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2091502133536951Keisoshobo N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Keisoshobo paperback
2091502133536950Keisoshobo N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Keisoshobo paperback
2008953PublishAmerica 2008. Paperback. Good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear along the edges and a small crease in upper left rear corner. First printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Douglas Wilson to former book owners on page after copyright page. PublishAmerica paperback
1943List3433Reading Vermont 1943. 156 pp with approximately 207 poems plus a 1934 rejection letter from Perry Mason & Co. Spine broken cover nearly detached and pages coming detached; some toning and wear to edges of pages with smell. Overall very good minus. A book of poems by Vermonter Mary S. Fay likely 1875–1968. Fay’s topics include friends’ special events; current events such as “Titanic†May 15 1912 and “America We Are Ready†1915 presumably concerning World War I; nature themes and seasonal poems; and especially nostalgic and sometimes defensive poems about Vermont including “Strike Not The Land That Shelters†which was “Written on learning slurs cast in Vermont by alliens who come to Vermont to resideâ€.<br /> <br /> However Fay sometimes took up expressly political causes in her poetry. For instance in April 1911 she penned “Equal Rights Proclaimingâ€:<br /> <br /> “Sister Woman look ahead / For there dawns the gladsome time / When thy queen Equal rights treads / O’er the land with light sublime: / O raise your voice on high / Loudly in sweet acclaim / ‘Till they reach yonder sky / And there the rights proclaim. . Sister Woman of today / Thou have striven long and well / Thou’ve waited in twilight grief / For the ring of Freedoms bell. / Though at times all seem’d as lost / Thou upheld thy banner height; / And you counted not the cost / But press’d onward thru’ the night.â€<br /> <br /> In March 1915 she took up the topic again in a poem titled “Enfranchisementâ€:<br /> <br /> “Fled the years of servile shame! / Woman ‘tis this hour at last / Honor thy glorious name / Spread thy banner to the blast. / Brave my sisters in thy might / Steadfast yet and valiant be; / On thy noble standard write / Equality law and liberty. . Enfranchisement thus we vow / Shall be ours ere we abate / Our strife which thru and thru / Of our life’s blood we consecrate / Upon the altar upon the shield / Equality for all eternity; / Shall be ours at home afield:- / Equality law and liberty.â€<br /> <br /> Despite the efforts of groups such as the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association formed in the early 1880s Vermont women did not get the right to vote until the rest of the country did ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921.<br /> <br /> She also writes an intriguing more general protest poem seemingly for labor rights titled “Justice Where†August 1911:<br /> <br /> “Tho labor’s toils in day by day / Beneath the heat and the cold; / While the oppresser sits in grandest state / With a mere pittance to pay / To keep hunger from the fold / And in false pride his tyranny relate. / Awake all ye toilers / Drive at the oppresor bold! / Unfurl thy glorious standard of Right / O’er many a dear home fold / And thus ever protect it with thy might.â€<br /> <br /> Another of Fay’s causes was temperance; in 1914 she wrote “A Temperance Boy†dedicated to “six year old Clark A. Ritchieâ€:<br /> <br /> “A little temperance boy am I / And proudly its banner I will fly. / Pure cold water is what I drink / And its the best of all I think. / A big promise don’t expect of me / for I’m only a little boy you see.â€<br /> She objects to smoking as well writing in “Why is it†1932 that “I must relate / smoking I hate. / ‘Be a sport girls’ / That is the cry / If in the whirl / They are a bit shy.â€<br /> <br /> Overall a charming document of a woman’s progressive politics expressed in verse. unknown
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193058055Portland OR: Hollywood College of Music Dancing & Fine Arts Baker Studio Granada Studio La Vere Photo Shoppe Photo Craft Studios ca. 1930-1933. Oblong 4to. 24 original photographs all preserved in archival mylar sleeves sized 6.25 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative others w/ manuscript captions added a few w/ annotations and/or photographer’s instructions on versos all with bright strong contrast a few w/ offsetting from previous mounting on versos and one w/ very small pinholes at corners from prior mounting. Recent cloth binder stamping front cover excellent grouping. These photographs vividly document the dance and music studio operated by Annabelle Knowles reflecting the fast evolving costumes and aesthetics of the twilight of the Roaring 20’s as the U.S. descended into the Great Depression. These photos also clearly reflect the influence of Gus Edwards 1879-1945 vaudeville’s premier producer of kiddie acts and who had produced and released the shorts “Kiddie Revue†in 1930 and 1931. His influence was not only driven by his songs “By the Light of the Silvery Moon & “School Days†but also discovering such stars as Groucho Marx Eddie Cantor Mae Murray Sally Rand and many others. The images depict girls in two-piece outfits in front of Art Deco staging for “Body and Soulâ€; bare-backed girls in Flapper Era inspired costumes for chorus line “Kiddie Revueâ€; song and dance routines featuring Ronald Chetwood in top hat with Marcile Shillito Virginia Collins and chorus line in Jazz Age era costumes and canes; and several show Barbara Jane Wicks Shirley Jay Mulkey and Sunny Dentler in Spanish inspired costumes for “Baby Vanities.