CAXTON, Laura

The Hartwell Farm

1871. [COMINS, Lizzie B.] CAXTON, Laura. THE HARTWELL FARM. Illustrated by the author. Boston: Loring, 1871. 200 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's advertising. 12mo. brick colored cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Backstrip split 2" at center, affecting author name; heel and crown, edges slightly frayed. Flyleaves glued down front and rear. Scarce. Wright 605. $75.00. .

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CLAY, Virginia

A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, Covering

1904. [CLAY, Virginia]. Ed. Ada STERLING. A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES: MEMOIRS OF MRS. CLAY OF ALABAMA, COVERING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH, 1853-66. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First edition. Inscribed on first blank recto by the editor, with her note on title page. xxii + 386 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt and white, top edge gilt. Corners gently bumped. Minor shelfwear. A few small edgetears to pp. 9-10, not affecting text. Color frontispiece, sepia toned plates. Very good overall. .

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VASSAR COLLEGE

The Vassarion, Volume 28, 1916

1916. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, VOLUME 28, 1916. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1916. 298 pp. + 25 pp. advertisements. 4to. leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip missing. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall. .

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VASSAR COLLEGE

The Vassarion, Being a Record of the Fiftieth Year of Vassar College

1915. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, BEING A RECORD OF THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF VASSAR COLLEGE. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1915. 298 pp. + 29 pp. advertisements. 4to. leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip detached, chipped. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall. .

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COONLEY, LYDIA AVERY

Under the Pines and Other Verses

1895. COONLEY, Lydia Avery. UNDER THE PINES AND OTHER VERSES. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1895. First edition, signed presentation copy. vii, 104 pp. 12mo. green cloth printed and illustrated in green, untrimmed, teg. Good plus with soil to boards, rubbing to tail of spine and bumped corner to lower board. .

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WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS

Journal of the Annual Convention of the Woman's Relief Corp

18. WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS. JOURNAL OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Various places (Boston, MA; Washington, D.C.; Minneapolis, MN): various publishers (E. B. Stillings & Co. Griffith-Stillings Press; The National Tribune Co.; Japs-Olson Co.), various dates (1888-1932). A large, nearly consecutive, run of this yearly journal; we offer the years from 1888 to 1932, covering the sixth through the fiftieth conventions, lacking the issues for only five years (1889, 1890, 1913, 1920, and 1929). 40 volumes. Many volumes contain illustrations from photographs of the various officers of the organization. 8vo. Two volumes are bound in half leather. Fourteen volumes are bound in cloth, with gilt-stamped title to spine, and a.e.g. Twenty-four volumes are bound in printed paper wrappers. Ex library. Tipped-in to the volume of the ninth convention, held in 1891, is a holograph, presentation letter from Mary E. Deane, President of Massachusetts Department of the W.R.C. The half leather volumes are missing large portions of the spines and the boards are detached. The spines of the paper-wrappered volumes are sunned, with some occasional chipping to wrappers; a few of the volumes have either the front or back panel detached. The text leaves are clean and the overall condition of the group is quite good. Offered with: JOURNAL OF THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS..1890. For the Department of New Hampshire. JOURNAL OF THE EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS..1891. For the Departments of Connecticut , Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. JOURNAL OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS..1891. For the Departments of Missouri and Vermont. Seven separate issues covering individual state conventions. 8vo. paper wrappers. Ex library. Some occasional chipping to wrappers; one of the volumes has a detached cover. Else, near fine. The price for the collection: The Woman's Relief Corps, a post-Civil War organization, worked through local chapters to relieve the sufferings of disabled veterans, war widows, and orphans. In the North, it functioned as an auxilliary of the Grand Army of the Republic, but in the South, where the G.A.R. had no equivalent, there nonetheless were units of the Woman's Relief Corps. Separate units r. .

