Emma E.

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

1865. EDMONDS, S. Emma E. NURSE AND SPY IN THE UNION ARMY: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields. Hartford, CT: W. S. Williams & Co./Philadelphia and Cincinatti: Jones Bros. & Co./Chicago: J. A. Stoddard & Co. 1865. 384 pp. 8vo. brown cloth with gilt lettering and front cover decoration. Owner's ink signature on rear of frontispiece engraving. Spine sunned, faded; frayed heel and crown. Block tight except pp. 229-240 sprung. Heavy to moderate foxing of engraved plates, one of which illustrates the author disguised as "contraband. .

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ELLIOT, MAUD HOWE

Three Generations

ELLIOT, Maud Howe. THREE GENERATIONS. With illustrations. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923. First edition. The lettering at the spine is a bit faded, else this is a near fine, clean copy in a dust jacket faintly sunned at the spine, with mild shelfwear. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 78529

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FANSHAWE, Lady

Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe

1829. FANSHAWE, Lady. MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE, WIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, BART.. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, EXTRACTS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. lxiii + 395 + 5 pp. publisher's advertisements. 8vo. half art vellum over marbled paper covered boards, gilt leather spine label and top edge, gilt rules. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait engraved by Meyer. Spine chipped, vellum soiled, boards rubbed/shelfworn. Moderate foxing to frontispieceand title page; ocasional light foxing and pencil underlining in the text. Written in the year 1676. Sir Richard was Ambassador from Charles II to the Court of Madrid in 1665. .

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Book number: 83810

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FREEMAN, Mary E. Wilkins

Edgewater People

1919. FREEMAN, Mary E. Wilkins. EDGEWATER PEOPLE. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 (This is a later printing in 1919, code D-T). 315 pp. 8vo. quarter red cloth stamped in gilt, orange paper covered boards. Moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. Spine slightly rolled. Samll chip to half title preceding text. Quite scarce. BAL 6403. Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent 19th century author, writing chiefly about New England life. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. .

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Book number: 84646

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FUCHS, Eduard

Die Frau in Der Karikatur

1907. FUCHS, Eduard. DIE FRAU IN DER KARIKATUR. Munich: Albert Langen, 1907. Later printing. The first printing was 1906. Profusely illustrated with 446 text illustrations and 60 tipped in plates, of which many are double-page or folded and color. x, 487 pp. Thick 4to. tan brushed cotton, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, upper board illustrated with a design by Reznicek printed in four colors, patterned endpapers, all edges stained grey. A clean copy which is loose in the binding, with cracked hinges and having one gathering which is sprung. Caricatures and cartoons of women. .

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Book number: 56149

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GALE, ZONA

Loves of Pelleas and Etarre

GALE, Zona. THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First edition. Ex-library copy, with library stamp on the front pastedown and pocket removed from rear. Owner's name on flyleaf, the boards fairly shelfworn. A good reading copy. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 81444

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GARDNER, ISABELLA

Birthdays from the Ocean

GARDNER, Isabella. BIRTHDAYS FROM THE OCEAN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First edition of the author's first book. Pictorial paper boards. A particularly nice copy, in a dust jacket mildly sunned on the spine. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 81846

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GOODWIN, MAUD WILDER

Flint

GOODWIN, Maud Wilder. FLINT, His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1897. First edition. Beige cloth, gilt decoration. Inner hinge starting, corners slightly bumped. In all a very good, clean copy. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 81448

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GOODWIN, Maud Wilder

Sir Christopher

1901. GOODWIN, Maud Wilder. SIR CHRISTOPHER. A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644. Illustrated by Howard Pyle, and other artists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. First edition. 8vo. green cloth, decorated in gilt; x + 411pp. + ads. Rubbing at spine ends, else near fine. .

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Book number: 81447

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GUINEY, LOUISE IMOGEN

Patrins

1897. GUINEY, Louise Imogen. PATRINS. To Which is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. First edition. 8vo. green cloth, stamped in gilt. Slight foxing to rear endpapers. Very good. .

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Book number: 81450

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HALE, Susan

Letters

1919. (HALE, Susan). LETTERS. Edited by Caroline P. Atkinson. Introduction by Edward E. Hale. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1919. This copy is very good. .

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Book number: 81428

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HALL, Sharlot M.

Cactus and Pine

1911. HALL, Sharlot M. CACTUS AND PINE, SONGS OF THE SOUTHWEST. Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1911. First edition of the author's first book. [xii], 204 pp. Octavo, publisher's green cloth binding, decorated in dark green with gilt lettering on upper board and spine, top edge trimmed and gilt, other edges untrimmed. Ink ownership stamp and a printed poem, "Spring" by Lalia Mitchell Thornton, (perhaps clipped from a periodical and) laid down to ffep. The binding is a bit faded and dulled on spine, with negligible wear at corners and both ends of spine, but still attractive. It is clean within and in very good condition overall. Sharlot Hall (American, 1870-1943), poet and writer, became the first woman in territorial Arizona to hold public office, in 1909, as Territorial Historian of Arizona. A collection of artifacts and documents she donated in 1927 is the nucleus of the museum of Arizona history that now bears her name, the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott. And in 1981 she became one of the first women elected to the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. .

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Book number: 89101

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HELLMAN, LILLIAN

Maybe

HELLMAN, Lillian. MAYBE. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1980). First edition. 8vo. brown cloth. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Near fine, in a slightly soiled and edgworn dust jacket, sunned at the spine. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 55382

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