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Author: Adams, Abigail:
Title: NEW LETTERS OF ABIGAIL ADAMS, 1788-1801. Ed. with Intro. by Stewart Mitchell.
Imprint : Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xlii, 281pp., port., photo-illus., Bibliog., Genealogy, Index, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Addams, Jane:
Title: A CENTENNIAL READER.
Imprint : NY.: Macmillan Co.,
Date: 1960.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xix, 330pp., F/G.
Price: $15.


Author: Andrews, Marietta Minnigerode:
Title: SCRAPS OF PAPER.
Imprint : NY.: E.P. Dutton & Co.,
Date: (1929).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xv, 381pp., port., facs., photo-illus., illus., F/G.
Price: $135.


Author: Atkins, Elizabeth:
Title: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY & HER TIMES.
Imprint : Chicago: U. Chicago Press,
Date: (1936).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xiii, 266pp., INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Index, spine sl. faded, v.g., dj. fair only.
Price: $30.


Author: Atkinson, Caroline P., Ed.:
Title: LETTERS OF SUSAN HALE. Intro. by Edward E. Hale.
Imprint : Boston: Marshall Jones Co.,
Date: MDCCCXIX. (c.1918.)
Description: Orig. gilt cl., 2d ptg., xx, 483pp., Index, ports., illus., t.e.g., uncut, v.g.
Reference: +With letters from foreign & U.S. travels (California, Chicago, &c.).
Price: $25.


Author: Barclay, Olive Jennings:
Title: THE CAPTAIN AND HIS GENERAL.
Imprint : NY., Vantage Press,
Date: (1956).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 154pp., INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, minor cover stains, good
Reference: +Commentary on travels with her husband, Capt. A.C. Barclay, a retired Canadian Army Officer, to NC, SC, TX, MS., AL, GA., NY, IN, NV, UT, TN, CA, FL, NJ, OK, IA, IL.
Price: $20.


Author: Barrie, (Sir) J(ames) M(atthew):
Title: MARGARET OGILVY By Her Son.
Imprint : NY.: Charles Scribner's Sons, (Cambridge: University Press, John Wilson & Son, U.S.A.),
Date: 1896.
Description: First Amer. Ed., 12mo, orig. dec. boards gilt, 6 p.l., 207pp., frontis.-port. w/tissue-guard, t.e.g., uncut, pvt. gift inscription in ink, v.g.
Reference: +Garland 26.
Price: $25.


Author: Bigland, Eileen:
Title: THE INDOMITABLE MRS. TROLLOPE.
Imprint : NY., J.B. Lippincott co.,
Date: 1954.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 255pp., port., Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $10.


State, Area: Title ANCESTOR'S BROCADES: The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson.
Author: Imprint NY & London, Harper & Bros. Pub.,
Title: Date 1945.
Imprint : Description Ed.1, orig. cl., ix, 464pp., photo-illus., facs., Appendices, Index, uncut, F/G.
Date: Price $25.
Description: Reference
Reference: Location V-BW17,11/98; c.2-V-138,12/98 (Dj. quite worn at spine, repaired), $25.
Price: Sold f


Author: Birkenhead, Sheila:
Title: AGAINST OBLIVION. The Life of Joseph Severn.
Imprint : London: Cassell & Co. Ltd.,
Date: (1943.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 244pp., port., photo-illus., corners bumped, little worn, good.
Reference: +J. Keats' friend, who cared for him during his last illness.
Price: $15.


Author: Bonstelle, Jessie & Marian DeForest, Selected by:
Title: LITTLE WOMEN LETTERS FROM THE HOUSE OF ALCOTT.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: 1914.
Description: Ed.1, orig. pict. cl. gilt, ix, 197pp., pvt. name in ink, F/dj. worn.
Price: $35.


Author: Bosanquet, Theodora:
Title: HARRIET MARTINEAU. An Essay in Comprehension.
Imprint : London: Fred'k Etchells & Hugh Macdonald.
Date: MCMXXVII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xi, 256pp., port., Notes, Bibliog., order head of spine bumped, or v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Bronte, Charlotte.
Title: JANE EYRE.
Imprint : NY., Random House,
Date: 1943.
Description: First of this Ed., 4to, cl.-backed pict. boards, 2 p.l., 343pp., illus. by Fritz Eichenberg, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Brown, Alice;
Title: LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.
Imprint : NY.: Macmillan Co.,
Date: 1921.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., (4), 111pp., port., uncut, VG/G.
Price: $45.