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CORSON, Juliet

The Home Queen World's Fair Souvenir Cook Book

1895. CORSON, Juliet, ed. THE "HOME QUEEN" WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR COOK BOOK, TWO THOUSAND VALUABLE RECIPES ON COOKERY AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY, MENUS, TABLE ETIQUETTE, TOILET, ETC. CONTRIBUTED BY OVER TWO HUNDRED WORLD'S FAIR LADY MANAGERS, WIVES OF GOVERNORS AND OTHER LADIES OF POSITION AND INFLUENCE. Chicago: John F. Waite Publishing Co. (1895). Later printing. 608 pp. 8vo. pale pebbled cloth stamped in black with World's Fair architectural vignette on front cover. Juliet Corson's first cookbook was "The Cooking School Manual of Practical Directions for Every-day Cookery," based on her New York Cooking School; her point was that nutritious meals could be made without great expenditure; as she poses in the Manual, "How well can we live, if we are moderately poor?" It was followed by a pamphlet, "Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six," was needfully popular during the Great Strike of 1877. Corson made her classes available on a sliding scale so that both the well-to-do and the poor could attend. She was the organizer of the New York Cooking School exhibit at the 1893 World's Fair Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, on which this book is based. Covers worn, lightly soiled. Front hinge cracked, rear cover and backstrip detached from bookblock. Pages age-toned, brittle. First few pages detached, laid in. Frontispiece has small closed tear in margin, not affecting image (portrait of Juliet Corson). Block sound. .

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CRAPSEY,ADELAIDE

Verse

CRAPSEY, Adelaide. VERSE. Rochester, N.Y.: The Manas Press, 1915. First edition. A small ink stain on the cover; a few pages are edge stained. This small volume, her first, was written in the last year of the poet's 36 year life. Her best known pieces are cinquains, a lean metrical form of her own creation resembling the Japanese haiku. Ill.: FE.

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CRAWFORD, Elizabeth

Women's Suffrage Movement. A Reference Guide 1866-1928

1999. CRAWFORD, Elizabeth. THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. A REFERENCE GUIDE 1866-1928. New York: Routledge, 1999. 4to. 785pp. Black cloth stamped in silver to front and spine. Light wear to cloth. No dustjacket. Very Good. .

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DELAND, MARGARET

Kays

DELAND, Margaret. THE KAYS. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926. First edition. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Very faint soiling to covers. Still a near fine copy in a soiled dust jacket. Ill.: FE.

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DELAND, MARGARET

Kays

DELAND, Margaret. THE KAYS. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Presentation edition, 1/250 copies signed by the publisher. Patterned paper boards, cloth backed. Boards rubbed at extremes. Near fine overall, with the text bright and clean. Ill.: FE.

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DIAZ, Anna M.

Entertaining Story of King Bronde

1868. DIAZ, Anna M. [actually Abby Morton] THE ENTERTAINING STORY OF KING BRONDE, HIS LILY AND HIS ROSEBUD. With Illustrations by W. L. Sheppard. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, (1868). First edition of the author's first book - despite having contributed to many periodicals (The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, Wide Awake, etc.) in the years preceding its appearance. Wood-engraved illustrations. Nearly square 12mo. Publisher's blue cloth binding with blindstamped double-rule frames on sides, with the title "The King's Lily and Rosebud" is gilt-stamped on the upper board within a decorative frame of leaves and on the spine; brown coated endpapers. The binding shows general shelfwear and some light soiling, with shallow loss at crown. Text leaves are lightly toned throughout and the final fifty pages or so have a small dampstain at the inside bottom corner. The last signature is partially sprung and loose. Early gift inscription (October 28, 1868) in pencil on first fly-leaf. About very good. Over the course of her long and busy life Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904) was a teacher, for a while at the Transcendentalist community at Brook Farm, and later, as a divorced mother with three children, she worked as a professional author, publishing stories and articles in the leading juvenile and domestic periodicals of the day. She was politically active, involved in the abolitionist and woman-suffrage movements, and was a founding member of the Women's Trade and Industrial Union of Boston, serving as its president from 1881 to 1892. (NAW 1, p. 471-473). .

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DODGE, MARY MAPES

Donald and Dorothy

1883. DODGE, Mary Mapes. DONALD AND DOROTHY. With original illustrations. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. First edition. 8vo, brown cloth, spine in gilt; xii + 355pp. Slight rubbing at edges of cloth; overall, very good. (BAL 4776). .

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DOUGLAS, AMANDA M.

Floyd Grandon's Honor

1884. DOUGLAS, Amanda M. FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1884. First edition. Olive cloth, scuffed, with noticeable wear at spine ends and corners. Text shows foxing, slight over-opening. Good. (Wright III 1605). .

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DREISER, THEODORE

Gallery of Women

DREISER, Theodore. GALLERY OF WOMEN. In Two Volumes. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition, second printing, same month (Novemeber) as first edition, so stated on copyright page. 2 volumes. This is a fine set of books in dust jackets that are somewhat darkened and faded with publisherd notation "third printing" on spine. Housed in published box with split bottom seam. An unusual edition in jackets and slipcase. Ill.: FE.

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