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3744665011.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
191560861San Francisco CA: Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co. 1915. 8vo. 20 pp unpaginated. w/ colour-illustrated borders throughout numerous illustrations 1 in colour 1 double-page. Dark purple coloured softcovers raised embossed decoration of California bear standing atop San Francisco w/ arrow and date embossed in blind yapp fore-edges minor shipping edgewear minor sunning to fore-edges still VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this uncommon and nicely printed anthology of poetry organized by two San Francisco businessmen MacLafferty & Taylor along with the Bolte & Braden printing Co. to celebrate the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Featured alongside Bret Harte & Joaquin Miller are poems by California women poets Ina Coolbrith 1841-1928 a co-editor of the Overland Monthly and the first woman to become an honorary member of the Bohemian Club became California’s first poet laureate in 1915; and Hester Benedict Dickinson 1838-1921 who was a founder of the California Writers Club and served as president of the Pacific Coast Women’s Press Assoc. The work was originally issued as a banquet souvenir held in Feb. 1911 at the Riggs House Washington D.C. Planned & Printed by Bolte & Braden Co., paperback
193058585Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1930. 8vo. xv 1 402 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Blue cloth gilt lettering map endpapers w/ d.j. chipping & tear head of spine upper corner front cover affecting a few letters minor scuffing couple closed tears still NF/Fair copy from the library of Wilma Burmester Bishop 1887-1969 widow of Roy T. Bishop 1881-1950 former owner of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. First edition of this anthology of stories personal accounts and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures Native America Eskimos traveling the Yukon River and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy now known as the Mary Lee Davis House. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
20062205New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Good /good . Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Sarah Best wishes! Wangari." Tan and green paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering stated first edition in dustjacket. A good copy with bending at the corners and crimping at the spine tips. Minor bumping along the top edge of the front board. A clean and unmarked copy other than the author's signature in a tight binding as if unread. The jacket is unclipped with matching wear along the panel edges and the rear flap was folded unevenly from the printer leading to a short tear at the top of the fold. 314pp. indexed some black and white photos. The personal memoir of this 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Kenya. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1926189402Several ports of call and at sea: 25 August - 30 November 1926. A spirited narrative containing descriptive firsthand descriptions of popular tourist destinations in particular Cairo and Ceylon and onboard ship. The writer who is unidentified but a resident of Berkeley California travelled with at least one other person and this account concerns the last few months of a two-and-a-half-year period away from home. It begins with her departure from Manila onboard MS Fulda a North German Lloyd Line vessel launched in 1924. She reaches Singapore on 30 August "Some of the men wear 'Mary Pickford' curls" and then visits Ceylon where she writes about the tea industry. The vessel steams west to Egypt where they travel by car to Cairo "a woman just passed with a portable sewing machine balanced on her head". The trip concludes in Europe and with the voyage back to the the US. 15 densely typed leaves 270 x 220 mm each with text one side only occasional contemporary pencilled annotations. Some browning and nicks: very good. unknown
0740711229.Gloose_leaf. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
194051724New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1940. 8vo. 312 2 pp. Title in red & blk. Beige cloth red lettering w/ d.j. stark red & black cover art minor chipping head of spine very minor edgewear NF/VG copy. First edition of this very scarce memoir by a 12-year-old American girl who lived in Berlin during the bitterest of the Jewish holocaust finally escaping by a bare margin to the U.S. with her father Gregor Ziemer who had been the headmaster of the American School in Berlin. This memoir offers a chilling account of the Hitler youth the attacks after Hitler became Chancellor and much more. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
194612633N.p. likely Houston Tx 1946. 4; 4pp. Both in original printed wrappers stapled. Minor overall wear. Very good. A pair of very rare if not unrecorded pamphlets printing the events which took place at two different annual meetings of the Women's Auxiliary of the Lone Star State Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association a vitally important African-American health organization in Jim Crow Texas. The earlier of the two publications covers the June 6-8 1944 session held at Jarvis College in Hawkins Texas; the latter session was held at Charlton-Pollard High School in Beaumont. Both pamphlets print the schedule of events for the sessions along with a "Social Calendar" and a list of officers. The events included musical performances addresses devotionals readings of minutes and so forth. Interestingly the opening song of the 1946 session is listed as the "Negro National Anthem" also known as James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing." We are unable to find any holdings of these two pamphlets explicitly in OCLC but a couple of institutions hold collections of papers from various health professionals who were members of the organization which may include these two publications.