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A Woman's Place is in Her Union / CLUW pinback button
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis12,00 $US≈ 10,15 €
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262p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
"Marianne North was one of those intrepid Victorian Lady Travellers, most renowned for her brilliant botanical paintings, displayed in specially designed Gallery in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. This book uses extracts from her autobigraphical account of her travels ("Recollections of a Happy Life. Being the Autobiography of Marianne North". Edited by Her Sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds. Two volumes. 1894) and is beautifully illustrated with her paintings, many reproduced for the first time. The book was published in collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Preface by J P M Brenan, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Foreword by Anthony Huxley. Biographical note by Brenda E Moon. 240p. illus (col) maps on endpapers. A nice book to send as a gift ! Book
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; 206 pp, illustrations from photos, 2 maps. original red cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine and clean, with the often lacking errata slip pasted on the verso of the half title page. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author provides a good description of the people based on her personal conversations during travels through Persia. 'The breath of fear was blowing through the dark streets. It was never absent during the whole visit.'
Octavo in brown and black illus wrappers (brown spine); 198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Very scarce book on prostitution in Kenya, with Christian missionary rehabilitative underpinnings. || Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Kenya. Abused women -- Rehabilitation -- Kenya. Abused women -- Rehabilitation. Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation.
8vo [24 x 16.5 cm]; xii, 328 pp, frontis and plates from photos, 3 maps, index. original cloth, spine a little darkened, interior clean and unmarked, a solid and sound copy, very good or better. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A narrative of the author's travels in Hadhramaut, south Yemen, excavating Jureidha, journey alone to west, Hajlain, Al Dhijaib, Wadi Amd, etc. Robinson 28: 'the Grand Old Lady of travellers. . . . southern Arabia expert to the Ministry of Information in London. . . in all her journeys she has been able to distil and communicate a rich philosophy of travel and to illustrate the art of travelling in time as well as place. She is, quite simply, a classic'.
12mo [17.5 x 13 cm]; iv, 321, [ii, ads] pp. original pictorial cloth, decorated in black, with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, light cover wear, mainly at spine ends, very good, interior clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Smith (American Travellers Abroad) S4. Welch p. 64. The author accompanied her father, James Sanborn of the coffee firm Chase and Sanborn, in search of coffee. The book describes their travels in most Central American areas with descriptions of the people, Indians, society, culture and even some description of coffee plantations and cultivation.
195462403New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1954. 8vo. 223 1 pp. Frontisp. map illust. title page 23 text illustrations. Pictorial gray & blue boards very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ritter slight edgewear slight rubbing head & foot of spine still NF/VG copy. First American edition in English of this bewitching memoir by the Austrian/Czech artist as she recounts her visceral experiences of following her husband Hermann who had traveled to the Norwegian Arctic on a scientific expedition and stayed to become a fur trapper during the endless months. This absorbing classic memoir still in print in German relates in vivid language the desolation of Svalbard -- Spitsbergen covered in snow and rock and the few shrubs animals and impact of the unearthly Moon looming over the landscape. Ritter 1897-2000 was a watercolour artist and her paintings of the Arctic are now housed in the Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen after being donated by her daughter Karen Ritter in 2018. See: John Hamilton Book Review: ‘A Woman in the Polar Night’ Callaway Climate Insights Aug. 14 2023. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., hardcover
16319A woman right magazine: The Review. Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs. Vol. III. No. 11. March 19 1898. 8 pages 12 x 9 in. Unbound. Fold creases with some small tears near edges. Water damage at upper left corner of first and last few pages. Good condition. Includes an article on electricity and its potential applications as well as updates on women's groups across the country and the world and minutes from the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs most recent meeting. An interesting document showing one way that women organized worldwide in their efforts towards greater women's rights. unknown books
19882083002116411695Chikyu-sha 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chikyu-sha paperback
1st edition. VG/VG. Inscription on the front endpaper. 7173. eng
242907n.p.: CLUW n.d. 1.75 inch diameter pin with CLUW emblem very good. CLUW unknown books
197249558Toronto: Women's Liberation 1972. First Edition. Quarto 28cm; mimeographed sheets printed on variously-colored stock and stapled at upper left corner; 28pp. Fine. April 1972 issue of the Toronto Women's Liberation Newsletter with announcements of meetings and events a directory for the women's liberation movement in Toronoto reprints of articles from other publications alongside original content on divorce childcare lesbians coming out to family members with coverage of a rally to support Angela Davis et al. Women's Liberation unknown books
198550113Fairfield WA: Ye Galleon Press 1985. 8vo. 73 3 pp. Decorated title in red & black frontisp. numerous text illustrations plates decorated initials colophon in red & black. Burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & printer’s armorial front cover gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Ye Galleon Press edition of this very scarce diary of coming over the Oregon Trail and California Trail in 1858 recounting the grueling experiences of Mary and Americus Power. Ye Galleon Press, unknown
200235942BBMilan, SEP Editrice, 2002. 25cm. 300 Seiten, Illustrationen. brosch. Sauber und gut erhalten.
200535941BBMilan, SEP Editrice, 2005. 25cm. 287 Seiten Illustrationen. brosch. Sauber und gut erhalten.
302p. XLib. 16mo. Rebound in old brown buckram, title hand written on front cover. Tauchnitz edition from the Collection of British Authors Vol. 1670. AFRICA/6.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xxxii], 335 p., 1 folding map. Turkish sultans and Seljuk queens in the Abbasid caliphate. Abbasî hilâfetinde Selçuklu hatunlari ve Türk sultanlari.
357p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
0259864463.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
SKU1039008Good. Plastic comb 1977. Ships next day. Book is in good shape no scribbles highlighting or underlining has a little chip on the front and a corner bend has a little stain on the cover a little general wear from a smoke-free environment. unknown
19229947Shanghai: World Book Co 1922. Modernized version of an ancient Chinese classic being the second volume of "One Hundred Beauties" with 50 full-page portraits and pictorial titlepage and colophon text in Chinese original green printed front wrapper and tan back wrapper hand-sewn. Wrappers a bit soild and worn at edges as are some pages but generally sound housed in custom-made black cloth over boards clamshell box. Issued during the Republic period when Shanghai was know as the Paris of the East and the Chinese cinema flourished as a new art form - that effect seen in the images in this book. World Book Co unknown books
344 pages. eng
191564092New York: Brentano’s 1915. 8vo. ix 1 11-216 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding route map. Pictorial gray publisher’s cloth cover art map and decorative border touting the Lincoln Highway minor sunning to spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and excellent memoir documenting amenities and sights along the Lincoln Highway considered one of the first full length travel accounts on transcontinental motoring of their 1914 trip. The Lincoln Highway was newly inaugurated as one of the first transcontinental highways and the association ramrodded by Carl Fisher and then Henry Joy had launched the coast-to-coast rock highway for visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 later to be enjoyed by automobile travelers during the Roaring 20’s. Effie Price Gladding 1865-1947 details their arrival from a three-year round the World Tour via Asia and Hawaii into San Francisco Bay and subsequent drives along 600 miles of the El Camino Real and then continuing Eastward through Nevada Utah Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Iowa Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and eventually to New York. She has included many tips to women travelers at the rear of this account and would later write the foreword to the Lincoln Highway association’s first road guide directed to women motorists. Brentano’s, hardcover
174228612nantes 1742 un acte de vente, manuscrit à l'encre brune sur vélin parchemin de 8 pages, format : 29 x 21 cm, cachet fiscal gravé et historié en noir en haut de la première page : "BRETAGNE - 13 sols 1 denier", ACTE DE VENTE D'UNE MAISON SITUÉE RUE DU PUY D'ARGENT, PAROISSE ST NICOLAS, POUR LA SOMME DE 4800 LIVRES, PAR DEMOISELLE MARGUERITE LAMOUREUX, VVE DE NOBLE HOMME GABRIEL GEOFFROY SIEUR DE LA PANNETIERE, AUX FEMMES JACQUETTE REDHOR ET MARGUERITE LEMAITRE, FAIT A NANTES, LE 24 DÉCEMBRE 1742, signature manuscrite des notaires royaux in-fine : EVRIEN ET GUIHARD,
15962CHANT Laura Onniston nee Dibdin 1848-1923 Feminist Social Reformer and Writer <br/>Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev.Lloyd Morris Minister of Hutchesontown Congregational Church now the Lloyd Morris Memorial Church Glasgow saying she is "in the midst of conducting a mission in the N.E. of London 8 days" but if be can borrow a 'Who's Who' he "will find a skeleton life of me . Briefly I am Vice-Pres. of Temperance Peace Educational Political Liberal and Suffrage Societies" her youngest daughter "is a leading spirit in the slun1 entertainment's we give in . London eight months in the year" she herself gives classes on "correct breathing . for young people in business at 7 a.m. and 8.30 p.m." she will join the train from Euston "at Willesden Junction on Saturday" arriving at "7.55 p.m." 4 sides 8vo. Albemarle House Twickenham 12th December no year circa 1906 small blue ink mark in blank bouom margin of sides I and 4. Lloyd Morris had a wide range of contacts in the Labour Socialist Temperance and Mission fields including M.P.s and the Bishop of Glasgow whom he invited to his church or to his services at the Palace Theatre. Like General Booth he could tum any occasion to good purpose even officiating at a wedding within the lions' cage at the circus. Very Good. unknown books
