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195561565London & New York: T.V. Boardman & Co. Ltd. 1955. 12mo. 207 1 pp. Black tweed boards silver lettering & silver SciFi logo on front board minor shelfwear dustsoiling to fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. Sword & Sorcery cover art of Matt Carse holding the sword of Rhiannon minor chipping & tears to head & foot of spine minor creasing still VG/G copy. First British edition of Leigh Brackett’s famed homage to Burroughs and Robert E. Howard first issued as an Ace Double No. D-36 with Howard’s Conan the Conqueror. The noted Los Angeles author “Queen of Space Opera†also shows the influences of Clark Ashton Smith Catherine Moore and Henry Kuttner of this Sword and Sorcery title set against the backdrop of ancient Mars. Brackett 1915-1978 was born in Los Angeles CA daughter to a young Pasadena socialite as well as up-and-coming real estate developer and promoter but by 1920 was only child to a widowed mother. By 1940 she was regularly contributing as author during the golden age of science fiction pulp magazines wrote the Newbery Award winning children’s Western “Ride the Free Wind†and also worked as screenplay writer for some of the most significant Hollywood films in the 20th Century. She co-wrote the screenplay for “The Big Sleep†with William Faulkner; as well as director Howard Hawks’ most successful films such as Rio Bravo Hatari! El Dorado and Rio Lobo all starring John Wayne. After marrying fellow science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton in 1946 collaborated together on science fiction as well as writing some of her own classics including “The Sword of Rhiannon†which had first appeared in shorter parts in pulps. She also wrote the screenplay for George Lucas’s critically acclaimed “Empire Strikes Back 1980†later refined into the final version by Lawrence Kasdan. See: Sven Mikulec Leigh Brackett: A Terrific Writer Ahead of Her Time just as She Was Ahead of Her Colleagues Beyond Cinephila 2025; Steve Swires Leigh Brackett Writer of Two Worlds Starlog Interview -- from 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington D.C. Feb. 1987. T.V. Boardman & Co., Ltd., hardcover
D20128Folio 20 x 12½ inches contemporary half calf worn with boards detached. The first 24 leaves of this truly remarkable and quite large object are used as a circa 1820s scrapbook. This is followed by approximately 100 complete issues of the Gazette of the United States plus some partial issues with moderate wear. Philadelphia and environs 1802-circa 1824. The compliler of this scrapbook was possibly a descendant of Lynford Lardner 1715-1774 a close associate of the Penn's who had an estate at Tacony near Philadelphia. Much of the original art is by women. As nearly as can be assumed the artists featured include his daughter Hannah Lardner 1756-1839 and granddaughter Elizabeth Lardner 1791-1877 whose mother was from the Saltar family. The original art includes: a watercolor of a rose by Elizabeth Saltar Lardner of Tacony; an ink and wash landscape by Miss Hannah Lardner of Tacony; two ink and wash views by Frances "Fanny" Saltar 1790-1880 titled "Cootstown from the East" of Kutztown PA and "A View Down the Lehigh River from Bethlehem Bridge". There are two watercolors of flowers by Frances Saltar of Tacony trimmed and laid in rather than mounted; an unsigned watercolor still life of shells; an unsigned pencil sketch of a ruined building; an unsigned pencil sketch of a residence; and a watercolor of flowers in an urn signed "S. Courlander." Also included are 20 silhouettes in a uniform format 5 x 4 inches all but three of them laid down on dark paper. Some bear faint embossed stamps reading "Museum" which helps identify them as products of Peale's Museum run by the noted artist Charles Willson Peale. A formerly enslaved man named Moses Williams who had been owned by the Peale family secured his freedom in 1802 and then produced thousands of silhouettes for Peale's Museum at 8 cents each. His remarkable story has only recently received attention. These works are not signed and Peale may have employed other silhouettists in addition to Williams but many or all of these portraits were likely by Williams. Three are captioned in manuscript: Mary F. Smith "Lardner" and "Country Cousin." Additional ephemera mounted in the scrapbook includes an 1824 engraved invitation to the Lafayette Ball; a set of French allegorical prints of the four seasons; 8 large hand-colored botanical engravings; and an engraved portrait of Lafayette by Longacre. Most of the volume was actually never used as a scrapbook. The Philadelphia newspaper Gazette of the United States 16 February to 30 June 1802 is bound as fairly close to a complete run of approximately 100 issues but 5 issues are missing and 7 are incomplete. The 8 March issue has two black-bordered pages to mourn the death of Federalism at the hands of Thomas Jefferson. More traditionally the black-bordered 26 May issue mourns the death of Martha Washington. <br /> <br/><br/> hardcover
