Miller, Florence Fenwick (18541935)Biblio.com
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1900219926no publisher undated ca. 1900 1900. First Edition. Paperback. The letters are in a very good condition with some dulling and dust-toning as with age. One of the letters is slightly stained on the first page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 2 pages; Two typed letters SIGNED by Florence Fenwick Miller. Undated presumed late 19th / early 20th century. Florence Fenwick Miller was a British woman who became a prominent leader in the trans-century struggle for womens suffrage and the general emancipation of women through her roles as a medical pioneer lecturer journalist editor and activist in both England and the United States. Subjects: Letters and correspondence -- Suffragettes -- Signatures -- Signed letters. no publisher, undated, ca. 1900? paperback
20360Rotterdam, printed for Abraham Acher, bookseller by the Exchange, 1687 [et] 1688. Petit in-8 de [24]-336 et [16]-191-[1] pages, plein veau caramel, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, plats décorés de double filets et fleurons à froid, tranche rouge.
121051London A. & C. Black 1922. . First edition; 8vo 22.5 x 16 cm; 15 full-page colour plates including frontispiece title and contents page a little spotted; publisher's original grey paper-covered boards with additional card plate pasted to upper cover upper cover lettered in blocked green a little rubbing a very good copy.<br /> A scarce little work showing a selection of paintings of Iraq by Florence Edith Cheesman 18771964 an important artist in the history of the depiction of Iraq as a nation. Her paintings were exhibited at a number of London galleries and were instrumental in preserving the contemporary visual aspect of Iraq immediately following WWI.<br /><br />Edith often accompanied her brother Major Robert Ernest Cheesman 1878-1962 on his military duties including his explorations into Saudi Arabia around Hofuf. She became acquainted with Gertrude Bell painting her house in 1921 which is currently on display in the British Embassy in Baghdad and King Faisal I her portrait of him currently hanging on walls at MI6. She also designed the countries first unique postage stamps displaying various important Iraqi art and architecture which were used between 1923 and 1931.<br /><br />Scarce only in 5 UK institutions BL Oxford Dublin Cardiff Dundee.<br /> London, A. & C. Black, 1922. hardcover
1903872F2London: The Leadenhall Press 1903 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. The first edition in book form of this vanishingly scarce feminist drama by Lady Florence Dixie depicting a coming Utopia for woman. Though first written in the late 1870s this work first appeared serially over the course of six months in the publication 'Young Oxford' beginning in September 1902. Present here is the first edition in book form of this very scarce work.Scottish writer war correspondent and feminist Lady Florence Dixie presents a verse drama which depicts a Utopia for women in the society of Saxcoberland on the planet Erth with is similar but not identical to our own Earth.In her preface Dixie explains that this feminist work 'drama demands Justice for all living things from Ruler to Subject of either sex and for the brute Creation'. She asks 'shall Progress be deterred by antiquated ideas and opinions founded in imperfect knowledge'.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece.With twenty pages of advertisements to the rear.Former owner's stamp and inscription to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Former owner's stamp and inscription to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean with spotting to title page and following two leaves. Very Good The Leadenhall Press hardcover
1901190396Paris: Charles Sedelmeyer 1901. Softcover. Good- heavy shelfwear and tears to front cover missing spine and rear cover light smudging to text pages light age toning to pages all plates are present and otherwise clean. Brown wraps with gilt printing bw portrait mounted on front cover with gilt frame; 29 text pages plates numbered 401-485 each with descriptive text page and tissue guard sheet. Printed in edition of 75 numbered copies on Japan paper this being number 68. Text by Wilhelm Bode from the German by Florence Simmonds. 18x14x2.5" Charles Sedelmeyer paperback
1892315100New York: George Routledge & Sons 1892. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. Publisher's lime cloth stamped in gold white and black t.e.g. A beautiful copy. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. The rules and play of poker with a chapter on poker sharps describing marked cards and other cheats. Jessel 511 George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1907289595London Glasgow Dublin Bombay & New York; New York Boston: Blackie & Son Ltd; H. M. Caldwell Company 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with 21 tipped in color plates and a few additional text illustrations. Short tear to the bottom corner of the second plate with no loss and mainly affecting the border only. Some rippling to a few of the plates. Spot of discreet repair to the top edge of the front board by a conservator using sympathetic Japanese tissue. Oblong green cloth with lettering and illustration in gilt black gray and orange. Very Good binding. Blackie & Son Ltd; H. M. Caldwell Company unknown books
190212974London: Longmans Green & Co 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. The 1st edition of this early installment in the legendary "Golliwogg" series c. 1902. Wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Florence K. Upton verses by her mother Bertha Upton. An oblong quarto solid and VG in its pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels. The binding is very firm the color illustrations are uniformly clean and bright. A handsome very presentable copy. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover
190212976London and New York: Longmans Green and Co 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. A tight well-preserved copy of the 1st edition of this early entry in the legendary turn-of-the-century "Golliwoggs" series c. 1902. Solid and VG in its wonderful pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels. Lavishly illustrated in color by Florence K. Upton the verses supplied by her mother Bertha Upton. Oblong octavo the rich illustrations uniformly bright and clean. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
190112975New York London and Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. A solid presentable copy of the 1901 1st edition. Tight and VG small chip at the front endpaper rear endpaper torn and re-taped in its pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels and very light staining along the rear panel's upper tip. Oblong octavo wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Florence K. Upton the verses supplied by her mother Bertha Upton. The 6th title in this legendary early 20th century children's series. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover
190112975New York London and Bombay: Longmans Green & Co 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. A solid presentable copy of the 1901 1st edition. Tight and VG small chip at the front endpaper rear endpaper torn and re-taped in its pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels and very light staining along the rear panel's upper tip. Oblong octavo wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Florence K. Upton the verses supplied by her mother Bertha Upton. The 6th title in this legendary early 20th century children's series. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
190212974London: Longmans Green & Co 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. The 1st edition of this early installment in the legendary "Golliwogg" series c. 1902. Wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Florence K. Upton verses by her mother Bertha Upton. An oblong quarto solid and VG in its pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels. The binding is very firm the color illustrations are uniformly clean and bright. A handsome very presentable copy. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
190212976London and New York: Longmans Green and Co 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. A tight well-preserved copy of the 1st edition of this early entry in the legendary turn-of-the-century "Golliwoggs" series c. 1902. Solid and VG in its wonderful pictorial boards with light soiling to the panels. Lavishly illustrated in color by Florence K. Upton the verses supplied by her mother Bertha Upton. Oblong octavo the rich illustrations uniformly bright and clean. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
1860300430New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Small Octavo; in the publisher's pebbled brown cloth; with titling on the upperboard in gilt; 3 4-140 pages with 4 pages of advertisements in the rear; professionally rebacked with a blank japanese tissue spine; with a few red stains and some soiling to the boards; toning from a laid in paper on pages 122-123; scattered foxing throughout. ~~The First American Edition of the foundational book on modern Nursing. Written by Florence Nightingale renowned for her lifesaving work during the Crimean War. Ms. Nightingale was instrumental in implementing sanitary measures which greatly increased survival rates for patients. She created the Nightingale school at St.Thomas's Hospital in London in June of 1860. This school accompanied by Notes on Nursing encouraged many women to pursue nursing as a career and undoubtedly saved countless lives. The Grolier 100 Books Famous in Medicine. Good binding. D. Appleton and Company unknown
1945009623This legal-size envelope is addressed to "Frank Perry American Civilian Internee Held by Japan / in Zentsuzi War Prison Camp / Zentsuzi Skikoku Island Japan / Via: New York N.Y." The return address on reverse is "Mrs. Florence E. Perry 77 Carmelita St. / San Francisco California". It is franked with a pair of 3-cent Presidential Jefferson horizontal- coil stamps Scott #842 canceled with a New York city machine postmark dated 17 March 1945. U.S "Examined By" censor tape with purple text reading "11877 / U.S. Censor" has resealed the left edge of the envelope. A Japanese blue censor handstamp with three Japanese characters reading Ken'etsuzmi censored and an addition orange-red oval Wada censor mark are applied below the address. No contents; envelope only. <br /><br />Perry was an American civilian radio operator who worked on Guam at the time of the Japanese invasion which began on 8 December the day after the infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. During the assault Perry was shot in the back by Japanese solders and paralyzed from the waist down. After being treated at the captured American Naval Hospital on Guam Perry was shipped to the Zenstsuji Prison Group complex near Hiroshima and survived the war. <br /><br />A photostatic copy of a reference document accompanying this envelope states that "This item was bought from Tom Jackson. It was given to him in the camp in Japan." Jackson was a former British airman who had been captured on Java and imprisoned at Zentsuji Sub Camp No. 2 Innoshima Island. <br /><br />At their peak the Zentsuji camps held about 5500 British Australian and American prisoners during the war. Little has been published in English about them however the Gibbs Report stated that prisoners worked as laborers in nearby shipbuilding facilities. For more information see Mansell's <i>Capture: The Forgotten Men of Guam</i> Niiyama's "British POW Leaves Diary. . . at The Chugoku Shimbun Hiroshima Peace Media Center online C<i>enter for Research: Allied POWs Under the Japanese: Zensuji Camp Shikuko 1942-1945 and Hiroshima POW Camp #5-B Innoshima</i> Department of the Army All -Japan POW Camp Group History and Gruenzner's<i> Postal History of American POWs. . . .</i> <br /><br />Quite a scarce item documenting the imprisonment of a paralyzed American civilian in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. books