†Another shows adolescent boy and girl dance team in an “Apache†dance inspired costume number. The Hollywood College of Music Dance & Fine Arts offered classes and instruction in all ages with the last few photos showing teenage girls in chorus line with short hair coquettish expressions and teamwork or chorus line numbers. Annabelle Knowles 1900-1989 was a musician and dancer who founded the Hollywood College of Music Dancing & FIne Arts at 4112 NE Sandy Blvd. some time in the late 1920’s. Most of the street directory references focus on 1929-1932 and her British-America theatre-director husband at the time Vincent Knowles 1883-1944 worked at the studio as well. Baker 1882-1972 was a longtime commercial studio photographer in Portland OR who had initially begun as a photographer with noted tourist travel guide Howard Eaton photographing tours through National Pakrs. Beem 1892-1984 was founder and photographer at Granada Studio located in the 1930’s at 515 Swetland Building in Portland. Centlivere 1878-1964 owned and operated La Vere Photo Shoppe and Photo Craft Studios on Sandy Blvd. in Portland for nearly all of his career. We could find no similar collections or photographs or even references to Annabelle Knowles and very few examples of any of these three photography studios in institutional holdings. Hollywood College of Music, Dancing & Fine Arts, Baker Studio, Granada Studio, La Vere Photo Shoppe, Photo Craft Studios, hardcover
193361492Tacoma Lakota Beach & Seattle WA: Fay Muridge 1933-1985. 8vo. 230 pp unpaginated. With ink sketches pencil sketches watercolour paintings drawings inserted and tipped-in photos business cards drawings & paintings in process clippings and even a 3 pp. ALS from Fay to her mother Naomi Muridge 1878-1967 on Elysees-Star Hotel stationery dated June 1960. Blue cloth enhanced with a Areovias Reforma precursor to Aeromexico sticker and laminated over later some edgewear rubbing still a VG exemplar. This outstanding artist’s manuscript sketchbook traces the development of this noted Seattle/Tacoma artist and window display designer from high school into the 1980’s. The opening pages dated 1933-1934 for her Architecture class at Stadium High School in Room 400 indicate an early advanced skill set with architectural renderings details house plans and more. At some point about 1950 following her divorce she restarts her career as a window designer for the Bon Marche and as contract artist filling the notebook over the succeeding 35 years with ideas paintings sketches. and pen & ink nude sketches at the end from her Sketch Classes in 1952. She documents her trip to Mexico in 1954 with a sketch of the engine cowling and then details of a Chinese Garden in Mexico the Iglesia de Santa Prisca in Taxco Mexico the Taberna del Greco and architectural details she comes upon. She appears to have subsequently stopped off in Los Angeles for an extended inspiration tour as she includes 20 pages of quick sketches of display cases window displays floor display equipment and lighting at various department stores and retailers including Robinsons Haggerty’s Bullocks Saks Fifth Ave. and Mildred Moore in Beverly Hills. Together with quick sketches of your 7-year old daughter Fay Marie 1947-2018 at ballet class in 1952 she has also included three Christmas-related sketches apparently related to her work on Bon Marche holiday windows. This sketchbook also contains several full watercolour paintings and dozens of sketches in colour with water colour paintings of the Muckleshoot Indian Missionary Church June 18 1952; Spring Gultch Campsite - Bitterroot River; Big Horn Mountains -- S.E. Sheridan June 20 1983; Near Sun Dance Wyoming along Hwy I-90 East 1983; Big Hole Country Wisdom MT 1983 and many others some showing progression. Muridge 1917-2007 was born in California but then grew up in Seattle and Lakota Beach near Tacoma WA and during the 1930’s after attending the University of Washington she was a popular window display designer for the Bon Marche often creating elaborate automata and manikins. She married Ray Suttles in 1941 and was divorced with custody of her daughter by 1950 designing windows & floor displays for Bon Marche in Seattle and Tacoma Frederick & Nelson and Bremer’s in Bremerton WA. She traveled extensively taking her daughter on the Cunard Line Queen Elizabeth in 1958 and again in 1960 to Paris leaving her daughter with her mother as indicated in the laid-in ALS. She was also known not only for her displays for Northwest Orient airlines but well-known as well for creating “cachets†for envelope covers and post cards often with military themes. See: Cachet Maker Marie Fay Muridge Naval Cover Museum 2024; Doug Henkle U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog: Philadelic Birth Dates Indiex & Links 2024. Fay Muridge, hardcover
