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1914116858London: William Heinemann 1914. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-311 312: blank original olive green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Twenty-four stories. Steel brought up in Scotland married an official in the Indian Civil Service and spent twenty-two years in the Punjab teaching herself the language and holding office as Inspectress of Girls' Schools. She became known as an author and translator of folk and fairy tales for children and of novels for adults that combined an interest in Indian culture with a respect for imperial values as well. "The Birth of Fire" is a weird story about a fire worshipper. "A Maiden's Prayer" concerns Kali worship and a Tantric cult. "The supernaturalism of Hindu and Muslim customs and beliefs wafts through Steel's stories like an incense; a fantastic atmosphere clings to them whether they are objectively supernatural or not; indeed the uncertainty itself is part of the atmosphere. The author's knowledge of religious and occult lore is put to use neither sentimentally nor sensationally but with a more genuine sense of both humor and horror. Her work deserves a closer look by genre enthusiasts than it has yet received." - Robert Eldridge. Spine panel tanned some mild tanning and foxing to pages early and late small worm holes to margins of last few leaves a very good copy. #116858 William Heinemann unknown books
2008026563Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2008. Edited by Judith Nasby. xii 125p. colored and b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
192364120New York: Doran 1923. No "GHD" colophon or statement of edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis portrait photos xvii 319p. dj. 19cm. Jacket chipped and rather worn. Name on endpaper. Moderate foxing. Dr. Albert Leroy Shelton and his wife Flora went to Eastern Tibet as Disciples of Christ medical missionaries in 1904. He was killed by bandits in 1922. <br/><br/> Doran hardcover books
190681084London: James Nisbet 1906. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 folding maps index viii 508p. Red cloth. 25cm. Covers lightly and unevenly faded. Minor foxing on a few leaves. Ends of backstrip rubbed. No Jacket. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper. <br/><br/> James Nisbet hardcover books
192719340Chicago: The Bookfellows 1927. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth over light brown boards with gilt stamped titles. In original light brown slipcase. Slipcase about good plus. Worn at edges and separating at one corner by several inches. Book however remains fine and protected. Bright and clean throughout. 112pp. <br/><br/>From an edition of 285 copies printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. Includes an original pencil-signed etching as frontis one of fifteen different etchings used throughout the edition's copies. Contains a collection of poems printed in the Bookfellows' monthly magazine THE STEP LADDER. A charming collection. The Bookfellows hardcover books
194117273NY: D. Appleton-Century Co 1941. 1st edition. Linen cloth binding lettered in maroon. Maroon dust jacket. VG/VG. 402 pp including index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton-Century Co hardcover books
193449460New York: Tudor Publishing Co 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 31 plates and 12 maps. An early reprint. With the remnants of a small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. The spine is a bit sun faded; otherwise an especially crisp very good copy. Tudor Publishing Co hardcover books
192919362New York: Longmans Green and Co 1929. 1st edition. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover & spine. VG eps darkened/bkpt opposite half-title/very small library stamp in upper corner of 'dedication' pg/title-pg has very light foxing. xi 3 421 pp including index. Frontis 23 plates that feature several maps eps illustrations. 8vo. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
192039758Chicago: The Bookfellows 1920. First edition sm 8vo pp. 72; 1/400 copies printed by The Torch Press a fine copy in cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine and upper cover. <br/><br/> The Bookfellows hardcover books
19734901973. SCHREIBER Flora Rheta. SYBIL. The True Story Of A Woman Possessed By 16 Separate Personalities. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1973. Small quarto: imitation brown leather in dust jacket. First Edition first printing. Signed presentation from Schreiber on the title page: "Aug. 28 1973. To Hal- whom I honor respect and thank for my opportunity to do a rounded show. All best- Flora Rheta Schreiber." Upon the publication of this book numerous talk shows hosted discussions and forums about Sybil and multiple personality disorders and this was obviously among the first shows to do this given the date of the presentation. The book was made into a television movie in 1976 for which actor Sally Field won an Emmy for her portrayal of Sybil. Schreiber died in 1988. First edition copies of Sybil signed by the author are scarce. Very Good; small nicks creases & tears a one-inch chip at the top of the upper-right corner of the front panel d/j. $350.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1973217105Chicago: Regnery 1973. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown faux leather. Fine in very good dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The true story of a woman with 16 separate personalities or Multiple Persoanlaty Disorders. This was a best seller and a TV movie<br/><br/>Inscribed "May 1973 To Mark Schubart--with memories of a concentration on selfhood-Flora Rheta Schreiber. Regnery unknown books
197336226Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1973. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 20359pp. Signed by the author on title page. Jacket quite chipped and worn with a number of losses along bottom edge of upper panel and spine foot affecting text without loss of sense brief tape repair corners worn. Not a beautiful copy though internally fine. "The true story of a woman possessed by 16 separate personalities. Henry Regnery Company unknown books
2006023991Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006. x 134p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