19481407921New York: The Macmillan Company 1948. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo x 241 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red black green and white with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price cut but stamped with "$3.00." Rubbing and moderate tearing along edges of dust jacket. Aging with light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards with red stamping to front board and spine. General shelf wear with mild visible rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards. Textblock clean. With a black-and-white photo of the author laid in. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1407921. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Macmillan Company hardcover
190746716London: Blackie & Son Ltd 1907. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Oblong quarto 9 x 11 1/2". Original olive cloth pictorially stamped in green black orange and gilt with gold lettering to spine and black lettering to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Title in red and black lettering within illustrated frame.<br /> <br /> Published in 1907 "The Rhyme of a Run and Other Verse" is Florence Harrison's second work after "Rhymes and Reasons" which she published in 1905.<br /> <br /> The ten short stories written in verse are accompanied with a total of 21 pasted color illustrations 5 in-text and 10 full-page woodcuts of which all are in a striking Art Nouveau style.<br /> <br /> Moderate shelf wear. Front corners slightly frayed and bumped not affecting pages. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Closed tear and minor chipping to the sixth color plate. Closed tear and slight creasing to upper margin of the following seventh color plate. Pages slightly age-toned along margin.<br /> <br /> Binding in good to good interior in good to very good condition.<br /> <br /> About the author: Florence Harrison 1877-1955 was an Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite illustrator of poetry and children's books. Many of her books were published by Blackie and Sons. She illustrated books by notable Pre-Raphaelite circle poets Christina Rossetti William Morris and Sir Alfred Tennyson. Blackie & Son, Ltd hardcover
1984100857New York: Holiday House 1984. Complete set of Florence Parry Heide's Treehorn trilogy signed by illustrator Edward Gorey in the first two volumes and inscribed by Heide with a sketch of a birthday cake in the third. These sly surreal tales follow a boy whose marvelous adventures his body slowly shrinking a tree sprouting dollar bills a genie offering birthday wishes escape the notice of the adults in his life who are too preoccupied with dinner plans home improvements and office hours to pay attention: "'Well I'll let it go for today' said his teacher. 'But see that it's taken care of before tomorrow. We don't shrink in this class.'" Edward Gorey's illustrations perfectly capture Treehorn's stoic self-reliance. The Shrinking of Treehorn is an early reprint in a first-issue dust jacket priced at $3.95 no blurbs. Treehorn's Treasure and Treehorn's Wish are stated first editions in first-issue jackets. A fine set signed by author and illustrator. Three oblong volumes measuring 6 x 6.75 inches: 64 64 64. Original pictorial boards original unclipped color pictorial dust jackets. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn's Treasure signed by Gorey on title page; Treehorn's Wish inscribed by Heide on front free endpaper. Holiday House unknown books
1894136066New York: Charles B. Reed 1894. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-4 5-178 179-182: ads flyleaves at front and rear original decorated blue cloth front panel stamped in gold and blind spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind orange marbled endpapers. First edition. Published four years later in England as A SOUL ON FIRE London: Bliss Sands & Co. 1898. Sensational spiritualist romance of after death experiences; a salutary warning to a cold callous savant to mend his ways in the tradition of Dickens's moral ghost stories; also a polemic presenting many of the author's enthusiastic views on moral and social questions e.g. vivisection parental care etc. A prolific author with some ninety novels to her credit Florence Marryat 1838-1899 was the youngest and eleventh child of Frederick Marryat the popular nineteenth-century nautical novelist. "A Catholic Marryat was fascinated by spiritualism which she frequently introduces into her novels. As a spiritualist she wrote the popular book THERE IS NO DEATH 1891." - Sutherland Victorian Fiction p. 412. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 151 citing the 1898 UK edition. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 351. Bleiler 1978 p. 133. Reginald 09685. Spine panel lightly sunned a nearly fine copy. An uncommon book. #136066 Charles B. Reed unknown books
14606n.d. Pen and ink heightened with white on board. 1 vols. Image approimately 5 x 4 inches. Matted. Thomas H. Pen and ink heightened with white on board. 1 vols. Image approimately 5 x 4 inches. unknown books
2007N0-28-05-26-004Grupo Editorial Tomo 2007. paperback. Good. 7x5x0. Minor wear on the corners and edges.Clean pages with no markings. Ships same day in most cases!Any queries just ask for photos. Your satisfaction matters!Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs access codes etc. Grupo Editorial Tomo paperback
1957651902Foreign Affairs Association of Japan 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by author a leading editor at the publishing company and a third person. A Near Fine copy in original gray wraps printed reverse fold and stab-bound Japanese style. Color and b/w illustrations including a tipped-in original color woodblock print by Jacoulet. Publisher's 1-page list of publications laid in loose. Foreign Affairs Association of Japan paperback
1958mon0000120564Valentine 1958-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. No. 4252. 1958. Mass Market Paperback. A Valentine Book. New Larger Type. Prestige Books. Original Title Police Lady. 221 pages. Name written inside. Old price sticker on front cover. Some surface and edge wear to cover. Valentine paperback
1958mon0000062432Valentine 1958-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Creased cover. Valentine paperback
1997x-0132819171Prentice Hall 1997. Spiral-bound. New. 3rd spi sub edition. 394 pages. 11.00x9.00x0.75 inches. Prentice Hall unknown