191157310Plano IL: National Manual Training Corporation 1911. 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. 36 leaves unnumbered. With photo illustrations diagrams muslin cloth sample laid-in. Printed softcover on front stapled at spine to thick back board some soiling & tidemark to lower right corners edgewear couple minor tears still G reference copy w/ former ownership marking of Minnie Berg 6th Grade Portland OR on front cover. First edition of this uncommon sewing textbook for home economics and manual trades students taking their first instruction courses in 6th and 7th grade for sewing. The lessons were intended to instruct students in how to assemble a sewing basket including a photo of a J.P. Coats sewing sample display as well as instructions on how to straighten cloth sew basting back stitching overcasting and running stitches details about the cotton plant and much more. The National Manual Training Corp. was a short-lived vocational training education service which merged with Marion Norman Collection Indiana Manual Training Co. and the Muncie Conservatory of Music to become Muncie Normal Institute in Muncie IN< which was foreclosed in 1917. Purchased by the Ball Brothers the Institute was given to the State and eventually became Ball State. No copies in Worldcat. National Manual Training Corporation, paperback
193554115New York: Falstaff Press Inc. Privately Issued for Cultured Adults 1935. 8vo. 16 pp unpaginated. printed on sepia-tinted paper with numerous text illustrations printed in brown ink. Self-printed softcovers uncut very slight dustsoiling NF copy. First edition of this very rare pamphlet on birth control issued by the notorious mail-order erotica publisher Falstaff Press which specialized in republishing many of the Panurge anthropological titles including titles on sexuality sexual disorders birth control eugenics phallic worship scientific sexualia and flagellation. Most of these titles were written by some of the most significant anthropologists and sociologists working in the new and growing field of sexual sciences in the 1930s including Hirschfeld Reclus Niemoeller and Rohleder. Solomon Malkin was a young New York University scholar who had studied under Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and oversaw the choosing of illustrations and text for the birth control pamphlets. This work details the very unreliable “Rhythm Method†of contraception depending on the charting of menstrual cycles however notes that this is has only 50% effectiveness and should be combined with artificial birth control methods. Worldcat locates 6 copies UC Davis Emory NLM Case Western Cleveland Melbourne; See: Jay Gertzman Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 pp. 192-195; 353-354. Falstaff Press, Inc., Privately Issued for Cultured Adults, paperback
1870279011870. Very good condition. An early albumen photograph of two young women working a loom and spinning wheel in the silk industry. Hand color of detail on the women's kimono. <br /> <br /> 13 x 9 1/2" in a 14 x 12" mat. unknown
195358350Flumserberg Switzerland & UK: Barbara 1953. Oblong 4to. 9.5 x 6.7 in. 36 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 58 photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.25 in. up to 3.5 x 5.5 in. some w/ scalloped edges nearly all w/ white lettered captions 2 real photo postcards nearly all mounted w/ glassine corners 4 pp. of brochure photo clippings 2 lift tickets 32 pp separately numbered leaves of ink manuscript ALS to “Mummy & Daddy†written in cursive w/ fold creases from previous insertion into mailing envelopes originally. Contemporary black textured boards post-binder brass screw posts at gutter margin gilt lettering stamped on front cover hand-lettered title minor rubbing NF exemplar. This excellent photo album records the completely new Ramblers’ skiing center in Switzerland established near Flumserberg in the Swiss Alps following World War II which featured three consecutive chair- and ski-lifts and a wide diversity of ski runs and close by shops. Barbara has included a photo postcard of her Pension Schwendiewiese and listed it as her return address in the letters home. After arriving at the Pension the group rents some skis have them fitted learned her instructor was to be Walter who “speaks a little†English and believes they will be more efficient than the Sr. Anton ski school. She writes while they were training that they “passed a squad of Swiss soldiers on the way down. . . and seem to be in an Alpine training school.