New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated, 22pp. Printed staplebound wraps. Mild edgewear to wraps, with shallow open tears to head and tail of spine. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions, for... More
Washington DC: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1927. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/8" X 5 7/8". 30pp. Mild edgewear and light toning to stapled pictorial paper wraps. Small closed tears to edges. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and photographic reproductions. A.... More
Loose_leaf. This rich archive celebrates the eight decades long career of a girl scout, from 1917 to the 1990s. Gail Remington Willits (1904-2003) joined the Girl Scouts in 1917 and went on to become the first Eaglet in Essex County, New Jersey, a leader of the Orange, NJ scout troop... More
Atlanta: The League of Women Voters of Georgia, 1966. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Mild wear to yellow pictorial staplebound wraps, with edgewear, toning, foxing, and stain to rear through rear free endpaper. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this 1966 guide to... More
Raleigh, North Carolina: Pi Theta Mu and Sigma Phi Kappa Literary Societies of Peace Institute, 1920. First Edition. Leather bound. 10 1/2" X 8". 115pp, plus ten leaves of ads. Soft leather over stiff wraps, with upper wrap stamped in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with tearing, chipping, and flaking... More
St. Petersburg, Florida: Women's Energy Bank, 1991. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 3/8". 46pp. Rather heavy wear to staplebound paper wraps, with warping to wraps and text block, ring and dampstain to upper wrap, and creasing to extremities. Binding is sound. Faint dampstain to title page, else pages unmarked. An... More
New York: National Cloak & Suit Co., 1907. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 3/8" X 7". 60pp, plus order forms and size guide. Blank post card for requesting sample materials laid in, with heavy toning to front pastedown. Pictorial staplebound paper wraps show moderate wear, with open tears to corners... More
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. 9 3/4" X 6 3/4". xii, 178pp. Typed letter from the Women's Society of Christian Service Southeastern Jurisdiction, dated March 4 at the Orlando, Florida annual session, laid in, urging Methodist women to read the report and push for... More
Frederick, Maryland: [Frederick News-Post Publishing Co.], 1921. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 26pp. Signed by Eleanor D. Abbott at title page. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with small closed tear to front panel and tail of spine, creasing, and edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 3/8". xiii, 409pp, plus 16pp ads. Brown cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, and mild scattered rubbing. Dark brown... More
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". xv, 907pp. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Drs. R Frederick Becker, James W. Wilson, and John A. Gehweiler to Margaret Gehweiler, John A. Gehweiler's mother, to front free endpapers. Green cloth over boards, with upper... More
Boston: Thomas H. Webb, & Co., 1843. Revised Edition, with numerous additions and illustrative engravings. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 4 7/8". 383pp. Bound in full tan buckram, with spine lettered in gilt within border. Moderate soiling and scattered rubbing to cloth, with mild edgewear and corners turned in. Hinges a.... More
New York: John Day Company, 1941. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 203pp. Dust jacket in pieces and laid in, with dampstains and creasing. Pale yellow cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in dark burgundy. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners gently bumped. Binding is firm and... More
Brooklyn: Faith Home for Incurables, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 6". viii, 120pp. Embossed dark green cloth over bevelled boards, with upper board stamped in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with corners torn and turned in, tears to head and tail of... More
San Marcos, California: Pacific Press, 1981. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 3/8". 273pp. Signed by the author to title page and dated 1987. Ex-Andersonville NHS Library, with the usual stamps and marks to title page, fore-edge, spine, and endpapers. Soiling, edgewear, and coverwear to paper wraps. Binding is sound. Pages... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 285pp, plus 24pp photographs. First Printing. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, including chipping to head and tail of spine with loss to publisher's name, small tears to edges, open tears at corners, open tear... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1850. New American Edition, Revised by the Author. Leather bound. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xv, 25-632pp. Bound in full leather, with black leather title label lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear and rubbing to binding, with leather rubbed through to boards in several places. Soiling to... More
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. 6 1/2" X 5". 164pp, plus 4 pages index. Moderate wear to pictorial paper wraps, showing a naked woman wearing a chastity belt from both anterior and posterior views, with sunning, light soiling, and edgewear. Some creasing and chipping to spine. Small spot... More
Chicago: The Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1893. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 5/8". 302pp, plus one leaf of ads and a bequest form. "Presented by the author" to front pastedown in crayon, cannot confirm authenticity. Brown cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in gilt, with young girl device stamped... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5". x, [iv], 240pp, plus ads. Brick red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with tears to head and tail of spine and at corners, bumping to edges... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5". vii, 288pp, plus two leaves of ads. Brown cloth over boards nicely stamped in gilt, red, and black. Spine split 4" from tail up along rear board, with smaller tear along upper board edge, shallow chipping to head and tail... More
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 8 5/8". 137pp. Mild shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket. Black leather-grained paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear and gentle bumping to binding, else fine, firm, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. Bookseller ticket to front... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 125pp. Inscribed by American pioneer of women's education Ada Comstock (1876-1973) to friends, at front free endpaper. Rather heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with small tears to edges and extremities, light foxing, ringstain, and spots... More
Eugene, Oregon: The Feminist Theory Collective, 1976. Staplebound wraps. 8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 36pp. Staplebound printed warps. Mild edgewear and light toning to wraps. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable copy of this illustrated, annotated bibliography on women's labor in Twentieth Century America from... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 320pp, with 4pp Berry College leaflet on glossy paper tipped in to rear. Inscribed by Inez Henry to half-title: "For my friend Betty Reaid, who has inspired me in my work for Berry. Sincerely, Inez Wooten... More