608371on First-Day Cover with Four 10 cent International Women's Year stamp Scott # 1571 no pictorial cachet postmarked Seneca Falls NY August 26 1975. Signed and inscribed by Flora Robson. 6 1/2" x 3 3/4". Very good. Provenance from the estate of Adrian Fagan. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
608372"Flora Robson" in blue on 1/2 length portrait of Flora Robson wearing a dark dress with two strands of pearls. Photograph is on heavy weight stock; 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"; very good minor signs of handling ca. 1983. Signed and inscribed: "Best wishes Flora Robson" Provenance from the estate of Adrian Fagan. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
198569468Berkeley CA: The Bancroft Library/University of California Berkeley 1985. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iv ii 48 pages. The Book Artifacts Collection of The Bancroft Library contains material relating to the development of writing the history of printing and the various book arts. Part I is an illustrated guide to the collection; Part II Outline of Holdings is intended as a convenient record for readers familiar with the subject. The Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley unknown books
02841London: Macmillan & Co. 1918. Edition De Luxe<br/>One of 500 Signed Copies <br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. STEEL Flora Annie. English Fairy Tales. Retold by Flora Annie Steel. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan & Co. 1918.<br/><br/>Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies this copy being no. 295 signed by the artist. Large quarto 11 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 284 x 22 mm. 2 limitation leaf ix 1 blank 341 3 blank pp. Sixteen color plates mounted on textured white paper with captioned tissue guards and forty-one drawings in black and white.<br/><br/>Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Some soiling to spine otherwise a fine copy. <br/><br/>"Rackham's books for the English market in the early post-war years included Flora Annie Steel's English Fairy Tales Retold 1918 with its 57 illustrations." Hamilton p. 128<br/><br/>Amongst many others the fairy tales include:<br/><br/>St. George of Merrie England<br/>The Story of the Three Bears<br/>Jack the Giant-Killer<br/>The Golden Ball<br/>Jack and the Beanstalk<br/>The Three Little Pigs<br/>Mr. Fox<br/>The Old Woman and her Pig<br/>Little Red Riding-Hood<br/>The Babes in the Wood<br/>The Ass the Table and the Stick<br/>The Rose Tree<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell p. 48. Riall p. 132. London: Macmillan & Co., 1918 unknown books
19212221862<p>First edition. 9 1/2" x 6 3/4". 174 b/w drawings by Palyi. Text in German. Original white boards with color illustration. Glassine jacket. Drab board slip case. Six page afterword by Dr. Friedrich Wurzbach. Very good. Unpaginated.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Palyi to Dr. Paul Epstein Munich 6 February 1922.</p><p>One of 500 copies this copy is not numbered.</p> Musarion hardcover books
186357141New York: Currier & Ives 1863. Hand-colored lithograph approx. 30¼" x 22" by sight not examined out of frame; fine example with strong coloring; attractively matted and in a curly maple frame. Currier & Ives New Best Fifty no. 23; Reilly Currier & Ives A Catalogue Raisonné Detroit 1984 pp. 737 758; no. 7326. Provenance: from the collection of the Minnesota tycoon James J. Hill Saint Paul Minnesota. One of Currier & Ives most famous and dramatic images depicting the steamboat Princess as firewood is loaded onto the ship to power its steam engines. The artist Frances Flora Bond Palmer 1812-1876 often referred to as Fanny Palmer was an English artist who became successful in the United States as a lithographer for Currier and Ives between 1849-1868. She is credited with producing around two hundred lithographs for them during this time. <br/><br/> Currier & Ives unknown books
197127709Enugu Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd 1971. Second 1972 Printing. Octavo 19cm; illustrated wrappers; 117 5pp. Some shelfwear and light dustiness to wrappers; Very Good. First story collection by Nigeria's first published female novelist consisting of ten pieces of short fiction usually centered around women. Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers Ltd unknown books
1910CAT000036New Rochelle: Paragraph Press 1910. Third Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good. Light shelfwear front joint cracked but binding sound. Representative of early 20th century cookbooks with a wide variety of middle class cookery but also with a household hints section which was a holdover from earlier editions 1878 and 1884. Bitting 340. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000036. Paragraph Press hardcover books
1966WRCLIT81493Dublin: Allen Figgis 1966. x1011pp. Quarto. Gilt cloth-textured boards. Fifty full-page color plates by the author each with commentary. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Edited by Edgar W. Battle. Gift inscription on front free endsheet otherwise a very good or slightly better copy in price- clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities and a faint ring mark on the lower panel. First edition. After a Sioux uprising Nebraska-born Mitchell 1890 - 1973 moved with her family to Ireland where she eventually married into the Jameson family. Her watercolors as the title suggests record aspects of the city now faded if not forever lost. The number of copies printed was modest and in the full sway of the Celtic Tiger copies realized astonishing sums at auction. Allen Figgis hardcover books
193385585NY:: Robert M. McBride & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Second printing before publication. Very good in a good stain on front panel edge worn with two large chips dust jacket. . Robert M. McBride & Company, hardcover books
19331316231New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1933. Hardcover. 8vo; G;hardcover without dust jacket; yellowish red spine without text; boards are extremely age toned with stains and bumping to the tips as well as minor frays to the head and tail of the spine but boards are in tact; text block is strongly edge worn paste downs end papers and fore edges are severely discolored but pages are legible;119p. 1316231. FP New Rockville Stock. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
14339NY MCBRIDE 1933. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, MCBRIDE, 1933 unknown books