†She writes about hearing of the death of Queen Mary of Teck March 24 1953 which is the only indication of dating within the year. She writes about the glorious weather riding the Tannenboden ski lift to Prodkamm slope writes about the skiing the slopes hiking back up and her great progress. Her letters also describe their evening sing-a-longs dances organized by the instructors and staying up way too late before being tired on the slopes the next day. The photos reveal the striking views and the participants in the skiing excursion. Barbara has included photos of the three instructors her intermediate group of skiers the snow-covered road to Tannenboden the snow-covered chapel at Flumserberg and the views from Flumserberg. Also included are images of the ski slopes the Tannenboden ski lift attached to the cable ski-hoist and the Kreuz ski-hut. The group was a mixed skiing group of men and women with most of the participants identified by first name with views in the background. Album ends with photo of the group reaching Victoria station on their route home at the end of the trip. Barbara, hardcover
17884111Frederick County Md: March 7 1788. About very good. 1p. folio docketed on verso. Old folds short splits along a couple of fold lines minor toning. An impactful manuscript document from the early national period in Maryland formalizing the sale of a slave woman in Frederick County. The sale was made by Robertson Eastburn whose family emigrated from England to Maryland in the early 18th century. The document reads in part: "In consideration of the sum of forty six pounds in Gold and Silver to me in hand and paid by Frederic Strombol.I do hereby Acknowledge have Bargain'd Sold and Delivered and by these presents doth Bargain Sell and Deliver Unto the said Frederic Strombol One Negro Woman named Torry about thirty years of age To Have and to hold the said Bargained Negro woman unto the said Frederic Strombol."<br /> <br /> Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City to its end following the Civil War. In 1664 under the governorship of Charles Calvert 3rd Baron Baltimore the Assembly ruled that all enslaved people should be held in slavery for life and that children of enslaved mothers should also be held to the same standard of law. 19th-century American slave sale documents are growing increasingly scarce in the market. March 7 unknown
24365Printed for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from Aggravated Assaults. Office8 St Martin's Place Trafalgar Square crossed out and added in MS "10 Duke Street St James's SW" c.1860. Pp. 1-16 only 8vo. What remains is in good condition pages just holding together. I've found just one reference online an example of one man's brutality https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/11/a-case-for-the-society-for-the-protection-of-women-and-children-.html. Contents: case histories of acts of brutality or worse and their culmination in Court.No other copies traced or publications by the organisation. No printed matter by this Society has yet been traced. Printed for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from Aggravated Assaults. Office,8 St Martin's Place, Trafalgar unknown
191360709Dunedin N.Z.: Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. 1913. 4to. 7.75 x 10 in. 27 5 pp. including advertisements printed in blue-tinted ink. With numerous photo & text illustrations throughout 1 large double-page colour map “Chart of Routes†inserted as centerfold. Brown softcovers illustrated and printed in gold metallic ink nicely decorated Art Nouveau cover lettering & illustration die-cut window front cover for image of a Tahitian girl “La Belle Tahitienne†on front cover w/ original Union Steam Ship Co. label affixed to front cover yapp fore-edges minor edgewear tear to corner of label still VG- copy. Early printing of this nicely illustrated and informative travel brochure first issued in 1910 touting the Union Steam Ship Co. cruises to the Hervey Cook Society Tuamotu and Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific. The Union Steam Ship Co. operated over 50 steamships and round trip fairs to the Cook & Society Groups or the Western Pacific could be purchased for £16-34 at the time. Grimshaw 1870-1953 was an avid traveler and Irish writer who wrote for the Daily Graphic and The Times before moving in 1903 to the Territory of Papua where she worked as a travel publicist and would issue her books such as “In the Strange South Seas†“From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands†and “South Sea Sarah.†Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., paperback