Author: Callan, Louise:
Title: PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE. Frontier Missionaary of the Sacred Heart. 1769-1852. Intro. by Joseph E. Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis.
Imprint : Westminster, MD., Newman Press,
Date: 1965.
Description: Abridged Ed., cl., xii, 504pp., port., illus., facs., ex-library (no outer markings), v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Carson, Rachel L.
Title: THE SEA AROUND US
Imprint : NY., Oxford U. Press,
Date: 1951.
Description: 16th ptg., orig. cl., vii, 230pp., charts, map & dec. endpapers Index, pvt. names in ink, VG/VG.
Price: $15.


Author: Chase, Mary Ellen:
Title: ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER.
Imprint : NY., MacMillan Co.,
Date: 1950.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 159pp., port., photo-illus., edges bumped, good in d.j.
Price: $10.


Author: Cherryman, Myrtle Koon :
Title: MOTHER GOOSE MEDDLINGS. A Few Fables.
Imprint : Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Date: 1909.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. buckram, 72pp., v.g.
Reference: +A new look at old fables.
Price: $15.


Author: Chester, Giraud:
Title: EMBATTLED MAIDEN. The Life of Anna Dickinson. The Dramaatic Story of the Joan of Arc of the Civil War.
Imprint : NY.: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Date: (1951).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xi, 307pp., port., photo-illus., illus., Index, F/G.
Price: $20.


Author: Chiang, Mayling Soong. (Mm. Chiang Kai-shek.)
Title: WE CHINESE WOMEN. Speeches & Writings During the First United Nations Year. Feb. 12, 1942-Nov. 16, 1942.
Imprint : NY., John Day Co.,
Date: n.d. (ca. 1943?)
Description: Ed.1, cl., v, 55pp., VG/G.
Price: $20.


Author: Cole, Margaret:
Title: BEATRICE WEBB.
Imprint : NY., Harcourt, Brace,
Date: (1946).
Description: 1st Amer. ed., orig. cl., vi, 229pp., port., photo-illus., Index, v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley:
Title: ANNIE OAKLEY. Woman At Arms. A Biography.
Imprint : NY., Duffield & Co.,
Date: 1927.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 271pp., port., photo-illus., back inner hinge repaired, or v.g.
Reference: +Famed markswoman with rifle & shotgun, Wild West shows, Buffalo Bill Cody, Frank Butler, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull.
Price: $75.


Author: Cooper, Kent:
Title: ANNA ZENGER. Mother of Freedom.
Imprint : NY.: Farrar, & Co.,
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., spine faded, 345pp., v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Crompton, Margaret:
Title: GEORGE ELIOT. The Woman.
Imprint : NY. & London: Thos. Yoseloff,
Date: (1960).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, x, 214pp., port., photo-illus., Index, v.g. in taped dj.
Price: $15.


Author: Daiches, David:
Title: WILLA CATHER. A Critical Introduction.
Imprint : NY.: Cornell U. Press,
Date: (1951).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, vi, 193pp., Index, d.j.
Price: $15.


Author: Davis, Harriet Eager:
Title: ELMIRA. The Girl Who Loved Edgar Allen Poe.
Imprint : Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1966.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 137pp., illus., PRESENTATION SIGNED BY AUTHOR, d.j., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Davis, Herbert:
Title: STELLA. A Gentlewoman of the Eighteenth Century.
Imprint : NY., Macmillan Co.,
Date: 1942.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, ix, 103pp., F/VG.
Price: $25.


Author: De La Rocheterie, Maxine:
Title: THE LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. Translated from French by Cora Hamilton Bell.
Imprint : NY., Dodd, Mead & Co.,
Date: 1906. (c.1893).
Description: Orig. gilt cloth with color portrait cover paste-on, framed in gilt, (xx), 354pp., frontis.-port.; (Pt.2), 5 p.l. (Contents), 354pp., Index, t.e.g., pvt. name in ink on fr. endp., fine.
Price: $30.