1946007569Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Co 1946. Hardcover. Very Good /fair . 264 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Blue cloth with dark blue spine and cover titles and spine decoration. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket printed in blue and red; in mylar cover. Publisher's advertisements on back flap and back section. Elizabeth Headley was one of the pennames used by American author Betty Cavanna 1909-2001 who published many works for teens and children from the early 1940s into the late 1980s. The ups and downs of Diane's sophmore year in high school have made this a perennial favorite. This is the first edition with illustrations by Janet Smalley of a book reissued several times with other illustrators. This edition is very scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners lightly rubbed; "Vo. 31" written at lower edge of front free endpaper; top page edges slightly soiled and discolored; pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fair Condition: loss at ends of spine corners and along flap folds; lightly soiled; the red has faded; no loss of printing or illlustration. Macrae-Smith Co hardcover
191346076New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1913. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xiii 1 354; x 324 pp. Red ribbed cloth gilt lettering on spines t.e.g. minor shelfwear still a NF set w/ bookplate on front pastdown of P.E. Bowles. First edition of this fascinating memoir of life and travel by Mary Crawford Fraser d. 1922 wife of the British Minister to Japan was well known for her missionary efforts in Asia. Of particular interest is the substantial portion of the second volume devoted to their life in Peking & China in the 1870s. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
1837001821Reading Pa: George Getz 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Title continued: "Besides many other forms useful to the farmer mechanic and trader." Second edition enlarged and improved. xi 1 143 1 p.: facsimiles tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Getz' Forms. Complete imprint: "Reading Pa. George Getz. Philadelphia--George & Byington Geo. W. Mentz & Son. Printed by John C. Clark 60 Dock Street Philadelphia." Running title: Precedents in Conveyancing. A scarce ante-bellum legal form book. Of particular note is the form for a bond to be made before a marriage to permit the woman to make a will after marriage to dispose of those furniture clothing and other goods she owned prior to the marriage. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; slight loss of leather at head of spine; corners are rubbed through; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. George Getz unknown
195061123New York: Simon and Schuster 1950. 8vo. 4 276 pp. Red tweed boards silver lettering front cover & spine minor spotting shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Edd Cartier minor edgewear couple minor chips VG/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of 11 tales of fantasy science fiction interplanetary adventure and more by the famed husband and wife duo. Simon and Schuster, hardcover
2008Q-1400202302Thomas Nelson Inc 2008-10-07. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thomas Nelson Inc hardcover
194075133N.p.: N.p. ca. 1940-1960. This group including posed and candid shots of scantily clad women boxing in the ring with an audience and sometimes a coach or en plein air; also with a series that appears to show mud-wrestling approximately 17. Silver and silver copy prints the images measuring 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches 15.9 x 11.4 cm. and slightly smaller and the reverse the sheets 7 x 5 inches 17.8 x 12.7 cm. two measuring 4 1/4x 3 1/2 inches 10 x 8.9 cm. the sheets slightly larger many with letter or numeric hand stamps and/or notations in pencil and four with the subjects identified in ink on verso. Someone has outlined many of the fighters a bit hard to notice unless under a bright light. An interesting assembly of photographs of women fighters likely viewed as distasteful at the time. "Bernard Lyle Kobel lived a very full life during in his 79 years. He was a Lone Scout photographer photojournalist writer stamp collector cartoonist poet World War II Army veteran and more. His parents started a mail-order business which he took over selling photographs of all sorts of unusual subjects including odd houses freak animals and vegetables unusual epitaphs women weight lifters and tattooed people" Tattoo Archive N.p. unknown