112309Moscow Ogonek 1929. . 12 issues complete run of 1929 folio 34.5 cm x 25.5 cm; profusely illustrated throughout in black and white with photos and illustrations as well as fashion illustrations in colour no.2 slightly stained no.4 minor spotting throughout and lacking the supplementary folding pattern as is often the case no.6 pp.37-40 loose no.9 faint remnant of tape repair to spine; original illustrated or photomontage wrappers a very good set.<br /> A complete run of one year of one of the major periodicals of the 1920s with striking cover designs.<br /><br />Runs of Zhenskiy zhurnal are notably scarce with only a handful of issues in institutions worldwide. The Constructivist covers were mainly designed with photomontages by Semen Semenov-Menes 1895-1982 one of the leading Soviet masters of movie poster design. Together with Stenberg brothers he created the well-known style of advertising posters for Mezhrabpom films. The journal was issued monthly between 1926 and 1930 and included short stories poetry international current affairs including scathing attacks on class enemies as well as advice on how to run a home family health needlework and recipes. Each issue also includes a section on fashion with vivid illustrations reflecting the latest 1920s style some of which is 'Slavicised' with floral embroidery.<br /> Moscow, Ogonek, 1929. unknown
187160730Hartford CT: Printed by Case Lockwood & Brainard 1871. 8vo. 24 pp. Self-printed softcovers sewn at spine slight age toning very slight dustsoiling still NF copy. First edition of the second scarce Women’s Suffrage tract published by the pioneering Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association CWSA in 1871 subsequent to their second Annual Meeting held in 1870. This tract features the extended letter to Chicago IL suffragette and editor Myra Bradwell from Judge Howe of Wyoming detailing women serving as jurors on a murder trial jury after the passage of the Wyoming Territory’s 1869 Suffrage Act and that they discharged their duties with skill and also refutes the spurious claims that the men and women jurors had been improperly sequestered together for 4 days and nights. Following the publication of this tract Howe was replaced as a judge in the First District by Joseph Fisher a Union Army veteran who refused to recognize women being in the jury pool or allowed to set on juries even though they did have the right to vote. Isabella has also incorporated suffrage reports from the National Society for Woman Suffrage in England including specific mentions of petitions before Parliament in 1869 & 1870 on the admission of women to the suffrage by Lydia E. Becker along with excerpts of speeches by Mill delivered to the London Society of Woman Suffrage.Hooker closes with a report on a proposal by the Executive Committee to send women to meet with small local committees to “obtain signatures to the petitions for a 16th Amendment and to circulate tracts on the subject of Equal Suffrage.†See: Jessica Jenkins The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage in Connecticut Connecticut Explored Vol. 14 No. 2 Spring 2016; Kim Viner Women on the Jury: Wyoming Makes History Again Wyoming Historical Society Encyclopedia Jan. 23 2020. Printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, paperback
191764087New York NY: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co. Inc. 1917. 12mo. 16 100 pp. Blue-ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt borders & lettering minor dustsoiling slight bumping to foot of spine very slight stain to head of spine very minor shelfwear still a VG- bright copy inscribed by Catt to former Oregon Senator Harry Lane 1855-1917 famed Progressive-era politician who was a leading advocate along with Abigail Scott Duniway for Women’s Suffrage former head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum mayor of the City of Portland for two terms and pushed for a better relationship with Native American Indigenous Peoples. First edition inscribed of this important concise work on women’s suffrage and women gaining the right to vote through Constitutional Amendment. Included are sections by Catt on pushing for a Federal amendment as most State constitutions were difficult to amend; overcoming State constitutional requirements; election law reform and movement to pass state referendums on the issue. Catt 1859-1947 was a leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who was a key figure in securing the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. She was a founder of the League of Women Voters in 1920 as well as international peace advocate. Catt often faced internal strategic challenges to her efforts from younger suffragettes such as Alice Paul and Lucy Burns who favored public protests and civil disobedience actions. Worldcat locates 2 physical copies Digital Microfilm & facsimile copies predominate nearly every other listed holding; See: Debra Michals & Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947 National Women’s History Museum 2025. National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., hardcover
