Wantagh Rare Book Company

Internet Catalog No. 5: Women as Authors and Subjects

Check the boxes of the books that interest you.
Then complete the form at the bottom of this page to contact Wantagh Rare Book Company.

You can also return home or peruse one of our other catalogs:

Author: Addams, Jane:
Title: TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE with Autobiographical Notes.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1910.
Description: Ed.1, xvii, 462, (iv, advts.), frontis. port., illus., index, name torn off top of front free endpaper, or v.g.
Price: $37.50


Author: Alec-Tweedoe. Mrs. (E.):
Title: AMERICA AS I SAW IT or AMERICA REVISITED.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1913.
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 475, frontis. port., illus., t.e.g., v.g.
Reference: +Chapter on "Our American Sisters" and account of a visit to the "Thompson-Setons," in Cos Cob, CT.
Price: $35.


Author: Barnes, Mrs. Frances J., Ed.:
Title: WCTU Y ALMANAC 1902.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1902.
Description: Orig. pict. embossed wrps., frontis. port. of Frances Willard, 72, many photo-illus.
Price: $25.


Author: Beach, (Minta Asha Philips) Mrs. David:
Title: MY WALK FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO.
Imprint : N.Y.: Beach Publishing Co.,
Date: n.d. (ca. 1912).
Description: Ed.1, (prob. pvt. ptd.), orig. cl. soiled, some cover dampstains, frontis. port., vii, 194, illus., may lack one plate, a good, sound copy.
Reference: +1,071 mile walk in 42-1/2 days, the object of which was to prove that hard labor can be performed on the most radical non-meat diet.
Price: $35.


Author: Berry, Elizabeth Robbins:
Title: CLARA BARTON. "The Angel of the Battlefield." By One Who Knew Her.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: 1930.
Description: 4to, orig. card wrps., 21 unnumbered mimeographed leaves, printed rectos only, front cover port. paste-down, stapled.
Reference: +Includes Civil War service.
Price: $30.


Author: Bingham, Millicent Toss:
Title: EMILY DICKINSON- A REVELATION.
Imprint : NY., Harper & Bros. Pub.,
Date: (1954.)
Description: Ed.1, 109, photo-illus., facs., frontis-port., d.j., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Bliss, Eugene F., Ed.] :
Title: IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH HAVEN APPLETON Is Printed This Selection from Her Lectures.
Imprint : Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., Printers,
Date: 1891.
Description: Ed.1, 267, frontis. port., ex-Liby. of Congress with release (small stamps on front blank & verso title), no external marks.
Reference: +Her own school for girls in Cincinnati, 1855-1875; later, Librarian of Hist. & Philos. Soc. of Ohio.
Price: $25.


Author: Bremer, Frederika:
Title: AMERICA OF THE FIFTIES; LETTERS OF FREDRIKA BREMER. Adolph B. Benson, Ed.
Imprint : NY., Amer. Scand. Foundation. London: Humphrey Milford,
Date: 1924.
Description: Ed.1, xx, 344, frontis-port., t.e.g., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Carroll, Mary Bowden:
Title: TEN YEARS IN PARADISE. Leaves from a Society Reporter's Note-Book.
Imprint : (San Jose, Cal.: Press of Popp & Hogan,
Date: 1903).
Description: Ed.1, or. cl. gilt, 212, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Rev. Cowan, p. 107. Santa Clara Valley social life including pastoral times and old ranchos.
Price: $75.


Author: Cavanah, Frances:
Title: JENNY LIND'S AMERICA.
Imprint : NY, London, Chilton Book Co.,
Date: (1969.)
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 227, photo-illis., d.j., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Coe, George Albert:
Title: SADIE KNOWLAND COE. A Chapter in a Life. October 9, 1864-August 24, 1905.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: 1906.
Description: Orig. parchment-covered bds., pvt. ptd., 108, port., inner margins little stained, uncut, t.e.g.
Reference: +Pianist, music teacher, Alameda, CA., 1864-1885, educated in Boston, L.A., Berlin, and taught in Evanston, Illinois.
Price: $30.


Author: Coleman, Sara Lindsay:
Title: WIND OF DESTINY.
Imprint : Garden City, N.Y.,
Date: 1916.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 125, 1/2 vellum bds., 111, bds. some soiled, good.
Reference: +Contains letters of O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) in addition to the author's reminiscences.
Price: $100.


