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18220007721Paris: Chez Bechet 1822. First French Language edition. Original Boards. Good. 8vo xiv 351; vi 359 pages untrimmed in contemporary boards. Very scarce. <br/><br/>Attracted by the ideals of the "Declaration of Independence" Fanny Wright traveled extensively through the U.S.A. tracking how those ideals were being realized. In France who became almost like a daughter to Gen. Lafayette. She and her sister returned to America and with Lafayette were guests of Jefferson at Monticello. Later as a U.S. citizen she founded the Nashoba commune in Tennessee in anticipation of emancipation. She visited New York and Philadelphia West Point Niagara Falls Lake Errie and on to Lower Canada Montreal Lake Champlain Burlington Vermont Washington D.C. to Virginia with many observations along the way. This edition has a dedication to Lafayette by the translator who also supplied a new translation. Vol. 1 ends with remarks upon Morris Birkbeck's letters about the Illinois country. All in all Fanny Wright became one of the most remarkable women of the first half of the 19th century: among other accomplishments being the first woman to write this work the first travelogue by a woman. Howes D74; Sabin 18642; Clark Old South 16; Buck 137. Chez Bechet hardcover
228p. Illustrated with 120 wood engravings, including about forty impressive full page plates. Pictorial title pages. 8vo. 24 cm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Boards embossed in blind with gold pictorial of a Indian Man and Woman on front board. Spine deteriorated. Should be re-backed. Hardbound. Text includes chapters on: the condition of women in Pagan and Mohammedan Countries; Habits & Superstitions of the Thugs; The Shasters, or Sacred books of the Brahmins (by J. J. Weitbrecht); Description of Pagan Festivals (by Alexander Duff); Etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! INDIA BOX 1
xv, 86 p. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Contents:Introduction. -- Arguments which are adduced in support of woman’s suffrage. -- Arguments against the concession of the parliamentary suffrage to woman. -- Is there, if the suffrage is barred, any palliative or corrective for the discontents of woman? -- Appendix: Letter in militant hysteria, reprinted ... from the Times, March 28, 1912.
pp. 463, 6 [Publisher's catalogue for Libraries], 6 [Publisher's Standard Publications], 4 [Publisher's Biography and History catalogue]. Damp stain. Age stain. Lacks first fly leaves. 190mm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Front board detached. Spine repaired with slight loss at head and tail. Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1806-1855) was an English poet and author. She was a daughter of the 5th Duke of Rutland and in 1831, she married Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, a son of the 1st Baron Wharncliffe. After the death of her husband in 1844, she led a peripatetic life. She died of dysentery while travelling from Antioch to Beirut in 1855, but she is best known for these travels in the U.S. First American Edition. TRAVEL BX 5
12mo [ 19.5 x 13 cm]; xii, [13]-463, 8 [ads] pp. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, light foxing, initials on endpaper, very good sound copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Howes W687. Sabin 93220. Clarke III:419. Robinson 121: 'An obsessive traveller. . . She did not confine herself toe the east coast [of the US] like good English aristocrats should, but insisted on exploring Mexico, crossing the isthmus of Panama and then sailing down to Lima in Peru'. Besides these places she also stopped off in Cuba. Interesting observations of all the places she visited with much on US, including the southern states, Mexico, Panama and Peru. The first edition was published in London in 1851.
1396754148.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
191921532Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 222 pp 7.5 x 5.25 inches in publisher's blue cloth with mounted spine label. Spine toned label rubbed but legible one small stain on front board. Internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Cabot Putnam was the daughter of Harvard neurologist James Jackson Putnam. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and in 1917 went to Paris where she worked as a secretary for the American Expeditionary Force's Air Service and as a Red Cross volunteer. Her letters home to her family discuss both her work and her general experiences as a young woman in a foreign country at war. Occasionally she comes across as a breezy society girl rather than someone viewing the horrors of war but at other times she is clearly deeply affected. Finally getting to rest after working at a hospital until three AM she looks out a window at the beautiful sky and writes "It was more than one could bear with equanimity -- so heavenly outside and so horrible inside -- all the blood and the hacked-up flesh and the thought of how each one is going to suffer when he gets out of ether." She cared for French soldiers ar the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris and for wounded Marines at a hospital in Neuilly. In mid-1918 she worked as a Red Cross searcher helping to track down missing servicemen. The Riverside Press hardcover books
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Pages 244-292. Features: Joseph E. Worcester, LL - article with superb one-page engraving of Joseph E. Worcester; The Yellow Leaf and Sere; Mr. Webster Abroad; Memorials and Anecdotes of gen. Stark; War Song of Kancamagus; Legal Rights of Married Women in New Hampshire; Charlotte Bronte; Historical Sketch of Newport; Major Farnk; Detailed full backpage ad for the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. Above-average but not excessive external wear and soiling. Chips and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Faint prior owner's name atop front cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
8453Paris, Corrêa, 1952. In-12, broché.
195296658Couverture souple. Broché. 349 pages. Papier bruni. Quelques pages mal coupées. Envoi de l'auteur.
23034Paris, Corrêa et Cie, 1952. 14 x 20, 351 pp., broché, bon état.
Large octavo in green DJ (blue spine); xii, 205 p : few b&w ill/map ; 25 cm. Includes TLS (typed letter signed) by author. || Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- Biography.
444p. Hardcover Very good condition good
444p. Hardcover Very good condition good
189 p., illus. History of women's magazines in America. Hardcover Very good condition good
1999002959New York: Oxford University Press 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. 8vo. xiv 2 198 pp. Bound in black boards in black dust jacket printed in white and lavender. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Near Fine bright clean copy faint shadow of price sticker and small patch of surface damage to upper right corner of front free endpaper otherwise bright clean copy in Fine bright dust jacket. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall eng
258 p. + Plus lovely mezotint style portrait, engraved by R. Rawdon after the painting by William Doyle. Damp stained. Foxed. Small 12mo. Worn original leather backed boards. Early (Pennsylvania?) manuscript ownerships of Mary S. Grubb and Mrs. Albert E. Landis. Called the Eighth Edition on the title page. On the half-title is a notice, printed in black letter, not frequently mentioned in descriptions of this edition: "The Profits of this Work are devoted to the Support of the Foreign Mission from America." Harriet Newell made the passage to India from America as a young wife and missionary in 1812 at the age of 19. She and her husband arrived in Calcutta in late June, but reembarked for France that October. On the voyage a daughter was born but died within a week. Harriet subsequently fell ill and died in France seven weeks later. The majority of the text is taken from Harriet's often high spirited letters and journals. She describes the ocean voyage in detail. Leonard Woods was among the founders of the American Tract Society in 1814 and American Temperance Society in 1826. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 55
pp. vi, 404. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, very soiled but sound. Scarce. ARCH 1
pp. 240, (10) [Publisher's catalogue]. Decorated title page. Inked ownership of Mary M. Jarvis, York, PA. 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding. Pictorial front board. Spine faded and slightly soiled. Hardbound. A modern tale of a wife who wants to work outside of the home. Originally published serially under the title "Love and Dishes". LITERATURE BOX 1