Author: Dorr, Rheta Childe:
Title: SUSAN B. ANTHONY. The Woman Who Changed the Mind of a Nation.
Imprint : NY.: F.A. Stokes Co.,
Date: MCMXXVIII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xiii, 367pp., port., photo-illus., Index, dec. endpapers, t.e.g., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Fineman, Irving:
Title: WOMAN OF VALOR. The Life of Henrietta Szold.
Imprint : NY., Simon & Schuster,
Date: 1961.
Description: Ed.1, cl-backed bds., 448pp., photo-illus., uncut, lower corners slightly bumped, d.j., fine.
Price: $15.


Author: Freud, Anna
Title: THE EGO AND THE MECHANISMS OF DEFENSE. Translated from the German by Cecil Baines.
Imprint : Imprint NY.: International Universities Press, Inc.,
Date: 1946
Description: First Amer. Ed., orig. cl., x, 196pp., Index, v.g. in edge-worn dj.
Price: $50.


Author: Gale, Zona:
Title: WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL.
Imprint : NY., MacMillan Co.,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., ix, 390pp., illus., INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, small tear at head of spine, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Gifford, Margaret Jeune:
Title: PAGES FROM THE DIARY OF AN OXFORD LADY. 1843-1862.
Imprint : Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press,
Date: 1932.
Description: Ed.1, cl.-backed bds., 4 p.l., 141pp., uncut, corners bumped, back cover little warped, good in fair dj.
Price: $35.


Author: Gladstone, Mary:
Title: MARY GLADSTONE (MRS. DREW) HER DIARIES & LETTERS. Edited by Lucy Masterman.
Imprint : NY., E.P. Dutton Inc.,
Date: (1930?).
Description: Orig. gilt cl., few small cover spots, (1st Amer. Ed.?), xix, 292pp., 39 photo-illus., frontis-port., good.
Price: $20.


Author: Glasgow, Ellen:
Title: A CERTAIN MEASURE. An Interpretation of Prose Fiction.
Imprint : NY., Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
Date: (1943).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, viii, 272pp., Bibliography of her works (annotated), v.g., dj. some worn & repaired.
Reference: +The last book published before the author's death, discussing her own writings in detail.
Price: $25.


Author: Gunn, Peter:
Title: MY DEAREST AUGUSTA. A Biography of Augusta Leigh, Lord Byron's Half-sister.
Imprint : NY., Atheneum,
Date: 1968.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 272pp., port., fldg. genealogical chart, photo-illus., facs., Index, fine in repaired dj .
Price: $15.


Author: Hall, Florence Howe:
Title: JULIA WARD HOWE AND THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. A Selection From Her Speeches & Essays. Intro. & Notes By Her Daughter.
Imprint : Boston: Dana Estes & Co.,
Date: (1913).
Description: Orig. cl. gilt, 241pp., corners little bumped, good.
Price: $45.


Author: Harding, Bertita:
Title: AMAZON THRONE. The Story of The Braganzas of Brazil.
Imprint : NY.: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,
Date: (c.1941).
Description: Orig. cl. gilt, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 353pp., port., photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, corners bumped, spine extremities worn & some frayed, good.
Price: $25.


Author: Harris, Corra:
Title: MY BOOK AND HEART.
Imprint : NY.: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1924.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 318pp., port., illus. by Frederic R. Gruger, pvt. name in ink, lower corners little bumped, good.
Price: $30.


Author: Hopkins, Mary Alden:
Title: HANNAH MORE AND HER CIRCLE.
Imprint : NY., Longmans, Green & Co.,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, cl., xv, 274pp., photo-illus., frontis.-port., pvt. name in ink, uncut., Index, F/G.
Price: $15.


Author: Hopkirk, Edith: Trans.
Title: FROM MEMORY'S SHRINE. The Reminiscences of Carmen Sylva. (H.M. Queen Eliz. of Roumania.) Translated from the German, by her former Secretary." VALUE=" Sylva. (H.M. Queen Eliz. of Roumania.) Translated from the German, by her former Secretary.
Imprint : Phila., J.B. Lippincott Co.,
Date: 1911
Description: First Amer. Ed., orig. cl. gilt, 270pp., photo-illus., frontis-port., gilt, t.e.g., fine.
Price: $100.