1843223669London.: John Murray. 1843. 2 maps 1 folding xvi 451pp. 12pp. publisher's advertisements original blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette to the front board and gilt-lettered spine with the binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds 20.8 x 13cms backstrip chipped and sunned the boards a little faded scant spotting and browning occasional pencilled marginalia neat previous owner's name to the front free endpaper in good condition. ".Taken hostage by Akbar Khan after the massacre in the Khurd Kabul Pass along with her daughter Alexandrina Sturt and newly born granddaughter she nursed her son-in-law Lieutenant John Sturt after he was mortally wounded and made certain that he received a Christian burial.She was twice wounded and had a bullet in her wrist. Fortunately she had kept by her the diary she had begun at Kabul in September 1841 which provided a graphic account of the siege retreat and her imprisonment as a hostage. After the publication in 1843 of this work Lady Sale became the heroine of the hour renowned for her courage." ODNB . John Murray. hardcover
186063213London: Published for the Society at the Depository Gray’s Inn Road 1860. 12mo. viii 176 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Numerous text illustrations diagrams floor plans. Recent black cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine light uniform interior toning a few leaves w/ slight creasing still VG bright copy. Fifth edition revised & expanded of this compact manual on domestic economy designed as a succinct education tool for girls in Victorian Era training schools including descriptions on house design heating ventilation cleanliness cooking food & drink household finances and even managing livestock. Tegetmeier and the Committee possibly with influence from Florence Nightingale’s essay “Cassandra†1852 that women should be receiving far more training and information in medicine and surgery for possible future employment in nursing and other related fields. Tegetmeier 1816-1912 was a noted naturalist domestic animal breeder beekeeper and frequent correspondent with Charles Darwin receiving mention in both the groundbreaking Origin of Species as well as The Descent of Man on his studies and efforts in sexual selection and inheritance experiments through the 1860’s. Worldcat locates 3 copies British Library DLC NLM; See: Veak Exploring Darwin’s Correspondence: Some Important but Lesser Known Correspondents and Projects 2003; Sayaka Nakagomi English Middle-Class Girls’ High Schools and ‘Domestic Subjects’ 1871-1914 2016; Amanda Serpi The Education of Women in the Victorian Era 2024. Published for the Society, at the Depository, Gray’s Inn Road, hardcover
AQ30041s.i.: s.n. s.d. c.1830 Manuscript on paper. 101ff the remainder blank. Paper watermarked 1829. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. Rubbed spine sunned. Marbled endpapers contemporary inked gift inscription and later manuscript note on the provenance of the volume in the hand of a descendent of the original compiler to front blank fly-leaf. A late Georgian manuscript commonplace in a single legible hand comprised predominantly of texts concerning the female character marriage love and virtue. The volume contains a plethora of extracts from published authors both prose and verse including Romantic poets Byron and Wordsworth philosopher Edmund Burke Scottish presbyterian minister James Fordyce Washington Irving and Shakespeare. The manuscript opens with a seemingly original two-page composition concerning the temperament constitution and attributes of women: 'The all-powerful influence of woman - the irresistible control of her attractions - the exquisite and undefinable combination of mind and form - belong not exclusively to any rank or age or country; they are the natural characteristics of humanity all the world over:- hers is an universal empire'. The volume was presented to 'Chuff' from her affectionate 'Wills'; the mid-twentieth century note concerning provenance ascribes the compilation to 'Mr. Sims' though erroneously suggests that it was 'probably compiled.about the time of Waterloo'. . 8vo. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1830] unknown
2010biblio4997<p>First edition first printing of the second novel in the Kate Shackleton series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Published as a paper back original. In fine unread condition.</p> Piatkus paperback
192658580Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. 1926. 8vo. 152 2 pp. Blue cloth red lettering & ruling on covers red lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. black lettering and hammer & sickle on red field minor chipping head & foot of spine VG/VG- copy. First edition of this travel memoir recounting this labor writer’s visit to the Soviet Union as she investigated music instruction in the new Russian schools. She describes labor conditions status of women child organization militarism a Volga journey along with theaters and the new sports movement. Charles H. Kerr & Co., hardcover