Author: Dana, Daniel:
Title: DISCOURSE...May 22, 1804, Before the Members of the FEMALE CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF NEWBURYPORT, Organized June 8, 1803.
Imprint : Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt,
Date: 1804.
Description: 27p., uncut, stitched.
Reference: +A.I. 6112, loc. 3c.
Price: $45.


Author: DeChambrun, Clara Longworth:
Title: SHADOWS LENGTHEN. The Story of My Life.
Imprint : NY.: Chas. Scribner's Sons,
Date: 1949.
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 296, photo-illus., v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Dewes, Simon:
Title: MARIAN. The Life of George Eliot.
Imprint : London. Rich & Cown, Ltd.,
Date: (1939.)
Description: Ed.1, ix, 299, frontis-port., pvt. bk pl.,
Price: $35.


Author: Dodge, Mary Abigail]:
Title: WOMAN'S WRONGS: A COUNTER-IRRITANT. By GAIL HAMILTON.
Imprint : Boston: Ticknor and Fields,
Date: 1868.
Description: Ed.1, orig. green cl. gilt, (iv), 212, fine.
Reference: +B.A.L. 4717, 3d ptg. listed, with Publisher's list on p. (ii).
Price: $100.


Author: Ferry, Abby Farwell:
Title: WHEN I WAS AT FARMINGTON.
Imprint : Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour,
Date: (1931.)
Description: Orig. 1/2-cl. bds., 296, illus.
Reference: +Sarah Porter and her educational work, with portraits and reminiscences of many of her girls, friends, and admirers, including Jane Addams, Mark Twain, John T. McCutcheon and others.
Price: $30.


Author: First, Ruth and Ann Scott:
Title: OLIVE SCHREINER.
Imprint : NY.: Schocken Books,
Date: (1980.)
Description: Ed.1, 383, illus., maps, Notes, Bibliog. of Schreiner, Index, dj. F/F
Price: $20.


Author: Fuller, Anna:
Title: PEAK AND PRAIRIE. From a Colorado Sketch-Book.
Imprint : N.Y. & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press,
Date: 1894.
Description: Ed.1, 1st issue, orig. gilt-dec. cl., v, (iii), 391, slightly shaken, sl. spinewear, a good, clean copy.
Reference: +Wright: AMER. FICTION 2067. Short stories about mining and ranching.
Price: $35.


Author: Gipson, Richard McCandless:
Title: THE LIFE OF EMMA THURSBY.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1940.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 2,000, xxii, 470, ports., illus., INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Reference: +Concert singer compared by some to Jenny Lind.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [DOLLS]
Author: Golding, Amy Thomas:
Title: MINIATURE TRAVELERS.
Imprint : Francestown, NH.,
Date: (1956.)
Description: Ed.1, 160, many illus., facs., d.j.
Reference: +Dolls, many historical.
Price: $30.


Author: Gould, Elizabeth Porter:
Title: ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN.
Imprint : Phila.,
Date: (1900.)
Description: Ed.1, 89, frontis. port., news clipping of Horace Traubel laid in, fine.
Price: $50.


Author: Grant, Genevieve Grahame]:
Title: GENEVIEVE GRAHAME GRANT. (Writings, Letters, Memorials.)
Imprint : Chicago: Lakeside Press,
Date: 1895.
Description: Ed.1, full vellum, soiled, small spine snag, 138, two portraits, uncut, t.e.g., v.g.
Reference: +Mrs. Grant knew many persons prominent in the fine arts, music, drama, and, among her Writings were articles on J. L. Motley, Gen. P. De Trobriand, Marie Bashkirtseff, and Emily Crawford.
Price: $45.


Author: Gratz, Rebecca:
Title: LETTERS OF REBECCA GRATZ. Ed., with Intro. & Notes by Rabbi David Philipson, D.D.
Imprint : Phila.: Jewish Pub. Soc. of America,
Date: 1929,
Description: Ed.1, xxiv, 454, frontis.-port., index.
Reference: +Rebecca Gratz is generally thought to have been the original of the famous Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's IVANHOE, described to Scott by Washington Irving, intimate friend of the Gratz family.
Price: $35.


Author: Green, Harry Clinton and Mary Wolcott Green:
Title: PIONEER MOTHERS OF AMERICA...Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.
Imprint : N.Y. & London,
Date: (1912.)
Description: 3 vols., orig. buckram gilt, xix, 485; ix, 452; x, 579, illus., Index, little cover soil, stains, marginal dampstains on a few leaves in vol.2, a good set.
Price: $75.