Author: Hurst, Fannie:
Title: ANATOMY OF ME. An Autobiography.
Imprint : NY.: Doubleday,
Date: 1958.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 367pp., fine in worn d.j
Price: $15.


Author: Jackson, S. Trevena:
Title: FANNY CROSBY'S STORY OF NINETY-FOUR YEARS.
Imprint : NY., Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Co.,
Date: (1915).
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl., 192, (6)pp., port., photo-illus., v.g.
Reference: +Blind hymn writer.
Price: $30.


Author: Jacob, H. E.:
Title: THE WORLD OF EMMA LAZARUS. The Life of the 19th-Century Poetess Whose Immortal Lines Are Enshrined on the Pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
Imprint : NY.: Schocken Books,
Date: (1949).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 222pp., port., Index, VG/G.
Price: $20.


Author: Jenkins, Elizabeth:
Title: ELIZABETH THE GREAT.
Imprint : NY., Coward-McCann, INc.,
Date: (1959).
Description: 1st Amer. Ed., cl., 336pp., photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, pvt. bkpl., v.g in worn d.j.
Price: $15.


Author: Josephson, Hannah:
Title: THE GOLDEN THREADS. New England's Mill Girls & Magnates.
Imprint : NY., Duell, Sloan & Pearce.,
Date: (1949).
Description: Ed.1, cl., ix, 325pp., Biblio., Bibliog., Index, some cover damp stains, good.
Price: $15.


Author: Katzman, David M.:
Title: SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America.
Imprint : NY.: Oxford U. Press,
Date: 1978.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xviii, 374pp., illus., Notes, Bibliog., Index, VG/VG.
Price: $15.


Author: Keller, Helen:
Title: OPTIMISM. An Essay By Helen Keller, Author of "The Story of My Life."
Imprint : N.Y.: T. W. Crowell & Co., (D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston),
Date: Mdcccciii.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, 75 (1)pp., dampstains on final two leaves, not affecting text, or v.g.
Price: $30.


Author: Lazenby, Elizabeth:
Title: IRELAND - A CATSPAW.
Imprint : NY., Charter Pub. Co.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, x, 246pp., dj., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Lee, Agnes:
Title: UNDER ONE ROOF.
Imprint : Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour,
Date: n.d.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xii, 184pp., port., v.g.
Reference: +Poetry chosen from six previous books by the author (listed), the latest dated 1931,
Price: $30.


Author: Longworth, Alice Roosevelt.
Title: CROWDED HOURS. Reminiscences.
Imprint : NY.: Chas. Scribner's Sons,
Date: MCMXXXIII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, spine faded, vi, 355pp., photo-illus., facs., uncut, Index, v.g.
Reference: +Theo. Roosevelt's daughter.
Price: $15.


Author: Lossing, Benson J.:
Title: MARY AND MARTHA, The Mother and the Wife of GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Imprint : NY.: Harper & Brothers,
Date: 1886.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt-dec. cl., spine extremities some worn, xx, 348pp., (4p., advts.), a.e.g., illus. by facsimiles of Pen-and Ink Drawings by H. Rosa, good to v.g.
Reference: +Includes Christmas at Mt. Vernon.
Price: $40.


Author: Lubbock, Percy:
Title: PORTRAIT OF EDITH WHARTON.
Imprint : NY.: Appleton-Century-Croft, Inc.,
Date: (1947).
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl., vii, 249pp., Index, v.g. in order little worn dj.
Price: $30.


Author: Lucas, Robert:
Title: FRIEDA LAWRENCE. The Story of Frieda von Richthofen & D. H. Lawrence.
Imprint : NY., Viking Press,
Date: (1973).
Description: 1st Amer. Ed., cl., 308pp., photo-illus., Index, v.g. in good d.j.
Reference: +Sister of "The Red Baron," with residence in New Mexico, friend of artists & literary figures.
Price: $20.


