La Femme aux Etats-Unis
Paris: Armand Colin, 1893. Hardcover. Contemporary cloth-backed boards. Name stamp on endpaper. Scattered foxing. French text. More
Paris: Armand Colin, 1893. Hardcover. Contemporary cloth-backed boards. Name stamp on endpaper. Scattered foxing. French text. More
n. p. (c. 1969). Paperback. 111, (24)p. Softcover in original orange paper binder. 29 cm. A typed carbon copy for a musical about Elizabeth Keckley in Washington as a seamstress as she tries to make her way to Mrs. Lincoln and prosperity. Label of a Literary Representative (Laura Wilck, in..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, (c. 1982). 6th printing. Hardcover. 245p. Original white boards backed in purple cloth. dj. 22 cm. Jacket has moderate scuffing and wear. Worn Pulizer Prize sticker on front panel of jacket. Purple cloth slightly faded along top and bottom edges. Portion of front endpaper lightly browned..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (c. 1973). 2nd printing. Hardcover. 138p. Original cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has some edge-wear, a short corner tear and a backstrip panel with some small spots and other wear. Former owner's name ("Yvette Le Roy"). INSCRIBED on half-title ("For Yvette for old times sake..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. 1st ed. Hardcover. 58p. Original light orange cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacket has only minor edge-wear and a small surface chip affecting one letter on the narrow backstrip panel. Cover has a little spotting at top. Poetry. An appealing copy of her first book..... More
Montclair: Abner Schram; London: George Prior, (1981). Hardcover. Illustrated (many in color), unpaginated. Original pictorial cloth. dj. 28cm. Original plain slipcase present. Translated from the German by C. S. V. Salt. More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1969). First edition. Hardcover. 109p. Blue cloth. dj. 21 cm. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Wamble ("To Arthur Edwards The author Thelma Wamble"). Nine short, admiring essays and an Epilogue, all are about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Wamble, an African American born in Arkansas, also..... More
n.p. 1869. Each document measures approximately 17 x 11 cm. and is bordered in black on front and on three sides only on back, siggesting that these two documents might once have been joined on a larger single sheet. Both documents dated July 9, 1869. Both written in the same..... More
New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. 1st ed. Paperback. index, [5], 8-224p. Lacks original binding. Recent plain gray protective wrapper added. 23cm. Moderate soiling and mostly-light foxing. Lacks leaf following title-leaf which contained an "Advertisement ot the Reader" on one side and a "Note" on the other -- the..... More
Spokane: [Printed by] Shaw & Borden, n.d. [Preface and laid in note both dated 1904]. Paperback. frontis, 61p. Softcover in original tied wrapper. 17cm. Printed note in the form of a letter from West laid in which West indicates that she is sending this little book of poems to keep..... More
[Kansas City. Missouri: 1938. Paperback. photos (generally grainy) and advertisements, [20] unnumbered pages plus original wrapper. 28 cm. Old waterstain on all pages which shows up at bottom center when the booklet is opened). Intact but moderately worn throughout. Information about the show occupies a narrow horizontal center strip on..... More
New Haven: Charles E. H. Whitlock, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis portrait, xi, 126p. Green cloth. 21cm. Corner bumped. No Jacket. Poetry. The author who died before her 28th birthday, identified herself as a Christian socialist. More
New Haven: Charles E. H. Whitlock, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis portrait, xi, 126p. Beige cloth. 21cm. Minor foxing. No Jacket. Poetry. The author who died before her 28th birthday, identified herself as a Christian socialist. More
St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing, 1885. Revised edition. Hardcover. frontis, 97p. Original black cloth. 19cm. Moderate cover spotting, soiling and wear, including chipping at ends of backstrip. INSCRIBED in pencil on front endpaper by Caddie Whitman, the author's wife who was born in 1857 and died in 1909. In addition to..... More
Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum Foundation, n.d. [probably 1991]. Unnumbered [4]- page announcement/invitation. Oblong (20 x 13 cm.). Margaret Washington Clifford, a granddaughter of Booker T. Washington, was going to speak abouth her grandfather on Sunday, September 22 at the museum. BTW was represented in one of the paintings in..... More
Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, (c. 1915). Squire, Maud Hunt. Hardcover. frontis & other illustrations (by Maud Hunt Squire), 142p. Original tan cloth. 19cm. Minor cover soil. No jacket. Dramatic Reader Series: Book Two. Stories rendered in either narrative or dramatic form. Her first book. Wickes later..... More
London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1901. Hardcover. 2 volumes. frontises, illustrations, indexs , xiv, 388, viii, 375, 32p. Original purple cloth. 22 cm. Modest cover wear and a little spotting. Bookplate (Walter W. Head) on pastedowns. Foxing on endpapers. No jackets. Queen Caroline died in 1737..... More
Milwaukee: n.d. [1939?]. Paperback. 61p. Original tied wrapper. 19cm. A few ink markings and a minor spot or two. A membership directory (addresses but not phone numbers). Also a list of programs from Oct. 1938 to May 1940. More
[Johannesburg?]: Black Sash, November 1970. Paperback. 20p. Wrapper. 25cm. A few red ink underlinings & notes. James Michener's ownership stamp. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. color frontis, photos, folding map, index, xv, 204p. Rebound in 3/4 leather. A bright copy. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, n.d. [1917]. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. numerous photos (including frontis), 3 folding maps, index, 296p. Original brown cloth. Butterfly in lower right corner. 23cm. Modest cover soil. One leaf trimmed. A few pages or signatures slightly pulled. An account of their fifth and final Karakoram..... More
New York: Cassell, n.d. [ca. 1901]. edition statement on verso of half-title]. Hardcover. frontis, photos, 2 folding maps, xvi, 204p. Original red cloth. 21cm. Moderate cover soil. Corners bumped. White lettering on front cover mostly gone. Bookplate. No Jacket. More
[Korea]: Yesul ui Chondang, 1992. Paperback. color illustrations, (approx. 204)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Printed in upper left corner of front cover: Korean Paintress Association. More
New Haven: The Auxiliary, 1907. Paperback. 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Moderate cover wear. Contents sound. More
Harare: (1994). Paperback. xiii, 252p. Wrapper. 21cm. Edited by Norma Kitson. More