190160698New York London & Montreal: Abbey Press Publishers 1901. 8vo. 14 255 1 pp. including 1 leaf of publisher’s ads for Morris. Title in red & black. Portrait photo frontisp. w/ tissue guard numerous photo plates. Pictorial beige publisher’s cloth front cover illustrated w/ image of Alaska glacier w/ gilt red & black black lettering minor scuffing wear to cloth a couple signatures poorly opened w/ minor closed tears rough cut fore-edges slightly shaken still a VG- copy. First edition of this breezy fast-paced travel memoir of Ida & her husband James traveling from Arcola & Arthur IL through Chicago and points West to fulfill her lifelong dream of seeing Alaska and the Aurora Borealis. She was insatiably curious and frequently writes of Native Americans as they traveled by rail across the Northern United States including tribes in Minnesota Lakes region Dakotas Montana the Pacific Northwest British Columbia and Alaska. She also observes in Havre Montana the African-American “Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry came aboard. . . stalwart colored soldiers who will do credit to the uniforms they wear. . . how many of these brave men would return from the deadly Philippines.†She writes details about the Salish Northwest Coast Indian legends the First Nations peoples’ potlatches in British Columbia and their banning by the Provincial government along with making frequent mentions of Japanese-Americans Chinese-Americans and more. The couple visits the Muir Glacier Alaska gold fields Walla Walla in Washington State as well as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. Morris 1859-1927 was a school teacher in Mattoon IL who married James Morris 1848-1925 local banker and merchant in 1887 and the pair traveled often. Abbey Press, Publishers, hardcover
1865Cat322Sycamore DeKalb County Illinois 1865. Two autograph letters signed “Rosa†docketed on rear likely in Everell Dutton’s hand 4 and 5 pages 8 x 5 inches. Folded at center else fine. Two letters written in the final weeks of the Civil War by Rosina Adelpha Paine Dutton of Sycamore Illinois to her husband Everell Fletcher Dutton then lieutenant colonel of the 105th Illinois Infantry engaged in the closing campaigns of the war. The couple had met through their mutual friend Helen Barns Woodmanse and began an unusually close correspondence at the outset of the war at times exchanging two or three letters a day through 1863. They married in Sycamore on December 31 1863 and spent several months together in Nashville while Dutton was detailed to the Examination Board residing at Mrs. Jernigan’s boarding house before Rosina returned to Illinois and Dutton rejoined his regiment in the field. Rosa wrote a considerable amount of letters to her husband during the war some of which were collected by the Sycamore History Museum for the exhibition General Dutton’s America. <br /> <br /> The two letters here written a week apart show Rosina’s fears and the general mood in the days prior to Lincoln’s assassination with a focus on a mysterious favor done for an unsavory character. The April 2 letter reflects Rosina’s anxiety as she awaits news from the regiment:<br /> <br /> “Five hours later. I got to feeling so badly I could not write. I will now resume my chat. I know dear one you are tired of receiving dark gloomy letters from me but you must not hope for better while you remain in the army. Love you know is always strongly anxious when the loved one is absent. I would give everything we possess in the world if it would but bring you safely home. I am in hopes we will hear something definite from the Regt. tomorrow. I am so anxious and yet I tremble to hear from the Regt… O my Husband if you should be taken from me.†<br /> <br /> She searches the newspapers repeatedly—“no list of casualties in the Tribune … sent Ida after the Times … sent Winnie & Mary … for the Evening Journalâ€â€”but finds “no relief of mind.†The strain is constant: “whenever I spoke … the tears would come†and even at church “I could not keep the tears from my eyes.†She notes that the 105th “could not have been through so severe a contest without losing very many men.â€<br /> <br /> The April 12 letter is dominated by Rosina’s pointed suspicion toward a man she calls “Gerret†who appears to have entrusted Dutton with a valuable object: <br /> <br /> “Gerret said you had in your valise for him said it was worth $500.00. If I were in your place I would get rid of it if I had to burn it. I wouldn’t carry anything five miles for that miserable scamp. No one scarcely believes his story about being captured &c. They think he made his way home as best he could & I would not be at all surprised if that were the case. He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture. He ought to have learned his story before he came home and then told it. Such conflicting ones create suspicion. Father said if he were in your place he would turn it over to Government & then bid it in.â€<br /> <br /> No individual of this name appears in the rosters or known correspondence of the 105th Illinois and the tone of the letter suggests he was not a member of Dutton’s regiment. <br /> <br /> She closes: “My darling husband do come and thereby make me the happiest woman in the world . try dear one. I don’t believe but that they will accept resignation now before long. May the good Father of us all take care of you is my constant prayer. Devotedly yours for all eternity. Rose.†<br /> <br /> Overall an interesting pair of letters from a well documented and significant correspondence. unknown
20122083002115702565New Japan Publishing Company 2012. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 31p Size: 25cm Number of books: 1 New Japan Publishing Company paperback