Author: MacNair, Harley Farnsworth: Ed., with Preface:
Title: FLORENCE AYSCOUGH & AMY LOWELL. Correspondence of a Friendship.
Imprint : Chicago: U. Chicago Press,
Date: (1945).
Description: Ed.1, cl., 289pp., port., photo-illus., diagram, map endpapers, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Mansfield, Katherine:
Title: THE SCRAPBOOK OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD. Ed. by J. Middleton Murry.
Imprint : NY.: A.A. Knopf,
Date: 1940.
Description: ADVANCE REVIEW COPY of Ed.1, brown paper wrappers with typed title label pasted on cover with printed INSTRUCTIONS for the reviewer, viii, 3-280pp., printed rectos only, with one legal size full page advt. for "Old Wellington Days," by Pat Lawlor about the order birthplace of K. Mansfield, v.g.
Price: $75.


Author: Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia.
Title: A PRINCESS IN EXILE.
Imprint : NY., Viking Press,
Date: MCMXXXII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, xii, 306pp., port., photo-illus., uncut, worn spine, map endpapers, Index, SIGNED BY GRAND DUCHESS MARIE, pvt. owner's name in ink, first few leaves foxed incl. port., corners bumped, good.
Price: $50.


Author: Marks, Geoffrey & Wm. K Beatty:
Title: WOMEN IN WHITE. Their Roles as Doctors Through the Ages.
Imprint : NY.: Chas. Scribner's Sons,
Date: (1972).
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., 239pp., photo-illus., Notes, Bibliog., Index, VG/VG.
Price: $15.


Author: McAllister, Anna:
Title: ELLEN EWING. Wife of General Sherman.
Imprint : NY., Benziger Bros.,
Date: 1936.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl. (small tear at head of spine), xiv, 379pp., port., photo-illus., facs., Index, good.
Reference: +With genealogy, early California life, Civil War, Notre Dame and the Chicago Sanitary Fair, her petition of Pres. Lincoln, &c.
Price: $35.


Author: McMillan, Margaret:
Title: THE LIFE OF RACHEL McMILLAN.
Imprint : London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.,
Date: 1927.
Description: Ed.1, cl., xii, 201pp., port., photo-illus., Index, fine.
Reference: +Pioneer social work, early English Socialist and Women's Suffrage movements, reminiscences of Wm. Morris, Prince Kropotkin, H. M. Hyndman, et al., and work of the Rachel McMillan Open-Air Nursery Schools.
Price: $35.


Author: Meads, Dorothy M., Ed:
Title: DIARY OF LADY MARGARET HOBY 1599-1605.
Imprint : Boston & NY.: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1930.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl.-backed bds., xi, 289pp., 8 pls. (incl. port., facs., maps), Bibliog., Notes, v.g.
Reference: +Earliest diary of an Englishwoman, who lived in the old village of Hackness on river Derwent, now first printed.
Price: $40.


Author: Meigs, Cornelia:
Title: INVINCIBLE LOUISA. The Story of the Author of LITTLE WOMEN.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: 1934.
Description: 5th ptg., cl., 260pp., photo-illus., Index, v.g.
Reference: +Newberry Medal Award in 1934.
Price: $15.


Author: Meyer, Agnes:
Title: OUT OF THESE ROOTS. The Autobiography of An American Woman.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: (1953).
Description: 3d ptg., orig. cl., x, 385pp., port., Index, v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Penzer, N. M.:
Title: POISON-DAMSELS and other essays in FOLKLORE AND ANTHROPOLOGY.
Imprint : London: Privately Printed for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd.,
Date: 1952.
Description: Ed.1, lg. 8vo, orig. cl., (8) 319pp., Bibliog., Notes, Index, VG/VG.
Price: $40.


Author: Philipson, Rabbi David, Ed.
Title: LETTERS OF REBECCA GRATZ.
Imprint : Phila.: Jewish Pub. Soc. of Amer.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, cl., xxiv, 454pp., port., pvt. name pl., Index, good.
Price: $20.