1930228171930. Very good overall. From the original painting by C.E. Turner. Color lithograph of lady surfers standing on surfboards some large square surf boards with a rope at the front and man surfing on the back of the board. Ladies wearing thigh high skirted suits with swim caps men wearing sleeveless full body suits. Surf boards were used in Muizenberg as early as 1904 built by a local boat builder. This item dated c. 1930 due to its reproduction on the cover of "The South African Series of Jig Saw Puzzles".<br /> <br /> Artist Charles E. Turner 1893-1965 was born in Lancaster but based in Liverpool an artist who specialized in landscape and marine views. Turner fought in both the First and Second World Wars as a captain Fleet Air Arm combining active service with service as a war artist signing his work C.E. Turner. His best known works of naval combat date from this era. Between wars Turner had developed a series of illustrations for Thomas Forman and Cunard becoming a 'series of excellent postcards' and additionally designed for Churchill Cigar Boxes along with many other paintings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of London Manchester and Liverpool. 15 1/8 x 9 1/8" laid down on the original captioned brown card. Sml. closed tear in margin of card barely visible. Very good condition with corners of the mat board slightly bumped. hardcover
189560738London & New York: Whittaker & Co. George Bell & Sons Macmillan & Co. 1895. 12mo. xv 1 9-347 7 pp. plus 44 pp. publisher’s catalogue including endpapers. Frontisp. 287 text woodcut engravings & four folding plates. Blue-gray publisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling front cover & spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling still VG- copy. Second edition revised & enlarged of this informative Victorian handbook on telephones telephone exchanges battery systems and more. Poole has included extended comments on the development of operator switchboards multiple switchboards and the use of women operators for the equipment. Whittaker & Co., George Bell & Sons, Macmillan & Co., hardcover
19807041Austin: Betty Smedley 1980. 5 catalogues staple bound in printed card wrappers and 18 lists on legal size paper stapled along the top edge all printed in sepia. Scattered illustrations. Some toning and browning else generally very good. <br /> <br /> An important trove from rare bookseller Betty Smedley 1888-1985 who operated out of her home in Austin during the height of the Texana boom. She specialized in Texas fine printing especially the work of Carl Hertzog and J. Evetts. Haley. This set includes her scarce first 5 catalogues and a run of special lists: 23 5-10 12 15-19 21 22 and 25 1972-1985 and an out of sequence Winter 1973 list. <br /> <br /> . Betty Smedley unknown
185863526New York: Rudd & Carleton 310 Broadway 1858. 8vo. 256 pp. plus 12 pp. publisher’s illustrated ads. Gray-brown pebbled publisher’s cloth borders & insignia embossed in blind gilt lettering on spine minor chipping head of spine soiling some edgewear sunning still a G unsophisticated copy unusually bright clean interior former ownership pencil markings on endpapers. First edition of this “vivid and often critical memoir of the Vieles’ Texas years. Her account of life at Ringgold Barracks comments on everything from travel and landscape flora and fauna and food flavored with red ants that tasted something like caraway seed to Mexican neighbors Comanche Raiders Jose Maria Jesus Carbajal and the Merchants War. Griffin Viele 1831-1906 was a precocious and determined young woman dubbed “cette terrible Teresa†by family and friends married to Egbert Ludovicus Viele later Brigadier General during the Civil War. She later presided over a literary salon in Paris and oversaw the education and career of her son Francis Viele-Griffin who became a leading poet and writer of the French symbolist school. See: Howes V92; Sandra Myres Teresa Griffin Viele: Life and Literary Contributions Handbook of Texas August 12 2020. Rudd & Carleton, 310 Broadway, hardcover
