Search Results: Women's History & Biography from Classic Books and Ephemera

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. xvi, 445, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Women in Culture and Society, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson. "In this pathbreaking study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. Focusing on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropology . . . she casts new light on gender, race, and the public sphere in America's past and present." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good Condition: a few page corners creased; minor ink notations on 3 pages; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Lynn, Mass: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co, 1930. Paperback. Near Fine. 32 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Stapled; wrappers printed in yellow and black with a front wrapper photograph of a girl in a nurse costume taking care of her patient collie, signed: Anne Shriber. No date of publication but there is a reference to the number of bottle sold in 1929. The hair and clothing styles are circa 1930. This booklet combines useful first aid information with advertising and testimonials for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, available in liquid and chocolate-coated tablets. In Near Fine Condition: starting to separate at tail of spine; pages are browning; otherwise, clean and tight.

Paris: Folie Bergere, 1958. Paperback. Good +. [48] p.: illustrations (some in color); 32 cm. Stapled dark brown velvet cover with gilt-stamped cover title and illustration. No date of publication; includes Micheline Roine, who replaced Yvonne Menard in 1958. The choreography was by Georges Reich. Performers shown include: Frederic Rey, Rita Cadillac, Edith Georges, Veronica Bell, Alicia Marquez, Nita Raya, Micheline Roine, and Leone Alex. In Good+ Condition: cover is rubbed; minor loss at ends of spine; several closed tears of 1 cm. or less from edge of cover; lacking lower corner of back cover; pages are clean and bright.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. xvii, [1], 192, [2] p.; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes bibliographical essay. Former owner's name on half title page. In Very Good Condition: spine lightly creased; one page corner creased; marginal marks on one page of the bibliographical essay; otherwise, clean and tight.

Dresden: M. Wolf, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "Entwickelungsgeschichte, Schwangerschaft und Geburt, Krankheiten der Wöchnerinnen, Kinderkrankheiten und deren Behandlung, Geschlechtskrankheiten, deren Gefahren und Verhütung." "Fünfzehnte, vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage des Werkes Der Mensch. Mit 187 Text-Illustrationen, 31 anatomischen Farbendruck-Tafeln nebst einem zerlegbaren Modell des weiblichen Körpers." xvi, 1264 p., 32 leaves of color plates (1 with moveable parts): many in-text drawings, tables; 25 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; embossed color illustration on spine and front cover. Leipzig bookbinder blind-stamped on back cover. All page edges red. Decoration endpapers. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for C. N. Caspar Co. Book Emporium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Scarce with the final color plate with multiple moveable sections. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to… Read More

Reading, 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… Read More

New York: Random House, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. [12], 274, [2] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 22 cm. Maroon cloth spine with gilt spine title; light blue paper over boards with author's initials in gilt on front board. Dust jacket with author's portrait on back flap. The author, Nan Robertson (1926-2009), won a Pulitzer Prize for her article on her experience with toxic shock syndrome during her time as a reporter for the New York Times. In The Girls in the Balcony she recounts the history of women employees of that newspaper, in particular the federal class-action suit brought in 1974 against the paper seeking equal treatment with male employees. Book is in Near Fine Condition: "1992" written on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: 3-cm. closed tear from lower edge of front section; 2 closed tears of 1 cm. or less from upper edge of front section, which is creased; slightly soiled; not price-clipped.

Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 178, [6] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: The Black & White Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz by Carol Jacobsen -- Flying in Your Own Food by Padma Perera -- Dreams & Rhubarb by Katherine Mansfield -- An Interview with Maxine Kumin by Enid Shomer & Sheffield Sanford -- -- The Natives by Karen Fowler -- Morning: The World in the Lake by Linda Hogan -- On Psychic Numbing by Helen Caldicott -- Nuclear Lullaby by Dennis Bernstein -- To Hold Just a Little Piece of the Sun by Annie Prutzman -- How I learned to Sweep [and] Second Chances by Julia Alvarez -- A Rebel for Peace by Connie Blitt -- Music for Peace by Mary Lou Williams -- Excerpts from Mary Lou's Mass by Mary Lou Williams [record] -- The Wounds of War by Joanna L. Stratton; photographs by Lotte Jacobi, Margaret Bourke-White, Julie Alane Simons, Lee Frey; art by Philomene Nebbett, Dorothy M. Woody, Miriam Schapiro, Miriam Brofsky, by Ann… Read More

Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. Very Good +. 91, [5] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Homage to Jane Austen by Marianne Langner Zeitlin -- My Father Dying [poem] by Barbara Elovic -- Elizabeht "Grandma" Layton: A Drawer of Pictures by Lynn Bretz -- Six Poems by Doris Radin -- Adrienne Rich: The Evolution of a Poet by Wendy Martin -- Mombi by Judith Waring -- Four Poems by Martha McFerren -- Studio: Paintings by Frances Cohen Gillespie -- Poem by Juliet Chayat -- Two Poems by Fredda S. Pearlson -- The Poetry-Worm: A Portrait of Colette Inez by Dennis Bernstein -- A Colette Inez Sample [and] Waldseligkeit by Alma Mahler [record] -- The Murderous Marriage of Alma & Gustav Mahler by Jack Diether -- Two Poems by Patricia Beam -- To the Woman Who Sleeps through the Poetry Reading [poem] by Diane Glancy. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is slightly rubbed; otherwise, clean and tight; the record is still attached.

Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. Very Good +. 93, [3] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: A Candle for Edna Millay by Robert Erwin -- Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Portrait [poem] by David Ray -- Three poems by Ruth Whiteman -- Alice Pole: A Renaissance Woman in Baroque Opera by Heather Jimenez -- Two Poems by Carolyne Wright -- The Gihon Art Collection -- Two poems by Alexis Khoury -- Three poems by Susan Wheeler -- Studio: Two Vermont Photographers: Ellen Foscue Johnson and Gisela Gamper The Tomato Plant by Ann Dunnington -- Hitchcock's Women by Kenneth Johnson -- Marie Bullock: Founder of the Academy of American Poets: an interview by Elizabeth Kray -- If Lenin Crosses the Street [poem] by Suzanne M. Levine -- Susana Thenon's Distancias by Renata Treitel -- Five poems by Susana Thenon, translation by Renata Treitel -- Selections from Susana Thenon's distancias, a reading by the poet [record]. In Very Good+ Condition:… Read More

Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 95, [1] p.: illustrations, record; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Feminine Experience by Katherine Hoffman -- Notes on a Morning Gory: Mary Lou Williams an appreciation by Terry Teachout -- The Architecture of Julia Morgan by Richard W. Longstreth -- Beauties Blooming in a Dung Heap: The Corsican Sisters by Marie and Robert Secor -- Our Surroundings Seen Slowly [photographs] by Fleur Weymouth -- My Sister in this House [2 scenes from the award-winning play] by Wendy Kesselman -- Studio: Paintings by Lee Anne Miller -- Unearthing America's Past, an interview with Barbara Liggett by Jane Mitchell -- Maria: A Renaissance in Pottery [Maria Poveka Martinez] by Susan McGreevey -- Living Poetry: Song for a Friend, Muriel Kuyeyser by Dennis Bernstein -- Rukeyser, Speech and Poems [and] Amy Beach's Theme and Variation for flute and string quartet [Evatone Soundsheet (record)] -- Mrs. H. H. A.… Read More

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in 1: [8], 368, [14] p.; [4], 344, [16] p.; 29 cm. Signatures: A-3C4 (-3C4) pi2 B-2Y4 (4to). Dark brown cloth spine and corners (20th-century?) with printed paper spine label; marbled paper (19th-century?) over boards. Matching marbled endpapers. Errata on terminal page of each volume, following index. Occasional notations in a 19th-century? hand in the margins, sometimes with corrections in the text; an extensive commentary written in the margin of the section on marriage ceremonies among the Romans. In Very Good Condition: boards are moderately rubbed with loss of marbled paper at edges; old archival repair of tear along gutter of final 3 leaves of vol. 1 and first leaf of vol. 2 (not touching text), and of tear from fore-edge of v. 2 pp. 51-52, without loss of text; upper margin of v. 2 pp. 119-142 darkened; similar at head of gutter on v. 2 pp. 221-243; old stain on v. 2 p. 317 (text remains legible);… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine -/fine. First U. S. Edition. [12], 452 p., [16] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Off-white linen with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket. The author drew on material not previously used -- "diaries, memoirs, letters, and newly discovered manuscript material kept by Austen descendants" -- for this definitive biography of the English writer. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: slight browning along page edges and first and last page of illustrations; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Japan, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good -. 15 x 20 cm. album containing 52 postcards, 47 of them hand-colored. Black lacquer boards; front board illustrated with scene of a woman and a man painted in gilt and red. None of the postcards have been used and none have dates of publication. Some of the cards were produced by Tonboya in Yokohama; the firm was actively publishing hand-colored postcards from about 1910 to about 1930. The first postcard is a view of Mt. Fuji with a foreground illustration painted in gilt and black. The next two are portraits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken in black with a gilt emblem above each of their heads. The hand-colored views are of streets scenes, temples, and parks in Yohohama, Kamakura, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and Kamata; a number include geishas. There are two views of women in Yoshiwara. A complete list is available on request. In Very Good- Condition: front board is detached and is chipped along the lower edge and upper corners; color is bright on front… Read More