Author: Rainey, Buck:
Title: THOSE FABULOUS SERIAL HEROINES. Their Live and Films. Introductions by Jean Rogers, Carol Forman.
Imprint : Metuchen, NJ & London: Scarecrow Press,
Date: 1990
Description: Ed.1, 4to, orig. cl. gilt, XIV, 523pp., many photo-illus., v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Richards, Laura E.:
Title: LAURA BRIDGMAN. The Story of an Opened Door.
Imprint : NY.: D. Appleton & Co.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, xx, 155pp., port., photo-illus., v.g.
Reference: +Teacher and blind student.
Price: $25.


Author: Robinson, Phyllis C.:
Title: WILLA. The Life of Willa Cather.
Imprint : NY.: Doubleday & Co.,
Date: (1983).
Description: Ed.1, cl.-backed bds., xii, 321pp., photo-illus., genealogical chart, Notes, Bibliog., Index, dj., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor:
Title: ON MY OWN.
Imprint : NY., Harper & Bros Pub.,
Date: (1958).
Description: Ed.1, cl., xii, 241pp., photo-illus., Index, front endpaper corner clipped, or v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Sachs, Emanie:
Title: "THE TERRIBLE SIREN." Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927.
Imprint : NY., Harper & Bros.,
Date: (1928).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl.-backed patterned bds., xiv, 424pp., photo-illus., Bibliography, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Sanborn, Kate:
Title: MEMORIES AND ANECDOTES.
Imprint : NY., G. P. Putnam's Sons,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, cl., viii, 219, (6)pp., port., photo-illus., t.e.g., v.g.
Reference: +Brief account of trip to Alaska in 1899.
Price: $15.


Author: Schmidt, Margaret Fox:
Title: PASSION'S CHILD. The Extraordinary Life of Lady Digby.
Imprint : NY., Hagerstown, S.F., London: Harper & Row,
Date: (1976).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xvi, 268pp., many ports. & illus., Notes, Sources, Index, VG/VG.
Price: $15.


Author: Shackford, Martha Hale, Ph.D., Ed.
Title: WELLESLEY VERSE 1875-1925.
Imprint : NY.: Oxford U. Press,
Date: 1925.
Description: E1st Amer. Ed., 12mo, orig. gilt cl., vii, 194pp., Biographical Notes, Index, Janet Grieg Post's copy, her name in ink & inscribed, "On the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Wellesley College...1925.
Price: $20.


Author: Sherman, Stuart, (Ed.?):
Title: LETTERS TO A LADY IN THE COUNTRY. Together With Her Replies. By Paul and Caroline.
Imprint : NY. & London: Chas. Scribner's Sons,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., xiii, 232pp., uncut, pvt. names in ink on endp., Review Slip laid in, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Sills, Beverly:
Title: BUBBLES. A Self Portrait.
Imprint : NY.: Bobbs-Merrill,
Date: (1976).
Description: Ed.1, cl., 240pp., many photo-illus. (some col.), SIGNED BY AUTHOR, marg. damp stains of last 35 pgs., Index, G/VG.
Price: $20.


Author: Steinheil, Marguerite:
Title: MY MEMOIRS.
Imprint : NY.: Sturgis & Walton Co.,
Date: 1912.
Description: Orig. gilt cloth, spine extremities some worn, 2d ptg., viii, 484pp., port., photo-illus., illus., facs., diagram, Index, t.e.g., uncut, pvt. name in ink.
Reference: +Involved in the supposed murder of Felix Faure, President of France, and a missing valuable necklace.
Price: $20.


Author: Stirling, Monica:
Title: THE FINE AND THE WICKED. The Life and Times of Ouida. (Marie Louise de la Rame.)
Imprint : NY.: Coward-McCann Inc.,
Date: (1958).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 223pp., photo-illus., Bibliog., Index, good, d.j., fine.
Price: $20.


Author: Stokes, George Stewart:
Title: AGNES REPPLIER. Lady of Letters.
Imprint : Phila.: U. PA. Press,
Date: 1949.
Description: 2nd ptg., orig. cl. gilt, xiii, 274pp., port., Notes, Bibliog., Index, VG/G.
Price: $20.


Author: Sutherland, Donald:
Title: GERTRUDE STEIN. A Biography of Her Work.
Imprint : New Haven: Yale U. Press,
Date: (1952).
Description: 2d ptg., orig. bds., lower corners bumped, 218pp., Index, pvt. namestamp & name in ink, good.
Reference:
Price: $15.


Author: Szeps, Berta:
Title: MY LIFE & HISTORY. Transl. by John Sommerfield.
Imprint : NY., Alfred A. Knopf,
Date: 1939.
Description: 1st Amer. ed., orig. cl., xiii, 324pp., port., photo-illus., pvt. bk. pl., F/G.
Price: $30.


Author: Taylor, Robert Lewis:
Title: VESSEL OF WRATH. The Letters & Times of Carry Nation.
Imprint : The New Amer. Library,
Date: (1966).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. bds., 373, (2)pp., photo-illus., Index, VG/VG.
Price: $30.


Author: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (1851-1920):
Title: A WRITER'S RECOLLECTIONS 1856-1900.
Imprint : London: W. Collins Sons,
Date: (1918).
Description: Ed.1, cl., 373pp., (2p. advts.), port., pvt. name in ink, bumped corners, uncut, worn, good.
Reference: +English literature, European travels, literary figures, including Henry James.
Price: $25.


Author: Wheatley, Vera:
Title: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HARRIET MARTINEAU.
Imprint : London: Secker & Warburg,
Date: 1957.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 421pp., photo-illus., port., facs., VG/VG.
Price: $25.


Author: Whitney, Janet:
Title: ABIGAIL ADAMS. America's First Emancipated Woman, Wife and Mother of Presidents, She Shared Revolutionary Turmoil, the Intrique of Diplomacy, and the Weight of the Nation's Greatest Responsibility.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: 1948. (1947).
Description: 4th ptg., orig. cl., xii, 357pp., port., photo-illus., Notes, Sources, Index, map endpapers, small back cover tear, or v.g. in good dj.
Price: $10.


Author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas:
Title: PENELOPE'S POSTSCRIPTS SWITZERLAND; VENICE, WALES; DEVON, HOME.
Imprint : Boston & NY., Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. little soiled, 217pp., col. frontis.-p., lower corners little bumped, or v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Wilcoz, Ella Wheeler
Title: POEMS OF PLEASURE.
Imprint : Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co.,
Date: (1902).
Description: Orig. dec. maroon cl. gilt, 158pp., port., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Wilson, Edith Bolling:
Title: MY MEMOIR.
Imprint : NY., Bobbs-Merrill Co.,
Date: (1939).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 5 p.l., 386pp., frontis.-port., photo-illus., facs., v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Wilson, Forrest:
Title: CRUSADER IN CRINOLINE. The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Imprint : NY.: J.B. Lippincott Co.,
Date: (1941).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, 706pp., port., photo-illus., fldg. facs., dec. endpapers, Index, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Wilson, McNair:
Title: MADAME DE STAEL. High Priestess of Love.
Imprint : NY.: Robert M. McBride & Co.,
Date: (1931).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., ix, 375pp., port., photo-illus., Notes, Bibliog., Index, dec. endpapers, pasted in d.j., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Winbar, Frances:
Title: THE LIFE OF THE HEART. George Sand & Her Times. Biography.
Imprint : NY.: Harper & Bros.,
Date: (1945).
Description: 5th ed., cl. gilt, (3), 312pp., illus. by E. Delacroix, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Winwar, Frances:
Title: THE SAINT AND THE DEVIL. Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais. A Biographical Study in Good & Evil.
Imprint : NY.: Harper & Brothers,
Date: (1948).
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, viii, (4) 303pp., port., illus., Bibliog., uncut, v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Wormeley, Katharine Prescott:
Title: THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR. With the Army of the Potomac. Letters From the Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862.
Imprint : Boston: Ticknor & Co. (Cambridge: University Press),
Date: 1889.
Description: Ed.2, orig. cl. gilt (cover medallions gilt), ix, 1l., 210pp., 3 ports., Index, t.e.g., inner hinges cracked, but holding, spine extremities some worn, good.
Price: $65.


Author: X, Dr.:
Title: THE ABORTIONIST. By Dr. X. as told to Lucy Freeman.
Imprint : Garden City, NY.: Doubleday & Co.,
Date: 1962.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 216pp., Bibliog., F/VG.
Price: $15.

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