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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
n.p. Phi Mu Fraternity, 1946. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 10 7/8" X 8 7/8". 136pp. Red cloth over spiral-bound boards, with upper board lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, wtih light soiling to cloth and edgewear. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's name to title page, a Phi Mu at the...
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...
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...
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....
Los Angeles: Camera Obscura, 1983. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 160pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with edgewear, bumping to extremities, light toning and soiling, and sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this eleventh issue of Camera Obscura: A Journal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seoul, Korea: Pagijong Press, 2014. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 6". 227pp. Very mild edgewear to paperback binding. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. From rear cover: "The Gyu-Bang is a woman's private dormitory established due to the extreme inequality and segregation between the roles of...
Chapel Hill: Lollipop Power, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 10" X 8 1/8". 34pp, [i]. Textured printed pictorial staplebound wraps show only light wear, with small tear at top edge of upper wrap and light dust soiling. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A charming copy of...
London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1909]. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/8". viii, 8-126pp, plus 26pp ads. No date of publication, circa 1909. Ex-Winchester, Massachusetts Public Library, with associated stamps, marks, cards, and envelopes throughout. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. "Specimen Copy" stamped...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". vi, 233pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with soiling, chipping to head and tail of spine, small tears to edges and extremities, foxing, and edgewear. Tan cloth over boards, with lali illustrated teen...