Author: Hale, Nancy:
Title: DAUGHTER OF ABOLITIONISTS.
Imprint : Northampton, MA.: Smith College, April,
Date: 1964.
Description: Ptd. wrps., frontis., 15, facs. (The Sophia Smith Collection).
Price: $15.


Author: [Higginson, Thomas W.]:
Title: LETTER TO A YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR.
Imprint : Boston: (in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY),
Date: April, 1862.
Description: Complete issue in orig. ptd. wrps., pp. 401-411.
Reference: +Earliest critical analysis of Emily Dickinson.
Price: $45.


Author: Hobart, Garret A.:
Title: MEMORIES.
Imprint : Carroll Hall, (Mt. Vernon, NY.: Wm. E. Rudge),
Date: 1930.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 300, pvt. ptd., (vi), 89, frontis. port., illus., uncut, spine faded, few minor cover spots.
Reference: +By the wife of Vice-Pres. Hobart.
Price: $45.


Author: Holloway, Laura C.:
Title: THE WOMAN'S STORY as told by TWENTY AMERICAN WOMEN with Portraits, and Sketches of the Authors.
Imprint : New York: John B. Alden, Publisher,
Date: 1889.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., v, 541, 19 ports., pvt. name in ink on endp., one signature sl. pulled, or v.g.
Reference: +With selections by & sketches of H.B. Stowe ("Uncle Lot"), H.P. Spofford, R.H. Davis, E.D. Proctor, M. Holley, Nora Perry, A.E. Wilson, L.C. Moulton, C. Thaxter, S.J. Lippincott, A.G. Woolson, M.J. Holmes, M.E. Sangster, O.T. Miller, Eliz. W. Champney, Julia C.R. Dorr, Marion Harland, L.M. Alcott ("Transplanted Wild Oats"), E.W. Wilcox, & Rose T. Cooke. Wright 3206; B.A.L. 14661 (Moulton).
Price: $35.


Author: Hooker, Kenneth Ward, et al:
Title: SUSAN HUNTINGTON HOOKER. A MEMOIR.
Imprint : New York,
Date: MCMLII.
Description: Ed.1, pvt. ptd., (8), 92, col. frontis. port., ills., v.g.
Reference: +Huntingtons and Hookers in Rochester, Civil War service in MIssouri Vols. (Engineers), Vicksburg, Atlanta, life in FL., family stories, poetry.
Price: $45.


Author: Howe, M. A. Dewolfe, Ed.:
Title: THE ARTICULATE SISTERS. Passages From Journals and Letters of the Daughters of Pres. Josiah Quincy of Harvard U.
Imprint : Cambridge: Harvard U. Press,
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, 249, photo-illus., frontis-port., pvt. name in ink, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: James, George Wharton:
Title: THROUGH RAMONA'S COUNTRY.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: 1909. (Pub. Nov., 1908.)
Description: Orig. cl., xi, 406, (2), profusely illus., some foxing, v.g. in wn. dj., pvt. ink inscription dated Christmas Eve, 1908, on endpaper.
Reference: +With much on Ramona, California Missions, and comments on Helen H. Jackson's "RAMONA."
Price: $25.


Author: Jones, Mary Harris]:
Title: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER JONES. Edited by Mary Field Parton, Intro. by Clarence Darrow.
Imprint : Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 242, frontis. port., + three pls., v.g.
Reference: +One of the most forceful leaders of the American labor movement for 50 years, she was in Pittsburgh during the labor riots of 1877, Chicago at the Haymarket riots of 1886, and Birmingham during the American Railway Union strike of 1894; also, coal mine strikes, Cripple Creek (CO.) strike, and more.
Price: $100.


Author:
Title: LAMPS ON THE PRAIRIE. A History of Nursing in Kansas.
Imprint : Emporia, KS.,
Date: 1942.
Description: W.P.A., Ed.1, 292, illus., Index.
Price: $35.


Author: [Kenrick, William]:
Title: THE WHOLE DUTY OF WOMAN; Comprised in the following sections: Introduction, Curiosity, Reflection, Vanity, &c., &c. By a Lady. Written at the Desire of a Nobleman.
Imprint : New-York: Published by William Borradaile. Hoyt & Bolmore, printers.
Date: 1821.
Description: 32mo, disbound, 14 cm., 75p., name clipped from top margins of title & 1/2 title.
Reference: +AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5753, loc. four copies.
Price: $75.