189012760Sulphur Springs Tx: T. Rainwater 1890. Two cabinet card photographs both around 6 x 4 inches each on a slightly different printed studio mount. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. A delightful pair of Texas studio photographs produced by Kentucky-born shutterfly Terrell Rainwater after he moved himself and his family just outside Dallas Texas in the latter part of the 19th century. The slightly smaller photograph features a young woman in a lacy shawl staring to the right and over the camera. The other photograph captures three young women in long dresses seated in a studio environment. Both are mounted on studio cards the smaller reading simply "T. Rainwater Sulphur Springs Tex." and the other reading "T. Rainwater Extra Finish Sulphur Springs Tex. South Side Square."<br /> <br /> According to H. Bascom Thomas's 1895 book A Souvenir of the Sulphur Springs Gazette Terrell Rainwater "is the leading photographer of Sulphur Springs. He is located on the south side of the square. He is a native of Kentucky in which state he became schooled in his art and for many years he has followed the photography as his choice profession. His parlor is situated over the Weaver grocery store. The finest apparatus is used and in the quality of his work we recognize no superior. He makes a specialty of life-size crayon and pastel portraits." Rainwater moved away from Sulphur Springs around the turn of the century helping us to date the present photographs to likely the last decade of the 19th century. We could find no other examples of Rainwater's photographs outside his descendants who have a genealogical presence online. T. Rainwater unknown
195859253New York: The Macmillan Co. 1958. 8vo. xii 225 1 pp. With over 350 text illustrations weaving diagrams sketches and photographs. Black publisher’s cloth white & blue lettering & decoration minor rubbing shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by The Strimbans using handwoven textile by Virginia D. Aldridge minor shelfwear minor chipping head & foot of spine slight scuffing still VG/VG copy from library of Agnes Parsons w/ the original advance order form folded and laid-in. First edition of one of the scarcest and most significant manuals for handweaving in the Mid-20th Century. Following World War II and with increasing interest in designing and weaving textiles the author demonstrated the basic principles of cloth construction by focusing on harness-controlled patterns and four-harness fabrics. Frey 1893-1972 began as an occupational therapist in woodworking at the U.S. Army’s Walter Reed Hospital and began learning and teaching handweaving as well as training her students to construct weaving looms. After moving to New York she worked in the textile industry and later opened her own design studio taught weaving and by 1940 was one of the co-founders of the New York Guild of Handweavers whose first year’s weaving programs focused on studying Native American Weaving of the Cherokee Tribe. See: Diane Kirschner History of the NY Handweavers Guild 2022; The Macmillan Co., hardcover
193954997McHenry ND: Luella Frances Midgely ca. 1939. Two parts. 4to. 46 pp unpaginated.; 48 pp unpaginated. written in ink & pencil manuscript throughout some mimeograph & dittoed coursework sheets all filled out extensively in manuscript second part loose pages clipped together at end providing rough draft notes for the first part report. With 77 fabric & textile samples tipped-in all identified in pen or pencil including two hand-woven samples in yarn demonstrating plain weave & basket weave mounted & tipped-in 2 weaving diagrams. Original split-pin post-binder hand-written title on front cover edgewear rubbing slight bumping to couple corners still VG exemplar. A well-arranged and designed fabrics and weaving sample lab book written and created by Ms. Midgely 1919-2014 in a fabrics design course while attending the North Dakota Agricultural College from 1937-1942. The Clothing & Textiles Division offered courses intending to train Home Economics teachers fashion designers and textile workers at the end of the Great Depression and would later grow into a well-respected program in fashion design at the present-day North Dakota State University. This lab notebook which secured Ms. Midgely an “A†grade touches on fabric construction types of weaves patterns satin weave gauze swivel pile weaves yarn variations finishes varieties of silks hosiery and more. Luella Frances Midgely, hardcover
195959254Goteborg Sweden: Wezata Forlag 1959. Tall 8vo. 128 pp. Colour plates weaving patterns & designs photo illustrations text diagrams throughout. Quarter-beige cloth over colour-illustrated boards black lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing to lower fore-edges still NF copy signed by author on ffep. First edition in English signed of this exceptional and influential Mid-20th-Century work on Swedish handweaving and design. Selander heavily influenced American weavers not only with her Weaving patterns 1956 and the present title but her extended workshop and lecture tour in 1960 through 28 cities. Not only did she introduce techniques of colour blending of strands to enrich the colour pallet but also advised on how to design their own cloth patterns. See: Marion Marzolf The Swedish Presence in 20th-Century American Weaving Textile Society of American Symposium Proceedings 314 2006. Wezata Forlag, hardcover
