Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1895. 8vo. 159 pp. Bound in blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine palm soiled, minor wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, small tears at head and foot of spine, front hinge slightly cracked. Textblock edges browned; pp. 126-127..... More
Lancaster, PA: Printed and sold by William Dickson for The Benefit of the Authoress, 1808. 12mo. 220 pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep. Wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, front hinges cracked but holding. Smooth spine with double gilt roll dividing compartments, red morocco spine label in the..... More
Watertown, New York: L. Ingalls & Co., 1862. First Edition. xii, 13-294. Bound in tan ribbed publisher's cloth by John W. Gorse & Co. Corners bumped, small stains on front cover, hinges cracked (lower cords broken), wear to binding extremities. Foxing throughout as is true in all copies, pages 117-122..... More
![HAWAII 1822]. Instructions to the Missionaries about to Embark for the Sandwich Islands; and to...](/pictures/thumb/3486.jpg?v=1620152942)
Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1823. First Edition. 8vo. 21 pp. (title-page detached). Extracted from a larger volume; even browning; short tear in upper margin of title-page. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. Little-known moral "Instructions" for the Second Company of ABCFM missionaries to Hawaii. Although not specified in the text, included..... More
![DREAMY SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPH ca. 1910]. Woman seated on a river bank. Silver print photograph](/pictures/thumb/3446.jpg?v=1616960229)
S.l. 1910 (ca.). 168 x 115 mm, photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely, romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach, holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river, her expression seemingly wistful..... More
![SORDID 1870 TRIAL - WOMAN DEFENDANT]. Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the...](/pictures/thumb/3428.jpg?v=1615427402)
San Francisco: Printed by the San Francisco Co-Operative Printing for Sumner Whitney & Co., 1871. Small 4to. 4, [2], 325, [1], xvii pp. The two portraits are in facsimile, otherwise COMPLETE. Some page numbers at top margin shaved; front blank with repaired tear; final page torn and backed. Inherent spotting..... More
V.p. 1808-1996. A collection of 372 titles written by and about Women in the West. Condition Statement: Overall, most of the books in the collection are in “good” or “good+” condition, which typically describes a book that is sufficiently worn, the binding soiled, scuffed, stained or spotted and may have..... More
![WOMEN IN THE WEST]. Prairie Sketches; or, Fugitive Recollections of an Army Girl of 1899. Mary...](/pictures/thumb/3392.jpg?v=1612466827)
Denver: [Privately Printed], n.d. (ca. 1899). First Edition. 8vo. (215 x 139 mm). 76 pp., photographic text illustrations (some full-page). Original green printed wrappers, slightly soiled, worn and chipped at head and tail, pencil inscription on back wrapper (SEE IMAGES), internally unmarked and unspoiled. NOT ex-library! A remarkable account of..... More
![NURSING]. Organization of Nursing [in a Large Town]. An Account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training...](/pictures/thumb/3290.jpg?v=1610773571)
Liverpool: A. Holden (et al.), 1865. First Edition. 8vo. [8], 9-103 pp. With frontispiece and 1 plate (both depicting the Liverpool Nurses' Training School). Original flexible blue cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt with price: 2/6 (spine repaired, covers soiled, title-page and frontispiece toned and tipped in). DEDICATED TO FLORENCE..... More
S.l. 1840-1860 (?). Small photograph (89 x 58 mm), irregularly trimmed; mounted on card (99 x 61 mm), likewise irregularly trimmed. Identified on card verso and recto in two different hands; on verso "Taken at the time UTC written." Print thumb-soiled; on subject's face a small portion of print flaked..... More
![SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S MAGAZINE]. The Hesperian. (Vol. II, No. 5). Mrs. F. A. Day, Hermione](/pictures/thumb/3347.jpg?v=1610661063)
San Francisco: Mrs. F.A. Day, 1859 (July). First Edition. Large 8vo. (253 x 170 mm). [193]-240 pp., 8 pp. ads at end. With a two-color lithograph portrait of Isaac J. Sparks; hand-colored lithograph of a Bearded Jay. Original illustrated wrappers (repaired), the front cover being a steel engraving by the..... More
![WOMAN AUTHOR]. A Woman's Error. Bertha M. Clay, pseud. of Charlotte Mary Brame](/pictures/thumb/3345.jpg?v=1609701123)
Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Company, 1900. 8vo. [2], 247 pp. Textblock weak and age-toned as is true of all copies on account of the cheap quality of the paper. Original publisher's green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and red (worn and somewhat soiled at head and tail, but generally in..... More
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. First American edition. 8vo. [2], 272, [1] pp. + 6 pp. advertisements. Original green quarter cloth over light green cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt, upper cover stamped in green (spine leaning, front board nicked, trifle wear at spine ends, minor toning or..... More
![WOMAN AUTHOR, "Pretend" Ranching]. The Story of a Ranch. Alice Wellington Rollins](/pictures/thumb/3312.jpg?v=1608177972)
New York: Cassel, 1885. First Edition. 16mo. [2], 190 pp. Original publisher's brown gilt- and silver embossed decorated cloth, a.e.g. A bright copy in excellent condition, almost flawless. When does a ranching story have nothing to do with ranching? This book "is without either story or ranch; it is about..... More
Randolph, NY: 1890-1893. 8vo. 88 leaves, on the rectos (and some verso) are pasted newspaper cuttings, texts, portraits, MS notes, and some drawings; at end three newspaper cuttings loosely inserted. Contemporary leather covers stitched with cord in the Japanese style (see below). In excellent condition. This album -- compiled by..... More
![FIRST EDITION]. Poems Second Series. Edited by two of her Friends. Emily Dickinson](/pictures/thumb/3293.jpg?v=1608177950)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First Edition. 8vo. 1 blank leaf, 1 f. (recto blank, verso with publisher's advertisement announcing prices for the First and Second series), 2 ff. facsimile of Dickinson's manuscript of "Renunciation" which appeared in the First Series), 230 pp., 1 blank leaf. Original grey cloth, gilt, top..... More
Washington DC: T. Barnard, Printer, 1846. 8vo. 16 pp. + final blank. Extracted from a bound volume. Title-page inscription cropped, but clearly signed by the author, another inscription on verso of final blank. Sympathetic modern wrappers. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve. THE WIDOW OF SOUTHWEST EXPLORER GEN. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE..... More