Author: Lawrence, Frieda:
Title: FRIEDA LAWRENCE. The Memoirs and Correspondence. Ed. by E. W. Tedlock, Jr.
Imprint : NY.: Alfred A. Knopf,
Date: 1964.
Description: First American Ed., xix, (iii), 481, x (Index), illus., lower corners bumped, d.j., v.g.
Reference: +Wife of D. H. Lawrence and sister of the "Red Baron," W.W.I German flying ace.
Price: $35.


Author: Lawrence, Margaret:
Title: THE SCHOOL OF FEMININITY. A Book For and About Women As they Are Interpreted Through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1936.
Description: Ed.1, xii, 382, ports.
Price: $30.


Author: Livermore, Mary A.:
Title: THE STORY OF MY LIFE or The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years.
Imprint : Hartford, CT.,
Date: 1897.
Description: Ed.1, orig. red cl. gilt, 730, (iv, advts.), 122 pls., bright copy, slight wear, v.g.
Price: $50.


Author: Lovell, Mary S.:
Title: THE SOUND OF WINGS. The Life of Amelia Earhart.
Imprint : NY.: St. Martin's Press,
Date: (1989.)
Description: Ed.1, xxv, 421, photo-illus., map, Notes, Index, map endpapers, d.j., good.
Reference:
Price: $20.


Author: Mackall, S. Somervell:
Title: EARLY DAYS OF WASHINGTON. Illustrated by 75 Engravings from Photographs (with Few Exceptions) by the Author.
Imprint : Washington: The Neale Company,
Date: (1899.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, 328, illus. (lacks one plate: of C. & O. Canal), with 3p. ALS. OF AUTHOR tipped-in, on genealogy, sending this book, with author's inscribed calling card tipped-in, back inner hinge cracked, but firm; some notes and underlining in pencil on Wash., D.C., probably by the recipient, Mrs. Browning, good.
Reference: +Krick: NEALE BOOKS 307.
Price: $125.


Author: MacLeish, Archibald:
Title: THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY.
Imprint : Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1965.
Description: Ed.1, 1st ptg. R, (8), 101, ports., many photo-illus., fine.
Price: $20.


Author: MacPhern, Geraldine:
Title: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF ANNA JAMESON. By her Niece.
Imprint : Boston: Roberts Bros.,
Date: 1878.
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 362, frontis-port., Index, lower corners bumped, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Maverick, Mary Ann:
Title: MEMOIRS OF MARY A. MAVERICK arranged by Mary A. Maverick and her son Geo. Madison Maverick. Edited by Rena Maverick Green.
Imprint : San Antonio, Texas: Alamo Printing Co.,
Date: 1921.
Description: Ed.1, first issue, orig. pict. ptd. wrps., 136, many illus., slight wear at spine tips, v.g.
Reference: +Howes M 443. "First woman from the States to settle in San Antonio." Adams HERD 460.
Price: $125.


Author: McKee, Ruth Karr:
Title: MARY RICHARDSON WALKER: HER BOOK. The Third White Woman to Cross the Rockies.
Imprint : Caldwell, ID.: Caxton Printers,
Date: 1945.
Description: Ed.1, 357, frontis.-port., illus., v.g., dj. some worn.
Price: $65.


Author: Mead, Margaret:
Title: MALE AND FEMALE. A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: (1949.)
Description: Ed.1, vi, (3)-477, bibliog., indices, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Means, Marianne:
Title: THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The Lives, Times and Influence of Twelve Notable First Ladies.
Imprint : NY.: Random House.,
Date: (1963.)
Description: Ed.1, 1st ptg., xiii, 299, photo endpapers, gift inscription in ink, d.j., fine
Price: $25.


Author: Megquier, Mary Jane:
Title: APRON FULL OF GOLD. The Letters of _____, from San Francisco, 1849-1936. Ed. by Robert G. Cleland.
Imprint : San Marino: Huntington Library,
Date: 1949,
Description: Ed.1, ix, 99, frontis. port., illus.
Price: $25.


Author: Neel, Joanne Loewe:
Title: MISS IRWIN'S OF PHILADELPHIA. A History of the Agnes Irwin School.
Imprint : Wynnewood, PA.,
Date: (1969.)
Description: Ed.1, 94, photo-illus., fine.
Price: $15.