16140'Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.' 'A. Ireland & Co. Printers Manchester.' 1869. 8pp. 12mo. Drophead title beneath heading: 'Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.' In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. The last three paragraphs relating to Palmer's incarceration at Newgate have been crossed through but are still entirely legible indicating that the present copy was distributed after her release. Begins: 'THE following case was reported in the Times of the 15th January 1869:- CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT JAN. 14. OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice KEATING. Sarah Palmer 40 was indicted for feloniously wounding James Palmer with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. .' Last two paragraph scored through the first regarding Mrs Palmer's incarceration in Newgate and the second relating to 'A Committee . formed to assist Susannah Palmer'. Only two copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat at the BL and Yale. ['Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.'] 'A. Ireland & Co., Printe paperback
16229The Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women Manchester: Alexander Ireland and Co. Printers. 1872. 11pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Three copies on COPAC and one copy on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market. [The Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] Manchester: Alexander Ireland and C paperback
190546855London: G.D. & D. ca. 1905. 4to. 6 leaves composed of 36 colour-tinted postcards w/ perforated edges. Green softcovers yapp edges gilt lettering on front cover & spine very minor shelfwear rust marks at spine from staples slight sunning to fore-edges still VG copy stapled as issued. Early edition of this very scarce and complete souvenir album of colour-tinted postcards of famed Edwardian actresses. Such actresses as a very young Billie Burke of Wizard of Oz fame in her breakout School Girl role 1905 Pauline Chase before she shot to stardom as Peter Pan from 1906-1913 as well as many others including Julia Neilson Zena Dare Doris Stocker Lettice Fairfax Sybil Arundale Gertie Miller Gaynor Rowlands just before her death in 1905 Evelyn Millard Sara Brooke Winifred Hare and many others. G.D. & D., paperback
191563712New York: Sturgis & Walton Co. 1915. 12mo. 4 49 1 pp. Photogravure frontisp. photo plates. Textured brick-red publisher’s boards printed title label on front cover minor edgewear scuffing offset toning from photogravure on title still VG copy inscribed by the author and the publisher on ffep. w/ clipping photo of Bernhardt as Phedre mounted on front pastedown. First edition inscribed of this homage to the famed French actress whose celebrity was a transnational phenomenon on European British and American stages as well as a significant early film actress in the silent film era. Izard as a theater critic had been contracted by Sturgis & Walton for his 1915 Heroines of the Modern Stage from which this essay was drawn and the third title in their Modern Heroines series launched by the publisher to appeal to women aged 15-30 as a target audience. See: Victoria Duckett Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt Gabrielle Regajne Mistinguett 2023. Sturgis & Walton Co., hardcover
189655632San Francisco CA: Girls’ High School 1896. 8vo. 2 15 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art showing a devil dancing with girl in white and rear cover featuring beautifully rendered Victorian woman in red & black dress polk-a-dot umbrella reminiscent of Denslow signed E. Pitchford slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce theatre program for a satirical production about a California girl’s struggle to learn French featuring the delightful illustrations of fellow Girls’ High School students Emily H. Pitchford Hussey 1878-1956 whose artwork is reminiscent of W.W. Denslow and Ethel Frances Hanks 1878-1952. This wonderful 19th-century program also features ads vor City of Paris Dry Goods at G. Verdier & Co. Moss Gloves on Market and Newman & Levinson bathing suits for women on 209 Sutter St. Girls High School was founded in 1864 and by 1896 was located in a four-story red brick building at Geary O’Farrel & Scott nearly leveled in 1906 Fire & Earthquake. No copies located in Worldcat. Girls’ High School, paperback