Philadelphia: John Buddy's Bread and Cake Bakery, 1850. Good. 1 receipt (8 x 20 cm.), printed along the upper edge: "John Buddy's Bread and Cake Bakery, S. W. corner Eighth and Locust streets." E. P. Fritz purchased 72 loaves of bread at 27 loaves for a dollar. John Buddy was a baker in Philadelphia in the 1840s and 1850s; he moved to 8th and Locust in 1850. E.P. Fritz was probably Elizabeth Fritz, who ran a boardinghouse on N. 4th St. from 1848 to 1851. In Good Condition: light creasing; one separation with old repair.

Garden City, N.Y.: John Martin's House, 1917. Paperback. Good -. [60] p.: illustrations, music; 25 cm. Stapled paperback with illustrated cover. Printed in orange and black. Includes the song Hymn to Our Flag with lyrics by John Martin and music by Louise Ayres Garnett. Contains stories, poems, and illustrations, including Margaret Knight, the Tomboy Girl, by Marion Hart. Scarce. In Fair+ Condition: front cover is detached but present; one leaf lacking upper corner, without loss of text, and small part of illustration cut out; browning; otherwise, clean and solid.

Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1788. Hardcover. Very Good. "Nouvelle Edition, plus complette que toutes les précédentes." 405, [3] p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf; modern spine repair with japanese tissue and gilt-tooled leather spine label. All page edges red. Woodcut tailpieces. Voltaire's satire about the life of Joan of Arc was banned in much of Europe and, hence, very popular. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; spine repaired with japanese tissue; edges of first and last leaves darkened from glue used on fixed endpapers; some pages lightly browning; otherwise, clean and tight.

Buffalo, N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1903. Paperback. 1903. 32 p.: illustrations; 14 cm. White wrappers, stapled along top edge. Front wrapper photo-illustration of a smiling woman in a big hat. Copyright date on front wrapper. Back wrapper woodcut illustration of the World's Dispensary building in Buffalo, N.Y. Odd-numbered pages 1-15 contain calendar for Jan. 1904-April 1905 and memorandum space. The remainder of the pages and inside wrappers contain advertisements and testimonials for Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines--Dr. Pierce's cures for various maladies effecting women: Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, Favorite Prescription, Lotion Tablets, Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories, Mothers' Friend, All-Healing Salve, Anodyne Pile Ointment, and Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed or Water-Pepper. In Near Fine Condition: staples starting to rust; lower right-hand corner of front wrapper slightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight.

Lancaster, Pa: Lancaster General Hospital, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed by Conn & Slote, Lancaster, Pa. 224 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Plain black cloth. No date of publication; section about the Lancaster General Hospital is dated 1912. Contains advertisements for Lancaster County businesses. Recipes include: apple snow; meat cakes; apple omelet; walnut pie; transparent pies; temperance mince pie; Comanche candy; kippered cherries; and various ice cream and water ice recipes. In addition to recipes, includes other household tips such as how to take care of your parasol during the winter and how to bleach a straw bonnet. Handwritten recipe on front fixed endpaper for sponge cake from "Mrs. S." The Memoranda pages include two handwritten recipes: "Gertie Rogers fine Ginger Cake" and "Miss Landis Devil Food." Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; tail of spine starting to fray; cloth is lightly soiled; older solid repair of both hinges;… Read More

New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. [3], 448-556 p., frontispiece engraved portrait of Morgan Lewis; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Bound with the issues for March and June 1840, and April 1842, all of which lack their frontispieces. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1842 by J. V. Follensbee. Joseph Vinton Follansbee, Sappington, Md., was a member of class of the 1846 but did not graduate. The May 1844 issue is of particular interest because it contains a poem by Fanny Kemble, "Lines Written at Night"; The Legal Wrongs of Women by an anonymous woman; and Female Novelists by W. A. Jones. It also includes book reviews of several works on the death penalty. The March 1840 issue contains an article… Read More