Author: New York, 20th Century Mfg. Co.:
Title: TO THE VISITORS OF THE AMERICAN GIRL'S SOLID GOLD STATUE, at the "20th Century" Booth In the Machinery and Transportation Building...
Imprint : (N.Y.?), 20th Century Mfg. Co., N.Y.,
Date: 1901
Description: folder, 14.5 x 7.6 cm., (4)pp., cut of gold statue (600 lbs.) on cover, ills. of automobile headlights on pp. (3-4).
Reference: +Pan-American Exposition.
Price: $15.


Author: O'Hare, Kate Richards:
Title: IN PRISON. By ______, Sometime Federal Prisoner number 21669.
Imprint : N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf,
Date: 1923.
Description: Ed.1, 211, index, pvt. bkpl., v.g.
Reference: +Prisoners, prisons, and the penal system.
Price: $30.


Author:
Title: GLEANINGS OF FIFTY YEARS. The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary In the Northwest 1859-1909.
Imprint : (Portland, OR.,
Date: 1909).
Description: Ed.1, xvi, 230, illus., pls., little foxing, v.g.
Reference:
Price: $45.


Author: Parke, Adelia Routson:
Title: RAMBLINGS IN RETROSPECT.
Imprint : Fruitland, Idaho,
Date: 1968.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. pict. wrps., 65, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, fine.
Reference: +School-teaching experiences in Idaho.
Price: $25.


Author: Parke, Adelia:
Title: MEMOIRS OF AN OLD TIMER.
Imprint : Weiser, Idaho,
Date: 1955.
Description: Ed.1, orig. ptd. wrps., 65, illus., SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Reference: +Jennewein: BLACK HILLS BOOK-TRAILS, 191. Logging and sawmill operations in Black Hawk in the 1880's. Adams SIX-GUNS 1677. "Much on badmen and lawlessness, including John D. Lee, the Mormon fiend."
Price: $35.


Author: Pryor, Mrs. Roger A.:
Title: THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON AND HER TIMES.
Imprint : NY.: Macmillan Co.,
Date: 1902.
Description: Ed.1, 2nd ptg., orig. col. dec. gilt cl., xiii, 367, (4), frontis.port., ports., photo-illus., t.e.g., uncut, v.g.
Price: $45.


Author: Royce, Sarah:
Title: A FRONTIER LADY. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE GOLD RUSH AND EARLY CALIFORNIA. With a Foreword by Katherine Royce. Ed. by Ralph Henry Gabriel.
Imprint : New Haven: Yale U. Press,
Date: (1933.)
Description: 2d ptg., xiiv, (4), 144, map, pvt. bkpl.
Price: $20.


Author: SARAH PLATT DECKER CHAPTER N.S.D.A.R., Durango, Colorado:
Title: PIONEERS OF THE SAN JUAN COUNTY. Volume IV.
Imprint : Denver,
Date: (1961).
Description: Ptd. wrps. sl. worn., 227, illus., some from orig. photos (pp. 15-22).
Reference: +Pioneers, Indians, San Juan Co. history, other topics.
Price: $30.


Author: Savelle, Max:
Title: THIS IS MY AMERICA. Pauline Dworzek and the Dworzek and Lorber Families.
Imprint : (Stanford, Ca.): Stanford U.,
Date: (1948),
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 150, orig. cl.-backed pattern-paper over bds., printed on Oxbow rag paper, xi, 43, port., lith. illus., Coat-of-Arms, v.g.
Reference: +San Francisco school-teacher left Stanford U. $140,000., the result of life-time labors of many of her family.
Price: $50.


Author: Schreiner, Olive:
Title: WOMAN AND LABOR:
Imprint : NY., Fred'k A Stokes Co.,
Date: (1911.)
Description: Ed.1, 299, shaken, corners bumped.
Price: $40.


Author: Shaw, Anna Howard, D.D., M.D.:
Title: THE STORY OF A PIONEER.
Imprint : NY., Harper & Bros.,
Date: (1915.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. little worn, 337, photo-illus., frontis-port., pvt. name in ink, uncut, t.e.g., gilt, spine faded.
Price: $30.


Author: Smith, Erwin F.:
Title: FOR HER FRIENDS AND MINE: A Book of Aspirations, Dreams and Memories.
Imprint : Washington, D.C.: (Press of Gibson Bros., Inc.),
Date: 1915.
Description: 4to, Ed.1, Privately Printed, Ltd. to 510 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper, vellum-backed paper-covered bds., In Memory of Charlotte May Buffett, Sometime Wife of Erwin F. Smith, Signed by the author, photogravure port., 379, (2), 13 text cuts, uncut, v.g.
Reference: +With brief diary excerpts, 12 Odes & Songs, 197 Sonnets, 32 Translations from German, 26 from French & Italian.
Price: $50.