<br /> <br /> "The Lone Star State Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association an organization of African Americans in the health field came into existence on August 25 1886 in Galveston. J. H. and L. M. Wilkins brothers and Galveston doctors with J. S. Cameron a San Antonio pharmacist and twelve men from nine towns met to establish the association the second organization of Black professionals in the medical field in the nation. The founders had approached the Texas Medical Association concerning participation but it refused to admit them. After sporadic activities in the 1880s and 1890s the association revived in 1901 through the efforts of six members who held a meeting in Austin. Thereafter it grew steadily to attain a membership of almost 300 by 1928. Its members-physicians dentists pharmacists and nurses-selected their first female president A. E. Hughes in 1934. Throughout its history the association emphasized discussion of medical practice and public-health education. It also reviewed hospitals and schools for nurses to provide information on standards. During the 1930s leaders successfully urged the establishment of a state-supported tuberculosis sanatorium for Blacks at Kerrville. After the TMA was opened to Blacks in 1955 the organization which had been retitled the Lone Star Medical Association remained active but declined from 250 members in 1959 to eighty in 1985 after a decision allowing dentists and pharmacists to form their own groups" - Handbook of Texas online. unknown
1843144381843. Wahlen Auguste. 'Moeurs Usages Et Costumes De Tous Les Peuples Du Monde .' Published in Brussels 1843. 6.7 x 10.4 inches & 8.9 x 5.9 inches. Plates are lithographs on a vellum type paper with original hand coloring heightened with gum Arabic. <br /> <br /> Two original antique prints from 'Moeurs Usages Et Costumes De Tous Les Peuples Du Monde' by Auguste Wahlen. The plate illustrations are brightly colored and intricately detailed characterization of the traditional costumes of a Persian Nobleman and woman of Iran Persia. The Persian nobleman's costume entails a vibrant red fur-lined coat which covers a gold-colored ensemble topped off with a matching fur hat. The text accompanying the illustration is in Dutch roughly translating to "Persian noble from the state". The Persian Woman is depicted in tradition costume as imagined by Europeans in the 1800's. The woman is shown reclining on a bed of patterned cushions holding a hookah in her right hand. She is captured in a rich red-colored pant a green and white striped top with gold-colored embroidery and an embellished royal blue hat to compliment the coat of the same color. The text below reads: "Dama Persa - Asia" Persian Lady - Asia. Both prints are in good condition and very decorative. unknown
1892307182San Francisco: Abell & Priest 1892. Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari presumably one she wore in Madurai India while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM. <br /> <br /> Root 1859–1944 graduated from the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia and was the first female doctor to hold many posts throughout her working life. She spent seven or eight years in India establishing a Woman's Hospital in Madurai. She left India in 1891 and visited China and Japan before returning to the West Coast of the United States giving talks on her work to Christian groups along the way. She gave a lecture to the Occidental Board of Foreign Missions in San Francisco on February 3 1892 and these photographs are likely to have been taken at that time. <br /> <br /> After returning to the East Coast Root studied surgery at Cornell obtained licenses to practice in Massachusetts and New York and took a position as the resident physician at Smith College. In the 1920s she taught "social hygiene" sex-ed for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. <br /> <br /> Nineteenth century photographs of Dr. Root and other female physicians are uncommon. Drexel University has two poor condition cabinet cards of Root in Japan a few months before she arrived in San Francisco. Both images are fine with medium contrast sepia tones. The albumen silver prints measure 3-3/4 by 7-7/16 inches on 4-1/4 by 6-7/16 inch mounts. The photographer's imprint is "Abell & Priest Bancroft Building / 723 Market St. S.F. Cal." Both have blank backs with the notation "Dr. Pauline Root" and "India. Abell & Priest unknown
19838908LA 1983. Unique. Near Fine. Unique. "Violent Femmes" was the debut album by Violent Femmes and one of the defining albums of the era. Recorded in July 1982 the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl in April 1983. Gordon Gano wrote most of the songs for the album while still in high school in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It was the band's most successful album going platinum eight years after its release. The album achieved what is believed to be a unique fee buy going gold four years after release without having made an appearance on Billboard's top 200 album chart. Rolling Stone ranked the album Number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time. They were discovered by James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders on August 23 1981 when the band was busking on a street corner in front of the Oriental Theatre the Milwaukee venue that The Pretenders would be playing later that night. Chrissie Hynde invited them to play a brief acoustic set after the opening act. <br /> The letter and lyrics sheet dated 2/23/83 and all in Gano's hand addresses a handful of major issues to be resolved before the album release a couple months later. Notably it includes the densely written sheet of all the song lyrics that was printed on the LP sleeve included with the debut album. The letter goes into detail regard reproduction of the sheet and addresses several other issues e.g. the quoting of a Muddy Water's song in Gone Daddy Gone. This is the original mss which launched over a million copies and helped shape a genre. Minor toning else bright and clean. 8.5x11" notebook paper; mss in black ink. Signed by the author. unknown
1880178721880. 2 Albumen photos of early recreational tennis game. Circa 1880's. Larger photo measures 6.75" x 8.5" inches on original photographer's board measuring 9.75" x 6.75". Smaller photo measures 7.25" x 4.5" inches on white photographer's board measuring 8" x 5" inches. Photo was taken by Marston photo studio of Bangor Maine. Larger photo shows a large group of young women posed in tiers on a lawn in front of a large brick building. The front row is spread across the grass with others in chairs behind them and the back row sitting on the open windowsill and ledge along the side of the building. The group is entirely female suggesting maybe an early women's college all of them dressed in high-collared dresses long skirts with bustles many in hats and some with parasols. In the front row four women hold tennis rackets as if posing before or after a game. This restless group of young women are pictured in the 1870s or 1880's. The other photo shows a tennis game at play with a man on one side of the net and two women on the other holding rackets on a tennis lawn. The court has been constructed on a lawn with painted boundaries and a net which was customary in 19th century. In the background is a large white wooden house. Lawn tennis came into fashion in the 1870's as an upper-class hobby marking leisure time for players and spectators. Some spotting and Light staining on photos does not effect clarity of images. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1916biblio534<p>Some foxing but clean inside. Rare with dust jackets that list G & D's Books for Boys and Girls inside. Very worn around edges with tears 1/2" X 1" hole on spine in plain area as shown. Top & bottom of book have wear spine tilts forward. Please see photo.</p> Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Dodd Mead & Co. hardcover
18286415Mexico City 1828. Very good plus. Two broadsides each 8 x 6 inches. Minor wear. Two Mexican decrees regarding war widows and their pensions rights. In the first dated April 19 and May 2 1828 it is decreed that the widows of first aides shall receive the Montepio corresponding to the widows of major sergeants. The Montepio in Mexico was a public pension and assistance fund for the families of state servants especially military personnel -- a precursor of modern social security systems. In tjhe second decree dated May 7 1828 a more specific case is addressed: "The fault committed by the citizen Hermenegildo Mancebo in contracting marriage without license is dispensed. his widow and daughters remaining entitled to the Montepío that corresponds to them. unknown
194557740Melbourne NT: Georgian House 1945. 8vo. 144 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth dark blue lettering on spine minor rubbing edgewear faint tidemark to upper right corner first few leaves w/ d.j. wraparound cover art edgewear rubbing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this oral memoir as told to Elisabeth George describing the efforts of Bill & Henriette Pierce Canadian ex-pats in the Northern Territory tin mines and later in Marranboy before opening their store at Daly Waters. They detail the growth of the airways the impact of World War II and a substantial amount of positive interaction and appreciation of the local aborigines. Georgian House, hardcover
1857List3026Wilcox County Alabama 1857. Two documents totaling five double-sided pages measuring 8 x 13 inches and six double-sided pages measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Folded with some stains and wear; Near Fine. Two legal documents from an Alabama chancery court suit brought against Susannah Nettles by her husband James C. Nettles concerning ownership of an enslaved woman named Chloe. The documents are a set of cross interrogatories and objections and their replies which were given by William Mellard the writer of the deed that originally gave Susannah ownership of Chloe. Mellard recalls that the deed written in 1829 provided the following:<br /> <br /> “Mary Rudd declared to him while directing him how to write the Instrument that as Susannah was her youngest child and a daughter that she wished while she yet lived to secure to her that much of her Estate to wit Chloe and her future increase; and she wished the Instrument so written that it would convey to Susannah the said girl Chloe in such a manner that she would not be subject to the control of her husband should she afterwards marry . and that the negro girl should not be subject to the debts of her husband should she marryâ€.<br /> <br /> Mellard claims that after Susannah’s marriage “James C. Nettles admitted the right of his wife to the Negroes and acquiesced in her title to them and did not claim any right to them.â€<br /> <br /> At the time the deed was drawn up the legal doctrine of coverture was in effect: a married woman did not have legal rights and obligations including a right to property ownership separate from her husband. Though Susannah was single at the time Chloe would have become James Nettles’ property on his marriage to Susannah were it not for the part of Mary Rudd’s deed which Mellard insists he is remembering correctly that set aside Chloe as only Susannah’s property. Though some states had passed Married Women’s Property Acts or similar Alabama would pass any such laws until 1867.1<br /> <br /> These documents are a striking example of the enforcement of a key aspect of women’s rights—the right to own one’s own property—in which it specifically hinges on the denial of rights to another group of women—those who are owned as property. Of interest to legal historians particularly of women’s rights and enslavement.<br /> <br /> 1 B. Zorina Khan The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development 1790–1920 Cambridge University Press 2005 167. unknown
190162628Boston MA: Charles B. Webster & Co. 1901. Oblong 12mo. 6 x 4 in. 128 pp. With photo illustrations text illustrations maps 1 large folding map in red & black at rear illustrated ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of young Progressive Era woman holding umbrella looking down upon her lodgings ads on back cover minor dustsoiling slight shelfwear still NF bright copy. First edition thus of this updated travel guide by Abbott 1865-1913 who wrote extensively on walking bicycle riding and traveling by trolley throughout Massachusetts and New England. She includes specific travel notes on the scenery and “places to see†as well as breezy notes on all the local areas a visitor would find when hopping on and off the trolley lines. Charles B. Webster & Co., paperback
18914898New York: Macmillan 1891. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo; xxiii 158 pages grey-green cloth spine darkened smudged cover uncut and unopened. <br/><br/>Englishwoman Ms. Clark spent a year in Peru beginning in 1889 to pursue her interest in the land and particularly its native people. Eight plates. The identity of Mx Clark remains a mystery but her hostess in Lima was Mrs. J. Howard Johnston wife of the co-founder of the Backus & Johnston brewery Lima's largest brewery. Macmillan hardcover
0260095532.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1528231406.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1899171841899. Monson Academy student photo album circa 1899-1901 documenting coeducational secondary education and student identity at a Massachusetts preparatory institution during a period of expanding academic opportunities for both men and women. The album records individual students through formal portraiture providing evidence of enrollment class affiliation and institutional culture at one of the earliest coeducational academies in the United States. The material supports research on preparatory education gender integration in schooling and the development of academically oriented boarding institutions at the turn of the twentieth century.<br /> <br /> Photo album containing 43 original silver gelatin photographs including 25 cabinet sized portraits and 18 smaller prints primarily consisting of individual bust length student portraits with several group images. Many photographs include handwritten pencil annotations on the verso identifying sitters and class years such as "W. H. Ballard Class '01 M.A." The album is bound in an ornate leather cover with gilt and brown decorative elements and a central cameo portrait with pages arranged to display both larger and smaller format photographs. The images present male and female students in formal studio style compositions reflecting conventions of academic portraiture and documentation of student cohorts.<br /> <br /> Created at the turn of the twentieth century the album situates Monson Academy within broader developments in American education including the growth of coeducational institutions and preparatory training aligned with emerging scientific and technical fields. Founded in 1804 the academy later developed a reputation for preparing students for institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earlier admitted international students including Yung Wing who became the first Chinese graduate of an American university. The album provides a visual record of student populations within this institutional context documenting the presence of both men and women in a shared academic environment. Light wear to album with minor foxing to pages; photographs clear and well preserved; overall very good. A cohesive photographic record of coeducational preparatory schooling in the United States. unknown
193263881New York NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1932. 8vo. 8 315 1 pp. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor shelfwear rubbing w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of homestead soddy in the snow minor chipping head of spine couple minor closed tears edgewear VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition 1st printing of this western novel set against the backdrop of homesteaders in the “Great American Desert†on the Dakota frontier expanded from her earlier short story first published in “The Pictorial Review.†Wood 1859-1944 was born in Hillsgrove IL when still a prairie town later worked as a reporter and editor for Western newspapers and alongside her father as a railroad auditor and filed a homestead claim in the Dakotas in her first year out of Carthage College in about 1880 and also served on the O. Henry Prize Story committee. D. Appleton & Co., hardcover
1993Q-155861012XThe Feminist Press at CUNY 1993-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Feminist Press at CUNY paperback
1996210311010Cassell 1996-03-01. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. Clean text. Tight binding. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures please inquire. Cassell paperback
1996Q-030433264xCassell 1996-03-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cassell paperback