Author: Stevenson, Victoria Faber:
Title: ETTA JOSSELYN GIFFIN, Pioneer Librarian for the Blind.
Imprint : Wash., D.C.: National Library for the Blind,
Date: 1959.
Description: Ed.1, xiii, 162, frontis. port.
Price: $20.


Author: Strahorn, Carrie Adell:
Title: FIFTEEN THOUSAND MILES BY STAGE. A Woman's Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico.
Imprint : N.Y. & London,
Date: 1911.
Description: Ed.1, xxv, (iii), 673, 350 Illus. from Drawings by Charles M. Russell, et al, and from Photos, front cover paste-on illus. of galloping horses pulling stagecoach, front cover spots at upper right, and small, light, upper corner dampstains on last 50 pages, gift inscriptions on front blank in ink, t.e.g., good.
Reference: +Howes S-1054. Yost & Renner 25. Travels by stage and horse in the West, British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii. Adams HERD 2180.
Price: $375.


Author: Summerhayes, Martha:
Title: VANISHED ARIZONA. Recollections of Army Life.
Imprint : Chicago: Lakeside Press,
Date: 1939.
Description: Orig. cl., 337, illus., fldg. map, Index.
Reference: +Howes S-1132, Lakeside Classic ed. of an excellent account of army life and Indian fighting in the 1870's on the Arizona frontier.
Price: $25.


Author: Van Doren, Dorothy, Ed.:
Title: THE LOST ART. Letters of Seven Famous Women.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, xv, 346, facsimiles, bkpl., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Walters, Madge Hardin:
Title: EARLY DAYS AND INDIAN WAYS. The Journal of _____. Intro. by M. R. Harrington.
Imprint : L.A.: Westernlore Press,
Date: (1956.)
Description: Ed.1, 254, d.j.
Reference: +One of the largest dealers in Navajo rugs, friend of Navajos, Sioux, and other western tribes.
Price: $45.


Author: White, Elizabeth Nicholson:
Title: MARY BROWNE. The True Life and Times of the Daughter of Mr. John Browne, Gent., Commissioner of the United Colonies of New England; The Wife of the Worshipful Thomas Willett, Merchant, Captain and Governor's Assistant of New Plymouth, First English Mayor of New York. The Beginning of our United States of America and the Important Part Played by the Merchants. Strung together from Histories and Records by ______.
Imprint : (Providence, R. I.,
Date: c.1935.)
Description: Ed.1, Privately Printed for the Author by the Roger Williams Press, (viii), 266, photo-frontis. tipped in, uncut, PRES. COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, bkpl. removed, v.g.
Reference: +Based on research, but includes supposed conversation.
Price: $75.


Author: Wisbey, Herbert A., Jr.:
Title: PIONEER PROPHETESS. Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend.
Imprint : Ithaca, NY.: Cornell U. Press,
Date: (1964.)
Description: Ed.1, xiv, (ii), 232, ports., illus., drawings, Bibliog., Index, PRES. COPY, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, fine in little worn & soiled dj.
Price: $30.


Author: Woodcock, George:
Title: THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA. A Study of Mrs. Aphra Behn.
Imprint : London, NY., T.V.Boardman & Co.,
Date: (1948.)
Description: Ed.1, 248, photo-illus., frontis-port., Index, d.j., v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Woodward, Helen:
Title: THE LADY PERSUADERS.
Imprint : NY.: Ivan Obolensky, Inc.
Date: (1960.)
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl., (10), 189 (1), illus., fine in v.g. dj.
Reference: +Story of over 100 years of women's magazines, Sara J. Hale to Dr. Spock.
Price: $15.


Author: Woolley, Mary E., President of Mount Holyoke College:
Title: LIDA SHAW KING. An Appreciation.
Imprint : (Boston: The Merrymount Press,
Date: November, 1923.)
Description: Ed.1, Privately Printed, by D. B. Updike, ltd. to 650, (6), 12, engr. port., or. half-cl. bds., uncut.
Reference: +Educator and Dean of Women's College in Brown University.
Price: $30.

Wantagh Rare Book Company

 
             Name:
   Street Address:
             City:   State:
          Country:     Zip:
     Phone Number:
    Email Address:

  Type of Request: Order    More information 

        Specifics: