What Katy Did

What

Katy Did

A Recognition of Feminism in the American Experience Randall House Rar e Books Catalogue XXX

FOREWORD The genesis of this collection occurred about a dozen years ago. Since our entry into the book world we seem to have an ongoing interest in the road less travelled. In 1978 our catalogue five, Famous Films in First Edition, had opened and developed a new field of book collecting. The following year catalogue eight The Race for Gold, based in large part through John Jenkins of that portion of his stunning acquisition of the great Eberstadt collection of Americana, pioneered another first. We were the first bookseller to catalogue a collection of bibliomysteries (a wonderful word which we did not coin) and in the early 1990’s we issued a trio of innovative major catalogues devoted entirely to Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and the American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. In casting about at that juncture for another underdeveloped field of book collecting, a recently hired young assistant, an ardent feminist named Elizabeth Marshall, started giving me after hours tennis lessons along with some fresh perspectives. When the collection began there was no clear cut goal in mind. The basic idea, frameworked with first editions in the best condition possible, was to form a representative collection covering a broad spectrum of works by and about American women, or women who made a mark in America. As it grew like Topsy, it seemed that 400 entries would be a nice round sum. Later, 600 sounded reasonable. As what follows will attest, 1,000 only presented a barrier to be broken. Now, at the far end, it has to be cited and cited in gilt that this collection would still be just that - sans typing, sans format, sans everything without the assistance of another young lady, Pia Oliver. Pia and I first worked together at the renowned firm of John Howell-Books in San Francisco many years ago ... or was it only yesterday? It’s been a fun run.

A Note About the Illustrations This, the thirtieth catalogue from Randall house, is also without a doubt our most personal. These pictures are a reflection of that special involvement. Front cover: Elizabeth Ikard. A Lily of the Valley. Inside front cover: Dustin Anne Randall Shultz, Regina Hendricks Randall, Alison Rauch Randall . (Alison is a certified health care provider. Dustin is a Major in the United States Army serving on active duty ). Page 246: Original painting by Natalie Rogers for the cover illustration of her first book Emerging Woman (See item #825). Outside back cover: Claudia Ropers. Over twenty years ago when our bookstore was still located in San Francisco, we found ourselves with a position to fill and to that end placed a help wanted advertisement in the Marin County newspaper. Claudia was the first respondent. The interview proceeded in quite a satisfactory manner until it came out that typing skill was not her strong suit, nor even a distant second. Since the position required a lot of typing, this presented a serious problem.. While inwardly sympathetic (being of the hunt and peck school myself), this apparently was not reflected in my face as I told her she was the first applicant we had seen, etc., etc.. We shook hands across my desk and Claudia walked across the outer office, put her hand on the front door, wheeled about, marched back, fixed me with a steady gaze and said “Look! You’re going to interview a whole lot more people and you’ll forget all about me. I need this job and I’ll work hard for you. You won’t be sorry you hired me!” Somewhat taken aback, I assured her she would not be forgotten. And, indeed, she wasn’t. I did interview the others, but ended up hiring Clauida with the proviso that her typing become more proficient. It was only after she started work that I discovered she had taken up running at the age of forty, had won her division in the Fiesta Bowl Marathon and had completed the Boston Marathon in good time. Now some may think this an odd qualification for the job, but if I’d known it earlier, she would have been hired on the spot. You see, I’d recently started jogging - slowly painfully and thoughtfully enough to know that anyone capable of doing what she had accomplished could certainly handle my routine requirements. When the business relocated from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, I did not give Claudia a letter of recommendation. Instead, I gave her as large a bonus as I could afford and a trophy on which was inscribed: Randall House San Francisco 1975-1985 Claudia Ropers Most Valuable Employee

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Satisfaction guaranteed. Any item may be returned within seven days of receipt if notice is given immediately and the item returned in the same condition as received. Code word for this catalogue is "Katy". It will be construed as “From Catalogue XXX please send the following items.” Prices are net; carriage and insurance additional. California residents will be charged current state sales tax. New customers are requested to send payment with order or supply appropriate references. Mastercard, VISA and American Express accepted. Institutional requirements accommodated. Items can be expertly packed, fully insured and shipped anywhere in the world. Randall House deals in rare books in all fields including Americana, Literature, Press Books and Fine Printing, Sporting Books, Books about Books, Illustrated Books, Sets and Fine Bindings, as well as Autographs and Manuscripts. Our interests also include original art, illustration and photography, as well as prints of a literary or historical nature. We also offer expert appraisal service for material in these fields. We maintain a website and most of our books from current stock are posted there. The site is fully searchable by author, title, or keywords. Many of the items are illustrated and all are carefully described. If you are not able to come into the store, we can post items or pictures specifically for your viewing on the website, or we can email descriptions and illustrations. Our shop, located in the premises of a National Historic Landmark, is generally open to the public Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Answering machine on duty during non-office hours.

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Catalogue XXX

What Katy Did A Recognition of Feminism in the American Experience

R ANDALL H OUSE Santa Barbara 2003

See items 922 and 923

1. ABZUG, Bella S. Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington. Edited by Mel Ziegler.

New York: Saturday Review Press, (1972). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faded at spine). Fine. First edition. $20.00

The feisty Abzug (1920-1998) was born the year that the Nineteenth Amendment was adopted. A graduate of the Columbia School of Law, she became America’s first Jewish Congresswoman and a strong voice for women’s rights. “Battling Bella” was co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and co-author of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. With an index.

2. [ADAMS, Maude]. PATTERSON, Ada. Maude Adams. A Biography. New York: Meyer Bros., (1907). Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth with color plate of Adams as Peter Pan affixed to front cover, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Insignificant $50.00 slight rubbing of corners and spine ends, else fine. First edition. Scarce. Adams’ actress mother had been a leading player in Brigham Young’s Deseret Stock Company. Maude made her stage debut at nine months in 1873 and gave her last performance in 1934. From 1937 to 1950 she was associated with the school of acting at Stephens College in Missouri. During her frequent tours from coast to coast Adams ability, within a limited theatrical range, made her as popular an actress as the America of that time knew. Maude Adams’ greatest success came as Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Her fine features, slight figure, elfin charm and rippling laughter epitomized the characterization. She even designed the costume with its feather hat and round collar, which is said to have started a national style. A teenage Betty Bronson would reprise the part in a wildly successful 1924 silent film while eternally pixyish middle aged Mary Martin remade the story into a mid-1950’s Broadway musical. As cloyingly overwritten a little biography as one is likely to encounter, it is saved by a number of full page photographs of the actress in costume and lists of various plays in which Adams had appeared up to the time of publication. [Sweeney, Biographies of American Women. An Annotated Bibliography 12 (hereinafter cited as Sweeney). Sicherman and Green, Notable American Women. The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary (hereinafter cited as NAWM). American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography (hereinafter cited as DAB)].

“THERE ARE NO SHUT DOORS”

3. ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New

York: Macmillan, 1910. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-lettered maroon cloth with pictorial label, top edge gilt. Spine ends barely rubbed, a few tiny scratches to label. A fine, $300.00 bright copy and hard to find thus. First (trade) edition.

“Both in its form and content, Twenty Years at Hull House was her masterpiece. It is her sole work that is touched with humor… The book was recognized at once as the best handbook available to potential settlement workers, and it remains a document for the study of American civilization.” DAB. In 1889 Addams and Ellen Gates Starr rented a vacant building in Chicago from its generous owner Miss Helen Culver, who the following year would give the settlement group a free leasehold. The house had been built in 1856 as the residence of Charles J. Hull, an early Chicago pioneer. The Hull House and its eventual complex of thirteen buildings served as a training ground for many social workers, while also acting as a beacon for working girls and immigrants. -1-

Jane Addams worked with the architects to insure that as Hull House expanded, its design remained inviting and functional with open spaces and shaded porches. She was President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom from 1919 until her death in 1935 and Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the League. [DAB. James, James and Boyer, Notable American Women 1607-1950. A Biographical Dictionary (hereinafter cited as NAW). Browne, The Hundred Best Books by American Women During the Past Hundred Years 1833-1933 p. 21].

FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM

4. AKERS, Elizabeth. (Florence Percy). Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

16mo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing $250.00 to edges, otherwise fine. First edition. Rare. “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight. Make me a child again, just for to-night!....”

The poem is printed on pp. 190-192 and is composed of six eight line stanzas. It had first appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post May, 1860. Her authorship of “Rock Me to Sleep” with the universally nostalgic appeal of its opening couplets was challenged, unsuccessfully, by a prosperous and vociferous New Jersey leather dealer and verse dabbler. For an interesting consideration of this flagellated controversy see John Winterich’s article in The New Colophon, 1950, pp. 260-263. Assessed today, Allen is accorded status as a minor poet - even a one poem poet - yet in point of fact in her time she was a major creator of popular poetry and likely exerted a positive influence on the genre’s subsequent versifiers. Beyond her nom de plume of “Florence Percy” it is difficult to settle on a form of address. Chronologically, she was christened down east Elizabeth Anne Chase in 1832; became Mrs. Marshall S.M. Taylor 1851-1855 (deserted); Mrs. Benjamin P. Akers 1860-1861 (widowed); Mrs. Elijah M. Allen 1865-1911 (deceased). In later life her writings supported the causes of woman suffrage and the prevention of cruelty to animals. There is an eerie personal sidelight to this particular copy. It was recently purchased by us from the catalogue of a New York bookseller. A pencilled notation on the front endpaper reads “1st appearance of Rock Me to Sleep p. 190”. The handwriting is that of this writer’s father, who before being the first Lilly librarian for many years had been head of Scribner’s famous rare book department. [Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature 418. Wilson & Randall, Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations. p. 342. Johnson, You Know These Lines! A Bibliography of the Most Quoted Verses in American Poetry, pp. 143-145. DAB. NAW]. 5. [ALBRIGHT, Madeleine]. BLOOD, Thomas. Madam Secretary. A Biography of Madeleine Albright. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1997). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The book centers on the more recent times of Madeleine Albright, one-time American Ambassador to the United Nations and lately the first woman to be U.S. Secretary of State. Curiously, bare mention is made of her Czechoslovakian parental background or 1937 birth in Prague and anyone seeking even a modicum of written or pictorial information on her -2-

childhood or private life will be disappointed in these respects, as well. With a list of sources and an index. 6. ALCOTT, Louisa May. Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to “Little Men”. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Frontispiece portrait of Alcott. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black, spine ornately stamped in gilt, red and black, gilt-lettered cover and spine, patterned endpapers. A splendid copy. First edi$450.00 tion, first state. A chronicle of the continuation of Little Men which, in turn, had been preceeded by Alcott’s classic Little Women starring the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. [BAL 211. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 76].

7. [ALCOTT, Louisa May]. CHENEY, Edhan D., Editor. Louisa May Alcott. Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Frontispiece portrait and two plates. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black, spine ornately stamped in gilt, red and black, gilt-lettered cover and spine, patterned endpapers. Covers slightly spotted, else a bright handsome copy. First edition, first printing, $150.00 first binding. The story of Alcott’s literary development, it also contains many firsthand accounts of the major figures of nineteenth century New England literature and thought. [BAL 221. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 24].

8. [ALCOTT, Louisa May]. MOSES, Belle. Louisa May Alcott Dreamer and Worker. A Story of Achievement. New York: D. Appleton, 1909. Frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original brick cloth, white-lettered cover and spine . Fine. First edition. $100.00 [BAL p.44, listing only the date of a 1933 reprint. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 27].

9. [ALDEN, Priscilla]. SPOFFORD, Harriet Prescott, GUINEY, Louise Imogen and BROWN, Alice. Three Heroines of New England Romance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1894. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt. Fine. $75.00 First trade edition. Spofford writes about Priscilla Alden, Guiney of Martha Hilton and Brown concerning Agnes Surriage. Priscilla Mullins arrived in America aboard the Mayflower. Her name change: “Speak for yourself, John Alden,” is a part of American folklore. Surriage’s odyssey took her from colonial tavern maid to wife of an English baronet. Martha Hilton? Read the book. [BAL 6729 (Guiney) and 18512 (Spofford). NAW].

10. ALEXANDER, Shana. The Feminine Eye. New York: McCall, (1970). Octavo, $20.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly soiled). Fine. First edition.

A collection of essays which originally appeared in Life magazine, where Alexander had a regular column for five years called “The Feminine Eye”. In 1969 she became the first woman editor of McCall’s magazine in fifty years.

11. ALLEN, Elizabeth. Sketches of Green Mountain Life; with an Autobiography of the Author. Lowell: Nathaniel L. Dayton, 1846. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown -3-

cloth, gilt-decorated spine. Traces of bookplate removal, moderate foxing throughout, $100.00 gilt spine a little faded. Very good. First edition.

things never change!. [Wright American Fiction 1876-1900. A Contribution Toward a Bibliography (hereinafter Wright III), 112 locating only a copy at the Huntington Library. He speculates that the book may have been published in San Francisco].

12. ALLEN, Florence Ellinwood. To Do Justly. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve

16. [ANDREWS, Jane]. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that

A prefatory word from the publisher notes that the author is entirely deaf. [Wright, American Fiction 1774-1850. A Contribution Toward a Bibliography 14 (hereinafter Wright I)].

University, (1965). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . $150.00 Fine. First edition. Unaccountably scarce.

Autobiography of the first woman to become a senior United States Circuit Court Judge. Allen was also the first woman associate justice of a state supreme court (Ohio).

13. ALPERT, Jane. Growing Up Underground. New York: William Morrow, 1981. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket (faint wear). Fine. First edition. $20.00

An honors graduate of Swarthmore College, Alpert became a fugitive after her arrest in connection with bombings of several government and corporate buildings. About four years later she turned herself in, moving away from the left and declaring her new commitment to feminism. A vivid commentary on those times; the way it was for some and a lot of growing pains for one mixed up young lady .

ANASTASIA? IN AMERICA?

14. [ANDERSON, Anna] [Anastasia]. LOVELL, James Blair. Anastasia, the Lost

Princess. Washington, D. C: Regnery Gateway, (1991). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $20.00 edition.

While the story of the Romanov family’s murder in an Ekaterinburg cellar is well documented, a tale took form and persisted that the youngest daughter somehow survived and eventually came to spend the later years of her life in the United States. The case was the basis for much speculation, numerous articles pro and con, a Broadway play and a film with Ingrid Bergman in the title role. With appendices and an extensive index.

WRIGHT RECORDS ONE COPY

15. [ANDERSON, Santa Louise ]. Stories and Sketches. Compiled and with an introduction by Elizabeth Curtis. N.p: [1886]. Illustrated. 12mo, original white cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers. A little foxed and browned on covers (gilt bright), else fine. First edition. Inscribed and dated Dec. 25, 1886 by Curtis.

$375.00 According to the introduction, the book was done for the friends of Ms. Anderson, who had drowned in the Sacramento River, June 5, 1886, and not for the public. The compiler goes on to say that much of what the book contains Ms. Anderson herself would not have published for she had loftier ideals. Among the stories are “An Opium Dream” and “A Tale of Santa Barbara” which begins: “It was one of Santa Barbara’s moonlight nights, and by moonlight the little town is at its fairest. In the daytime it presents many points in common with an ordinary Western town settled largely by Yankees, for the modern buildings overshadow the old adobes, which seem to shrink abashed before their more pretentious neighbors. But in the moonlight the old houses regain consciousness of their past greatness, and the ancient olive trees stir with a new life ...”. Well, some -4-

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK

Floats in the Air. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Engraved title page, eight plates and illustrations. 12mo, original olive green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and front cover and in blind on rear cover, triple-ruled blind-frame decorations at corners. Covers a trifle spotted and faded, head and tail of spine chipped, otherwise excel$300.00 lent.

A children’s book about life on seven continents. Andrews (1835-1887) hoped to offset a contemporary tendency in juvenile literature to portray other cultures as alien, choosing instead to emphasize the kinship of children of all races. [Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod. A Bibliographical Description of the Best-Loved American Juvenile Books, p. 18. NAW].

.... AND HER LAST

17. ANDREWS, Jane. Ten Boys Who Lived on The Road From Long Ago To Now.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1886. Illustrated. 12mo, original yellow cloth, elaborate pictorial stamping in black and gilt. Spine a trifle browned, fore-edge lightly foxed, front $250.00 free endpaper cracked over joint, yet quite a superior copy. First edition.

The illustrations are by Charles Copeland. These stories of life through the centuries of recorded history point up the timeless adage of boys being just that. [Peter Parley to Penrod p. 79. NAW].

18. ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman. Joy in the Morning. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons, 1919. With a frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, original teal cloth, a signed binding decoratively stamped in green, yellow and orange. Name and date 1919 $375.00 in ink on front free endpaper. A beautiful copy. First edition.

A rare title by this Alabama–born novelist. Andrews wrote magazine fiction and authored two dozen books. This volume is a collection of several short stories relating to World War I, together with a short play. [Not in Allen, N.C. Wyeth. The Collected Illustrations, Paintings and Murals or Dykes, 50 Great Western Illustrators. NAW]. 19. ANDREWS, Maxene and GILBERT, Bill. Over Here, Over There. The

Andrews Sisters and the USO in World War II. (New York): Kensington Publishing, (1993). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Octavo, red boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. With a lengthy inscription by, and two tipped in $25.00 color photographs of Ms. Andrews at a book signing in Hawaii.

Sharing the heyday of the big band era in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the Andrews sisters Maxene, Patty and LaVerne - remain American popular music icons. Singing “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön”, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”, “Beer Barrel Polka”, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B”, their signature song “In Apple Blossom Time” and others of their hits, the trio repeated their peacetime success during a hectic schedule of performances at war bond rallies, military posts and hospitals both at home and overseas. Years later, in 1987, they were awarded -5-

the Defense Department’s highest civilian honor: the Medal for Distinguished Public Service. 20. ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, (1969). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. About fine. First edition. In this $200.00 copy the sheets bulk 7/8” and the top edge is unstained.

The author’s first book, a remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black girl raised in the segregated south of rural Arkansas. “It speaks with the poet’s gift for language and observation” (jacket blurb). 21. ANGELOU, Maya. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie. The Poetry

of .... New York: Random House, (1971). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. $40.00 Fine. First edition.

The first book of poetry by the multi-talented author, dancer, actress, producer, director and university professor. 22. ANGELOU, Maya. Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now. New York:

Random House, (1993). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Name in ink $20.00 on endpaper, else fine. First trade edition. The book’s dedicatee is the popular talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey.

ANONYMOUS NO LONGER

23. [ANONYMOUS]. Facts. By a Woman. Oakland: Pacific Press, 1881. Octavo,

original blind and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. Name in ink, faint endpaper browning, $475.00 covers barely worn. First edition. Rare.

A factual novel which opens with a group of stuffed shirts in skirts pronouncing that no reputable woman would ever sell books door-to-door for a living. The heroine, however, becomes a bookseller after reading a newspaper advertisement of A. Roman & Co. (an actual San Francisco publisher of the period) seeking agents “to canvass Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain’s new book”. This writer is indebted to Ken Sanderson, a Twain expert who in a chance conversation identified the author as Harriet Wasson Styer, a lady who had lived that which she wrote. [Wright III 1786].

24. ANTHONY, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies. The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power 1789 - 1961. New York: Morrow, (1990). Two volumes. Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spines, pictorial dust jackets. Fine. First editions. $85.00

With: First Ladies. The Saga of the President’s Wives and Their Power 1961-1990. New York: Morrow, (1991). Illustrated. A massive (1,196 pages) and definitive history, twelve years in the making, with extensive notes, bibliographies and indexes. In the preface to volume one “the power behind the throne is the power” is a quote from Maria Weston Chapman, How Can I Help Abolish Slavery?, 1855.

RARE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE NEWSPAPER

25. [ANTHONY, Susan B]. The Revolution. New York: July 6, 1871 - February 17,

1872. Volume VIII, Numbers 1 through 32. Small folio, attractively bound in three-6-

Susan B. Anthony

quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Fine.

$1,500.00 This weekly newspaper, strongly devoted to women’s rights, was founded by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the reformer Parker Pillsbury in 1868. The paper contains many contributions by Stanton and other suffragettes. Its radical and defiant tone underlines much news relating to women’s suffrage and other social reforms. The first fifteen issues were edited by Laura Curtis Bullard, the balance by W.T. Clarke. [DAB. NAW]. 26. [ANTHONY, Susan B.]. ANTHONY, Katharine. Susan B. Anthony. Her

Personal History and Her Era. Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. With four photographic portraits. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly chipped). About fine. First edition.

$25.00 On the fifth day of November, 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted in the eighth ward of the city of Rochester, New York. She cast her ballot to test the application of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. She was indicted and convicted of illegal voting and fined $100.00. She never paid it. Instead, she organized the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and devoted herself to the cause which did not become law during her lifetime. Suffrage for women was adopted by the House of Representatives on May 21, 1919 and by the Senate on June 4. Following ratification by three-quarters of the states, it became the law of the land on August 26, 1920. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 37]. 27. ANTIN, Mary. They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of

Immigration. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates by Joseph Stella. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering. Fine. $100.00 First edition. Inscribed by the author.

A favorable look at immigration into the United States by an advocate of the “open door policy”. Antin was herself a Jewish newcomer from Polish Russia; her other works also dealt with immigrants’ experiences. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 25].

28. ARMER, Laura. In Navajo Land. New York: David McKay, 1962. Illustrated with photographs by Sidney and Austin Armer. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly chipped at top and bottom of spine). Fine. First edition. With a promotional pho$30.00 tograph of the author laid in. The San Francisco artist and 1932 Newberry Award winning (for Waterless Mountain) author’s writings of her experiences in the Four Corners country of the southwest. Laura Armer turned eighty-nine in 1962, the year this autobiography was published. 29. ARMSTRONG, Louise. Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics. What Happened

When Women Said Incest. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, (1994). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Some ink underlinings, else fine. First edition. $20.00

The author’s 1987 best-selling Kiss Daddy Goodnight had taken the subject out of the closet. This work “takes a critical, controversial look back at making an issue out of incest” (dust jacket blurb). 30. ARMSTRONG, M.F and LUDLOW, Helen W.F. Hampton and Its Students.

New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1874. 15 illustrations (of 16, wanting the frontispiece), with one depicting the interior of a girl’s room. Octavo, original gilt-lettered rust cloth, deco-8-

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ratively blind-stamped. Very slight foxing and soiling throughout, wear to edges, near $30.00 fine. First edition. Traces the history of the first black college in the South, located in Virginia and originally known as Butler School. It had opened in April, 1868 with twenty scholars and two academic teachers. In September, 1873 the catalogue indicated 226 pupils. The book also includes fifty cabin and plantation songs.

MARGARET ARMSTRONG SIGNED BINDING

31. [ARMSTRONG, Margaret]. PAGE, Thomas Nelson. The Old Gentleman of the

Black Stock. New York: Scribner's, 1909. Illustrated. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth ornately decorated in gilt, cream and black, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, binding signed by Margaret Armstrong. Some slight wear to extremities, endpapers a bit foxed, ink $20.00 inscription on front free endpaper, else fine.

Although a number of her 300 covers are unsigned, Armstrong’s monogram consisted of a very angular “M.A.” linked together. This enlarged edition first appeared in 1900, three years after the original. Illustrated with seven tipped in plates from paintings by Howard Chandler Christy. [see BAL 15377 and 15387. See Gullens and Espey, Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings 188]. 32. [ARMSTRONG, Margaret]. GULLANS, Charles and John Espey. Margaret

Armstrong and American Trade Bindings. With a Checklist of Her Designed Bindings and Covers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Octavo, printed wrap$85.00 pers. Fine. First edition. From the drab beginnings of commercial American bookbindings until the economies imposed by World War I hastened the takeover by dust jackets, trade bindings were in the hands of a small group of decorative designers. Among these, none was more talented than Margaret Armstrong. 33. [ARTISTS]. Women Artists in the Howard Pyle Tradition. Chadds Ford:

Brandywine River Museum, 1975. Illustrated. Oblong octavo, pictorial wrappers. Fine.

$20.00 A catalogue presented in connection with the exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum of the Tri-County Conservancy of the Brandywine, September 6 - November 23, 1975. Pyle nurtured a bevy of disciples among the most successful of whom were Ethel and Anna Betts, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Charlotte Harding, Violet Oakley, Sarah Smith, Alice Barber Stephens, Sarah Stilwell Weber, his daughter-in-law Ellen Thompson Pyle and his daughter Katherine Pyle. As an aside, this writer’s artistic mother studied under Thornton Oakley, another of Pyle’s students. 34. ASTOR, Brooke. Footprints. An Autobiography. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980.

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$50.00 As the daughter of a career Marine officer, Astor had spent much of her childhood in China. Upon the death of Vincent, her philanthropic husband, she became president of the Astor Foundation, which funds a number of charitable projects. 35. ASTOR, Brooke. Brooke Astor. Patchwork Child. Early Memories. New York: - 10 -

Random House, (1993). Illustrated. Oblong quarto, glazed boards, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Fine.

First published in 1962, this new edition is enriched with photographs and drawings form the author’s private family albums and her notebooks, diaries and sketches. The result is a handsome amplification of the original. 36. [ASTOR, Nancy]. LANGHORNE, Elizabeth. Nancy Astor and Her Friends.

New York: Preaeger Publishers, (1974). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (spine sunned). Lower rear cover and pastedown show evidence of water $20.00 staining, else fine. First edition.

Virginia-born, Nancy was one of five beautiful Langhorne sisters. A second marriage, this to Waldorf Astor, thrust her onto the English social scene. When inheritance elevated him to the House of Lords she successfully ran for his vacated seat in the Commons, thereby becoming the first woman to sit in Britain’s Parliament. She held the seat for over a quarter century as she championed women’s rights, the welfare state, prohibition and world peace. A fascinating and controversial Anglo-American, she befriended Lawrence of Arabia, duelled with Winston Churchill in the nonpareil repartee: Nancy: ”Winston, if I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.” Winston: “Nancy, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.” and denounced the demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy. The biographer, well disposed to her subject, was related to Nancy Astor by marriage and had access to family letters and other unpublished material. With notes on sources, a selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 48]. 37. ATHERTON, Gertrude. California Illustrated Magazine. : Volume V, No. 5. April, 1894. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Slightly soiled, else fine. $25.00 Contains “The Theatre of Arts and Letters” by Atherton, pp. 580-584. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 51]. 38. ATHERTON, Gertrude. The Splendid Idle Forties. Stories of Old California….

New York: Macmillan, 1902. 12mo, original red cloth pictorially stamped in black, gilt, green and white. Trifling rubbing at top and bottom of spine, fine. First edition. $250.00

The best known collection of tales of that romantic period of California history when the incoming Americans were first intermingling with the Californians of rancho and presidio. It contains two more stories than the author’s Before the Gringo Came, of which it is a revised and enlarged edition. [Baird-Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 16641970 113. Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930 p. 23. The Zamorano Eighty A Selection of Distinguished California Books 1. Powell, California Classics, pp. 103-14: “Atherton’s stories of love and death, bull and bear fights, moonlight meriendas, horse races and fancy dress balls, are increasingly meaningful and precious. They are truly classics of Californiana”. Storm, A Catalogue of the Everettt D. Graff Collection of Western Americana 102. Dobie, Guide to the Life and Literature of the Southwest, p. 38. DAB. NAW]. 39. ATHERTON, Gertrude. Adventures of a Novelist. New York: Liveright, (1932).

Illustrated. Thick royal octavo, cloth, printed dust jacket (repaired, rear inside flap $45.00 chipped). Fine. First edition. - 11 -

A volume of memoirs by the San Francisco novelist. According to The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, Atherton “kept abreast of developing feminism till the 1930s, yet apparently regarded it as displacement of sexual energy”. [DAB. NAW].

AS TIME GOES BY

40. ATHERTON, Gertrude. My San Francisco. A Wayward Biography. Indianapolis:

Bobbs-Merrill, (1946). Illustrated. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly chipped at spine ends). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

$60.00 Tempus fugit. This writer first arrived in his San Francisco only fifteen years after Atherton’s “wayward biography” and in many ways remembers it a more magical place then than now. Especially past forgetting is the chapter on San Francisco’s bookstores: venerable Paul Elder’s, the popular Newbegin’s, the literate bonhomie of David Magee’s and the imposing John Howell-Books with its elegant, underlit premises. [DAB, NAW]. 41. [ATKINS, Mary]. Catalogue of the Teachers and Pupils of the Young Ladies’

Seminary, Benicia, For the Year Ending June 11, 1862. San Francisco: Alta California Print, (1862). Illustrated with a frontispiece woodcut of the school. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. Some rubbing and dust soiling of wrappers, else fine. Rare.

$350.00 With: “Concert at the City Hall, 10th June, 1862” and “Order of Exercises at the Annual Examination, June 10th and 11th, 1862”. There is a listing of the pupils, their home towns and their majors. Also included is a “course of study”, a brief history of the institution and the fees, rules and expectations for its students. The principal, Mary Atkins, an 1845 graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, came west via the Isthmus of Panama in 1855 and purchased the three year old seminary. In 1863 during a stopover in Hawaii en route to the Far East, she met Cyrus and Susan Mills to whom she subsequently sold the seminary. The Mills, in turn, built a school of their own near Oakland in 1871, while the Benicia Seminary having been repurchased by Atkins, continued to flourish. Atkins’s success at running what was for many years almost the only Protestant (but non-sectarian) school for girls in the state has been compared to that of Mary Lyon’s at Mount Holyoke in the East. Mills College, which evolved from Mills Seminary, considers its roots were planted at the Benicia Seminary. [Rocq, California Local History. A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings 14667. Greenwood, California Imprints 1833-1862. A Bibliography. Drury, California Imprints 1846-1876 Pertaining to Social, Educational, and Religious Subjects 326. NAW]. 42. ATKINS, Mary. The Diary of Mary Atkins. A Sabbatical in the Eighteen Sixties.

Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, 1937. Illustrated by Kathryn Uhl, and with tipped in reproduction of photograph of Mary Atkins with fascimile signature. Small quarto, pictorial boards, cloth spine. A tad browned at edges, else fine. First edition. One of 500 $60.00 copies.

The frontispiece is a tipped-in photographic reproduction of the author with a facsimile of her signature. The endpapers depict a map tracing the route of the 115 day voyage on the brig Advance from San Francisco to Shanghai as recorded by the diarist from November 10, 1863 to - 12 -

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March 4, 1864. [NAW].

PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PLAY

43. ATKINS, Zoë. The Old Maid. Dramatized by Zoë Atkins from the Novel by Edith

Wharton. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935. Octavo, original gilt-lettered blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slight chipping at edges). Endpapers and edges a little $185.00 foxed else about fine. First edition. Rare.

This dramatization from a novella by Edith Wharton opened in New York’s Empire Theatre on January 7, 1935, with Judith Anderson and Helen Menken in the leading roles. A subsequent film version starred Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins. Receipt of the award led to a difference of opinion expressed by those who felt that an original play, such as Robert Sherwood’s then current The Petrified Forest or Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour was a more deserving choice. The controversy led to the formation of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award the following year. In addition to her work as a playwright Atkins (1886-1958) was also a poet and a screenwriter (Morning Glory, Camille), a craft at which she made – and spent– a lot of money. [DAB]. 44. AUERBACH, Eveline Brooks and OGDEN, Annegret S., Editor. Frontier

Reminiscences. Berkeley: Bancroft Library, 1994. Illustrated. Octavo, printed paper $20.00 wrappers. As new. Printed by the Arion Press.

Born in 1859 of parents who emigrated from Prussia, the author reminisces about her family of German Jews planting new roots in Mormon territory. 45. AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.

Illustrated. Octavo, original olive green cloth pictorially stamped in green, gray, black and gilt, top edge gilt. A fine, bright copy. First edition, first printing. $500.00

Illustrated by Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) who would go on to do the artwork for a quartet of Austin’s books. “Other desert books have approached but never quite captured, the peculiar charm of the Austin masterpiece” – Edwards, The Enduring Desert. It is now known that there are two distinct printings of the first edition, the points identified by Stephen Tabor in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America volume 77, number 4, 1983 pp. 468-469. A photocopy of the article accompanies the volume. [Zamorano Eighty, 2. Cowan p. 24. Dykes, Smith 29. Graff 114. Howes, U.S.Iana (1650-1950) A Selective Bibliography A400. DAB. NAW]. 46. AUSTIN, Mary. The Flock. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Illustrated by E.

Boyd Smith. Octavo, original olive green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, white, yellow, top edge gilt. Minor cover wear, name in ink on front pastedown. Very good. First edi$125.00 tion.

The Flock, incorporating history and sketches of sheep ranching in the San Joaquin valley of California, “is an ecologically sensitive book which presents the desert ecosystem as a living force” - Dobie, p. 95. [Dykes, Smith 30. DAB. NAW]. 47. AUSTIN, Mary. The Lands of the Sun. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1927.

Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith with a frontispiece in color repeated on the jacket and pen and ink drawings. Octavo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a bit - 14 -

sunned with minor edgewear and soiling). Fine. First edition, decidedly uncommon in $275.00 jacket.

Another Austin book about California. According to an old Spanish proverb lands of the sun are places that expand the soul. [Dykes, Smith 33. DAB. NAW].

AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH

48. [AUSTIN, Mary Hunter]. BYNNER, Witter. 1928 Photograph of Mary Austin $75.00 standing against a railing. : 6-1/2” x 4”, . Fine. On the verso is a stamp identifying the photographer as the poet Witter Bynner, who was a close friend. Below this is pencilled the date of 1928. [DAB. NAW]. 49. AUSTIN, Mary. Earth Horizon Autobiography. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932.

Illustrated. Octavo, buckram, pictorial dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket a tad browned. $100.00 Fine. First edition.

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) is not readily summarized. It has been noted that she was a born rebel, a born mystic and a born writer. To this can be added the labels of a throughgoing feminist and environmentalist. Austin marched to a different drummer than the passing parade of her day. A self proclaimed “Woman Alone” she was armored with a formidable egocentric personality which did nothing to encourage indifference among those with whom she came in contact. This autobiography, considered one of the great accounts of the Southwest, deals with the constraints facing a creative woman in a conventional society. One reviewer wrote “No American can read this book without gaining from it a sense of direction, as well as the pleasure of acquaintance of a warm personality and a distinguished mind”. [Browne, p. 26. Rocq 2231. Dobie, p. 21. DAB. NAW]. 50. [AUSTIN, Mary]. FINK, Augusta. I-Mary. A Biography of Mary Austin.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1983). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (minimal chipping at top and bottom edges). Fine. First edition. $20.00 With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW].

51. [AUZELLO, Blanche]. MARX, Samuel. Queen of the Ritz. Indianapolis:

Bobbs-Merrill, (1978). Illustrated. Octavo, fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket (very slight $20.00 wear and soiling). Fine. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author.

Manhattan-born Blanche Rubinstein and friend Pearl White (silent film star of The Perils of Pauline) travelled to Paris in the mid-1920’s. It was there Blanche met and married Claude Auzello and with him ran the famous Hotel Ritz from its jazz age influx of American expatriates to accomodating German officers during the World War II occupation. With an index. 52. AVARY, Myrta Lockett. Dixie After The War. An Exposition of Social Conditions

Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906. Illustrated from old paintings, daguerrotypes and rare photographs. Octavo, original silver and gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others $100.00 uncut. In stunningly fine condition. First edition.

“A revealing companion to Mrs. Avary’s wartime reminiscences; most of this work tells of Virginia in the days immediately after Appomattox”. [Nevins, Robertson and Wiley, Civil War - 15 -

Books A Critical Bibliography II, p. 181]. 53. [AVIATION]. HAYNSWORTH, Leslie and TOOMEY, David. Amelia Earhart’s

Daughters. The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age. New York: Morrow, (1998). Illustrated with photo$20.00 graphs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. As new. First edition.

The joint authors’s first book. With a selected bibliography and an index. Publisher’s prospectus laid in.

54. [AVIATION]. PLANCK, Charles E. Women with Wings. New York: Harper &

Brothers, (1942). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $100.00 jacket (torn and repaired). Fine. First edition.

“The thrilling story of what women have contributed- and are contributing- to the progress of aviation” (dust jacket blurb). Mild hyperbole aside, the book is an informative piece of work at the leading edge of its place and time. It includes a “Chronology of Feminine International Aircraft Records,” a “Women’s Aviation Chronology” and an index.

SHE LANDED ON HER FEET

55. AYER, Margaret Hubbard and TAVES, Isabella. The Three Lives of Harriet

Hubbard Ayer. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1957). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, picto$20.00 rial dust jacket (slight wear). Spine a little faded, else fine. First edition.

The “Three Lives” of the title include Ayer’s (1848-1903) years as a society matron turned business entrepreneur turned insane asylum inmate turned beauty columnist and feature writer for the New York World. (Isn’t that four?) The co-author succeeded her mother on the staff of the World and subsequently married the paper’s editor. [NAW. Sweeney 55]. 56. BACALL, Lauren. Lauren Bacall by Myself. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Illustrated with fifty-seven black and white photographs. Octavo, cream cloth lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket. Glue mark on inside hinge showing slightly on front joint, light browning of rear pastedown, fine. First edition. Signed by Bacall on front free end$45.00 paper. A more recent image as a resourceful woman of the world was first projected by the attention getting raising of an eyebrow and lowering of her voice. A straightforward look in the mirror by the admirable actress who went from Brooklyn to Broadway, via Hollywood. 377 pages are summed up in a sentence from the final paragraph: “I am not just taking up space in this life”.

57. [BAILEY, Florence Merriam]. KOFALK, Harriet. No Woman Tenderfoot. Florence Merriam Bailey, Pinoeer Naturalist. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, (1989). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

WOMEN

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$20.00 Bailey was a leading ornithologist, nature writer and teacher for half a century. She was one of the first to study birds on the wing and not on a mounting. With extensive notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. - 17 -

A STRING OF PEARLS

58. BAILEY, Pearl. Talking to Myself. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

(1971). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed on the title page in her excellent script to the movie director Otto Preminger: “To Otto - A magnifi$75.00 cent person- and a tremendous asset to the profession. In love Pearl”. Besides being a night club singer, the versatile recording star, television performer and movie actress also received Broadway’s highest accolade- a Tony Award. This literate string of loosely connected anecdotes is a light and delightful read. 59. BAKER, Carroll. Baby Doll. An Autobiography. New York: Arbor House,

(1983). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jack$25.00 et. Covers soiled, else fine. First edition. Signed by Baker on the half-title.

The title, of course, is from the 1956 film written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Elia Kazan about the child wife of a “poor white” southerner. The comedy’s shock value helped loosen the overly restrictive Hollywood Production Code. With a list of Baker’s films, and an index.

60. [BAKER, Josephine]. RIVOLLET, André. Joséphine Baker. Une Vie de Toutes

Les Couleurs. Grenoble: B. Arthaud, (1935). Illustrated. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. $375.00 Fine. First edition of what is now a rare book.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906, Baker became a dancer during her adolescence, developing a taste for the flamboyant which led to roles in Sissle and Blake’s Broadway musical “Chocolate Dandies” and in the floor show of the Plantation Club in Harlem. Emigrating to Paris in 1925, she took the City of Lights by storm, symbolizing the beauty and vitality of black American culture in “La Revue Nègre”while also playing a primary role in the introduction of hot jazz in France. During the thirties her vocal and dancing talents were showcased in several films. This early biography of Baker is very scarce, even more so with the colorful wrappers in such attractive condition. [DAB. NAWM]. 61. [BAKER, Josephine]. ROSE, Phyllis. Jazz Cleopatra. Josephine Baker in Her

Time. New York: Doubleday, (1989). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. $20.00

from the author’s preface. 63. [BALLARD, Martha]. ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale. The Life

of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. $35.00 Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

During her career as a midwife Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812) attended to 814 deliveries. Part of her preparation, no doubt, was having given birth to nine babies herself. As the jacket blurb states, the book speaks “to the texture of ordinary life in pre-industrial America”. The editor and author is a history professor and an authority on the women of early colonial days. With an appendix of medical ingredients, extensive notes and an index. 64. [BANKHEAD, Tallulah]. GILL, Brendan. Tallulah. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1972). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Quarto, purple cloth lettered in purple, pictorial dust jacket somewhat rubbed and faded). Spine and edges a little $20.00 faded with occasional spotting, else fine. First edition. A coffee table book with spirit, enriched by Brendan Gill’s shallow yet lively text (a portion of which appeared in a two part New Yorker profile) and accompanied by hundreds of photographs, many of which are first published herein. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an original, and this work at least upstages the many myths that surround her. With a chronology of her professional career and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 70]. 65. BANNER, Lois W. American Beauty. New York: Knopf, 1983. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $50.00 “A social history through two centuries of the American idea, ideal and image of the beautiful woman”, being a chronicle of the way women looked or wanted to look and how they felt about it. Dr. Banner has written other feminist studies while also teaching at the university level in a number of institutions. With notes, a bibliography and index. 66. [BARNES, Djuna]. FIELD, Andrew. Djuna. The Life and Times of Djuna

Barnes. New York: Putnam, (1983). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. With a list of sources, a bibliography and an index.

World War II found Baker working with the Red Cross and the French Resistance as well as entertaining troops on three continents. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d’Honneur with the rosette of the Resistance for her efforts. Beloved in her adopted country, upon her death in 1975 Baker received a glorious state funeral, an event completely unprecedented in France for an entertainer. The author had received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships to write this biography. With notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

$20.00 Barnes was born at Cornwall-On-Hudson in 1892 where her ashes were scattered ninety years later. During the rest of the circle Djuna (named after Prince Djalma, a character in The Wandering Jew) was a journalist, playwright, author (the psychological novel Nightwood), poet and artist. Her bohemian days in pre-war Greenwich Village were followed by post–war days in expatriate Paris, then England and finally a return to New York City. There, with some financial support from her friend Peggy Guggenheim, she continued writing. With a list of sources, a bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 73].

62. BALDERSTON, Lydia Ray. Housewifery. A Manual and Text Book of Practical

67. [BARNEY, Natalie]. WICKES , George. The Amazon of Letters. The Life and

Housekeeping. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1919. With 175 illustrations in the text. Octavo, original tan cloth pictorially stamped in blue and original yellow. About fine. $65.00 First edition and exceedingly scarce.

“This handbook of practical housekeeping is offered to women in the hope that it may show in some measure how to reduce tasks in the home and how to save time, money, and energy” - 18 -

Loves of Natalie Barney. London: W.H. Allen, 1977. Illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First English edition.

Barney was born in Dayton, Ohio and died in Paris at the age of ninety-five. She was a poet and writer, though now most remembered as the leading lesbian of her time. Coincidence places her entry next to Djuna Barnes; they had had a brief affair the first summer Barnes was in - 19 -

Europe and remained close friends. Barney’s independent means enabled her to hostess the oldest and finest expatriate literary salon in Paris. With a bibliography and an index. [NAWM. Sweeney 79 for U.S. edition]. 68. BARRYMORE, Ethel. Memories. An Autobiography. New York: Harper, (1955). Illustrated with many photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (slight wear). Ink ownership stamp, else fine. First edition. $20.00

Ethel (1879-1959) was a distinguished member of the celebrated acting family which included father Maurice and brothers John and Lionel. Her mother was Georgiana Drew, sister of the noted actor John Drew, Jr. The actress’ career spanned sixty years, from the theatre to silent films to sound (she won an Academy Award in 1944) to television. With an index. [DAB. NAWM]. 69. BARTON, Clara. The Red Cross, In Peace and War. (Washington D.C.):

American Historical Press, 1899. Profusely illustrated. Thick octavo, original blue cloth with red cross decoration on a band of white. Light cover wear, else fine. First edition thus, published the previous year under the title The Red Cross a History of This $150.00 Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity.

Barton first achieved reknown as a nurse in the Civil War winning the sobriquet of “Angel of the Battlefield” while also gathering and distributing supplies. She was naturally attracted to the International Red Cross, which was initially formed to care for soldiers wounded in battle. She set up the American Association of the Red Cross in 1881 and the following year, largely because of her efforts, the U.S. ratified the Geneva Treaty which had established the international organization. Barton served as head of the American Red Cross until 1904, devoting herself to providing relief in both domestic and foreign disasters. With notes and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 70. [BARTON, Clara]. ROSS, Ishbel. Angel of the Battlefield. The Life of Clara

Barton. New York: Harper, (1956). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A biography of the founder of the Red Cross in America. With an appendix, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 83].

KATY AT THE BAT

71. [BASEBALL]. BERLAGE, Gai Ingham. Women in Baseball. The Forgotten

Story. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, (1994). Illustrated. Octavo, fabricoid, dust jack$25.00 et. Front free endpaper somewhat wrinkled, else fine. First edition.

With: GREGORICH, Barbara. Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Indianapolis: The Indiana Historical Society, 1963. Illustrated with photographs. Quarto, original wrappers. Fine. Contains “Women in Baseball: Indiana’s Dynamic Heritage”, pp. 26-35. Women played the game too, surprisingly, as early as 1866. Berlage writes of the game’s female pioneers from the Victorian era to recent times, including baseball at early women’s colleges, the negro leagues, Little League and the All American Girls Professional Baseball League of World War II and postwar. As a Professor of Sociology she brings cultural perspective to her well researched history. With an appendix and an index. - 20 -

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FIRST BOOK ON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

72. [BASKETBALL]. FRYMIR, Alice W. Basket Ball for Women. How to Coach

and Play the Game. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1928. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in black. Endpapers lightly $250.00 foxed, else fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

Women’s basketball was introduced at Smith College in 1892 by Senda Berenson, only a year after the game had been invented. The restrictions of girl’s garments of the day, disapproval of unladylike behavior and general tension between women’s athletics and then standards of femininity continued for many years. In her preface the author infers that this book may well be the earliest thorough treatise of the subject. “The need for a book on basket ball for women which would include not only the fundamental and advanced technique but all points relative to the game of basket ball on which there has been misunderstanding and controversy, supplied the compelling urge for the author to write this volume”. There are chapters on the history and development of basket ball for women; physical and social ideals of the coach; courts, equipment and costume; all the fundamentals of the game; positions; officials; competition, and even a chapter on healthful living. Of course the men’s game has changed as well, but if this cataloguer would permit himself a one-time use of the patronizing phrase “you’ve come a long way, baby” this would be the spot.

THE OTHER NATIONAL ANTHEM

73. BATES, Katharine Lee. America the Beautiful and Other Poems. New York:

Some Cultivators of the P a l a t e

Thomas Y. Crowell, (1911). Octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt. Spine $350.00 lettering faded, else near fine. First edition, and rare thus.

The first appearance in a book of the famous title poem which Bates had written and set aside years before while on a trip out west. The four stanza hymn had been inspired by a descent in a wagon from Pike’s Peak. The author graduated from Wellesley College and taught there as an instructor and then a professor of English literature from 1885 to 1925. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 123].

74. BAZORE, Katherine. Hawaiian and Pacific Foods. A Cook Book of Culinary Customs and Recipes Adapted for the American Hostess. New York: M. Barrows , 1940. Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly chipped at top edge with cello tape repairs from inside). Small and light vertical scratch on front cover, endpapers a little browned, else fine. First edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the $60.00 author. With an appendix and an index. [See Brown, Culinary Americana Cookbooks Published in the ... United States ... 1860 through 1960, 530 for 1953 reprint. Not in Cagle & Stafford, American Book on Food and Drink. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Cookbooks Collection Housed in the Lilly Library of the Indiana University].

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

75. BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1959).

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little browned). Fine. First edition.

$30.00 Beach’s father, a Presbyterian minister, was called to Paris in 1901 which gave fourteen year old Sylvia the introduction to her future. Later trips to France followed and postwar Paris saw the opening of a little Left Bank bookstore Beach named Shakespeare and Company. Hemingway, Stein, Pound, Anderson, Fitzgerald and other expatriates are linked to the shop’s memory, but none so notably as James Joyce. When censorship restrictions prevented unexpurgated editions in England and America, Beach undertook the far from simple task of publishing Ulysses herself. The rest is literary history. [DAB. NAWM].

THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH INSCRIBED CARD

76. BEASLEY, Delilah Leontium. The Negro Trailblazers of California. A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the Diaries, Old Papers and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California. It is a True Record of Facts, as They Pertain to the History of the Pioneer and Present Day Negroes of California. Los Angeles: [n.p.], 1919. Illustrated. Octavo, original orange cloth pictorially stamped in red on front cover and spine. Some minor wear to back cover, otherwise fine. First edi$1,500.00 tion. With the author’s inscribed business card laid in. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the author and photographs of notable blacks of the day from a broad spectrum of occupations. This work was reprinted about thirty years ago and even that edition is very scarce. This first edition is seldom obtainable and only the second copy we have ever handled. [Rocq 16678]. 77. BEASLEY, Gertrude. My First Thirty Years. Afterword by Larry McMurtry.

Texas: Book Club of Texas, 1989. Illustrated with twenty-five woodcuts by Claire van Vliet. Octavo, original blue stiff wrappers, uncut and unopened. As new. First edition $100.00 thus. One of 500 copies. With the prospectus.

Up the years from a coarse rural background, presented unvarnished. Laid in is the printed broadside notice “How to Open This Book” which explains that the original Paris edition had been published in a binding quite similar to the present. Admitting that while opening the uncut pages will slow one down a bit, “in a world in which everything else is designed to speed you up, this may prove a refreshing change of pace”. H.L. Mencken had called the work “a social document of the utmost interest” while McMurtry discusses its ranking in the early literature of Texas. 78. BEECHER, Catherine E and STOWE, Harriet Beecher. The American

Woman’s Home: or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes. New York: J.B. Ford, 1869. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, bevelled edges. Minor cover wear, scattered foxing, a front free endpaper want$150.00 ing and chip from rear endpaper. Still a well preserved copy. First edition.

Catherine Beecher was among the most significant influences in redefining the domestic role of women in the nineteenth century. “The American Woman’s Home was the culmination of Catherine Beecher’s career as an authority on women’s roles, housing design, and household organization. Its publication concluded thirty-eight years of agitation for female dominance in the - 24 -

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home with an ultimate architectural resolution. Although the designer was sixty-nine years old, her ability to manipulate space and mechanical equipment had never been greater. In the next half century other domestic experts and designers such as Christine Frederick, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Lillian Gilbreath would only try to live up to her example”. (Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities, p. 58). As indicated in the excerpts in Gifford, The Literature of Architecture, pp. 275-288, the Beecher’s book reflects the complexity of what an architecture, both practical and expressive of the “soul”, could mean in the context of nineteenth century domestic reform idealism. The illustrations and information on furniture and furnishings are of particular value for historic house restorations of this period as well as the student of domestic interiors and social history. [BAL 19453 imprint A, first printing. DAB. NAW]. 79. BEERS, Ethel Lynn. “All Quiet Along the Potomac” and Other Poems. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, (1879). Octavo, original gilt-lettered cloth. Fine. First $200.00 edition. A rare book. “‘All quiet along the Potomac’, they say, Except, now and then, a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket...” Otherwise known as “The Picket Guard”, according to Mrs. Beers explanatory notes at the end of the volume. “In the fall of 1861 ‘All Quiet along the Potomac’ was the familiar heading of all war-despatches. So when this poem appeared in the columns of Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 30th, it was quickly republished in almost every journal of the land. As it bore only the initials E.B., the poem soon became a nameless waif, and was attributed to various pens”. [Johnson, pp. 1-4. DAB]. 80. BEERS, Fannie A. Memories. A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1891. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Octavo, original gilt-lettered brown cloth. Fine. First published in 1888, the book $150.00 is rare in this fine condition.

A few of the memories were originally written for the Southern Bivouac. “Vivid recollections by a nurse and administrator in Confederate hospitals, plus some stories of less value ‘told’ to the writer”. [Nevins II, p. 182]. 81. BENÉT, Laura. When William Rose, Stephen Vincent and I Were Young. New

York: Dodd, Mead, (1976). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Fine.

A memoir of the childhood of three siblings who would all grow up to become wellknown writers.

THE BENTONS FREE THEIR SLAVE!

82. BENTON, Thomas Hart and Elizabeth. ADs. 5 November, 1835.

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$5,000.00 Act of emancipation, signed by the famous statesman Thomas Hart Benton and his wife Elizabeth, emancipating their 41-year old slave Sarah after approximately 14 years of “long and faithful services”. “We, Thomas H. Benton & Elizabeth Benton, in consideration of long & faithful services, did, upwards of a year ago, set free the bearer, Sarah, a black woman, aged about forty one years, and our slave at that time; in confirmation of which we do now deliver this act of emancipation. The said Sarah was born in Virginia, in the family of Col.. James McDowell, and came with us to the State of Missouri, in the year 1821, as our slave; she is an honest, sober and industrious woman, always a house servant, and is a good seamstress, washer & ironer. She was married some years ago to Daniel, formerly the slave of Mrs. Ann Benton, now belonging to W. Charles Cabanne, and is now his wife. Given under our hands & seals at St. Louis, this 5th day of November in the year 1835. Thomas H. Benton (Seal). Elizabeth Benton (Seal). Also signed, sealed & in presence of three witnesses A. Rutland, Arthur L. Magenis, J. (Joshua).B. Brant. On verso signed by the Clerk, Archibald Gamble. Docketed “Filed 11 November, 1835” with the embossed “St. Louis Country Circuit Court Seal”. Thomas Hart Benton is one of the most famous citizens in the history of Missouri. At the time of this document Benton had been in Congress for 14 years. His wife, Elizabeth, was from a prominent Virginia family. There is a very interesting circular sidelight to this manumission. Sarah, the ex-slave referred to in this document was, from birth, the property of Elizabeth Benton’s father, Colonel James McDowell. Sarah’s husband, the slave named Daniel in the above document, had been the property of Mrs. Ann Benton, Thomas Hart Benton’s mother. According to the Dictionary of American Biography Benton’s “views on slavery ... materially changed. While in 1820 he had opposed all slavery restriction in Missouri by 1828 he had come to favour gradual abolition”. During the battle to retain or repeal the prohibition of slavery contained in the Missouri Compromise, Benton led the fight to oppose repeal.

83. [BERNSTEIN, Aline]. KLEIN, Carole. Aline. New York: Harper & Row, (1979). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 The first biography of Aline Bernstein, famed stage designer. Her lover, the author Thomas Wolfe, is also of considerable note. The author had access to the unpublished correspondence between the two during their eight year affair which had begun as a shipboard romance: she, forty-five and travelling first class; he, a tourist passenger twenty years her junior. With a selected bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 100].

FIRST BOOK TRANSLATION OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE BY A WOMAN

84. [BIBLE]. [SMITH, Julie E., Translator]. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old

and New Testaments; Translated Literally From the Original Tongues. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Small quarto, original gilt lettered blind-stamped dark brown cloth, edges speckled. Tips, edges and spine edges slightly rubbed with quite minor losses of cloth, small 1/8 x1/4 inch chip from right edge of spine joint. A $5,000.00 firm, sound and fresh copy. First and only edition.

Julia Evelina Smith (May 27, 1792 - March 6, 1886) Connecticut suffragist, and her sister Abby Hadassah Smith formed a remarkable and memorable duo. The two sisters were the youngest of five daughters, all of whom were encouraged to be independent in thought and diverse in their interests. The siblings lived quietly at their Connecticut farm, but aroused early - 28 -

attention when they invited William Lloyd Garrison to hold abolitionist meetings on their front lawn – Hartford churches having banned him from their precincts. Following the Civil War the two surviving sisters, Julia and Abby, became suffragists after attending a woman suffrage meeting in Hartford in 1869. In November 1873, the town raised the property taxes on properties owned by women, including the Smith farm. The sisters dared to speak at a town meeting to protest. Their refusal to pay the taxes led to their cows, and later their farm land, being attached and sold and eventually their situation became a suffrage cause celèbre. Julia Smith also wanted to further the suffrage cause by demonstrating that a woman had capabilities beyond the domestic realm. “She published at her own expense a translation of the Bible she had completed twenty years before. Always an earnest student of the Scriptures, she had first turned to the original Greek in 1843 to determine the authority for William Miller’s prediction of the end of the world. Concluding that the King James version was in many passages unsatisfactory, she began, for her own instruction, a literal, word-by-word translation of both the Old and New Testaments. She made a translation from the Septuagint, another from the Latin Vulgate, and, still dissatisfied, taught herself Hebrew and completed two more translations from the language – in all, a labor of seven years.” [NAW]. It was a notable achievement, given that translations of the Bible are usually undertaken by committee only. The King James version for instance, incorporated the work of forty-seven translators. Throughout the abolitionist and suffrage movements, women had had religious texts quoted against them. Gradually it became apparent that the original text of the Bible might be less limiting to women than translations suggested. Smith saw what Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others would acknowledge: until women translated the Bible, the text, in the hands of male translators would be colored by traditional social values. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her committee undertook The Woman’s Bible they relied primarily on two texts: the Revised Version of 1881 and Julia Smith’s translation. Stanton scholar Lois Banner has remarked that “Smith’s translation was not widely known, but she was legendary among feminists ...” An important volume in American religious and social letters. Julia Smith’s great labor did not meet with commercial success largely because, as pointed out by Hills and by Herbert, her word for word translation from the Hebrew and Greek produced a quite unnatural English. As, for instance, the twenty-third Psalm: “Chanting of David. Jehovah my shepherd, and I shall not want. 2 He will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of rest. 3 He will turn back my soul: he will guide me into the tracks of justice for sake of his name. 4 Also if I shall go into he valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me. 5 Thou wilt set in order a table before me in front of mine enemies: thou madest fat mine head with oil; my cup being satisfied with drink. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life: and I dwelt in the house of Jehovah to the length of days.”. [Hills, The English Bible in America pp. 288-289. (locates four copies). Rumbell-Petrie Rare Bibles 201. Herbert, Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961, 2002]. 85. [BICKERDYKE, Mary Ann]. DAVIS, Margaret B. Mother Bickerdyke: Her Life and Labors for the Relief of Our Soldiers. Sketches of Battle Scenes and Incidents of the Sanitary Service. San Francisco: A.T. Dewey, 1886. Frontispiece photo of - 29 -

Bickerdyke. Octavo, original brown cloth. Edges slightly bumped, spine ends rubbed, $185.00 else fine. First edition. Rare.

More correctly, the author’s name was Margaret Davis Burton. The book was published for the aging Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke’s benefit. “A laudatory essay on one of the most famous and beloved nurses in the Western theater”. [Nevins II, p. 122. DAB. NAW].

THE FIRST TREATISE ON THE SUBJECT

86. [BICYCLING]. WARD, Maria E. Bicycling for Ladies. With Hints as to the Arts

of Wheeling - Advice to Beginners - Dress -Care of the Bicycle-Mechanics-TrainingExercise, etc., etc. New York: Brentano’s, (1896). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original deep blue cloth pictorially stamped in light gray, gilt and silver, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Some light spotting of blue cloth, light $600.00 foxing of preliminary and terminal leaves. First edition.

Exceedingly scarce. Profusely illustrated with photographs of female cyclists demonstrating proper and improper procedures as well as methods of bicycle maintenance. No “looking sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two” here, this is all solo. 87. BIRD, Isabella L. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: Putnam’s,

1879-1880. Illustrated. Octavo, original tan cloth pictorially stamped in black and gold. $450.00 Preliminary and terminal leaves foxed, else fine. First U.S. edition. Rare.

In a prefatory note the author explains that the work, which actually comprises a series of letters to her sister in England, was printed in the periodical Leisure Hour at its editor’s request. Such favorable reception led her to publish them in book form “as a record of very interesting travelling experiences, and of a phase of pioneer life which is rapidly passing away”. [Cowan, p. 54. Adams, The Rampaging Herd. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry 259]. 88. BIRMINGHAM, Stephen. The Grandes Dames. New York: Simon and Schuster,

(1982). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket $20.00 (a little browned at edges). Fine. First edition.

Birmingham (“Our Crowd”, California Rich, etc.) has written extensively of the social milieu. In this one he studies “the wonderfully uninhibited ladies who used their wealth and position to create American culture in their own image - from the Gilded Age to Modern Times” (from the cover of the dust jacket). 89. [BISHOP, Princess Pauahi]. BLACK, Cobey and MELLEN, Kathleen

Dickenson. Princess Pauahi Bishop and Her Legacy. Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, (1965). Numerous illustrations. Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. $25.00

A biography of the extremely popular Hawaiian princess Pauahi (1831-1884) and the legacy she left to the Kamehameha School for boys and girls. Today the Bishop Trust is said to be the wealthiest in the world. With a glossary and an index.

“A WORK OF UNUSUAL INTEREST” – COWAN

90. BIXBY-SMITH, Sarah . Adobe Days. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1925.

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lettered in black. Fine. First edition, very scarce thus.

$100.00 The lengthy subtitle reads: “Being the Truthful Narrative of the Events in the Life of a California Girl on a Sheep Ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles While It Was Yet a Small and Humble Town; Together With An Account of How Three Young Men From Maine in Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Three Drove Sheep and Cattle Across the Plains, Mountains and Deserts From Illinois to the Pacific Coast; and the Strange Prophecy of Admiral Thatcher About San Pedro Harbor”. Bixby-Smith’s sister was also a noteworthy author. [Adams, Herd 266. Rocq 4403. Mintz, The Trail. A Bibliography of the Travellers on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City and Montana During the Years 1841-1864 38. Cowan p. 55]. 91. BJÖRKMAN, Frances M and PORRITT, Annie G.W., Editors. Woman

Suffrage. History, Arguments and Results. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing, 1915. 16mo, original blue cloth lettered in black. Fine. First edition thus $90.00 (originally 1913 and updated at intervals thereafter).

“A collection of seven popular booklets covering practically the entire field of suffrage claims and evidence. Designed especially for the convenience of suffrage speakers and writers and for the use of debaters and libraries”. 92. [BLACKWELL, Elizabeth]. HAYS, Elinor Rice. Those Extraordinary

Blackwells. The Story of a Journey to a Better World. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1967). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine slighlty browned and lightly chipped at bottom, two small tears at bottom of front panel). Fine. First edition. $40.00

The Blackwell family had emigrated from England in 1832. As she grew up Elizabeth Blackwell decided that she wanted to become a doctor, an ambition much easier wished for than accomplished as indeed it was one profession, among many, closed to women. Turned down by leading medical school after medical school, she finally gained admittance to Geneva College, a small upstate New York institution from which she graduated on January 23, 1849. On that date she became the first bona fide woman doctor in modern times. Her struggle against prejudice had barely begun. During her long life (1821-1910) the diminutive (5’1”) doctor overcame many additional obstacles. With her sister Emily (M.D. Western Reserve, 1854) she founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. In 1869 she returned to England where she enjoyed a large and successful practice until her health’s deterioration forced retirement in 1876. She made but one more visit to America, thirty years later. [DAB. NAW]. 93. [BLY, Nellie]. RITTENHOUSE, Mignon. The Amazing Nellie Bly. New York:

E.P. Dutton, 1956. Numerous illustrations. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inserted is a photograph of the frontispiece, an advance $60.00 review copy notice, and a postage stamp recently issued in her honor.

“Nellie Bly” was the byline of Elizabeth Cochrane who ventured from the Pennsylvania hamlet of Cochran’s Mills to become the catalyst that opened the journalistic doors of the newspaper world for women. Her daring plan to feign insanity to get committed to report on asylum conditions won the approval of the publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Her newspaper articles exposing social and economic plights in New York made her a national figure by age twenty-two and she was called the “best reporter in America”. In 1889 she set off to beat Jules Verne’s imaginary - 32 -

eighty day trip around the world and did, in seventy-two. It was Bly’s good fortune to be, in her earlier years, a bit ahead of her times yet in her later, a little behind them. This is a breezily lightweight account of her life. With a brief appendix. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 119]. (See ill. p. 143). 94. [BOGAN, Louise]. FRANK, Elizabeth. Louise Bogan. A Portrait. New York:

Knopf, (1985). Illustrated with photographs. Royal octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The author spent a decade preparing this life of the celebrated poet and New Yorker critic. “What, aside from their technical excellence”, W.H. Auden wrote, “is most impressive about her poems is the unflinching courage with which she faced her problems, her determination never to surrender to self-pity, but to wrest beauty and joy out of dark places”. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 120].

HOOFPRINTS OF AN ARCHIVAL WORKHORSE

95. BOGGS, Mae Hélène Bacon, Compiler. My Playhouse was a Concord Coach.

An Anthology of Newspaper Clippings and Documents Relating to Those Who Made California History During the Years 1822-1888. (Oakland: Howell-North Press, 1942). Many illustrations and maps, including eight folding facsimile maps. Thick small folio, $375.00 cloth. Fine.

The work was not issued for sale. This copy inscribed and signed by Boggs on a presentation leaf. “A potpourri of clippings and maps surrounding the gold rush days – much about Shasta, Trinity, and northern California.” (Rocq). There are many references to the Chinese, particularly those located in outlying areas from San Francisco. Items cover such diverse subjects as the first arrivals in California and a Chinese railroad strike in northern California in 1848. (Hansen & Heintz). Much about history of stagecoaching, also much of Jewish interest. Wanted: an index. [Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen, 234. Howes B70. Rocq 15700]. 96. BOOTH, Clare. Kiss the Boys Good-Bye. A Comedy. New York: Random House,

(1939). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a trifle browned, minor wear to edges, $100.00 folds). Fine. First edition.

The author’s second book, a satire of Hollywood’s search for an unknown actress to play Scarlett O’Hara. With an introduction by Booth and a foreword by the critic Heywood Broun.

97. [BOOTH, Clare]. SHEED, Wilfred. Clare Booth Luce. New York: Dutton, (1982). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Booth was a playwright (The Women, 1936), Congresswoman (1943-1947), and U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1953-1957). [Sweeney 776].

98. [BOOTH, Maud Ballington]. WELTY, Susan F. Look Up and Hope! The Motto of the Volunteer Prison League. The Life of Maud Ballington Booth. New York: Thomas Nelson, (1961). With a frontispiece photograph of Booth. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. Presentation inscription by the author on half title.

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in America. She was co-leader with her husband, General Ballington Booth, of the Volunteers of America. With a list of sources and an index. [NAW. Sweeney 128]. 99. [BORDEN, Lizzie]. PORTER, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders. Fall River: Geo. R.H. Buffinton, 1893. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, in custom slipcase. Spine ends and lower edge a little rubbed, endpapers very lightly browned, name in ink $1,500.00 on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy. First edition.

With: PORTER, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy. A History of the Borden Murders. Portland, Maine: King Phillip Publishing, 1985. Illustrated. Octavo, fabricoid, issued without dust jacket. Fine. One of 1,000 copies, a facsimile of the rare 1893 first edition. The scarcity of newspaperman Porter’s original edition is reputed to be that Lizzie prevented the book’s circulation by buying out and destroying the entire printing. In Fall River, Massachusetts on a humid August morning in 1892 Lizzie Andrew Borden’s father and stepmother were brutally murdered in their home. Though compelling, the double parricide case against the thirty-two year old W.C.T.U. member and active church woman was circumstantial. At her trial the jury deliberated only an hour before returning a verdict of not guilty. The journalistic sensationalism of the case was epitomized by a bit of doggerel that lasts to this day: “Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; And when she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one”. Well, each to their own opinion, but after considering several accounts this writer believes that she was about as innocent as O.J. Simpson. [Howes P486. DAB. NAW]. 100. BOUGHTON, Alice. Photographing the Famous. New York: Avondale Press,

(1928). Quarto, original gray boards with printed label, black cloth spine. Covers a bit worn. Very good. Number 10 of this autographed edition. With a foreword by James L. Ford who died the year the book was published and with a small keepsake about Ford $200.00 laid in.

Boughton’s full page photographs are accompanied on each facing page by her explanation of the circumstances surrounding the sitting. Among the women, her definition of famous includes Julia Ward Howe, Ruth St. Denis and Ellen Terry as well as Sally Walters, Terry’s longtime maid and a Mrs. White, for forty years a circus wardrobe mistress. 101. BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret. Shooting the Russian War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned and top edge a bit worn with two small chips to top edge of rear cover , another at top of spine). About $75.00 fine. First edition.

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Photographed by the first woman war photojournalist. Bourke-White’s (a hyphenated compound of her middle and last names) experiences included being on a ship that was torpedoed and flying on a bombing raid during World War II. Earlier her photographs had been used for the cover (Fort Peck Dam) and lead article of Life magazine’s first issue. She also collaborated on several socially significant books with her then husband , author Erskine Caldwell. Her later career was cut short by Parkinson’s disease. [DAB. NAWM]. - 35 -

THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS

102. BOUVIER, Jacqueline and Lee. One Special Summer. New York: Delacorte

Press, 1974. Illustrated by the authors. Folio, blue marbled boards pictorially stamped in blue, lettered in blue on spine, in publisher’s box (a tad browned). Spine a tad $1,000.00 browned, else fine. One of 500 copies signed by Lee and Jacqueline.

As Lee Radziwill explains in her introduction to the 1951 journal of a European trip, the book had been made as a present to their mother in appreciation for allowing the sisters to take their first unchaperoned journey in Europe. “We split the fun: Jackie did the drawings, the poetry and the parts on Rome and Spain. I described most of our adventures - on the Queen Elizabeth, in London, Paris, Venice, Rome and Florence.” Charming is an overused word, but charming it is.

THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK

103. BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. Rufus Starbuck’s Wife. New York: Putnam, 1932.

Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some soiling and edgewear, some chipping). Fine. First edition. $60.00

Bowen’s first book and only novel. The plot concerns a violinist who attempts to receive some independence from a dominant husband through feminism, but eventually reconciles with him. Ms. Bowen herself had studied to be a concert violinist. [DAB. NAWM].

104. BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. John Adams and the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. About fine. First edition. $35.00 Bowen (1897-1973) spent five years doing research for this biography which was written because she found Adams to be the brightest, quickest and most honest man that she had come across in history. With notes, a list of sources and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

105. BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. Adventures of a Biographer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (faint soiling). Small bookplate removed from $25.00 front paste-down, else fine. First edition. An autobiographical series of essays by the respected author. [DAB. NAWM].

106. BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. Family Portrait. Boston: Little, Brown, (1970).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). $20.00 Fine. First edition.

Bowen’s reminiscence of her five older siblings - four Drinker boys and a beautiful sister– Pennsylvanians growing up in Philadelphia and later in Bethlehem, where her father was President of Lehigh University. [DAB. NAWM]. 107. BOWER, B. M. The Bellehelen Mine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924. Illustrated

with a frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. Octavo, original terra cotta cloth pictorially stamped in black and blue. Fine. First edition. $90.00

This successful and prolific author of western adventure stories combined lifelike characters with amusing complications and penned them with a cheerful humor. Like many of the most successful male writers of the sagebrush genre, Bower (1871-1940) had first hand knowledge, derived from a big sky country childhood. The Bellehelen Mine was written mid-career and

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is atypical of the author’s fiction in that the central character is a young woman and the setting a silver mine instead of a ranch or the cattle range. Nevertheless, as with her other novels, few readers realized the author’s initials stood for Bertha Muzzy. [DAB. NAWM. Blain, Clements and Grundy, The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, p.123. Dykes, Johnson 112]. 108. BOWERS, Mrs. Dr. J. Milton. The Dance of Life. An Answer to “Dance of Death”. San Francisco: San Francisco News Company, 1877. Decorated with chapter heads. 16mo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black. $100.00 Edges barely rubbed, bookplate, fine. First edition.

The Dance of Death was a wildly succesful literary hoax perpetrated by Ambrose Bierce and two cohorts. It professed to condemn the waltz as “an open and shameless gratification of sexual desire” and carried on in titillating phraseology. Bierce then wrote a review of the work, denouncing it as an outrage which, of course, only boosted sales. Endorsed by a Methodist Church conference, 18,000 copies of the book were sold in seven months. All this brought forth the rebuttal listed here, “dedicated to the lady dancers of San Francisco” and written “to check the insolence of a Philistine” by one Mrs. Dr. J. Milton Bowers or, although he denied it, just possibly by Mr. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce. [BAL vol. I, p. 226].

ONE OF THE SCARCER LEAF BOOKS

109. [BRADSTREET, Anne]. WHICHER, George Frisbie. Alas All’s Vanity or A

Leaf from the first American edition of “Several Poems” by .... New York: Spiral Press for the Collector’s Bookshop, 1942. Octavo, marbled boards, cloth spine. Fine. One of $675.00 105 copies.

Original leaf from Several Poems, printed at Boston in 1678, tipped in, with two facsimile title pages. With an extensive essay by Whicher noting the fact that published books of poems by women were quite unusual in the seventeenth century. Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) was born Anne Dudley in England. Her father was steward to the Earl of Lincoln and ultimately became governor of the Massachusetts colony. Anne’s early poems were distributed in manuscript, and Cotton Mather spoke of her as “a crown to her father”. Even a leaf from a seventeenth century book printed in North America is uncommon in today’s market. [DAB. NAW]. 110. [BRADWELL, Myra]. FRIEDMAN, Jane M. America’s First Woman Lawyer.

The Biography of Myra Bradwell. New York: Prometheus Books, 1993. Octavo, boards, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Although she had passed the Illinois bar examination with high honors in 1869 both the state and federal Supreme Courts denied her the right to practice law. Meanwhile, Bradwell had taken another tack and established the Chicago Legal News which became the most highly respected and widely circulated legal newspaper in America. She used it as a pulpit for social activism and legal reform, the latter including women’s rights and child custody. Bradwell was also instrumental in securing the release of the widowed Mary Todd Lincoln from the insane asylum to which she had been committed by her son, Robert. The interesting prologue “Myra Who?” demonstrates that the author, herself a professor of law, could also have carved out a career as a detective tracing missing persons. With an index. [DAB. NAW]. 111. BRANDON, Ruth. The Dollar Princesses. Sagas of Upward Nobility, 1870- 38 -

1914. New York: Knopf, 1980. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition.

An account of those wealthy American girls who married titled Europeans in the decades surrounding the turn of the century. The factual counterpart of the fiction immortalized by such writers as Henry James and Edith Wharton.

THE FIRST BLIND DEAF MUTE TO BE EDUCATED

112. [BRIDGMAN, Laura Dewey]. LAMSON, Mary Swift. Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl. Boston: New England Publishing Company, 1878. Illustrated, including Heliotype photographs of Bridgman. Octavo, original brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt. Spine ends very slightly worn, free endpapers slightly chipped, else excellent. First edition.

$125.00 Written by one of her teachers at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Institution for the Blind. It is the first account of the remarkable breakthrough Bridgman and her support group were able to accomplish. She made the first footsteps of progress that Helen Keller would later advance. Charles Dickens wrote about her in his 1843 American Notes, a learned scientist tested her vocal sounds, an eminent psychologist observed her and, at her death in 1889, a doctor made a landmark neurological study of her brain. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 150]. 113. [BRIDGMAN, Laura Dewey]. HOWE, Maud and HALL, Florence Howe.

Laura Bridgman Dr. Howe’s Famous Pupil and What He Taught Her. Boston: Little, Brown, 1903. Illustrated with drawings by John Elliott. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper, else $100.00 fine. First edition.

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was the director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind (and husband of Julia Ward Howe). A newspaper account of eight year old Laura Bridgman attracted his interest and she became his star pupil. This book is written by two of his daughters and describes the enlightened moment in Bridgman’s life: “The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did; but now the truth began to flash upon her, her intellect began to work, she perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind, and at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression; it was no longer a dog or a parrot, – it was an immortal spirit, eagerly seizing upon a new link of union with other spirits! I could almost fix upon the moment when this truth dawned upon her mind, and spread its light to her countenance; I saw that the great obstacle was overcome, and that henceforward nothing but patient and persevering, plain and straightforward efforts were to be used”. With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 149].

114. BRIGGS, E.W. The Bride’s Cook Book. San Francisco: California Bride’s Cook Book Publishing, n.d. (1913). Illustrated with advertisements. Octavo, original black boards, cloth spine lettered in gold. Gold a little dulled, else near fine. Many hand writ$100.00 ten recipes throughout the book.

The book is interspersed with wonderful full page advertisments and photographs of some of the ladies whose recipes are featured. [Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography p.60. Brown - 39 -

102. Glozer, California in the Kitchen... A Check List of California Imprints in the Field of Gastronomy from 1870(?)-1932 , 37. Not in Cagle & Stafford]. 115. [BROOKS, Eliza Ann]. BROOKS, Elisha. A Pioneer Mother in California.

Written for his Grandchildren to Show them How the Emigrants Crossed the Plains, and also what Manner of Person was their Great Grandmother. San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1922. Illustrated with tipped in portraits of the author and his mother. Octavo, original green cloth. Ink inscription on front pastedown, endpapers browned. Very good. $150.00 Second edition, with corrections.

the Mind. New York: Harper & Row, (1974). Illustrated with charts and graphs. Thick $20.00 octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Written by a pioneer researcher in the field, the book chronicles the emerging world of bio-feedback, defined as the phenomenon by which humans can learn to control their own biological and mental functioning. 120. BROWN, Elaine. A Taste of Power. A Black Woman’s Story. New York:

Pantheon Books, (1992). Illustrated with Photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The narrative of the author’s 1852 journey across the plains with his mother when he was eleven years old. “Written for his grandchildren to show them how the emigrants crossed the Plains, and also what manner of person was their Great Grandmother”. The rare first edition had been published that same year for family and friends in an unobtainable edition of 100 copies. [Cowan p. 74. Graff 412. Howes B-815. Rocq 14325. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush. A Descriptive Bibliography... 1848-1853. 79b].

The story of how Brown emerged from a black Philadelphia ghetto to become leader of the paramilitary, male-dominated Black Panther Party and what she did with that power. “What Elaine Brown writes is so astonishing, at times it is even difficult to believe she survived it. And yet she did, bringing us that amazing light of the black woman’s magical resilience, in the gloominess of our bitter despair”. – author Alice Walker .

116. BROOKS, Louise. Lulu in Hollywood. New York: Knopf, 1982. Illustrated with

121. BROWN, Helen Gurley. The Late Show. A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50. New York: William Morrow, (1993). Octavo, original boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

forty pages of black and white photographs. Quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The volume consists of seven autobiographical essays by the beautiful, intelligent and talented actress from Kansas who, oddly, made her best films in Germany. Long a cult figure abroad, in 1979 a famous New Yorker profile dispelled the critical enigma she had represented in America. 117. BROWN, Alice. Tiverton Tales. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899. Octavo, orig-

inal green cloth pictorially stamped in purple, light green and gilt, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. Bookplate on front pastedown., trifling foxing to fore-edge. A fine $60.00 copy. First edition.

New Hampshire-born Brown (1856-1948) became a staff member for the magazine Youth’s Companion after having spent some very unhappy years as a teacher. Although a novelist, playwright, biographer and poet as well, Brown’s real forte was the short story, best defined by the local color tales of her fictitious New England village of Tiverton and following in the afterglow of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. [Wright III 701. NAW. See Browne p. 110].

THE AMERICAN PRIZE PLAY FOR 1913

118. BROWN, Alice. Children of Earth. A Play of New England. New York:

Macmillan, 1915. With a photographic frontispiece by Alice Boughton. Octavo, original $35.00 green cloth stamped in gilt. Bookplate. Fine. First edition.

Brown, a member of the loose Boston literary circle at the close of the 19th century, was a prolific and critically respected author. The prize, donated by wealthy theatrical manager and producer Winthrop Ames, was the then very heady sum of ten thousand dollars. The staging of a New England spinster’s frustrated desire for love met with critical success but box office failure. [NAW]. 119. BROWN, Barbara B. New Mind, New Body. Bio-Feedback: New Directions for - 40 -

SOFTENING THE SHADOWS OF THE EVENING

Forty years ago, Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl pirouetted past previous publishing prescripts to the top of the best-seller lists. Turning from author to editor, Brown directed her attention to reviving the venerable but ailing Cosmopolitan magazine. When she stepped from its helm a third of a century later the circulation had climbed threefold to 2.5 million in twentyseven editions worldwide. In this book her practical insights lighten the shady side of fifty. With an index. [DAB. NAWM].

122. [BROWN, Mary Anne Day]. After Harper’s Ferry: John Brown’s Widow. Her Family and the Saratoga Years. Saratoga: Saratoga Historical Foundation, 1964. Illustrated. Octavo, printed paper wrappers. Fine. $20.00 Nope. Not New York’s Saratoga - California’s. Mary (1816-1884) was the second wife of the abolitionist John Brown. She travelled west by ox-cart in 1863 settling first in Red Bluff, then in Humboldt County and lastly in a mountain home near San Jose.

123. BROWN, Rosellen. Tender Mercies. New York: Knopf, 1978. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Brown has been quoted as saying “I write my nightmares”. In this novel, a husband accidentally renders his wife paraplegic.

124. BROWNE, Angela. When Battered Women Kill. New York: The Free Press, (1987). Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Ink underlining on pp. 45, 53 and 71. Fine. First edition. $20.00

“Each year, more than 1.5 million women in America are beaten or abused by their partners... Angela Browne draws upon 250 physically abused women -including forty-two who made the drastic shift from victim to killer- to explore the day to day realities, developing patterns, and tragic consequences of violence in families” (from the dust jacket blurb). The author is a social psychologist, researcher and editor. With an appendix and indices by author and subject. - 41 -

125. BROWNE, Anita, Editor. The One Hundred Best Books by American Women During the Past Hundred Years 1833-1933 As Chosen for the National Council of Women. Chicago: Associated Authors Service, (1933). 12mo, original brown cloth let$20.00 tered in black. One corner bumped, else fine. First edition. The editor was chairman of the selection committee. The categories represented are biography, drama, essays, fiction, humor, juvenile, poetry, religion, science, short stories, social science and travel. Seventy years later, many of the selections have fallen by the wayside, yet forty-five of the authors are represented in this catalogue.

126. BRUSH, Katharine. T.L.s. to“Dear Miss Marshall” . : January 4, 1929 on let$125.00 terhead of New York’s Westbury Hotel. 2 pp. single spaced, tall octavo.

Great content. Brush (1902-1952) defends her dual career and 50-50 marital arrangement. “It happens that I write better than I keep house. Both are full-time jobs, and I have elected the one for which I showed a greater aptitude”. Much more. Quite forgotten today, in her time Brush’s fiction drew frequent comparison to that of F. Scott Fitzgerald, for both writers conveyed an adept appreciation of the generation and era in which they lived. 127. [BRYANT, Louise]. DEARBORN, Mary V. Queen of Bohemia. The Life of

Louise Bryant. New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1996. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth $20.00 spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

This is the comprehensive treatise of a talented woman whose unconventional life represents the apotheosis of the word bohemianism. Bryant’s life winds from her 1885 birth in San Francisco to the exciting unconventionality of the pre-war Greenwich Village scene to a summer affair with playwright Eugene O’Neill in Provincetown to the intoxication of “ten days that shook the world” with her husband John Reed in revolutionary Russia to her 1936 death in a seedy Parisian hotel. Well-researched and annotated with lengthy notes, bibliography and index. [DAB]. 128. [BRYANT, Louise]. GELB, Barbara. So Short a Time. A Biography of John

Reed and Louise Bryant. New York: W.W. Norton, (1973). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Name in ink on front pastedown, else fine. First edition.

The focus here is on the tumultous relationship between these two legends, upon which the award winning film Reds was based. With an index. [DAB. Sweeney 160].

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

129. BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York: John Day, (1931). Octavo, cloth. Spine somewhat dust soiled, else about fine. First edition, first issue. $250.00 Laid in are a lenghty article with a two color photograph of Buck from the New York Times Book Review of January 15, 1933 written by a Chinese scholar who takes a dim view of Buck’s novels, as well as her reply to the critic. [Browne, p. 52. DAB. NAWM]. 130. BUCK, Pearl S. Dragon Seed. New York: Day, (1942). Octavo, cloth, dust

jacket. Front pastedown a little browned at hinge, else fine. First edition, very scarce in jacket. $90.00 The popular novel was turned into a 1944 film with an international cast headed by Katharine Hepburn in the role of “Jade”. [DAB. NAWM]. - 42 -

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

131. BUCK, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. A Personal Record. New York: Day,

(1954). Octavo, boards, buckram spine, dust jacket (spine a bit faded). Top of front cover bumped, else about fine. First edition. Prospectus broadside affixed to front paste$125.00 down, signed by the author.

Buck was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck had been born in West Virginia, then taken to China as an infant by her Christian missionary parents. [DAB. NAWM].

132. BUCK, Pearl S. China As I See It. New York: Day, (1970). Octavo, cloth, picto-

rial dust jacket (slight chipping at top and bottom of spine). Fine. Special presentation $125.00 edition, signed by the author. “... a selection of Pearl Buck’s writings and speeches beginning in the 1930’s, with a long final chapter newly written to summarize the Communist takeover, its background and its consequences” (dust jacket blurb). [DAB. NAWM]. 133. [BUCK, Pearl S.]. CONN, Peter. Pearl S. Buck A Cultural Biography. (New

York): Cambridge University Press, (1996). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 The focus is primarily on Buck’s non-literary accomplishments in the areas of civil rights, women’s rights, cultural understanding and racial tolerance. One of these legacies was the 1949 founding of Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency in the United States. With an extensive appendix of notes and an index. [DAB. NAWM]. 134. BURBANK, Emily. Woman as Decoration. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917.

Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. $40.00 Some very slight foxing, else fine. First edition.

Intended as a sequel to The Art of Interior Decoration of which Burbank had been coauthor, this work concentrates on the exterior of women themselves. “The author does not advocate the preening of the feathers as a woman’s sole occupation ... but she does lay great emphasis on the fact that a woman owes it to herself, her family, and the public in general to be as decorative in any setting as her knowledge of the art of dressing permits”. Some of the twenty-three full page plates are of Mrs. Condé Nast (3), Mrs. Vernon Castle (5), Mme. Geraldine Farrar (2) and Mrs. Langtry (Lady De Bathe). Or, if you will, Jeanne, Irene, Geraldine and Lily. 135. BURKE, Billie and Cameron Shipp. With a Feather on My Nose. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1949). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly faded at spine). Fine. First edition. $40.00 Autobiography of this stage and screen actress who married Flo Ziegfeld. While her film career spanned six decades, she always will be best remembered as Glinda, the good witch in The Wizard of Oz. With an appendix of Burke’s stage performances and an index. [DAB].

136. [BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration; or Fourteen Years in The

Interior of North America; Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family who Emigrated from Barwick-in- 43 -

Elmet, Near Leeds, in the Year 1831. London: G. Berger, (1848). 12mo, brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, maroon marbled endpapers, original lilac printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition. $300.00

The famous account of an immigrant Yorkshire woman pioneering in Pike County, Illinois with her husband and five children, describing her personal impressions of farm life in frontier America. With: [BURLEND, Rebecca]. A True Picture of Emigration. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1936. [29] 157 pp. With two illustrations and a folding map. 12mo, cloth, top edge gilt. A bright, flawless copy. One of the Lakeside Classics. [Howes B992. Graff, 480. Sabin, Dictonary of Americana 97133].

137. BURNETT, Carol. One More Time. A Memoir. New York: Random House, (1986). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket $25.00 (faint wear). Fine. First edition.

Texas-born (San Antonio) Burnett grew up in Hollywood, although not with the best of everything. Her unquenchable spirit surmounted that reality and brought her to a long career as a class act and first rate comedienne on stage, screen and television. 138. BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories. New

York: Scribner's, 1890. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in black, gilt and red. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, ink inscription on endpaper, else about fine. First American (BAL postulates an English edition) edi$50.00 tion. While a teenager, Frances Hodgson Burnett emigrated from England to Tennessee when her family met with reduced circumstances. Her most famous book, Little Lord Fauntleroy, was at once a joy to mothers and an abomination to their sons, who often were dressed by them in emulation of the much admired (and despised) Fauntleroy. Burnett wrote several novels, but is best remembered as a children’s author. [BAL 2077. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 77].

139. BURNHAM, Miss A[vis]A. Fostina Woodman The Wonderful Adventurer. Boston: (Boston Stereotype Foundry), 1850. Illustrated with eight wood engravings. Octavo, original cream wrappers pictorially stamped and lettered in black. Spine and edges a bit chipped, some spotting and slight browning of wrappers, occasional light $300.00 foxing throughout. First edition.

This is the second copy we have handled; Wright locates only a half dozen institutional copies of this melodramatic tale inspired by the California gold rush. Burnham was the nom de plume of Avis A. Standwood. A cursory partaking of the contents shows the author’s perspicacity in using a pen name: the sixty page tale is pulp fiction at its nadir. Fostina bids farewell to her lover Lewis Mortimer and his two brothers as they sail to California aboard the Essex, and later finds out Mortimer died suddenly on the leg from Panama to California. Later still, however, she learns he was merely near death. The woodcut on the front wrapper shows Fostina waving to the Essex as it leaves the harbor. Correctly, not in Eberstadt, Decker, Soliday, Cowan, Streeter, Graff, Kurutz, etc. [Wright I, 2491].

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A DOG’S TALE

140. BUSH, Barbara. Millie’s Book As Dictated to Barbara Bush. New York:

Morrow, (1990). Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Quarto, cloth, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. This dog’s house is the White House and the reader is taken on a four legged tour. All proceeds from the book were donated to the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.

141. BUSH, Barbara. Barbara Bush. A Memoir. New York: Scribner's, (1994). Illustrated with many photographs. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First trade edition. $20.00 A warm and human memoir by one of the most admired of First Ladies, drawn upon excerpts from her diary of over thirty years.

142. [CALENDAR]. CHRISTY, Howard Chandler. Save to Bring Them Home. N.d: American Lithographic Company, 1918. Approximately 9 x 5-3/4 inches, stiff cardboard. Fine. $50.00

THE RIGHT TO BE THEMSELVES

The calendar shows the month of March 1919 day and dates in a “tear off” small sheet (2 x 2-1/4 inches), and has the following months behind it. Illustrated with a color image of men firing a shipboard cannon with Miss Liberty hovering above them enveloped in an American flag. Produced as an encouragement to buy Liberty Bonds to help the war effort.

143. [CALIFORNIA]. The Association of Pioneer Women of California: Officers and Members, Honorary and Deceased Members, Past Presidents and Charter Members. $20.00 San Francisco: W.E. Dugan, 1926. 12mo, tan paper wrappers. Fine. The title summarizes the contents.

DON’T ASK, (THEY DID), DON’T TELL, (SHE DID)

144. CAMMERMEYER, Margarethe with Chris Fisher. Serving in Silence. (New

York): Viking, (1994). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

“Vietnam Nurse, Mother of Four, Highest-Ranking Officer to Challenge the Military Antigay Policy” - from the dust jacket cover. Born and raised in Norway until the age of nine, rose to Colonel in the United States Army, awarded the Bronze Star for fourteen months of Vietnam duty, Veteran’s Administration Nurse of the Year and other honors, bearer of four sons and a tardily conscious lesbian - from the text. As the book is closed, the problem remains open how to be identified by a person’s contribution to society and not by one’s sexual orientation. 145. [CAMP FIRE GIRLS]. The Book of the Camp Fire Girls . New York: Camp

Fire Girls, (1936). Illustrated. 12mo, elaborately decorated flexible cloth. A few unob$50.00 trusive pen markings, else fine. First edition thus.

The first manual, a modest but tasteful 100 page production, had appeared in 1912. This edition, with index, is 2-1/2 times as long. 146. [CAMP FIRE GIRLS]. BUCKLER, Helen and FIEDLER, Mary F. and

ALLEN, Martha F., Editors. WO-HE-LO The Story of Camp Fire Girls 1910-1960. - 46 -

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, $20.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The organization had been founded at Lake Sebago, Maine, by a group of people among whom Hawaiian-born Dr. Luther Halsey Gullick, and his wife Charlotte were paramount. The society was made public March 17, 1912. Its’ watchword, “Wohelo,” as every Camp Fire Girls knows, is made from the first two letters of Work, Health and Love. As a lesser known footnote Dr. Gullick, a physical education specialist, had collaborated with a student of his, one James Naismith, in devising a game called basketball, which today is played very well by girls as well as boys.

AS VERMONT AS MAPLE SYRUP

147. CANFIELD, Dorothy. Seasoned Timber. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1939). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine lightly faded, very light rubbing at top of spine). Near fine. First edition. Signed by the author with her full married name on front $90.00 free endpaper.

Since she signed her prose Dorothy Canfield Fisher and her fiction - of which this is the last novel- under her maiden name- this copy is something of an anomaly. Being a first edition in dust jacket as well , it is also a somewhat scarce example. A prolific and truly versatile writer, when not thus occupied she could be found introducing and popularizing the Montessori method of early childhood education into the United States; establishing a children’s refugee center in war ravaged France; or serving for a quarter century as the only female member on the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee. Although born in Kansas, her roots traced to the Green Mountain state where Fisher’s adult life was based. The largest collection of her papers is at the University of Vermont. [DAB.NAW. See Browne p. 56]. 148. CARPENTER, Liz. Getting Better All the Time. New York: Simon and

Schuster, (1987). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition.

An anecdotal story of life at the political top where she had been an aide to VicePresident Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird.

149. CARROLL, Mary Bowden. Ten Years in Paradise. Leaves From a Society

Reporter’s Note-Book. (San Jose: Popp & Hogan, 1903). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original light green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, black and light blue, lettered in black and gilt. Covers a bit soiled, slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, front endpapers cracked over joint, endpapers somewhat browned, yet a much better $185.00 copy than it sounds. First edition of a rare book.

With a complimentary slip from the San Jose Chamber of Commerce tipped in. The paradise referred to is the Santa Clara valley of a century ago. [Rocq 13774. Cowan, p.107]. 150. CARSON, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1955. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $150.00 Carson was the first woman to hold a non-clerical position in the Fisheries Bureau in Washington D.C. Previously to this book she had written the best selling The Sea Around Us. [DAB. NAWM]. - 48 -

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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

151. CARSON, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962. Illustrated.

Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges barely worn). A fine copy. First edition.

$200.00 This book which launched the modern environmental movement was a wake-up call that brought the irresponsible use of toxic chemicals to the country’s attention. Already known for two other books, Silent Spring was Carson’s most influential work, resulting in a special federal panel to study the effects of pesticides on the environment and then in legislation banning DDT. More broadly, the book helped establish a new movement to protect the environment from the destructive effects of modern industrial society. The book sold over 500,000 copies in hardback and millions in paperback. [DAB. NAWM].

LETTERS OF THE HEART FROM A PRIVATE PUBLIC FIGURE

152. CARSON, Rachel and FREEMAN, Martha, Editor. Always, Rachel. The

Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952 - 1964. Boston: Beacon Press, (1995). Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $20.00 edition.

With a preface by the editor, granddaughter of Dorothy Freeman, and an introduction by Paul Brooks, Carson’s editor at Houghton Mifflin. In the latter he notes that publication of the correspondence puts “the reader on intimate terms with one of the most widely read, most influential, but least known women of our time”. With a bibliography and an index. 153. CARTER, Jimmy and Rosalynn. Everything to Gain. Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life. New York: Random House, 1987. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed by the authors. $50.00 The Carters are real role models for useful and rewarding achievement in humanitarian causes after four years at the pinnacle of political success. This has just been capped by exPresident Carter receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002. It leads one to speculate, for instance, how the Lincolns or the Kennedys might have lived their leftover lives if tragedy had not interferred or, for that matter, how the Clintons will. 154. CARTER, Rosalynn. First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1984. $20.00 Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. Autobiography of the small town girl who became a big time First Lady, one the most effective of this century. With an index. 155. [CARY, Alice and Phoebe]. AMES, Mary Clemmer. A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary, with Some of their Later Poems. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1873. Illustrated with two portraits on steel. Octavo, original brown cloth, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Title page a bit foxed, else a fine, bright copy. First edition.

$35.00 The Cary sisters were born in a simple farmhouse in rural Ohio, Alice in 1820 and Phoebe four years later. As adults their literary talents would earn them enough money to purchase a pleasant house on 20th Street in downtown Manhattan where their Sunday night receptions became an institution. They were firm abolitionists and, while sympathetic to the movement for women’s rights, were not actively engaged in it. They died five months apart in 1871. [BAL - 50 -

2850. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 192-193. See Browne p. 88]. 156. [CASSATT, Mary]. MATHEWS, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1987). Profusely illustrated, many full color plates. Small folio, $20.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

After study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this Philadelphian from an upper middle-class background persuaded her parents to allow her to study abroad. She became the first and only American to be part of the revolutionary French Impressionist style of painting then taking place in Paris. Though she lived permanently in France, Cassat (1844-1926) always thought of herself as an American and became one of the leading advocates for exporting Impressionism to the United States. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 197].

157. CASTALLO, Mario A and WALZ, Audrey. Expectantly Yours. A Book for Expectant Mothers and Prospective Fathers. New York: MacMillan, 1943. Illustrated with drawings. Octavo, pictorial boards, the color cover illustration repeated on the dust $25.00 jacket. Fine. Written in a light-hearted vein, it is a “book for the woman who wishes to learn and understand all she can about the proper way to care for herself during her pregnancy”.

158. CASTILLO, Ana. Sapogonia. New York: Anchor Books, (1994). Octavo, printed paper wrappers. Fine. An uncorrected proof copy of the first Anchor edition. $20.00 The Chicana author’s second novel, subtitled An Anti-Romance in 3/8 Meter. Significantly revised from its original 1990 publication, with a letter from the publisher to booksellers to accompany this bound galley. 159. CASTLE, Irene and Vernon. Modern Dancing. New York: Harper, 1914.

Profusely illustrated from photographs and moving pictures of the newest dances posed for by the authors. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth . Extremities a bit rubbed, $90.00 small closed tear in cloth on rear cover, albeit a nice copy. First edition.

With a “Special Edition” of the book by World Syndicate by arrangement with Harper, 1914. Octavo, light blue cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial label on front cover of the Castles dancing. Reversing common practice, although printed from the same setting as the original this edition is a bit photographically rearranged, larger sized, more expensively bound and altogether presents a superior appearance from its predecessor. The financially strapped Castle’s started dancing in a Paris café, became a Parisian sensation and returned to America to make as much as $6,000 per week for their innovative dances such as the one-step, the turkey-trot and the famous Castle walk. [DAB. NAWM].

160. CASTLE, Irene S. and DUNCAN, Wanda and Bob. Castles in the Air. New York: Doubleday, 1958. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $50.00

The Castles fed the country’s growing interest in the new and exotic dances, giving exhibitions for society and organizing dance schools. Vernon became a pilot and flight instructor during World War I. He was killed in a training school airplane accident. For a period thereafter Irene continued dancing, made a number of films, founded a shelter for homeless animals, remar- 51 -

ried, had three children, lived the life of a socialite, was an accomplished rider, helped run a wholesale millinery company, taught adolescent dance classes, wrote a fashion column for the Chicago Herald and Examiner and when she died in 1969 had outlived her fourth husband. Irene was buried next to Vernon in New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery. [DAB. NAWM].

ONE OF THE GIANTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

161. CATHER, Willa. The Professor’s House. New York: Knopf, 1925. Octavo,

original orange and blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket (very light wear to top of spine, very faint soiling to rear cover). Large bookplate, the paste from which has bled through to darken a portion of the front cover, endpapers slightly browned. $1,000.00 Withal, a very much sharper copy than it sounds. First (trade) edition.

Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours in 1922 as well as the Prix Femina Américaine in 1931 for Shadows on the Rock. When Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, he said it should have gone to Cather. [Crane, Willa Cather. A Bibliography A14.a.i. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 53].

162. CATHER, Willa. Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York: Knopf, 1940. Octavo, cloth, printed paper labels, dust jacket (spine ends very slightly bumped). Very negligible fading of the green cloth, else fine. First (trade) edition of Cather’s final $125.00 novel.

Set in the Virginia countryside just prior to the Civil War, it is a tale of the subtle persecution of a beautiful young mulatto slave by her jealous white mistress. [Crane A22.a.i. DAB. NAW].

163. CATHER, Willa. The Old Beauty and Others. New York: Knopf, 1948. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (slight soiling). Covers barely worn, faint darkening to endpapers, else fine. First edition, first printing of this posthumous volume of three short stories, with a $60.00 review slip laid in. [Crane A23.a.i. DAB. NAW]. 164. CATHER, Willa. On Writing. Critical Studies on Writing as an Art. New York: Knopf, 1949. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (very faint wear). Fine. First edition, first printing. $50.00

Essays by a master of the craft. Cather (1876-1947) was born in Virginia but grew up on a Nebraska ranch. From college she went to Pittsburgh, doing newspaper work and teaching. The New York publisher S.S. McClure offered her a position on his magazine and she rose to became the editor from 1906-1912. With the success of her novel O Pioneers! in 1913 she lived as a freelance writer with Manhattan as her base. [Crane AA2.a.i. DAB. NAW].

165. [CATHER, Willa]. CRANE, Joan. Willa Cather. A Bibliography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1982). Frontispiece portrait by Nicolai Fechin. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (spine a little sunned). Fine. First edition. $30.00

An alumnus of San Francisco’s John Howell-Books, Crane was the long time curator of American Literature Collections, Rare Book Department, Alderman Library, University of Virginia. [DAB. NAW].

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CO-FOUNDER OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

166. CATT, Carrie Chapman. Then and Now – Speech Delivered by Carrie

Chapman Catt at the Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday, (Hotel Astor), New York, January 9, 1939. N.p: n.d. With a tipped in photographic reproduction of Catt. Octavo, $250.00 printed paper wrappers, sewn. Fine. A rare Catt item.

Sponsored by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Committee & National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Born Carrie Clinton Lane in Wisconsin, later life brought widowhood from Leo Chapman and then George Catt. First a high school principal and subsequently a superintendent of schools, she organized the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (1890), became President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1900-1904 and again 19151947) as well as the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904-1923) and later headed the National Committee of the Cause and Cure of War (1925-1935). Instumental in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, she also co-founded the influencial League of Women Voters. Catt is credited with a magnetic personality, attractive visage, dynamic speaking ability and strong organizational skills. Affixed to the front endpaper is a photostatic typed excerpt from a letter Catt wrote in regard to this pamphlet, the gist of which is that in their haste to have it printed the well-intentioned but misguided publisher had done her wrong by not having provided Catt with copy to proofread. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 115]. 167. CHACE, Rebecca. Chautauqua Summer. Adventures of a Late-Twentieth-

Century Vaudevillian. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1993). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. First edition. $20.00

Chautauqua is an Iroquois word meaning a place where fish are pulled from the water with a stick. Its later day use referred to the summer tent shows in the upstate New York town which bears the name. Written with an east coast edgyness, Library Journal termed it “poetic and keenly alive with quirky adventure”. 168. CHAMPNEY, Elizabeth W. Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey. Boston:

Estes and Lauriat, (1889). Profusely illustrated. Octavo, original colorful pictorial boards. Some minor cover wear, the internal contents free of foxing. Near fine. First edi$225.00 tion. Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922) was a children’s author who loved to travel, as witness her Three Vassar Girls series. The illustrator of this book, identified on the title page as “Champ”, was also her husband, the artist James Wells Champney.

169. CHAVEZ, Linda. Out of the Barrio. Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation. N.p: Basic Books, (1991). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. $30.00 First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. 1968 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, Chavez’s writings have appeared in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and U.S.A. Today. Her criticism of the policies of bilingual education and affirmative action cannot be dismissed as uninformed opinion – she has also been Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. 170. CHESNUT, Mary Boykin. A Diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin

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1861, and afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. New York: Appleton, 1905. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-lettered tan cloth, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. About fine. First edition. $200.00

“A Civil War classic; covers social and economic conditions, morale, and major events stretching from Alabama to Virginia” - Nevins. [Howes C352. Nevins II, p.184. NAW].

THE AUTHOR’S FAMOUS FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED

171. CHICAGO, Judy. Through the Flower. My Struggle as a Woman Artist. Garden

City: Doubleday, 1975. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author, during the March 7th publication party.

$65.00 With an introduction by Anaïs Nin “who inspired me to write this book”. The author’s first book. Judy Chicago organized the first feminist art program in this country.

172. CHICAGO, Judy. The Dinner Party. A Symbol of Our Heritage. Garden City: Anchor Press, 1979. Illustrated. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (very light wear). Near fine. First edition, with a brochure for the Through the Flower non-profit corporation laid in, $65.00 signed by Chicago. The Dinner Party reproduces in color the thirty-nine plates from the five–year collaborative artistic project of the same name. “The Dinner Party” was composed of a triangular table with 39 place settings for prominent women throughout history; each represented by a custom–made porcelain plate decorated in individualized vaginal imagery. The names of 999 other women were inscribed on the porcelain tiles below the table. This project was directed by Chicago in her Santa Monica studio. The book also contains a section about the making of The Dinner Party. With an index.

BON APPETIT!

173. CHILD, Julia. The French Chef Cookbook. New York: Knopf, 1968. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by Paul Child. Octavo, decorated cloth. Some light foxing of preliminary and terminal leaves, small ink mark on front free endpaper, else fine, the orange covers exceptionally bright. First edition. This copy is inscribed, signed and $250.00 dated on the half title.

The famous culinary author’s second book and first sole publication. Laid in is a one page TLs on the letterhead of the Ecole des Trois Gourmandes from Child to the writer and artist Barnaby Conrad dated August 27, 1976: “... we certainly did enjoy meeting you at Trader Vic’s last year. Thanks so much for inviting us to participate in your authors’ seminar, but we shall be in Europe in June ...”. 174. [CHILD, Julia]. FITCH, Noel Riley. Appetite for Life. The Biography of Julia

Child. New York: Doubleday, (1997). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

With appendices, including a genealogy, list of television series, notes, bibliography and an index. 175. CHILD, Lydia Maria. Letters of ... With a Biographical Introduction by John G.

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Octavo, original gilt-lettered green cloth. Fine. First edition.

$75.00 Child (1802-1880) was an important early abolitionist who in 1833 published An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, the first American book devoted to the abolition of slavery. A wide-ranging author of books on household management, the condition of women, religion and history, this novelist and journalist had earlier founded and edited the Juvenile Miscellany, the first U.S. periodical for children. [NAW. See Browne p. 46]. 176. CHISHOLM, Shirley. The Good Fight. New York: Harper & Row, (1973).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $30.00

Congresswoman Chisholm was the first woman– as well as the first black– to run for the office of President of the United States. While her candidacy was hopeless, she did garner over 150 votes on the first ballot of the Democratic convention in 1972. To quote the author “The door is not open yet, but it is ajar”. With an index.

A RARE HIGHSPOT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

177. CHOPIN, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1899. Octavo,

original green cloth decoratively stamped in darker green and red, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Spine browned, light cover wear, else excellent. First edition. $7,500.00

Accompanying this are two recent editions: A 1995 Barnes & Noble printing with an introduction by Laura Victoria Levin. A handsome 1996 production from Simon and Schuster issued under their “CommonPlace Book” label, with full page photographic illustrations of New Orleans at the turn of the century. Chopin’s once controversial masterpiece, in which a deeply dissatisfied woman leaves her husband and children in an attempt to find a life apart from traditional feminine roles. Overcome with futility, she chooses to take her own life rather than have it taken from her. The novel was sharply criticized (even banned in her native St. Louis), causing Chopin immense distress and steering her away from publication for the remainder of her life. Encouraged to read the story by a young feminist employee and friend Elizabeth Marshall, this writer remembers the irritation he felt at the heroine’s foolish and selfish selfinflicted demise; she deserved a better fate. But then, of course, the complexity of the point would have been pointless. It has been estimated that this first edition consisted of about 500 copies. [BAL 3246. Wright III, 1037. DAB. NAW]. 178. [CHOPIN, Kate]. TOTH, Emily. Kate Chopin. New York: Morrow, (1990).

Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. A $25.00 fine copy. First edition.

A biography of the novelist, essayist and poet, best known for her novel The Awakening (previous entry) and her Creole Louisiana local color stories, some of which were collected in Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie. With a chronology of her life, extensive notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 179. [CHURCHILL, Lady Randolph]. CORNWALLIS-WEST, Mrs. George. The

Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill. New York: Century, 1908. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-decorated navy cloth, top edge gilt. Heraldic design on cover somewhat rubbed. Fine. First American edition. $100.00 - 58 -

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An early biography of the beautiful Jennie Jerome, daugher of an American financier and mother of Winston Spenser Churchill. She is this writer’s nominee for mother of the man of the century. [NAW]. 180. [CINTRON, Conchita]. CINTRON, Lola Verrill. Goddess of the Bullring ...

The Story of Conchita Cintron the World’s Greatest Matadora. Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, (1960). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Fine. First edition. How does a female bullfighter from Peru qualify for inclusion herein? Answer: her father was the second Puerto Rican graduate of West Point and her mother was the daughter of the American author, naturalist and explorer A. Hyatt Verrill. The movie star Gilbert Roland’s copy, signed by him on the front pastedown and with his embossed ownership stamp on the title page. This biography was written by her mother and contains a foreword by the noted bullfighting authority Barnaby Conrad.

181. CINTRON, Conchita. Memoirs of a Bullfighter. With an introduction by Orson Welles. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968). Illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Octavo, fabricoid, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The jacket blurb describes her as “the first truly literate professional to write about bullfighting”.

182. CISNEROS, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Random House, (1991). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $50.00 Inscribed by the author.

“These stories are eloquent testimonials to the status of Mexican-American women ... as well crafted as they are expressive” -Publisher’s Weekly. Born in Chicago, Cisneros has lived in San Antonio since 1984 and has just published a new novel Caramelo, nine years in the writing. 183. CLAPPE, Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith. California in 1851-2; The Letters

of Dame Shirley. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Two volumes. Octavo, blue paper covered boards printed in navy, dark blue cloth spines with labels at top lettered in blue, original Grabhorn Press printed dust wrappers (a bit wrinkled and slightly worn). Owner’s bookplates on front pastedowns. Fine. One of 500 sets. Volume II signed by $500.00 Edwin Grabhorn on front endpaper.

A leaf of manuscript (concerning Monte Carlo) by Shirley laid in into a printed folder explaining that “The enclosed example of Dame Shirley’s handwriting was found among her effects after her death”. With an introduction and notes by Carl Wheat. The letters first appeared serially in monthly installments in San Francisco’s Pioneer Magazine under the pseudonym of ‘Dame Shirley’, in 1854-1855. “... These letters present a vivid and unexcelled picture of everyday life in the mines” - Howes. “These superlatively readable and informative letters from a gifted young New England woman to her sisters in ‘the States’ may well be accorded first place in any gathering of notable Gold Rush literature” - Wheat. Laid in is the elaborate illustrated prospectus for the first book printing, accomplished at Thomas C. Russell’s private press, San Francisco, 1922. [Howes C427. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 39. Zamorano Eighty, 69. Kurutz 133b. Graff 727. Heller and Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography (hereinafter GB) volume I, 178, 179. NAW]. - 60 -

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184. CLARK, Susie C. The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate. Boston: Lee and Shepherd, 1890. 12mo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on cover and spine. A fine copy. First edition. $65.00 Originating in Boston, the author’s grand tour took her through Canada to Chicago, across the plains to Santa Fé, then across the desert to the California of San Diego, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Francisco, Sonoma and Yo-Semite. The eastward return journey included Salt Lake City and Denver. At the end, this early tourist could truly say “been there, done that” with high praise for the travel agents Raymond and Whitcomb. Perhaps not coincidentally, the last three pages contain enticing advertisments for “Raymond’s Vacation Excursions”. [Cowan, p. 128. Flake 2398].

185. CLARKE, Mrs. M.G., Compiler. Sunshine and Shadows Along the Pathway of Life. Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1868. Illustrated. Octavo, original full red morooco decoratively blindstamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Very light foxing, rubbing of $500.00 binding edges, else fine. First edition. An attractive example of a pre-fire imprint and binding. It is a collection of poems, essays, short stories, quotations and admonitions with non-secular overtones, many of them written by the compiler and other women.

186. [CLAY, Virginia]. STERLING, Ada. A Belle of the Fifties. Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905. Illustrated from contemporary portraits. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and silver, top edge gilt, others uncut. Ink signature on front endpaper, spine very $30.00 slightly rubbed, else fine. First published the previous year. “Memoirs by the wife of Clement C. Clay Jr., Senator from Alabama and a member of the Confederate Congress. With much on wartime life in Richmond and Macon”. [Nevins II, p. 185. NAW].

187. [CLEMENS, Olivia Langdon]. WILLIS, Resa. Mark and Livy. The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him. New York: Atheneum, 1992. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. As new. First edition. $20.00 Twain’s wife and editor has been long neglected in the extensive writings about the famous author. With notes, a bibliography and an index.

AMERICA’S YOUNGEST FIRST LADY

188. CLEVELAND, Frances Folsom. Photograph of Frances Folsom Cleveland. :

5-3/8 x 3-7/8 inches, sepia cabinet photograph mounted on cream cardboard. Very light $250.00 foxing . Signed boldly in black in “Frances F. Cleveland” at bottom.

On June 2, 1886, the twenty-one year old Frances Folsom had wed forty-nine year old President Grover Cleveland in the White House. The couple, who had three daughters and two sons, retired to Princeton, where her husband died in 1908. Frances, who lived until 1947, was the first President’s widow to remarry (Jacqueline Kennedy was the second). [NAW].

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Lives, Times, and Issues. Edited by Edith P. Mayo. Foreword by Hilary Rodham Clinton. New York: Henry Holt, (1996). Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings. Quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. As new. $20.00 A well produced coffee table book. With a bibliography and an index.

190. [COIT, Lillie Hitchcock]. HOLDREDGE, Helen. Firebell Lillie. New York: Meredith Press, (1967). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear to top edge). $25.00 Fine. First edition. Lillie Hitchcock Coit became the mascot of the San Francisco Knickerbocker Fire Department at an early age following the tragic death by fire of two of her playmates. San Francisco’s Coit Tower is named after this eccentric woman, whose unconventional behavior included smoking, camping with men, and staging a prizefight in her hotel suite. With a bibliography and an index. 191. [COIT, Lillie Hitchcock]. The Recipe Book of .... Edited by John C. Craig.

Transcribed by Barbara Hoddy. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1998. $20.00 Octavo, printed paper wrappers. Fine. First edition.

Designed and produced by the Arion Press of San Francisco, the book contains a frontispiece of Coit and an introduction by Carol Hart Field. Randall House had had the pleasure of purchasing the manuscript at auction in 1995. With an index of recipes. 192. COLLINS, Eileen M. Photograph of Eileen M. Collins in her NASA uniform

with a model of her spacecraft. : 8 x 10 inches, color photograph. Fine. Inscribed “ To $125.00 John: Best wishes! Eileen Collins, 28 Sep 1995”. The first American woman space commander. As a gesture to a previous pioneer, she took along on her odyssey a scarf that had belonged to Amelia Earhart.

193. [COLTER, Mary]. GRATTAN, Virginia. Mary Colter, Builder Upon the Red

Earth. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket $60.00 (minor edgewear). Fine. First edition. The first biography of Colter, an architect trained in San Francisco who became instrumental in the revival of southwestern cultural influences in architecture. Colter designed many buildings around the Grand Canyon area, including the Phantom Ranch, which is located in the Canyon itself. With notes, a list of Mary Colter’s buildings and an index. 194. [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK]. Lord Fairfax’s Kitchen. A Collection of Tried

Recipes from Winchester Housekeepers. N.p: n.p, [1892]. Square 12mo, original pictorial brown wrappers. Front wrapper a little stained, name in ink upper right corner, spine with some loss of paper, occasional brown spots, a few leaves with crease marks from $475.00 being turned down. First editionof a rare cookbook. “It is now four years since, by permission of the School Board, and the concurrence of the Superintendent and Teachers, sewing was introduced to the Colored Public School, as a weekly lesson. The following year the hall of the school house was converted into a kitchen and lessons in cooking were given twice a week. This book has been compiled by ladies engaged in this work; the proceeds from the sale of the book are to be used for carrying on this work. The ladies are greatly obliged to the busi- 64 -

ness men of Winchester, who have kindly advertised in the book and thus enabled us to publish it, and also to the housekeepers, who have given us their tried receipts” -from the Preface. Published in 1892, quite possibly in Winchester, Virginia. The collation given in Cook does not note the index which comprises the last five pages of this copy. [Cook, America’s Charitable Cooks, p. 259 locates one copy (University of Virginia, Charlottesville). Not in Bitting or Brown]. 195. CONE, Mary. Two Years in California. Chicago: S.C. Griggs, 1876. Illustrated and with a two-page map. 12mo, original gilt-lettered red cloth decoratively stamped in black and gold. A splendid copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author. $200.00

The illustrations include a folding map of 1876 California. The author’s writing covers the entire state, ending with a long chapter on Yosemite which is pictured in 11 of the 15 illustrations, including a map. “Her account is both lively and detailed” – . [Currey and Kruska, Bibliography of Yosemite, the Central and Southern High Sierras, and the Big Trees 1839-1900, 72].

196. COOK, Margaret. America’s Charitable Cooks: A Bibliography of Fund-Raising Cook Books Published in the United States (1861-1915). Kent, Ohio: Self published, $175.00 1971. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The first fund-raising “receipt books” were compiled and sold in the United States during the Civil War at the Sanitary Fairs held to raise money for military casualties and their families. “The great fascination of these early regional cookery books for collectors and historians is their elusiveness. Seldom copyrighted –sold locally, usually to acquaintances of the ladies whose recipes appear– they have generally not been considered library fare. Although more than 2,500 libraries and private collectors were approached for titles, three-fourths of the books listed in this bibliography are unique copies, located in only one collection. Those that survive are nostalgic reminders of a time when philanthropy was perhaps less mechanized and a good cause was the delight of the charitable ladies who were also such good cooks” from the dust jacket. 197. COOKE, Hope. Time Change. An Autobiography. New York: Simon and

Schuster, (1980). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The story of an intelligent, well-to-do New York City girl who in India met and married the Crown Prince of Sikkim, and what happened next .... 198. COOLBRITH, Ina. Songs from the Golden Gate. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,

1895. 12mo, original red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine . First $200.00 edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Coolbrith edited The Overland Monthly with Bret Harte. In 1915, she was named the first Poet Laureate of California. [Zamorano Eighty, 21. DAB. NAW]. 199. COOLBRITH, Ina. Wings of Sunset. With a Memoir. Boston: Houghton,

Mifflin, 1929. Octavo, blue cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket (a little dust soiled and $50.00 minimally rubbed at top edge). Fine. First edition thus.

With a memoir of Coolbrith. Twelve of the one hundred sixteen poems originally appeared in the preceding book. This volume comprises her principal work since that publication. - 65 -

Among the ephemera laid in are three photographic prints of the poet. [DAB. NAW]. 200. [COOLBRITH, Ina]. RHODEHAMEL, Josephine DeWitt and RAYMUND, Francis. Ina Coolbrith Librarian and Laureate of California. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, (1973). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $40.00 Coolbrith was a niece of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church. Laid in is a signed copy of the Bohemian Club Library Notes (November, 1973) which has as the feature article “Ina Coolbrith-Bohemian” by Oscar Lewis. The poet had been elected an honorary member of that male bastion in 1874 and remained one until her death in 1928, having served for a time as the Club’s librarian. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 251].

201. COOLIDGE, Mary Roberts. The Rain-Makers. Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1929. Illustrated and with endpaper map of Indian reservations in the region. Octavo, original green cloth lettered in red, pictorial endpa$40.00 pers. Spine very slightly sunned, else fine. First edition.

Dr.Coolidge’s (Ph.D., Litt.D.) introduction, “As the Indian Sees Us” is an enlightening preface to a sympathetic treatise which examines a myriad of details concerning Indian life. With a bibliography and an index. [Dobie, p. 28].

FIRST BOOK IN THIS FAMOUS SERIES

202. COOLIDGE, Susan. What Katy Did. A Story. Boston: Robert’s Brothers, 1873.

With illustrations by Addie Ledyard. Thick 12mo, original pictorial decorated red cloth $850.00 stamped in black. Near fine. First edition, and rare thus. With: What Katy Did Next. Boston: Robert’s Brothers, 1887. With illustrations by Jessie McDermot. Thick 12mo, original pictorial decorated red cloth. Some signatures loosen-

ing. Near fine. Writing under the pseudonym Susan Coolidge, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey’s energetic and popular What Katy Did series enlivened the minds of her juvenile readers. For her adult audience, a facile pen in the hand of this widely read scholar produced biography, history, poetry and criticism. [Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 39. NAW]. 203. COOLIDGE, Susan. A Guernsey Lily; or, How the Feud was Healed. A Story for

Girls and Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Illustrated. Quarto, original brown cloth with elaborate pictorial stamping in silver, gold and black. Fine. First published $175.00 the previous year. The pictorial endpapers have a map of the island of Guernsey (front) and the island of Jersey (rear). Ten of the illustrations are by Kate Greenaway. Laid in is a holograph poem titled “Some Time” by Coolidge signed and dated Newport, October 1883. [NAW].

204. COOPER, J. California. Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime. New York: Doubleday, (1995). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Honored as the Black Playwright of the Year in 1978, Cooper is also a novelist and, as here, short story writer. 205. [CORNELL, Katharine]. MOSEL, Rad with MACY Gertrude. Leading - 66 -

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Lady. The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1978). Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

Cornell’s impressive theatrical career is detailed by Mosel, a Pulitzer prize winning playwright, and Macy, Cornell’s executive producer. The biography also contains an introduction by Martha Graham. In the spirit of the theatre, eighty-one year old Cornell finished out the week at three in the morning, Sunday, June 12, 1974. With an index. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 256].

FOR SALE BY THE ROOKSELLERS

206. [CORNFIELD, Amelia]. Alida: or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During

the Late American War. Founded on Fact. With Poems. By an Unknown Author. New York: Printed for the author, 1841. Frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original black cloth, decoratively stamped in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine worn, lacking front free endpaper, a little foxed on edges and preliminaries, else fine. Third edition, revised and $75.00 improved.

The “unknown” author was a lady named Amelia Stratton Cornfield. “Revised”: (beginning with this edition “Occurrences” in the title changed to “Incidents”) and “Improved” by the addition of twenty-two pages of text or no, the title page states “Printed for the Author” with the (hopefully) unintended admonishment “and for sale by the Rooksellers”. [Wright I, 566]. 207. [CRABTREE, Lotta]. DEMPSEY, David with BALDWIN, Raymond P. The

Triumphs and Trials of Lotta Crabtree. New York: Morrow, 1968. Illustrated. Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Lotta Crabtree had started her acting career at the age of eight by performing for a group of gold miners in a remote part of the California Sierras. With an appendices and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 258]. 208. [CRABTREE, Lotta]. ROURKE, Constance. Troupers of the Gold Coast or

the Rise of Lotta Crabtree. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1928). llustrated with frontispiece portrait and ten inserted leaves with twenty plates. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title. Name and date in ink on front endpaper, else fine. First edition.

With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 259].

$20.00

209. CRADDOCK, Charles Egbert. In The Tennessee Mountains. Boston:

Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. Octavo, original olive green cloth pictorially stamped in black, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Minimal rubbing of spine ends and lower cor$100.00 ners, fine. First edition.

The pen name of Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), short story writer and novelist. Born on a Tennessee plantation, as an author she became a leading local colorist, especially known for her careful use of dialect and settings. This is a volume of her short stories. A decade after her first appearance in print her reluctant “coming out” as a woman received nationwide publicity. [BAL 14800. Wright III, 3891. Browne, p. 113. DAB. NAW]. 210. [CRANDALL, Prudence]. STRANE, Susan. A Whole-Souled Woman.

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Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 A disgraceful incident in Connecticut history had Prudence Crandell as its cynosure. The young Quaker teacher admitted a negro girl to her school which prompted a backlash of intimidation as well as legal action. After lengthy trials she eventually won the battle, if not the war. With notes, an extensive bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 211. CRAPSEY, Adelaide. Verse. Rochester, New York: Manas Press, 1915. 12mo,

original gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Light wear, soiling to $70.00 covers, ink inscription. Very good. First edition .

The author’s first book, published posthumously. Crapsey invented the cinquain, a fiveline form of poetry. [BAL 4120. DAB. NAW].

A FAMOUS FEMALE WHO NEVER WAS

212. [CROCKER, Betty]. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book. Minneapolis: General

Mills, 1950. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Royal octavo, cloth. Very minimal rubbing to top and bottom of spine, else excellent with remnants of dust jacket laid $65.00 in. First edition, first binding. “Betty Crocker” was invented by Marjorie Child Husted for use as a common signature to answer consumer enquiries. When her company merged with General Mills the name became one of the most recognized household symbols in America and a cornerstone of an international corporate image. Husted herself became a top executive of the conglomerate. With an index. [Brown 1881. See Cagle & Stafford 952 for the publisher’s subsequent ring binder issue]. 213. CROSS, Amanda. Death in a Tenured Position. New York: Dutton, (1981).

Octavo, tan boards, white gilt lettered cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edi$30.00 tion.

The sixth book in a series involving academia related misdeeds sleuthhounded by a feminist professor.

214. CUMMINGS, Edith Mae. Pots, Pans and Millions: A Study of Woman’s Right To Be In Business, Her Proclivities and Capacity for Success. Washington, D.C.: National School of Business Science for Women, 1929. Illustrated with photographs, including a frontispiece of the author. Octavo, original gilt-decorated red and black $30.00 cloth. Fine. First edition .

A series of essays by the author, a young widow about whom the publisher’s note states: “she climbed from a job in a machine shop, where she did a man’s work during the world war, to the presidency of her own company ... accomplished in the span of a few years ... Her philosophy and her view-points, and what she has to say about the opportunities for women in the business world will be not only instructive but inspirational”.

215. CUMMINS, Ella Sterling. The Story of the Files. A Review of the California Writers and Literature. (San Francisco): World’s Fair Commission of California, Columbian Exposition, 1893. Illustrated. Octavo, original pictorial orange boards, let$200.00 tered in brown . Very slight edgewear, else fine. First edition . An illustrated history of California writers, with extensive sections on Harte, Clemens, - 70 -

Miller, Bierce and the local periodicals and publishers. In addition, there is a considerable amount of space dedicated to women writers of California and the Women’s Press Association. Anthologist Cummins was an enthusiastic and important supporter of early California literature. The Story of the Files is the first comprehensive work of its kind in California literature and remains a very valuable source. With an index. [Rocq 17027. Zamorano Eighty, 24. Cowan p. 152].

WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE

216. CUNNINGHAM, Imogen. Imogen Cunningham Photographs. Seattle:

University of Washington Press, (1970). Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faint wear). Owner inscription on front free endpaper, faint tape residue to same. Very good. Second printing. Plate 70 (“Coffee Gallery, San Francsico, 1960”) inscribed and signed by $150.00 Cunningham. Although a founding member of the influential photographic group f64 in 1932, widespread recognition of her work only came to Cunningham (1883-1976) very late in life. [DAB].

217. CURRY, Constance. Silver Rights. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 The story of the Carter family, sharecroppers on a cotton plantation at Sunflower County, Mississippi, who in 1965 sent seven of their thirteen childen to desegregate an all-white school system. With an index.

AN ETHNOLOGICAL TREASURY BY A REMARKABLE TREASURER

218. CURTIS, Natalie, Editor. The Indians’ Book. An Offering by the American

Indians of Indian Lore, Musical and Narrative, to Form a Record of the Songs and Legends of Their Race. New York: Harper, 1907. Illustrated from photographs and from original drawings (some plates in color) by Indians. Quarto, original light brown buckram elaborately stamped as an indian sand painting in yellow, green and brown, printed paper label on spine. All edges uncut. Spine ends and corners a trifle rubbed, spine a little browned, small brown spot on front cover, a few darkish rubbings on rear $350.00 cover, else fine.

With a 1996 reprint. Natalie Curtis (1875-1921) persuaded Theodore Roosevelt, a friend of the family, to make positive changes in the Indian Bureau which operated the schools for the Indians but also instilled in him a genuine interest for their music and folklore. The history, tales and religious rites in The Indian’s Book represent the fruits of a monumental odyssey by train and horseback to eighteen tribes from Maine to British Columbia. Within The Indians’ Book are two hundred song-poems and explantory materials that include legends, myths, and art, covering all aspects of life: love and war, victory and hunting, rejoicing and thanksgiving; there are lullabies and laments, corn-grinding and corn-dance songs, ghost-dance and snake-dance songs, and much more. Curtis modestly wrote that the authors of The Indian’s Book were the Indians themselves, self-effacingly attributing her role to collecting, editing and arranging their songs, stories and drawings. A few days after delivering a lecture at the Sorbonne, Curtis’s life was ended prematurely by a chance encounter with a taxicab while crossing a busy Paris street. [NAW]. 219. [CURZON, Mary]. NICOLSON, Nigel. Mary Curzon. New York: Harper & - 71 -

Row, (1978). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (lightly chipped and $20.00 rubbed at edges). Fine. First U.S. edition.

The story of beautiful Mary Leiter who grew up in luxury as a daughter of the cofounder of Chicago’s Marshall Field department store. Socially prominent, she was a close friend of President Grover Cleveland’s young wife. She met her husband-to-be George Curzon at a ball in London and when he became Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, she became Vicereine at the age of twenty-eight. The book, written by the younger son of Vita Sackville-West, is also a portrait of American, English and Indian society at the turn of the century. With an index. [NAW. Sweeney 274]. 220. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. “Boots and Saddles”, or Life in Dakota with General

Custer. New York: Harper, 1885. Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in gold and black. Light spotting to rear cover, name in ink on front endpaper, else fine. First edition, the preferred later issue with the portrait of Custer and the map not in the $250.00 earlier.

After her husband died at Little Big Horn, Elizabeth was compelled to support herself as well as her husband’s parents. A charming and capable woman, she spent the rest of her long life as one of the great keepers of the flame. This book recalls the years the couple had spent on the Dakota frontier. [Dustin 74. Graff 960. Howes C980. Luther, Custer High Spot 4. Rader, South of Forty From the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. A Bibliography 1010. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 53]. 221. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887. Profusely illustrated by Frederic Remington, and others. Quarto, original green cloth pictorially stamped in gold, red, blue and white, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Ink name and date on front free $450.00 endpaper. About fine. First edition.

This volume deals with the Custers’ experiences from the end of the Civil War to 1867. [Dustin 77. Luther 5]. 222. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Following the Guidon. New York: Harper, 1890.

Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in blue, black, silver, red $200.00 and gilt. A beautiful, bright copy. First edition.

A continuation of Libby Custer’s experiences of her life with her husband, this volume covering the years 1867–1879 and includes a story of two white women ransomed from the Indians. When one of the victims is later blamed by her husband for being raped in captivity, Custer shows an awareness of the idiocy of blaming the victim. [Dustin 76. Luther 6. Rader 1008]. 223. CZARNOWSKI, Lucile K. Dances of Early California Days. Palo Alto: Pacific

Books, (1950). Illustrated. Quarto, pictorially stamped cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight wear. Fine. First edition. $85.00 A unique contribution to the region’s folk dancing lore, illustrated with music and diagrams, many from the times of pre-gold rush Spanish California. The author taught dance to college students at Berkeley, while not travelling the length and breadth of the state interviewing, gathering details and piecing together fragments of a vanishing art form for this book. With notes and a bibliography. (see illustration overleaf).

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224. DAKIN, Susanna Bryant. Rose, or Rose Thorn? Three Women of Spanish California. (Berkeley): Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1963. Illustrated with endpaper map and a frontispiece. Quarto, pictorial cloth. Fine. First edition. $25.00 The histories of Doñas Feliciana Arballo, Eulalia Fages and Concepción Argüello, a trio of early California señoras, are traced in this seldom explored slice of the west’s ethnological biography. [Rocq S535].

225. DAKIN, Susanna Bryant. The Scent of Violets. San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1968. Illustrated. Quarto, cloth. Fine. The only edition, limited.

$50.00 With: [DAKIN, Susanna Bryant]. ROBINSON, W.W. Woman of California: Susanna Bryant Dakin. N.p.: Friends of the Bancroft Library, (1967). Octavo, decorated paper wrappers. Fine. Dakin was a scholar, author and effective activist and friend of California historical societies and libraries. 226. DALL, Caroline H[ealy]. “Woman’s Right to Labor,” or, Low Wages and Hard

Work: In Three Lectures, Delivered in Boston, November, 1859. Boston: Walker, Wise, 1860. 12mo, brown blindstamped ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Small light stain on front cover, very lightly rubbed, contemporary signature “E.C. Clapp” on front free $1,500.00 endpaper, generally a fresh copy. First edition of a rare book. Caroline Wells Healy Dall (1822-1912), biographer, essayist, lecturer and women’s rights advocate, learned the problems of supporting two children by herself after separation from her husband. Dall joined the suffrage movement and along with Caroline Severance helped to organize the Massachusetts segment. In 1859 she put into motion the first New England Woman’s Rights Convention and delivered one of the principal addresses. NAW records that this doughty pioneer was “didactic, argumentative, and self-assured (‘I have never known what is is to be without an opinion of my own ...’)” Caroline Dall went well beyond the suffrage movement, calling for the removal of education and legal disabilities based on sex. In this title Dall demands equal pay for equal work, specifically citing the Lynn shoe workers, whose 3,729 male employees were paid nearly twice what the 6,412 female workers received: “that is, the women’s wages were, on the average, only one-quarter as much as those of the men. “ The writer followed up “Women’s Right to Labor” with a fuller treatment of women’s rights issues in her 1867 The College, the Market, and the Court; or, Woman’s Relation to Education, Labor, and Law. Dall held to three basic tenets: the right to education, the right to work, and the right to vote (particularly to effect legislation relating to the right to work). Both titles, in themselves and as forerunners to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Women and Economics, are significant feminist tracts. [Krichmar, Women’s Studies. A Bibliography and Research Guide 2352. This title is in the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection at the Library of Congress. DAB. NAW].

THE ANTIPODE OF PELLUCIDITY

227. DALY, Mary. Gyn/Ecology. The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston:

Beacon Press, (1978). Octavo, fabricoid, dust jacket (very slightly worn). Name in ink on front endpaper, occasional pencil and ink marking in text. Fine. First edition. $35.00

Golly, just the title puts this writer in over his head here. Even Noah Webster doesn’t seem able to help, while the dust jacket blurb just adds to the confusion. Tell you what: this book

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is going to the top of the pile on the bedstand, and let the pages turn as they may. In the meantime, the dust jacket does tell us something about the author herself: “Mary Daly is a Revolting Hag who holds doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Freibourg, Switzerland. An associate professor of theology at Boston College, this Spinster spins and weaves cosmetic tapestries in her own time/space. She is the author of Beyond God the Father and The Church and the Second Sex”. With notes, an index of new words and a general index. 228. DAMRELL, and MOORE and COOLIDGE, G. The Lady’s Almanac for 1854. Boston: John P. Jewitt, (1854). Illustrated. 24mo, original decoratively blind- and giltstamped red cloth, all edges gilt. Fine copy of a rare book. $225.00 The first number of this lovely little almanac. Among the many illustrations are woodcuts of notable women of the day.

229. DAVENPORT, Laura. The Bride’s Cook Book A Superior Collection of Thoroughly Tested Practical Recipes Specially Adapted to the Needs of the Young Housekeeper. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1908). Illustrated with color plates. Thumb indexed. Octavo, original brown cloth, ruled in gilt with color plate inset on front cover, $165.00 gilt-lettered spine. Fine. First edition.

Although uncredited on the title page, the delightful color pictures are by W.W. Denslow, illustrator of The Wizard of Oz. If the reader does not find this book charming as well as useful, that person is either not 1) a bride, 2) a cook, 3) anyone with whom this writer would care to dine. [Bitting p.114. Brown, 770. Not in Cagle & Stafford]. 230. DAVENPORT, Marcia. Too Strong for Fantasy. New York: Scribner's, (1967).

Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (very lightly chipped at edges). Spine a little slanted, otherwise fine. First edition. $30.00

It is not smart to only partially recall a fifty-six year old story, but here goes: 1947 in upper Manhattan, a bizarre situation became a public sensation. Basically, two eccentric brothers had literally stuffed their home with everything including the kitchen sink and booby-trapped it with Rube Goldberg inventiveness, not the least of which were pots of urine waiting to crown any trespasser having the temerity to broach the maze of newspapers and heavier artillery which was stacked to the ceilings. How these brothers came to live and die in such a labyrinthine mess became a subject for nationwide conjecture. Davenport wrote a book about it, but needed a failsafe, slander-proof substitute name and with the approval of this writer’s father, the real life (i.e. dead) Collier brothers became the Randall brothers. You could look it up - My Brother’s Keeper, New York, Scribners, 1954. By the way, Davenport’s mother was the famous lyric soprano Alma Gluck. With an index. [See Browne p. 29] 231. [DAVIES, Marion]. GUILES, Fred L. Marion Davies. A Biography. New

York: McGraw-Hill, (1972). Profusely illustrated. Thick octavo, marbled boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Ink inscription on front free endpaper, fine. First edition.

With a detailed appendix of Davies’ films, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 280].

$30.00

232. DAVIS, Angela Y. Women, Race & Class. New York: Random House, (1981). - 76 -

Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$35.00 An intellectual and provocative historical reassessment by one of America’s most noted political activists. The work is dedicated to her mother. With extensive notes. 233. DAVIS, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holliday. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

“Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American middle-class values. And she explains how the tradition of black women blues singers– represented by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday– embodies not only an artistic triumph and aesthetic dominance over a hostile popular music industry but an unacknowledged protofeminist consciousness within working-class black communities. Through a close and riveting analysis of these artists’ performances, words, and lives, Davis uncovers the unmistakable assertion and uncompromising celebration of non-middle-class, non-heterosexual social, moral, and sexual values” (from dust jacket). With extensive notes, works consulted and an index.

234. [DAVIS, Rebecca Harding]. LANGFORD, Gerald. The Richard Harding Davis Years. A Biography of a Mother and Son. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Small spot of $20.00 browning inside lower front cover, else fine. First edition.

Although she would go on to a long career as a writer, the zenith of Rebecca Davis’ literary output was reached with the anonymous publication in the April, 1861 Atlantic Monthly of her story of the deprived lives of mill workers in Wheeling, West Virginia, “Life in the IronMills”. It was reissued the following year in book form as Margaret Howth. Her famous son Richard Harding Davis became an immensely popular story writer and journalist as well as the epitomization of American manhood. Indeed, Davis was actually the model for the male counterpart of his friend the artist Charles Dana Gibson’s famous “Gibson Girl”. As for the Gibson Girl herself, the prototype was Irene Gibson (1873-1956) who, when she was not posing for her husband was a social activist. With notes and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 288]. 235. DAY, Mrs. Frank R. The Princess of Manoa and Other Romantic Tales from the

Folk-lore of Old Hawaii. San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1906). Illustrated by D. Howard Hitchock. Octavo, original tan boards with elaborate pictorial stamping in red and brown, brown cloth spine lettered in gilt. Top edge stained dark brown, other edges uncut. In original publisher’s box (top lid defective), original glassine dust wrapper $200.00 (slightly chipped at spine ends). Fine. First edition.

One of Paul Elder’s most elaborate productions. A marvellous survivor of a handsome publication, but one easily subject to exterior wear or damage to the tipped-in illustrations. The author credits Fornander’s History of the Polynesian Islands, Dagget’s Hawaiian Myths and various native friends for the incidents used in the tales.

236. DE CLEYRE, Voltairine. Anarchism and American Traditions. Chicago: (Free Society Group), 1932. Octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. Faint cover soiling. A fine - 77 -

copy of a very elusive and fragile item.

$185.00 De Cleyre, editor of The Progressive Age, turned to anarchism after the Haymarket bombing trials of 1887. She helped found the Ladies Liberal League, and was a major contributor to The Rebel and Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth. This twenty page booklet was issued by The International Anarchist Publishing Committee of America. 237. [DE CLEYRE, Voltairine]. AVRICH, Paul. An American Anarchist. The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1978). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

The first full-length biography of “one of the most interesting if neglected figures in the history of American radicalism”. With a bibliography and an index.

238. DE KNIGHT, Freda B. A Date with a Dish. A Cook Book of American Negro Recipes. New York: Hermitage Press, (1948). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $225.00 jacket (light edgewear). Fine. First edition, and now a rarity.

The entire book is printed in dark brown ink. “This volume of American Negro Recipes is a non-regional cook book that embraces recipes, cooking hints, and menus from all over our country and our near neighbors”. -from the dust jacket. As the author points out in her preface “There are no set rules for dishes created by most Negroes. They just seem to have a ‘way’ of taking a plain ordinary everyday dish and improving it into a creation that is a gourmet’s delight”. This writer especially enjoyed his success with “creamed turkey with pistachio nuts”. With an index of recipes. [Brown, 3315. Cagle & Stafford 213].

239. DE MILLE, Agnes. Lizzie Borden. A Dance of Death. Boston: Little, Brown, (1968). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

Following a trio of Broadway triumphs (Oklahoma!, Carousel and Brigadoon) the brilliant choreographer was introduced to the gruesome circumstances of the Borden murder case by an invalid friend. Her curiosity piqued, she immersed herself in researching the story and ended up creating a ballet from it. The result, Fall River Legend, opened at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1948 with an all-star cast from Ballet Theatre. This book is the story of how the unlikely dance developed. With an index. 240. DEFORD, Frank. There She Is. The Life and Times of Miss America. New

York: Viking Press, (1971). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly soiled). Fine. First edition. $25.00

The author traces the development of the pageant from its beginning and delves into the myriad aspects of the phenomenon while somehow avoiding derision or credulousness in the process. While the contest has been vilified as sexist and the concept itself antedeluvian, it remains an annual American event and here, at any rate, interestingly presented. With appendices and an index. 241. DELAND, Margaret. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie. New York: Harper,

1906. Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Octavo, original blind and gilt stamped red cloth, dust jacket (missing two large pieces from the spine). Light foxing to endpapers, $200.00 else near fine. First edition. Rare in any semblance of the original jacket.

The novel appeared with the front cover stamped either white or with gold. The former

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is believed to have been experimental. The first printing, as here, does not have a box enclosing the dedication. Whitman Bennett regarded Helena Ritchie “as a truly important and permanent work of fiction, forcefully composed and introducing complex psychological elements of drama with great skill and convincingness ... She has an assured place in the small group of really first-line American women prose writers”. [A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting. DAB. NAW].

THE MOVING FINGER WRITES ... AND WRITES AND WRITES

242. DELAND, Margaret. Golden Yesterdays. New York: Harper, (1941). Octavo, $30.00 cloth, dust jacket (somewhat chipped). Fine. First edition. Deland’s long literary career started inauspiciously enough as a verse writer for a greeting card company. Her first book The Old Garden (1886) was a collection of poems. This, her autobiography, has been called as fine a work as anything she ever wrote and was published when she was eighty-four. Between these Deland wrote short stories - the tales of inhabitants of bucolic “Old Chester” - and novels, the best of which were the realistic John Ward, Preacher and The Awakening of Helena Ritchie. In all she wrote twenty-five volumes, each one of which was dedicated to her husband. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1925. Long since part of the passing parade, her work now relegated to the limbo of obscurity, Deland’s life is still worth the reading “as a record of the many transformations of American social history during the nearly eighty years of her adult life” in which she made “a modest but permanent contribution to the long history of resistance to intolerance and cruelty in America” (Dictionary of American Biography). [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 111]. 243. [DELANO, Jane Arminda]. GLADWIN, Mary E. The Red Cross and Jane Arminda Delano. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1931. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth. Very $75.00 lightly rubbed on lower corners, else fine. First edition.

Jane Delano, a native of Montour Falls, New York, whose father was a Baptish clergyman killed in the Civil War before she knew him, graduated from Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1886. She went on to form the American Red Cross Nursing Service and became its first director. Delano spent her entire career in the nursing profession and as much as anyone was responsible for the general reorganization of its various associations, including the Army Nurse Corps and the American Red Cross Nursing Service. As its leader during World War I she somehow was able to supply the military’s need for professional nurses in Europe while coping with the 1918 influenza epidemic at home. With a brief bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW].

244. DEMARCO, Toni. The Natural Way to Health and Beauty. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1976). Quarto, pictorial colored wrappers. Some silverfishing to last and first leaves. Presentation copy by the author: “To ... I know you don’t really need this $20.00 cause you’re such a beautiful person ... Toni”.

In addition to her other accomplishments, Toni hosted a well-regarded local public television program “Making a Difference”, where she did.. 245. DEMING, Barbara. Prison Notes. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966. - 80 -

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 A chronicle of her incarceration resulting from participation in an integrated peace march through Georgia. It is the journalist’s first book, much of which had first appeared in the periodical Liberation. 246. DEUTSCH, Helene, M.D. Confrontations with Myself. An Epilogue. New York: W.W. Norton, (1973). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (a $60.00 couple tiny nicks in upper edge). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

Born in Poland into a prominent Jewish family, Helene Rosenbach rebelled at the lack of opportunity her young life held. Making her way to Vienna, she came in contact with Sigmund Freud and became his assistant. Dr. Deutsch emigrated to this country in 1934, one of the first European trained psychiatrists to do so. 247. [DICKINSON, Anna]. CHESTER, Giraud. Embattled Maiden. The Life of

Anna Dickinson. New York: Putnam’s, (1951). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (crease along top front panel, a couple minor tears near spine, $35.00 slightly rubbed at spine ends). Fine. First edition.

The curious life story of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932). At twenty-one the Philadelphia Quaker, hailed as the “Union Joan of Arc” for her fiery oratory, addressed the House of Representatives with President Lincoln and his cabinet in attendance. After the war she basked in the lecture circuit, her scathing speeches championing negro rights and the social, economic and political emancipation of women (although she would not join the organized suffrage movement). Later she turned to acting, but in middle age Dickinson would fall on hard times and the last forty years of her life were spent in modest circumstances, far from the madding crowd of her youth. With a note on sources and an index. [DAB. NAW].

VERSES FROM AN INNER LIFE

248. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Edited by two of her friends T.W. Higginson and

Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. Octavo, original cream cloth with silver stamping of floral Indian pipes on front cover, the lettering in gilt, gray giltlettered cloth spine, top edge gilt. Front hinge expertly repaired, cloth slightly rubbed and lightly dust soiled. A very decent copy, indeed. First edition, first printing, binding $7,500.00 B (no priority). The author’s first book, published posthumously.

There is so much one could write about Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s poetry and yet so little of her life. She was born (1830), lived and died (1886) in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never ventured past Washington to the south or Boston to the north. Indeed, for twenty years Emily never went farther than her garden gate, evidence that Dickinson’s outward life was the least important thing about her. When the final summing up comes, if nonpareil is hyperbole, certainly her posthumously published poetry (only two of her poems were published during her lifetime, both without her consent) beggars comparison. She was, and remains, an original. [BAL 4655. Clendenning, Emily Dickinson. A Bibliography 1850-1966, 54. Myerson, Emily Dickinson. A Descriptive Bibliography A1.1. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 91]. 249. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Second Series. Edited by two of her friends T.W.

Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. Octavo, original cream cloth with gilt stamping of floral Indian pipes on front cover and spine, gilt-let- 81 -

tered green cloth spine, all edges gilt, white silk ribbon bookmarker (as issued). Cloth slightly rubbed and lightly dust soiled. First edition, first printing. With the unprinted protective tissue before the title leaf inserted in some copies. Binding A (no priority).

$2,500.00 [BAL 4656. Grolier American Hundred 91. Clendenning 55. Myerson A2.1.a. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 91].

250. [DICKINSON, Emily]. TODD, Mabel Loomis and BINGHAM, Millicent Todd, Editors. Bolts of Melody. New Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Harper, 1945. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $150.00 Mabel Todd had an infamous affair with Austin Dickinson, Emily’s brother. The family asked Todd to edit Dickinson’s poems after the poet’s death in 1886. Todd’s association with them ended after Austin’s death led to a lawsuit over some property he had willed to her. The work was continued later by Millicent, her daughter. It contains over 650 hitherto unpublished poems.With an index of first lines. [BAL 4695. Clendenning 51. Myerson A.8.1.a. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 91] 251. [DICKINSON, Emily]. CLENDENNING, Sheila T. Emily Dickinson A

Bibliography: 1850-1966. N.p: The Kent State University Press, (1968). Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. With an index of poetry explications and another of authors. $100.00 With: MYERSON, Joel Emily Dickinson. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. With an appendix, index to the poems, and a general index. Clendenning’s is more a broad checklist of items by and about Dickinson, while Myerson’s is focused on detailed collations of the poet’s oeuvres. Both are useful. [DAB. NAW].

252. DIDION, Joan. Play It As It Lays. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970). $25.00 Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Didion’s third book and second novel, a slightly arid tale of an emotional woman drifting among empty affluence. 253. DITMARS, Elizabeth Van Nes. Sophocles’ Antigone: Lyric Shape and Meaning. Pisa: Giardini , (1992). Octavo, brown wrappers. Wrappers very lightly silverfished, else fine. First edition. Presentation copy by the author: “Dear.... You have to admit ,this $20.00 is a rare book! Betsy”. A scholarly treatise by a one time assistant, signed on for a brief period to help with a vast book and art appraisal.

254. [DIX, Dorothea and FILLMORE, Millard]. SNYDER, Charles M. The Lady

and the President. The Letters of Dorothea Dix and Millard Fillmore. (Lexington): University Press of Kentucky, (1975). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $40.00 edition.

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First publication of the interesting correspondence between the thirteenth President and the renowned champion for better treatment of the retarded and insane. The 150 letters cover - 83 -

nearly a twenty year period. With a chronology, selected bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 255. [DIX, Dorothea Lynde]. WILSON, Dorothy Clarke. Stranger and Traveler.

The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer. Boston: Little, Brown, (1975). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (one small chip) . Fine. First $40.00 edition. Among her other reforms, the crusading of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) played a direct role in the founding of thirty-two state mental hospitals. During the Civil War she was appointed Superintendent of army nurses though as such her imperious nature met with less success. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 332. See Browne p. 116].

256. DOERR, Harriet. Stones For Ibarra. New York: Viking, (1984). Octavo, $60.00 boards, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Born in 1910, the author attended Smith College in 1927 but waited until Stanford University fifty years later to receive her B.A.. This is her first novel.

257. DOG, Mary Crow and ERDOES, Richard. Lakota Woman. New York: Grove

Weidenfeld, (1990). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $25.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A chronicle of the modern movement for American indian rights and especially of the difficulties encountered by women: “I am Mary Brave Bird ... I am a woman of the Red Nation, a Sioux woman. That is not easy”. Publisher’s Weekly called it a “searing autobiography, impassionate, poetic and inspirational”.

258. [DOLLIVER, Clara G.]. No Baby in the House, and Other Stories, for Children.

New York: A. Roman & Co., 1868. Illustrated with frontispiece and engraved title page. 12mo, original blue blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a little browned, spine $175.00 ends and corners a little rubbed, else fine. First edition. A rare early California illustrated children’s book. The engraved title page refers to “The Inglenook Series” and lists the publisher’s location as San Francisco. The printed title lists two locations, with San Francisco being in subordinate type. Oddly, the author‘s name only appears on the dedication page. Also see entry #1001. 259. [DOMESTIC ARTS]. The Woman’s Book. Dealing Practically with the Modern

Conditions of Home-Life, Self-Support, Education, Opportunities, and Every-Day Problems. New York: Scribner’s, 1894. Two volumes. Profusely illustrated . Quarto, original dark green cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in silver. Minimal rubbing of spine ends, else fine. First edition. Inscribed by the receipient: “From the dearest fellow $750.00 in the world” in ink on each volume’s front free endpaper.

Over 400 black and white illustrations as well as twelve handsome color plates depict household interiors, Tiffany artworks, book cover designs by Margaret Armstong and Alice Morse, etc., etc., A word to the hesitating purchaser: buy this book. It will reward you. With a thorough index.

260. [DOOLITTLE, Hilda]. ROBINSON, Janice S. H.D. The Life and Work of an - 84 -

American Poet. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1982. Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth, pic$45.00 torial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) was anointed the nom-de-plume “H.D.” by her mentor, one-time fiancé and lifelong kindred spirit Ezra Pound whom she had met, appropriately enough, at a Philadelphia Halloween party in 1901. She was a charter member of the “Imagists” that group of young Turks who were launching poetry’s modern revolution. She would marry the English poet Richard Aldington as World War I approached, become involved in a stormy relationship with D.H. Lawrence, receive exacting psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud and live to become one of the most important figures of twentieth century poetry. This is her first full-length biography, a work of a dozen years by the author. With notes, selected bibliography and an index. [NAWM. Sweeney 338. See Browne p. 92]. 261. [DRAPER, Ruth]. WARREN, Dorothy. The World of Ruth Draper. A Portrait

of an Actress. Foreword by Helen Hayes. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1991). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original boards, cloth spine, pictori$37.50 al dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Ruth Draper’s speciality was the dramatic monologue, that art-form in which a solitary performer evokes other characters as well. Her repertoire included sixty sketches, all of her own composition. With an appendix, glossary of names and an index. [DAB. NAWM]. 262. DREISER, Helen. My Life with Dreiser. Cleveland: World Publishing, (1951).

Illustrated with photographs and a frontispiece portrait of Theodore Dreiser in color. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (a bit worn). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

$37.50 Helen Patges Richardson, an aspiring young actress, met her older distant cousin, the literary giant Theodore Dreiser in 1919. It was love at first sight. This is her narrative of their tumultuous twenty-six year relationship, which only ended upon his death. With an index. [Atkinson, Theodore Dreiser. A Checklist p. 15].

263. [DREXEL, Katharine]. BURTON, Katherine. The Golden Door. The Life of

Katharine Drexel. New York: P.J. Kennedy, (1957). With a frontispiece. Octavo, cloth, $25.00 dust jacket (slight edgewear). Gift inscription, else fine. First edition.

After inheriting a fortune from her philantropist father, Drexel entered a convent and subsequently founded her own congregation “The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People”. In her long lifetime (1858-1955) Drexel established forty-eight elementary and twelve high schools as well as Xavier University, the first Catholic college for blacks. With a bibliography and index. [DAB. NAWM]. 264. DUFFY, Alice E. Selections From “By The Way”. San Francisco: Privately

Printed, 1936. Illustrated with frontispiece. Octavo, tan designed boards, tan cloth spine, tan paper label printed in black. Free endpapers slightly browned, else fine. One $45.00 of 250 copies printed for the author by the Grabhorn Press.

Articles from the writer’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle, published as a memorial to the noted California journalist. [GB I, 251]. - 85 -

FORTUNE BRINGS IN SOME BOATS THAT ARE NOT STEER’D (SHAKESPEARE)

265. [DUKE, Doris]. MANSFIELD, Stephanie. The Richest Girl in the World. The

Extravagant Life and Fast Times of Doris Duke. New York: Putnam, (1992). Octavo, boards, photographic endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (small hole in upper spine). A little faded at top and bottom edge, light rubbing at bottom edge and lower spine, small hole $30.00 in upper spine.

Portrait of the tobacco heiress framed by a former Washington Post reporter. With a bibliography and an index.

266. [DUKE, Doris]. DUKE, Pony and THOMAS, Jason. Too Rich. The Family Secrets of Doris Duke. (New York): Harper Collins, (1996). Illustrated with photo$20.00 graphs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. At her birth the New York Times dubbed Duke “the richest baby in the world”. At her death the octogenarian was wealthier still, but a pauper in terms of human relationships. In between Doris Duke lived a gossip filled life, and that’s what this book is all about. With an index.

267. DUNBAR-NELSON, Alice. Give Us Each Day. The Diary of .... Edited by Gloria T. Hull. New York: Norton, (1984). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Widow of the famous poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, she was also one of the foremost black feminists (journalist, poet, lecturer, civil rights crusader) of her day. According to the editor’s insightful introduction Dunbar-Nelson’s diary is said to be only the second of book length by a black American woman to appear in print. It is an interesting chronicle of her times. The editor is an expert on black American women writers, particularly the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. With a chronology and an index. .

THE MOTHER OF MODERN DANCE

268. [DUNCAN, Isadora]. GENTHE, Arnold. Isadora Duncan. Twenty-four

Studies. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. Quarto, original gilt-stamped black cloth. Spine a trifle worn, endpapers very faintly browned, else fine. First edition.

$100.00 Genthe’s sublime photographs, with a foreword by Max Eastman, in which he waxes eloquently of Duncan’s artistry and with it the power of creative genius to reach beyond the previously recognized borders of the dance. [DAB. NAW].

“ADIEU, MES AMIS. JE VAIS À LA GLOIRE”

269. [DUNCAN, Isadora]. MAGRIEL, Paul, Editor. Isadora Duncan. New York: Henry Holt, (1947). Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. Large octavo, $25.00 cloth. Fine. First edition.

Duncan’s last words echo her carpe diem lifestyle. The San Francisco native found fame as a dancer, notoriety as an individual and tragedy as a wife and mother. My Life, Isadora’s candid and literate autobiography, was published in 1927, the year of her death. Her legacy extends beyond a permanent influence on dance, that most fleeting of the arts. Made up largely from the periodical Dance Index, this work includes articles by such discerning contemporaries as - 86 -

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Gordon Craig, John Martin and Carl Van Vechten. With a chronology, bibliography, and list of albums of books and drawings of Isadora Duncan. [DAB. NAW]. 270. [DUNCAN, Isadora]. SPLATT, Cynthia. Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig.

The Prose & Poetry of Action. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1988. Illustrated. Royal octavo, two-tone decorated cloth. Fine. One of 450 copies.

$65.00 The story of their romance but, in a larger way, how the individual genius of each was reflected in the other’s work. With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 271. [DUNIWAY, Abigail Jane Scott]. MOYNIHAN, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for Rights. Abigail Scott Duniway. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1983). Illustrated. $25.00 Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Duniway’s 1859 novel Captain’s Gray’s Company was the first novel printed west of the Rockies. The following year Duniway founded the State Equal Suffrage Association with Martha Foster and Martha Dalton, and then in 1871 the suffragist newspaper The New Northwest which was outspoken in its advocacy of women’s rights. In her 1914 autobiography Path Breaking she wrote: “The young college women of today…should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a price…The debt each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.” Duniway was able to vote for the first time at the age of seventy-eight. With appendices and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 355]. 272. [DUNLAP, Kate]. The Montana Gold Rush Diary of Kate Dunlap. Edited by S.

Lyman Tyler, who also annotated the text. Denver and Salt Lake City: Old West Publishing and the Universtiy of Utah Press, 1969. Illustrated with many maps and $30.00 photographs. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth. Fine. First edition. This is Number One of the Western Center Publications, and volume one in the series “Annals of the West”. Inscribed by co-publisher Fred Rosenstock on intial blank and signed twice. The diary text follows a map of the Dunlap trek. With a bibliography. [Mintz 136].

UNDAUNTED COURAGE

273. [DUSTON, Hannah]. CAVERLY, Robert B. Heroism of Hannah Duston,

together with the Indian Wars of New England. Boston: B.B. Russell, 1874. Illustrated with steel engravings. Octavo, original rust cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Spine and edges rubbed, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. Very good. First edition.

$100.00 Cotton Mather was the first to record her exploit in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Briefly recounted, on March 15, 1697 Hannah Duston (or Hanna Dustin) was captured by a party of Indians raiding her frontier settlement at Haverhill in northeastern Massachusetts. Hannah saw her home in flames and early on the forced march toward Canada her week-old baby was brained against a tree. After a 100 mile shoeless trek over late winter terrain the group paused at a small island at the junction of the Merrimack and Contoocook rivers. Hannah planned an escape and one night she killed nine of the sleeping Indians with a hatchet, a young male captive killing another. Starting for the settlements in an Indian canoe, Hannah realized the veracity of her experience might be doubted and returned, scalping the bodies for evidence. Reunited with her husband and remaining children, she was awarded a bounty of twenty-five pounds by the General Court in Boston. Caverly’s is a romantic account. [DAB. NAW] - 88 -

274. [DUSTON, Hannah]. Captivity Narrative of Hanna Duston. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Illustrated with woodblocks by Richard Bosman. Folio, sugikawashi boards, Italian linen cloth spine. Fine. One of 425 copies, printed by the Arion Press, $500.00 signed by the artist. Publisher’s elaborate prospectus laid in. This edition chronicles the captivity narrative of Hannah Duston as written by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Hannah’s story is one of the shortest and bloodiest of the captivity narratives, and one of the most enduring. It was told and retold scores of times over a period of two hundred years. The memory of her deed also survived in the oral traditions of Massachusetts, where she moved into legend as a folk heroine, even to the extent of having a couple of monuments erected in her honor. On a personal note, being a descendant, this writer’s daughter Dustin is named after her great-aunt. [DAB. NAW].

275. DYER, Mary Marshall. The Rise and Progress of the Serpent from the Garden of Eden to the Present Day: with a Disclosure of Shakerism, Exhibiting a General View of their Real Character and Conduct from the First Appearance of Ann Lee. Also, the Life and Sufferings of the Author, Who Was Mary M. Dyer, but Now is Mary Marshall. Concord, New Hampshire: Printed for the Author, 1847. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 12mo, modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Pages slightly $175.00 foxed, else fine. First edition. “Much of the text is reprinted from Mary Dyer’s earlier publications, along with additional depositions and some new material. This revival of her dispute with the Shakers was intended to strengthen the petitions, including her own, that were being presented to the New Hampshire Legislature at this time” - Richmond 535. [Sabin 21597].

276. [EAGELS, Jeanne]. DOHERTY, Edward. The Rain Girl. The Tragic Story of Jeanne Eagels. Philadelphia: Macrae, Smith, (1930). Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in darker green on spine, lettered in green on spine and front $250.00 cover. Trifling browning and rubbing of spine, else fine. First edition. Rare. Jeanne Eagels short life (1890-1929) can be encapsulated in a four letter word: RAIN. The role of Sadie Thompson in the play adapted from Somerset Maugham’s short story of the same name had been rejected by several better known actresses before Eagels was cast in the part. Although she had crammed a lot of other living into her thirty-nine years, it has been remarked that “her life prior to Rain seems mere prologue; after it, epilogue.” Eagel’s characterization became legend. When one reads a respected critics’s recollection that the luminosity of her performance “brought forth an emotional demonstration never exceeded in the theatre of this country and this century” it gives pause to curiosity. If, using my time machine Wishful Thinking, this writer could attend a handful of yesteryear’s Broadway productions, Jeanne Eagel’s Rain would certainly be among them. The authoritative Notable American Women 1607-1950 terms Doherty’s book “ a journalistic, undocumented biography reliable in aspects which can be checked”. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 356 incorrectly listing the title as Rain Girl and the publication date as 1931].

277. [EARHART, Amelia]. A group of sixteen candid news service photographs from the Keystone View Co., Fox Photos, Wide World Photo and International News Photos. 12 are 6” x 8” and four are 8” x 10”, all have accompanying teletype descriptive - 89 -

text affixed to verso (two of the 6” x 8” are duplicates, though with differing texts).

$1,000.00 The chronology starts with Earhart’s transatlantic flight from Boston via Halifax to England, with subsequent welcoming arrivals in Southampton, London, New York, and Boston. The last photo bears the heading “ ‘MRS. PUTNAM’ OF PARK AVENUE—-BUT ‘MISS EARHART’ IN THE BUSINESS WORLD”, and the text “NEW YORK...SNAPPED ABROAD A TRAIN MRS. GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM, BRIDE OF THE PUBLISHER, ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WOULD RETAIN HER MAIDEN NAME OF AMELIA EARHART FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES. SHE IS VICE PRESIDENT OF AN AIRWAY COMPANY. THE AVIATRIX WHO GAINED FAME AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IS SHOWN BOUND FOR WASHINGTON (EB. 9-31)”. It is not known, although possible, that some of the photographs are unpublished. None of them appear in the trio of books which follow. [DAB. NAW]. 278. EARHART, Amelia. Last Flight. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1937). Illustrated with photographs and endpaper map. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a trifle faded). Fine. First edition. $90.00

A record of the final flight of this legendary aviatrix which ended in her tragic disappearance near the completion of an attempt to fly around the world. The text was arranged by Earhart’s husband George Palmer Putnam from the dispatches she had sent from the various stages of the journey as well as her letters and diaries. From one such letter: “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it—because I want to do it. Women must try to do the things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others”. [DAB. NAW].

279. [EARHART, Amelia]. LOVELL, Mary S. The Sound of Wings. The Life of Amelia Earhart. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1989). Illustrated with photographs and maps. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First American edi$25.00 tion.

The title is a bit misleading in that Earhart’s husband, the publisher and publicist George Palmer Putnam, who played an important role in orchestrating her career, is also portrayed. The English author had previously written about another winged woman in Straight On Till Morning, a biography of Beryl Markham. An extensively researched work, with four appendices, a glossary, notes, selected reading list and an index. [DAB. NAW].

280. [EARHART, Amelia]. RICH, Doris L. Amelia Earhart. A Biography. (Washington): Smithsonian Institution, (1989). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $25.00 jacket. Fine. First edition.

There is a foreword by a noted recent flyer, Jeana Yeager of Voyager fame. It is impossible to encapsulate the now mythic figure of Amelia Earhart in a few words. Earhart was the next person after Charles Lindbergh (to whom she bore a startling resemblance) to fly solo across the Atlantic; the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to the mainland; first President of the first women’s pilot organization. She lectured throughout the country and in a real sense had much to do with the furthering of commercial aviation. The first lightweight airline luggage was named after her, and fashionable clothing... Yet a mere recitation of her pathfinding exploits does not delve into her persona. Read the books: they chronicle a fascinating

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life, abbreviated at thirty-nine. During the year 1942 this writer’s parents purchased a three story wood frame house which dates from 1815 and is located in Larchmont, New York. My recollection (my age had not yet reached double digits) is that it had been sold by people named Sheffield who somehow were connected to Amelia Earhart, probably through her in-laws, the Putnams. At any rate, my parents had purchased some of the furniture (mainly porch) along with the property. My brother and I had as our digs the two bedrooms, bath and a large storage space that comprised the third floor. Among some forgotten belongings in this catch-all room was a handsome model of one of Amelia’s airplanes. It immediately became my treasure and I treasured it for a week until the previous owners returned to reclaim it and a few other possessions that had been left behind. With a bibliography, reference notes and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 281. EARLE, Alice Morse and FORD, Emily Ellsworth, Editors. Early Prose and Verse. New York: Harper, 1893. 16mo, original brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt with flowers and other decorative motifs, lettered in gilt. Fine. First edition. $65.00

A volume in Harper and Brothers “Distaff Series”. As explained by Blanche Wilder Bellamy in the introduction “The series of collections of which this volume is a part is made up of representative work of the women of the state of New York in periodical literature” for exhibit in the library of the women’s building at the Columbian Exposition. Earle wrote a number of scholarly works on eighteenth and nineteenth century Americana. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 105].

282. [EASTMAN, Mary]. HART, John S., Editor. The Iris; An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLII. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1852. Illustrated with twelve full page chromolithographic plates after Seth Eastman printed in ten colors by P.S. Duval. Royal octavo, original full brown morocco elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing, else fine. First edition. The author Rupert $1,500.00 Hughes’s copy.

As wife of the artist and soldier Captain Seth Eastman, Mary accompanied him to the military outpost of Fort Snelling. There, for the next seven years she lived among the Mdwekanton tribe of Sioux Indians. The experience provided source material for a career as an author. The majority of the stories in this literary annual are from her pen. These were subsequently brought together in The Romance of Indian Life which included her husband’s interesting drawings, most of which are first published herein. [See Howes E19 for that subsequent printing. Bennett, A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, p. 62. NAW]. 283. EASTWOOD, Alice. A Handbook of the Trees of California. San Francisco:

Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 1905. Illustrated. 12mo, original dark brown limp calf stamped in gilt. Fine. One of 500 copies, with the author’s $300.00 signature in printed facsimile. This is Volume IX of the Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, where the author was Curator of the Department of Botany. Most of the edition was destroyed in the fire of 1906. There was also a trade issue in wrappers. The prolific Eastwood’s best known work, often reprinted. She also did the accompanying line drawings. With a thirty-two page booklet A Collection of Popular Articles on the Flora of Mount Tamalpais published in 1944 by - 92 -

Eastwood laid in. Canadian-born Eastwood was associated for many years with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. With an index and a glossary. [NAWM]. 284. [EASTWOOD, Alice]. DAKIN, Susanna Bryant. The Perennial Adventure. A Tribute to Alice Eastwood 1859-1953. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, $20.00 1954. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author. A short memoir of the famous botanist which includes a reprint of her “Early Botanical Explorers on the Pacific Coast and the Trees They Found There”. With notes. [NAWM].

285. [EASTWOOD, Alice]. WILSON, Carol Green. Alice Eastwood’s Wonderland. The Adventures of a Botanist. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, (1955). Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author. $25.00 Both this and the preceding item were designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. [NAWM].

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

286. [EDDY, Mary Baker]. WILBUR, Sibyl. The Life of Mary Baker Eddy. New

York: Concord Publishing , (1907). Illustrated. Thick octavo, original blue fabricoid, gilt-lettered spine. Fine. First edition. $185.00

The metamorphosis of a sickly child named Mary Baker who would become the controversial founder of the Christian Science Church. Its basic tenet preaches the superiority of spiritual over physical power i.e., mind over matter. Her most important work was Science and Health. First published in 1875 in a printing of 1,000 copies, it has gone through hundreds of editions. As has been pointed out, the movement which has grown out of her teachings has had an influence far beyond the size of its membership. On a personal note, when this writer first moved to Santa Barbara in 1985 he made a house call regarding some books for sale. Among them was a copy of the valuable first edition of Science and Health. Inside was a 1940 receipt from Scribner’s Book Store in New York, signed by my father who had sold it for $150.00 to a parent of the current owner. I paid $1,000.00 for it and walked away whistling. “Among works written from a pronounced Christian Science standpoint, Sibyl Wilbur’s biography, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy (c. 1907), is the earliest and most important, almost a primary document”. - NAW. With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 377. See Browne p. 104]. 287. [EDDY, Mary Baker]. MEEHAN, Michael. Mrs. Eddy and the Late Suit in

Equity. Concord, New Hampshire: Meehan, 1908. Illustrated with 23 tissue guarded portrait plates and facsimiles of two letters from Mrs. Eddy. Royal octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering. Endpapers cracking at hinges. About fine. First $750.00 edition of a rare book.

This work is a record of the court trial against the founder of the Christian Science faith which had been instigated by a New York World article exploiting Mrs. Eddy’s life and questioning her mental competence. [DAB. NAW]. 288. [EDDY, Mary Baker]. PARKER, Mary Godrey et al. We Knew Mary Baker

Eddy. Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, (1979). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket (slight rubbing). Fine. First edition thus. - 93 -

“A collection of reminiscences by eighteen people who were acquainted with the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Published previously in a four volume series, these reminiscences have been rearranged in chronological order for this edition. Short biographies of the authors are included which place the writers in historical context and tell about their participation in establishing the Church of Christ, Scientist” (from the dust jacket). With an index. [DAB. NAW]. 289. EDMONDS, S. Emma E. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields. Hartford: W.S. Williams, 1865. Illustrated with nine full page steel engravings. Octavo, original gilt-lettered blind-stamped cloth. Some browning and foxing, decreasing water$60.00 staining on the first forty pages, else quite good. First printed in 1864.

Ms. Edmonds (pseudonym of Sarah Emma Edmundson 1841-1898) was born and raised in Canada but had spent some time in the United States when the war broke out. She immediately volunteered as a field nurse in the Union army. Reading past the lurid prose and concomitant religious fervor, the work contains some interesting eye witness accounts as well as a detailed description of the famous Union ironclad Monitor. “A sensational account of a woman in the front lines; one of several subsequent editions bore the provocative title, Unsexed”. [Nevins II, p. 125. NAW].

290. [EDUCATION]. Brockport Collegiate Institute. Course of Introduction. Brockport: Watchman Press, 1847. Quarto, two pages, printed in blue ink, with a half page illustration of the school, Three ladies are listed among the seven member “Board $325.00 of Instruction”. Fine. Rare.

An interesting brochure covering tuition, room rent, course work, extras, etc.. “The Female Department, in its plan and organization, is similar to other Female Seminaries. The construction and arrangement of the building are such that the two Departments are kept separate. The young Ladies room in the same hall occupied by the Principal and Female Teachers, and are constantly under their supervision. Young gentlemen are not allowed to visit them except by special permission, and then only in the Public Parlor ...” What became the New York State College of Education had been founded six years previously in the northwestern hamlet of Brockport. 291. [EDUCATION]. Catalogue of Mills College and Seminary, Seminary Park,

Alameda County, California, for the Year Ending May, 1897. Oakland: Carruth & Carruth, 1897. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original light green printed wrappers. Very slight browning of edges, tiny chip missing from lower right front corner, else $225.00 fine. The catalogue provides a splendid opportunity to visualize scholastic life a century ago on a women’s campus. Illustrated with full page photographs, the booklet covers the courses of study and methods of instruction, various societies and available scholarships. There is a catalogue of students and a list of alumnae dating to Mills’ founding in 1860. A section on the establishment and history of the school is followed by an interesting “character of the institution”, i.e. dos and don’ts. “Do be punctual. Do not receive calls on the Sabbath. Do not wear expensive clothing and jewelry.” Toothache? “Dr. Clyde Payne spends one day a week at the college ...”. [This year not in Rocq]. - 94 See item 987

A RARE LITHOGRAPH

292. [EDUCATION]. “Young Ladies Seminary and Church, At Bethlehem, Pa.”.

Designed and Drawn on Stone by Gustavus Grunewald. P.S. Duval, Lith. Phila. 9-5/8” x 12-7/8” image area, 10-7/8” x 13-1/4” overall. One inch crease mark in lower margin, not affecting lettering, 1/2” tear in upper center, 1/8” chip from upper right margin, very $1,500.00 slightly age toned, else excellent.

The print bears an interesting provenance. It was inherited from this writer’s father who had removed it from an 1840s scrapbook of items once owned by George Lehman, a skilled Pennsylvania artist. “Lehman had accompanied Audubon on many of his field trips and did most of the backgrounds for the famous Birds” (see David A. Randall, Dukedom Large Enough, pp. 204-205). He also became a lithographer and was partner in the Philadelphia firm of Lehman and Duval 1835-1836. As for the artist Gustavus Grunewald (1805-1878), he “came to America in 1831 and settled in Bethlehem (Pa.), where he taught drawing and painting in the Young Ladies’s Seminary (Moravian) from 1836 to 1866” New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860. Also see Peters, America on Stone pp. 163-168 (Duval), p. 201 (Grunewald) and 263-264 (Lehman). 293. ELLET, Mrs. (Elizabeth F.). Queens of American Society. New York: Scribner,

1867. Illustrated. Octavo, original full brown morocco elaborately gilt-decorated, all $350.00 edges gilt. First edition. Fine.

The thirteen full page steel engraved portraits include such notables as the Mrs. John Hay and John Hancock, Mrs. President Polk and Jessie Benton Fremont. As informative on the inside as it is attractive on the outside, the volume is augmented with a useful index naming hundreds of American ladies of long ago. [[DAB. NAW]. 294. ELLET, Elizabeth F. The Women of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, (1900). Illustrated with frontispiece portrait in each volume and eight additional plates. Octavo, Volume I, original gilt-lettered with elaborate design on blue and cream cloth. Volume II, original gilt-lettered maroon cloth. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Endpapers cracked at hinges on both volumes, volume II spine faded, else $100.00 fine.

First published in 1848, this important work was reprinted many times. “In popular, readable style, Mrs. Ellet (1812?-1877) told the stories not only of the well-known heroines, such as Abigail Adams, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Warren, and Martha Washington, but also of some 160 lesser women”. [NAW I, p. 570. Howes E93]. 295. ELLIOTT, Maud Howe, Editor. Art and Handicraft in the Woman’s Building of

the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Paris and New York: Goupil, 1893. Profusely illustrated, including an attractive chromolithograph. Royal octavo, original gilt-lettered, silver-stamped ornate design on tan cloth, gilt and blue floral design endpapers, all edges gilt. Embossed ownership stamp on title page. Fine. First $150.00 edition. An important publication depicting the fine arts and crafts on display in the women’s pavilion. Contributors to the text include Julia Ward Howe and her daughter Laura E.

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Richards. [DAB. NAW]. 296. EMBE. Stiya. A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home Founded on the Author’s Actual Observations. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891. Frontispiece portrait of Stiya, and other photographic illustrations. Octavo, original blue pictorial boards, blue cloth spine lettered in black. Very slight rubbing of lower spine and front corner, name in ink on $225.00 front free endpaper, else fine. First edition. Scarce. A factual return of the native tale in which Stiya is confronted with the “you can’t go home again” adage.

297. EPHRON, Nora. Wallflower at the Orgy. New York: Viking, (1970). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Behind the catchy title, the author observes such distaff figures of popular culture as Helen Gurley Brown, Julia Child, Jacqueline Susann and Ayn Rand.

298. ERDRICH, Louise. The Beet Queen. New York: Holt, (1986). Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The part Chippewa author grew up in the rural North Dakota setting of this sequel to her Love Medicine which the Los Angeles Times had rated the best novel of 1985. Her signature is affixed to the front free endpaper. 299. ESMERALDA, Aurora. Life and Letters of a Forty-Niner’s Daughter. San

Francisco: Harr Wagner, (1929). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped green fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, one of 1,600 $225.00 copies, signed by the author. A scarce book, especially so in jacket. The author was better known as Ella Sterling Mighels under which name she wrote The Story of the Files and Literary California. As she points out in the introduction she apparently was the only native daughter born and raised in the mines to grow up to be a writer. [Cowan II, p. 402].

300. ESTES, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run With the Wolves. Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine, (1992). Thick octavo, boards, $35.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. As new. First edition. The author’s first book, a runaway bestseller, with difficulty summed up in the dust jacket blurb: “Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul”. The male of the species could use a book like this. With notes, a bibliography and an index. 301. [ETIQUETTE]. [ANONYMOUS], Young Lady’s Own Book. A Manual of

Intellectual Improvement and Moral . Philadelphia: Key, Mielke & Biddle, 1832. Illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page. 16mo, original gilt lettered calf, rebacked to style. Contemporary pencilled notes on front and rear endpapers. An interesting familial thread has the name Ann R. Payson Dorchester 1832 in ink, below which is pencilled “mother of Edward Payson Ripley.” With the diminutive bookplate of E.P. $225.00 Ripley. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. - 98 -

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The title page credits the anonymous author as having previously written The Young Man’s Own Book. Among the chapters on intellectual improvements are “Female Education”, “The Young Lady’s Library” and “Mental Cultivation.” From the titles moral deportment chapters one can reflect on the “Evils of Card Playing”, practice “Government of the Temper” and fine tune “Deportment toward Inferiors.” It was difficult to determine that the book is the product of an American. The frontispiece is by an Englishman named Henry Corbould though engraved by George B. Ellis who worked in Philadelphia. The best clue to the writer’s national origin is reference to “Professor Frisbie’s celebrated inaugural address.” Turning to the DAB one finds Harvard Professor Levi Frisbie and reference to that speech. 302. EYSTER, Nellie Blessing. A Noted Mother and Daughter. San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1909). Illustrated with three tipped in sepia photographs. 12mo, original gray wrappers, printed cream paper label. Uncut and unopened. A little worn at spine, a little dust soiled, else fine. One of 200 copies, printed at the Tomoye Press on Arnold hand$75.00 made paper with the typography designed by John Henry Nash. The mother who had become a doctor at age fifty-six was Agnes Nininger Kemp. The daughter, who predeceased her, was Marie Antoinette Kemp. They were activists in temperance, suffrage and peace.

303. FABER, Doris. Love & Rivalry. Three Exceptional Pairs of Sisters. New York: Viking , (1983). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00 The sisters are Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Cushman and Susan Cushman Muspratt, and Emily and Lavinia Dickinson. The black and white illustrations are mostly from contemporary sources. With an index.

304. FADERMAN, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, (1991). $20.00 Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The title sums up the contents to which the author, a university professor, has added extensive notes and an index.

HELL HATH NO FURY ...

305. [FAIR, Laura D.]. Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair for the Murder of

Alex. P. Crittenden, …. San Francisco: White & Bauer, 1871. Illustrated with full page steel engraved portraits of Crittenden and Fair. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, original printed wrappers bound in, marbled boards, rebacked with red and black morocco gilt-lettered labels on spine. Some edgewear to covers, some offsetting and browning from binding on endpapers and first and last leaves, else excellent. First edition. With newspaper clippings from 1919 relating to the recent death of Laura Fair $375.00 pasted onto front free endpaper. Printed in double columns.

This published transcript of Marsh and Osbourne’s (the court’s official reporters) shorthand notes is the basic document in this sensational case. Although sold widely in California and Nevada, it is now a very elusive and rare book. With an index and an appendix. [Cowan I, p. - 100 -

201. Rocq 8561, listing a different San Francisco publisher and not noting a seventeen page appendix of the Fair-Crittenden correspondence.]. 306. [FAIR, Laura D.]. LAMOTT, Kenneth. Who Killed Mr. Crittenden? New York: David McKay, (1963). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges slightly worn). $20.00 Near fine.

On November 3, 1870, as the ferryboat El Capitan was leaving its Oakland slip bound for San Francisco, Laura D. Fair shot her lover, the prominent lawyer Alexander Parker Crittenden in front of his wife and several of their children. Fair’s lawyers pleaded insanity but she was found guilty and sentenced to be hung. Following a stay of execution, an appeal resulted in a new trial in which the verdict was overturned. With a brief appendix.

307. FARMER, Fannie Merritt. Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent. Boston: Little, Brown, 1904. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth decoratively stamped in light green and gray. Former owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper, else near fine. $125.00 First edition. Fannie (1857-1915) considered this to be her most important work even though it was The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book which had forever tied her name to the kitchens of America. She had graduated from the school in 1889, stayed on as assistant director and became director in 1894, revising the cook book and remaining there until she opened her own school in 1902. With a technical and descriptive index and an index of recipes. [See Bitting, p. 153 and Brown 1566 listing only reprint editions. Cagle & Stafford 248. DAB. NAW].

308. FARMER, Fannie Merritt. Catering for Special Occasions with Menus & Recipes. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1911). The color plate by the famous illustrator J.C. Leyendecker on the front cover was originally used for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1909. Illustrated with half tone engravings and drawings by Albert D. Blashfield. Octavo, original green ribbed cloth lettered in white on front cover, in gilt on spine, color plate affixed to front cover, top edge gilt. Minor rubbing at spine ends, small remnant of removed bookplate (?) on front free endpaper, else fine. $90.00 First edition. With an index. [Bitting p. 153. Brown 4063. Cagle & Stafford 247. DAB. NAW].

309. FARMER, Fannie Merritt. A New Book of Cookery. Boston: Little, Brown, 1912. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in black. Fine. First $125.00 edition.

Aimed not at professional cooks but at training housewifes. Illustrated with eight colored plates depicting various dishes and sixty-one black and white halftone plates. With an index. [Bitting, p. 154. Brown 1587. Cagle & Stafford 249. DAB. NAW].

310. FARMER, Fannie Merritt. The Dinner Calendar for 1914. New York: Sully & Kleinteich, 1913. Small quarto, original pictorial paper wrappers and silk cord ties, boxed as issued. Some browning to fragile wrappers, faint stain to lower portion of box extending into wrappers, box browned. A very nice copy of an attractive, scarce and $175.00 fragile item. - 101 -

Rare. Not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle & Stafford. With the menu of the main meal and recipe for a featured course given for every day of the year. [DAB. NAW].

THE AUTHOR’S RARE FIRST BOOK

311. FARNHAM, Eliza. Life in Prairie Land. New York: Harper, 1846. 12mo, hand-

somely rebound in three-quarter gilt-stamped blue morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Faint foxing throughout, light wear to boards, bookplate (of Frank O. $300.00 Lowden, a former Illinois governor). First edition.

Farnham served as a matron at Sing Sing from 1844–1848, successfully proving her theory that prisoners respond to kindness. In 1859 she founded a society to help indigent women establish a home in the West. Life in Prairie Land , her first book, describes life and travel in then west of northern and central Illinois in the early 1840’s. She pays particular attention to conditions for women, noting in the preface: “Very many ladies are so unfortunate as to have had their minds thoroughly distorted... They cannot endure the sudden and complete transition which is forced upon them by emigration to the West ... [they] suffer the loss of artificial luxuries, but never appreciate what is offered in exchange for them”. As a 49er Farnham knew whereof she spoke. Speaking of speaking, her California lecture circuit success as an early proselytizer of Spiritualism was blunted by “a never-ending monotone”. Nothing if not versatile, Farnham wrote for the San Francisco Hesperian, a woman’s periodical, from 1860 to 1862. Women and Her Era, a two volume work published the year of Farnham’s death in 1864, presented her case for women’s intellectual superiority and a well reasoned estimate of their vocational capabilities beyond motherhood. [DAB. NAWM]. 312. [FARRAND, Beatrix Jones]. BROWN, Jane. Beatrix. The Gardening Life of

Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872-1959. (New York: Viking, 1995). Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs in colour and black and white. Quarto, cloth, pictorial $25.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

An English author’s handsomely produced tribute to one of America’s greatest landscape gardeners. The book is well served with the impressive list of commissions, two appendices, extensive notes and index. [DAB. NAWM].

313. FARRELL, Suzanne and BENTLEY, Toni. Holding On to the Air. An Autobiography. New York: Summit, (1990). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Farrell, protegée of the choreographer George Balanchine, was the outstanding ballerina of the New York City Ballet for over twenty years. With source notes and an index.

314. [FASHION]. H. Liebes & Co. Fine Furs. Catalogue for the Season of 1912-1913. San Francisco: Liebes & Co, 1912. Illustrated. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrap$100.00 pers, front wrapper in a variety of colors, stapled as issued. Near fine. Milady’s furs and fur garments, illustrated with figures today so politically incorrect. The text consists of some general information about furs, the company’s various services and at the rear of the twenty-four page booklet, directions for self measurement.

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315. FENZI, Jewell and NELSON, Carl L. Married to the Foreign Service. An Oral

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Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 Co-author Fenzi spent thirty years as a foreign service wife. The book draws upon 170 interviews with the spouses of United States diplomats and provides interesting insight into the social and personal side of foreign relations and the significant contributions made by them, virtually all of whom were women. With an appendix, bibliography and an index. 316. FERBER, Edna. Saratoga Trunk. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, repaired). Near fine. First trade edition.

$35.00 Ferber had won the Pulitzer Prize for an earlier novel, So Big. Among her other successes were Show Boat, Giant and collaboration on the plays Stage Door and Dinner at Eight. In all, Ferber (1885-1968) published more than twenty-five volumes. Saratoga Trunk was made into a film in 1945, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper. The author was a member of the Algonquin Hotel’s famous Manhattan literary circle, the “Round Table”. [DAB. NAWM. See Browne p. 55]. 317. FERN, Fanny. Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women and

Things. New York: G.W. Carleton, (1872). Octavo, original red cloth decoratively $125.00 stamped in black. Very slight spine soiling, else fine. First edition.

Fanny Fern was the nom-de-plume of Mrs. Sara Payson Parton. Though neither name is well known today, she was among the most celebrated American women of her time. Born in 1811, during her twenty-one year career as the nation’s first female newspaper columnist she wrote about prostitution, venereal disease, prison reform, birth control and divorce. As can be imagined, her opinions did not meet with universal approbation - but they did increase circulation. She originated the saying that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” as well as less ladylike pronouncements. Fern was proof that a spirited daughter can override a strict Calvinist father. [DAB. NAW].

PRO-CHOICE!

318. FERRARO, Barbara and HUSSEY, Patricia with O’REILLY, Jane. No

Turning Back. Two Nuns’ Battle with the Vatican Over Women’s Right to Choose. New York: Poseidon Press, (1990). Tall octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. First edition. “In October of 1984, twenty-four nuns joined with four priests and sixty-nine Catholic lay people in signing an advertisement in The New York Times; it protested attacks by conservative Catholic bishops on vice-presidential candidate Geraldino Ferraro’s pro-choice position on abortion. The Vatican’s reaction was swift: retract or face dismissal from religious orders. After two years of intense pressure from Rome, only two nuns held out -Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey. Between them, they had spent forty-seven years as nuns. This is their story” -from the dust jacket. With an appendix. 319. FERRARO, Geraldine A and FRANCKE, Linda Bird. Ferraro. My Story.

New York: Bantam Books, (1985). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth $20.00 spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

320. FIELD, Isobel. A Bit of My Life. Santa Barbara, California: Schauer Printing Studio, (1951). 12mo, original wrappers. Spine a little faded, rear wrapper a little dust soiled, else fine. Very scarce. $40.00

Issued as a Christmas greeting. As the title page notes: “Mrs. Salisbury Field, who was Mrs. Strong at the time described in these memoirs, is the daughter of the late Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. She is referred to frequently in the Vailima Letters as ‘Belle’, and by her native name of ‘Teuila’. She acted as amanuensis to R.L.S. during the last years of his life in Samoa, writing all of his voluminous correspondence, besides the two novels St. Ives and Hermiston”.

KATE FIELDIANA

321. [FIELD, Kate]. ELLIOTT, Dr. S. G. A Group of Notable Women: Kate Field,

The Versatile. Extracted from The Delineator (n.d.) pp. 652-654 with six illustrations.

$60.00 With: MOSS, Carolyn J. “Kate Field: The Story of a Once-Famous St. Louisan”. Extract from the Missouri Historical Review, (n.d.) pp. 157-175. Illustrated. With: A Stunning photogravure printed in sepia of Field by B.J. Falk. Approximately 6 x 8.5 inches. With: Vanderweyde, Black and white photograph of a crayon portrait, London, 1878. With: A Tms. by the Marin County, California historian Helen Van Cleve Park. Quarto, eight pages, heavily corrected in red ink. Regarding Kate Field’s background and her involvement with the monumental publication, Picturesque California which was editied by John Muir. Of the fifteen contributors, only two were women. Field wrote the chapter on Marin, the affluent county just north of San Francisco. If the style runs from Hemingwayesque to over the top, the lines themselves are full of interesting information. [DAB. NAW].

322. [FIELD, Kate]. WHITING, Lilian. Kate Field. A Record. Boston: Little, Brown, 1900. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, top $20.00 edge gilt, other edges uncut. Spine and edges browned, bookplate, else fine.

Mary Katherine Keemle Field (1838-1896) actress, journalist, lecturer and author counted international copyright, Hawaiian annexation, temperance and prohibition of Mormon polygamy among her causes. Field’s friends included the Brownings, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope, who refers to her in his Autobiography as his “most chosen friend”. In addition to this biography, Whiting wrote another book about her entitled After Her Death, in which she claims to have communicated with the psychic spirit of her subject. Noting that few of Field’s private papers have survived, NAW calls this book the most important primary source “a work rich in detail and accurate but highly slanted in evaluation”. With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 397].

323. FIELD, Rachel. A Governess Who Helped to Upset a Throne: Rachel Field’s Engrossing Tale of Actual Persons and Events. New York: New York Herald Tribune, $10.00 October 23, 1938. A newspaper clipping, one page slightly faded. With: “A Baby’s Prayer”, five other single page newspaper clippings and a two-page Life magazine extract about the 1940 film of Field’s novel All This and Heaven Too illustrated with scenes from the movie which starred Bette Davis.

A script writer’s dream: daughter of Italian immigrants becomes a lawyer, Congresswoman and the first major party female candidate for Vice-President. With an index. - 104 -

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A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY

324. FIELDS, Annie. The Singing Shepherd and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton,

Mifflin, 1895. 12mo, original green cloth, paper spine label (worn). Light scattered fox$275.00 ing, else fine. First edition. Inscribed by Fields “To Josephine Lazarus. With the sincere appreciation and regard of Annie Fields. 148 Charles St. Boston”. Josephine Lazarus was the sister of poet Emma Lazarus and was herself a writer. Annie Fields (1834-1915), literary hostess and social-welfare worker, was married to the influential publisher James Thomas Fields. While Annie is best remembered for several works of literary reminiscences, she published three volumes of poetry as well. A particularly nice association item . [DAB. NAW].

325. [FIELDS, Annie Adams]. ROMAN, Judith A. Annie Adams Field. The Spirit of Charles Street. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1990). Illustrated. Tall octa$20.00 vo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The author originated this project for her doctorate from Indiana University in 1984. With notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW].

326. FINE, Lisa M. The Souls of the Skyscraper. Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1990). Illustrated with $20.00 numerous tables. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

With a one page prospectus for the book laid in. An interesting monograph, focusing on Chicago while looking more broadly at how clerical work in America was transformed from a male to a primarily female occupation. With notes, a bibliographic essay and an index.

327. FINLEY, Martha. Elsie at Nantucket. A Sequel to Elsie’s New Relations. New York: Dodd, Mead, (1884). Illustrated. 12mo, original red cloth decorated in black and $75.00 gilt. Pages a bit foxed, else fine. First edition.

Between 1868 and 1905 the prolific author turned out twenty-eight volumes featuring her juvenile heroine Elsie Dinsmore. The creator of these, Martha Farquharson Finley, has been characterized as otherwise leading a particularly uneventful life. What follows is the acerbic assessment by Kunitz & Haycraft in American Authors 1600-1900: “A doctorate in psychology might be earned by a thesis on the Elsie books. It is difficult to understand how even Victorian children could be persuaded to swallow this compound of sentimentality and masochism and clamor for more .... Obedience, piety, and smugness are the key-notes of the whole twenty-eight and Elsie, eternally ‘bursting into tears’, would seem to a present-day child what she is, a nauseous little prig; her dear papa a tyrant of the type of Mrs. Browning’s father, with trimmings that make him the silliest sort of caricature of the stock ‘Southern gentleman’; while Mr. Travilla, who plays ‘stooge’ to Mr. Dinsmore in the earlier volumes and obligingly marries Elsie, fathers her children, and then even more obligingly dies so that she can be reunited with her adored -and converted- father, is a mere cardboard shadow of a man. A breath of fresh air would have blown the whole lot down”. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 81].

328. FIREBAUGH, Ellen M. The Physician’s Wife and the Things That Pertain To Her Life. Philadelphia: F.A.Davis Company, 1894. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of the author and forty-four line drawings. Octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and in brown on front cover, patterned endpapers. Very slight rubbing of - 106 -

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spine ends and corners, front free endpaper with name in ink and slight waterstain on fore-edge, preliminary and terminal leaves slightly foxed, still a very nice copy. First edition. $60.00

A delightful, down-to-earth account which presents the seldom seen viewpoint of the wife of a country physician as she lived it a century ago. An uncommon book. Dedicated to physicians’ wives and, in particular, to the children’s author Frances Hodgson Burnett. (See photograph at p. 107).

A COOK’S BOOK WITH ATTITUDE

329. FISHER, M.F.K. How To Cook a Wolf. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1942). Octavo, original gray cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket with a photograph of the attractive author on the rear panel (some expert restoration to spine at top and bottom). Spine ends a little rubbed and spine lightly $500.00 browned, small spot on lower edge of front cover, else fine. First edition.

An arrestingly titled potpourri by one of the great culinary writers, somewhat a reflection of that time when food and drink were rationed in America. From how to boil water and how not to boil an egg, through how to distill a vodka with verve, there is a wealth of uncommon sense between the covers. As a longtime member of the once a day diners’ club, this writer raises a glass to Fisher’s remarks at page four: “One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’. In the first place, not all people need or want three meals each day. Many of them feel better with two, or one and onehalf, or five.” The first printing of this classic is very scarce. Indeed, a copy has yet to appear at auction, although other books by Fisher have. Published two years after Bitting’s bibliography, it is not recorded either by Brown or Cagle-Stafford. With an index.

330. [FISHER, M. F. K.]. FERRARY, Jeannette. Between Friends. New York: Atlantic Monthly, (1991). Octavo, original boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition. A memoir of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher in later years by a younger generation writer of culinary matters. An insightful look into a privately guarded life. With a chronology of M.F.K. Fisher. 331. [FITZGERALD, F. Scott]. RING, Frances Kroll. Against the Current. As I

Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Berkeley): Donald S. Ellis, 1985. Illustrated with facsimiles of notes and letters. 12mo, fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

$45.00 A memoir by the young lady who would become Fitzgerald’s secretary, gofer and his person Friday during the last twenty months of his short life. 332. [FITZGERALD, Zelda]. MILFORD, Nancy. Zelda. A Biography. New York:

Harper & Row, (1970). Illustrated. Royal octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight wear). Rear cover and spine water stained (not noticeable with jacket). Inscribed and $30.00 signed by the author. Flaming Youth! The Jazz Age! The Roaring Twenties! Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald! The - 108 -

author drew on interviews with people who knew Zelda as well as hundreds of previously unpublished letters between the Fitzgeralds. The resultant biography brings a complicated, lonely and unhappy person out of her husband’s shadow. With notes, sources and an index. [Bruccoli, F. Scott Fitzgerald. A Descriptive Bibliography B75. Sweeney 406]. 333. [FITZGERALD, Zelda]. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Retrospective. Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. (Montgomery: Montgomery Art Museum, 1974). Illustrated. $75.00 Quarto, decorated wrappers. Fine. First edition. Very scarce.

Zelda had a genuine three-dimensional artistic talent: painting, writing and dancing. However, as she has been quoted,“I wish that I had been able to do better one thing and not so given to running into cul-de-sacs with so many”. This is a catalogue of an exhibition of her idiosyncratic, vividly intense paintings, held in Zelda’s hometown. [Bruccoli, Supplement to F. Scott Fitzgerald. A Descriptive Bibliography I 36].

334. [FITZGERALD, Zelda]. BRUCCOLI, Matthew J., Editor. The Collected Writings Zelda Fitzgerald. Introduction by Mary Gordon. (London): Little, Brown, $20.00 (1992). Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First English edition. Included herein are her only novel, Save Me The Waltz (New York: Scribner’s, 1931), semi-autbiographical short stories (including one previously unpublished), and articles and a selection from her correspondence to Scott. These revealing letters range from their courtship to her confinement in a sanitorium. 335. FLANAGAN, Hallie. Arena. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.

Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (quite worn, chipped and separated at $60.00 folds). Fine. First edition.

This book chronicles Flanagan’s experience conducting the government funded Federal Theatre. It was started in 1934 to employ the numerous out–of–work actors during the Depression and was closed in 1939 due to alleged Communist activities. Eugene O’Neill said about the Federal Theatre: “This theatre is becoming a great force…It has a tonic effect on me to think of my own plays being done in places where, without it, they would most certainly never have been produced”. The illustrations reproduce scenes for some of the best known productions. There is an appendix, listing production records and financial statments, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

RECIPIENT OF THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR

336. FLANNER, Janet (Genet). Paris Journal 1944-1965. Edited by William Shawn. New York: Atheneum, 1965. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly soiled at lower edge of front panel, upper edge a little rubbed). Fine. First edition. $20.00

Writing under the pen name Genet, Indianapolis-born (1892) Flanner was the Paris correspondent of the New Yorker magazine for many years. The expatriate was one of the few women awarded the French Legion of Honor. With an index. [DAB]. 337. [FOOTE, May Hallock]. A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West. The

Reminiscences of May Hallock Foote. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1972. Illustrated. Octavo, pictorial cloth (the photographic pictorial image extending to $20.00 spine and rear cover). Fine. First edition. - 109 -

A posthumously printed work of the illustrator and writer, edited by Rodman W. Paul. Laid in is an intriguing three page ALs from a descendent of the author: “After reading Angle of Repose, I thought you would enjoy the ‘real story.’ I do hope you don’t already have a copy… I’ll always think that ‘Nana’ really won the Pulitzer Prize, as you can see that the best parts of Stegner’s book were copied word for word”. With an index. [NAW. See Browne p. 57]. 338. FORD, Betty and CHRIS, Chase. The Times of My Life. (New York): Harper & Row, (1978). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 Former model and dancer Elizabeth Ann Bloomer from Grand Rapids, Michigan to the White House, Washington. With an index. 339. FORD, Betty and CHRIS, Chase. Betty. A Glad Awakening. Garden City:

Doubleday, 1987. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 A moving memoir of the former first lady besting her addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs, a victory which would lead to the realization of the Betty Ford Center for treatment of problems which afflict millions of us. 340. FOSSEY, Dian. Gorillas in the Mist. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1983. Profusely illustrated with photographs in color and black and white. Octavo, pictorial $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Dr. Fossey spent over fifteen years in Africa conducting groundbreaking research on the endangered mountain gorilla. This fascinating autobiography was made into a movie starring Sigourney Weaver. With appendices, maps, the most extensive bibliography of gorillas in print, and an index.

341. [FOSSEY, Dian]. HAYES, Harold T.P. The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1990). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

In 1985 Fossey was brutally slain in her research camp cabin in Rwanda. The identity of the primatologist’s murderer remains speculative to this day. There were no lack of suspects, however, as in her single-minded comittment she was the intractable foe of poachers, imperious to Africans and abrasive to colleagues. This book explores that strange life in the dark continent of the complicated Fossey, a life lived far from her native Kentucky. With a bibliography and an index.

First edition of a rare regional cookbook.

$225.00 “... the Author of this volume claims for her work an entirely unique value. Receipts are found herein which have been collected for generations, including Creole and French receipts known only to the wealthy planter families of the far South, whose trained chefs seldom liked to reveal the secret of their delicious creations. Having spent her girlhood as a resident of Louisiana, the author early conceived the idea of collecting formulas for all the delicacies of the table served in the homes of her relatives and friends. In later years, coming further North, all that was best in Virginia and Kentucky cookery she also obtained, and it is not claiming more than truth to state that a more comprehensive cook book has never been issued in the South.” It is also one of the earliest non-charitable cook books published in the state of Kentucky. [Bitting p. 167. Brown 1122. Not in Cagle and Stafford]. 344. [FRAZIER, Brenda]. DILIBERTO, Gioia. Debutante. The Story of Brenda Frazier. New York: Knopf, 1987. Illustrated with over ninety photographs. Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (minor wear). Fine. First edition.

While still a teenager Brenda Diana Duff Frazier became a famous glamour girl and the darling of cafe society. From there her life devolved as she slowly slid through unhappy marriages and relationships. Alcohol, prescription drugs, anorexia and suicide attempts led to her death as a sixty year old recluse. Author Diliberto would also write a biography of Hadley Hemingway, Ernest’s first wife. With notes, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 425].

345. FRÈMONT, Jessie Benton. Souvenirs of My Time. Boston: D. Lothrop, (1887). Illustrated. Octavo, original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Spine a bit sunned, bookplate, browning to endpapers, otherwise excellent. First $185.00 edition. These are autobiographical sketches by a remarkable lady. As daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton and wife of John Charles Frèmont she spent most of her life in the public eye. It has also been asserted that she had a significant (though uncredited) hand in writing her husband’s memoirs. Laid in is a contemporary review calling the book “a highly entertaining record of an eventful life”. [DAB. NAW].

346. [FRÈMONT, Jessie Benton]. HERR, Pamela and SPENCE, Mary Lee, Editors. The Letters of Jessie Benton Frèmont. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, $25.00 (1993). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine.

342. FOVEAUX, Jessie Lee Brown. Any Given Day. The Life and Times of .... (New York): Time Warner, (1997). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The editors were well-qualified to annotate the 271 letters here first printed as they both had published works on the Frèmonts, Herr a biography of Jessie. Surviving the decline in her husband’s fortunes, Jessie made the best of his regression from famous explorer, Presidential candidate, Civil War general, and Governor of the Arizona Territory (where they could not even afford the trip from Prescott to view the Grand Canyon) by her writings. With a bibliography and an extensive index. [DAB. NAW].

343. FRAZER, Mary Harris. Kentucky Receipt Book. (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert Company, 1908). Octavo, original red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges stained red. Wanting the front free blank endpaper and paper split over hinge, else fine.

347. [FRÈMONT, Jessie Benton]. PHILLIPS, Catherine Coffin. Jessie Benton Frémont A Woman Who Made History. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. Illustrated. Quarto, original burgundy boards, cream cloth spine with printed paper label , dust jacket (spine and flap folds a tad faded, a few minor tears in folds). Fine. With $110.00 publisher’s prospectus and order card laid in.

Commenced while an octogenarian and published near the author’s centenary, the reminiscence reads like a generous serving of middle American apple pie.

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Phillips was the author of several other well written works relating to California, each elaborate Nash productions. With a bibliography listing books, periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers as well as Frèmont family papers and publications of Jessie Benton Frémont. With an index. [DAB. Howes P310. NAW. Sweeney 431].

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

348. FRENCH, Lillie Hamilton. The House Dignified. Its Design, Its Arrangement

and Its Decoration. New York: Putnam’s, 1908. Profusely illustrated with seventy-five original illustrations from photographs. Quarto, original pictorial elaborately gilt deco$125.00 rated burgundy cloth, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Fine. First edition. A major production, featuring homes of some rich and famous names from Astor to Whitney, illustrated with full page photographic plates of entrances, halls, stairways, fireplaces, doors and windows as well as dining, drawing, library, smoking, bed, bath and dressing rooms. The author is not without opinions, usually loftily expressed, but democratic enough regarding the neglect of the servants’ quarters in newer houses. French (1854-1939) was also a writer of novels.

349. FRENCH, Marilyn. The Women’s Room. New York: Summit Books, (1977). Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00 The author’s first novel, a tale of how the quiescent wives of the fifties became the activist women of the seventies. A very influential bestseller.

A MILESTONE OF THE MOVEMENT

350. FRIEDAN, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, (1963). Octavo,

boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned). Some ink markings to endpapers and top edge, evidence of library bookplate removal on rear endpaper, yet a much $75.00 better copy than it sounds. First edition.

The author’s famous first book, a turning point of the feminist movement in the United States. Challenging the traditional role of women, it developed the concept that expresses the emotional emptiness felt by women trying to live through their husbands’ and childrens’s lives. The book sold more than 300,000 copies in less than six months, and women of all ages wrote her “it changed my life!”. Three years after publication Friedan founded the National Organization for Women. With notes and an index. 351. FRIEDAN, Betty. It Changed My Life. Writings on the Women’s Movement.

New York: Random House, (1976). Royal octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket (very $20.00 slight wear). Fine. First edition.

A pasticcio including speeches, anecdotes, personal and political stories, magazine columns, etc., by the foremost spokeswoman for women’s rights of her time.

“SHOOT IF YOU MUST THIS OLD GRAY HEAD”

352. [FRITCHIE, Barbara]. ABBOTT, Eleanor D. A Sketch of Barbara Fritchie,

Whittier’s Heroine. Including Points of Interest in Frederick, Maryland. N.p: Privately Printed, 1921. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Slight wear to edges, fine. First edi$60.00 tion, signed by the author: in tandem, exceedingly scarce. - 112 -

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This is the story of the devout Maryland patriot who is said to have waved an American flag at passing Confederate soldiers. Fritchie (or Frietschie) was ninety-six at the time of the incident. Ironically, her father-in-law had been hung as a traitor during the Revolutionary War. This twenty-six page booklet reprints Whittier’s famous poem “Barbara Fritchie”. Eleanor Abbott was Fritchie’s great grandniece. [NAW]. 353. FRYER, Judith. Faces of Eve. Women in the Nineteenth Century American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. $25.00 Fine. First edition. An interpretative treatise which includes notes, a useful bibliography and an index.

354. [FULBRIGHT, Roberta]. STUCK, Dorothy D. and SNOW, Nan. Roberta. A Most Remarkable Fulbright. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly worn). Fine. First edition. $20.00 Inscribed by both authors on the title page.

As a forty-nine year old widow Roberta pulled together the fragmented family business holdings. Working as a journalist, her newspaper column “As I See It” championed women’s talents and their abilities in non-traditional roles along with their right to an equal place in public life, long before modern feminism became a movement. As a matriarch she is best remembered today as the mother of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. With notes, bibliography and an index.

355. FULLER, Margaret. Love Letters of… 1845-1846. New York: Appleton, 1903. Frontispiece portrait of Margaret Fuller. Octavo, original gilt-lettered tan cloth, top edge $50.00 gilt. Brief ink inscription on endpaper. Fine. First edition. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe, to which are added the reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley and Charles T. Congdon. Fuller had met these letter’s receipient at Greeley’s home. [BAL 6511, binding A. Krichmar 4681. DAB. NAW].

356. [FULLER, Margaret]. STERN, Madeleine B. The Life of Margaret Fuller. New York: Dutton, 1942. With a frontispiece. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

A novelized biography of the precocious Fuller, one of the most gifted of early American feminists. She was the first to edit a periodical (The Dial, her own creation); first on the staff of a major newspaper (Horace Greeley’s Tribune) and first effective writer for the budding feminist movement (Women in the Nineteenth Century). With extensive bibliography and index. [BAL volume 3, p. 269. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 441. See Browne p.49]. 357. [FULLER, Margaret]. WILSON, Ellen. Margaret Fuller. Bluestocking,

Romantic, Revolutionary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1977). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

The author had also written biographies of Mary Cassatt and Gertrude Stein. She did not live to see this one published, having passed away the previous year. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 358. GALE, Zona. Miss Lulu Bett. An American Comedy of Manners. New York:

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Appleton, 1921. Octavo, original gilt-lettered green cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some browning and chipping). Spine lettering faded, about fine. First edition, rare in jacket.

$90.00 The play, which Gale metaphrased from her highly successful novel of the same name, was the third winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. [DAB. NAW. See Browne, p. 58]. 359. GAYNOR, Janet. Seventh Heaven. N.p: n.d. Twenty-two sepia and black and $450.00 white photographic prints, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Laura Gainer - that is, Janet Gaynor - became the first recipient of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress Academy Award. At that time multiple film performances were considered and Janet won for the threesome of Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise. The first of these remains the yardstick for all movie love stories. One of the last great silent films, it was issued with a synchronized musical score, the theme for which was the haunting melody Diane, a copy of the sheet music for which is included. The movie derived from the popular Broadway play by Austin Strong, son of Isobel Strong, grandson of Fanny Stevenson and step grandson of Robert Louis Stevenson. The provenance of these stills traces directly to Belle Strong, who was the stepdaughter of and amanuensis to the famous Scottish writer. 360. [GELLHORN, Martha]. ROLLYSON, Carl. Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave. The Story of Martha Gellhorn. New York: St. Martin’s, 1990. Illustrated with $20.00 photographs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Gellhorn was one of America’s most important war correspondents. She was married at one time to the author Ernest Hemingway. This is the first full-scale study of her life. With a chronology, notes and an index. [See illustration at p. 143]

361. GENTRY, Curt. The Madams of San Francisco. An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (worn and a bit chipped). Fine. First edition. Signed by the author. $30.00 A history of the bawdy side of San Francisco, tracing the rise and fall of the parlor house. The dedication reads “To John Steinbeck who awakened my interest in that enigmatic creature of American folklore, the western madam, and to my wife, Laura, who shared my curiosity”. With a bibliography.

362. GIBSON, Althea and FITZGERALD, Ed, Editor. Althea Gibson. I Always Wanted to Be Somebody. New York: Harper, (1958). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial $135.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. From the streets of Harlem to Centre Court at Wimbledon, this scarce memoir by “The Jackie Robinson of tennis” tells of the additional pressures she faced while crossing new boundries. Erratum slip laid in on page 108 .

363. GILBO, Patrick F. The American Red Cross. The First Century. New York: Harper & Row, (1981). Profusely illustrated. Large quarto, buckram, pictorial dust jack$30.00 et. Fine. First edition. The American Red Cross is the largest and most diverse voluntary service organization this nation has ever seen. It is fair to say that women have played the major role from its persist-

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TENNIS ANYONE?

ent and charismatic founder Clara Barton to her eventual nemeses Mabel Thorp Boardman, Jane Delano, and others. Yet the organization has also benefited from such diverse male volunteers as ambulance drivers Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway, swimming instructor Johnny Weismuller and poet Robert W. Service. With an index. 364. GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. An Autobiography. With a preface by Zona Gale. New York: Appleton, 1935. Octavo, $300.00 cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Very uncommon in dust jacket.

Gilman was a grandniece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her major works include The Yellow Wallpaper, a realistic, masterly short story dealing with insanity, based upon her own nervous breakdown; Women and Economics and the feminist dystopian masterpiece Herland. The last title was first published in her own monthly magazine, The Forerunner, which she produced from 1909 to 1916. The suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt’s list of the twelve greatest American women was headed by Gilman. This posthumously published autobiography is the major source of information about a woman who as social reformer, lecturer and writer made a signal contribution to the progress of her era. With an index. [DAB. NAW].

GILPIN’S IMPORTANT FIRST BOOK

365. GILPIN, Laura. The Pueblos. A Camera Chronicle. New York: Hastings House,

(1941). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket $350.00 (small tear at upper corner of front cover). Fine. First edition.

Large bookplate reproducing a photograph (by Gilpin?) of a southwestern church. As Gilpin explains in her preface “The Story of the Pueblos in pictures is the result of many years of travel and exploration of this section of the United States .... The photographs ... cover a period of twenty years, commencing with the ‘soft focus’ period of 1921 when I made my first trip to New Mexico, through successive stages of photographic change and, I hope, progress”. Indeed, the work established Gilpin as an important commentator on the cultural geography of her native region while the photographs constitute a major contribution to the documentation of southwestern indian life.

366. [GILPIN, Laura]. SANDWEISS, Martha A. Laura Gilpin. An Enduring Grace. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, (1986). Includes 120 tritones, seven color plates and forty duotone illustrations. Folio, buckram, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $75.00 edition.

Biography and appreciation of the photographer, based on her estate bequest to the Amon Carter Museum. A large, impressive book, with a checklist of the exhibition, a chronological bibliography, notes and an index. [Sweeney 470].

THE FIRST AMERICAN GIRL SCOUT HANDBOOK

367. [GIRL SCOUTS]. BADEN-POWELL, Agnes and Sir Robert [adapted by Juliette Low]. How Girls Can Help Their Country. (New York: Juliette Low), 1917. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. 12mo, original pictorial blue cloth wrappers. Covers a trifle worn, small pink stain on p. 7, pp. 28-58 browned, still near fine. First edition of the Handbook For Girl Scouts and very scarce thus. Laid in is a Girl Scout membership card dated 1920 with Juliette Low’s stamped signature. $275.00 - 118 -

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1911 she had met General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement, and a close friendship formed. Through him she became interested in its feminine English counterpart, the Girl Guides. This led to her forming the first American units in her hometown of Savannah on March 12, 1912. Three years later the Girl Scouts of America was organized, with Low as President. Notable American Women describes her as “charming, illogical and determined ... incurably romantic, impractical, eccentric and outspoken”. In short, someone this writer would have liked to have known. [DAB. NAW.]. See also item #612.

PAT CONLEY’S COPY

368. [GIRL SCOUTS]. Girl Scout Handbook for the Intermediate Progam. New

York: Girl Scouts, Inc., (1940). Illustrated. Octavo, flexible cloth, pictorial dust jacket (somewhat worn). With very faint water staining, else fine. New edition, first impression. The “This Is My Book” leaf is signed “Patricia Ann, troop 228, April 16, 1941”.

$45.00 With an original pictorial certificate, circa 1938, stating that one Patricia Ann Conley is now a member of Brownie Pack No. 228, Los Angeles, laid in. It is interesting to compare the Girl Scout and the Boy Scout oaths. While both promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty and clean (the girls substitute purity), the boys in addition promise to be brave and reverent. Go figure.

369. GLANCY, Diane. Claiming Breath. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 For years the author supported her family by teaching poetry in schools throughout Arkansas and Oklahoma. This book, the diary of one of those years, was the winner of the first North American Indian Prose Award.

THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK

370. [GLASGOW, Ellen]. The Descendant. New York: Harper, 1897. 12mo, original

light tan linen with art nouveau design stamped in olive. Near fine. First edition, first $100.00 state of text and binding, second state of advertisments .

The writer’s anonymously published first novel, a realistic if somewhat melodramatic depiction of bohemia in New York City. Ink inscription on rear endpaper “Written by Miss Ellen Glasgow, Richmond, VA. 22 yrs old ...”. [Kelly, Ellen Glasgow. A Bibliography p.4. Wright III, 2190. DAB. NAW]. 371. GLASGOW, Ellen. In This Our Life. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1941).

Octavo, cloth, edges uncut, pictorial dust jacket (very slight wear). Fine. First edition.

1942 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. $250.00 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1874-1945) was a lifelong Virginian, a native of Richmond. Largely self-educated, she nevertheless became an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also founded that state’s Equal Suffrage League. [Kelly, p.99. DAB. NAW]. 372. [GLASGOW, Ellen]. KELLY, William W. Ellen Glasgow. A Bibliography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1964). Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition.

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the South. Enhanced with analytical and critical commentary and divided as to writings, book reviews , biography, ciriticism and manuscripts held by Virginia’s great Alderman Library.

SOME DISSENTERS

373. GOLDMAN, Emma. Voltairine de Cleyre. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey:

Oriole Press, 1932. Octavo, original linen-backed patterned boards. Fine. First edition. $350.00 One of 200 copies, hand set using Garamond type.

Goldman founded the country’s major anarchist journal, Mother Earth, to which Voltairine de Cleyre was a major contributor. Volatairine (so named by her father, a great admirer of Voltaire) 1866-1912, is described in this biographical essay as the “most gifted and brilliant woman anarchist America ever produced”. Quite a rare book, the National Union Catalogue locating four copies. [DAB. NAW].

A SCRAMBLED EGGHEAD

374. [GOLDMAN, Emma]. SHULMAN, Alix. To The Barricades. The Anarchist

Life of Emma Goldman. New York: Crowell, (1971). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

Russian born Goldman became a leader of America’s anarchist movement and as such was considered so dangerous that the United States government took the drastic step of revoking Emma’s citizenship and deporting her back to Russia. Becoming disenchanted with the results of the Bolshevik revolution, she found her way to France where she lived and wrote at St. Tropez, a small fishing village on the Mediterranean. From there it was on to Spain to join the fight against fascism. In 1940 she died in Canada and was buried across the border in Chicago’s Waldheim cemetery. A volume in the publisher’s “Women of America” series. With a selected bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW].

375. GOODWIN, Grace Duffield. Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons. New York: Duffield and Company, 1912. 12mo, original brown boards, blue cloth spine, lettered in black on front cover. Very slightly frayed spine extremities, else fine. First edition. $90.00 The author isn’t totally against suffrage, grudgingly admitting in her introduction that “many of the arguments for limited female suffrage are plausible and in some cases sound, such as those which have their demand upon a limited suffrage for women with educational and property qualifications”. Although it would seem likely that a family connection existed between the author and the publisher, we have been unsuccessful in tracing one. 376. [GORDON, Caroline]. WALDRON, Ann. Close Connections. Caroline

Gordon and the Southern Renaissance. New York: Putnam's , (1987). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. As $20.00 new. First edition.

The story of Caroline Gordon and Alan Tate and of the wide circle of other writers their magnetic personalities attracted. With notes, list of Gordon’s published works and an index. [Sweeney 488]. 377. GORDON, Elizabeth Putnam. Women Torch-Bearers. The Story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Evanston: National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, (1924). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, green cloth stamped in gilt. Fine. - 122 -

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First edition. Inscribed by the author.

$50.00 Laid in is a folded two page prospectus. An appendix to the book gives a complete chronological summary of the major W.C.T.U. events of the half century since its founding in 1874.

A charming compilation, printed in red and black and containing words from such disparate writers as William Shakespeare, Ambrose Bierce, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jane Grabhorn. [GB III, 21].

378. GORDON, Ruth. My Side. The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon. New York:

Post. The Katherine Graham Story. New York: Putnam’s, (1993). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed). Name in ink on $20.00 front free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

Harper & Row, (1976). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, cloth, dust jacket (minor wear). Small marginal stain darkening over last 30 pages, else fine. First edition.

$20.00 Penned by the distinguished stage and movie actress and play and screen writer as she approached her eightieth year. With an index.

379. GOSS, Helen Rocca. The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1958. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, maps as endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Very slight rubbing of the silver lettering on bottom of $35.00 spine, else fine. First edition. A lively history by a writer whose childhood memories were of the Great Western Quicksilver Mine in Lake County, California. With index and notes. [Adams, Six-Guns, 853].

“WILL THEE JANE TAKE THEE ROBERT ...”

380. [GRABHORN, Jane]. Wedding announcement . San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. Illustrated with a “horn of plenty”. Quarto, one leaf, folded once. A few very $500.00 faint creases, else fine. An announcement by Mrs. Martha Snow Bissell for the marriage of her daughter Martha Jane to Mr. Robert Grabhorn on Saturday, July 16, 1932. Not listed in the Grabhorn Press bibliography. Rare, obviously.

381. [GRABHORN, Jane]. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Typographic Work of Jane Grabhorn. (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press), 1956. Octavo, patterned wrappers, printed paper label. Bottom edge of front wrapper slightly chipped, else fine. One of 500 $45.00 copies. This catalogue contains bibliographical descriptions of Grabhorn’s work with the Jumbo Press, Colt Press and miscellanous undertakings. [GB II, 575].

382. GRABHORN, Jane. [Magee]. The Complete Jane Grabhorn . A Hodge - Podge of Typographic Ephemera. Three Complete Books, Broadsides, Invitations: Greetings, Place Cards &c., &c.. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Quarto, printed boards, buckram spine. Fine. One of 400 copies. With a lenghty inscription by Jane Grabhorn $225.00 and also signed by Robert. A marvellous compilation, with numerous fold-out broadsides. [Harlan, GB III, 13].

383. GRABHORN, Jane, Compiler. One Hundred & Sixty Cat Proverbs &

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384. [GRAHAM, Katharine]. FELSENTHAL, Carol. Power, Privilege and The

Upon the 1963 suicide of her husband, Kay Graham took over the leadership of the Washington Post which her millionaire father had purchased thirty years before. Her decision to publish the Pentagon papers – the classified history of the Vietnam war– and the Post’s role in the Watergate investigation made her the most famous (and feared) publisher in America. With extensive notes and an index.

385. [GRAHAM, Martha]. Martha Graham Dance Company. Playbill: The National

Magazine for Theatregoers. Volume 3, Number 11, November, 1966. San Francisco: Playbill, (1966). Octavo, original printed wrappers. Fine. Boldly signed by Martha $60.00 Graham on front cover. 386. GRAHAM, Martha. Martha Graham. Blood Memory. New York: Doubleday, (1991). Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, many by Imogen Cunningham. Quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00 Published in the year of Graham’s death. During her long life (she had been born in 1894 in the anthracite mining town of Allegheny, Pennsylvania) as dancer, choreographer and teacher, Graham heralded the evolution of a new language of dance.

387. GRAHAM, Sheilah and GEROLD, Frank. Beloved Infidel. The Education of a Woman. New York: Holt, (1958). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. $40.00

Graham rose from East End London to musical comedy and later became a Hollywood columnist. The primary focus is on Graham’s relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald during the last years of his life when he worked as a Hollywood screenwriter. [Bruccoli B48].

388. GRAU, Shirley Ann. The Hard Blue Sky. New York: Knopf, 1958. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine barely sunned, faint wear). Fine. First edition. $35.00 coast.

The author’s first novel, a tale of life on a small, wind-swept island off the Louisiana

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

389. GRAU, Shirley Ann. The Keepers of the House. New York: Knopf, 1964. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $125.00 A novel of miscegenation and latter day consequences resulting therefrom.

390. GRAU, Shirley Ann. The Condor Passes. New York: Knopf, 1971. Octavo,

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Another well-written novel from the mind of this major Louisiana talent.

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LEAPIN’ LIZARDS!

391. GRAY, Harold. The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie 1935-1945.

New Rochelle: Arlington House, (1970). Illustrated. Large quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a little worn). Front hinge weak, covers a little discolored, one black stain on bottom edge of front cover, spine lettering with a little loss of pigment, else sound. First $45.00 edition in book form.

With all due respect to the ageless “Blondie” and such departed funny page heroines as “Tillie the Toiler”, “Brenda Starr”, “Etta Kett” and “Little Annie Rooney”, this pint size redhead rates top billing as queen of the comics. In addition, the redoubtable Annie has been the focus of two movie versions as well as a smash Broadway musical. Al Capp wrote the introduction to this reprise visit to a famous comic strip of yesterday’s newspaper. [DAB].

“THE MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND GODMOTHER OF THE DETECTIVE STORY”

392. GREEN, Anna Katharine. The Circular Study. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1900. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth decoratively stamped in black. Faint foxing to endpapers, spine barely slanted, else fine. Uncommon in this condition. First edition.

$100.00 Laid in is the publisher’s four page book list for autumn, 1900. The daughter of a wellknown criminal lawyer, “Anna Katherine Green was a unique figure in the field of detective fiction. She was the first woman to write detective stories in any land or language, and her work continued through all the major periods of the genre” Queen, The Detective Short Story A Bibliography. Her first work in this genre, The Leavenworth Case, preceded Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Her own detective, Ebenezer Gryce, reappears in this work. She also wrote books involving Gryce’s able assistant, Amelia Butterworth and the wonderfully named lady detective Violet Strange. [Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 208. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 67. Wright III 4647]. 393. [GREEN, Elizabeth Shippen]. HARDY, Arthur Sherburne. Aurelie. New

York: Harper, 1912. Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Tall octavo, original blue boards lettered in red and blue, coloured pictorial label on front cover. Spine and fore $60.00 edges a little faded, else fine. First edition.

Green was one of a coterie of the Brandywine school’s close knit female artists who had studied illustration under the tutelage of Howard Pyle. Together with Violet Oakley and Elizabeth Shippen Green she shared studio and living space on a Philadelphia Main Line estate known as the Red Rose Inn. This slight tale, a sort of cross between Pinocchio and The Little Lead Soldier, is enlivened by Green’s contribution.

394. GREEN, Harry C. and Mary W. The Pioneer Mothers of America. A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. New York: Putnam’s, (1912). Three volumes. Illustrated. Octavo, blue cloth with decoratively gilt-stamped brown cloth spines, top $135.00 edges gilt, other edges uncut. Fine. First edition. - 126 -

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Chapters describe individual women -some notable such as Martha Washington, wives of generals and signers of the Declaration of Independence- as well as homemakers pioneering in the wilderness. A massive work, with an index.

THE MIDAS TOUCH

395. [GREEN, Hetty]. SPARKES, Boyden and MOORE, Samuel Taylor. Hetty

Green. A Woman Who Loved Money. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth lettered and decorated in black, pictorial dust jacket (chipped and worn). Lower corners slightly rubbed, else fine. First edition.

$125.00 The life of a fascinating moneymaker. Hetty Green, née Hetty Howland Robinson took the wealth she inherited from her Quaker parents and through shrewd investing and money lending over her lifetime (1834-1916) parlayed it into such a vast fortune that she became recognized as the richest woman in America. A legendary pinchpenny, her parsimonious eccentricities and dour wardrobe also earned her the sobriquet “The Witch of Wall Street”. In now eighty-seven year old dollars, her estate amounted to $100,000,000. Rich witch, indeed!. [DAB. NAW]. 396. [GREENE, Catherine Littlefield]. STEGEMAN, John and Janet A. CATY. A

Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene. Providence: Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, 1977. Illustrated with a frontispiece by the artist Barry Moser. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (back wrapper a little dust soiled). Fine. One of 1,000 copies. $35.00 Biography of the beautiful wife of Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene. A well researched resurrection of another largely forgotten woman from America’s past. With chapter notes, bibliography and an index. [NAW].

397. GREENWOOD, Annie Pike. We Sagebrush Folks. New York: D. AppletonCentury, 1934. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (slightly faded). Pp. 462-463 roughly opened. Fine. First edition. $40.00 A description and interpretation of farm life and farm psychology in which the author writes of her experience of fifteen years as a farm woman on the last American frontier - and of the slavery of agriculture. In short, Idaho was not her potato.

398. GRIMKE, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays. Edited

by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1988). With a fron$60.00 tispiece. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

The letters are actually a series of articles written by this early abolitionist and women’s rights pioneer challenging a group of Massachusetts clerics who considered her activism unwomanly. The volume also includes five previously unpublished essays in which Grimke writes of the need for improved female education, marriage reform and abolishment of all discriminatory laws denying women their full political rights. With list of sources and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 399. [GRIMKE, Sarah and Angeline]. BIRNEY, Catherine H. The Grimke Sisters:

Sarah and Angelina Grimke: The First American Woman Advocates of Abolition and Woman’s Rights. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1885. 12mo, gilt-stamped brown fabricoid. $275.00 Edges slightly faded, else fine. First edition of a rare book. - 128 -

“This is a highly detailed and sympathetic account of the lives and careers of both sisters. This biography is based on the family’s letters and diaries; it includes quotations from Angelina’s diary” - Sweeney. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 503].

FROM JUST MARRIED TO JUST HARRIED

400. GRIMSHAW, Patricia. Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth

Century Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, (1989). Illustrated. Octavo, $25.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The eighty newlywed young American women who travelled to Hawaii in the three decades prior to 1850 did so in the idealistic expectation of helping bring Christ’s message to the heathen. Once there, however, they found themselves subordinated to mundane household routine, caring for husbands and raising children. Their public role in mission work limited, they were more influential to acculturating distaff Hawaii to America’s notions of proper female behavior. With notes, bibliography and an index. 401. GROLIER CLUB, . Emerging Voices. American Women Writers 1650-1920.

Compiled by I.S. Haverstick, J.W. Ashton and C.F. Schimmel. (New York: The Grolier $20.00 Club, 1998). Illustrated. Octavo, printed wrappers. As new.

Catalogue of a recent major exhibition, well-written and attractively presented. Many of the books on display came from the co-curator’s personal collections. With a list of authors by date of birth, and an index. 402. [GUGGENHEIM, Peggy]. WELD, Jacqueline Bograd. Peggy the Wayward Guggenheim. New York: Dutton, (1986). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (top edge a trifle rubbed). Boards a little rubbed at $20.00 edges, spine a little creased, else fine. First edition. The author, a Sarah Lawrence graduate with a law degree from Columbia University, had Guggenheim’s cooperation in this biographical project. As for Peggy herself, this 493 page account records her indomitable passion, against any odds, to collect, preserve and exhibit modern art. With an appendix of exhibitions of art, notes and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 512].

“HELLO, SUCKERS!”

403. [GUINAN, Texas]. BERLINER, Louise. Texas Guinan. Queen of the Night

Clubs. Austin: University of Texas Press, (1993). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slight edgewear). Ownership blindstamp, else fine. First $20.00 edition.

Guinan was a theatre and vaudeville actress and also a pistol packing star of silent western films. Her real fame lay ahead when as a wisecracking night club hostess in Jazz Age New York she welcomed the rich and famous with her signature greeting. The author is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University. Berliner’s interest in Guinan traces to her lawyer grandfather who had defended Texas at a notorious 1929 trial for being a “public nuiscance”. With notes, sources, bilbiography and an index. 404. GUINEY, Louise Imogen. Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney. Edited by Grace Guiney with a preface by Agnes Repplier. New York: Harper, 1926. Two volumes. Frontispiece portraits of Miss Guiney. Octavo, original green boards, green cloth spines - 129 -

with printed paper labels, dust jackets (spines a little browned, tops and bottoms of $50.00 spines a little chipped, else fine). Fine. First edition.

To her accomplishments as poet, essayist and literary scholar these sparkling letters written from childhood through maturity add another dimension to the writer. Hampered by economic realities she did newspaper work, a three year stint as a small town postmistress and even worked as a cataloguer at the Boston Public Library. Guiney (1861-1920) spent the last third of her years living in the English countryside. She was said to have indisputable charm and a romantic nature which preferred to spend her limited funds on books rather than food: requiescat in pace! The year after her death a biography by her close friend the author Alice Brown was published. [BAL 6769. DAB. NAW]. 405. [GUION, Connie]. CAMPION, Nardi Reeder and STANTON, Rosamond

Wilfley. Look To This Day! The Lively Education of a Great Woman Doctor: Connie Guion, M.D. Boston: Little, Brown, (1965). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light foxing on spine and front panel, slightly chipped spine $30.00 ends). Fine. First edition.

A biography of Dr. Connie Guion. The writing style, though buttressed by factual information is interspersed with much recollected dialogue, making for an ineffective biographical hash. Called the dean of women doctors in America, Guion, a graduate of Wellesley, received her M.D. degree from Cornell in 1917, where she later became the first woman professor of clinical medicine in the United States. The Doctor Connie Guion building at the New York Hospital became the first hospital building in the world dedicated to a living woman doctor. With an index.

406. [HAAS, Alice and Florine]. ROTHMANN, Frances Bransten. The Haas Sisters of Old Franklin Street. A Look Back With Love. Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Museum, (1979). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrap$35.00 pers. Fine. First edition. The fondly related memoir of her mother and aunt afforded the author the opportunity of also relating the fascinating history of San Francisco’s Geman-Jewish establishment. Fuelled by business and professional relationships, it was a stately world of family gatherings, ritual dinners, propriety and deep concern for philanthropy and civic culture. 407. HALE, Lucretia P. The Peterkin Papers. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880.

Illustrated. 12mo, original green cloth with lettering and design decoratively stamped in black , gilt-lettered spine. Very slight cover wear, else fine. First book edition. $125.00

The papers appeared serially as early as 1868 in Our Young Folks and later in St. Nicholas magazine. A sequel, The Last of the Peterkins followed in 1886. Hers was a family of achievers: Lucretia’s father, a successful businessman, was nephew and namesake of the revolutionary war martyr Nathan Hale. Her mother, described as an intelligent, energetic and versatile person was a sister of the orator and statesman Edward Everitt. A brother, the poet, storyteller (The Man Without a Country, My Double and How He Outdid Me) and Unitarian minister Edward Everitt Hale would become Chaplain of the Senate. [Peter Parley to Penrod p. 52. Browne, p. 72. DAB. NAW]. 408. [HALE, Sarah Josepha]. FINLEY, Ruth E. The Lady of Godey’s. Sarah - 130 -

Josepha Hale. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pic$40.00 torial endpapers in color, pictorial dust jacket (worn). Fine. First edition. One of the earliest women editors in this country, Hale (1788-1879) steered the Ladies Magazine from its 1828 inception and later was at the helm of its successor, Godey’s Lady’s Book, for forty years. The immortal lines of “Mary had a little lamb” were penned by her. Although the majority of her views about women were typical of the times, she was an avowed advocate for their greater educational opportunities. With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 521. See Browne p. 47]. 409. HALL, Florence Howe. Social Customs. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, (1887).

Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in black and white, top edge gilt. Fine, $125.00 an especially attractive copy.

Hall was a daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Dr. Samuel Gridley. Includes chapters on the historical origins of manners, frankness of modern manners, dining, balls and dancing, marriage, conversation, correspondence, dress, hints for young men, etc. “In treating of our etiquette one must necessarily avoid as far as possible ex cathedra or absolute statements, while one must also beware of confusing the reader by offering too many alternatives and showing too many possible paths. The writer has therefore striven to avoid dogmatism on the one hand and ambiguity on the other, giving decided opinions where it seemed best to do so, and in other cases mentioning the various views that are taken of those subjects upon which doctors disagree”. [DAB]. 410. HALL, Florence Howe. Social Usages at Washington. New York: Harper, 1906.

Small octavo, original pictorial blue cloth decoratively stamped in white. Fine. First edi$45.00 tion. Includes chapters on American official etiquette, diplomatic etiquette, general entertaining in Washington, and distinctive features of Washington society, etc. After alluding in the preface to the differences and resemblances comparing social usage in Washington vis-à-vis the rest of the country, the author goes on to write: “the inevitable tendency of the human race is towards a constant development and improvement of manners, whose beginnings we can see in the conduct of the higher animals. Every lover of dogs knows that there is a canine code of etiquette, some dogs being more polite than some people”. [DAB]. 411. HALL, Helen. Unfinished Business in Neighborhood and Nation. New York:

Macmillan, (1971). Illustrated with photographs. Small octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

This is a firsthand account of the successful social experiment in New York City known as the Henry Street Settlement, written by the lady who was its director for thirty-four years. With an index. 412. [HAMILTON, Alice]. SICHERMAN, Barbara. Alice Hamilton. A Life in Letters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed at top and bottom of spine and corners). Fine. First $20.00 edition. During the decades from 1890 to 1920 a remarkable generation of women opened new roads for sister trailblazers in the professions and social reform. Alice Hamilton’s path led her from an affluent childhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana to becoming a physician and eventually - 131 -

America’s foremost industrial toxicologist. As a reformer she sounded the alert to the dangers of industrial diseases, much akin to the latter day Rachel Carson. During her 101 year life, Hamilton was also a pacificst, a libertarian, and a longtime resident of Hull House. The author is a college professor and co-editor of the authoritative Notable American Women The Modern Period. With appendices and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 525].

GOTHAM’S FIRST FEMALE FUZZ

413. HAMILTON, Mary E. The Policewoman. Her Service and Ideals. New York:

Frederick A. Stokes, 1924. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial (photograph of the author) dust jacket (chipped and wanting two thirds of spine). Fine. First edition. With a lengthy inscription dated April 27, 1924 and signed by the author on the front endpaper.

$125.00 On May 13, 1921, the first civil service examination for patrol women in the police department of New York City was given under the rules and regulations of the Municipal Civil Service Commission. “All examinations are open to both men and women unless otherwise stated” (from the notice of examination).

414. HANAFORD, Phebe. Daughters of America; or, Women of the Century. Boston:

Russell, 1883. Illustrated. Thick octavo, brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Bookplates, light cover wear, minor foxing and browning to preliminary and termi$45.00 nal leaves. Near fine. “Revised and improved”, first edition thus. A large compendium containing chapters devoted to women of the revolution, first ladies, literary women, women scientists, artists, lecturers, reformers, preachers, missionaries, educators, physicians, inventors, lawyers, journalists, printers, librarians, historians, etc. With an index. [DAB. NAW].

“A BOOK TO BE TREASURED” – HAMILTON

415. HANKINS, Marie Louise. Women of New York. New York: Marie Louise

Hankins, 1861. Illustrated by the author. Octavo, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt-decorated spine. Contemporary ink inscription from a brother to his sister on endpaper, gilt $225.00 slightly faded, some foxing throughout. Near fine. First edition. According to her advertisement in the Family Newspaper (which she also edited) Hankins was the first woman newspaper publisher in America. This is a collection of short stories depicting various types of womanhood with a portrait of each character printed, unusually enough, on green paper. [Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1670-1870, 1696. Wright, American Fiction 1851-1875 (hereinafter Wright II), 1092].

FIRST BLACK AUTHOR OF A BROADWAY PLAY

416. HANSEBERRY, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Random House,

(1959). Octavo, boards, pictorial label, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (some relatively minor soiling). Some light discoloration to endpapers, else fine. First edition, very scarce in dust jacket.

$100.00 This was the author’s first play, and made Hanseberry the first black writer to have a play produced on Broadway. In addition, it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the - 132 -

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best play of the 1958-59 season and was subsequently made into a successful film. The title is a metaphor for the withered dreams of a south side Chicago working class family. [DAB. NAWM]. 417. HANSEN, Debra Gold. Strained Sisterhood. Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1993). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The society fell apart due in large part to the intransigence of those who favored female equality feuding with champions of their status quo, to which the author draws a comparison to the present day. With notes, a bibliography and an index.

418. HANSEN, Ruth Ann. “Full Fathom Five” in Centaur. Burlington: University of Vermont, Spring, 1957. Vol. IV, No. 3. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Slightly $25.00 worn. Although a writer of diverse subjects from poetry to successful grant proposals to instruction materials, this is her only work of fiction. It appears here in a college magazine of creative expression. Currently an educator in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ruth spends her free time avidly documenting petroglyphs. 419. [HARDING, Charlotte]. BROWN, Ann Barton. Charlotte Harding An

Illustrator in Philadelphia. Chadds Ford: Brandywine River Museum, 1982. Illustrated. Octavo, original pictorial brown wrappers. Fine.

$30.00 A Brandywine Museum catalogue of an exhibition of one of the less remembered of the female Brandywine school artists. Harding had studied under Howard Pyle and subsequently shared a studio with a better known one of his students, Elizabeth Shippen Green. Author Brown’s brief monograph ably brings a deserved encore to a lively illustrator. With notes, and a list of her published works. 420. HARJO, Joy. The Woman Who Fell From The Sky. New York: Norton, (1994).

Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, cardboard pictorial holder. As new, unopened. First edition . $35.00 Signed by the author. With the audio tape cassette of the poet reading from her work.

421. HARLAND, Marion and VAN DE WATER, Virginia . Everyday Etiquette. A

Practical Manual of Social Usages. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1905). Octavo, original green cloth ruled in gilt and red, lettered in gilt. Edges a little rubbed, else fine. First $50.00 edition.

Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune. Her writing ability developed at an early age and her lifetime’s output was awesome: novels, short stories, biography, history, travel and domestic advice. She also found time to help in her husband’s parish and to raise six children, one of whom became the popular author of dog stories Albert Payson Terhune while another, Virginia, is the co-author of this book. [DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 117]. 422. [HARRIMAN, Pamela Churchill]. SMITH, Sally Bedell. Reflected Glory. The

Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman. (New York): Simon & Schuster, (1996). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. - 134 -

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$20.00 The author points out that “Pamela Harriman’s life is really the story of six lives: English debutante, wartime hostess, international femme fatale, show business wife, diplomat’s consort turned Washington power broker, and American ambassador”. The title alludes to a life mirrored by the spotlight of Harriman’s associations; the text was researched and written without her cooperation. With extensive notes, a bibliography and an index.

Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West; in the Year 1800. In a Letter to a Lady. Lancaster: William Dickson, 1808. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, red morocco spine label. Covers rubbed and stained, moderate staining to prelimi$750.00 nary and terminal leaves, moderate foxing. Very good. First edition .

423. HARRIS, Jean. Stranger in Two Worlds. New York: Macmillan, (1986). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition . $20.00

With ten pages of subscribers names and locations. Following her poems, Hastings gives a day by day account of the family tour from Lancaster County over the Alleghenies to Washington, Pennsylvania in October, 1808. This stands out both as early poetry and as overland narrative by a woman published in America. Thomson included it in his Ohio Bibliography since it contains an account of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh as well as interesting commentary on what was then the western frontier. [Howes H289. Sabin 30826. Thomson, Bibliography of Ohio 524].

424. HARRIS, Sarah. Hellhole. The Shocking Story of the Inmates and Life in the

429. HAYES, Helen. On Reflection. An Autobiography. With Sanford Dody. New York: M. Evans, (1968). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly browned, flap edges slightly rubbed). Ink inscription on front free endpaper (“Happiness is being a year older and not looking it.”), else fine. $20.00 First edition.

Harris, headmistress of an exclusive girls boarding school, was convicted of murdering her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower (author of the best-selling Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet). She was sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison where she wrote this revealing book. Since that time she has been granted parole. With an index.

New York House of Detention for Women. New York: Dutton, 1967. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly chipped along edges, front panel minimally rubbed). $22.50 Fine. First edition. In the previous entry Jean Harris decries conditions in a woman’s prison. Here Sarah Harris (no relation) screams them.

425. HARRISON, Constance Cary. Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes. (New

York): Scribner's, 1881. Illustrated with five lithographic plates in color (two of which are by Louis Comfort Tiffany) plus numerous black and white linecuts. Octavo, original tan cloth pictorially stamped in brown, gilt lettering on front cover. Spine somewhat $225.00 darkened, light cover wear, occasional faint foxing. Near fine. First edition . Almost half of the book is devoted to the art of embroidery. After a quote from William Morris on the decorative arts, the work is divided into three sections: Embroidery, Brush & Pigment, and Modern Homes. This final section explores the various aspects of the aesthetic movement, including discussion of “Japanese Art in Decoration.” An interesting work and uncommon in such good condition. It shows what are reported to be the first designs by Louis Comfort Tiffany to appear in print. [DAB. NAW].

426. HARRISON, Michelle. A Woman in Residence. New York: Random House, (1982). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. $20.00

“A woman doctor describes the inhumane and inadequate treatment (given patients) she observed during her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at a major American hospital”. 427. HASELTINE, Florence and YAW, Yvonne. Woman Doctor. Boston:

Houghton, Mifflin, 1976. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly chipped at top). Fine. First edition. $20.00

The story of a year in the life of an intern’s experiences in a large urban hospital and her determination to succeed in the male dominated medical profession. The resulting book is an unusual collaboration between a young doctor and a young writer. 428. HASTINGS, Sally. Poems on Different Subjects. To Which is Added a - 136 -

Often referred to as “the First Lady of the American Theater,” Hayes also won a Best Actress Academy Award for the 1931 film The Sin of Madelon Claudet and another in 1969 as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Airport.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHORS

430. HAYES, Helen and LOOS, Anita. Twice Over Lightly. New York Then and

Now. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, (1972). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed on the half title “Love to our darling Harriet” (Louella Parson’s daughter) by Helen Hayes and also signed by $75.00 co-author Loos. The actress and the screenwriter sashay off the beaten track through the five boroughs of the big apple: Bellevue Hospital at night; the Atlas Barber School; Thanksgiving dinner at a Salvation Army Center; Puerto Rican markets; final destination of the city’s garbage: well, you get the picture. From Gracie Mansion to Shea Stadium to the Bronx Zoo the authors self-stated motivation was to “get people to discover their own environments, to get out of their ruts, to be explorers”. 431. HEAD, Edith. How To Dress For Success. New York: Random House, (1967).

Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket (a trifle faded). Small water stain to top edge, $75.00 else fine. First edition . Inscribed by the author. A how-to for women in all walks of life by the world famous designer and seven time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume.

432. HEALEY, Dorothy and ISSERMAN, Maurice. Dorothy Healey Remembers A

Life in the American Communist Party. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition . $20.00 Healey became one of the few women to rise to a leadership position in the American Communist Party which she had joined at the impressionable age of fourteen and resigned from - 137 -

with a more mature outlook forty-five years later. With an index. 433. [HEARST, Patricia]. BAKER, Marilyn with BROMPTON Sally. Exclusive! The Inside Story of Patricia Hearst and the SLA. New York: Macmillan, (1974). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight edgewear). Very $25.00 slight damage to pictorial page opposite p. 119, else fine. First edition .

This writer has two firsthand sidelight stories to the Patty Hearst kidnapping. My employment at John Howell-Books on Post Street in San Francisco was adjacent to the Bank of America, where I had an account. One morning, needing to cash a check, I went into the bank. Shortly afterward the area was swarming with police and F.B.I. An agent entered our store and as answers followed questions it developed that apparently I had been in the branch immediately prior to the robbery. In due course, I was shown a selection of mug shots from which I identified the fugitive William Harris. Now on the one hand, although a visually attuned person, mine was a totally unconscious recollection, yet it was also true at that point Harris’ face had not yet graced post offices or even television. I was asked by the investigators not to leave town without notifying the agency, but that was the last I heard from them. With an index.

434. [HEARST, Patricia]. ALEXANDER, Shana. Anyone’s Daughter. The Times and Trials of Patty Hearst. New York: Viking, (1979). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

This writer could never figure how supposedly blind justice could convict this young kidnapping victim who, terrified for her life, was bullied and brainwashed by her captors into joining the miscreants pathetic, loose cannon, “Symbionese Liberation Army”. Come on, give the young lady a break -she was treated like a prisoner of war without the shield of a Geneva Convention. In such circumstances, only someone who has been there themselves should be given a stone to cast. With an index.

435. [HEARST, Phoebe]. BONFILS, Winifred Sweet Black. The Life and Personality of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1928. Frontispiece portrait and vignette chapter headbands by William Wilke. Folio, original full vellum with yapp edges, raised spine bands, gilt rules and spine title, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Very slight foxing to endpapers, else fine. One of 1,000 copies. Publisher's advance notice and William Randolph Hearst's printed presentation slip laid $250.00 in. William Randolph Hearst commissioned the renowned printer John Henry Nash to create this lavishly produced eulogy to his mother; a subsequent companion volume celebrated his father. Mrs. Hearst was a social leader in early San Francisco and supported a wide variety of charities. Even so, a more objective portrait might have been obtained by a biographer (a.k.a. “Annie Laurie”) not in Hearst’s employ. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 556].

436. HECOX, Margaret H. California Caravan. The 1846 Overland Trail Memoir of ..... Edited by Richard Dillon. San Jose: (Harlan-Young Press), 1966. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed at top edge. Fine. First edition. $40.00 Although interviewed over fifty years after she had crossed the plains, the account is published here more than another half century later.

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437. [HEINE, Sonja]. STRAIT, Raymond and HEINE, Leif. Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows. The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Heine. New York: Stein and Day, (1985). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $35.00 First edition. Signed by Sally Heine, Sonja’s sister-in-law. An aptly titled tell-all, co-authored by the brother of the great Norwegian skating star and three time Olympic gold medal winner (St. Moritz, 1928; Lake Placid, 1932; GarmischPartenkirchen, 1936). Heine moved to America and went on in the following decade to make a string of light movie musicals in Hollywood. According to this exposé she also made a string of jewels, furs, fine art, and moneyed men. With a listing of her figure skating records, a filmography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

438. HELLMAN, Lillian. An Unfinished Woman. A Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown,

(1969). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (lightly worn). $20.00 Fine. First edition. Two relationships discussed in the book are those Hellman shared with fellow writers Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett.

439. HELLMAN, Lillian. The Collected Plays. Boston: Little, Brown, (1972). Royal $50.00 octavo, cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition. Herein are the twelve of Hellman’s plays, including The Children’s Hour and The Little Foxes, as well as Drama Critic Circle prize winners Watch on the Rhine and Toys in the Attic. 440. [HEMINGWAY, Ernest]. SANFORD, Marcelline Hemingway. At the Hemingways. A Family Portrait. Boston: Little, Brown, (1962). Illustrated with photo$45.00 graphs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. A description of life in the Hemingway household from their childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, written by Ernest’s older sister. [Hanneman, Ernest Hemingway A Comprehensive Bibliography G350].

441. [HEMINGWAY, Hadley]. DILIBERTO, Gioia. Hadley. New York: Ticknor &

Fields, 1992. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket . Fine. First edition.

The dust jacket flap quotes Katha Pollitt’s summary of Hadley Richardson Hemingway: “In this deeply insightful biography, Hemingway’s first wife finally gets her due as the warm, spirited, and intelligent woman who inspired his best work and survived being married to him”. With notes, selected bibliography and an index.

442. HEMINGWAY, Mary Welsh. How It Was. New York: Knopf, 1976. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. $30.00 Mary grew up in a small northern Minnesota town spending tomboy summers on the state’s myriad waterways. As a war correspondent in London she was lunching with the writer Irwin Shaw when Hemingway stopped by and asked to be introduced. Mary became his fourth wife, remaining married until his suicide fifteen years later. A most interesting firsthand chronicle. Indexed. - 140 -

443. HEPBURN, Katharine. The Making of the African Queen, or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. New York: Knopf, 1987. Illustrated with forty-five photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 First edition. A first book, the noted actress’s humorous account of the making of the famous film.

444. HEPBURN, Katharine. Me. Stories of My Life. New York: Knopf, 1991. Illustrated with 165 photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Hepburn on Hepburn. The Bryn Mawr personality (after all, she was a graduate) writes of her favored childhood, her roles as a dominant movie star (a quartet of Academy Awards, more than any other screen star, each for Best Actress: Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981)) and relationship with the great love of her life, Spencer Tracy. 445. HERNDON, Sarah Raymond. Days on the Road, Crossing the Plains in 1865.

New York: Burr Printing House, 1902. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. 12mo, original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Inner hinges a bit cracked but firm, unobtru$175.00 sive blindstamp on title page. Overall very good. First edition. “Sarah Raymond was a member of the Hardinbrooke ox-train, and this is her day-byday narrative of experiences in the Montana migration. She drove one of the wagons and wrote one of the best overland journals extant” -Eberstadt. [Howes H 439. Graff 1870. Eberstadt Catalogue 135:561. Smith 4271].

RARE EARLY CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S MAGAZINE

446. [HESPERIAN]. The Hesperian. Volume II, #1 - volume IX, #6. Edited by Mrs.

F.H. Day. San Francisco: N.p., March 1859-April 1863. Together forty-eight issues bound in four volumes. Illustrated with drawings and lithographs, some printed in color. Octavo, original black half calf, gilt-lettered spine. Light binding wear, some light to $3,500.00 moderate foxing, else excellent.

A fine run of a “journal of literature and art for women, initially a semi-monthly, from 1859 on a monthly. It aimed to bring culture to ladies by discussing literary classics; by providing information about niceties of housekeeping; and through the printing of colored fashion plates, its main attraction. Contributors included ‘Caxton’ (W.H. Rhodes), J.S. Hittell, Frank Soulé, and ‘Yellow Bird’ (John Rollin Ridge). Continued (1863-64) as Pacific Monthly, it attempted to appeal to men also and ran a series of recollections by such pioneers as Larkin and Lassen” - Hart, A Companion to California p. 184. This periodical is an early example of a magazine published by women for women. Mrs. Day, both founder and editor, employed such artists as the Nahl brothers and A.J. Grayson, often referred to as the Audubon of the West. Of herself we know but little, though from her forum, “Editor’s Table”, she seems to have had a keen mind, lively wit and interest in furthering women’s rights. In addition to the patterns and costumes were stands on capital punishment and anti-slavery. Complete details upon request.

447. HESS, Fjeril. WAC’s at Work. The Story of the “Three B’s” of the AAF. New York: Macmillan, 1945. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (somewhat chipped). Fine. First edition. Quite scarce. $60.00 Keyed at publication time to the twelve to sixteen year old age group, over fifty years - 141 -

later the posed photographs (with due allowance for changes in hairstyles) stand up very well and give some insight into what the work was like.

A FEW JOURNALISTS

THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

448. HIGBY, Mary Jane. Tune in Tomorrow or How I Found the Right to Happiness

with Our Gal Sunday, Stella Dallas, John’s Other Wife, and Other Sudsy Radio Serials.. (New York): Cowles, (1968). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very light $25.00 edgewear). Very faint endpaper browning, else fine. First edition. A behind the microphones look at that auditory tranquilizer, the radio soap opera in its heyday. The author was one of its longtime voices (for eighteen years the star of “When a Girl Marries”). For those of an age, the profuse photographs are visual nostalgia of that audio era. With a bibliography. 449. HIGGINS, Marguerite. War in Korea. The Report of a Woman Combat

Correspondent. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. Illustrated with photographs by Carl Mydans and others. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a bit faded, edges a little $25.00 chipped and rubbed). Fine. First edition.

Higgins lived a short yet full life. Born in Hong Kong of American parents, she grew up in Oakland. Private school, cum laude B.S. from the Universtiy of California and M.S. from Columbia University’s School of Journalism prepared Higgins for rapid advancement in her chosen field. She was one of the first Americans to enter the Dachau concentration camp; reported first hand the Berlin airlift and won a 1951 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the first woman to do so. Her best selling front line account of the Korean War included participation in the crucial Inchon landings. As this is written a commemorative postage stamp has just been issued in her honor.

450. [HILL, Anita]. BROCK, David. The Real Anita Hill. New York: Free Press, (1993). Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 The Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas sexual harassment confrontation has been likened to an American version of the film Rashomon, essentially an inquiry into the nature of truth. Opinions remain sharply divided. Here this author introduces new evidence, and finds for the defense. With notes and an index. 451. [HILL, Grace Livingston]. MUNCE, Robert. Grace Livingston Hill.

Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1986. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $35.00 First edition. Inscribed by the author.

Hill had a strong religous background and even her name, Grace, was given her because of its theological meaning. Although her countless inspirational stories and romantic novels have all been critically dismissed as sugarcoated tracts, Hill had an immense readership: nearly four million copies of her books sold during her lifetime. This biography was written by a grandson. [DAB. NAW].

452. HILL, Janet McKenzie. The Up-to-Date Waitress. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. Profusely illustrated with half-tone engravings. Octavo, original olive cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black and white, pictorial dust jacket (spine ends a little chipped, a closed one inch tear in upper edge, lightly discolored). Fine. Revised edition. - 142 -

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$60.00 A very attractive binding and quite a scarce book in the pictorial dust jacket. Hill (18521933) wrote extensively of culinary matters and also edited the periodicals The Boston Cooking School Magazine and American Cookery. The first edition contained 148 pages, this revision has been expanded to 183. It seems impossible that any detail has been overlooked in the author’s coverage of the subject. [Brown 1563 for the first edition. Not in Bitting or Cagle & Stafford].

was light and untrained, her natural ear for music and rhythm more than compensated for any lack of musical knowledge. With a chronological discography. [Hefele, Jazz Bibliography, 5132. DAB. NAWM].

453. [HILL, Sarah Althea]. KRONINGER, Robert H. Sarah and the Senator.

The author is a poet, playwright and novelist. She infuses this offbeat biography with her rhythmic prose concluding “Too weak to fight pain anymore/ Lady Day’s spirit/ went the way of legends”. With a bibliography and an discography. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 587].

Berkeley: Howell-North, 1964. Illustrated. Large octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very minor edgewear). Fine. $25.00

The Senator was William Sharon the “King of the Comstock” and widowed San Francisco millionaire. Sarah was the beautiful Sarah Alton Hill, his mistress. She sued him for support under the terms of a “marriage contract.” After his death, various rulings went against her. Sarah married her attorney, the volatile ex-State Chief Justice David S. Terry. A chance meeting with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field who had ruled against Hill led to Terry being killed by Field’s bodyguard. Hill (1832-1937) unsuccessfully continued her lawsuits, lost her money and her mind and spent the last forty-five years of a very long life in a state asylum for the insane.

454. HITE, Shere. The Hite Report. Women and Love. A Cultural Revolution in Progress. New York: Knopf, 1987. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Fine. First edition.

The final volume in The Hite Report trilogy. The first had confronted myths surrounding women’s sexuality; the second looked at the male of the species. The well known cultural historian and researcher concludes this 923 page study with an addendum which includes an 128 item questionnaire for women readers, a plethora of statistical information and a bibliography/additional reading list. 455. HOBSON, Laura Z. Laura Z. A Life. New York: Arbor House, (1983).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

$20.00 The octogenarian author’s autobiography. Best remembered for her novel Gentlemen’s Agreeement, an earnest indictment of anti-Semitism which as a film took 1947 Best Picture honors at the Academy Awards. Hobson’s credentials to write the classic exposé dated from her birth to Russian Jewish immigrant parents.

456. HOLIDAY, Billie. Lady Sings the Blues. Garden City: Doubleday, 1956. Octavo, cloth, endpapers with reproduced photographs, pictorial dust jacket (some $100.00 wear). Lettering on spine somewhat rubbed, else fine. First edition.

Among the most important jazz memoirs, with the unforgettable opening line, “Mom and Dad were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three”. Daughter of guitarist Clarence Holiday, Billie had little formal schooling, worked a string of menial jobs as a teenager, and spent some time in jail for prostitution. In 1933 she was “discovered” by jazz producer/author John Hammond who arranged some memorable recording sessions with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie. Although her life took her from highs to lows, she is widely considered to be one of the best and most influential female jazzblues song stylists in American musical history. Despite the fact that the voice of “Lady Day” - 144 -

457. [HOLIDAY, Billie]. DE VEAUX, Alexis. Don’t Explain. A Song of Billie

Holliday. New York: Harper & Row, (1980). Illustrated with photographs and music. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $30.00

458. HOLLEY, Mary Austin. Texas. Austin: The Steck Company, 1935. Octavo, cloth. Fine. Facsimile reproduction of the rare original 1836 edition, and itself a scarce $90.00 printing. Bound without the tipped in folding map. Texas is an expanded version of her previous work “designed to serve as an emigrant’s guide, a defense of the revolution, and a spur to annexation”. It was also Holley’s failed hope that her speculative land holdings there would increase in value. [Howes H593. Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 94]. 459. [HOLLEY, Mary Austin]. HATCHER, Mattie Austin. Letters of an Early

American Traveller. Mary Austin Holley. Her Life and Her Works 1784-1846. Dallas: Southwest Press, (1933). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a little browned and chipped). Light foxing of covers, spine and edges, pp. 148-151 with marks $90.00 from paper clip, else fine. First edition.

The widowed Mary Phelps Austin Holley, at the behest of her cousin Stephen Austin, visited Texas and wrote a book on the area, the first in English. The text of her History of Texas is also included in this volume. NAW praises the works as useful and faults it as uncritical. Curiously, the authoritative Dictionary of American Biography profiles her husband in a short “he came, he saw, he died” piece, but barely makes mention of her (NAW, however, accords her three columns). The author was archivist at the University of Texas Library, where Holley’s voluminous correspondence is housed. With an appendix and index. [NAW. Sweeney 591]. 460. [HOLMAN, Libby]. BRADSHAW, Jon. Dreams That Money Can Buy. The Tragic Life of Libby Holman. New York: William Morrow, (1985). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (lightly faded). About fine. First edition. $20.00

Holman got her break on Broadway in The Garrick Gaieties by the young song writing team of Rogers and Hart. She later introduced the classic torch song “Body and Soul”. A marriage to the heir of the Reynolds tobacco fortune ended six months later with his mysterious death and her indictment for murder. Although now rich, her career was in ruins and Libby spent the rest of her unhappy days balancing the cafe society milieu with championing black causes. In the latter, her foundation gave a grant to a little known Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. to visit India and study Gandhi’s nonviolent social change techniques. With notes, a discography, Broadway chronology, bibliography and an index. 461. HOLMES, Julia Archibald and SPRING, Agrnes Wright, Editor. A Bloomer

Girl on Pike’s Peak 1858. (Denver): Denver Public Library, (1949). Illustrated. Octavo, - 145 -

boards, cloth spine, glassine dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$60.00 While a member of a party of gold seekers from Lawrence, Kansas Julia became the first white woman to scale Pike’s Peak. Incidentally, the “bloomer girl” reference had its origins with Amelia Bloomer, a noted temperance and women’s rights activist who popularized the pantaloon garb through her periodical The Lily. With a bibliography.

WOMEN ON THE MOVE

462. HOLMES, Kenneth L., Editor. Covered Wagon Women. Diaries & Letters from

the Western Trails 1840-1890. Glendale and Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1983-1993. Eleven volumes (complete). Illustrated. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. All the $900.00 volumes are first editions, and the set is quite scarce thus.

Includes more than eighty examples of letters and diaries of women traveling west during this period, all of which were previously unpublished or exceedingly scarce. “This set was initiated by Dr. Holmes after years of working and collecting in the field. His interest was in presenting the material before the public in a readily available form for reference and reading. ...The diaries are reprinted verbatim, with no changes in spelling, punctuation, etc. Each is introduced by the editor with historical background and identification of characters wherever possible. Minor footnoting to clarify the text is included. The series was very successful for the publisher”. (Clark & Brunet The Arthur H. Clark Company. A Bibliography and History #124). The last volume contains a pocket map of the westen emigrant trails 1830-1870 showing the major routes, alternates and cutoffs. A list of the contents of individual volumes available upon request. With a bibliography and an index to the series. [Mintz, many citations]. 463. [HOLSTEIN, Anna M]. H, Mrs. Three Years in Field Hospitals of the Army of

the Potomac. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1867. 12mo, original lavender cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Cloth a little faded, else fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author. $300.00 “Perceptive reminiscences of a woman who saw the unglamorous side of war with the Army of the Potomac”. [Nevins, II, p. 128].

464. [HOPKINS, Sarah Winnemucca]. CANFIELD, Gae Whitney. Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1983). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate. Fine. First $25.00 edition.

Winnemucca parlayed her sharp tongue and wit with her natural outspokenness to influential effect. She surely ranks in the forefront of notable American indian women. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1365].

FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH BY AN AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN

465. [HOPKINS, Sarah Winnemucca]. MANN, Mrs. Horace. Life Among the

Paiutes. Their Wrongs and Claims. Boston: Putnam’s, 1883. Small octavo, original yellow cloth printed decoratively in black, lettered in gold on spine. Owner’s inscription $675.00 on front endpaper, else fine. First edition. A remarkable book, written by an Indian woman about her life and recounting the Indian point of view in contact with whites from the earliest times to the date of publication. “ It is an appeal to help the Paiute in their struggle against white domination. There is extensive information about pre-white northern Paiute culture, types of foods, marriage and other social - 146 -

practices, and political leadership. Paher says: “The author championed her people; the book was among the first by an Indian who had grown up in primitive life. It is also among the most important 19th century Nevada books. The first edition is very scarce” . [Paher, Nevada, An Annotated Bibliography 888. DAB. NAW]. 466. [HORNE, Lena]. BUCKLEY, Gail Lumet. The Hornes. An American Family. New York: Knopf, 1986. Illustrated. Quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, erasure from rear, else fine. First edition. $20.00 Biography of a very successful black American family, written by the daughter of its most famous member.

ORDEAL OF THE DONNER PARTY

467. HOUGHTON, Eliza P. Donner. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its

Tragic Fate. Chicago: McClurg, 1911. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, original brown ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Spine and edges a bit worn, contemporary inscription in ink $225.00 on front free endpaper, endpapers slightly browned, else fine. First edition.

Latter-day recollections of an eyewitness to the famous tragedy, the then four year old daughter of the Donner party’s captain. The plight of the snowbound travellers and their grim ordeal of starvation, death, anthropophagy and rescue is recounted, followed by the author’s subsequent life in post-1846 California. With an index. [Paher, 892. Mintz 241. Graff 1971]. 468. HOUSTOUN, Matilda Charlotte (Jesse) Fraser. Texas and the Gulf of Mexico;

or, Yachting in the New World. Edited with an introduction by Marilyn McAdams Sibley. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991. Illustrated. Quarto, pictorial boards, cloth spine with paper label. Small hole in center of page eighty-five, else fine. One of 750 $45.00 copies.

The first volume in the projected series called the “Library of Texas” handsomely printed and published by Tom Taylor. “This sprightly account was written by a wealthy English lady who visited Texas in 1842 in her husband’s private yacht. Her view of the Texans is surprisingly free of snobbery, although she viewed them with the same paternalism that the English of her day viewed all non-Englishmen. Moreover, she had that rare gift of intellect and character that enabled her to perceive the idiosyncrasies of the Texans without the bitterness and mockery of Dickens or Mrs. Trollope” (Jenkins). [Jenkins 97. Howes H 693. Sabin 33202, all for first printing. Raines, A Bibliography of Texas p.120].

469. HOWARD, Cordelia. “Little Eva to Her Papa”. New York: H. De Marson, n.d. (circa 1853). Original broadside. 10” x 6-1/2”, printed text enclosed with woodcut decorative border featuring at each corner the face of a character in the play. A little $100.00 chipped at edges, lower left area lightly waterstained.

“As sung by little Cordelia Howard, in the successful Drama of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, at the National Theatre, New York”. An attractive piece which headlines in the lower half another song titled “Little Eva in Heaven”. Howard came from a theatrical family. It was her mother’s idea to cast her as Little Eva in a dramatization of Stowe’s newly published book. It opened in upstate Troy in 1852 and the following year moved to New York City where it ran for over 300 performances. From acclaim - 147 -

as “The Youthful Wonder” Howard remarked towards the end of her long life (1848-1941) “I must have been an exceptional child. The worst thing about these prodigies is that they generally prove nonentities in their later years, and I am no exception to the rule!” . [NAW]. 470. [HOWE, Julia Ward]. HOWE, Maud. The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: Little, Brown, 1911. 12mo, original lavender boards, cloth spine. Covers partially faded, else fine. First edition. $25.00

Howe’s many accomplishments included founding and editing the weekly Woman’s Journal and becoming the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stirring anthem The Battle Hymn of the Republic will last as long as the Republic itself. This rather stilted and flowery little tribute was written by one of her daughters. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 608. See Browne p. 93].

WITH A CHOICE SECTION OF MANUSCRIPT

471. [HOWE, Julia Ward]. RICHARDS, Laura E. and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe.

Assisted by Florence Howe Hall. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1915. Volume one only (of two). Illustrated. Octavo, original boards, brown buckram spine with gilt-lettered morocco label. Spine ends barely rubbed. Fine. Large $200.00 paper edition. One of 450 copies.

Written by a team of Howe’s daughters. With a choice two–page manuscript by Howe containing a portion of an essay about women’s property rights and marriage, in which she compares the institution to slavery and prostitution. Howe’s own husband was opposed to married women entering public life. This was the first biography to win the Pulitzer Prize. [BAL 9530. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 610]. 472. [HOWE, Julia Ward, Louisa, Annie and Sam]. THARP, Louise Hall. Three

Saints and a Sinner. Boston: Little, Brown, (1956). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial $25.00 dust jacket (edges a little worn). Fine. First edition.

The story of the dynamic social reformer and poet Julia Ward Howe, her sisters Louisa and Annie and their colorful brother Sam. He was a busted New York banker who made a fortune in gold rush San Francisco, returned east and became known as “King of the Lobby”. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 611]. 473. HOWE, Maud. The San Rosario Ranch. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884.

Octavo, original green cloth lettered in brown and gold. Spine slightly worn at ends, small tear on front endpaper, else a very decent copy. First edition. $30.00

A novel of California, dedicated by the author to her sister and fellow author, Laura E. Richards. [Wright III, 1746. NAW. The book is not noted by Baird and Greenwood in their Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction].

DESIGNED BY DARD HUNTER

474. HUBBARD, Alice. Woman’s Work Being an Inquiry and an Assumption. (East

Aurora: Roycrofters, 1908). Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and decorations. Octavo, original decorated boards, blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others $165.00 uncut. Fine. First edition. - 148 -

Alice Moore, a writer herself, became the second wife of the author, editor, lecturer and master craftsman who founded the Roycroft shop. An interesting production, printed throughout in green ink, at once restrained and pretentious and in which the author, writing about truth, concludes her preface: “You may not agree with what I say, but you will understand what I mean”. Alice and Elbert had the misfortune to sail on the ill-fated Lusitania. 475. HUDAK, Leona M. Early American Women Printers and Publishers 1639-1820. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1978. Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth. Fine. $60.00 First edition . An enormous undertaking, an 813 page treasury of scholarly information. One half of the dedication is traditional, the other an untold story: “To those who hindered, hampered, deterred and damned it — and nearly aborted it — a plague on all your pseudo-intellectual houses”. Whatever the obstacles, one marvels even more at the accomplishment. With many appendices and an index of names.

476. HUDSON, Grace. Three A.L.s written from her home in Ukiah, California, by the artist to “My Dear Mrs. Hamilton” in 1893, May 28, 7pp.; August 21, 2 pp.; Dec. $350.00 10, 1-1/2 pp.. All octavo, two with envelopes. With typed transcripts.

Mrs. Alexander F. Fisher-Hamilton was a San Francisco socialite who became a friend and patron of the artist. The correspondence touches on a number of subjects, in the main chatty descriptions of daily life: “yesterday the Government Inspector of Indian affairs’s wife ... and a whole colony of Los Angeles people called, all with letters of introduction. It is all very pleasant but I want to paint!” In another letter Hudson refers to trying to track down the current whereabouts of “Little Mendocino”, the artist’s quintessential painting which had first been exhibited to enormous success at the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco earlier in the year. 477. [HUDSON, Grace Carpenter]. BOYNTON, Searles R. The Painter Lady

Grace Carpenter Hudson. Eureka: Interface California Corporation, (1978). Profusely illustrated. Folio, cloth, housed in a custom cloth box, dust jacket. An extremely nice $85.00 copy. Inscribed by the author.

Hudson was born and reared among the Pomo tribe of northern California and painted them and their traditions for over forty years. Her favorite oils had as their subjects the papooses and youngsters who knew her as “the painter lady”. With a catalogue raisonné of her art and an index. Some interesting ephemera relating to Hudson’s home and art is laid in.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

478. HUGHES, Dorothy. Ride the Pink Horse. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,

(1946). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some edgewear and soiling). Name in ink on front endpaper, browning throughout. Very good. First edition. Signed by the author $100.00 on the title page. In 1978, Hughes was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. The setting of this novel is fiesta time in Santa Fé, where the author herself resided. It is printed on the cheap paper which had been used during the war before better quality stock became readily available. 479. HUGHES, Helen McGill, Editor. The Autobiography of a Girl Drug Addict. - 149 -

The Fantastic Lodge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $35.00 jacket . Fine. First edition . Record of a short unhappy life, being a near transcription of a real psychiatric case study. The narrator, here pseudonymously named Janet Clark, records her miserable descent to society’s lower depths. 480. [HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller]. TITCOMBE, Marianne Fletcher. The

Bookbinding Career of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Pittsburgh: (Hunt Botanical Library), 1974. Illustrated. Quarto, marbled boards, cloth spine. Bottom edge a little $45.00 rubbed, else fine. First edition.

Inscribed by Fred Adams, former Director of the Pierpoint Morgan Library, who wrote the foreword. Many years prior to the founding of the notable Hunt Botanical Library in 1960 Mrs. Hunt achieved considerable recognition as a bookbinder, a craft at which she engaged from 1904 to 1920. With a descriptive catalogue of books bound by Hunt. 481. HURST, Fannie. Anatomy of Me. A Wonderer in Search of Herself. Garden City:

Doubleday, 1958. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some light wear). Near fine. First edition. $20.00

Hurst was the highest–earning fiction writer in the country throughout the 1920s and 1930s. She had an unconventional marriage with musician Jacques Danielson: they lived apart, which she found conducive to her writing career. [NAWM. See Browne p. 59]. 482. HURSTON, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1935.

Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Octavo, pictorial cloth. Slight rub mark on spine, very faint foxing of endpapers, else fine. First edition. $400.00

Some of the subjects for this catalogue have come into it by design, others by the happenstance of a learning experience. Hurston is one of the latter. While exhibiting at a book fair in San Francisco a chance conversation with a well spoken lady named Deborah Dearborn led to her asking what did we have in this collection by Zora Neale Hurston. A reply in the negative subjoined with a “who?” led to her kindly writing down some basic information, resulting in the following entries. The author’s second book, actually written prior to Hurston’s first printed work. Mules and Men was a long time in the research and a longer time in fine tuning for publication. The result is a very readable book of folktales, hoodoo, fragments of songs, rhymes, legends and sayings that - to paraphrase her biographer - intimately weaves itself with the fabric of the negro’s social life. [DAB. NAWM]. 483. [HURSTON, Zora Neale]. HEMENWAY, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston A

Literary Biography. With an introduction by Alice Walker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1977). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (tad rubbed). Fine. First edi$45.00 tion.

A scholarly and sensitive look at the novelist, folklorist and anthropologist who published more books in her lifetime than any black American woman up to that time. There is also an insightful foreword by Alice Walker: “Zora Neale Hurston - A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View”. With notes, a checklist of Hurston’s writings and an index. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 617]. - 150 -

484. HURSTON, Zora Neale. Zora! Zora Neale Hurston A Woman and Her Community. Edited and compiled by N.Y. Nathiri. With an essay by Alice Walker. Orlando: Sentinel Communications Company, 1991. Profusely illustrated with photo$30.00 graphs. Quarto, fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A rather florid, over the top coffee table production which reaches in all directions to play “Zoraphilia” to the hilt. Beyond the irritating hyperbolism, however, are worthwhile - if fragmentary - verbal and pictorial insights of Hurston. [DAB. NAWM].

THE AMERICAN PROTO-FEMINIST

485. [HUTCHINSON, Anne Marbury]. WILLIAMS, Selma R. Divine Rebel. The

Life of Anne Marbury Hutchinson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1981). $175.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

“Born in England in 1591, Anne immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, when she and her husband joined the Puritan minister John Cotton and his followers in the fledgling colony. In New England, the outspoken Anne quickly ran afoul of the colony’s basic distrust of women. When she realized that women were to be excluded from colonial affairs, she began holding meetings for women to discuss religious and practical matters. Her strongly expressed belief in the individual soon attraced the businessmen of the colony, who also chafed under the authoritarianism of the Puritan church and local government. Anne and her followers repeatedly came into conflict with the authorities for their dissenting views -opposing war with the Pequot Indians, fighting against the concept of Eve-induced Original Sin, upholding the separation between the Church and the conduct of business” from the jacket. Brought to trial “for traducing the ministers and their ministry”, she was railed at, convicted and sentenced to banishment from the colony. Her life ended when she and all but one of her children were massacred by Indians. With notes, a select but extensive bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 624]. 486. HUTTON, Barbara. The Wayfarer. Westerham, Kent: Westerham Press, 1957.

Frontispiece portrait of the author in color by Edmund Dulac. Octavo, full gilt-decorated vellum, all edges gilt, lettered in gilt on spine. Some light foxing, else fine. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Laid in is an invitation to a ball at her house in Tangier’s Kasbah inscribed by the author, a receipt from a florist in Hawaii for flowers to “Princess Barbara Hutton” and a color photograph of her cousin Jimmy Donohue and Joey Mitchell dated 1965. [DAB].

$3,000.00

487. [HUTTON, Barbara]. HEYMANN, C. David. Poor Little Rich Girl. The Life

and Legend of Barbara Hutton. New York: Random House, (1983). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (creased on lower $20.00 front panel). Some minor spotting of spine, else fine. First edition.

Barbara Hutton inherited twenty-six million dollars from her grandfather, the five-andten cent store magnate. That, seven husbands, drug addiction and alcoholism, while serving to prove the old adage about money, also makes for an intriguingly sad story. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 625, incorrectly listing the publisher as Simon and Schuster and the date as 1986]. - 151 -

A L L T H AT $$$ C A N B U Y

FIRST POLICEWOMEN’S HANDBOOK

488. HUTZEL, Eleonore L and MCGREGOR, Madeline L. assistant. The

Policewoman’s Handbook. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (browned, chipped at edges with slight loss of paper). Near fine. First edi$175.00 tion. Rare in dust jacket.

Hutzel was a Deputy Commissioner of the Detroit Police Department and Director of its Policewomen’s Division. The book is the first attempt to standardize the work of policewomen. “The growing realization in recent years that police work is, in a certain measure, social work, and that in it there exist problems which can be handled better by women than by men, has led to the employment of women in many police departments throughout the country.” - from the introduction. With two appendices, an extensive bibliography and an index. 489. IRVING, Helen. Editor. The Ladies Wreath. An Illustrated Annual. New York:

J.C. Burdick, n.d.. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt-decorated blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt. Two leaves with some partial loss of text, light foxing, else excellent. $125.00

A mid-nineteenth-century pasticcio embellished with attractive color plates of flowers with tissue guards separating them from steel engravings of people and places. The only information we have obtained concerning the editor is provided by the following notice in Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of ... American Authors. Philadelphia, 1870, Volume I: “Irving, Helen W., is the nom de plume of a very young lady, a resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, who has pub. a number of poetical pieces in The Home Journal and other periodicals. The stanzas entitled Love and Fame have been cited as especially deserving of commendation. See T.B. Read’s Female Poets of America; Caroline May’s American Female Poets”. 490. JACK, Ellen E. The Fate of a Fairy. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, (1910).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original red cloth elaborately decorated in green and gilt, gilt-lettered and with a color photograph of the author in an oval inset. Some very minor spotting to covers, name in ink (“Mildred Enger/Colo./1914”) on endpaper, $50.00 else about fine. First edition. The tale of “Captain Jack”, an Englishwoman who on her husband’s death became a Colorado mine owner and old west character known as “Queen of the Rockies”. The posed photographs of her are a hoot. [Decker, The Soliday Collection of Western Americana II, 575. Flake 4299. Schimmel, Women in the American Wilderness 79].

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

491. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. Ramona. A Story. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884.

12mo, original terracotta cloth decorated in gilt and black, spine gilt-lettered. Small related clipping affixed to fly-leaves (slight offsetting to title from clippings), generally $750.00 fine, the binding bright. First edition.

[BAL 10456. Baird-Greenwood 1296. Zamorano Eighty 46. Cowan, p. 307n. Edwards, p. 126. Hart, Companion to California, p. 346. Johnson, High Spots of American Literature, pp.46-47. . Wright III: 290I. Powell, California Classics: “The first novel about Southern California.... It remains the best California book of its kind - an historical romance of a vanished way of life.... Reprinted more than three hundred times.... It possesses enormous vitality.” Walker, Literary History of Southern California, pp. 123, 129-132. Browne, p. 60. DAB. NAW].

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492. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. Ramona. A Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1900. Two

volumes. Illustrated by Henry Sandham. Octavo, original navy cloth pictorially and elaborately decorated in green and yellow, top edge gilt, others uncut, dust jackets lettered in gilt on spines. Fine. The “Monterey Edition”. First edition thus, and uncommon $250.00 in dust jackets. This is the first edition to be illustrated. With a twenty-five page introduction by “Susan Coolidge” (What Katy Did), pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, in which her enlightening focus is on the author rather than the book. [DAB. NAW].

A CALL TO THE PLIGHT OF THE INDIAN

493. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. A Century of Dishonor. A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. 12mo, original green cloth stamped in gold and black, spine lettered in gilt. Owner’s name embossed on title page, very minor wear to edges of spine. Fine. $40.00

Helen Maria Fiske was a Massachusetts-born and educated writer who contributed to literary journals under the signature “H. H.” In 1875, she married a banker, William S. Jackson, and moved to Colorado Springs. In 1879, she became interested in the treatment of the Indians by the U.S. Government and actively sought to better the conditions of that race. She was appointed special commissioner to examine the condition of the Mission Indians of California and while doing this, studied the history of the early Spanish missions. Her fact-finding journey upon which the report was based also served as the genesis of her idea to write a fictionalized crusade for indian rights, much as Harriet Beecher Stowe had done for the negro. First published a decade earlier, this new edition had been enlarged by the addition of the “Report of the Needs of the Mission Indians of California”, of which Jackson was co-author. [See BAL 10496. DAB. NAW].

494. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. Glimpses of California and the Missions. Boston: Little, Brown, 1902. Illustrated by Henry Sandham. Octavo, original brown cloth picto$125.00 rially stamped in gold, brown, yellow and orange. Fine. First edition thus.

“The papers on California and the Missions, by the author of Ramona, which are included in this volume were first published in 1883, and afterwards reprinted with some European travel sketches in 1886, the volume bearing the title of Glimpses of Three Coasts. It has been frequently suggested that the California articles should be published in a separate volume, and they now reappear with illustrations by Henry Sandham, who visited California with Mrs. Jackson when she was accumulating material for Ramona. Mrs. Jackson’s descriptions and the artist’s illustrations now possess a special interest from the fact that the restorations of late years have materially altered the Mission buildings and other places here pictured and described” - publisher’s note. [BAL 10522. DAB. NAW].

495. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. Ah-wa-ne-Days. A Visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. San Francisco: Book Club of San Francisco, 1971. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Quarto, attractively bound in light olive cloth spine with printed paper label, green and beige decorated boards. Fine. One of 450 copies printed $125.00 by Mallette Dean. Jackson, at the time a correspondent for the New York Independent, first visited Yosemite in 1872. Her observations are of a Yosemite Valley just becoming known as a tourist attraction. [Harlan, The Two Hundredth Book. A Bibliography of the Books Published by the - 154 -

Book Club of California, 137. DAB. NAW]. 496. [JACKSON, Mahalia]. GOREAU, Laurraine. Just Mahalia, Baby. Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1975). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, fabricoid, pic$35.00 torial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). Fine. First edition . The Mahalia Jackson story. The great gospel singer’s instructions to her biographer and friend: “Don’t make me no saint, baby!...” From her start as a singer in Baptist churches, by 1954 she was hosting her own weekly CBS radio program, cutting records and giving concerts. Jackson is also considered an early and important influence on rock and roll music and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1997. A big (613 pages) book about a concomitant talent. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 630].

497. JACKSON, Shirley. The Sundial. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1958). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (edges of flaps lightly browned). Fine. $100.00 First edition. Jackson’s work embraced such varied forms as the novel, short story (“The Lottery”), essay, semi-autobiographical sketch and radio and television script writing. Born in San Francisco, Jackson (1919-1950) was a Syracuse University graduate and subsequently a resident of Vermont. [DAB. NAWM]. 498. JACOBS, Helen Hull. Gallery of Champions. New York: A.S. Barnes, (1949).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$85.00 Very scarce in dust jacket. Jacobs reviews the careers of fifteen of her era’s best women tennis players, against whom she herself had competed.

499. [JAMES, Alice]. STROUSE, Jean. Alice James, A Biography. The Life of the Brilliant Younger Sister of William and Henry James. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1980. $25.00 Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for 1980. With notes and an index. [NAW. Sweeney 637].

500. JAMES, Henry. Love, Marriage, and Divorce, and the Sovereignty of the Individual. A Discussion between Henry James, Horace Greeley, and Stephen Pearl Andrews, Including the Final Replies of Mr. Andrews, Rejected by the New York Tribune, and a Subsequent Discussion, Occurring Twenty Years Later, Between Mr. James and Mr. Andrews. Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1889. Tall octavo, three-quarter pebbled blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine lettering faded, light cover wear, else about $250.00 fine.

This work was listed in the November 26, 1990 AB Bookman’s Weekly as one of twenty-five landmark feminist books of the nineteenth century by two experts on the subject: Madeleine B. Stern and Paulette Rose. In the slim volume, Stephen Pearl Andrews, the compiler, views compulsory marriage as prostitution for women, which was certainly a radical viewpoint in his day. From the Stern and Rose article: “Love, Marriage, and Divorce, containing as it does Andrews’ ‘new, radical and scientific examination’ of the institution of family life, and his conviction that women must be freed from compulsory marriage and rigid divorce laws, is a pioneer- 155 -

ing landmark in the vast literature concerned with sexual relations”. The second edition of this important work, first published in 1853. [DAB]. 501. [JANE, Calamity]. AIKMAN, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Holt, (1927). Illustrated. Octavo, original black cloth, spine lettered in orange, pictorial endpapers. Spine and covers a little faded, edges a trifle rubbed, title page with a few foxing marks, name in ink on dedication page, else fine. First edition.

$35.00 Entertaining light reading, though pushing the envelope of strict accuracy. Besides Jane (1852?-1903) the author portrays such female characters of the old west as Belle Starr, Cattle Kate and Poker Alice. [Adams Six-Guns 19. Jennewein 116. Dobie, p. 139].

502. JANEWAY, Elizabeth. Man’s World, Woman’s Place. A Study in Social Mythology. New York: Morrow, 1971. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket $20.00 (light wear). Fine. First edition. This, the author’s first non-fiction work, demonstrates how society perceives women in the home as dependent, yet “as exercising control through dispensing solace and favors.” Janeway was also a novelist, perhaps her best known being Daisy Kenyon, which became a film vehicle for Joan Crawford. With notes and an index.

503. JANEWAY, Elizabeth. Between Myth and Morning. Women Awakening. New York: Morrow, 1974. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (light wear). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author “from one friend of Barnard to another”.

$30.00 Janeway received her BA from Barnard in 1935. Her college career had been interrupted for a year during the depression when she had written advertising copy for a Brooklyn department store. With a bibliography and an index.

excellent. Large paper edition, one of 250 copies and first edition thus.

$250.00 Deephaven was Jewett’s first book and she wrote an eight page preface for this special edition. The volume is embellished with a profusion of fine illustrations by Charles and Marcia Woodbury. Of various sizes, they are printed on thin rice paper and inserted in a way that provides a charmingly syndetic marriage with the text. [BAL 10904. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 61]. 507. JOHNSON, Lady Bird. A White House Diary. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970). Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear). Ownership label, else fine. First edition. $20.00 index.

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson’s recollections of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With an

508. JOHNSON, Osa. I Married Adventure. The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1940). With eighty-three aquatone illustrations. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (minor edgewear). Fine. First edition.

$135.00 This title, the exciting memoirs of a wife and husband team who were among the first photographers to film previously unexplored parts of Africa and the South Pacific, was the number one on the non–fiction best seller list for 1940. The book contains references to Charmian London, and devotes a long chapter to Martin Johnson’s sailing trip through the South Seas with the Londons aboard the Snark . Laid in is a 1953 newspaper obituary. With an index. [Woodbridge, Jack London Bibliography C48 (describing a reprint edition). DAB]. 509. [JOHNSTON, Francis Benjamin]. DANIEL, Pete and SMOCK, Raymond. A

Talent for Detail. The Photographs of Miss Francis Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910. (New York): Harmony Books, (1974). Profusely illustrated. Oblong quarto, cloth, picto$30.00 rial dust jacket. Ink inscription on front endpaper, else fine. First edition.

504. JEFFERS, Una. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Una’s Melodion. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989. Illustrated by Robinson Jeffers. Oblong octavo, original white cloth, paper label on spine. Fine. One of 500 copies. With the prospectus. $85.00 Introduction by Dave Oliphant. A collection of Gaelic songs Una Jeffers collected during her visits to Ireland. She compiled them in a notebook which is here published in facsimile. Her poet husband illustrated the notebook with more than one hundred drawings. [BCC 191].

Given one of the original Kodak cameras by George Eastman, Johnston parlayed her artistic background and family connections (she was a distant relative of Mrs. Grover Cleveland) into becoming one of the leading photojournalists of her day. From the White House, to Hampton Institute and black life in rural Virginia, to Admiral Dewey’s flagship, to the Carlisle Indian School, Johnson’s documentary eye captured for posterity many aspects of her day not readily found elsewhere. [[DAB. NAWM].

505. JENKS, Mary A., M.D. Behind the Bars, or, Ten Years of the Life of a Police

510. JOHNSTON, Mary. The Long Roll. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1911.

Besides being a doctor and a police matron the title page lists a third accomplishment: President of the Pawtucket W.C.T.U.

The first of Johnston’s two historical novels dealing with the war between the states. Her father had been a Major in the Confederate artillery serving under his cousin, General Joseph E. Johnston. With two endpaper maps of the war zone in Virginia and Maryland and four color plates by N.C. Wyeth. [Allen p. 208. Dykes, Wyeth 198. NAW. See Browne p. 62].

Matron. Pawtucket: Mary A. Jenks, 1902. Illustrated including a frontispiece of the author. 12mo, white-stamped navy linen. Fine. First edition of a rare book. $125.00

ONE OF 250 COPIES

506. JEWETT, Sarah Orne. Deephaven. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894.

Illustrated. Octavo, original green boards, cream cloth spine, printed paper label. Top edge rough cut, other edges uncut. Spine and covers a little browned and spotted, else - 156 -

Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, original gilt-lettered gray cloth pictorially stamped in darker gray. Faint cover wear. About fine. First edition. $60.00

511. JOHNSTON, Mary. Cease Firing. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1912. Illustrated

by N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, original gray cloth , printed paper spine label. Fine. One of 500 $300.00 copies, signed by the author. - 157 -

Sequel to The Long Roll. With two endpaper maps of the seat of war in the south and the 1864-1865 Virginia campaigns. A paradigm of the southern lady to the manor born, Johnston spent much of an otherwise uneventful life in careful research of her thoroughly documented writings. [Allen p. 208. Dykes, Wyeth 199. NAW]. 512. JOHNSTON, Mary. Cease Firing. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1912. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, original gilt-lettered gray cloth pictorially stamped in darker $65.00 gray . Spine ends minutely rubbed. Fine. First trade edition. With two endpaper maps of the seat of war in the south and the 1864-1865 Virginia campaigns. [Allen p. 208. Dykes, Wyeth 200. NAW].

513. JOHNSTON, Mary. The Witch. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914. Octavo, original gilt-lettered brown cloth , pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, quite scarce $225.00 in jacket.

Johnston (1870-1936) was the daughter of two early Virginia families. She was educated at home making full use of her father’s extensive library. A prolific author, (twenty-three novels) her dominant theme was historical fiction, unlike here generally focused on the south. Wearing other hats, Johnston helped form the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia in 1909; was a pacifist in World War I; and in later life developed an interest in mysticism. The frontispiece illustration by N.C. Wyeth is repeated on the dust jacket. [Allen p. 208. Dykes, Wyeth 201. NAW]. 514. JONES, Hettie. How I Became Hettie Jones. New York: Dutton, (1990).

Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 Memoir of an interracial marriage centered in the bohemianism of New York City during the 1950s and 1960s.

515. JONES, [Mary Harris]. The Autobiography of Mother Jones. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1925. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in black, printed dust jacket (chipped at edges). Light cover wear, else excellent. First edition, scarce in jacket. With an intro$250.00 duction by Clarence Darrow. At age eight Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930) had emigrated with her family from Ireland. After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever in 1867 and all of her possessions in the 1871 Chicago fire, Jones became involved with the newly organized Knights of Labor. “Mother Jones” eventually devoted her entire personal life to the labor movement, especially the welfare of miners, well into her old age. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, however, “Autobiography of Mother Jones …cannot be wholly relied upon, especially for dates”. [DAB. NAW]. 516. JONG, Erica. Fear of Flying. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973).

Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very faint soiling to rear panel). Covers lightly $35.00 faded, else fine. First edition.

The author’s first novel which introduced a new kind of liberated literary heroine. It addresses issues of women’s sexuality and is generally considered to be a landmark of both women’s and seventies literature.

517. JONG, Erica. Parachutes & Kisses. New York: New American Library, (1984). $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition. - 158 -

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A remembered line of Jong’s: “You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy” is sorely tested in these pages. 518. JONG, Erica. Fear of Fifty. A Midlife Memoir. (New York): Harper Collins,

(1994). Endpaper photos. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First trade edi$20.00 tion. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

More fears played out in this, the author’s sixteenth book. Equivocally dedicated: “For my daughter, Molly - your turn now”.

519. [JOPLIN, Janis]. AMBURN, Ellis. Pearl. The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin, A Biography. (New York): Warner Books, (1992). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Fine. First $20.00 edition.

Joplin’s (1943-1970) tactile persona in concert quickly launched her as the first rock star of the 1960’s counterculture. Sadly, what went up came down much too quickly. The appendices consist of a coroner’s report, discography, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

520. JORGENSEN, Christine. Christine Jorgensen. A Personal Autobiography. New York: Eriksson, (1967). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, picto$35.00 rial dust jacket. Fine. First edition .

The autobiography of this celebrated transsexual who underwent a sex change operation. In his introduction to this book, Dr. Harry Benjamin writes “This was a little girl, not a boy (in spite of the anatomy) who grew up in this remarkably sound and normal family. There was no broken home, no weak or absent father with whom the little boy could not identify. These are still the favorite theories of many psychologists and psychoanalyst to explain the transsexual state, but they do not fit into the childhood of Christine Jorgensen”.

521. JOSEPHSON, Hannah. The Golden Threads. New England’s Mill Girls and Magnates. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1949). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $25.00 jacket (minutely worn at spine extremities). Fine. First edition. An economic and social history of the young women mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts between 1822 and 1850. With a bibliography and an index.

522. [JUDD, Winnie Ruth]. BOMMERSBACH, Jana. The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd. The Truth About an American Crime Legend Revealed at Last . New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust $25.00 jacket. Fine. First edition.

Judd’s lawyers bungled in pleading insanity instead of what eventually came to light as self defense. The result was a narrow escape from the gallows followed by her forty year incarceration. Despite a journalistic style bordering on the tabloid and a concomitant adjectival vocabulary, the semantics may be excused by the Byzantine story itself. Besides, the author’s creative detective work in unravelling a mystery which has entered into American folklore won an award for investigative reporting

A NOSTALGIC BEAUTY

523. [KAIULANI]. BAKER, Ray Jerome. Princess Kaiulani. A Brief Biographical - 160 -

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Sketch of Hawaii’s Beloved Princess, Together With a Series of Portraits Showing Her From Childhood to Adult Life. Honolulu: R. J. Baker, 1954. Profusely illustrated with many full-page portraits of Princess Kaiulani. Quarto, original pictorial boards, cloth spine, paper label. Spine ends and covers very slightly rubbed, spine cloth slightly torn at front hinge, leaves minutely foxed and very lightly browned throughout. Envelope $300.00 with news paper clipping and notes affixed to front pastedown. First edition.

A dozen photographs of the lovely young lady printed full page on heavy card stock follow the short monograph. Baker (1880-1972) was Hawaii’s premier photographer during the first half of the twentieth century. He reproduced these pictures from the originals made by various earlier photographers. Quite a scarce work. 524. [KAIULANI]. MRANTZ, Maxine. Hawaii’s Tragic Princess. Kaiulani The Girl Who Never Got To Rule. Honolulu: Aloha Graphics and Sales, 1980. Illustrated with $20.00 photographs. Octavo, colored pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. Kaiulani’s large, dark eyes closed forever after only twenty-three years and less than seven months after her future kingdom had been annexed by the United States.

525. KANAHELE, Annie. Annie, Life of a Hawaiian. N.p.: Fisher Printing Co, 1976.

Illustrated. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. A little dust soiled. Third printing. Inscribed and $20.00 signed by the author.

The entire proceeds of this autobiography by a teacher and churchwoman whose resume includes the Presidency of the Women’s Boards of Missions of the Pacific as well as being chosen 1971 State Mother of Hawaii, were donated to the Kaumakapili Church in Honolulu and the Mokuaikaua Church in Kona.With a glossary of Hawaiian words and phrases.

FIRST BOOK FOR AMERICAN HORSEWOMEN

526. KARR, Elizabeth. The American Horsewoman. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,

1884. Illustrated. Octavo, original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. Minor cover wear, name in ink on endpapers, else fine. First edition (although it did go into a second $750.00 printing, in today’s market either edition is rare).

“In presenting this volume to the women of America, the author would remark that, at least as far as she is aware, it is the first one, exclusively devoted to the instruction of lady riders, that has ever been written by one of their own countrywomen” -from the Preface. Without reason to doubt her statement, it still seems remarkable that Karr’s book was published only a decade prior to the invention of the automobile and just two before the areoplane. While the iron horse had been around for nearly a half century, it was still Dobbin who provided the principal means of overland travel, leading one to assume that the subject had been covered long since. 527. KEARNEY, Belle. A Slaveholder’s Daughter. New York: Abbey Press, (1900).

Illustrated and with a frontispiece photograph of Kearney. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in white and black, top edge rough cut, other edges uncut. Spine let$60.00 tering slightly rubbed, else fine.

This autobiography of the Mississippi W.C.T.U. leader and suffragist covers only half her life. Belle Kearney (1863-1939) would lecture throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was - 162 -

eventually elected to the state senate, becoming the first woman in the south to hold that office. The title of the book is a bit misleading, given that she was barely two when the war ended.

AN ICON OF POPULAR CULTURE

528. KEENE, Carolyn. The Secret of the Wooden Lady. New York: Grosset &

Dunlap, (1950). Illustrated with frontispiece. Octavo, cloth-like boards, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (a bit chipped at spine ends). Near fine. Early printing. $65.00

The twenty-seventh title in the famous series. Following the success of her male counterparts, the Hardy boys, the Nancy Drew adventures were conceived in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer. The Nancy Drew mystery stories were originally written by Mildred Wirt Benson under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. In 1942 his daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams assumed full control of the series, revising and updating the books as well as writing and commissioning new ones. Accompanied by a lengthy illustrated article about Edward Stratemeyer extracted from a periodical.

ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ADMIRED WOMEN

529. KELLER, Helen. The Story of My Life with Her Letters (1887-1901) and a

Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages From the Reports of Her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. Illustrated. Octavo, original burgundy ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Edges and spine extremities slightly rubbed, bookplate on front pastedown, name in ink on free front endpaper, slight foxing of terminal leaves, very minimal browning of preliminary leaves, else excellent. First edition $125.00 of the author’s first book.

“To Alexander Graham Bell who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I Dedicate this Story of My Life”. With an index. [Browne, p. 31. DAB. NAWM]. 530. KELLER, Helen. The Song of the Stone Wall. New York: Century, 1910.

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original brown boards decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Expertly rebacked, preserving part of the original spine. Fine. Printed at $85.00 the DeVinne Press.

Laid in is a rotogravure newspaper photograph showing Keller reading a braille bible. [DAB. NAWM].

AN IMPORTANT HELEN KELLER LETTER

531. KELLER, Helen. TLs. November 24, 1936 to Mrs. George Jacobs. One page. $1,500.00 A poignant letter in which the fifty-six year old Keller reflects on the recent death (October 20th) of Anne Sullivan, Keller’s famous tutor. “....Even so it is winter in my life since the guardian angel of fifty years no longer walks by my side on earth. Yet I thank God for the wondrous gift He has withdrawn a little while, and for the difficulties to be overcome that shall be my tribute to Anne Sullivan Macy.” Sullivan was “The Miracle Worker” who arrived at the seven year old Keller’s home in 1887 and made astonishing progress teaching the blind, deaf and dumb child. Keller thought of her as a compass, keeping her on course. [DAB. NAWM]. - 163 -

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A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP

532. KELLER, Helen. Teacher Anne Sullivan Macy. A Tribute by the Foster-child of

Her Mind. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, $50.00 dust jacket (slight rubbing of extremities). Fine. First edition.

The last of Keller’s dozen books, a biography of her great teacher who freed Helen from the implosiveness of solitude. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 805].

A DUAL BIOGRAPHY

533. [KELLER, Helen]. LASH, Joseph P. Helen and Teacher. The Story of Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan Macy. (New York): Delacorte Press, (1980). Illustrated. Thick $20.00 octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

When Helen Keller –blind, deaf and mute as the result of an early illness– was six years old a young woman named Anne Sullivan entered her life. Daughter of Irish immigrants, inexperienced as a teacher and sight impaired herself, she possessed the relentless vitality that was to force her pupil’s unwilling mind from the depths of unconsciousness. With a chronology on the endpapers, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 675].

534. [KELLEY, Florence]. GOLDMARK, Josephine. Impatient Crusader. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped and $20.00 worn). Fine. First edition.

Although not as well-remembered as some of her contemporaries when she died in 1932 in her seventy-fourth year, the causes that Kelley had worked for–such as government regulation of child labor, wages and hours, child care programs and other social legislation–had become a reality. Although denounced by some as a communist (she had translated into English a small volume by Friedrich Engels titled The Condition of the Working Classes in England in 1844) Kelley was, in fact, a dedicated socialist. With an index. [NAW. Sweeney 678]. 535. [KELLEY, Kitty]. CARPOZI, Jr., George. Poison Pen. The Unauthorized

Biography of Kitty Kelley. New Jersey: Barricade Books, (1991). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. $20.00

In the tradition of “turn about is fair play”, the author trashes the author of the trash about Nancy Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy and Frank Sinatra. Ergo, even if it isn’t always so that “truth will out”, trash apparently will. With an index. 536. KELLOGG, Charlotte. Prelude. (Pasadena): Ward Ritchie, 1960. Octavo,

boards, cloth spine. One of 300 copies. This copy inscribed by the author’s daughter. $35.00 Fine.

Jean Kellogg Dickie wrote a preface to the long narrative poem of which the book consists. This writer was acquainted with Jean, a delightful, gentle lady who had illustrated poet Robinson Jeffers’ The Loving Shepherdess and posed for her neighbor, the photographer Edward Weston. 537. KELLOGG, Eugenia. The Awakening of Poccalito. A Tale of Telegraph Hill and

Other Tales. San Francisco: The Unknown Publisher, 1903. Illustrated with a photographic tail piece of the author. 12mo, original brown cloth with elaborate pictorial - 166 -

stamping in gilt. Fine. Very scarce.

$75.00 Little tales of the west, by an equally modest literary talent. With a prefatory note by the author Joaquin Miller, although his contribution is unrecorded by the Bibliography of American Literature. [Baird and Greenwood 1355. Cowan p. 324].

A MODERN DAY FAIRY TALE

538. [KELLY, Grace]. ENGLUND, Steven. Grace of Monaco. An Interpretive Biography. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket (slightly rubbed). Fine. First edition. From Grace of the Kellys of Philadelphia to the actress Grace Kelly of Hollywood to Princess Grace of Monaco. With an index. [Sweeney 679]. 539. KEMBLE, Frances Anne. Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in

1838-1839. New York: Harper, 1863. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth . Bottom of spine a trifle worn, bookseller’s embossment on front endpaper, some moder$125.00 ate foxing, otherwise excellent.

First American edition, first issue. Kemble, a noted English actress, spent several years in America the last of which on the Georgian plantation of her husband, Pierce M. Butler. This famous work, with its decidedly anti-slavery viewpoint, was not published in America until the Civil War was raging. [Howes K70. Sabin 37329. DAB. NAW].

540. [KENNEDY, Ethel]. OPPENHEIMER, Jerry. The Other Mrs. Kennedy. Ethel Skakel Kennedy: An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics. New York: St. Martin’s, (1994). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The widow of Robert Kennedy and mother of their eleven children is taken to task in 487 pages. With a selected bilbiography, notes, sources and an index.

541. [KENNEDY, Jacqueline]. BIRMINGHAM, Stephen. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1978). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Small quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Name in ink on $20.00 front free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

By a biographer and author of social history in which he gives a light-fingered, readable account of Jaqcueline’s life up to the time of publication. With an index. [Sweeney 686].

542. [KENNEDY, Jaqueline]. ANDERSON, Christopher. Jack and Jackie. Portrait of an American Marriage. New York: Morrow, (1996). Illustrated with many photographs. Thick octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

With a selected bibliography and an index. With: ANDERSON, Christopher. Jackie After Jack. Portrait of the Lady. New York: William Morrow, (1998). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Together, two volumes. With sources, chapter notes, selected bibliography and an index. The mythic Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her incredible life here recounted in two well researched volumes by a New York Times bestselling author. . - 167 -

543. [KENNEDY, Rose]. GIBSON, Barbara with Caroline Latham. Life with Rose Kennedy. (New York): Warner Books, (1986). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 A pedestrian account of Rose Kennedy in her later life by her personal secretary. As chronicled, the twilight years come across as surprisingly empty and devoid of interest. [Sweeney 700].

544. KERR, Jean. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Illustrated with humorous drawings. Octavo, cloth, printed dust jacket (edgeworn). Fine. First edition. $40.00 The only negative review of this bestseller came from one of the playwright’s sons!

THE FAMOUS KINSEY REPORT

550. KINSEY, Alfred C., et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.

Phildadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1953. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (spine creased). Fine. $135.00 First edition. Based on surveys made by the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana Universtity, the book is dedicated to the nearly 8,000 females who contributed the data upon which the monumental study is based. Illustrated with tables, charts and graphs, with an index.

551. [KIRCHWEY, Freda]. ALPERN, Sara. Freda Kirchwey. A Woman of The Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictori$20.00 al dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

545. KING, Coretta Scott. My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt,

Kirchwey (1893-1976) made her mark through the famous liberal periodical The Nation. Starting there as a journalist in 1918 she became editor, owner and publisher from 1937 until 1955. With notes and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 707].

“I have written this book out of my need to share with people everywhere the kind of fulfillment which I found, both as a woman and as a human being, in my life with Martin Luther King, Jr.” Today the outspoken Coretta King is still going strong at seventy-five. With an index.

552. KITT, Eartha. Thursday’s Child. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1956). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a trifle rubbed at top $45.00 and bottom edges). Bookplate. Fine. First edition.

Rinehart & Winston, (1969). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $50.00 jacket. Fine. First edition.

546. KING, Marian. The Recovery of Myself. A Patient’s Experience in a Hospital

The vibrant cabaret singer and actress, from her dirt poor days in South Carolina to Kitt’s rise to sultry stardom. Disappointingly, the book comes across with an unfortunate lack of depth, though the early hardships she experienced are vivid enough.

The jacket blurb states “Her story is probably the first document of its kind ever to be published”. Perhaps inevitably, the record of her impressions as a patient really does not live up to the wonderful title.

553. KNIGHT, Brenda. Women of the Beat Generation. The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley: Conari Press, (1996). Illustrated. Oblong octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

for Mental Illness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (minor chipping). Fine. First edition. $30.00

547. KINGSOLVER, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York: Harper & Row, (1988).

Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed copy.

$375.00 A signed copy of the author’s first novel. Here art imitates life as both the author and her tale wend their way from Kentucky to Tucson, Arizona. 548. KINGSOLVER, Barbara. Pigs in Heaven. (New York): Harper Collins, (1993).

Royal octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. $45.00 A novel revolving around a custody dispute of an American Indian child.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS’S CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

The author, former editor of Etc. magazine, profiles forty women including Elise Cowen, Diane di Prima, Hettie Jones, Joan Burroughs, Jan Kerouac, Jane Bowles, Carolyn Cassady and Ruth Weiss. Between the foreword by Anne Waldman and the afterword by Ann Charters, over fifty photographs punctuate the text. With an appendix of individual biographies and an index.

554. KNIGHT, Oliver. Life and Manners in the Frontier Army. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1978). Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$30.00 Concerning the ladies and daughters of the regiment and the social, physical and psychological isolation that constituted their life at a frontier post during the quarter century of Indian hostilities which followed the Civil War. With notes, bibliography and an index.

549. KINGSTON, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Memoirs of a Girlhood

555. KOUES, Helen. Helen Koues, On Decorating the House, in the Early American,

The author’s first book, a melding of immigrants experiencing new America while being haunted by old China. Born in Stockton, California Maxine Ting Ting Hong graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and after marriage became a teacher in Hawaii.

The author was Director of Good Housekeeping Studio, an adjunct of Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Among Ghosts. New York: Knopf, 1976. Octavo, decorated boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Brief ink inscription on endpaper, else fine. First edition. $60.00

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Colonial, English and Spanish Manner. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, original blue cloth, with a hearth pictorially $50.00 stamped in black, pictorial dust jacket (lightly soiled). Fine. First edition.

556. KRONE, Julie and RICHARDSON, Nancy Ann. Riding For My Life. Boston: - 169 -

Little, Brown, (1995). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictori$25.00 al dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A born equestrian, Krone became the most celebrated female jockey in the history of horse racing. At the time of this book the fifty-eight inch rider had mounted over 2,800 winners including being the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes, third leg of the Triple Crown.

WOMEN OF THE KLAN!

557. [KU KLUX KLAN]. Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Little Rock: M.G. Pugh, (1927). 16mo, original printed red paper wrappers. Fine copy of a rare item. $300.00

This constitution resulted from the First Imperial “Klanvocation” in St. Louis in January, 1927. The women’s branch of the Klan had incorporated four years earlier in Little Rock, Arkansas. This ninety-six page booklet includes a very thorough index. It does, but should not, come as a surprise that women also were members of the Klan. By the mid-1920’s between four and five million Americans had enrolled. “Fiery crosses, the symbol of the new order, were burned in every part of the country, and the hooded members denounced Negroes, bootleggers, Jews, pacifists, Bolsheviks, internationalists, Catholics and evolutionists with equal impartiality” (Dictionary of American History, volume III). While it has been pointed out that the organization’s rapid growth contributed to its downfall, it also must follow that having eliminated all the groups mentioned above, there were simply no more recruits available. 558. [KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth]. GILL, Derek. Quest. The Life of Elisabeth

Kübler-Ross. With an epilogue by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. New York: Harper & Row, (1980). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges slightly rubbed). Name in ink on front free endpaper, label on front paste-down. First edition.

$20.00 In retrospect, her birth as a two and a half pound triplet not expected to live seems a portent of things to come, for Kübler-Ross would grow up to become the world reknowned authority on the care of the dying. 559. KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth. Living with Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan, (1981). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edi$20.00 tion.

Before coming to the United States Dr. Kübler-Ross practiced general medicine in her native Switzerland. This is a companion volume to her previous two books, On Death and Dying and Questions and Answers on Death and Dying. The trio are based on a study she completed while assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago and copies of the pioneering works have sold in the millions.

560. KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth. Remember the Secret. Millbrae, California: Celestial Arts, (1982). Illustrated by Heather Preston with full page color plates. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly soiled, one tiny nick in center of front $50.00 flap fold). Covers a tad soiled, else fine. First edition. Signed by the author. A children’s book about love and caring and loss and how two young people cope with it.

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561. KUNIN, Madeleine. Living a Political Life. New York: Knopf, 1994. Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Madeleine Kunin –the first woman governor of the state of Vermont– followed a long trail in her political career. There were three campaigns for the state legislature (the subject of her maiden speech was the Equal Rights Amendment), two for lieutenant governor and four more for the governorship. At journey’s end, her exit from politics was by her own timetable, not by the electorates’. The autobiography is jointly dedicated to her mother and her aunt. 562. KUNSTLER, William M. The Minister and the Choir Singer. The Hall-Mills

Murder Case. New York: Morrow, 1964. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (spine a trifle faded). Fine. First $35.00 edition . Basing his case in part on new evidence, the noted trial lawyer offers a solution to a famous unsolved mystery: the murder of Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, a singer in his Episcopal church choir. With a list of dramatis personae.

563. KYTLE, Elizabeth . Willie Mae. New York: Knopf, 1958. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (slight browning of spine and edges). Fine. First edition. $25.00 “This is the true story of Willie Mae – the first genuine account of a Negro servant’s life we know of– from her childhood years in Gruber’s Grove, Georgia, to the recent days in Atlanta. It provides a portrait of a woman who keeps her head up, her feet on the ground, and laughter in the air” - from the jacket. The author had at one time been the employer of Willie Mae Workman and consulted with her on the final version of the book. 564. [LA FLESCHE, Susette]. WILSON, Dorothy Clarke. Bright Eyes. The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1974). Octavo, boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed at edges). Edges of covers a little browned, inscription in ink on front pastedown, else fine. First $25.00 edition. Susette La Flesche Tibbles (1854-1903) became an effective spokeswoman for Indian rights. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 151]. 565. LA ROE, Else K. Woman Surgeon. The Autobiography of …. New York: Dial

Press, 1957. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (slightly chipped and rubbed). Front endpapers with offset marks probably from a newspaper clipping, else $45.00 fine. First edition.

Dr. LaRoe was born in Germany prior to World War I and grew up to become an early woman pioneer in the field of plastic surgery. In peacetime, at least, women constitute the majority of patients in this field, but at any time have been few of the practitioners. One of the founders of the anti-Nazi German women’s Pacifist Party, she managed to avoid the consequences. A long career as a plastic surgeon in New York followed. An interesting work which even describes in detail some surgical procedures and actual operations. 566. LAMAR, Mrs. Joseph Rucker. A History of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America from 1891 to 1933. (Atlanta: Walter W. Brown, 1934). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. $35.00 - 172 -

Organized six months before the society called the “Daughters of the American Revolution,” this group limits its activities to the Colonial Period which ended in 1776. “Subsequent services, rendered during the Revolution, were held to add distinction to the ancestry, though not, of themselves, constituting a claim to membership. This plan was adopted to clarify the situation and to prevent, as far as possible, the duplication of historical investigations and commemorative efforts, by several different societies.” (from the text). With a chronology, two appendices and an index.

WRITTEN BY ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS

567. [LANDERS, Ann]. HOWARD, Margo. Eppie. The Story of Ann Landers. New

York: Putnam’s, (1982). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. First edition.

Biography of the most widely syndicated newspaper columnist in the world, now recently deceased, written by one of her daughters. [Sweeney 712].

568. LANDES, Ruth. The Ojibwa Woman. New York: Columbia University Press, $100.00 1938. Tall octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. With the signature of Dr. Alice S. Tirrell on the front free endpaper. The thirty-first volume in the Columbia University scholarly series “Contributions to Anthropology.” Landes’ treatise is the result of seven months of field work and covers youth, marriage, occupations, abnormalities and life histories. 569. [LANGE, Dorothea]. MAC LEISH, Archibald. Land of the Free. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1938). Profusely illustrated in black and white. Octavo, cloth. Fine.

$75.00 The majority of the photographs were taken by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration and vividly picture the vintage where the grapes of wrath wrought by the great depression of the 1930’s were stored. [NAWM]. 570. LANGE, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman.

With a commentary by Beaumont Newhall. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum and Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, (1967). Illustrated with photographs. Quarto, pictorial $25.00 wrappers. Fine. First edition, the soft cover issue.

In Lange’s words “These photographs were made over a time period of twenty-five years – between the mid-thirties and the mid-fifties, with a single exception. They were made in widely separated sections of the United States. Accompanying most of these portraits is a second photograph which describes the home or environment in which the woman lived”. [NAWM].

571. [LANGE, Dorothea]. MELTZER, Milton. Dorothea Lange. A Photographer’s Life. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1978). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). Fine. First edition. $30.00

Upon being abandoned by and divorcing her husband Dorothea’s mother resumed her maiden name, which the children also took. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895 Lange developed her skill working for Arnold Genthe and the theatrical photographer Charles Davis in New York City. In San Francisco she met and married the artist Maynard Dixon, had two sons with him, and basically supported the family by taking photographic portraits of the well-to-do. - 173 -

Depression days led Lange to focus instead on the dispossessed and it is these pictures on which her fame rests. The haunting 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother”, probably her most famous, is reproduced on the dust jacket. With notes, sources, bibliography and an index. [NAWM. Sweeney 715]. 572. [LANGE, Dorothea]. MITCHELL, Margaretta K. To A Cabin. New York: Grossman, 1973. Profusely illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange. Oblong quarto, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed by Mitchell on the front free end$100.00 paper. [NAWM]. 573. [LANGTRY, Lillie]. CASE, Suzanne D. Join Me in Paradise. The History of

Guenoc Valley. Middletown, California: Guenoc Winery, 1982. Illustrated with photographs, maps and reproductions of newspaper and magazine articles. Quarto, printed wrappers. Lower edge very slightly rubbed, else fine. First edition. Signed by the author. $100.00 The title is taken from a telegram Langtry had sent to her lawyer in appreciation of his part in obtaining her Lake County, California property. The full text of the May 29, 1888 wire reads: “General Barnes 426 California St. San Francisco. Am delighted. Words dont express my complete satisfaction. Join me in Paradise. Lille Langtry”. Years ago it was our pleasure to find and place this item with the proper person, Mr. Orville Magoon, long time owner of the property and Langtry enthusiast (Lillie’s picture graces the bottle labels of his premium Guenoc wines) With: GOSS, Helen Rocca. Lillie Langtry and Her California Ranch. Reprinted from the Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, June, 1955. Octavo, paper wrappers. Fine. With: “Lillie of the Valley” newspaper article about Ms. Langtry from the San Francisco Examiner Magazine May 22, 1994 and two brochures from Guenoc Winery.

cloth spine. Fine. First edition, with a frontispiece photograph of the author tipped in.

$60.00 With a lengthy news clipping about the author from the New York Post’s “At Home with ...” series dated Saturday August 12, 1967 laid in. The French-born ballerina’s career ended just after her twenty-sixth birthday when she was crippled by polio. She turned to writing of which this is one charming result. In addition to the cat, her home in a spacious New York apartment included her husband, noted choreographer George Balanchine. 577. LE CONTE, Carrie. Yo Semite 1878. Adventures of N & C. Journal and Drawings by .... Introduction by Susanna B. Dakin. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. Eight reproductions in color of the sketches, and facsimiles of eleven pages of the journal. Quarto, linen spine with printed paper label, boards pictorially stamped in green, brown, and rust, with prospectus laid in, dust jacket (spine sunned). $100.00 Fine. One of 450 copies printed by Mallette Dean. With prospectus.

N and C are Nora Dibble and the fourteen-year-old author of this journal which recounts Caroline’s lively observations of a camping party guided by her father, the distinguished geologist Joseph LeConte. As an adult Carrie attended the University of California, became a close friend of the artist William Keith, converted to Catholicism, lived for a time in an ancient Franciscan monastery and ended her days in a Shattuck Avenue apartment, not far from where they had started eighty-two years before. The publication marks the centennial of President Lincoln having signed the act that turned Yosemite Valley over to the state of California. [BCC 117]. 578. LEAF, Munro. Listen Little Girl, Before You Come To New York. New York:

Stokes, 1938. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Endpapers browned, else fine. First edition. $40.00

574. LANKER, Brian. I Dream A World. Portraits of Black Women Who Changed

A book of warnings about the pitfalls of the Big Apple in the 30’s. A fun and uncommon book by the children’s author of Ferdinand the Bull, Manners Can Be Fun, etc.

Stunning full page photographs and interviews by Lanker, edited by Barbara Summers and with a foreword by Maya Angelou. An insightful medley of doers and shakers, handsomely produced.

579. [LEE, Gypsy Rose]. PREMINGER, Erik Lee. Gypsy & Me. At Home and On

America. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1989). Illustrated. Quarto, cloth, picto$35.00 rial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

575. [LAURIE, Annie]. Souvenir of ... Santa Barbara Flower Festival. Santa Barbara: N.H. Reed, 1895. Illustrated with photo-gravures. Oblong 12mo, original printed green wrappers. Wrappers a little faded and front wrapper with slight staining, tear (no loss of paper) at bottom of spine, new silk ribbon ties, internally fine. First edi$375.00 tion. Rare. A book of thirty-two photogravures photographed and published by N.H. Reed of the Santa Barbara Flora Festival. This festival was begun some years before the more famous Rose Parade, and may have been the precursor to the present day Fiesta Parade. The introduction and description is written by the colorful reporter “Annie Laurie” (Winifred Sweet Black, later Bonfils) who was a reporter working for the Hearst publishing empire. [Not in Rocq. NAW]. 576. LE CLERCQ, Tanaquil. Mourka. The Autobiography of a Cat. New York:

Stein and Day, (1964). Illustrated with photographs by Martha Swope. Quarto, boards, - 174 -

LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU

the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee. Boston: Little, Brown, (1984). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, spine a little faded). Spine cocked, upper edge of front cover bumped, else excellent. First edition.

$20.00 Gypsy Rose Lee and her sister, (who became the actress June Havoc), toured the U.S. in vaudeville acts at an early age. At fifteen, Lee first appeared as a stripper, then became a star of Minsky’s as well as the Ziegfield Follies. She also “wrote” (her friend Craig Rice ghosted) The G–String Murders and similar works. The musical Gypsy: A Memoir, was a big hit, first on Broadway and then as a film. Later, Lee hosted a popular television talk show. Written by her son whose father, as he came to discover, was the film director Otto Preminger. With an index. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 728]. 580. LENZ, Elinor and MUEROFF, Barbara. The Feminization of America. How

Women’s Values Are Changing Our Public and Private Lives. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. $20.00 Tarcher, (1985). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. - 175 -

The title sums up the content. With a list of references, a bibliography and an index.

EARLY AMERICAN SIGNED BINDING

581. [LESLIE, Eliza]. The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1842.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, (1841). Illustrated with eight engravings after famous painters of the time. Octavo, full red morocco elaborately gilt stamped in floral decorative patterns on covers and spine, all edges gilt, by S. Moore, Philadelphia. Spine just a tad browned (gilt bright), corners and spine ends very slightly rubbed, some foxing of tissue guards and plates, else fine. First edition, first printing with “1842” in the title. $450.00 Signed “S. Moore, Binder Phila.” on bottom of front cover. A most attractively bound gift book featured in the Michael Papantonio and the Grolier Club American bookbinding catalogues. Anonymously edited by Eliza Leslie (1787-1858), an early American woman writer who enjoyed a varied literary career. This annual presentation of The Gift contains two poems by Lydia Sigourney as well as contributions by Park Benjamin, William Gilmore Sims and Edgar Allan Poe (Eleonora. A Fable, pages 154-162). [BAL 1002, 16135, 17756 and 18073. DAB. NAW].

582. LESLIE, Frank. Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Magazine. April and May, 1863. Volume

XII, numbers 4 and 5. New York: Frank Leslie, 1863. Quarto, original pictorial printed paper wrappers. Wanting the rear of wrapper of #4 and the “beautifully illuminated $50.00 cover” of #5. Untrimmed edges (as issued), spines chipped and worn.

The name of the magazine had just been changed that February from Frank Leslie’s Monthly. About this time the editorship was taken over by the colorful Miriam Squier, wife of the archeologist and author E. G. Squier and later to become the wife of Frank Leslie himself. The magazine prospered under her tutelage and upon the publisher’s death she successfully managed Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly as it grew to become the leading magazine in the country. [DAB. NAW].

583. LESLIE, Frank. Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition of 1876. (New York): Paddington Press, (1974). Profusely illustrated. Folio, pictorial paper wrappers $35.00 printed in full color. Fine. Facsimile edition. A fascinating time machine look at the way it was. [DAB. NAW].

584. [LESLIE, Miriam F. (Mrs. Frank)]. STERN, Madeleine. Purple Passage.

The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1953). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, printed dust jacket (minor edgewear to dust jacket). Fine. First $35.00 edition. The inspiration for this book came while the author was researching nineteenth century publishing and realized that no biography of this important figure existed. “Its best features are an extensive secondary bibliography and checklists of the Leslie publications and Mrs. Leslie’s own writings” (Sweeney). With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 734].

585. LESLIE, Mrs. Frank. A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, (April, May, June, 1877). New York: G.W. Carlton, 1877. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Modest cover wear, - 176 -

interesting ink presentation inscription on front blank, bookshop stamp [Dublin, Ireland] on rear pastedown, one signature starting, otherwise in very good condition. First edition. $225.00

Mrs. Leslie’s own account of the famous 1877 transcontinental railroad excursion by private car which included her publisher-husband, Frank Leslie, a few friends and a pet terrier. With: LESLIE, Mrs. Frank. California, A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate April, May, June, 1877. Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1972. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth. Fine. Facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Madeline Stern and a portrait of Mrs. Frank Leslie added. [Hanna & Reese, From Train to Plane: Travellers of the American West 1866-1936, 23. DAB. NAW]. 586. LEVINE, Louis. The Women’s Garment Workers. A History of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924. Illustrated with a frontispiece map and photographs. Octavo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Three small ink date stamps on rear pastedown, else fine. First edition.

$45.00 Reflected against an historical survey of the industry’s production organization, this scholarly treatise records the workers’ struggle to improve conditions through unionization. It is curious to note that of the full page photographs of the General Executive Board of the I.L.G.W.U. only the last, 1924-26, has a female member. With appendices, bilbiography, references, topical index and index of names.

587. LEVY, Joann. They Saw the Elephant. Women in the California Gold Rush. (Hamden, Connecticut): Archon Books, 1990. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. As new. First edition. This copy signed by the author. $20.00

An interesting book which details important roles women played in the gold rush. The “elephant” in the title is explained in the introduction: “To forty-niners and those following, no expression characterized the California gold rush more than the words ‘seeing the elephant…’ The expression predated the gold rush, arising from a tale current when circus parades first featured elephants. A farmer, so the story went, hearing that a circus was in town, loaded his wagon with vegetables for the market there. He had never seen an elephant and very much wished to do so. On the way to town he encountered the circus parade, led by an elephant. The farmer was thrilled. His horses, however, were terrified. Bolting, they overturned the wagon and ruined the vegetables. ‘I don’t give a hang,’ the farmer said, ‘for I have seen the elephant.’” With a bibliography and an index.

588. LEWIS, Grace Hegger. With Love from Gracie. Sinclair Lewis: 1912-1925. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1955). Illustrated. Octavo, patterned boards, cloth spine, $35.00 pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly worn). Fine. First edition.

Grace Lewis’ reminiscences of her years as the wife of the novelist Sinclair Lewis, illustrated with twenty-seven photographs. Prior to her marriage she had been on the staff of Women’s Home Companion and Vogue; afterwards a frequent contributor to well-known magazines.

589. LIKINS, Mrs. J.W. Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California Including My Trip from New York to San Francisco Via Nicaragua. San Francisco: - 177 -

Book Club of California, 1992. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth with printed paper spine label. $40.00 Fine. One of 400 copies, with the prospectus laid in.

Designed after the edition originally published by the Women’s Union Job and Printing Office in 1874. Shortly after arriving in San Francisco, economics forced Likens to become a book agent. In those days many books were sold by subscription, the salesperson canvassing an area from door to door and working on a commission basis. [BCC 198]. 590. LILIUOKALANI, Queen. Hawaii’s Story. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard,

(1898). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original blue cloth a signed binding elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, . A bright, fine copy. First edition. $375.00

By the songwriting (“Aloha Oe”) last monarch of Hawaii. She was overthrown after attempting to abrogate the constitution which had been forced upon her predecessor. With seven appendices including genealogies of the royal families. Basically an autobiography, it is an excellent primary source for understanding the status quo side of the Hawaiian revolution which deposed the remarkable author from her throne. [NAW].

RARE INSCRIBED COPY

591. LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A. Boston School Kitchen Text-Book. Lessons in Cooking for the Use of Classes in Public and Industrial Schools. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. 12mo, original pictorial tan boards stamped and lettered in brown, brown cloth spine. Edges of boards barely rubbed; in remarkably nice condition. First edition. Inscribed by $1,000.00 the author. In 1879 Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was hired by the newly organized Boston Cooking School as a provisional trainee. This training consisted of a two weeks crash course taught by the school’s entire staff: Joanna Sweeney and Maria Parloa. An adept pupil, she soon became the fledgling institution’s invaluable spokeswoman. This Boston School Kitchen TextBook followed her Boston Cook Book and did for places of public instruction what the other had done for cooking schools. [Bitting listing only a reprint edition. Brown 1531. Cagle & Stafford 479. DAB. NAW].

592. LINCOLN, Mary J. What to Have for Luncheon. New York: Dodge Publishing,

(1904). With a frontispiece photograph of the author. 12mo, original brown cloth decoratively stamped in green and gilt. A fine copy, with the cover quite bright. First edition. [Bitting p. 288. Brown 2590. Cagle & Stafford 483. DAB. NAW].

$90.00

593. [LINCOLN, Mary Todd]. RHODES, James A. and JACHIUS, Dean. The

Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1959). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Slight foxing to pastedowns and front endpaper, where a lengthy book review $25.00 from the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is laid in. Fine. First edition.

Other than to Lincoln scholars it is perhaps not generally remembered that ten years after his assasination the President’s widow would be committed to an insane asylum by Robert, their eldest and only surviving (of four) son. The authors of this treatise cast a highly speculative if not downright Promethean, shadow on the sorry event. With a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. - 178 -

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594. [LINCOLN, Mary Todd]. NEELEY, Mark E. and MCMURTRY, R. Gerald.

The Insanity File. The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln.. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1986). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a trifle worn). Fine. First $30.00 edition.

A re-examination of the case by a pair of Lincoln scholars aided by newly discovered manuscript materials. Their conclusion includes an even handed historical analysis of the controversy. With an appendix, notes and an index.

SHE CAME. SHE SANG. SHE CONQUERED.

595. [LIND, Jenny]. SCHULTZ, Gladys Denny. Jenny Lind. The Swedish

Nightingale. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1962). Frontispiece portrait. Octavo, boards, $30.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (chipped at rear). Fine. First edition.

An operatic soprano blessed with a lovely voice and a face to match, Lind was brought to the United States in 1850 by the irrepressible impressario Phineas Taylor Barnum. Her American tour was a sensation. She herself became wealthy and her success started a long procession of European artists to America. With an index. Laid in is a contemporary engraved cartede-visite of Lind. 596. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. North to the Orient. New York: Harcourt, Brace,

(1935). Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and with endpaper and chapter heading maps by Charles A. Lindbergh. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (minor edgewear). Darkening to pastedowns, else fine. First edition, first issue in first state $185.00 jacket of the author’s first book. A travel narrative of the Lindbergh’s 1931 flight in their seaplane “Sirius” from Maine to Japan via the Great Circle Route. With an appendix.

597. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. Listen! The Wind. With a foreword and map drawing by Charles A. Lindbergh. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket, protective tissue wrapper (browned, slight edgewear). Fine. First edition.

$100.00 Lindbergh became a noted novelist, poet and aviator. This tale of exploration, like many of her other works, was greeted by phrases such as “the girl can write.” Despite her activities as an aviator, navigator and radio operator, Lindbergh’s 1929 engagement to Charles Lindbergh was proclaimed “an argument…for old–fashioned femininity”. With an appendix.

598. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. Dearly Beloved. A Theme and Variations. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1962). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$35.00 Anne Morrow was born into a wealthy Eastern banking family. Her father became ambassador to Mexico, her mother acting president of Smith College from which Anne graduated in 1928, after specializing in English literature and creative writing. The author preferred to call this novel “reflections in a fictional frame”. 599. [LINDBERGH, Charles and Anne]. MILTON, Joyce. Loss of Eden. A

Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (New York): Harper Collins, - 180 -

(1993). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket $20.00 (spine very slightly faded). Fine. First edition.

The story of the Lindberghs forty-five year marriage, including the famous tragedy of the kidnapping of their first child. With notes and an index.

600. LINDSAY, Howard and CROUSE, Russell. Clarence Day’s Life with Mother.

Made Into a Play. New York: Knopf, 1949. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket $45.00 (chipped at edges). Fine. This first edition is rather scarce.

Illustrated with three photographs from the play, a sequel to Life with Father. Both were successful Broadway productions as this writer, who enjoyed both, can attest.

601. [LIPPINCOTT, Sarah Jane]. GREENWOOD, Grace. Records of Five Years. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 12mo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A $185.00 fine, bright copy. First edition.

Lippincott (1823-1904), journalist and lecturer, championed the anti-slavery and the women’s rights movements. She was called “Grace Greenwood the Patriot” by President Lincoln because of her efforts to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. In Records of Five Years, Greenwood relates her wartime activities (1861-1864) including a visit to a Union camp in Virginia. The collection of essays also includes chapters on other women and on Abraham Lincoln whom she felt, more than any other President, possessed the “love of the people”. . [Davis & Joyce, Personal Writings, 2879. Not in Nevins. [DAB. NAW]].

602. LIVERMORE, Mary A. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative or Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion. With Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and The Sanitary Service of the War. Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1888. Superbly illustrated with portraits and state and Confederate battle-flags, numerous engravings and chromolithographs. Octavo, blind-stamped red cloth, pictorial elaborate stamping in gilt on front cover and spine. Ink signature on front endpapers, else fine. $200.00 First edition. Signed by the author.

Livermore would go on to be a reformer active in the woman suffrage and temperance movements. In 1869 she founded a suffrage paper called The Agitator and also edited the Women’s Journal with which it merged. Moving on to the professional lecture circuit her heavy coast to coast schedule brought new success and the sobriquet “Queen of the Platform”. This anecdotal story of her Civil War days was very popular, experiencing a sale of over 60,000 copies. [“Well-known, valuable reminiscences; especially good for accounts of military hospitals and relief work”. Nevins II, p. 130. [DAB. NAW. Browne p. 118].

603. LOGAN, Mary S. Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife. An Autobiography. New York: Scribner's, 1913. Illustrated. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, top edge gilt. Faint browning to some preliminary and terminal leaves, spine ends slightly rubbed. About $85.00 fine. First edition.

The eventful life (1838-1923) of Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan was nourished by her unusual versatility. Married at seventeen to a future Congressman and Civil War genereal, - 181 -

over the years she shone as his civilian adjutant, amanuensis, nurse, political partner and social coryphaeus. Among her accomplishments are author, editor, organizer and administrator (she even was an interim head of the American Red Cross), Logan is credited with the idea to establish a national Memorial Day. [“Perceptive memoirs by the wife of an Illinois general; revealing of scenes of Washington society” - Nevins II, p. 130. NAW]. 604. LONDON, Charmian Kittredge. Seated Portrait of Charmian Kittredge London. Photograph. A large (13” x 10”) sepia studio portrait printed on an off-white mount, 17” x 14” overall. With the embossed stamp of J.E. Purdy & Co., Boston at bot$400.00 tom left of mount. Hinged to an archival mat, 20” x 16” overall. Fine.

Depicts Charmian seated in a carved Mission style wooden chair, dressed in a long skirt and ruched high necked white blouse. Her hair is done in a top knot and she is looking the camera directly into the eye with a smile about to appear.

605. LONDON, Charmian Kittredge. Our Hawaii. New York: Macmillan, 1917. Illustrated with photographs and a color map. Octavo, blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Ink inscriptions in the month of publication on front endpaper and front paste$185.00 down, else fine. First edition.

Memoirs of London’s life in Hawaii with her husband, author Jack London. She would also write two other works The Log of the Snark, the story of their sailing adventure to the south seas, and The Book of Jack London. [BAL vol. 5, p. 466. Woodbridge 1194].

606. [LONDON, Charmian Kittredge]. STASZ, Clarice. American Dreamers. Charmian and Jack London. New York: St. Martin’s, (1988). Illustrated. Octavo, $20.00 boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. In 1903 Jack London left his wife and two young daughters for Charmian Kittredge, a spirited soul mate five years his senior. Charmian took part in his adventures and contributed to his accomplishments. After Jack’s death at age forty in 1916 Charmian (1871-1955) spent the rest of her lifetime being a zealous keeper of the flame. With notes and an index. [Sweeney 759].

TIME REMEMBERED

607. LONDON, Joan. Jack London and His Times. An Unconventional Biography.

New York: Doubleday, 1939. Frontispiece . Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a little sunned, spine ends and folds chipped at edges). A few wormholes in front hinge, $45.00 else fine. First edition.

Joan was the elder daughter of Jack London with whom she had a disquieting relationship. This writer clearly remembers a midwinter afternoon over thirty years ago spent in London’s modest East Bay living room, entranced by the recollections of a gifted raconteur. A later discovery that she had been a professional on the lecture circuit only pointed up the fact that it had been a privilege to be an audience of one. With an index. [BAL vol. 5, p. 466. Woodbridge 1200].

SHE KNEW WHO SHE WAS

608. [LONGWORTH, Alice]. TEAGUE, Michael. Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Illustrated with photographs. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a little worn). Few tiny stains on top and bottom - 182 -

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edges, else fine. First edition.

$20.00 An American original, Alice lived for almost a century, a span that saw her father and seventeen later presidents occupy the White House in which she had been married. Those ninetysix years never dulled her sharp tongue and trademark wit. “If you haven’t got anything good to say about anyone come and sit by me” is a bon mot that could not have been bettered by Ambrose Bierce or Oscar Wilde. 609. LOOS, Anita. A Girl Like I. New York: Viking, (1966). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear and faint soiling to rear panel). Fine. First edition. $20.00 The autobiography of the novelist, satirist and prolific screenwriter. The book’s jacket breezily states “Anita Loos practically invented the movies.” The diminutive brunette’s best–known work was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

610. LOVECHILD, Goody. Poetic Tales, for Children. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1819. Illustrated. 16mo, paper covered wrappers. Paper almost completely gone $75.00 on wrappers, spine worn, some browning. Rare. By the Authoress of “Stories for Children, by Goody Lovechild” and “Ditties for Children, by a Lady of Boston”. Strictly speaking, this little work does not fit the parameters of this catalogue, in spite of the “Lady of Boston”.This Mrs. Lovechild also seems to have been Lady Fenn, wife of Sir John Fenn who under the names of Mrs. Lovechild and Mrs. Teachwell wrote various works of an educational kind for the young. [Not in Rosenbach Early American Children’s Books]. 611. LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl. Certain Samaritans. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

Illustrated with a colored frontispiece and photographs. Octavo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Slight rubbing of covers, else fine. First edition, $90.00 inscribed by the author.

Although handicapped by a skimpy education and lack of funds, the determined young lady worked her way through the University of Oregon’s recently opened medical school, becoming its second woman graduate and the first to practice medicine (obstetrics). In a long life (ninety-seven years) she also made her mark as an able administrator and active feminist. In this book Lovejoy wrote of her work with the American Women’s Hospitals of which she was director for forty-eight years, and of the efforts of this organization to help the unfortunates of the world. [NAWM]. 612. [LOW, Juliette]. SHULTZ, Gladys Denny and LAWRENCE, Daisy Gordon.

Lady from Savannah. The Life of Juliette Low. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1958). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (small $40.00 chips at top and bottom edges near spine, a little rubbed). Fine. First edition. Co-author Lawrence was Low’s niece and Juliette accorded Daisy the honor of becoming the first Girl Scout by registering her goddaughter’s name as the original member. After Low’s death a World War II Liberty Ship would be named for her and, in 1948, a postage stamp honored the founder of the Girl Scouts. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 766]. 613. [LOWRY, Annie]. SCOTT, Lalla. Karnee. A Paiute Narrative. Reno: - 184 -

University of Nevada Press, 1966. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed). $20.00 Ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Fine. First edition.

While doing research under the Works Projects Administration in 1936 the author met Annie Lowry, daughter of a Paiute mother and a white rancher. Deserted by her father, she rejected that part of her heritage and lived in the Indian colony near Lovelock, Nevada. The details of the tribes customs, rituals, beliefs and attitude contribute to the interest in the book. With notes and a bibliography. 614. LUCHETTI, Cathy and OLWELL, Carol. Women of the West. (St. George,

Utah): Antelope Press, 1982. Illustrated. Oblong quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket . $30.00 Fine. First edition. Letters, diaries and journals document the daily lives and reveal the private thoughts of women of varying racial, religious and economic backgrounds with special emphasis on the experience of minority women. Illustrated with 140 riveting and, in some cases, haunting photographs. An excellently produced photo essay, attractively bound. Highly recommended.

615. [LUHAN, Mabel Dodge]. HAHN, Emily. Mabel. A Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1977. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear to edges). Fine. First edition. $20.00 Luhan’s interesting life encompassed four marriages, her last being to Antonio Luhan, an American Indian. She started a famous salon in New York and a literary and artistic colony in Taos, New Mexico, having Georgia O’Keefe, Mary Austin, Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence among her guests. Biographer Emily Hahn is a versatile author, known for her travel and fiction writing, as well as journalism. With a bibliographical note and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

616. [LUHAN, Mabel Dodge]. RUDNICK, Lois Palken. Mabel Dodge Luhan, New Woman, New Worlds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1984). $20.00 Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A perhaps more scholarly view of the talented and complex legend. With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

617. LURIE, Alison. Love and Friendship. New York: Macmillan, 1962. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faint soiling, edges barely worn). Fine. First edition. $60.00 The author’s first novel, the writing reminiscent of a latter-day Jane Austin.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

618. LURIE, Alison. Foreign Affairs. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984.

Octavo, gilt-decorated red leatherette, in the pretentious Franklin Library style, with all $30.00 edges gilt. Fine. First edition, signed by the author (as were all the copies).

The Radcliffe College graduate’s tale of three American academics adventures in London.

619. [LYMAN, Sarah Joiner]. MARTIN, Margret Greer. Sarah Joiner Lyman of

Hawaii, Her Own Story. Compiled from the Journal and Letters of Sarah Joiner Lyman. (Hilo: Lyman House Memorial Museum, 1970). Illustrated. Octavo, wrappers. Lightly $20.00 dust soiled, edges foxed. First edition. With appendices. - 185 -

Interesting journal kept by a Vermont born (1805) missionary to Hawaii (1831) recording her experiences there until she passed away at Hilo (1885). Compiled by a granddaughter of the octogenarian. With: David Belden Lyman, Sarah Joiner Lyman. N.p, N.d, illustrated. Octavo, wrappers. Slightly faded, back wrapper a little spotted, staples removed, rust stains. 620. [LYON, Mary]. GILCHRIST, Beth Bradford. The Life of Mary Lyon. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1910. Illustrated. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Spine edges slightly rubbed, small stain (almost invisible) on front cover, else fine. First edi$50.00 tion. The educator Mary Lyon (1797-1849) was the founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, today Mount Holyoke College. With an appendix, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 782].

621. [MACDONALD, Betty]. Who, Me? The Autobiography of Betty MacDonald. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1959). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edgewear with $125.00 rear cover panel soiled). About fine. First edition.

This surprisingly scarce posthumous work is an abridged compilation of her other humorous writings, the best remembered of which were The Egg and I and Onions in the Stew. [DAB. Paher 119].

622. [MACKAY, Mrs. John]. BERLIN, Ellin. Silver Platter. A Portrait of Mrs. John

Mackay. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. $45.00 Fine. First edition. The author is the granddaughter of Louise Mackay, a New York City native who, after young widowhood brought some lean times in the west, married the Irish immigrant and miner John MacKay. Six years later the mining firm in which he had a 40% interest struck the Comstock Lode’s “Big Bonanza” and MacKay became a multi-millionaire almost overnight. One of the dedicatees is the famous songwriter Irving Berlin, husband of the author. [Sweeney 799].

623. [MADISON, Dolly]. [CUTTS, Lucia B. Editor]. Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison. Wife of James Madison, President of the United States. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1886. 12mo, original brown cloth, top edge gilt. Name in ink on title page, $100.00 endpapers a little foxed, else fine. First edition. The editor was Dolly’s grandniece. [NAW].

624. [MADISON, Dolly]. DEAN, Elizabeth Lippincott. Dolly Madison, The Nation’s Hostess. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, (1928). Illustrated from photographs and with frontispiece portrait of Dolly. Octavo, original gilt-lettered pictorial $20.00 blue cloth. Fine. First edition.

Besides being first lady (she was the original recipient of the term) from 1809-1817, Dolly (or Dolley) had served as White House hostess from 1801-1809 while her husband was Secretary of State under the widower President Jefferson. With an extensive index. [DAB. NAW].

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625. [MADISON, Dolly]. GERSON, Noel B. The Velvet Glove. A Life of Dolly Madison. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, (1975). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. - 187 -

First edition.

$20.00 From a Quaker background of increasingly modest circumstances Madison married, was widowed, remarried, became a heroine during the sacking of Washington in the war of 1812, lived to the age of eighty-one and remains to this day the greatest contributor to the social life of the United States. With a bibliography and index. [DAB. NAW]. 626. MAITLAND, Mary Cartwright. In Memory of Our Daughter Mary, Who Died

in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, June 4th, 1869. Aged 24 Years and 4 Days. [San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, n.d]. Frontispiece oval portrait photograph. Octavo, green wrappers stamped in gray. A little rubbed at spine and lower left corner of front wrapper, $185.00 light foxing on inside of wrappers.

The slim booklet contains a copy of a letter from Mary’s mother to her son, a memorial eulogy, a notice from the Hawaiian Gazette and a poem “To One At Rest”. An exceedingly scarce piece of Hawaiiana.

627. MARBLE, Alice and LEATHERMAN, Dale. Courting Danger. New York: St.

Martin’s, (1991). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Alice Marble was the best American women’s tennis player from 1936 through 1940. Her greatest moment came in 1939 when at Wimbledon she won the women’s singles, doubles and, with Bobby Riggs who had accomplished the male counterpart of the “triple crown of tennis”, the mixed doubles. It had not happened before or, for that matter, since. With an index. 628. MARSHALL, Elizabeth. “Collecting Theodore Dreiser” in Firsts magazine.

Volume seven, number four: April, 1997. Pp. 42-50. Illustrated. Quarto, pictorial wrappers. Fine. Two items. $20.00

Based on Marshall’s own substantial Dreiser collection, this well written article can be pursued with profit by either lay reader or advanced collector. Under her married name of Felicetti she also contributed a piece about “coming of age” fiction to the same periodical. Elizabeth has also been a published poet, professional proofreader, book editor, valued rare book store associate, tennis opponent and –most important to this writer– dear friend. 629. MARSHALL, Katherine Tupper. Together. Annals of an Army Wife. New

York: Tupper and Love, 1946. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight wear). Ink inscription on front endpaper, else fine. First edition. $30.00

A native of Kentucky and graduate of Virginia’s Hollins College, as a widow in 1930 she married a Lieutenant Colonel named George C. Marshall. The book focuses on the subsequent fifteen years during which her husband became General of the Army. With two appendices. 630. MARTIN, Mary. My Heart Belongs. New York: Morrow, 1976. Illustrated with

photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (faint wear). Fine. First $20.00 edition.

The bundle of energy from Weatherford, Texas who created more than a passable imitation of Peter Pan and an inimitable one of nurse Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, singing opposite that matinée idol of the menopause age, Ezio Pinza. With an index. - 188 -

631. [MARTINEAU, Harriet]. BURCHELL, R.A. Harriet Martineau and America.

Selected Letters from the Reinhard S. Speck Collection. Berkeley: Friends of Bancroft Library, 1995. Frontispiece portrait of Martineau. Octavo, paper wrappers. Fine. First $20.00 edition.

Stan Speck left his remarkable collection of Harriet Martineau to the University of California’s Bancroft Library. The foreword states that Dr. Speck collected with passion, diligence and remarkable sensibility. Knowing him as a customer, this writer would add the word humor; his visits were always a pleasure. If memory serves, the frontispiece to this exhibition catalogue was purchased from us. Oh, Harriet Martineau? She spent two years travelling the United States, the result of which was her three volume Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838). Many American readers took exception to her observations, especially in the south with regard to her views on slavery. 632. [MARTINEZ, Maria]. PETERSON, Susan. The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez. Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1977). Profusely illustrated. Folio, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very minor spotting to front cover, else fine. First trade edition.

$100.00 An exhaustive study of the New Mexican craftswoman who became one of the great figures in the pottery world of the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated, mostly in color. The author is described as one of the foremost figures in ceramic art education in the United States. The appendix contains notes, comments on the plates, a genealogy, extensive bibliography and an index-glossary. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 828]. (See illustration p. 190).

633. MARTINSEN, Ella Lung. Trail to North Star Gold a Sequel to “Black Sand and Gold”. True Story of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush. Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, 1969. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket $20.00 (lightly rubbed). Fine. First edition. A curious compilation: factual recollections buttressed with historical photographs but diminished by adjective-laden recalled dialogue. Still, a useful addition to a geographically underrepresented section of this catalogue. As the title states, this book is a sequel to the writer’s Black Sand and Gold. With an index. 634. MARZOLF, Marion. Up From the Footnote. A History of Women Journalists.

New York: Hastings House, (1977). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$25.00 From colonial printer to television anchorwoman, from Godey’s Ladies Book to Ms., this well researched history also traces the news media’s treatment of women. With an index.

“UNLESS YOU REALLY LOVE TO MOTOR, TAKE THE OVERLAND LIMITED”

635. MASSEY, Beatrice Larned. It Might Have Been Worse. A Motor Trip from

Coast to Coast. San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1920. Octavo, brown cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black. Edges very slightly rubbed, bookplate, else fine. First edi$90.00 tion. With a map of the trip on the endpapers. Driving a new Packard (“ask the man who owns one”) twin-six touring car, Massey, husband and two companions departed New York City and negotiated 4,154 miles consuming 338 gallons of gasoline (21¢-40¢ per!) and sixty-one - 189 -

quarts of oil during the thirty-three running days. For those of a statistical turn of mind, this translates to a gas-guzzling 12.3 m.p.h. and an oil burning quart every 68.1 miles. “The description of the Montana and Yellowstone country is the first so recorded on a transcontinental automobile trip”. -. [Bliss, Autos Across America 34. Hanna & Reese, 85].

A MAJOR EXAMPLE OF AN EARLY WESTERN BOOK BY A WOMAN

636. MATHEWS, Mary M. Ten Years in Nevada, or, Life on the Pacific Coast.

Buffalo: Baker, Jones & Co, 1880. Illustrated. Octavo, original gilt stamped green $500.00 cloth, marbled edges. Fine.

Mathews left home with her son for “the land of gold” in 1869. They rode the new transcontinental railroad through Chicago and Omaha to Reno where they took a stage coach to Virginia City. “Her narrative includes chapters about Indians and the mines, especially Virginia City and Comstock. The author’s ten years in Nevada were filled with hardship, though there were happy moments and many unusual experiences ... a hardnosed, prejudiced ascerbic account written in a narrow, authoritative style” –Paher. [Not in Graff or Cowan. Paher, 1249. Howes M417]. 637. MAXWELL, Elsa. R. S. V. P. Elsa Maxwell’s Own Story. Boston: Little, Brown, (1954). Frontispiece portrait of Maxwell by Dali, illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed). Front endpapers a $60.00 little browned. Fine. First edition. From a San Francisco childhood Maxwell grew up to become a famous hostess and arbiter of international society. Oddly, she never had a home of her own, instead lived in hotels and borrowed the houses of others for her parties. Elsa also was a talented songwriter and piano player. Among the former she wrote the music and lyrics to a 1916 woman suffrage musical, Melinda and Her Sisters. With an index. [DAB].

638. MCBETH, Kate C. The Nez Perces Since Lewis and Clark. New York: Fleming

H. Revell Company, (1908). Illustrated. Octavo, original green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine, pictorial dust jacket (a little browned, a few small chips) very scarce thus. Top edge very lightly faded and with small bump, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper. About a dozen pages with borders embellished with crayon, not affecting $65.00 text. First edition. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. McBeth was a missionary who spent the last twenty years of her life among the Nez Perces indians. She willed a grammar and a dictionary to the Smithsonian institution. With an appendix. [Smith, Pacific Northwest Americana, 6186]. 639. MCCARTER, Margaret Hill. The Peace of the Solomon Valley. Chicago:

McClurg & Company, 1911. Illustrated with colored frontispiec. Tall 12mo, original brown wrappers pictorially stamped with a sunflower in green and yellow, and and steamer trunk in black, lettered in gilt, yapp edges (somewhat chipped), pictorial endpa$45.00 pers. A near fine copy.

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640. MCCARTHY, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1957). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, paper spine label, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $40.00 One of McCarthy’s better-known works, recalling her early life in which she had been orphaned by the 1918 influenza epidemic. [Goldman, Mary McCarthy. A Bibliography A8a].

641. [MCCARTHY, Mary]. GOLDMAN, Sherli Evens. Mary McCarthy. A

Bibliography. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1968). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Endpapers a trifle browned at edges, else quite fine.

$20.00 This bibliography includes all her books, book and periodical contributions and foreign translations up to 1968. 642. MCCLELLAN, Elisabeth. Historic Dress in America 1800-1870. Philadelphia:

George W. Jacobs, (1910). Illustrated. Quarto, original decoratively blind-stamped blue fabricoid. Fine. First edition. Oddly (to us) the gilt lettered spine has “MacRae Smith $100.00 Co” as the publisher.

This scholarly work is a companion volume to a previous work in which the author considered the period from 1607 to 1800. Profusely illustrated in pen and ink, together with half tone reproductions from photographs of rare portraits, original garments, etc.. With a glossary and an index. 643. MCCOLLESTER, S.H. Memorial of Elizabeth Elnora Randall McCollester. Marlboro, New Hampshire: (Rumford Press), 1913. Illustrated with many photographs. Octavo, original two-tone blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges gilt. About fine. $30.00 First edition. With the author’s complimentary slip laid in. An elaborately produced if rather flowery tribute to his late wife, who was a great, great aunt of this writer. Elizabeth attended the Hoyoke Female Seminary whose President, Mary Lyon, became her ideal woman and inspired her to become an educator herself.

644. MCCULLERS, Carson. Clock Without Hands. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1961. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition, first printing. $50.00

647. MCCULLOUGH, Eliza Hall Park. Within One’s Memory. Recollections of My Family & My Early Days. North Bennington, Vermont: Park-McCullough House, (1987). Illustrated with contemporary photographs. Octavo, original printed decorative wrappers, in a cloth and marbled paper box, as issued. Fine. First edition thus. $20.00 In 1923 the grandchildren of Eliza had hand-printed fifty copies of the original diary and manuscript and when these copies were exhausted their grandchildren printed another fifty copies. The hand drawn original title page is reproduced in this volume. As a young girl the author had crossed the Isthmus of Panama, lived in gold rush San Francisco and even visited Yosemite.

648. MCDONALD, Mrs. Cornelia. A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley 1860-1865. Nashville: Hunter McDonald, 1934. Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth. Bookplate on front endpaper, some pages a little wrin$300.00 kled at upper edges, else fine. The rare first edition. Kept by the author at the request of her husband, a member of Stonewall Jackson’s Brigade and, like Jackson, to become a casualty of the conflict. With folding maps, a sketch of the author, preface, two indices and appendices. [“A portrayal of wartime life in central and western Virginia” – Nevins II, p. 196].

649. MCKELVEY, Susan Delano. Botanical Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1955. Illustrated with folding maps and two in pocket at rear. Thick quarto, $250.00 cloth. Fine. index.

An enormous (1,144 pages) scholarly treatise on the itself immense subject. With an

650. [MCKINNON, Edna Rankin]. DYKEMAN, Wilma. Too Many People, Too

Little Love. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1974). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (small spot and minimal rubbing of spine). Fine. First edition. Signed by the $20.00 author.

A novel by one of America’s finest writers, it “embodies black/white, young/old polarities around a premature death from leukemia”. The innovatively styled dust jacket is in excellent condition. [Shapiro, et al. McCullers, A Descriptive Listing A7.1.a. DAB. NAWM].

“The brave and adventurous study of a woman totally involved in two momentous issues of our times –women’s changing status and the population crisis” (dust jacket blurb). From a pioneer Montana family, McKinnon was the first woman to be admitted to the bar in Montana. Her sister, pacifist Jeanette Rankin, was the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress.

645. MCCULLERS, Carson. The Play. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Boston:

651. MCMANUS, Blanche. The American Woman Abroad. New York: Dodd, Mead,

Houghton, Mifflin, 1963. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (edgewear, minor soiling to back cover). Spine cocked, bookplate. Very good. First edition as a play. $65.00 McCuller’s novella, adapted for the stage by the award-winning playwright Edward Albee. [Shapiro, D7. DAB. NAWM].

646. [MCCULLERS, Carson]. SHAPIRO, Adrian M., BRYER, Jackson R. and

FIELD, Kathleen. Carson McCullers. A Descriptive Listing and Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. Octavo, cloth. Fine. $20.00 First edition. - 192 -

1911. Profusely illustrated by the author. Octavo, original elaborately decorated tan boards, pictorially stamped in gilt, white, black and orange, brick cloth spine. White $125.00 spine lettering a little flaked, else fine. First edition.

This book is a real treasure. The cover is absolutely first class, while the information and advice contained within reads as a social barometer to ensure ongoing smooth sailing after the Atlantic crossing.

652. MCMILLAN, Terry. Waiting to Exhale. (New York): Viking, (1992). Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. - 193 -

There is a photograph of the author on the back of the jacket and a quote from film director Spike Lee: “... Terry Macmillan has crafted a well-written, truthful and funny story of four African-American women ... and the sometimes volatile world of Black female – Black male relationships”.

THE LADY VANISHES

653. [MCPHERSON, Aimee Semple]. THOMAS, Lately. The Vanishing

Evangelist. The Aimee Semple McPherson Kidnapping Affair. New York: Viking, 1959. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some sunning of spine and soiling). Fine. $25.00 First edition. Concealed in American history with the mysterious disappearances of Judge Crater and D.B. Cooper, this is a full account of the bizarre occurrence. During the afternoon of May 18th, 1926 the most famous evangelist in America vanished while swimming at a Los Angeles County beach. Presumed drowned, she surfaced five weeks later in a Mexican border town with a tale of kidnapping, imprisonment and escape. Some believed the story. Some didn’t. With a chronology. [DAB. NAW]. 654. [MCPHERSON, Aimee Semple]. EPSTEIN, Daniel Mark. Sister Aimee. The

Life of Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, (1993). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

After an unsettled early period the Canadian-born charismatic founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel found her life’s calling at the pulpit. She preached in tents and concert halls and unlikely venues in between as she traveled up and down the United States. The 5,000 seat Angelus Temple, built with donations received on tour, would become the beacon of 400 branch churches. Its own radio station was just the third in Los Angeles and a weekly newspaper appeared. In 1944 her sudden death at fifty-three brought 60,000 mourners past her bier. The authoritative and conservative Dictionary of American Biography termed her “a woman of genuine leadership and managerial ability, boundless energy, and a fundamental sincerity of purpose. Hers was a gospel of love, fulfillment and triumph during the theological transformation taking place in America at that time”. With appendices, including a bibliography and a chronology. [DAB. NAW]. 655. [MCREA, Jane]. WILSON, D[avid]. The Life of Jane McCrea, with An

Account of Burgoyne’s Expedition in 1777. New York: Baker, Godwin, 1853. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Light cover wear, bookplate, endpaper browning, occasional foxing. Very good. First edition.

$150.00 Jane McCrea was the twenty-six year old daughter of a Presbyterian minister and fiancée of David Jones, a Loyalist officer serving under the British General Burgoyne. She was murdered by a Huron indian named Le Loup (“the Wolf”) during the Revolutionary War and the tragedy of her death became a cause celèbre. With an appendix. [Field, An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography 1653. NAW].

A STUDENT OF MANKIND

656. MEAD, Margaret. Growing Up in New Guinea. A Comparative Study of

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decorated green cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight edgewear). Bookplate, else about fine. First edition of the second book by this eminent and controversial anthropologist. $200.00 A follow-up to her Coming of Age in Samoa, this work inspects a microcosm of human society and applies it to the realities of educational and emotional problems in the America of seventy years ago. Mead’s papers are at the Library of Congress which commemorated her centennial in 2001 with an exhibition. With eleven appendices. [DAB. See Browne p. 119]. 657. [MEAD, Margaret]. HOWARD, Jane. Margaret Mead. A Life. New York:

Simon & Schuster, (1984). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge very slightly spotted, else fine. First edition.

Her work in cultural anthropology called the world’s attention to the profession, although not without controversy. A teacher at Columbia University and a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, her half century of field trips to the south seas resulted in thirty-four books and ten films. Twenty-eight honorary degrees attested to Mead’s renown as the world’s leading anthropologist. With notes, selected bibliography and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 833].

658. MEGQUIER, Mary Jane. Apron Full of Gold. The Letters of ... from San Franciso, 1849-1856. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial label, pictorial dust jacket (chipped and worn). Front pastedown cracket at hinge, endpapers foxed, else near fine. First edi$20.00 tion. Apparently Mrs. Megquier was the first woman from the United States to cross the Isthmus of Panama. If, on the one hand, the letters deal with the undramatic aspects of ordinary life in that decidedly unordinary time and place, they do it from a uniquely feminine point of view. The picture is centered in urban (though far from urbane) San Francisco as opposed to rough and ready gold rush digs, such as those described by Dame Shirley.

659. MEIR, Golda. My Life by Golda Meir. New York: Putnam’s, (1975). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a trifle faded, edges slightly rubbed). Fine. First American edition. $20.00

The author was born in the Ukraine in 1898 and three years later emigrated to Milwaukee with her family. Headstrong, she left home at fifteen, became interested in the Zionist movement and ended up as its leader and, at seventy-one, the Prime Minister of Israel. With an index.

660. [MEIR, Golda]. MARTIN, Ralph G.. Golda. Golda Meir: The Romantic Years. New York: Scribner's, (1988). Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. An examination of the inside of Meir’s life and how it was affected by the outside. With notes, bibliography and index. 661. [MERMAN, Ethel]. MARTIN, Pete. Who Could Ask For Anything More?.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. Illustrated endpapers. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jack$25.00 et. Fine. First edition. - 196 -

Clarion voiced Ethel Agnes Zimmerman’s anecdotal recounting of her musical comedy career on Broadway and in Hollywood, up the years from being a stenographer in Astoria on Long Island. The endpaper photographs are stills from eleven of her hits. 662. MERRIAM, Ruth Levy. A History of The Deanery. Bryn Mawr: Deanery Management Committee, 1965. Illustrated with many photographs. Octavo, printed wrappers. A couple of small stains, very slight silverfish damage. Inscribed by the $30.00 author, class of 1931, to this writer “in remembrance of a lovely day for me”. Ruth Merriam was a Bryn Mawr alumna, an art collector, and a gracious lady.

663. [METALIOUS, Grace]. TOTH, Emily. Inside Peyton Place. The Life of Grace

Metalious. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine ends slightly rubbed). Remainder mark on top edge, else fine. $20.00 First edition.

“The story of a woman out of step with her times; a poignant tale of a strong yet vulnerable individual who dreamed of having everything – and then unfortunately found it”. The dust jacket blurb alludes to the author of Peyton Place, whose first book became the most controversial novel of its time. Toth also wrote the Kate Chopin biography. With a list of sources, bibliography and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 842].

IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE SILENT SCREEN

664. MICHELENA, Beatriz. $1,000.00 A unique archive of items relating to this early star of the silent screen. Included are signed checks, letters concerning her, advertising flyers, picture postcards of the actress and other stars (including one of “Bronco Billy” Anderson), periodical and newspaper articles and a signed copy of The Golden Gate and the Silver Screen by Geoffrey Bell. With a signed, typewritten letter from Bell dated 6 July, 1964, to the editor of the San Rafael Independent Journal requesting information on the California Motion Picture Corporation. In all, eighteen items. Virtually forgotten today is the fact that the San Francisco Bay Area was early on the home to a number of important film makers. One of these studios was the California Motion Picture Corporation which was headquartered in San Rafael. Its first feature, a filming of Bret Harte’s Salomy Jane, enhanced by using the surrounding natural locations, was a big hit nationwide. Beatriz Michelena was the star of the company. She also had some background in theater management and exerted her influence to have “final decision in choice of stories and casts as well as allocation of funds for sets, wardrobe, location junkets and other extra production values to enhance her work”. The next vehicle for Michelena was The Woman Who Dared, based on the famous novel of the day with scenario written by Leslie Peacocke and production - direction by George Middleton. A host of other movies from the fast growing company followed. These films -based on literary classics of California history- were a cut above most others of the day, but the company finally succumbed to distribution problems that their stronger competitors did not face. Michelena returned to the live stage, eventually retiring to Spain. These rare scraps from the silent screen offer a fascinating window through which to look at a woman’s determination to succeed while simultaneously wearing a variety of movie makers hats in a male-dominated field, where the only chapeau normally available was that worn by the actress. Complete inventory available upon request. - 197 -

665. MILLAR, Margaret. Vanish in an Instant. New York: Random House, (1952). Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (rubbed). Fine. First edition. Signed by the author.

$135.00 Psychological mystery stories were the specialty of this Canadian-born author whose husband, Kenneth Millar (i.e., “Ross MacDonald”) also wrote mysteries. The couple lived for many years near Santa Barbara, Calfiornia where they were active conservationists. Vanish in an Instant is an example of her especially skillful ability to create an atmosphere of sustained terror.

RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE POET’S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED

666. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Renascence and Other Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917. Small octavo, original gilt-lettered black cloth, boxed. Spine slightly worn and gilt faded, else a fine copy. First edition, first issue with the watermark “Glaslan AGM France” all in italics; page 1 of text, next to last line “;” was later changed to “:”; page 37, end of 6th line “.” was later deleted; page 70, end of 1st line :,” $2,500.00 was later changed to “.”. The author’s first book. Millay was also the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (The Ballad of the Harp Weaver). [Browne, p. 94. Johnson, High Spots of American Literature p. 57. DAB. NAW].

667. MILLAY, Kathleen. The Evergreen Tree. New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). Small octavo, original black cloth stamped in silver, top and fore-edge trimmed, bottom uncut and untrimmed, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). Fine. First edi$50.00 tion. Scarce. Poems by Kathleen Millay, the less-heralded younger sister of the famous Edna but, according to the flowery jacket blurb, “a lyric poet of importance ... a lyric singer of genius”.

668. MILLER, Lilian May. Grass Blades from a Cinnamon Garden. Tokyo: n.p., 1927. Illustrated with tipped-in color woodblock prints by the author. Octavo, original soft red wrappers bound with silk thread, in cardboard chemise with ivory pins held by silk ties. Chemise a little soiled and rubbed, else fine. First edition. We have never seen $100.00 another copy of this lovely little work. Miller, the daughter of the American consul general to Seoul, Korea, was born and raised in Japan. Later she attended Vassar College. The experience of eastern and western cultures is reflected in the handsome woodblock prints by this forgotten artist and poet.

669. [MILLER, Marilyn]. HARRIS, Warren G. The Other Marilyn. A Biography of

Marilyn Miller. New York: Arbor House, (1985). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The ethereal singing and dancing star of Ziegfield Follies and other Broadway musicals. Her title role in Sally featured what became Miller’s signature song, the harmonically simple arioso with its hymn-like admonition to ”Look for the Silver Lining” (Jerome Kern, lyrics by Buddy DeSilva). That show ran for 570 performances, following which Miller reprised the role in the 1930 film. The second of her three husbands was Jack Pickford, brother of silent screen star Mary. After her death at thirty-seven Miller was impersonated by Judy Garland in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) and June Haver in a 1949 biopic. [Sweeney 853]. See ill p. 204.

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WAY OUT WEST

670. MILLET, Kate. Flying. New York: Knopf, 1974. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket $25.00 (slight wear). Fine. First edition. Revelations of a year in the public and private life of this radical exponent of the women’s movement.

671. [MINING]. “The First Woman in Camp in the Coeur D’Alene Mining District,

Idaho”. New York: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, April 19, 1884. Volume LVIII, No. 1,491. Cover illustration. 10-3/4” x 9”, plus margins and masthead. Slight $40.00 wear along old fold. Cover and verso text only. The front page of the newspaper showing a woman being escorted into the camp by a group of the miners, walking in the snow, one takes her arm, another her bags, etc.. Mrs. Frank Leslie is listed as the publisher. (See illustration p. 200)

672. [MINTER, Mary Miles]. KIRKPATRICK, Sidney D. A Cast of Killers. New

York: Dutton, (1986). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

During the evening of February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent film director William Desmond Taylor was murdered in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Was the killer the famous actress Mabel Normand, admittedly the second-to-last person to see him alive? The film ingenue Mary Miles Minter? Her domineering mother, Charlotte Shelby? His houseman? Both Normand’s and Minter’s careers were destroyed by the scandal. This is the true story of a mystery solved sixty years later by the great film director King Vidor. His stubborn sleuthing includes interviews with journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, retired Los Angeles police officials and Mary Miles Minter herself. Too riveting a tale to reveal more than one hint: the butler didn’t do it. 673. MITCHELL, Ellen M. A Study of Greek Philosophy. Chicago: S.C. Griggs,

1891. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in brown and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Name in ink on front free endpaper, top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed, dime sized abrasion to front endpaper, else fine. First edition . $250.00 A very scarce book on an even scarcer subject for a nineteenth century American woman to write.

674. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Octavo, gray cloth, lettered in blue on spine and front cover. Very tiny nick in cloth at lower spine, edges a little dust soiled, endpapers slightly browned, else a fine copy. First $2,500.00 edition of the celebrated novel. Laid in is an autograph note by the author. Mitchell was a one book author, perhaps wisely so, as anything further from this Pulitzer Prize winning author would almost have had to suffer by comparison. She was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a street in her native Atlanta. [DAB. NAW].

675. [MITCHELL, Martha]. MCLENDON, Winzola. Martha. The Life of Martha Mitchell. New York: Random House, (1979). Illustrated with photographs. Royal octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Very light foxing to top edges. Fine. First edition. $20.00 - 200 -

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Martha Elizabeth Beall was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on Labor Day, 1918 and was the wife of the Attorney-General during the Nixon administration. Not one to seek a cerebral resolution if an emotional one was at hand, she literally was the life of the Party as well as its most outspoken and controversial adherent. [DAB. Sweeney 863].

WHAT A WAY TO GO

676. MITFORD, Jessica. The American Way of Death. New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1963. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$40.00 A best-selling exposé of sorts, a laser-like look aimed at malpractices in the funeral/mortuary business. With appendices, bibliography and an index. 677. MITFORD, Jessica. Kind and Unusual Punishment. The Prison Business. New

York: Knopf, 1973. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Some small spots and stains on $20.00 covers and top edge, else fine. First edition.

Mitford’s examination of the keepers and the kept, including a chapter “Women in Cages”, is a study of the confines of the correctional mind and the effect on its prisoners. With an appendix, notes and an index.

678. MITFORD, Jessica. The American Way of Birth. (New York): Dutton, (1992). $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, decorative dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

One of the half dozen daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale (the eldest was the novelist Nancy Mitford; the youngest the Duchess of Devonshire) Jessica had moved to America in 1939. 679. [MONROE, Harriet]. Poetry. A Magazine of Verse. (Chicago: Poetry.

Magazine), 1925. Volume XXVI, Number IV. Octavo, original printed pictorial green wrappers stamped in black. Fore edge of wrappers with a few small tears (no loss of paper), spine ends a little worn and browned, some pages dogeared at lower corner.

$20.00 Harriet Monroe was the founder and editor of the magazine. This issue contains her memories of the recently deceased poet Amy Lowell. Although a poet herself, the feisty Monroe was far more important as a critic and editor. [DAB. NAW].

MARILYN SIGNED BY NORMAN

680. [MONROE, Marilyn]. MAILER, Norman. Marilyn, a Biography. (New

York): Grosset & Dunlap, (1973). Profusely illustrated with photographs . Quarto, padded white cloth, clamshell slipcase, as issued. Bookplate. Fine. Limited edition (limitation unspecified), signed by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller on behalf of the $275.00 twenty-four leading photographers whose work appears herein. Superbly illustrated with black and white and color photographs of Marilyn, including a photograph of a nude Marilyn drying herself with a towel on the front cover of the slip case. [NAW. Sweeney 872].

681. MONTES, Lola. Lola Montes: or, A Reply to the “Private History and Memoirs” of That Celebrated Lady, Recently Published, by the Marquis Papon, Formerly - 202 -

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Secretary to the King of Bavaria, and for a Period the Professed Friend and Attendant of the Countess of Lansfeldt. New York: Sold by all Booksellers, 1851. Frontispiece portrait of Lola Montes. Octavo, original gray wrappers. Front wrapper detaching from $300.00 spine, else an excellent copy of a fragile rarity. First edition.

Published in the year of Montes’s arrival in New York City, it “purported to be a reply to a private history of Montez, previously written by Auguste Papon. While making a pretext of defending her, the reply nevertheless managed to reveal or substantiate many sordid details of Lola’s background. The little opus is believed to have been written by Canadian-born author John Richardson, who probably knew Lola when she lived in France. If it was indeed his writing, Richardson’s name can be added to the list of unfortunate fellows whose lives had apparently been jinxed by Lola - he would die in abject poverty in New York City at age fifty-six, within months of her arrival there.” - Varley, Lola Montez p. 60. [NAW]. 682. MONTEZ, Lola. The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1858). 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth lettered in gilt. Spine faded, else about fine. First $90.00 edition.

On the eve of the Civil War death found Montez at age forty-two in Brooklyn where she had been living under greatly reduced circumstances. [NAW].

683. MONTEZ, Lola. Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfield) Including Her Autobiography. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. With a frontispiece portrait (foxed). Small octavo, original blind-stamped and gilt-lettered brown cloth. Some fox$60.00 ing, bookplate, else fine. First published the previous year. Born Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert in Limerick, Ireland, her autobiography had actually been ghostwritten by Charles Chauncey Burr after interviews with her. The retired minister was also the author of her lectures, which included “Beautiful Women”, “Heroines of History” and “Comic Aspects of Love”. [NAW]. 684. [MONTEZ, Lola]. VARLEY, James F. Lola Montez. The California

Adventures of Europe’s Notorious Courtesan. Spokane: Arthur Clark, 1996. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

By the time she arrived in 1853 in California, Lola Montez’s interest quotient (a dalliance with King Ludwig of Bavaria, ability as a danseuse and her eccentric temperament) had made her a well known character. Montez lived up to her advance notices, quixotically settling in the booming gold rush town of Grass Valley where she performed her tantalizing “spider” dance for miners while picking up gold nuggets from the stage. [NAW]. 685. [MOORE, Marianne C.]. HALL, Donald. Marianne Moore. The Cage and the Animal. New York: Pegasus, (1970). Frontispiece portrait of the poet. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket ( a little browned at edges, dust soiled). Fine. First edition. With $25.00 publisher’s complimentary slip laid in.

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A graduate of Bryn Mawr, Moore joined the faculty of the United States Indian School at Carlisle prior to her career as a writer of book reviews, essays on art, literature and, of course, poetry for which she won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. Often acclaimed as a poet’s poet, her substantial papers are at the Rosenbach Foundation in - 205 -

Philadelphia. With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM]. 686. [MORGAN, Christiana]. DOUGLAS, Claire. Translate This Darkness. The Life of Christiana Morgan. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

The creative and beautiful Christiana Morgan was the daughter of a prominent Boston family. She met Carl Jung in Zürich in the mid-1920’s. He was intrigued by her “visions”, she by her charismatic therapist. Incidentally Jung, with typical nineteenth century male hubris, divided the female of the species according to the roles that they held for men. To quote, “when you are wife and mother you can hardly be the hetaera too”. He also did not subscribe to the modern day therapist’s rigid dictum against commingling business with pleasure. With exhaustive notes, an extensive bibliography and an index by Dr. Douglas, a clinical and Jungian analyst.

687. MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. New York: Knopf, 1981. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First trade edition. $25.00

It has been said that Tar Baby is Morrison’s first novel to show much relationship between blacks and whites. Whatever went before, one won’t get any argument along those lines vis-à-vis this plot.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

688. MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $85.00 Her first work of fiction since the previous entry. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and the choice of the Pulitzer Prize committee. More recently, Morrison is a 1993 Nobel Prize laureate.

689. MORTON, J. Washington. The Pleasures of Home. Pittsburgh: Ingraham &

M’Candless, Publishers, 1841. 12mo, original black boards, paper label on spine. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, covers lightly dust soiled, leaves foxed throughout . $200.00 First edition. A rare regional imprint.

Does the initial J stand for John or Jane? Our sense is that the author of this Pennsylvania book of poems is a woman, a point on which we stand to be corrected. In the event, the last seventeen pages contains poems “written by the author’s sister, and are inserted here at the request of a number of patrons of the present work”. 690. [MOSES, Grandma (ROBERTSON, Anna Mary)]. KALLIER, Otto.

Grandma Moses. New York: Abrams, (1973). Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio, boards, buckram spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition. $65.00

Although born in 1860, she was an American artist who did not paint her first serious picture until 1918. She had occasionally painted pictures as Christmas presents for friends and relatives while a hard working farm woman, but never considered her talent very special. When her arthritis became too painful to do much farming chores, she devoted more time to painting and in 1938 exhibited her work in a small local show in upstate Hoosick Falls, New York. It was there that she was “discovered”, and soon was known as “modern primitive”. Her first important show took place at the Gallerie Saint Étienne in New York City when “Grandma” was eighty years old. Wide public response followed, with many galleries and museums commissioning her - 206 -

paintings. At its conclusion this massive work pictures and documents in chronological order over 1,600 of Moses’ embroidered pictures, paintings and tiles, followed by an index to the works, selected bibliography, list of exhibitions and list of plates. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 897]. 691. [MOTT, Lucretia]. HARE, Lloyd. The Greatest American Woman, Lucretia

Mott. New York: American Historical Society, 1937. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, small oval pictorial label. Spine somewhat browned, endpapers with some minor foxing. $20.00 About fine. First edition.

A Quaker minister, women’s right advocate and abolitionist, her finest hour came when she delivered the opening and closing addresses at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. “Lucretia Mott was the real founder and the soul of the woman’s rights movement in America and England. She was the outstanding feminine worker in the struggle to rid our country of slavery. She advocated labor unions in a day when they were almost unknown and generally considered illegal. She proscribed war and worked diligently for liberal religion” –from the preface by the President of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 902]. 692. [MOWATT, Anna Cora]. BARNES, Eric Wollencott. The Lady of Fashion. The Life and the the Theatre of Anna Cora Mowatt. New York: Scribner's, (1954). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (some edgewear). Fine. $20.00 First edition.

The well-born Anna Cora Ogden (1819-1870) wrote under the name “Helen Berkeley” for Godey’s Ladies Book, Graham’s and other periodicals. She was also a poet, novelist, compiler of books on cooking, etiquette, etc. and playwright. Her best remembered work is Fashion; or Life in New York, a satire on life in Manhattan 150 years ago. The play’s success led to Mowatt accepting an offer to appear on the stage herself, thus becoming the first American woman of society to make the stage a profession. With a note on sources, other notes and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 904].

693. [MURRAY, Hannah and Mary]. The American Toilet. New York: Imbert’s Lithographic Office, (1827). Contains nineteen illustrations of articles of the toilet, each with a flap concealing the name of a virtue, a headline above and a stanza of explantory verse below. 16mo, original marbled paper wrappers. Spine with small split, small hole $225.00 in terminal free endpaper, flap up illustration at p. 2 defective. Rare.

The first story is The Enchanting Mirror, the mirror being raised from the frame reveals the word “Humility”, the accompanying verse beginning :”This curious Glass will bring your faults to light.” The second story is A Wash to Smooth Wrinkles, contained in a jar, the lid of which conceals the word “Contentment” with the lines below it: “A daily portion of this Essence use, T’will smooth the brow and tranquil Joy infuse.” All the pages are lithographed. Rosenbach, Early American Children’s Books #683 gives a copyright date of 1825 (in error?) and states that “The original London edition from which this book was copied was entitled The Toilet, and was first printed in 1821.” Resisting an assumption therefore that the authors were Englishwomen, some research revealed that a Hannah L. Murray and an unnamed sister were from New York state, perhaps daughters of the grammarian and writer of religious tracts Lindley Murray (whose mother was Mary Lindley) and his wife Hannah. Lindley Murray (possibly a Loyalist?) removed - 207 -

from New York to England at the close of the Revolutionary War. At any rate, the above mentioned sisters translated “the whole of Tasso’s Jersualem Delivered, and many of the odes of Anacreon, into English verse, and wrote a poem in blank verse of 5,000 lines, entitled The Restoration of Israel”. [Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century]. 694. [MUSIC]. EVANS, Redd and LOEB, John Jacob. Rosie the Riveter. New

York: Paramount Music Corporation , 1942. Six pp. Quarto, brightly coloured sheet music in red, white and blue. Slightly rubbed and creased on extremities. $60.00

Perhaps the most popular home front American icon of World War II, Rosie the war plant riveter epitomized the burgeoning female emergence from behind the scene to making the scene. Dressed in her factory assembly line uniform complete with pants, gloves & goggles, Rosie works on an airplane with her rivet gun. “Keep a sharp look-out for sabotage/ Sitting up there on the fuselage”.

695. [MUSIC[. FOGARTY, Paul and VALLEE, Rudy (words and music). Betty Co-Ed: Collegiate Sweetheart Song: Fox Trot. New York: Carl Fischer, (1930). Quarto, 8 pp., original pictorial paper wrappers (slightly worn). Front cover lithographed in $20.00 color featuring a winsome, curly-haired Betty. 696. [MUSIC]. LEWIS, A.L. All American Girl. Collegiate Fox Trot Song with Eight Extra Choruses. New York: Leo Feist, (1932). Quarto, 8 pp., pictorial paper wrappers. $20.00 Fine. Front cover lithographed in color depicting a football player being idolized by a pretty flapper. This edition contains eight additional choruses including ones for New York City, Pacific Coast, Western Conference, Southern, Fashion, and even the League of Nations!. 697. [MUSIC]. WENNER, Hilda E. and FREILICHER, Elizabeth. Here’s to the

Women. 100 Songs For and About American Women. New York: Feminist Press at The City University, (1990). Illustrated with photographs. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jack$50.00 et. Fine. First clothbound edition. Signed by Wenner on front free endpaper.

The anthology is dedicated to Malvina Reynolds: “She helps us face tomorrow with some muscle.” The table of contents divides the songs into categories of “Friends and Lovers”, “Activism”, “Labor”, “Contemporary Issues”, “Growing Up”, “Role Models” and “Women Emerging”. With a discography, annotated bibliography, list of titles and first lines and an index. 698. [MYERSON, Bess]. DWORKIN, Susan. Miss America, 1945. Bess Myerson’s Own Story. New York: Newmarket Press, 1987. Profusely illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The beauty from the Bronx was a 21 year old Hunter College graduate and accomplished pianist when she became the first Jewish Miss America and outspoken advocate for the Anti-Defamation League. This book ends there but Myerson had just started, going on to be a television hostess, panelist and commentator. She would also become New York Commissioner of Public Affairs, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, member of numerous State Boards and Presidential appointee to several Commissions. With a selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 913].

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DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES

699. NATION, Carry A. The Use and Need of The Life of Carry A. Nation. Written by

Herself. Topeka: F.M. Steves, 1908. Illustrated with photographs, including a frontispiece of the author (in which her physiognomy bears an uncanny resemblance to a bulldog in a dress). Octavo, original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, patterned endpapers. Very slight rubbing of edges and corners, a few tiny spots on $60.00 front cover, else fine. Revised edition. Originally published in 1904, this is a revised edition which brings her life’s story to just before her visit to England, where Nation lectured on whiskey, tobacco and women’s fashion. Proceeds from her book went to maintain her residences for drunkards’ wives and homeless women. [DAB. NAW].

700. [NATION, Carry A.]. ASBURY, Herbert. Carry Nation. New York: Knopf, 1929. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in yellow and orange. Spine a $25.00 bit faded, bookplate, faint endpaper browning. Very good. First edition.

Carry Nation (her first name spelled thus because her uneducated father wrote it as such in the family Bible) was the temperance agitator who gained fame by wrecking the Hotel Carrey in Wichita, Kansas with a hatchet, smashing mirrors, windows, bars, paneling, pornographic paintings and liquor stocks, while causing thousands of dollars in damages. Never ready to bury the hatchet, she was arrested for similar activities some thirty times, and helped pay her fines by proceeds from lecture tours, stage appearances and the sale of souvenir hatchets. Carry’s echinate reasoning for such rampant destruction was that since saloons were illegal in Kansas, saloon owners had “no rights that anybody is bound to respect”. On balance, Asbury’s biography is sympathetic and impartial. With an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 915].

701. [NATION, Carry A.]. TAYLOR, Robert Lewis. Vessel of Wrath. The Life and Times of Carry Nation. (New York): New American Library, (1966). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (the jacket flaps were apparently affixed to the paste-downs at some point, causing damage when removed, especially to the front flap which is rather chipped, affecting text). Otherwise a fine, bright copy. First $20.00 edition. By the author of The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, a novel for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. “Any reasonable historian must admire Mrs. Nation’s armor-plated indifference to censure. At one point she was probably the most discussed woman in the world, and her detractors opened up with a vivid barrage of accusation. She was denounced as a quack, a humbug, a fourflusher, a felon, a bully, a busybody, a common scold, a secret drinker, a man in woman’s clothes, a nymphomaniac, an Amazon-gone-amok, a sub rosa traveler in bar fixtures, a reincarnation of Lucrezia Borgia, a possible werewolf and a professional peddler of cheap souvenirs. (Mrs. Nation was, at this last stage, hawking miniature hatchets, wrought of pewter, and making a very good thing of it, but she either gave her money away or ploughed it into campaigns intended to stave off boredom for the saloon-keepers)” - from the text. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 917].

“WOMEN AWAKE! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU”

702. [NAVY LEAGUE]. Manual of Voluntary Aid. Washington D.C.: National - 210 -

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ON THE HOME FRONT: THEY ALSO SERVE Committee on Voluntary Aid, 1916. Illustrated with charts, drawings and diagrams. 16mo, original pictorial boards printed in color. Barely rubbed at spine ends, rear wrapper lightly bumped at upper corner and fore edge, edges a bit browned, a few corners of $50.00 leaves missing (paper very brittle). Overall fine and bright. Third edition.

Issued under the aegis of the Women’s Section of the Navy League, it is at once a recruitment device and a cornucopia of information - some silly, most useful, all interesting.

703. NAYLOR, Gloria. Mama Day. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

Born in 1950, the author grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College and her M.A. in Afro-American studies from Yale University. This novel is set on one of the small sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. 704. [NEBRASKA, Sister Marie-Josephine]. HILGER, Sister Mary Ione, O.S.B.

The First Sioux Nun. Sister Marie-Josephine Nebraska, S.G.M. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, (1963). Illustrated by Sister Mary Michael Kaliher, O.S.B. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a little rubbed). Name in ink on front pastedown, both pastedowns $20.00 a bit browned, else about fine. First edition.

Set in the Dakotas and southern Manitoba, this featherweight account is either fact fictionalized or fiction factualized. Creative writing aside, the basic truth is that Sister Nebraska was brought up by the Grey Nuns, entered the novitiate in 1884, made profession in 1887, and died in 1894. 157 pages of occasional actual events are salted with adjective laden imaginary conversations. The dust jacket’s proclamation that “The First Sioux Nun is an important addition to the literature of Catholic America” challenges this writer’s asessment, and his credulity.

THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK

705. NELLES, Annie. Annie Nelles, or, The Life of A Book Agent. An Autobiography. Cincinnati: The Author, 1868. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and two plates. Octavo, original green cloth. Spine ends a trifle rubbed, names in ink, one on title-page, two penciled inscriptions (all contemporary), two small waterspots to top $450.00 edge, else fine. First edition. A rare book.

Nelles launched her career as a canvassing bookseller after being abandoned by her first husband. She traveled throughout the midwest just after the Civil War, selling books door-to-door in order to support herself and her young daughter. Nelles eventually settled in St. Louis and became a novelist herself. Her works all championed temperance, while recurring themes were irresponsble men, betrayal and disloyalty. [Sabin 52304].

706. [NESBIT, Evelyn]. MOONEY, Michael MacDonald. Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White. Love and Death in the Gilded Age. New York: Morrow, 1976. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (very $40.00 slight rubbing of edges). Fine. First edition. Young Evelyn was deflowered by the famous architect Stanford White and became his mistress. She would subsequently marry Harry K. Thaw, a railroad multi-millionaire from Pittsburgh. Mentally unstable and extremely jealous, Thaw, one warm summer night in 1906 at the opening of a show at Madison Square Garden’s rooftop theatre, took the opportunity to fire

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three bullets into the architect’s face. The trial which followed was the sensation of the day and resulted in Thaw’s incarceration in the Asylum for the Criminally Insane at Matteawan. Thaw divorced Nesbit and died in 1947. Evelyn lived for twenty years more, saying towards the end, “Stanny White was killed, but my fate was worse. I lived”. With a list of sources and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 919]. 707. [NEVELSON, Louise]. LISLE, Laurie. Louise Nevelson. A Passionate Life.

New York: Summit, (1990). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jack$20.00 et. Fine. First edition. A biography of the Russian-born sculptor whose real success eluded her until she was almost sixty, when she made up for lost time. With notes and sources, selected bibliography and an index.

708. NEVILLE, Amelia Ransome. The Fantastic City. Memoirs of the Social and Romantic Life of Old San Francisco. New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. Profusely illustrated. Large octavo, cloth, dust jacket (a bit sunned). Fine. First edition of a rather $50.00 scarce book, especially so in a nice jacket. Edited and revised by Virginia Brastow, being the reminiscences of a young Englishwoman who came to live in the exciting San Francisco of the 1850’s. With an extensive index.

709. NEWBEGIN, Anna B. Poems of Life from California. San Francisco: John J. Newbegin, (1917). Frontispiece illustration tipped in. 12mo, brown boards, brown cloth spine lettered in brown, printed dust jacket (spine very slightly chipped). Fine. First edi$45.00 tion. With the bookplate of the well known psychiatrist Langley Porter. Newbegin’s bookstore, located on the north side of Union Square, was a local literary landmark for generations. Although we assume a connection between Anna B. and John J., our efforts at tracing one have been unsuccessful.

710. NIN, Anaïs. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1948. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (a trifle rubbed). Fine. First U. S. edition . $65.00 A collection of all the short stories Nin had written to that time and a novelette, Winter and Artifice. [DAB]. 711. NIN, Anaïs. Cities of the Interior. (Denver: Swallow Press, 1959). With draw-

ings by Nin’s husband, Ian Hugo. Octavo, printed pictorial wrappers. Some minor spine wear, else excellent. First edition thus (the novellas had been published separately), first $75.00 issue (title page undated).

In a 1974 preface (of which a photocopy is enclosed) Nin clears up the misunderstanding regarding publication, stating that she always improvised on a theme and never planned her novels ahead “My only preconception was that it was to be a study of women”. [DAB]. 712. NIN, Anaïs. Henry and June from the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1986). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly faded). Remainder mark on top edge, small embossed ownership - 214 -

stamp on front free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

$20.00 The famous menage à trois of Henry Miller, his wife June, and Anaïs Nin, here examined through material deleted from the original publication of Nin’s diary. [DAB]. 713. [NIN, Anaïs]. FITCH, Noel Riley. Anais. The Erotic Life of Anais Nin. Boston:

Little, Brown, (1993). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00

In which the author disassembles and examines Nin’s reinvention of herself. With extensive notes, selected and general bibliographies and an index. [DAB]. 714. [NIXON, Patricia]. DAVID, Lester. The Lonely Lady of San Clemente. New York: Crowell, (1978). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 The story of Pat Nixon with appendices “A First Lady’s Travels”, “Schedule of Activities”, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 925].

715. [NORMAND, Mabel]. FUSSELL, Betty Harper. Mabel. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1982. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition . $35.00

Normand was the beautiful star of many Keystone comedies, often with Charlie Chaplin or Fatty Arbuckle. Her movie career was abbreviated by a combination of scandals and drug use and she died of tuberculosis at only thirty-five. [NAW. Sweeney 918]. 716. NORRIS, Kathleen. Noon. An Autobiographical Sketch. Garden City:

Doubleday, 1925. Small octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in gold, pictorial dust $25.00 jacket (slightly worn). Fine. First edition.

One reviewer called it much more than an autobiographichal sketch: “among other things it is a manual of intelligent and happy living”. [DAB. NAWM. See Browne p. 63].

717. [NORRIS, Kathleen]. THOMPSON, James Alden. The Scenes of My Childhood. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Small octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket $40.00 (spine a bit faded). Fine. First edition of a rather scarce book.

Halcyon days, as recounted by the brother of novelist Kathleen Norris and with an introduction by her. Among the laid in newspaper clippings is one bearing the malaprop headline “Mill Vallians Take Part in Affairs”. Even so, the news from Peyton Place was waiting in the wings. [DAB. NAWM]. 718. NORRIS, Kathleen. Family Gathering. The Memoirs of Kathleen Norris.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A fine $65.00 copy. First edition. Signed by the author.

Among the laid in newspaper clippings is a receipt of $1.00 for Mill Valley W.C.T.U. dues, Feb. 1, 1925-1926, signed by the local President. Well, that’s inflation for you. In a half century of writing Norris authored upwards of 100 books –mostly novels– which made her the highest paid writer of her day, a figure which at that time amounted to, in round numbers, $9,000,000. [DAB. NAWM]. - 215 -

719. [O’CONNOR, Flannery]. FITZGERALD, Sally, Editor. Flannery O’Connor.

The Habit of Being. Letters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

A native Georgian, O’Connor lived for several years with the editor and her husband. Critically identified as a southern regionalist and as a Catholic writer, O’Connor enjoys a substantial literary reputation. While acknowledging this, the entry in the DAB concludes: “Perhaps, had she lived, she would have attained the maturity to which her work was pointing. But her vision was limited, as was the range of her work, and she will remain an interesting and important but minor writer” With an index. [DAB. NAWM].

720. O’CONNOR, Lillian. Pioneer Women Orators. Rhetoric in the Ante-Bellum Reform Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Octavo, boards, dust $40.00 jacket. Fine. First edition. Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Ernestine Rose, Angelina Grimké, Amelia Bloomer and twenty-one others are discussed in this scholarly work. With an extensive bibliography and an index. 721. O’HARA, Mary. Green Grass of Wyoming. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1946).

Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very light wear at top of spine). Fine. First edition.

$50.00 Mary O’Hara is the pseudonym for Mary Sture-Vase. This is the third book in a trilogy which started with the famous equine novel My Friend Flicka and continued with Thunderhead. [DAB]. 722. [O’HARE, Kate]. MILLER , Sally M. From Prairie to Prison. The Life of

Social Activist Kate Richards O’Hare. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1993). Illustrated with photographs . Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, an $25.00 advance review slip laid in.

Her opposition to World War I led to a prison sentence on conviction of a violation of the Espionage Act. From being an activist in the temperance and social service movements, she discovered socialism and saw in it a cure for society’s shortcomings. 723. [O’KEEFFE, Georgia]. LISLE, Laurie. Portrait of an Artist. A Biography of

Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Seaview Books, (1980). Illustrated. Royal octavo, cloth, $25.00 pictorial dust jacket (slight wear). Fine. First edition.

O’Keeffe was born on a farm in rural Wisconsin and died on her ranch in rural New Mexico. In the intervening ninety-eight years she became the foremost female artist in America, best known for her large, pure and lucid still-life paintings of desert flowers, sun-bleached animal skulls and southwest landscapes. With a list of sources, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 941].

724. [O’KEEFFE, Georgia]. POLLITZER, Anita. A Woman on Paper. Georgia O’Keeffe. With a lengthy foreword by Kay Boyle. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988). Illustrated. Small quarto, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $20.00 edition. - 216 -

The memoir of the author’s longtime friendship with O’Keefe dating from their days at New York’s Art Students League, with many previously unpublished letters. The plentiful illustrations include pictures by O’Keefe’s husband, the famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz, as well as works by the artist herself. [Sweeney 942]. 725. [O’KEEFFE, Georgia]. HOGREFE, Jeffrey. O’Keeffe. The Life of an American Legend. New York: Bantam Books, (1992). Illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Another well researched study. Most of the letters consulted are contained in the Stieglitz-O’Keeffe archive at Yale’s Beinecke Library, with much of the other material coming from primary sources. With notes, bibliography and an index.

726. O’MEARA, Walter. Daughters of the Country. The Women of the Fur Traders and Mountain Men. New York: Harcourt, (1968). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial $35.00 dust jacket (very minor wear at top edges). Fine. First edition. “ ... the first published account of an oddly neglected aspect of American history – the racial and sexual confrontation of the Indian woman and the white men on our frontiers” (dust jacket blurb). With extensive notes, bibliography and an index.

727. O’NEILL, Rose. Original pen and ink drawing of two women, one dressed for a

ball, the other for tennis, extending an arms-length handshake. 5 x 14-1/2 inches, hinged $1,500.00 to an archival mat, 14 x 22 inches overall. Signed upper left.

We are grateful to O’Neill enthusiast David Edwards for the information that this picture appeared in the August, 1904 issue of the periodical The Twentieth Century Home, in which it illustrated a short story, “The Spirit of the Letter” by Virginia Woodward Cloud. “Rose O’Neill (1874-1944) was a self-trained artist who invented the cupid-like whimsical Kewpies in 1909 while illustrating for magazines. O’Neill was also a talented sculptor, novelist, and poet” – from the text of the recent 34¢ postage stamp issued in her honor. [DAB. NAW]. 728. [O’NEILL, Rose]. Jell-O and The Kewpies. New York: Genesee Pure Food Co.,

1915. Illustrated. 16mo, original wrappers printed in color, hole-punched at top left, cotton ribbon. Fine. $90.00

A simply charming twenty-four page booklet advertising “America’s Most Famous Dessert” (10¢ a package). “An illustrator and author from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, at age nineteen she wrote and illustrated her novel Calesta and moved to New York where she worked for Truth, Life, Collier’s and Harper’s. In 1896, she became staff illustrator for Puck, and later married its editor Harry Leon Wilson. In 1904 , she published The Loves of Edwy in Harper’s and worked as an illustrator for her husband’s novels. However, she is most known as the originator and designer of chubby cherubs known as the Kewpies; their sensational debut in 1909 was made in Ladies’ Home Journal, but were soon seen in Woman’s Home Companion and Good Housekeeping. In 1912, the enormously popular impish character became the cuddly “Kewpie Doll”, what we today would call an action-figure. Later, in the 1930’s, they appeared as a comic strip in The New York Journal. Her patented creation and the dolls earned O’Neill over a million dollars. [DAB. NAW]. See ill. p. 218.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

729. [OAKLEY, Annie]. HAVIGHURST, Walter. Annie Oakley of the Wild West. - 217 -

New York: Macmillan, 1954. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (one small stain on spine, very slight chipping at top). Fine. First edition. $20.00

A real trouper: while travelling over 170,000 miles as the leading lady of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show the diminutive “Little Miss Sureshot” would appear in all but four performances. Although her name has found its place as the greatest markswoman in American history and her fame reprised in the Irving Berlin musical, the rest of the life story of Annie Oakley is not generally known. Born in a log cabin, she had learned some of life’s hardships at a tender age. The experience led Oakley, herself childless, to suport and educate eighteen orphan girls. With an index. [Adams, Six-Guns 944. DAB. NAW]. 730. [OAKLEY, Annie]. KASPER, Shirl. Annie Oakley of the Wild West. Norman:

University of Oklahoma Press, (1992). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (one small stain on spine, very slight chipping at top). Fine. First edi$20.00 tion. More detailed and fully annotated, though more prosaic than the previous entry, this biography is “the most complete and accurate record of Annie Oakley’s life and achievements”. [DAB. NAW]. 731. [OAKLEY, Violet]. EDDY, Mary Baker. Christ My Refuge. One of the Seven

Hymns by .... Boston: Published by the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, (1939). Illuminated by Violet Oakley. Thin quarto, pictorially stamped cloth. Fine. First $75.00 edition. Her strong sense of color, evidenced herein and evocative of her work in stained glass, is a reflection in miniature of Oakley’s (1874-1961) crowning achievement – the mural decorations in the state capital building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Check it out – it is worth a visit.

732. OATES, Joyce Carol. The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, (1970). Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (a little rubbed and few small tears and crease at edges). About fine. First edition. $25.00 A prolific writer of novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, and literary criticism, Oates has been the recipient of many honors, including the National Book Award.

733. [OATMAN]. STRATTON, R.B. Captivity of the Oatman Girls, being an Interesting Narrative of Life among the Apache and Mojave Indians, containing also an Interesting Account of the Massacre of the Oatman Family by the Apache Indians in 1851; the Narrow Escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman; the Capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman; the Death by Starvation of the Latter; the Five Years of Suffering and Captivity of Olive A. Oatman; also her Singular Recapture in 1856, as Given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman, the Only Surviving Members of the Family, to the Author. San Francisco: Whitton, Towne, 1857. Octavo, original gilt-lettered cloth. Cover spotted, large nick from spine, lacking the final two (blank) leaves. Good. Second edition, with the same imprint as the first, with a slightly abridged title but with numerous additions $750.00 and corrections. Both original editions are rare. The Oatmans left Illinois in 1849 as part of a Mormon settlement company headed for the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers. The party was attacked by Apaches in Arizona

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who killed six members of the family, leaving a young son for dead and making captives of the two youngest daughters. Mary died in two years; the other, Olive, was ransomed five years later in 1856 to be reunited with her brother. The tracking down of his sisters and the “rescue” of Olive Oatman are well–chronicled. She was extensively tatooed, and went on tour to describe her experiences and display her decorations. The published account that Olive died in an insane asylum twenty years after the publication of this book is untrue. Married in 1865, she moved to Sherman, Texas and lived until 1903. [See Graff 4006. Baird-Greenwood 885. Howes S1068. See Rittenhouse, The Santa Fé Trail 542. Sabin 92742. Wagner–Camp & Becker, The Plains and the Rockies 294:2. NAW]. 734. [OATMAN]. STRATTON, R.B. Life Among the Indians, or, The Captivity of the

Oatman Girls, being an Interesting Narrative of Life among the Apache &Mohave Indians. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine $165.00 with printed paper label. Fine. One of 550 copies.

The illustrations are engraved on wood by the artist Mallette Dean. This book is number two in the Third Series of Rare Americana printed by the Grabhorns and was voted one of the Fifty Books of the Year.. [Ayer 283. Field 1515. Cowan (I) p. 223. GB 227. Graff 4006. Howes S1068. NAW].

735. OLDS, Elizabeth Fagg. Women of the Four Winds. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, $35.00 inscribed by the author. The fascinating adventures of a quartet of America’s first women explorers -Annie Smith Peck (mountain climber), Delia J. Akeley (African explorer), Marguerite Harrison (traveller with Persian nomads) and Louise Arner Boyd (scientific explorer of Greenland). With sources and an index. [Sweeney 21, 140, 537, 970].

736. [OLMSTED, Mildred Scott]. BACON, Margaret Hope. One Woman’s Passion

for Peace and Freedom. (Syracuse): Syracuse University Press, (1993). Illustrated. $20.00 Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Olmsted’s century (1890-1990) was devoted to building the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). With notes and an index. Publisher’s review slip laid in.

737. PADEN, Irene D. The Wake of the Prairie Schooner. New York: Macmillan, 1943. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by the author and maps. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped at top of spine). Fine. First edition. Signed and dated by the $150.00 author. A mid WW II publication which today is very scarce. Follows the trail of the emigrant trains across the plains and the Rockies from its beginnings in 1812 to the completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869. According to the dust jacket, the indefatigable author drew upon over 350 diaries, letters and reminiscences. With a bibliography and an index.

738. PADEN, Irene D. Prairie Schooner Detours. New York: Macmillan, 1949. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $100.00 Well, and then there were the shortcuts, the most famous of which, the “Hastings”, - 220 -

delayed the Donner Party and led to its disaster. Another was “Lassens” which became known as the “Greenhorn’s Cut-off”. In research for this book the author and her family actually retraced the routes. The author writes well, an interest in the subject would be illuminated by reading this account, and the preceding.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

739. [PANKHURST, Emmeline]. PANKHURST, Sylvia. The Suffragette. The

History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement 1905–1910. New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1911. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original green cloth. Spine lettering partially flaked away , else fine. First American edition. Signed E. Sylvia Pankhurst just below her printed name on the title page in black ink. Signature very defined and clear.

$500.00 Strictly speaking, this book does not belong in the confines of this catalogue’s twin themes of American women or women in America, for Emmeline Pankhurst, of course, was not an American but a leading British suffragette and this book, written by a daughter, concentrates on her struggle in England. Pankhurst, however, did visit the United States in 1910, again the following year and once more in 1913 to arouse interest in the movement and to raise funds for her work. Thus, she surely had an effect on the western shores of the North Atlantic. Her forty year campaign finally achieved complete success in the year of her death when in 1928 British women obtained voting equality. E. Sylvia Pankhurst, the author of this, her first book, was born in Manchester in 1882 and died in distant Addis Ababa in 1960, along the way violently opposing World War I while enthusiastically embracing the Russian revolution. She also authored several later books on her mother and the suffragette movement. With an index.

RECOMMENDED BY A TRUE BOOKWORM

740. [PARKER, Cynthia Ann]. DESHIELDS, James T. Cynthia Ann Parker. The

Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker’s Fort; of Her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of Her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers. Dallas: Chama Press, 1991. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (wormholes in spine). Front spine channels with three wormholes, else fine. $35.00 Limited edition, publisher’s addendum laid in. First edition thus.

Sometime during the decade of this copy’s odyssey from Texas to Hawaii and hence to California it acquired a tiny fellow traveller, since departed, to whom it supplied room and board, rent free. [NAW].

“EXCUSE MY DUST”

741. PARKER, Dorothy. Constant Reader. New York: Viking, (1970). Octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A volume of Parker a la carte containing “The New Yorker pieces about books and people written 1927-1933 ... and now first collected in a book”. Of Scottish (mother) and Jewish (father) descent, Dorothy Parker’s anodyne for an unhappy life (1893-1967) was a facile pen, acerbic wit and immoderate employment of the bottle. Her writing crossed the spectrum: poetry, drama, screenplays, criticism and short stories. Indeed, of the last, “Big Blonde” is on most lists of the genre’s best. Burton Stevenson’s The Home Book of Quotations lists fourteen from Dorothy Parker. Best known, of course, is the classic “Men seldom make passes at girls who - 221 -

wear glasses”, though this writer’s favorite is the pithy “Excuse my dust”. [See Browne p. 96].

“MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT”

742. PARKS, Rosa. Rosa Parks Being Finger Printed. : Photograph. 8 x 10, black

and white. Fine. This is a photograph of the well known newspaper photograph. It is $500.00 signed by Rosa Parks in black ink.

The photograph shows Rosa Parks dressed in a suit, with braided hair and glasses, looking down at her left hand, which is held by a solemn looking young police officer who is rolling her fingers on a stamping pad for the finger printing. Parks was a seamstress and active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the time of her December 1, 1955 refusal to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. Her arrest precipitated a lengthy bus boycott and eventually led to the United States Supreme Court ruling that segregated seating was unconstitutional. A few years ago Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest award to a civilian.

743. [PATTERSON, Eleanor Medill]. MARTIN, Ralph G. Cissy. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979). Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Remainder stamp, minor abrasion to bottom edge. About fine. $20.00

Patterson became the first woman in this country to edit and publish a major newspaper. Her power and knack of rubbing some influential people the wrong way led Time magazine to observe that she was the most hated woman in America. Even so, after business hours Patterson was the doyenne of Washington society. With chapter notes, critical bibliography and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 964].

744. PAVLETICH, Aida. Rock-A-Bye, Baby. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 First edition. Women in the world of American popular music from 1960 to the publication date. A roundup of female performers for an enlightening tour of pop culture.

745. [PEABODY, Elizabeth Palmer]. RONDA, Bruce A., Editor. Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American Renaissance Woman. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1984). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 First edition. Peabody was a noted educational reformer, publisher, and essayist with a circle of influencial friends. This volume includes letters to Dorothea Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Julia Ward Howe. With an index. [NAW].

746. PEACOCK, Virginia Tatnall. Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901. Illustrated. Octavo, original blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Slight wear to spine. Fine. First $25.00 edition. With nineteen chapters on the individual belles, 24 plates and an index.

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1882. Approximately 7 x 8 inches, cream stock printed in black, lettered in brown ink. $300.00 Fragile, separated at fold in middle, ten tiny wormholes (no loss of text).

A physician’s license issued to Miss Sarah E. Peirce M.D. on 20 October, 1882, and signed by J.E. Bush, Minister of the Interior in Honolulu, giving Miss Peirce the right to practice “as a PHYSICIAN and SURGEON throughout this Kingdom”. With this document she reputedly became the first woman doctor in Hawaii. 748. PENNINGTON, Patience. A Woman Rice Planter. With an introduction by

Owen Wister. New York: Macmillan, 1913. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth, pictorially stamped in light green and black, gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. Covers very $150.00 slightly worn, else fine. First edition.

The pen name of Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921). The book is a collection of local color stories, many of which were first published in the New York Sun. The title refers to the author herself, a successful South Carolina rice planter until the emergence of competition from mechanized cultivation in the southwestern United States. [NAW].

FOUR CHILDREN’S PERIODICALS

749. [PERIODICAL]. Babyland, December, 1884. Vol. VIII. No. 12. Boston: D.

Lothrop, 1884. Illustrated. Quarto, original light green printed wrappers, pictorial cover label. Wrappers a little worn around the edges, small part of lower spine missing, a few $25.00 stains, but overall still attractive.

A periodical for the wee one by the same editors of the publication Wide Awake. This issue constitutes pages (97) - 104 and features the charmingly illustrated X,Y and Z of “ALICE’S AL-PHA-BET”. The back wrapper pictures an ad for Ivory soap and depicts an early illustration by Palmer Cox of his famous Brownie characters.

750. [PERIODICAL]. Child Life. New York: Rand McNally, 1925. Volume IV, Number 2. Illustrated profusely. Large quarto, pictorial colored wrappers. Fine. $35.00 Masthead: Rose Waldo, Editor. Marjorie Barros, Assistant Editor. Contains “In Film Land. Peter Pan” by the editor. 751. [PERIODICAL]. St. Nicholas For Boys and Girls. New York: St. Nicholas

Magazine, 1932. Volume LIX, Number 5, March, 1932. Illustrated profusely. Large quarto, pictorial colored wrappers. Spine a little chipped at top, small stain in upper $20.00 right corner, else fine. The long lived St. Nicholas was a leading children’s magazine.

752. [PERIODICAL]. Home Arts. Gift Things for Little Folks. Junior Needlecrafters.

Augusta, Maine: Needlecraft Publishing Company, 1938. Volume 29, Number9, May, $40.00 1938. Illustrated profusely. Large quarto, pictorial colored wrappers. Fine.

Another magazine for the denizens of childhood, this one’s niche is elementary home economics.

753. [PERIODICAL]. The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper… . Philadelphia: Curtis, July 1888. Vol. V, No. 8. Illustrated. Large folio, 20 pp. Small stain at top edge of front page, slight browning of front and back pages, else fine. - 224 -

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$35.00 Articles include “Distinguished American Women”, “Children’s Page”, Mother’s Corner”, “Housekeeper”, “Dress Material”, and “Flowers and House Plants”.

THE FIRST FEMALE CABINET MEMBER

754. [PERKINS, Frances]. MARTIN, George. Madam Secretary. Frances Perkins. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1976. Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, cloth, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. She was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt and served as Secretary of Labor from 1935 to 1945, longer than any of the other cabinet ministers in his four term career. With an appendix, extensive notes, bibliography and an index . [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 973].

RARE IN DUST JACKET

755. PETERKIN, Julia. Scarlet Sister Mary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1928).

Octavo, original black cloth , black lettered scarlet paper labels, dust jacket (professionally restored). Spine a tad faded, a little dust soiled, else fine. First edition. $400.00

The author’s mother had died in giving her life and she was raised almost entirely by a remarkable black nurse. From her she learned the dialect, stories and lives of the black Gullah families who lived on islands off the coast of Georgia and formed the basis of Peterkin’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. [Browne, p. 64. DAB]. 756. PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters from a Life. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,

1896. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author, and several photographs. Octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition, binding $60.00 A (no known priority).

Phelps’ autobiographical reminiscences, with much on her friendships and on her interest in such social issues as temperance reform. She wrote voluminously, mainly fiction. An early work, The Silent Partner (1871), and many of her short stories testify to her sympathy with the narrow lives of women in industry. “As few but the greatest have done she understood and expressed the sufferings of gifted and sensitive women...” (D.A.B.). [BAL 20963. Davis and Joyce 4650. DAB. NAW. See Browne p. 65]. 757. PHILLIPS, Carolyn E. Michelle. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 The true story of an eight year old who lost a leg to cancer and how through courage, determination and a faith in God the outgoing and witty youngster became an accomplished rider and competitive skier. A Santa Barbara native, between writing her own books, the talented author occasionally found time to help keep Randall House’s books in order. With an ALs from the author laid in.

758. PIERCY, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. New York: Knopf, 1976. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition, advance review slip from the publisher laid in. $40.00 A feminist novel offering utopian and dystopian futures. - 226 -

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AMERICA’S FIRST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN

759. [PINKHAM, Lydia]. BURTON, Jean. Lydia Pinkham Is Her Name. New

York: Farrar Straus, 1949. With a handful of illustrations including a frontispiece por$40.00 trait of the author. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The business that made Lydia Pinkham famous (her benign visage adorned the packaging) and her heirs wealthy was only started eight years before she died. The Dictionary of American Biography calls her medicine: “worthless as a therapeutic agent ... popular as a psychic sedative”. Its success was attributed to a huge advertising effort, starting with the handbills that her sons distributed door-to-door. Endorsements followed, including testimonials from W.C.T.U. members (no doubt unaware that the formula contained 18% alcohol “as a solvent and preservative”). The product eventually would become the most widely advertised merchandise in the country. This undocumented and, perforce, lightweight biography is still an interesting snapshot of the subject. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 990]. 760. [PINZER, Maimie]. The Maimie Papers. Ruth Rosen, historical editor and Sue

Davidson, textual editor. N.p: The Feminist Press, (1977). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (small scratch on front panel, tiny nick on bottom of spine, small white piece of $20.00 paper stuck to rear panel). Fine. First edition.

“In 1910 a remarkable correspondence began between a distinguished Bostonian, Fanny Quincey Howe, and Maimie Pinzer, a Jewish prostitute in Philadelphia, just then recovering from morphine addiction. Maimie’s letters, donated to the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College by the daughter of their recipient, offer an unprecedented autobiographical account of the life of a poor, working woman in the first quarter of this century. “ - from the dust jacket. The Schlesinger Library is perhaps the major repository of information on the historical role of women in America from 1800 to the present. With annotations and an index. 761. [PLATH, Sylvia]. PLATH, Aurelia Schober, Editor. Letters Home by Sylvia

Plath. Correspondence 1950-1963. New York: Harper & Row, (1975). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight edgewear). Fine. First edition.

$20.00 In addition to hundreds of letters to her mother (this book’s editor), this immense correspondence includes letters to Plath’s mentor, the novelist Olive Higgins Prouty. The uncut originals of these letters together with poems published and unpublished, prose writings and memorabilia constitute the major Plath collection which is at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. With a list of poems and index of first lines. [DAB. NAWM]. 762. [PLEASANT, Mammy]. HOLDREDGE, Helen. Mammy Pleasant. New York:

Putnam’s, (1953). Illustrated . Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (very slight wear at edges) else very good. Third printing, but with an interesting 1978 long $25.00 newspaper article laid in.

Mary Ellen Pleasant had been born a slave in Georgia, learned voodoo in New Orleans and arrived in San Francisco early in the gold rush. She ran an upscale boarding house and, inferentially, a bawdy house as well. Her clientele included some of the city’s leading citizens. It has been said that she used her money to aid runaway slaves and other oppressed people of her race. A tall, quite attractive woman, she lived a life of intrigue, once bragging that she held the keys to every closet hiding a skeleton in San Francisco. She died in reduced circumstances two years - 228 -

before the great earthquake, by then a largely forgotten elderly lady approaching her ninetieth year. With a bibliography. [NAW]. 763. [PLEASANT, Mammy]. HOLDREDGE, Helen. Mammy Pleasant’s Partner. New York: Putnam’s, (1954). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Some $25.00 browning to front endpaper. Very good. First edition.

Here Holdredge adds to her best-selling biography of Mammy Pleasant by writing of the mulatto’s long and profitable association with the equally mysterious Scotsman, Thomas Bell. With a list of references. [NAW].

764. [POCAHONTAS]. MOSSIKER, Frances. Pocahontas the Life and the Legend. New York: Knopf, 1976. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

Pocahontas (an Indian word, being a nickname meaning “playful one”) c. 1595-1617 was a daughter of the head of the Powhatan Confederacy. Her given name was Mataoaka; when baptized she took the Christian name of Rebecca. The legendary story of how the heroine saved captain John Smith’s life is known to school children; less well remembered is her marriage to John Rolfe, visit to England and premature death. With appendices, notes, extensive bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1004]. $20.00 765. [POETRY]. The Mentor. : June 15, 1920. Volume 8, Number 9. Contains “Makers of Modern American Poetry Women” by Howard W. Cook. Illustrated with full page sepia photographs of Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Alice Brown, Edith Thomas, Josephine Peabody and the redoubtable Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

A LOVELY MARGARET ARMSTRONG BINDING

766. PORTER, Gene Stratton. The Song of the Cardinal. Indianapolis: Bobbs-

Merrill, (1912). Octavo, original cardinal red cloth elaborately stamped in colors, lettered in gilt. A spectacularly fine copy. First edition thus. $135.00

A lovely, vividly executed Margaret Armstrong binding in violet, green and gold on red vertically ribbed cloth. [Gullens and Espey, 198. DAB. NAW].

BIOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR’S DAUGHTER

767. [PORTER, Gene Stratton]. MEEHAN, Jeannette Porter. The Lady of the

Limberlost. The Life and Letters of Gene Stratton-Porter. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket (spine a little sunned, a few tiny chips on spine panel). Endapers a little browned, bookplate on front $90.00 pastedown, else fine. First edition, quite uncommon in jacket.

Born Geneva Grace Stratton she grew up on a 240 acre Indiana farm. A novelist and nature writer, she was the most popular female author of her time. A literary phenomenon derided by critics, beloved by readers, Porter prospered, her popularity exceeding any other American author of her day. The Song of the Cardinal was followed by such huge best sellers as Freckles, 1904, 1,918,000 copies; The Girl of the Limberlost, 1909, 1,760,000 copies; The Harvester, 1911, 1,584,000 copies; Laddie, 1915, 1,530,000 copies and Michael O’Halloran, 1915, 1,168,000 copies. If critics like The Nation dismissed her as “mistress of a recipe of cuteness, - 229 -

triteness, and sentimentality which cannot fail” her bankers were pleased enough. It has been said that she answered the thousands of letters from admirers herself. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1198]. 768. PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1944). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (very slightly edgeworn). Fine. First $60.00 edition. [DAB].

Settings for these short stories range from the Deep South to Manhattan and Berlin.

769. PORTER, Katherine Anne. A Defense of Circe. New York: Harcourt, Brace,

(1955). 12mo, marbled boards, printed paper label. Spine slanted, else fine. First edi$20.00 tion.

A slim (twenty-two pages) volume privately printed as a New Year’s greeting for the friends of the author and her publishers. [DAB].

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

770. PORTER, Katherine Anne. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1965). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First U.S. edition. $100.00

The volume contains a preface by Porter, three collections of short stories: Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; The Leaning Tower and four other tales not previously published in book form. [DAB]. 771. [PORTER, Katherine Anne]. GIVNER, Joan. Katherine Anne Porter. A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1982). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust $20.00 jacket. Small remainder stamp at bottom edge, else fine. First edition.

A fascinating study of the enigmatic author who reinvented her humble origins in rural Texas and emerged as an aristocratic daughter of the old South. With notes and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 1009].

772. [PORTER, Katherine Anne]. BAILEY, Isabel, Editor. Letters of Katherine Anne Porter. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The gifted writer’s voluminous correspondence with a who’s who of twentieth century literary figures, edited by a longtime close friend. With an index. [DAB]. 773. POST, Emily. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home. New

York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1922. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue. Very slight rubbing of spine and edges, overall $450.00 fine. First edition, and rare thus.

A former debutante by birth and subsequently an author by economic necessity, Post reluctantly accepted a suggestion that she write a book on etiquette. The resulting treatise became a runaway best seller and its author the social arbiter of middle-class America. “The popularity of the book rested on its wit, judgment, sense of humor, and knowledgeability. It met the needs of postwar Americans who wanted to rationalize their newly complex social relationships. By codi- 230 -

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fying an immense mass of traditions and informal regulations, by burying some myths and allaying some suspicions, Post did what the first American dictionary makers had done a century earlier: defined appropriate usage with special bows to colloquial needs” (NAW). Not a one dimensional lady, in 1916 Post had published By Motor to the Golden Gate, one of the earlier accounts of an automobile trip across American, which she had undertaken with her older son. With an index. [DAB. NAWM].

Laid in is a postcard from a female acquaintance “Something from Alaska for your woman’s collection.” A survey of ladies of the evening, early northern lights version, those women of the persuasion it’s the early worm that’s gotten by the bird. Chronicled by an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Well researched, though given the nature of the subject and the passing years, inevitably anecdotal. With notes, a selected bibliography and an index.

774. [POST, Marjorie Merriweather]. RUBIN, Nancy. American Empress. The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. New York: Villard Books, 1995. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Stamped name on $35.00 front free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

780. PROULX, E. Annie. The Shipping News. New York: Scribner's, (1993).

Post was heiress to the Postum breakfast cereal fortune which she helped grow into the vast General Foods Corporation. She used her wealth generously, as the New York Times observed: “While she has always lived like a queen, she has always given as a philanthropist.” With sources, notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

775. POWER, Susan. The Grass Dancer. New York: Putnam’s, (1994). Illustrated. $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A Sioux tribal member’s first novel, set on a reservation in North Dakota. 776. POWERS, Marla N. Oglala Women. Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1986). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $35.00

WINNER OF BOTH THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$500.00 With The Shipping News. New York: Scribner’s, (1992). Octavo, paper wrappers in dust jacket. Fine. The rare publisher’s prospectus, a forty-five page advance excerpt of the novel, issued to reviewers and booksellers before publication. The author is a native-born Vermonter (is there any other kind?) and graduate of its Universitas Viridis Montis.

781. PROUTY, Olive Higgins. Now, Voyager. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1941.

Octavo, cloth, printed dust jacket (rather worn at edges). Name “Hattie MacCoke” in ink on pastedowns, rubbing to spine. Very good. First edition, quite scarce in jacket. $275.00

Prouty had close ties with Sylvia Plath, having financed Plath’s education as well as coming to her aid after Plath suffered a breakdown in 1953. This novel was the vehicle for one of actress Bette Davis’s most memorable movies. Among Prouty’s other popular novels were Stella Dallas and Oil for the Lamps of China.

“The first anthropological study of Oglala women ... exemplary in a field where reliable material is notoriously scarce. Powers presents us with a rich ethnography that considers the whole context of Oglala life - religion, economics, medicine, political life, old age ...”.

782. PRYOR, Mrs. Roger A. Reminiscences of Peace and War. New York:

777. POWTER, Susan. Sober...and Staying That Way. The Missing Link in the Cure

“Written years after hostilities, this is nevertheless an interesting woman’s reaction to war”. [Nevins II, p. 199. NAW].

for Alcoholism. New York: Macmillan, (1997). Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. As new. First edition. $20.00

With sometimes one word to a line, large type, double spaced lines, extra wide margins, the book could have been printed on a lot fewer than 320 pages. If the simplistic layout is meant to reflect in print the author’s hyperactive lecture style, hopefully it will save more alcoholics than it did trees. With notes, reading resources and treatment centers.

778. PRIEST, Ivy Baker. Green Grows Ivy. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1958). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (slight rubbing of top and bottom of spine, a little watermarked with minor chipping at top of spine and bottom edge). Inscription in ink on front free endpaper, else fine. First edition. $20.00 The Treasurer of the United States had spent her childhood helping her mother at the Utah boarding house run by the Bakers for their copper mining bachelor friends. [NAWM].

DENIZENS OF NORTHERN NIGHTS

779. [PROSTITUTION]. MORGAN, Lael. Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, (1998). Illustrated with numerous photographs. $20.00 Octavo, boards, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. - 232 -

Macmillan, 1904. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in white, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition. $100.00

783. PRYOR, Mrs. Roger A. My Day. Reminiscences of a Long Life. New York:

Macmillan, 1909. Illustrated. Octavo, original elaborately decorated green cloth stamped in lighter and darker green, black and gilt, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition.

$40.00 Sarah Agnes Rice Pryor lived from 1830 to 1912. Nevins incorrectly dismisses this as “a condensation of Mrs. Pryor’s Reminiscences with little added material”. Actually this book antecedes and supercedes the war days. [Nevins II p. 200. NAW]. 784. PYLE, Katherine. Once Upon a Time in Rhode Island. (Garden City: Country Life Press, 1914). Illustrated by Helen B. Mason. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in yellow. Covers a bit dulled and slightly rubbed, edges a little dust soiled, else fine. First $20.00 edition.

The book was published by Rhode Island’s Society of Colonial Dames to promote interest among school children in the rich early history of the Union’s smallest state. Katherine (or Katharine) was the younger sister of the reknowned Howard Pyle, founder of what came to be known as the Brandywine school of art. She had penned the introductory verses to her brother’s The Wonder Clock and as a writer and illustrator collaborated with other Pyle students in the pro- 233 -

duction of books. 785. QOYAWAYMA, Polingaysi (Elizabeth Q. White). No Turning Back. A True Account of a Hopi Indian Girl’s Struggle to Bridge the Gap Between the World of Her People and the World of the White Man As Told to Vada F. Carlson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1964). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, $35.00 pictorial dust jacket (chipped). Fine. First edition.

This copy contains a six line inscription by the author “May the tinge of my pioneer life help to bring about mutual understanding between the Indian and all the people. It had not been easy, but I have no regrets. I have gained for the better. Now returned to my own, to continue on”.

786. QUIDLEN, Anna. Thinking Out Loud On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private. New York: Random House, (1993). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, picto$20.00 rial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. A collection of columns by the Pulitzer Prize winning liberal journalist, thoughtfully ranging across many of the issues and events of her Baby Boom generation.

787. RADNER, Gilda. It’s Always Something. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition. The spunky comedienne’s story of her resolute war with cancer.

788. [RADZIWILL, Lee]. DUBOIS, Diana. In Her Sister’s Shadow. An Intimate biography of Lee Radziwill. Boston: Little, Brown, (1995). Illustrated with photo$20.00 graphs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Although extensively researched by the author from periodicals and personal interviews, Lee Radziwill herself was not among the later. If you think this tells you something, you’re probably right. With notes on sources, a bibliography and an index.

789. RAND, Ayn. A Collection of Nine Pamphlets. New York: Nathaniel Branden Institute, 1959-1964. Octavo, plain wrappers, contained in a blue binder. Some slight $275.00 occasional rubbing, else fine. Together fifteen items. All early printings. The binder is entitled “Lectures and Essays on Objectivism” and it includes pamphlets titled The Fascist New Frontier; The Intellectual Bankruptcy of our Age; America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business; The Objectivist Ethics; Faith and Force The Destroyers of the Modern World; Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise; Textbook of Americanism; Conservatism: An Obituary and Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand. Also included are pamphlets by Nathaniel and Barbara Branden as well as Antitrust by a man named Alan Greenspan. [see Perrin, Ayn Rand: A Descriptive Bibliography].

THE FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN

790. [RANKIN, Jeannette]. JOSEPHSON, Hannah. Jeannette Rankin, First Lady

in Congress. A Biography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1974). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Inscription in ink on front paste-down. Fine. First edition. - 234 -

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$40.00 Rankin’s accomplishment is all the more unusual since she was the only Republican running for an important office to be elected in 1916 Montana, where just two years earlier she and other suffragists had won the right for women to vote. Rankin was also a noted pacifist, voting in Congress to oppose United States entry into both WWI and WWII. With a bibliography and an index. [NAWM. Sweeney 1025].

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

791. RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. New York: Scribner's, 1938.

Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very small water$400.00 stain to right bottom front edge of jacket and text, else fine. First edition.

An important piece of regional literature, set in inland Florida, its main characters being the backwoods Baxter family, especially the idyllic twelve year old Jody and his pet fawn. The novel has been called a minor American classic, and a beautiful film version only added to its lustre. [DAB. NAWM].

792. RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek. New York: Scribner's, 1942. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, small closed tear at spine). Fine. First edition, later issue. $45.00

TWO WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

The author was born in the nation’s capital, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin, and then did newspaper work while writing stories with a consistent lack of success. In 1928 Rawlings purchased a seventy-two acre orange grove at Cross Creek, Hawthorn, Florida. Inspired by the new location, Rawlings’s metier blossomed with the 4,000 trees. [DAB. NAWM].

793. [REAGAN, Nancy]. WALLACE, Chris. First Lady. A Portrait of Nancy Reagan. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1986). Illustrated. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Ink notation of front endpaper. Fine. First edition. The text from a spectrum of observers, illuminated by splendid color photography.

A PICTURE PERFECT SPOUSE

794. REAGAN, Nancy. My Turn. The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan. With William Novak. New York: Random House, (1989). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, $20.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The life of the actress turned first lady. If not as successful at either as her actor husband turned President, she certainly has been an admirable one-woman support group, indispensible to his place in the sun and latterly as caregiver during his life’s long twilight. With an index. 795. [RED CROSS]. LEMMON, Mrs. J.G., et al. A Record of the Red Cross Work

on the Pacific Slope. Including California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho with their Auxiliaries; also Reports from Nebraska, Tennessee, and far-away Japan. Oakland: Pacific Press, 1902. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Quarto, original deep blue cloth stamped in gold with red cross labels on front cover and spine. Cover $150.00 lettering rubbed, else a very nice copy of a rare compendium. First edition. With an appendix.

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796. [REED, Alma]. MAY, Antoinette. Passionate Pilgrim. The Extraordinary Life of Alma Reed. New York: Paragon House, (1993). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Born Alma Marie Sullivan in 1889 San Francisco, as a young adult she gained employment on a local newspaper, the Call. A chance meeting with a young Mexican who she succeeded in having removed from San Quentin’s prison’s death row led to an invitation from the President of Mexico to visit south of the border. She took the country to heart, fell in love with one of its leaders, and became a dedicted pioneer researcher of its archaeology. Mexico rewarded her with the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration that country can bestow upon a foreigner. With notes and sources, a bibliography and an index.

797. [REED, Anna Morrison]. KELLER, John E., Editor. Anna Morrison Reed 1849-1921. (Lafayette, California: John E. Keller, 1979). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

While yet in her teens Reed became the sole support of her family. She travelled widely throughout northern California as a popular lecturer and writer on temperance and women’s suffrage. The editor was the author’s grandson. With a glossary, bibliography and an index. 798. [REFERENCE] BLAIN, Virginia, CLEMENTS, Patricia and GRUNDY,

Isobel. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1990). Thick octavo, $20.00 cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A unique work and essential reference. It includes every type of woman author – from poets, novelists and dramatists to diarists, translators, autobiographers, and other non-fiction writers. With indices of topics alphabetically arranged, chronological names and cross references.

799. [REFERENCE] EGLI, Ida Rae, Editor. No Rooms of Their Own. Women Writers of Early California. Berkeley: Heyday Books, (1992). Illustrated. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Fine. $20.00 The title is taken from Virginia Woolf: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”. The editor enters fifteen of them, which makes for quite an interesting household. With a bibliography.

800. [REFERENCE] JAMES, Edward T., JAMES, Janet Wilson and BOYER, Paul. S. Notable American Women. 1607-1950. A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Three volumes. Thick octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. $150.00 Along with the Dictionary of American Biography, indispensible to the subject.

801. [REFERENCE] KELLEY, Mary, Editor. Woman’s Being, Woman’s Place:

Female Identity and Vocation in American History. Boston: G.K. Hall, (1979). Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth. Rectangular white spot on front cover, some ink markings to table of contents, else about fine. First edition. With a review slip laid in. $40.00 This scholarly work includes chapters on legal records and women from 1750–1825; conditions of widowhood in seventeenth century New England; the image of women in turn-ofthe-twentieth century art; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Julia Ward Howe; Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s - 238 -

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views on marriage and divorce; and Juliette Low, the Girl Scouts and the role of American women. 802. [REFERENCE] KLAPTHOR, Margaret Brown. The First Ladies. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, (1999). Profusely illustrated. $20.00 Octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. Fine.

With: The Presidents and Their Wives from George Washington to William Jefferson Clinton. Rockville: C.M. Uberman, 1999. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Fine. With: PITCH, Anthony S. Exclusively First Ladies Trivia. (Potomac): Mino Publications, (1998). 12mo, wrappers. Fine. With: PITCH, Anthony S. Exclusively Presidential Trivia. Potomac: Mino Publications, (1998). 12mo, wrappers. Fine.

803. [REFERENCE] LUNARDINI, Christine. What Every American Should Know about Women’s History. Holbrook: Adams Media Corporation, (1997). Thick 12mo, pictorial wrappers. Fine. $20.00 A chronological précis, extending from 1607 to 1993.

804. [REFERENCE] MAGGIO, Rosalie. The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. $20.00 Boston: Beacon Press, (1992). Quarto, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Over 5,000 quotations arranged alphabetically by subject and with indices of subjects and personal names. 805. [REFERENCE] READ, Phyllis J. and WITLIEB, Bernard L. The Book of Women’s Firsts. Breakthrough Achievements of Almost 1,000 American Women. New York: Random House, (1992). Illustrated. Thick octavo, pictorial wrappers. Fine. First $20.00 edition. 806. [REFERENCE] SHARP, Susan, Compiler and Editor. Women Who Dare.

With a woodcut titled “The Old Brewery”. Image area approximately 6 x 8-3/4 inches. The image depicts a night scene of a large house in the middle ground with signboards reading “Old Brewery” and “Brenans Liquor” . A large throng of spectators outside, men, women and children trying to get inside indicate a night time scene. The image was taken from a contemporary periodical. The building known as the old brewery had been erected in 1792 and then was known as Coulter’s Brewery. By 1837 it had fallen into disrepair, becoming a notorious tenement housing 300 members of New York’s lower depths. The text credits a “Mrs. D.” of the New York Ladies’ Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the suggestion of its purchase by the group. Funds were raised, the building was razed and in its place rose the Five Points Mission House. [Sabin 57115]. 809. REICHARD, Gladys A. Dezba: Woman of the Desert. New York: J. J. Augustin, (1930). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edi$100.00 tion. A fictionalized account of the pastoral Navajo: their daily life in the southwest, social and religious organization and adaptation to the ways of whites. Reichard, an anthropologist with an increasing reputation, lived among these people and presents a sympathetic portrait of them. The outstanding photographs are by the author and her sister, Lilian. [NAWM].

810. REITER, Joan Swallow. The Old West. The Women. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, (1978). Profusely illustrated. Quarto, fabricoid with pictorial label. $20.00 Fine. First edition. Shallow popular history, well presented. With a bibliography and an index.

811. [RELIGION]. The Dominicans of San Rafael. First Chapters in the Story of the

Dominican Congregation of the Holy Name of Jesus in California. A Tribute from Many Hands. San Francisco: Dominican Convent of San Rafael, 1941. Illustrated. Octavo, red cloth, cream canvas spine, white paper label printed in red. Paper label on spine very $60.00 lightly browned, else fine. One of 750 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.

(Washington): Library of Congress, 1996. Illustrated with full page photographs. $20.00 Octavo, stiff wrappers, spiral bound. Fine.

History of the order in California, from its early days at Monterey to its later successful growth and development at San Rafael. The college there and the secondary school at nearby Sleepy Hollow are internationally recognized educational institutions. [GB II, 360].

807. [REFERENCE] SICHERMAN, Barbara and HURD, Carol Green, Editors.

812. [RESTELL, Madame]. KELLER, Allan. Scandalous Lady. The Life and Times of Madame Restell. New York’s Most Notorious Abortionist. New York: Atheneum, $20.00 1981. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A 1997 engagement calendar with interesting illustrations and commentary.

Notable American Women. The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Thick octavo, cloth, dust jacket (a little rubbed and $20.00 chipped at edges). Fine. First edition. Supplemental companion volume to Notable American Women.

808. [REFORM], Ladies of the Mission. The Old Brewery, and the New Mission

House at The Five Points. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. Illustrated. 12mo, original maroon cloth pictorially stamped in gilt with the “Old Brewery” on front cover and in blind on rear cover, lettered in gilt. Covers faded to brown, lower spine with small piece of cloth lacking, endpapers a bit browned, slight occasional foxing, else $135.00 fine. First edition. - 240 -

Madame Restell was born Anna Trow in the little hamlet of Painswick, England. Not yet twenty, she emigrated to the larger hamlet of New York in 1831 where she soon set herself up as a female physician. From midwife to abortionist Restell’s (her married name was Lohman) subrosa practice flourished until she was snared by the ruthless professional reformer Anthony Comstock in 1878. A trial date was set for April first, but Restell chose not to appear: the previous night she had slit her throat with a carving knife in her bath. The book contains a list of sources. [Dykes 47. NAW].

813. RETTON, Mary Lou and KAROLYI, Bela with John Powers. Mary Lou. Creating an Olympic Champion. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1986). Illustrated with - 241 -

photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition .

$20.00 By winning the all-around gymnastics competition at the 1984 Olympics Retten became the first American woman to capture a gold medal in that event. 814. RICHARDS, Laura. Florence Nightingale, Angel of the Crimea. A Story for Young People. New York: Appleton, 1909. Illustrated. Octavo, original red cloth pictorially stamped in blind and white. Spine rubbed and browned, bookplate on front paste$40.00 down, else fine. First edition.

Richards’ mother was Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; her father Dr. Samuel G. Howe, friend to and teacher of the blind. Richards wrote primarily children’s books, short stories and poetry until her death at the age of ninety-two. With a publisher’s innate optimism, “illustrated” consists solely of a frontispiece of Nightingale. [DAB. NAW].

815. RICHARDSON, Anna Steese. A Manual For Club Women. New York: I.C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, (1929). Octavo, green paper boards with cloth spine. $20.00 Fine. First edition. A “how to” book ranging from organizing a club, conducting a meeting, keeping minutes, to managing conventions and obtaining publicity.

THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

816. RIDE, Sally. Photograph of Sally Ride wearing her Challenger patch. 8 x 10

inches, color photograph. Fine. Inscribed “ To Rita, Reach for the Stars! Sally K. Ride”.

$200.00 Sally rode the Challenger space shuttle from June 18-24, 1983 as a member of the program’s first five person crew. (See photograph overleaf).

817. RINEHART, Mary Roberts. Through Glacier Park. Seeing America First with

Howard Eaton. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1916. Illustrated. 12mo, original green cloth, pictorially stamped in grey and black. Spine ends rubbed, else fine. First edition.

$30.00 Primarily a prolific novelist (particularly of mystery stories) this book is off her beaten track, being a record of a 300 mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback. Rinehart’s three sons all had a literary bent. One, Stanley, became a senior member of the publishing house Farrar& Rinehart, under whose imprint many of her novels appeared. [DAB. NAWM].

818. RIPLEY, Alexandra. Scarlett. The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind. (New York): Warner Books, (1991). Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. It’s a truism that most sequels don’t measure up to the original. Margaret Mitchell, a one-book author, realized this, even if Ms. Ripley and her publisher did not. 819. ROBE, Lucy Barry. Co-Starring Famous Women and Alcohol. Minneapolis:

CompCare Publications, (1986). Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed along edges). Fine. First edition. $25.00 The author is herself a recovered alcoholic. More insightful than merely gossipy, this

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readable book tracks the records of celebrities to point out the patterns of alcoholism and the paths to sobriety. With two alcohol screening tests, list of acknowledgements, bibliography and an index. 820. [ROE, Jane]. MCCORVEY, Norma with MEISLER, Andy. I am Roe. My Life, Roe v. Wade, and Freedom of Choice. N. p.: Harper Collins, (1994). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 Agree or disagree, Roe vs. Wade was the Supreme Court case that guaranteed freedom of choice for all American women. With an index.

821. ROGERS, Agnes. Women Are Here To Stay. The Durable Sex In Its Infinite Variety Through Half A Century of American Life. New York: Harper, (1949). With 502 illustrations. Folio, pictorial boards. Very slight edgewear, else fine. First edition.

$45.00 A fascinating coffee table book depicting innumerable women and a number of men. Endless entertainment in 38,000 words of text and 502 pictures. With an index. 822. [ROGERS, Ginger]. CROCE, Arlene. The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Book. New York: Galahad Books, (1972). Profusely illustrated with photographs including two “flip” sequences. Square octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (spine $45.00 sunned with faint wear). Fine. First edition. Nostalgia guaranteed: Ginger and Fred, the quintessential dancing duo of the ages. While tripping the light fantastic Rogers generally has been considered the lesser talent, yet she could respond with the unassailable quip “I had to do everything Fred did, backwards and in heels”.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

823. ROGERS, Ginger. Ginger. My Story. (New York): Harper Collins, (1991).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $50.00 First edition. Signed by Rogers on the title page.

The career of the versatile Missouri-born Virginia McMath began with winning a statewide Charleston dance contest in Texas. 1930 saw her on Broadway in Girl Crazy introducing the classic Gershwin tunes “Embracable You” and “But Not for Me”. A decade later she won the Best Actress Oscar for her dramatic lead in the film Kitty Foyle. With a filmography of her seventy-three movies, a list of her stage appearances and an index. 824. ROGERS, Mary Beth and SMITH, Sherry A. and SCOTT, Janelle D. We

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Can Fly. Stories of Katherine Stinson and Other Gutsy Texas Women. Austin: Ellen C. Temple, (1983). Illustrated. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers (also issued in cloth). About $25.00 fine. First edition.

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In 1912 Stinson (1891-1977) became the fourth licensed woman pilot in the United States and rose to stardom on the air show circuit. Her younger sister Marjorie became a leading flight instructor. Other Texas-style profiles include the director Margo Jones; civil rights crusader Christia Adair; Dr. Sofie Herzog; inventor Bette Graham and the suffragist Jane McCallum. There are also chapters on women’s air force service pilots (WASPs) of World War II and American’s first female astronauts. With notes on sources. - 245 -

825. ROGERS, Natalie. Emerging Woman. A Decade of Midlife Transitions. Point Reyes, California: Personal Press, (1980). Illustrated. Octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. Light cover wear, else about fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author. $40.00 A self-published work that has been translated into a number of languages, striking a responsive chord in women readers around the world. The title defines the story, and it is an interesting and still timely one. Laid in is a seventeen page photocopy “Dr. Natalie Rogers as Interviewed by Tony Merry”, inscribed by Rogers “this will be edited and published in a British journal. I’ll send you a final copy, but thought you’d enjoy this”.

826. ROGERS, Natalie. The Creative Connection. Expressive Arts as Healing. Palo Alto: Science & Behavior Books, (1993). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, picto$40.00 rial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Rogers is a multi-talented lady who uses movement, sound, painting, sculpture, writing and guided imagery to draw out and enhance personal creativity and well-being. In this respect she has taken the philosophy of her famous father, the person centered approach psychologist Carl Rogers, to a new dimension. With an appendix, bibliography and an index.

AN AMERICAN CULINARY HIGH SPOT

827. ROMBAUER, Irma S. The Joy of Cooking. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes

with a Casual Culinary Chat. (St. Louis: A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931). Illustrated by Marian Rombauer. Octavo, original blue pebbled cloth lettered in gilt on front cover. Spine slightly sunned, bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. First edition. There is an ink inscription on front free endpaper “To Margaret from Mother Jan 20th, 1932” and a recipe for “Hermann’s New Year’s Punch” following last page of text. $3,500.00

Sandwiched between is arguably the most successful cookbook of the twentieth century. As with many towering best sellers, especially those of a non-fiction variety (Alcoholics Anonymous, Emily Post’s Etiquette, the Girl Scout Manual– to cite some examples) the actual first edition is as rare as proverbial hen’s teeth. This is especially true of a privately published work, such as The Joy of Cooking. The recently widowed (a suicide) Rombauer plunged her $1,500.00 of liquid assets into its printing. Depression era word of mouth sales attracted the attention of the Indiana based publisher Bobbs-Merrill. Since their 1936 edition, over fifteen million copies have been sold worldwide. Rombauer’s work differed from the legion of previous works on the subject in two ways: the pure simplicity of the recipes with their ingredients printed in bold face type with sequential instructions was followed by a chatty, breezy and on the mark banter. In 1995 when the New York Public Library listed its choice of the 150 most influential American books, Rombauer’s was the only cookbook included. Still in print after seventy years, it is an American culinary staple. The charming silhouette illustrations to the chapter headings are by the author’s daughter who would oversee some of the many later editions. [Bitting p. 403. Brown 1963. Cagle & Stafford 653. DAB. NAWM].

828. [ROOSEVELT, Edith Kermit]. MORRIS, Sylvia Jukes. Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Portrait of a First Lady. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980). Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (tiny tear at top of spine). Preliminaries through p.21 not trimmed properly and have been cut open, some a little $20.00 roughly, else fine. First edition. - 246 -

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The biography of Theodore Roosevelt’s childhood sweetheart who would become his second wife, mother of their four sons, stepmother to the madcap Alice and an outstanding first lady. With bibliography, notes and an index. [Sweeney 1051]. 829. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor and HICKOK, Lorena A. Ladies of Courage. New York: Putnam’s, (1954). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a little chipped at ends and a tad sunned). Free front endpaper with two tiny red specks, else fine. First $250.00 edition, unaccountably scarce and rare in dust jacket. This collaboration between the long time close friends represents Hickok’s first book, although she had spent many years as a newspaper journalist and magazine writer. “The inspiring story of women’s struggle for recognition in American public life” has a chapter on co-author Roosevelt by Hickok alone. With an index. [DAB. NAWM].

830. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor and MACGREGOR, Frances Cooke. This is America. New York: Putnam’s, 1942. Illustrated with photographs by Macgregor. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a little chipped at top and rubbed at bottom). Ink inscription on front endpaper, else fine. Signed by Macgregor on the dedication $100.00 page.

An overview of the United States in word and picture from the mountains to the prairies to the ocean... The later section turns to a typical American town for its focus, here represented by Hingham, Massachusetts. From its main street in winter to the fourth of July, from sea to shining sea, the Macgregor photographs and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s interpretation of them make for an illuminating visage of America. After serving as first lady longer than any other (1933-1945) she became a delegate to the United Nations and was instrumental in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights passage . [DAB. NAWM]. 831. [ROOSEVELTS]. CAROLI, Betty Boyd. The Roosevelt Women. [New York]:

Basic Books, (1998). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket . Name in ink on endpaper. Fine. First edition.

The author has written extensively on America’s first ladies. In this work she skillfully weaves nine Roosevelt women through their lives and times. With extensive notes, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 1051]. 832. [ROSE, Ernestine]. SUHL, Yuri. Ernestine L. Rose and the Battle for Human

Rights. New York: Reynal, (1959). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket $20.00 (spine a little browned, spine ends slightly chipped). Fine. First edition.

Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski (1810-1892) was the daughter of a domineering Polish rabbi. Her journey through life took her to Germany, France, England and, in 1836, the United States. She became active in all the reform movements of her time, but principally the fight for women’s rights. This is the sole biography of Rose, today considered one of the greatest pioneers of the suffrage movement. With an appendix, notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 833. ROSEN, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood. Prostitution in America 1900-1918.

FIVE LEADING LADIES

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With notes, a bibliography and an index.

$20.00

834. [ROSENBERG, Ethel]. PHILIPSON, Ilene. Ethel Rosenberg. Beyond the Myths. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Small ink mark on upper corner half title. Fine. First edition.

On the evening of June 19th, 1952 just before twilight would usher in the Jewish Sabbath, Ethel Rosenberg, along with her husband Julius were electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the crime of espionage. It culminated a protracted series of appeals including twice denied executive clemency from then President Eisenhower. The half century since has only deepened the shadows cast over the famous case. Were the couple victims of the rampant anti-Communist hysteria of the day? However the scales of justice weigh, the author, a sociologist, provides a balanced account. With extensive notes and an index.

835. [ROSS, Betsy]. PARRY, Edwin. Betsy Ross Quaker Rebel, Being the True Story of the Romantic Life of the Maker of the First American Flag. Philadelphia: Winston, (1930). Illustrated. Large octavo, two-tone cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, unusual blue cloth dust jacket pictorially stamped in gilt, silk book mark. Fine. One of $50.00 285 copies, signed by the author. Parry was a lineal descendant of Betsy Ross. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1076].

836. [ROSS, Diana]. TARABORRELLI, J. Randy. Call Her Miss Ross. The

Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross. (New York): Carol Publishing, (1989). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edi$20.00 tion. A tell-all (taking 585 pages to do so). With notes, sources and an index.

837. ROSS, Diana. Secrets of a Sparrow. Memoirs. New York: Villard Books, 1993. Illustrated with photographs, some in color. Octavo, boards, fabricoid spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. For the defense: Ross’ musical memoirs of a three decade career as a show biz icon. With a chronology of her work. 838. ROSS, Ishbel. Charmers and Cranks. Twelve Famous American Women Who

Defied the Convention. Carbondale: Harper & Row, (1965). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth , pictorial dust jacket (very lightly rubbed). Upper edge of covers slightly browned, else $20.00 fine. First edition.

Among those charmers and cranks not presented in greater depth elsewhere in this catalogue are Margaret and Kate Fox, Mrs. Jack Gardner and Madame Jumel. The Scottish-born author penned numerous popular biographies of American women. With notes and an index. 839. ROSS, Lillian. Takes. Stories from The Talk of the Town. New York: Congdon &

Weed, (1983). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed by $40.00 the author. Town”.

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840. ROSS, Nancy Wilson. Westward The Women. New York: Knopf, 1944. Octavo, $40.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some wear). Fine. First edition.

An entertaining anecdotal overview of the subject with some interesting observations by the author along the way. With a suggested reading list. [Adams, Six Guns 1907]. 841. ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine. Old & Rare. Thirty Years in

the Book Business. New York: Abner Schram, (1974). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, picto$35.00 rial dust jacket (horizontal tear on spine). Fine. First edition.

In addition to being partners in a long established antiquarian book business, each of the scholars have lectured and written extensively on rare books and the history of printing and publishing. This book concludes with a checklist of their selection of 272 literary items that had passed through their hands. With an index.

842. RUSSELL, Lillian. Sweet Caporal Premium Lillian Russell photo. N.p: n.d. Approximately 2-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches, on cardboard. Fine. $35.00 The photograph shows Lillian Russell facing the camera wearing a modiste’s elaborate effort, the verso is printed with the Sweet Caporal Cigarette slogans. Her mother was a well-known feminist, her father a newspaper publisher. Helen Louise Leonard, youngest of their five daughters, was born in Clinton, Iowa during the first year of the Civil War. She grew up to enjoy a long career as an actress and singer named Lillian Russell. An internationally famous beauty, she was her era’s apotheosis of the feminine ideal. [DAB. NAW]. 843. [SACAJAWEA]. HEBARD, Grace Raymond. Sacajawea. A Guide and Interpreter of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with an Account of the Travels of Toussaint Charbonneau, and of Jean Baptiste, the Expedition Papoose. Glendale: Clark, 1933. Illustrated and with a fold-out map. Octavo, red cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Owner’s bookplate on front endpaper. Fine. First edition, one of 750 copies. $400.00 This first edition is one of the scarcer Arthur H. Clark publications. [Howes H-383. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1092. Clark and Brunet 117].

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

844. SALE, Edith Tunis. Old Time Belles and Cavaliers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1912. With 61 illustrations. Royal octavo, three quarter blue morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Small bump to top edge of front cover, slight soiling of cloth, trifling rubbing of edges, a few pages carelessly opened, else fine. First edition. The author $150.00 Rupert Hughes’s copy, with pencilled annotations in his hand. The author writes less of colonial cavaliers than of belles, among whom are first ladies Martha Dandridge (Washington) and Dolly Payne (Madison); Theodosia Burr (daughter of Aaron); Elizabeth Schulyer (wife of Alexander Hamilton); Peggy Shippen (wife of Benedict Arnold) and such disparate women as the legendary heroine Pocahontas and Betsy Patterson, who married Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. With an index. [Howes S-51]. 845. SAMSON, Rebecca Middleton. Schoolgirl Allies. Sherry and Tad in a Belgian - 252 -

Boarding-School. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, (1917). Illustrated by Clara Olmstead. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in black, brown, gray and red, lettered in gilt. Spine a little browned, spine ends and corners very slightly rubbed, endpapers cracked over joints, else fine. First edition. Signed by the author Owen $45.00 Wister on front free endpaper.

A typical entry aimed at the teen age market of the time. Curiously, we have not been able to trace any information regarding the author or to deduce why Wister would have owned this copy.

846. SANDOZ, Mari. Old Jules. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. Illustrated with twenty photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (a little worn). Cloth slightly foxed and spine $100.00 browned, else fine. First trade edition.

The author’s first book, winner of the Atlantic Non-Fiction $5,000 Prize for 1935 (although the judges had rejected it two years previously). It was also selected by the Book of the Month Club and these events launched the author on a distinguished literary career as historian, teacher, biographer and novelist. Her eminently readable writings include a biography of the Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn and some novels which reflect her concerns for social justice and the relationship of people to the land. About this book Mari Sandoz related: “Old Jules is the biography of my father, Jules Arni Sandoz; I have also tried in a larger sense to make it the biography of a community, the upper Niobrara country in western Nebraska”. From this overview, the dust jacket blurb details “Old Jules had four wives: one was a slattern; the next was driven insane; the third ran off with an accordion player; the fourth bore him his six children, of whom Mari, the author of this unique contribution to American biography and history, was the second”. Although Sandoz spent much of her later years living in New York’s Greenwich Village, according to her wishes she was buried in the sandhills of Nebraska. [DAB. NAWM].

EVOLUTION VS. DEVOLUTION?

847. SANGER, Margaret. Editor. The Birth Control Review. Official Organ of the American Birth Control League. (New York: New York Women’s Publishing), 1922-23. Volumes VI and VII, January 1922-December, 1923. Quarto, gilt-lettered blue cloth. $600.00 Fine.

The periodical’s masthead proclaimed “Four Steps to Our Goal - Agitation, Education, Organization, Legislation”. With its motto “To Breed a Race of Thoroughbreds” the periodical stressed the eugenic benefits of contraception, thereby evincing Sanger’s metamorphosis from socialist to social Darwinist. Sanger had earlier been indicted for sending birth control literature through the mails. Although a variety of birth control devices were widely known, used, and described in physician’s manuals, Sanger (a trained nurse and midwife) found that none had been clinically tested. In 1923, Sanger succeeded in creating the first doctor-staffed birth control clinic and research bureau in the United States. [DAB. NAWM. See Browne p. 120].

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TWO OCCASIONS

848. SANGER, Margaret. Margaret Sanger. An Autobiography. New York: Norton,

(1938). Royal octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (some edgewear). A bit of browning to endpapers from jacket flaps, faint foxing to preliminaries, otherwise fine. First edition. Inscribed twice by Sanger, first in January 1939 and again in 1953. Sanger’s autograph - 253 -

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$750.00 This autobiography of the birth control (she coined the term) crusader and champion of her original claim that women have a fundamental right to control their own bodies has been criticized as highly selective and not always reliable. Nevertheless .... [DAB. NAWM]. 849. [SANGER, Margaret]. CHESLER, Ellen. Woman of Valor. Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992). $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Sanger was the organizer of the American Birth Control League, the national lobbying organization which, twenty-one years later in 1942, would become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. With extensive notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

850. SCHAEFER, Carol. The Other Mother. A Woman’s Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption. (New York): Soho Press, (1991). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictori$20.00 al dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

For every offspring given up for adoption there is the tale of the “birth mother”. In an event of lifelong implications, few women are callous. Most are caring, some to the point of this true narrative in which a mother seeks to have a second birth with the child. It’s a very real situation, one not to be judged by non-participants. Each case will suggest its own conclusions, but all have their germination from the seed of a mother’s love. 851. [SCHLESINGER, Julia]. The Carrier Dove. San Francisco: (Library of

Spiritual Experience), 1889. Volume VI. Nos. 1 -52. Illustrated. Quarto, custom bound in full brown calf ornamented and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers. $2,000.00 Professionally rebacked, interior fine.

Our search for information concerning Julia Schlesinger and The Carrier Dove led us to the Schlesinger library at Radcliffe (there is no connection) and then to the California State Library. There, Mrs. Sibylle Zemitas of the California History Section proved quite helpful. Noting that Schlesinger’s book Workers in the Vineyards is listed in only four libraries, she searched their “California Information File 1846-1945” and the “California Death Index 1945+” and the “California Newspaper Index: 1904-1949”, to no avail. Mrs. Zemitas did forward a photocopy of the San Francisco Call May 27, 1896, which reproduces a line-drawing of Julia Schlessinger [sic] on page ten, captioning her as secretary and Director-elect of the State Association of Spiritualists. The text notes that she was also elected State librarian and that she resided in San Jose. Back to the Carrier Dove. The last issue of the year on December 28, 1889 carries a biography of Julia Schlesinger which is frustrating in its generalities. A vague reference to her having been born and reared in the west, a mention that she has children, originally started the Carrier Dove as a children’s paper and that in January she will also be writing for a forthcoming monthly periodical The Gleamer. The facing page contains a line drawing of an intelligent looking woman of early middle age which the “biography” calls “an excellent likeness”. Various of the fifty-two mastheads list her as Editor, Co-publisher and member of the paper’s Board of Directors. An earlier issue presented a frontispiece of Dr. Louis Schlesinger (presumably Julia’s husband) together with only a slightly more illuminating biographical sketch. Mrs. Zemitas concludes her informative letter: “It is very exciting to have been able to acquire The Carrier Dove for 1889, a rare find with interesting topic. Much has been written on - 254 -

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spiritualism in California and in San Francisco. It seems that prominent women of the movement are only mentioned in most sources...” (see illustration p. 256). 852. SCHLISSEL, Lillian, Editor. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. New

York: Schocken Books, (1982). Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine faded, slightly chipped and rubbed). Fine. First edition.

$30.00 The editor received her Ph.D. from Yale University and became a leading American studies scholar. A well presented overview. [Mintz 216, 280, 401]. 853. SCHREIBER, Le Anne. Midstream. New York: Viking, (1990). Octavo,

boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (spine somewhat faded). Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. First edition. $20.00

Nearing the end of her third decade the author had become the first female editor of the New York Times sports section and then the deputy editor of its book review. She chucked it over for trout fishing, gardening and the rural life upstate in the Hudson River valley. Schreiber’s bucolic new beginning was overshadowed by her mother’s ending from pancreatic cancer. 854. SCOTT, Marian. Chautaugua Caravan. New York: Appleton-Century, 1939.

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine a little faded, $25.00 some minor staining on rear panel). Fine. First edition. A look at a bygone era: life on the Chautaugua circuit, by one of the troupers.

855. [SCRIPPS, Ellen Browning]. BRITT, Albert. Ellen Browning Scripps.

Journalist and Idealist. Oxford: University Press for Scripps College, 1960. With a frontispiece. Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. $45.00

Through hard work as a newspaper writer and publisher in a rising newspaper enterprise with her siblings, Scripps became a wealthy woman. An inate fear of leaving that fortune homeless, coupled with a variety of interests, led her name to be connected to a plethora of philanthropies, including the Scripps Institute of Oceonography, Scripps Memorial Hospital and Scripps College for Women. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1115].

“WOMAN SUFFRAGE ... AN UNMIXED EVIL”

856. SEAWELL, Molly Elliot. The Ladies’ Battle. New York: Macmillan, 1911. 12mo, original maroon cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition. $40.00

An anti-suffrage tract by a popular and prolific writer. Seawell (1860-1916) believed that votes for women would lead to a general revolution, and that women had sufficient influence without the vote. She also called for the abolition of divorce. Even viewed from the distance of nintey years it is hard to reconcile the author’s dedication “To those of my country women who think for themselves” with the last page of text which concludes “I believe woman suffrage to be an unmixed evil”. [DAB]. 857. [SEDGWICK, Catharine M.]. DEWEY, Mary E., Editor. Life and Letters of

Catharine M. Sedgwick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two portraits. Octavo, original green cloth, ruled in black and gilt, lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Preliminary and terminal leaves a little browned, portraits a lit- 256 -

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tle foxed, small chip from cloth on back cover, else fine. First edition. Scarce. $125.00

A pioneer in blending the beauty of American scenery with local customs, Catharine Sedgwick (1789-1867) was also an author whose fiction was imbued with moral purpose. A New England Tale, Redwood, Hope Leslie, Clarence and others established Sedgwick as the most popular female American author prior to Harriet Beecher Stowe. As a person, she was held in high regard by some gifted friends. The actress Fanny Kemble Butler, for instance, described her as “one of the most charming, most amiable and most excellent persons” she had ever known. The work contains a reminiscence by William Cullen Bryant. [BAL 17428. DAB. NAW]. 858. SEE, Lisa. On Gold Mountain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1995). Illustrated

with photographs and drawings. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 First edition. The multi-generational saga of an immigrant Chinese family’s American experiences, their fascinating history set down by one of its talented progeny. With a list of sources.

859. SETON, Anya. Dragonwyck. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1944. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slight rubbing to spine ends). Fine. First edition, very scarce $75.00 in jacket. The author is herself the daughter of two writers, Grace Gallatin Seton and Ernest Thompson Seton. A 1946 film of the novel starred the beautiful Gene Tierney with a distinguished cast which included Anne Revere, Spring Byington and Jessica Tandy in supporting roles.

860. [SETON, Elizabeth Ann]. DIRVIN, Joseph I. Mrs. Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cuday, (1962). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Seton (1774-1821) was a Roman Catholic convert who became the founder and leader of the first American sisterhood. With a list of sources, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1125]. 861. [SETON, Grace Gallatin]. Nimrod’s Wife. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907.

Illustrated. Octavo, original grey cloth decoratively stamped in green and red with pic$100.00 torial label on front cover, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition.

Outdoor adventures in the Rockies, Sierras and Canada. Some of the illustrations are by the nature writer and artist Ernest Thompson Seton, husband of the author. [DAB. NAWM. See Browne p. 126]. 862. [SEXTON, Anne]. MIDDLEBROOK, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton. A

Biography. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1991. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, $20.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Sexton started writing poetry at the suggestion of her psychotherapist. In the ensuing eighteen years she produced a dozen books, winning a Pulitzer Prize for her third volume, Live or Die. With an appendix , sources and notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM].

863. SHEEHY, Gail. Passages. Predictable Crises of Adult Life. New York: Dutton, $45.00 1976. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Review copy. - 258 -

To quote Margaret Mead: “A lively passionate and readable message to the present generation in middle life. Passages shows that there is a pattern in our lives, a pattern of adult developmental stages, which once recognized, can be managed”. With notes and sources, bibliography and an index. 864. SHEEHY, Gail. Pathfinders. Overcoming the Crises of Adult Life and Finding Your Own Path to Well-Being. New York: Morrow, 1981. Octavo, boards, cloth spine $20.00 lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The author had grown up as Gail Henion in Larchmont, New York and graduated from Mamaroneck High School and the University of Vermont. She spent much time researching this work, following up with another insightful volume to her best-selling Passages. With appendices, notes and sources, a bibliography and an index. Accompanied by San Francisco Examiner Magazine June 18, 1985 and The University of Vermont Quarterly Spring 1996, both of which contain cover stories about Sheehy.

865. SHERWOOD, John, Mrs. Manners and Social Usages. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Small octavo, original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, decorative top border stamped in silver and green, top edge gilt. Owner’s signature on front endpaper. $60.00 About fine.

New and enlarged edition, revised by the author. Includes chapters on women as leaders, good and bad society, weddings, balls and dancing, correspondence, dress, dining, servants, contrasts of American and English etiquette, how to treat English people, casino life abroad, etc. [DAB. NAW].

866. SHERWOOD, M[ary] E[lizabeth] W. Epistle to Posterity, Being Rambling Recollections of Many years of My Life. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Octavo, original tan cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, black and white, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Some wear to ends of spine, ink $25.00 inscription on endpaper, else fine. First edition.

Memoirs of the author of Manners and Social Usages. Sherwood (1826-1903) was the daughter of a member of Congress, the wife of a New York lawyer, an active society woman and - often out of financial necessity- a fairly active writer of novels, poetry, and journalism. Her etiquette book, which went through many editions, codified the minutiae of Gilded Age manners. [Davis and Joyce 4063. DAB. NAW].

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

867. SHIELDS, Carol. The Stone Diaries. (New York): Viking, (1994). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First U.S. edition. $135.00 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, it is “one ordinary woman’s story of her journey through life. Daisy Stone Goodwill, bewildered by her inability to understand her own place in her own life, attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.” (from the dust jacket). The book also won Canada’s Governor General’s Award–the highest literary prize given in that country–as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. 868. SIBLEY, Celestine. Turned Funny. A Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, - 259 -

(1988). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. With 1988 photograph of author, review slip, and press release about the author from the publishers laid in. $25.00 Once past the moronically unfunny photograph of the author on the title page and repeated in color on the dust jacket, the reader will find the story of a perceptive southern reporter who went to work at age fifteen for the Mobile Press Register . She subsequently graduated to the Atlanta Constitution, where during forty years Sibley also found time to author thirteen books. 869. [SIGOURNEY, Lydia Huntley]. CLEMENT, J., Editor. Noble Deeds of

American Women; with Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent. Introduction by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney. Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby, 1851. Frontispiece portrait of Martha Washington. Octavo, original green decoratively blindstamped cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine faded although gilt still quite bright, occasional foxing $75.00 throughout, else fine. First edition.

First printing of Sigourney’s introduction. Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) was known as “the sweet singer of Hartford” and became one of the earliest American women to attain a successful literary career. She accomplished this despite the handicap of a rather pedantic husband who initially forced her to write anonymously. By 1830 her success, coupled with his lack of it, put that to rights. Sigourney concludes her introduction: “Sisters, are not our rights sufficiently comprehensive, the sanctuary of home, the throne of the heart, the moulding of the whole mass of mind, in its first formation? Have we not power enough in all realms of sorrow and suffering, over all forms of want and ignorance, amid all ministries of love, from the cradle-dream to the sealing of the sepulchre? Let us be content and faithful, aye, more, – grateful and joyful – making this brief life a hymn of praise, until admitted to that choir which knows no discord, and where melody is eternal.” This flowery appeal to the status quo earned the following endorsement from the Cleveland Herald: “The introduction, by Mrs. Sigourney, contains more common sense views of woman’s sphere, duties, and pleasures than ever emenated from a score of Woman’s Rights Conventions.” The publisher’s catalogue bound at the back of the volume also notes that J. Clements, Esq. is “the popular editor of the Western Literary Messanger”. Perhaps more to the point than any of the foregoing is an endorsement from one W.H.C. Hosmer: “This work supplies a void in our literature. No library is complete without it.” In truth, the compendium contains some anecdotes and snippets of early American womanhood not readily found elsewhere, such as “Temperance Movement Among Mohawk Women” pp. 448-9. [BAL 17871. DAB. NAW]. 870. SILKO, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead. New York: Simon & Schuster,

(1991). Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 A vast (762 pages) novel set in the Indian southwest of yesterday and today, written by a native of the area. 872. SILLS, Beverly. Bubbles. A Self-Portrait. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1976).

Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, with the egregious spelling error in the first sentence. $20.00 The engaging Brooklyn-born Beverly Sills, né Belle Miriam Silverman, in a handsome - 260 -

production of the acclaimed soprano’s life in grand opera. 873. SIMKHOVITCH, Mary K. Neighborhood. My Story of Greenwich House. New York: Norton, (1938). Illustrated with photographs, including a frontispiece of the author. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very minor wear). Name in ink on endpaper, $35.00 else fine. First edition. Organized in 1902, Greenwich House was the base of operations for Simkhovitch’s dual occupations as settlement worker and housing reformer. Born Mary Melinda Kingsbury in 1867, she dedicated her life to reviving the urban neighborhood and at her death in 1951 had many accomplishments to her credit. [DAB. NAWM].

DEDICATED TO THE NEW YORK SKATING CLUB

874. [SKATING]. BROKAW, Irving. The Art of Skating Its History and

Development with Practical Directions and Instantaneous Action Photographs of Celebrated Skaters of Many Nationalities. New York: Scribner’s, 1926. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Quarto, original dark green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Spine gilt slightly rubbed, very light foxing to prelininary and terminal leaves, else fine. Originally published in London in 1910, this updates the subsequent $75.00 years, and is the first clothbound American edition. In addition to a chapter on skating for women and another for children, there are sections on skate dancing, pairs, fours and carnivals in which women are well represented. With a record of world championships and a bibliography. 875. SKINNER, William, Compiler. The Belle Skinner Collection of Old Musical

Instruments. Holyoke, Massachusetts: n.p., (1933). Well illustrated, with numerous $65.00 color plates. Quarto, original peach decorated wrappers. Fine. First edition.

The collection, including comprehensive descriptions of both makers and instuments, covers early keyboard instuments, plucked and bowed string instruments, wind instruments, early pianos, old manusripts and editions, a gradual, oriental instruments, etc.. William Skinner sponsored the lavish production as a memorial to his sister. A co-compiler of the notes has inscribed this copy on the front free endpaper. With a bibliography, catalogue of similar collections and an index.

SLAVERY It is not generally recognized that not all slaveowners were caucasian. American indians of what became known as the “civilized” tribes owned black slaves. Even less well known is the fact that some free blacks were themselves slaveowners. Listed below are four original slavery documents, two of which are unusual testimony to the complications created by the recent demands for slavery reparations made by educated people who should know better.

A DAUGHTER BUYS HER MOTHER’S FREEDOM

876. [SLAVERY]. ADs. County of St. Louis: 29 April, 1834. Approximately 6-1/2” x 8”, one page. Some slight chipping in fold and lower corner, else fine. $450.00

A most unusual deed of emancipation in which Priscilla Cooner emancipated “my moth- 261 -

er and slave, Lydia Robinson whom I purchased of Dermot Robinson of Madison County, Missouri...”. Signed with Priscilla’s mark and also signed by a witness.

AN EXTRAORDINARY MANUMISSION

877. [SLAVERY]. ADs. County of St. Louis: 6 June , 1835. Approximately 13” x 8”, $1,000.00 one page. Separated at folds, browned. Deed of emancipation for “Maria a negro woman aged about 45 years” from “Henry Taylor (a colored man) ... after my death and not before”. The document is signed with an “X”, “his mark” and by two witnesses. 878. [SLAVERY]. ADs. City of St. Louis: 10 April, 1838. Approximately 6-3/4” x 73/4”, one page. Separated at folds, worn at edges. $275.00

Bill of sale of a Negro woman named Jinny, about 35 years old, warranted as sound healthy and a “slave for life” to John Simmonds, Jr., for $500.00. Verso, John Simmonds Jr. sold the same woman to a Mr. Benjamin Ellenwood for $20.00, “but it is expressly understood that I give no warranty as to health or soundness”, June 26, 1840. Benjamin Ellenwood then sold her to Jinny Cahonnie for $20.00, “without any warranty whatever” on September 24, 1840.

879. [SLAVERY]. ADs. : 23 December, 1856. Approximately 12” x 7-3/4”, one page. $250.00 Browned at outer folds, else fine. Deed of emancipation. Griffin Brander, “out of consideration of love and affection .... and in consideration of the sum of one dollar” emancipated his daughter Mary Ellen Brander, “who is of copper color” from her state of slavery. Again signed with an “X”. Signed by the two witnesses to the previous document.

CATTLEWOMEN CATALOGUED

880. [SLOAN, Julie]. Women in the Cattle Country, Catalogue Three. Austin: Dorothy Sloan Books, n.d. (1986). Illustrated. Tall octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. Spine a trifle faded, else fine. One of 500 copies, the design and typography by William $60.00 Holman.

Laid in is a pencilled note “Pls pardon the condition but this is the last copy other than 4 archives copies. ds” The polished descriptions in this first-of-a-kind catalogue are by Julie Sloan, daughter of the publisher. With a list of references cited and an extensive index.

881. [SLOANE, Florence Adele]. AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. Maverick in Mauve. The Diary of a Romantic Age. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 A picture of life among the rich and famous. Florence Sloane was the grandmother of Auchincloss’s wife. 882. [SMEDLEY, Agnes]. MACKINNON, Janice R. and Stephen R. Agnes

Smedley. The Life and Times of an American Radical. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1988). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jack$20.00 et. Fine. First edition. Smedley was born in a two room cabin in rural Missouri. She died in Oxford, England. - 262 -

Her ashes are buried in the Cemetary for Revolutionaries near Beijing, China. The Mackinnon’s biography paints a fascinating picture of this vagabond activist. With notes, a bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1142, listing the publication date as 1987 in error].

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

883. SMILEY, Jane. A Thousand Acres. New York: Crowell, 1991. Tall octavo, $50.00 boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. The author’s modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s play King Lear recently saw a film adaptation. 884. SMITH, Dama Margaret (Mrs. White Mountain Smith). Hopi Girl. (Palo Alto): Stanford University Press, 1931. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, yellow cloth lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $125.00 With a large original silver print photograph bookplate of some indian ruins on front pastedown. No tourist turned journalist, the author’s credentials included ten years service at the Grand Canyon National Park, marriage to its chief ranger, and an abiding “hands on” interest in all aspects of indian life and lore, as reflected in this volume.

885. [SMITH, Jessie Wilcox]. NUDELMAN, Edward D. Jessie Wilcox Smith American Illustrator. Gretna (Louisiana): Pelican Publishing, 1990. Profusely illustrated, with many color plates. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First (trade) edi$125.00 tion. With the prospectus, and a chronology.

The name of Jessie Wilcox Smith ranks among the most important artists of the golden age of American illustration. Her paintings for such classics as Heidi, Mother Goose, A Child’s Garden of Verses, and Little Women define the texts. Prolific with a capital P, Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping magazine for over fifteen years. A postage stamp was recently issued in her honor. [NAW].

886. [SMITH, Jessie Wilcox]. SCHNESSEL, S. Michael. Jessie Wilcox Smith. New York: Crowell, n.d. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $75.00 Smith was leader of the distaff side of the Brandywine school of art, founded by Howard Pyle. The volume features four appendices which give detailed listings of her illustrated books, magazine covers, illustrations and posters. [NAW. Sweeney 1148].

887. [SMITH, Lillian]. GLADNEY, Margaret Rose, Editor. How Am I To Be Heard? The Letters of Lillian Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1993). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, an advance review $40.00 copy.

This southern liberal’s best known books are Strange Fruit (1944), an interracial love story and Killers of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of race relations below the Mason-Dixon line. Smith (1897-1966) opened Dixie’s closets and rattled the skeletons of race, class, gender and sexuality to some powerful disapproval. With notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAWM]. 888. [SMITH, Margaret Chase]. GRAHAM, Frank Jr.. Margaret Chase Smith - 263 -

Woman of Courage. New York: Day, (1964). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very $25.00 lightly rubbed at spine ends). Fine. First edition. With review slip laid in.

Smith was the first woman to win her seat in the United States Senate as well as being the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. Advance reveiw slip laid in this favorable biography of the then Senator from Maine and Presidential aspirant. A gremlin has also laid in an unsigned dissenting opinion: “Mrs. Smith is an intellectual, but I do not believe she is strong enough for President at this time. The country is in too much of a chaos”. With an index. [Sweeney 1151]. 889. [SMITH, Mary Ettie V.]. GREEN, Nelson Winch. Fifteen Years Among the

Mormons: Being the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith, Late of Great Salt Lake City: A Sister of One of the Mormon High Priests, She Having Been Personally Acquainted with Most of the Mormon Leades, and Long in the Confidence of the “Prophet” Brigham Young. New York: Charles Scribner, 1858. Frontispiece portrait . Octavo, original mauve cloth, decoratively stamped in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. Covers faded to brown, a little rubbed on edges and spine ends, front free endpaper has upper right corner clipped, slight waterstaining in margins of approximately first 50 $250.00 pages, else fine. First edition of a rare book.

“Mrs. Smith’s narrative is in the first person, but authorship is claimed by Green in the introduction.” - Flake. Our title page imprints the publisher’s address as 124 Grand Street, Wagner-Camp has the firm located at 377 & 379 Broadway. “Mary Smith participated in the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo in 1846 and in the early trek to Salt Lake. She became disaffected and returned in 1856 across the plains”. (Wagner-Camp). Everett Graff commented that “one cannot read her story and believe she was entirely without blame’”. . [Sabin 38553, WagnerCamp 300:1 (variant). Flake, 3703. Graff 1640].

890. SONTAG, Susan. The Volcano Lover. A Romance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992). With a frontispiece. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Ink inscription on front paste-down. Fine. First trade edition. $20.00 A novel based on the life of Lord Nelson, Sir William Hamilton and his scandalous wife, Emma.

891. [SPRECKELS, Alma]. SCHARLACH, Barbara. Big Alma. San Francisco’s

Alma Spreckels. San Francisco: Scottwall, 1990. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 “Big Alma” (she stood six foot tall) Spreckels had the reputation of being a flamboyant eccentric and a concomitant renown as the richest woman in the west. Some of the Spreckels wealth funded the building of the San Francisco Maritime Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. With a family tree, selected bibliography an an index. 892. ST. DENIS, Ruth. Ruth St. Denis, an Unfinished Life. An Autobiography. New

York: Harper, 1939. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped at edges). $175.00 Fine. First edition, very scarce and rare in jacket.

The great dance popularizer (1879-1968) earned the title of “First Lady of American Dance”. This impressionistic autobiography sees her to the rising curtain of her productive later life. With an extensive index. [DAB. NAWM]. - 264 -

RECIPIENT OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

893. STAFFORD, Jean. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. New York: Farrar, $65.00 Straus & Giroux, (1969). Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Jean Stafford was awarded the O. Henry Prize in 1955, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for her Collected Short Stories, the latter being some years after she had virtually stopped writing fiction. [DAB]. 894. [STAFFORD, Jean]. ROBERTS, David. Jean Stafford. A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Stafford’s sad and moving life story. Her first novel, Boston Adventure, was a critical and popular success but dormant compulsions nestled in the secret, irrational places that formed the psyche of the gifted writer. With notes, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 1157. DAB]. 895. [STANFORD, Jane]. NAGEL, Gunther W. Jane Stanford, Her Life and

Letters. Stanford: Stanford Alumni Association, (1975). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Stanford and her husband Leland were co-founders of Stanford University. With a list of sources and a bibliography. [NAW].

896. STANSELL, Christine. City of Women. Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Knopf, 1986. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $20.00 edition. A vivid picture of female life in the big apple between the Revolutionary and Civil wars. With an appendix, notes and an index.

897. [STANTON, Elizabeth Cady]. Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Divorce Bill, Before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate in the Assembly Chamber, Feb. 8, 1861. Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1861. 12mo, original printed paper $2,000.00 wrappers. Light browning, else a fine copy of a fragile item. Rare.

While Stanton seems to have been born a feminist and would lead the women’s rights movement for almost half a century, she was a particular champion of legislation to liberalize the process of divorce. In a famous statement Stanton had likened unfair marriage was to “nothing more or less than legalized prostitution”. Here she speaks in favor of the Ramsay divorce reform bill and characterizes impediments to dissolution of marriage as “legalized slavery”. [DAB. NAW].

898. [STANTON, Elizabeth Cady]. GRIFFITH, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right. The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $40.00

“This is the first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America” (dust jacket). In 1848 Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. With Susan B. Anthony she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and served as its first President from 1869-1890. - 265 -

The author is an historian and lecturer on women’s issues. With appendices, notes and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1161]. 899. STANTON, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More. Reminiscences 1815-1897. Boston: Northeastern University Press, (1993). Octavo, cloth. As new. First edition $45.00 thus.

A concession to mind over matter. We simply have been unable to acquire an acceptable copy of the first edition. Nevertheless, this edition of a milestone book comes with an insightful introduction by Ellen Carol DuBois, afterword by Ann. D. Gordon, and an index of names. Originally published in 1898, Stanton’s autobiography “conveys in lively and opinionated prose all the passion that made her a guiding force in the women’s movement. Writing about her life from childhood into her eighties, Stanton recalls the discontent that led her to launch the woman suffrage movement at Seneca Falls in 1848 and the frustration at still having no voice in her own government after a half century of hard work. The new introduction and afterword to this edition relate the autobiography to the body of Stanton’s writings and activities, and bring current scholarship to the appraisal of her importance”. Offered at the published price. [DAB.NAW].

900. [STARR, Belle]. SHIRLEY, Glenn. Belle Starr and Her Times. The Literature, the Facts and the Legends. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1982). Profusely illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

A well documented sifting of the facts and fancies surrounding the “bandit queen”, with extensive notes, a bibliography and an index. [NAW. Sweeney 1173]. 901. STEICHEN, Lilian and SANDBURG, Carl. The Poet and the Dream Girl.

The Love Letters of .... Edited by Margaret Sandburg. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1987). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth. Post office stamps on front pastedown, else $20.00 fine. First edition.

Edited by Lilian and Carl’s daughter from the letters in the Carl Sandburg collection at the University of Illinois. With appendices and an index. 902. STEIN, Gertrude. Dix Portraits. Paris: Éditions de la Montagne, (1930). Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, glassine jacket. Fine. First trade edition.

$200.00 The total edition was 502 copies of which this is one of 400 on Alfa paper, unillustrated. The ten subjects are presented in the original English, followed by a French translation. [Wilson, Gertrude Stein. A Bibliography A15d. DAB. NAW]. 903. STEIN, Gertrude. What are Masterpieces?. Los Angeles: Conference Press,

1940. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (irregularly faded and chipped at edges). Endpapers browned, lengthy literary contemporary cubist-like inscription in ink on front $100.00 free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

Stein’s Oxford-Cambridge lectures about her aesthetic theories and philosophies, printed by Ward Ritchie. [Wilson, A35a. DAB. NAW]. 904. [STEIN, Gertrude]. Four Americans in Paris. The Collections of Gertrude Stein

and Her Family. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1970). Profusely illustrated. - 266 -

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Oblong quarto, fabricoid wrappers. Fine.

$25.00 The other Steins were her brothers Leo and Michael and sister-in-law Sarah. As avant garde collectors, the foursome had a proselytizing effect on the world of modern art. This handsomely produced catalogue reflects their taste and life style in turn of the century Paris. [Wilson B 65a. DAB. NAW]. 905. [STEIN, Gertrude]. WILSON, Robert A., Compiler. Gertrude Stein. A Bibliography. New York City: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1974. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth. $20.00 Fine. First edition. The definitive bibliography, by an admiring bookseller. [DAB. NAW].

906. [STEIN, Gertrude and TOKLAS, Alice B.]. STEWARD, Samuel, M., Editor. Dear Sammy. Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00 Contemporary inscription by the editor on front free endpaper.

With a lengthy memoir by Stewart of his close friendship with Stein and Toklas. While an employee of the venerable firm of John Howell-Books in San Francisco, this writer frequently made house calls as the firm’s buyer. In this capacity I became acquainted with Sammy Steward who resided across the bay in Berkeley. As I recall, we placed some of his inscribed books with the Bancroft Library there. With an index. [DAB. NAW].

907. [STEIN, Gertrude .TOKLAS, Alice B.] SOUHAMI, Diana. Gertrude and Alice. London: Pandora, (1991). Profusely illustrated. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Fine. First edition. A well-written biography of the famous couple with references, select bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW].

908. [STEINEM, Gloria]. THOM, Mary, Editor. Letters to Ms. 1972-1987. New York: Holt, (1987). Octavo, boards, dust jacket (slight wear). Fine. $20.00

Introduction by Gloria Steinem, the founder of Ms magazine which has the distinction of being the first major national women’s magazine run by women. This eclectic correspondence “organized chronologically around such topics as love, sex, parenting, health, the workplace, sexist language and milestone events” even includes letters from staunch anti-feminists.

909. STEINEM, Gloria. Revolution from Within. Boston: Little, Brown, (1992). $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

copy.

$85.00 Stowe’s preface draws similarities between slavery and polygamy. One of the wives of a Mormon elder for more than twenty years, this lengthy autobiography is a personal treatise against the contemporary Mormon practice of polygamy. From the text: “…a visitor to our house would, I have no doubt, have said ‘How very pleasantly these two wives get on together.’ This has been said of scores of women in Utah by casual observers—Gentiles who thought they ‘understood’ the system. How little do they know the aching void and the bitter hatred which exists in the hearts of those wives—the detestation which they have of one another. How little can they know, when everything is so carefully hidden, even from their husbands. It is a shameful thing that women—faithful wives and mothers—should be placed in such a position”. [Flake, Mormon Bibliography 8393. The book went through a number of editions, Flake records only one copy of this one, an expanded version of her Exposé of Polygamy in Utah first published in 1872. See BAL 19481 for 1874 printing. See Mintz 443]. 911. STEPHENS, Mrs. Ann S. Malaeska. The Indian Wife of the White Hunter. New York: Day, (1929). Illustrated with a frontispiece. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine. First edition thus. $25.00 Stephens was a prolific novelist and contributor to periodicals. In the later capacity she wrote for Graham’s Magazine (at a time when the staff included Edgar Allan Poe), the Ladies Wreath and Peterson’s Magazine. She sold the reprint rights to this romance for $250.00 and in 1860 it became the inital volume in the famous Beadle’s Dime Book series. The frontispiece is a photographic facsimile of that cover.

NOW YOU SEE HER, NOW YOU DON’T

912. STEPHENS, N.E. Color and Design for the Woman Who Would Look Her Best.

New York: North American Society of Arts, (1928). Octavo, original pictorial boards $175.00 (slightly worn), cloth spine. First edition.

An ingenious production by the White Rotary Electric Sewing Machine Company “for the exclusive use of students in the White Schools of Costume Art”. By turning a color wheel on the front cover eight different body categories are described and pictured, while concurrently appear the three dress colors most suitable for the type shown. A very uncommon item, the only copy we have ever seen. (See photograph at p. 186).

913. STERN, Madeleine B. We the Women. Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Schulte Publishing, 1963. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $25.00 jacket (spine slightly browned, a trifle rubbed). Fine. First edition.

From a start as a freelance writer Steinem used both journalism and political activism to become a leader in the late twentieth century women’s rights movement. With appendices, notes and an index.

Biographical portraits of pioneers in the arts, science, technology, business, industry and the professions and trades are targeted. With extensive notes on sources and an index.

WITH A PREFACE BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth $25.00 spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

910. STENHOUSE, Mrs. T.B.H. “Tell It All”: The Story of a Life’s Experience in

Mormonism. An Autobiography. Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1875. Illustrated. Thick octavo, elaborately gilt-decorated original green cloth. Edges , preliminary and terminal leaves lightly foxed, frontispiece portrait of author considerably so, else a fine, bright - 268 -

914. [STEVENS, Risë]. CRICHTON, Kyle. Subway to the Met: Risë Steven’s Story.

With a few introductiory remarks by the mezzo-soprano from the Bronx whose professional career had started at radio station WJZ’s “Children’s Hour” and continued into opera, film and television. Her Carmen defined the role in this country. A lighthearted (as opposed to lightweight) read. - 269 -

915. STEVENSON, Mrs. Robert Louis. The Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” Among the South Sea Islands. A Diary by .... New York: Scribner's, 1914. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Octavo, original red cloth lettered in gilt. Spine slightly faded, book$35.00 plate on front pastedown, rear pastedown cracked at joint. First edition. Actually the correct spelling of the ship’s name was “Janet Nicholl”. The famous Scottish author’s American wife was born Frances Matilda Van de Grift in Indianapolis. They had met in France and the smitten Stevenson had followed her to Calfiornia where, after overcoming a series of obstacles, they were married in San Francisco. A decade older than her second husband, she would outlive him by two more. In 1915 Fanny’s ashes were removed from Santa Barbara and interred on a Samoan mountaintop next to the grave of R.L.S., whose lines are inscribed on her tomb: “Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life, Heart whole and soul free, The August Father gave to me.”. [Beinecke, A Stevenson Library Catalogue 1419].

916. [STEVENSON, Fanny]. SANCHEZ, Nellie Van de Grift. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Scribner's, 1925. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original red cloth, printed paper label on spine. Spine label a trifle browned, $200.00 some offsetting from laid in cards on front endpapers, else fine.

The author was Mrs. Stevenson’s sister. An interesting association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Fanny’s daughter, Isobel Field, and with the three cards by Mrs. Field relating to Stevenson ...”Mr. Stevenson was never in Santa Barbara...” laid in, together with a postcard picturing Stevenson’s onetime residence in Monterey. [See Beinecke 1698].

917. STEWART, Elinore Pruitt. Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 12mo, original tan cloth, decorated $175.00 labels. Fine. First edition . Charming and unpretentious vignettes of western ranch life in the west of ninety years ago by a talented participant. It struck this writer as something of a counterpoint to another local colorist, Sarah Orne Jewett and her down-east classic The Country of the Pointed Firs in that, while nothing much happens, plotwise, the atmosphere created, though gentle on the mind, is past forgetting. [Allen, p. 219. Dykes, Wyeth 322. Dobie, p. 63].

918. [STEWART, Elinore Pruitt]. GEORGE, Susanne K. The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader. The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pic$20.00 torial dust jacket. Fine. First edition thus. One of the “Women in the West” series published by this press, it combines Stewart’s previously unpublished or uncollected letters thus offering a closer look at the woman herself. With a bibliography and index.

919. STOUGHTON, Gertrude K. The Books of California. An Introduction to the History and the Heritage of this State as revealed in the Collection in the Pasadena Public Library assembled by Nellie May Russ. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. - 270 -

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Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$20.00 Miss Nellie Russ was librarian of the Pasadena Public Library from 1898 to 1919, during which time she amassed the remarkable collection of Californiana described herein. The photographs highlight some of the printed treasures. At the time of publication the author herself had been the institution’s librarian for a decade. 920. STOW, Mrs. J. W. Probate Confiscation and the Unjust Laws Which Govern

Women. San Francisco: Bacon & Company, (1876). Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and decorative chapter headings and tailpieces. Octavo, original blindstamped blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold. Bookshop’s stamp on front endpaper, a $500.00 tiny bit rubbed. Overall a splendid copy of the rare first edition. An important early work concerning women’s rights, focusing upon probate law and practice in California vis-a-vis the legal status of women, especially widows. Marietta Lois Stow’s is a very readable account of the injustices experienced by women of the time. The frontispiece is by the lithographic firm of Britton and Rey. [Cowan, p. 620]. 921. STOW, Mrs. J. W. Probate Chaff, or Beautiful Probate, or Three Years

Probating in San Francisco. San Francisco: Published by the author, 1879. Illustrated. 12mo, original blindstamped red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Owner’s bookplate on $150.00 front pastedown, ends of spine worn, else very nice. First edition. Scarce.

A novel, the subtitle reading “A Modern Drama, Showing the Merry Sides of a Dark Picture”, in which the author of the previous entry pursues through fiction her complaints of fact. [Wright III 5289].

CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS

922. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London: John Cassell, 1852.

Complete in thirteen parts. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers of inferior quality, stitched as issued. Laid in a custom brown half morocco clamshell box, morocco spine label. A little chipping and dust soiling of some wrappers, but overall an excellent, unsophisticated set. The wrappers of Part I are $1,500.00 printed in a different type style than the succeeding numbers. Very scarce.

The best-selling novel of the nineteenth century, and certainly one of the most influential books ever published anywhere, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has an interesting printing history. In brief, it was first published serially in the National Era, an antislavery journal whose small circulation combined with an unknown author to attract little attention. In March, 1852 the John P. Jewett Company, a Boston house brought out the work in a modest printing of 5,000 copies, bound in two volumes. The book then caught on and sales zoomed to 300,000 within a year. Without the protection of copyright foreign publications and translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin abounded. Our edition, which is quite scarce in the original parts, is one of the high spots among the multitudinous printings. In discussing the earliest English edition located by the Bibliography of American Literature, 19518 notes: “BAL has made no attempt to find or list the numerous later English editions of this work but notes that the London, John Cassell edition, illustrated by George Cruikshank – frequently described as the first English edition– was issued in 13 weekly numbers beginning Oct. 23, 1852, and is listed in Ath Dec, 25, 1852, and in PC Jan. 17, 1853.” In more - 272 -

recent times Uncle Tom’s Cabin has the distinction of being the sole American novel included in the weighty Printing and the Mind of Man. [Cohn, George Cruikshank A Catalogue Raisonné, 777. Browne p. 69. DAB. NAW].

“THE LITTLE LADY WHO STARTED THE WAR” - ABRAHAM LINCOLN

923. [STOWE, Harriet Beecher]. REICH, Jacques. Profile Portrait of Harriet

Beecher Stowe. New York: copyrighted and published by Jacques Reich, 1884. Copperplate engraving on paper, signed by the artist lower right. 14-1/4 x 10-7/8 inches image area, 22-1/2 x 15-3/8 inches overall, hinged to an archival mat, 24 x 19 inches. Two very small (1/8” diameter) brown spots in left corner of margin, else fine. $450.00 Born in Hungary (1852), Reich came to the U.S. in 1873. He did the pen portraits for Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography as well as etching portraits of many famous Americans. [DAB. NAW]. (See frontispiece illustration).

924. [STOWE, Harriet Beecher ]. WILSON, Forrest. Crusader in Crinoline. The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1941). Numerous illustrations. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed). Lower edge minimally $75.00 rubbed, glue marks coming through on pastedowns, else fine. First edition.

A thorough (706 pages) major biography. With a list of sources and an extensive index. [BAL volume VIII p. 132. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1196].

925. [STOWE, Harriet Beecher]. RYERSON, Florence and CLEMENTS, Colin. Harriet. A Play in Three Acts. New York: Scribner's, 1943. With a frontispiece. 12mo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight wear). Name plate on front paste-down endpaper. $50.00 Fine. First edition, rather scarce in jacket. A photograph of Helen Hayes in the role of Harriet is used on the jacket; another pose of the actress for the frontispiece. The work itself is dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt. [DAB. NAW].

A CLASSIC PICTURE OF THE OLD WEST

926. STRAHORN, Carrie Adell. Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. New York: Putnam’s, 1911. Illustrated from 350 drawings (eighty-five by Charles M. Russell) and from photographs. Large octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover, top edge gilt. A $850.00 beautiful copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author.

Mrs. Strahorn travelled extensively throughout the frontier with her husband while he was engaged in writing promotionals for the Union Pacific Railroad. The author’s enthusiasm and eye for detail make delightful reading of this, one of the key narratives by a woman in the early west. It is also a major Charles Russell item. [Graff 3999. Adams, Six Guns 2152. Adams, Herd 2180. Howes S1054. Yost and Renner, Charles M. Russell Bibliography 25].

927. STRATTON, Joanna L. Pioneer Women. Voices from the Kansas Frontier. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1981). Profusely illustrated with photographs and endpaper map. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $20.00 Stratton finished her great-grandmother’s project of editing manuscripts written by hun- 273 -

dreds of pioneer women. With an endpaper map of frontier Kansas, an appendix guide to pioneer stories, bibliography and an index. The author is a remarkable tour guide, transporting the reader back more than a century almost as if one’s self was there. 928. STROUSE, Norman. Ladies in My Library. Books and Letters from the Collection of Norman H. Strouse. (San Francisco: Printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, n.d. Octavo, wrappers. Fine. One of 100 copies. $20.00

Strouse was a noted book collector with a variety of interests, most notably Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife. This exhibition was held at the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1968 at which time Strouse was still Chairman of the Board of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. 929. STUDLEY, Mary J., M. D. What Our Girls Ought To Know. New York: M.L.

Holbrook, 1878. Octavo, original blind-stamped red cloth, gilt-decorated. Slight foxing, $75.00 else fine. First edition of a quite uncommon book.

Stilted essays by an early female physician but, as with the road to heaven, paved with good intentions. An index is provided. (See photograph at p. 107).

930. [SUFFRAGE]. “Mamma’s New Marching Costume”. Original pen and ink draw-

ing by Orson Lowell. 19” x 28” plus margins, hinged to an archival mat, 28” x 36” $1,000.00 overall. Fine condition.

A wonderful illustration capturing a scene of the times, the lantern jawed suffragette admiring her uniform and the visages of the five onlookers reflecting a variety of opinions. Orson Lowell (1871-1956) was a staff artist for the original Life magazine. A master pen and ink draftsman in the mold of Charles Dana Gibson, his inexhaustible fund of social humor addressed the topics of the day. (See photograph opposite). 931. [SUFFRAGE]. How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette By Him. New

York: George H. Doran, (1915). Illustrated. Octavo, original pictorial tan boards. Minor wear to front cover, endpapers foxed, else excellent. First edition. Very scarce. $90.00 An amusing sixty-three page work about the suffrage movement from an anonymous man’s point of view. From the text: “Getting a suffragette for a wife is no different from obtaining any other kind of a wife. The formula is the same in both cases. There’s a certain excitement, though, in the fact that you don’t always know she is going to be a suffragette until after you have got her. But that, happily, is getting rarer and rarer. The new crop is finding out that advertising pays, and it is pretty hard nowadays to pick out a discreet and docile suffragette who will absolutely refrain from confiding the fact to you, if you sit up with her long enough”.

932. SULLIVAN, Constance, Editor. Women Photographers. New York: Abrams, $60.00 (1990). Quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (slight fading). Fine. According to the credits, this book was pretty much a women’s production. From the informative essay by Eugenia Janis to the images by Gertrude Käsebier, Frances Johnson, Jessie Beals, Laura Gilpin, Imogen Cunningham, Doris Ulmann, Margaret Bourke-White, Margrethe Mather, Bernice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, et al the book reflects a virtual who’s who of American female photographers. - 274 -

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933. SULLIVAN, May Kellog. A Woman Who Went to Alaska. Boston: James H. Earle, (1903). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original green cloth elaborately lettered in white with oval pictorial inset of author. Very slight edgewear, embossed owner’s stamp on terminal free endpaper, trifle foxing on front and terminal endpa$50.00 pers, else fine. Second edition, first published the previous year. Scarce.

An interesting chronicle of the spunky author’s experiences and adventures in gold rush Alaska where she had as much trouble with drunken miners as she did with the climate. [Smith, 10017. Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 6474].

934. [SULZBERGER, Iphigene Ochs]. DRYFOOS, Susan W. Iphigene. Memoirs of ... of The New York Times Family. Foreword by Barbara Tuchman. New York: Dodd, Mead, (1979). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine slightly browned, a trifle rubbed). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by Susan W. $35.00 Dryfoos, granddaughter of Sulzberger. Daughter of the founder of The New York Times, she grew up to wear hats as wife, mother and mother-in-law of publishers of that distinguished newspaper. With an errata slip and an index.

935. SUMMERHAYES, Martha. Vanished Arizona. Recollections of My Army Life. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1908. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and photographic plates. Octavo, original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, $300.00 lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. A really fine copy. The recollections span a quarter of a century and life at a dozen army posts. “As a New England bride Mrs. Summerhayes came to Arizona in the 1870’s with her Lieutenant husband, and years later when she published the first edition of her memoirs in 1908 the wide response it evoked astonished her ... The book is a classic of army life on the frontier seen through a woman’s eyes” -Powell. “One of the most readable books about Arizona” –Graff. [Howes S1132. Graff 4028. Powell, A Southwestern Century 88. Farquhar, The Books of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. A Selective Bibliography 28].

WAS SHE REALLY GUILTY?

936. [SURRATT, Mary E.]. DEWITT, David Miller. The Judicial Murder of

Mary E. Surratt. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1895. 12mo, original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Minute wear to spine extremities, browned. A fine copy of a scarce book. $225.00

Mary Surratt was tried by a military court and hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. In the highly unlikely event of new evidence coming to light, the jury of informed opinion will always remain out regarding her degree of involvement – though current consensus would not convict her. As the title states, author DeWitt’s balanced analysis also finds for the defense. [Howes D 306. Monaghan, Lincoln Bibliography 1839-1939 1165. NAW]. 937. [SUSANN, Jacqueline]. SEAMAN, Barbara. Lovely Me. The Life of

Jacqueline Susann. New York: Morrow, (1987). Illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. - 276 -

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WOMAN

In considering Susann’s incredible success as a best-selling author (The Love Machine, Valley of the Dolls), one can perhaps bypass H.L. Mencken’s bon mot: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public” and defer to Oscar Wilde’s more thoughtful aphorism “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all”. [DAB]. 938. SWANSON, Gloria. Swanson on Swanson. New York: Random House, (1980). Illustrated. Thick octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (very slight wear). $20.00 Name in ink on front endpaper. Fine. First edition.

YOUNG

While Swanson’s offscreen life was a film in itself, her movie career started at fifteen as one of Mack Sennet’s bathing beauties. Maugham’s Sadie Thompson provided her silent screen theatrics with its best role; decades later her mannerisms of gesture and expression were underscored by a fine speaking voice as the macabre Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

939. [TABOR, “Baby Doe”]. BURKE, John. The Legend of Baby Doe. The Life and

Times of the Silver Queen of the West. New York: Putnam, (1974). Illustrated. Octavo, $20.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very slight rubbing of back). Fine. First edition.

A light-fingered, adjective-laden biography of Elizabeth McCourt Doe, the daughter of Irish immigrants whose fortunes rose to great wealth and fell to abject poverty in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. With notes on sources, a bibliography and an index. 940. TALLENT, Annie D. The Black Hills or, The Last Hunting Ground of the

Dakotahs. A Complete History of the Black Hills of Dakota From Their First Invasion in 1874 to the Present Time, Comprising a Comprehensive Account of How They Lost Them; of Numerous Adventures of the Early Settlers; Their Heroic Struggles for Supremacy Against the Hostile Dakotah Tribes, and Their Final Victory; the Opening of The Country to White Settlement, and Its Subsequent Development. St. Louis: NixonJones, 1899. Illustrated. Thick octavo, original blindstamped green cloth lettered in gilt. $450.00 Spine very slightly worn at extremities, else fine. First edition. Tallent’s work is a valuable source for the history of the invasion and settlement of the Dakota-Wyoming country by whites. It includes accounts of the first expedition to the Black Hills, as well as that of the Custer and Yellowstone expeditions. [Howes T14. Graff 4061. Adams, Six-Guns 2180. Adams, Herd 2232. Jennewein 124].

WEST

THREE LITTLE GIRLS FROM (FILM) SCHOOL

941. [TALMADGE, Constance and Norma]. LOOS, Anita. The Talmadge Girls. A

Memoir. New York: Viking, (1978). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (light wear to edges, spine and rear panel). Owner’s $20.00 embossed stamp and name in ink on endpaper. Fine. First edition.

GO

Loos wrote many scripts for silent film stars Constance (1899-1973) and Norma (18931957) while becoming a close family friend. A third sister, Natalie Talmadge (1898-1969), married the famous comedian Buster Keaton. Included in an appendix is Loos’ complete original script for the silent film A Virtuous Vamp starring Constance Talmadge. [DAB (Norma). Sweeney 1224 and 1227].

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boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

$20.00 A tale set first in China and then the United States, it is the second novel by the author of The Joy Luck Club. 943. TAPERT, Annette and EDKINS, Diana. The Power of Style. The Women Who

Defined the Art of Living Well. New York: Crown, (1994). Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Quarto, boards. Fine. $20.00

As co-author Tapert notes in the epilogue, “Fourteen women of style make for a very rich meal”. Maybe so, but these classy lassies all seem like dessert to this writer. With a bibliography.

944. TARBELL, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900. Two volumes. Illustrated. Octavo, original blindstamped maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt. Spines browned but gilt lettering bright, brown stains to front free endpapers of volume I and upper corners of inner $200.00 pages a little creased, back cover less so. Very good set. First edition.

A STUNNING FIRST BOOK

947. TARTT, Donna. The Secret History. New York: Knopf, 1992. Octavo, printed $60.00 paper wrappers. Fine. First edition, an advance uncorrected proof copy. Eight years in the writing, The Secret History “is a storytelling in the grand manner ... beyond its extreme intelligence, beyond its canny and subtle portrayal of the elite life of an idyllic New England college, beyond its alluring play of emotions and ideas, this is a novel of psychological suspense that immediately seizes the readers and does not let go” (publisher’s statement, with which this writer concurs). Through the flash-back technique Tartt permits the reader to glimpse the secret at the start, but then one must wait until the denouement to see how that fate was brought about. As this is written Tartt’s long awaited second novel has just been published in an edition of 300,000 copies. 948. [TAYLOR, Elizabeth]. SHEPPARD, Dick. Elizabeth. The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor. Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped at spine ends and a little rubbed). Covers a little dust soiled, else fine. First edition. With gift inscription by the author on front free $20.00 endpaper.

A major Lincoln biography and one of the most popular. Assigned by her employer, the publisher S.S. McClure, the task of doing a fresh study of Lincoln, Tarbell got a break with a social introduction to his son, Robert. Tarbell spent two years on the work, interviewing people who had know him, including eye witnesses to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while unearthing important new material and debunking some of the old.With a very extensive appendix. [Monaghan 1309. Angle, A Shelf of Lincoln Books, pp. 38-40. Nevins v.II, p. 93 “an honest and judicious study.” Browne p. 37. DAB. NAW].

In a lifetime of visual awareness this writer has only seen one woman more beautiful and no, he’s not old enough to have seen Helen of Troy’s “face that launched a thousand ships”. However, while employed in Scribner’s famous Fifth Avenue bookstore over fifty years ago, he did spot the young Taylor browsing in the stationery department and that mental picture remains a perfect ten. Taylor, who became an Academy Award winning actress and one of the superstars of the cinema, has had a life to match the most embonpoint screenplay. With an appendix of Taylor’s films and an index. [Sweeney 1236].

945. TARBELL, Ida M. The Business of Being a Woman. New York: MacMillan, 1912. 12mo, original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, lettered in gilt on spine. $35.00 Very slightly rubbed on edges, else fine. First edition.

949. [TEMPLE, Shirley]. JOHNSTON, Annie Fellows. The Little Colonel. New

A contemporary of the suffragists, Ida Minerva Tarbell was “luke-warm in the matter of suffrage”. She preferred, instead, to stress the social and economic work that women had engaged in during the building of America. She argues in this book that “women had a business assigned by nature and society which was of more importance than public life. Women with ‘bachelor’s souls...’ are not the women upon whom society depends. They are not the ones who build the nation”. [DAB. NAW].

946. [TARBELL, Ida M.]. FLEMING, Alice. Ida Tarbell, First of the Muckrakers. New York: Crowell, (1971). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (one chip, some dust soiling). Fine. First edition. $20.00

Tarbell may be best remembered for her “muckraking” journalistic battles with John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and the fight for antitrust legislation. The “muckraker” sobriquet had been applied in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt to the militant journalists of the time. The original of the term is found in Bunyon’s Pilgrim’s Progress, an allusion to a man who was too intent on raking muck to consider his heavenly crown. Tarbell wore the label with pride. As this is written a postage stamp has just been issued in her honor. With a bibliography and an index. [Browne p. 17. DAB. NAW]. - 280 -

SIGNED BY SHIRLEY TEMPLE

York: A.L. Burt, (1935). Endpaper illustration, with title-page portrait and seven other inserted plates of scenes from the motion picture version starring Shirley Temple. Octavo, blue fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket (light wear). Near fine. The “Shirley Temple edition”. Inscribed by the child star in block letters “Love Shirley Temple” under her photograph on the pictorial front endpaper . A contemporary inscription by the seven $750.00 year old before she learned cursive writing. The film’s highlight is the famous staircase dance with Shirley and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. During this period the seven year old moppet became the most popular movie star in the world – and the highest paid. (see illustration overleaf). 950. [TEMPLE, Shirley]. EDWARDS, Anne. Shirley Temple. American Princess.

New York: Morrow, (1988). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, $40.00 pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

From enormous success as the precocious child movie star of the 1930’s, as an adult the talented Temple turned to real life roles as a member of the government’s delegation to the United Nations, Ambassador to Ghana and, latterly, the first female chief of protocol of the United States. With appendices, as well as a movie chronology including the casts of Shirley Temple films, notes, bibliography, and an index. [Sweeney 1249]. - 281 -

951. TENTLER, Leslie Woodcock. Wage-Earning Women. Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 For reasons stated in her introduction,the author’s principal focus is on factory employment. Using this as a pattern, she threads the needle of the century-old precedents that endure to this day: occupational closed doors, glass ceilings, inferior wages.... Written by a history professor at the University of Michigan, with notes, bibliography and an index.

A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER

952. THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden. London: Osgood, McIlvane, 1894.

Illustrated with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. Octavo, gilt-decorated white cloth, top edge gilt. Spine and foredges a litte browned, otherwise fine. First $2,500.00 English edition. One of fifty-five copies. A notable rarity.

Celia Thaxter’s lyrical classic of her delightful garden on Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New England. From the decorative vellum-like binding to the moiré endpapers to the generous typography to the illustrations and the inserted full page chromolithographic plates protected by printed tissue guards, this is probably as charming a production as any book in the collection. “One of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period” (BAL). This copy, printed by the Riverside Press, is one of those fifty-five copies that were bound with English imprint on May 4, 1894. The binding was designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. The cost of the expensively made book probably contributed to the first edition’s small print run of barely 1,000 copies. Basically a poet, Thaxter died shortly after the publication of this, her only book on gardening. With: a copy of 1988 facsimile edition by Houghton Mifflin, boxed as issued. [BAL 19923. DAB. NAW]. (See photograph at p. 284). 953. THOM, Mary. Inside Ms. 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist

Movement. New York: Holt, (1997). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine.

Ms. was the first national circulation magazine to emanate from the modern women’s movement. The author started as a researcher for the periodical and worked her way up to its executive editorship. An interesting behind the scenes history. With an index.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFF

954. THOMAS, Edith M. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled During Her Visit Among the “Pennsylvania Germans”. Quakertown, Pennsylvania: Edith M. Thomas, 1915. Profusely illustrated with photographs, many printed in sepia. Quarto, original brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing of edges, rear endpapers with offset from an inlaid clipping (not present), fine. First edition, and exceedingly $300.00 scarce as here in collector condition. [Bitting p. 459 “In addition to cookery, it treats of social life and customs”. With an index to recipes. See Brown 3946 for 2nd edition (1928). DAB. NAW. Not in Cagle and Stafford].

955. THOMAS, Katherine Elwes. Official, Diplomatic, and Social Etiquette of Washington. New York: Cassell, (1895). 16mo, original red buckram decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities, pages a bit dust soiled, else very good. First - 282 -

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$90.00 Calls, cards, invitations, introductions, receptions – even a chapter on how to address the President. Given today’s current political climate, those last possibilities could fill a book in itself. With an introduction by Mary Logan. 956. [THOMAS, M. Carey]. DOBKIN, Marjorie Housepian, Editor. The Making of a Feminist. Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas. (Kent, Ohio): Kent University Press, (1979). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy. $20.00 Inscribed by the Bryn Mawr librarian, James Tanis. Thomas was the long-time president of Bryn Mawr college. This is the story of her childhood and youth. [DAB. NAW].

957. [THOMPSON, Dorothy]. SANDERS, Marion K. Dorothy Thompson, a Legend in Her Time. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1973. Illustrated with photographs. $20.00 Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear). Fine. First edition.

Topics covered in this 428 page biography of “the First Lady of American Journalism” include her tumultuous marriage to Sinclair Lewis, her plagiarism dispute with Theodore Dreiser and her expulsion from Nazi Germany at Adolf Hitler’s order. With notes and sources and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1256].

958. THOMPSON, Laura and JOSEPH, Alice. The Hopi Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1944). Illustrated with full page photographs and two maps of Hopi land. Quarto, pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Covers a tad soiled, ink $45.00 inscription on front free endpaper, else fine. First edition. Thompson’s contribution was as an anthropologist. Co-author Joseph was a neuro-psychiatrist and one-time Field Physician on the Papago Indian Reservation. 959. [THURSBY, Emma]. GIPSON, Richard McCandless. The Life of Emma

Thursby 1845-1931. New York: New York Historical Society, 1940. Illustrated. Thick $30.00 octavo, cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Fine. First edition.

Thursby was one of the first American singers to gain renown in Europe. An expensively produced book, with a chronology of Thursby’s concert appearances and a comprehensive index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney1258].

960. [THURSTON, Lucy Goodale]. [CUMINGS, Mrs. A.P.]. The Missionary’s Daughter: A Memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston. New York: Dayton and Newman, 1842. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original cloth. Foxed. The rare first edition.

$900.00 Not to be confused with the American Tract Society reprint. With an appendix containing miscellaneous interesting information relating to Hawaii. [Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 vol. II].

961. [TITCOMB, Mary Bradish]. Titcomb, Mary Brandish and her Contemporaries. The Artists of Fenway Studios 1905-1937. Boston: Vose Galleries, 1998. Profusely illustrated, with most photographs of the paintings in color. Quarto, printed paper wrap- 284 -

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$20.00 A very handsome and interesting catalogue, a tribute to Titcomb (1858-1927) from the venerable Boston art dealer. 962. TJOMSLAND, Anne, M.D. Bellevue in France. Anecdotal History of Base Hospital No. 1. New York: Froben Press, 1941. Illustrated with eighty-two diagrams, pictures and endpaper maps of Vichy. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine browned, chipped at edges, internally repaired). Fine copy. First edition of an uncom$50.00 mon work.

The publisher’s colophon ironically notes that the book is being published on December eighth, which may to some extent account for its unavailability. “The author was educated in Norwegian and American schools, received her degree in arts and medicine from Cornell University and interned in Bellevue Hospital”. With appendices listing officers, nurses and civilians connected to the hospital. 963. [TODD, Mabel Loomis]. BINGHAM, Millicent Todd. Mabel Loomis Todd.

Her Contribution to the Town of Amherst. (New York) : Privately Printed, 1935. 12mo, marbled boards, printed paper label on front cover. Very lightly rubbed at spine ends and lower corners, flyleaf with tear (2 inches) at upper edge, else fine. Inscribed by the author to William Skinner, brother of the noted musicologist Bella Skinner, with an ALs $45.00 to him laid in. While her contribution to the town of Amherst is the subject of this text, her contribution to the now worldwide reputation of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson is her real legacy. [DAB. NAW]. 964. [TOKLAS, Alice B.]. Six D.S. San Francisco: 1910. 27 pp.. Small folio, type-

written sheets. The seal of the Affidavit stamped by the Consulate General in Paris has a small piece of top edge missing, not affecting text. Fine. $250.00

Superior Court Complaint to Establish Real Title, and Affidavit of “Laura A. Toklas, Vera M. Broh, Alice B. Toklas and Clarence F. Toklas, Plaintiffs -vs- All persons claiming any interest in or lien upon the real property herein described or any part thereof, Defendants”. Alice inherited her 1/4 interest in the 922 O’Farrell Street family homestead from her maternal grandfather Louis Levinsky, who had died in 1902. Another of the tenants-in-common was Alice’s brother who was eight years her junior. It is recorded that the relationship between the two became estranged, especially after legal difficulties over an inheritance from their father. Clarence committed suicide in 1937. The documents make note of the fact that most of the public records had been destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Signed by Alice and notarized at the Paris office of the United States Consulate General. Also signed by Clarence (twice), Laura Toklas, Vera Broh and by their attorney, Albert A. Rosenshine whose daughter, Annette, had been a close childhood friend of Alice’s as well as the person who introduced Toklas to Gertrude Stein. [DAB. NAWM]. 965. [TOKLAS, Alice B.]. SIMON, Linda. The Biography of Alice B. Toklas. New

York: Doubleday, 1977. Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition, review copy, with a review slip affixed to front free endpaper..

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With an appendix, notes, bibliographies (Gertrude Stein, Toklas) and an index. The author had previously edited a book on Stein. [DAB. NAWM. Sweeney 1260]. 966. [TOKLAS, Alice B.]. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Foreword by M.F.K.

Fisher. New York: Harper & Row, (1984). Illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket (faint browning to upper edge). Fine. First edition with $30.00 Fisher’s foreword.

Thirtieth anniversary edition of the celebrated cookbook, and first with M.F.K. Fisher’s insightful foreword. Of the first edition, this writer once handled a copy inscribed by Toklas and with her famous brownie recipe written out on the front endpaper. [DAB. NAWM].

967. TRAFTON, Adeline. An American Girl Abroad. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872. Illustrated. Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, lettered in gilt. Very lightly rubbed on edges, else fine. First edition. $65.00 The illustrations are by Miss L.B. Humphrey. Two innocents abroad, their trials and triumphs overseas in England and through Europe. “A guide book in narrative form with some dialogue”. [Wright II 1496].

968. TRAUBEL, Helen. The Metropolitan Opera Murders. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1951). 12mo, cloth, fabricoid spine, pictorial dust jacket (some wear). Name in ink and book label of the William Morris Agency on front free endpaper. Fine. First $25.00 edition. The great Wagnerian soprano’s excursion into writing; an inevitably titled murder mystery of operatic proportions. [DAB. NAWM].

969. TREADWELL, Mattie E. United States Army In World War II. Special Studies, The Women’s Army Corps. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1954. Illustrated with photographs. Thick quarto, cloth. Slight cover wear. Near fine.

$75.00 The comprehensive (841 page) and detailed history of the Corps. Among the many illustrations is a frontispiece photograph of Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, first Director of the Corps. With appendices, bibliographical note, list of abbreviations and an index.

970. [TRUMAN, Bess]. TRUMAN, Margaret. Bess W. Truman. New York: Macmillan, (1986). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial $20.00 dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Bess Truman lived to be ninety-seven, far longer than any other first lady. This insightful biography was written by her daughter; a slice of American history seen from the inside out. With an index. [Sweeney 1262].

THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES

971. [TRUTH, Sojourner]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. The Atlantic Monthly

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soiled, occasional foxing, yet a pleasing enough copy, with the tipped in yellow leaf of $100.00 advertisments.

Ipso facto the Bibliography of American Literature is in error by ascribing the first printing of this article to the sixteen volume edition of Stowe’s writings, which was not published until a third of a century later in 1896. Contains “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, pages 473-481. About ten years before the article appeared Truth had spent several days in Stowe’s company. Born into slavery about 1797 in Ulster County, New York (the state did not require mandatory emancipation until 1828), she was called Isabella and as an adult added to it Van Wagoner, the name of a couple who had befriended her. The appellation “Sojourner Truth” was adopted in 1843 as she entered upon her life as revivalist, reformer and abolitionist. Her six foot frame and deep, penetrating voice led to accusations that she, in fact, was a he, an allegation Truth once refuted at an Indiana woman’s right convention by baring her breast. A lifelong illiterate (her Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1850, was written for her by Olive Gilbert), she exuded a personal magnetism that attracted large audiences including President Lincoln, who received her at the White House in October, 1864. This then, is a marvellous literary association, melding two legendary American ladies and the glory of their times. [BAL 19508. NAW]. 972. TUCHMAN, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-

45. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Royal octavo, $175.00 cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author.

Another brilliant contribution by the acclaimed historian, in which she turns her attention from World War I (The Guns of August) to the inscrutable world of the orient. Tuchman has that rare writer’s ability to clarify the complex and entertain while informing. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize. Curiously, there are two dust jackets present, the only difference being that one has STILWELL in orange letters overprinting the length of the spine,and the $10 is not price clipped. With an appendix, bibliography, notes and an index .

973. [TUCKER, Emma Booth]. TUCKER, Commander Booth. The Consul. A Sketch of Emma Booth Tucker. New York: Salvation Army Publishing Department, 1903. Illustrated with photographs. 12mo, original gray cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. $25.00 About fine. Illustrations listed at pages 128 and 161 bound in reverse order. A high-ranking official of the Salvation Army, Emma was killed in a railroad accident while on business in the midwest. This remembrance of her life was written by her husband and contains a tribute by Emma’s father, General William Booth, founder of the famous organization. Very much a daughter of the regiment, at first she was made “Mother” of a training home for female cadets. Then she married the head of the Army’s Indian branch and went with him to Bombay, where she adopted Indian costume and manners and became a well-known lecturer. In 1896, her husband took command of the Army’s work in America; he and Emma settled in Mount Vernon, New York. She continued her activities in the United States, leading midnight marches through the slums, etc., until her death.

A LIVELY ACCOUNT

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Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, (1946). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (worn). Worn at spine ends and channels, and corners, pages browned, else fine. Inscribed by the author in bold handwriting in blue ink on front fly leaf and title page.

$25.00 The endpapers are collages of numerous photographs of the popular singer and vaudeville heavyweight headlined as “the last of the red hot mammas”. The Russian-born daughter of Jewish emigrants, her first billing had been as dishwasher in the family restaurant, a memory she recalled “If I had a dollar for every greasy dish I’ve washed I’d be the richest woman in show business today”. Dorothy Giles collaborated on the book. [DAB. NAWM]. 975. TYLER, Anne. The Accidental Tourist. New York: Knopf, 1985. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket ( rear panel slightly soiled, spine ends a bit rubbed). Fine. First edition. $20.00

The novelist was born in Minnesota but raised in North Carolina where, as something of a prodigy, she graduated from Duke University at age nineteen. This story of an eccentric travel writer who had lost a son was made into a film in 1988.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

976. TYLER, Anne. Breathing Lessons. New York: Knopf, 1988. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First trade edition. 977. [TYLER, Priscilla Cooper]. TYLER, Elizabeth Tyler. Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene 1816-1889. (University, Alabama): University of Alabama Press, 1955. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $45.00

This writer has been puzzled by some of the accolades of pulchritude bestowed upon certain of the earlier day ladies in this catalogue. Contrariwise, while tastes change with the times, in this case such an astute observer as Washington Irving had referred to Tyler as “not beautiful, but there is something very piquant in her countenance”; Well, if the frontispiece is any indiction, to these eyes she was an uncommonly attractive young woman. She was certainly a capable one, if in a supporting role. “Her contribution to her times resulted from her association with three men: her father, for whose sake she became for a brief span an actress; her husband, with whose career she identified herself; and her father-in-law, whom she served as hostess of the White House”. (NAW). With notes and an index. [NAW. Sweeney 1271].

978. ULMANN, Doris. Photogravure of a black woman with a basket of cotton on her head, posed against a rustic fence. 8-1/4” x 6-1/2”, 11-1/2” x 8-1/4” overall. Signed in $1,000.00 pencil by the photographer. A fine example of a remarkable woman’s remarkable work. Ullman had been born into an affluent and cultured Jewish household on Manhattan’s upper west side. Oddly, she was drawn to rural areas of Appalachia, the Carolinas (where she became a close friend and collaborator with the author Julia Peterkin) and elsewhere, documenting the simple people, customs and traditions of a vanishing bucolic culture. (See photograph overleaf). 979. ULMANN, Doris. A Portrait Gallery of American Editors Being A Being a

Group of XLIII Likenesses ... with Critical Essays by the Editors. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Illustrated with full page photographic plates. Folio, original - 292 -

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green boards, cream cloth spine, lettered in gilt on cover, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Slight rubbing of corners, a few very small scratch marks on front cover, else a fine copy. One of 375 copies, printed by the Village Press. $750.00 This, Ulmann’s third published collection, consists of photographs of prominent book and magazine editors of the day. It is a rare book.

980. ULMANN, Doris. The Appalachian Photographs. With a rememberance by John Jacob Niles and a preface by Jonathan Williams. Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society, 1971. Quarto, brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear). Overall about $85.00 fine. The jacket blurb doesn’t overstate the case: (Her photographs) “produced an unparalleled record of a kind of American almost gone by 1970. People don’t have faces like this anymore”. Ulmann died in 1934. Three decades later, a cache of her photographs was located in the basement of Berea College, Kentucky. That chance event resulted in this book and led to a deserved renaissance of her reputation which now places her among the leading photographic chroniclers of rural American life.

981. UNDERHILL, Ruth M. First Penthouse Dwellers of America. New York: J.J. Augustin, (1938). Illustrated with photographs by Lilian J. Reichard and endpaper map. $65.00 Small quarto, cloth. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Fine. First edition. A popular history of the indians of the pueblos –the Hopi, Zuni, Keres and Tanoans– with stunning half and full page photographs.

982. UNTERMEYER, Bryna Ivens. Memoir for Mrs. Sullavan. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1966). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faint soiling). A fine $20.00 copy. First edition. A biography of the unusual cat Bryna and Louis Untermeyer owned, named after its giftgiver, the actress Margaret Sullavan. The author had a long career in the magazine field, including five years as executive editor of She and another eleven as an editor for Seventeen.

983. VAN DENBURGH, Elizabeth Douglas. My Voyage in the United States Frigate

“Congress”. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, (1913). Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine a little dulled, $30.00 front joint starting, else fine.

Elizabeth Douglas Terrell was the eldest child of the U.S. Consul-General to Hawaii and his wife. She recalls their 1845-1856 voyage from Norfolk, Virginia around the Horn, up the west coast of South America and thence across the Pacific to Honolulu. Incidentally, the Congress and three of its officers –Commodore Robert F. Stockton, Commander Samuel Francis DuPont and the ship’s Chaplain, Walter Colton– would very shortly thereafter play key roles in wresting California from Mexico. With an appendix. 984. [VAN WIE, Carrie]. LEWIS, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie.

Paintings of San Francsico at the Turn of the Century. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, (1963). Folio, cloth, paper spine label. Very slight wear to edges, else fine. First edition, one of 525 copies. $125.00 - 294 -

Twenty-one paintings by the youthful artist, naïve in style, but providing important documentation of many of San Francisco’s historical landmarks. The color reproductions are the size of the originals and were made from blocks engraved by Mary Grabhorn.

LIFE IMITATES ART

985. [VANDERBILT, Amy]. BROUGH, James. Consuelo, Portrait of an American

Heiress. New York: Coward, McCann, (1979). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust $20.00 jacket. Fine. First edition. Amy Vanderbilt becomes Duchess of Marlborough or, dominating mother of American heiress arranges loveless marriage into English aristocracy. Henry James, Edith Wharton: were you taking notes for this real-life sequel? With an index. [DAB. Sweeney 66].

986. VANDEVEER, Sarah L. Holograph Leaf, docketed as being from ... Freehold Young Ladies Sem. Jan. 30, 1849. : Approximately 8 x 10 inches, cream paper, written $100.00 in brown ink, folded. Fine.

The heading is “Will the discovery of so much gold in California prove advantageous to the Country?” The jury is still out on that one.

A MAJOR EARLY WOMEN’S COLLEGE

987. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. COHEN, Fanny and BOYD, Elizabeth E., Editors. Vassar. A College Souvenir. N.p. (New York: Chasmar Press), 1896. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Oblong quarto, original brown cloth lettered in silver. Spine and $175.00 edges a little spotted, else fine. First edition. It is not easy for a promotional publication to be charming and informative at once, but this book achieved it. In addition, the advertisments for “The Orient Bicycle; the Singer Sewing Machine; R&G Corsets; Barry’s Tricopherous for the Hair; Dr. T.W. DuBois (Filling Teeth without Pain!)” and many others all add a nostalgic insight at state of the art advertising a century ago as well as a curiosity as to where the next hundred years will take Madison Avenue (or, for that matter, Vassar). (See illustration at p. 95).

988. VORSE, Mary Heaton. The Breaking in of a Yachtsman’s Wife. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1908. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. 12mo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in cream, white, brown and gilt, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Small pinkish stain on front cover, spine lightly browned, else fine. First edition.

(see illustration next page). $65.00 The author’s first book. The witty contents are as charming as the cover – a picture of a boat sailing over the bounding main, seagulls skimming the waves, a lighthouse in the distance and, presumably, the author herself sitting on the prow under the jib. [DAB. NAWM]. 989. [VORSE, Mary Heaton]. Rebel Pen. The Writings of Mary Heaton Vorse. Edited

by Dee Garrison. New York: Monthly Review Press, (1985). Octavo, cloth-like boards, pictorial dust jacket (tiny chip at top of spine). Fine. First edition. $20.00 In much the same way that Djuna Barnes had undergone force feeding in her reportage of the suffagist hunger strikes, Vorse sought to understand the inner workings of the unions, so that her writing reads and the history she records is not easily forgotten, though she herself largely has been. - 295 -

Vorse (1874-1966) was a champion of the labor movement and covered the major strikes of the twentieth century through what might be called participatory journalism, even at one point to getting shot. Widowed by her first two husbands, she married and two years later divorced her third, the secretary of the Communist party in America. [DAB. NAWM]. 990. WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. Excursions in North America Described in Letters from a Gentleman and His Young Companion to Their Friends in England. London: Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street, 1806. Illustrated with large folding map. Octavo, original green paper covered boards, cream paper spine with printed label (new spine and paper label). Top edge rough cut, other edges uncut, as issued. Boards a little rubbed, occasional foxing, slight occasional browning, small tear in right side of $350.00 map affecting two letters. First edition. An anomaly in the parameters of this catalogue, since Wakefield never visited North America. Or, as Howes put it, “Flights of fancy by a lady who never saw ... this country”. Nevertheless, if hearsay history, Wakefield (1751-1832) was an accomplished author as these knowledgeable and well documented travels attest. She is noticed in the Dictionary of National Biography, as are two sons and a grandson. In addition to her literary success, she was a philanthropist, a Quaker and had the distinction, along with her sister, of having her portrait painted by Gainsborough.

SIGNED COPY OF A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

991. WALKER, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich,

(1982). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Signed by the $1,350.00 author.

Walker’s breakthrough book, which established her as a major literary voice of our time and helped herald a renaissance of writing by other women of color. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for fiction it also won the National Book Award. An acclaimed movie version starred Whoopie Goldberg in her film debut. 992. WALKER, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved. A Writer’s Activism. New

York: Random House, (1997). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Essays on public and private issues by this civil rights activist, renowned writer and wise woman. 993. WALLACE, Susan E. The Land of the Pueblos. New York: John B. Alden,

1888. Illustrated. 12mo, original gilt-lettered green cloth pictorially stamped in black. Covers quite bright, a bit of browning to endpapers. Near fine. First edition. $60.00

Susan Elston Wallace was a frequent contributor to the newspapers and periodicals where these articles originally appeared. Her husband was fellow Hoosier General Lew Wallace, author of the famous best seller Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ. Susan’s husband had dedicated his novel “To the wife of my youth”. The unforseen result of this was so many letters of sympathy that Wallace added “Who still abides with me” to subsequent editions. Years later in his autobiography he would call her “a composite of genius, common-sense and all best womanly qualities”. Wallace’s book is based on her experiences in New Mexico when her husband was Governor-General of the territory from 1878 to 1881. - 296 -

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WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

EDITORIAL HELP WANTED!

994. WALSKA, Ganna. Always Room at the Top. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1943. Illustrated. Royal octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $125.00 There is also room over the top, as this autobiography by the opera diva and owner of Santa Barbara’s famous horticultural paradise “Lotus Land” demonstrates in page after page after page. 995. [WARREN, Mercy]. BROWN, Alice. Mercy Warren. New York: Scribner's,

1896. Frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original gilt-lettered red cloth, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition. $45.00

One of the series “Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times”. Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, satirist, dramatist and historian. She “became in a manner the poet laureate and later historical apologist for the patriot cause” –DAB. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1291].

996. [WASHINGTON, Dinah]. HASKINS, Jim. Queen of the Blues. A Biography. New York: Morrow, (1987). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jack$20.00 et. Fine. First edition. Ruth Lee Jones – a.k.a. Dinah Washington – was one of the greatest of blues singers. Unfortunately, blues carried into her personal life: substance abuse; seven husbands; death at 39. Like so many gifted artists she could please others, but not herself. With a complete discography of Washington’s recording career and an index. [DAB. Sweeney 1292].

997. WASHINGTON, Martha and George. Medallion silhouette portraits in profile. Original reverse painting on glass, ca. 1810?. 12” x 16” image, 17” x 23” overall with frame. Fine. $3,000.00

Exquisitely executed and handsomely framed in gilt-lined birds-eye maple. The only reference we have found to anything similar is in Shades of Our Ancestors by Alice Van Leer Carrick, p. 19: “As William S. Baker, the great authority on Washington portraits, wrote, ‘We doubt if any man were ever painted, engraved, or lithographed as often as our Washington was during that period [the last of the 18th century] and the following decade. Artists were eager to copy his august features.’ Moreover, somewhere I found, though where I forget, another foreign tribute: ‘Brought to this port a few likenesses of Washington, executed on glass, in a superb and masterly style, by an eminent Chinese artist.’ Whether they were in profile I do not know, but they go to prove the enormous popularity of George Washington.” We can reassure Carrick that a profile on glass does exist, but cannot confirm the national origin of this portrait. [NAW].

998. [WATSON, Ella. “Cattle Kate”]. HUFSMITH, George W. The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889. Glendo, Wyoming: High Plains Press, (1993). $25.00 Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

Ellen Watson was lynched by a group of cattlemen for alleged rustling, the only woman in recorded American history to meet such a fate. The author did considerable research on the case and provides end notes, a bibliography and an index. 999. WEEDEN, Howard (Miss). Old Voices. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904.

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browned. An extremely good copy of a very scarce book. First edition.

$125.00 Ms. Weeden (1847-1905) was an Alabama artist and poet and a friend of the writer Joel Chandler Harris, to whom this volume is dedicated.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

1000. WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faint soiling and edgewear). Endpapers irregularly browned, else fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author in the year of publica$2,500.00 tion. The author’s first novel, based on the tale by the Brothers Grimm but reset for adult readers in the 1790s of Natchez Trace, Mississippi. In a 1965 interview Welty recalled The Robber Bridegroom: “I had such a good time writing it! I had been working for the WPA or for the Mississippi Advertising Commission ... I had to do a lot of reading on the Natchez Trace ... Reading these primary sources ... fired my imagination. I thought how much like fairy tales all those things were. And so I just sat down and wrote The Robber Bridegroom in a great spurt of pleasure”. (Prenshaw, Conversations with Eudora Welty, 24). The result became the model for a new kind of novel, one now recognized as a modern American classic.

1001. WENTWORTH, May. Fairy Tales from Gold Lands. New York: A. Roman &

Company, 1867. Illustrated. 12mo, original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Worn, edges $125.00 bumped, foxed. Very good copy. First edition and very scarce thus.

The pen name of Mary Richardson Newman Dolliver, who was also an active journalist (The Golden Era), poet and editor. This is the first of her “Golden Gate Series of Fairy Tales” (1867-1870). Political incorrectness – in a children’s book, yet? How’s this, from a tale called “The Strong Man of Santa Barbara”: The Mexicans are an indolent race. The luxurious climate of Santa Barbara is not favorable to the development of latent energy in any people, least of all the inert Mexicans ...” Not to prepossess, in another tale we meet Ching Chong, “a young China boy, of the better class.” Yikes! Cognomen and kinship-wise, there’s a bit of a puzzle here. May Wentworth, the pen name of Mary Richardson Newman Dolliver (or Doliver, according to Walker, San Francisco’s Literary Frontier) and Clara G. Dolliver (see entry under Dolliver) both had children’s books issued at the same time by the same publisher in the same city. It stretches credulity to assume no relationship, but what? This writer’s best guess is that the widow Newman married a Dolliver, Clara thus becoming her sister-in-law. 1002. WENTWORTH, May, Editor. Poetry of the Pacific. Selections and Original Poems from the Poets of the Pacific States. San Francisco: Pacific Publishing, 1867. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt. Light cover wear, pastedowns rubbed, foxing throughout, still a very good copy. First edition, first $50.00 issue, and scarce thus.

The second anthology of California verse, published shortly after the first, Outcroppings, and issued as a rival to it, thus beginning the first literary feud in California. In late 1866, the publisher A. Roman issued Outcroppings, Being Selections of California Verse, anonymously edited by Bret Harte. This first anthology of California verse was immediately and roundly critized for its omissions (numerous California poets were not represented). Within a few months, Hubert H. Bancroft published this rival anthology edited by May Wentworth (pseudo- 300 -

nym of Mary Richardson Newman Dolliver), which was far more subtstantial in the number of contributors (150 works by seventy-five local poets) and slighted no California poet - except Bret Harte. Wentworth was one of the few serious women writers in San Francisco during the “Golden Era”. “As the most inclusive volume of early California Poetry (it) offers a fair crosssection of the verse of the Pacific Coast frontier” - Walker. San Francisco’s Literary Frontier. [Cowan II, p. 675]. 1003. WEST, Jessamyn. To See the Dream. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1957).

Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light wear, one interior tape repair). Fine. First edition. $20.00

This is West’s first book-length work of non-fiction. It describes her involvement as a script writer and technical advisor in the filming of her famous novel The Friendly Persuasion. A really interesting behind the scenes look at the politics and organized chaos of movie making.

INSCRIBED COPY

1004. WEST, Jessamyn. Except for Me and Thee. A Companion to The Friendly

Persuasion. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a bit of edgewear and faint soiling to rear panel). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by $50.00 the author. Prequel and sequel to Friendly Persuasion, being other events in the lives of the endearing Quaker family.

“WHY DON’T YOU COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIME?”

1005. [WEST, Mae]. LEIDER, Emily Wortis. Becoming Mae West. New York:

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, $20.00 cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A late but welcome addition to this catalogue. Besides stage, screen and nightclub, West’s credits included having authored many of her plays and film scripts. These bulge with double entendres which, in turn, raised the hackles of censors. While many of the quips were hers, much of the actual writing belonged to nameless others. During World War II a new model of an airmens life jacket was dubbed a “Mae West” which is how she became one of the few people whose name has entered the dictionary. In 1959 a ghostwriter assisted autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, appeared. Emily Leiter’s book, however, can be read without a grain of salt. Film historian Leslie Halliwell neatly summed up the actresses’s box office appeal: “... the archetypical sex symbol, splendidly vulgar, mocking, overdressed and endearing”. With extensive list of notes, sources and an index. 1006. WESTHEIMER, Ruth. All in a Lifetime. An Autobiography. (New York):

Warner Books, (1987). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. $20.00 Fine. First edition.

With her father imprisoned in Buchenwald, the mother of ten year old Karola Ruth Siegel put her aboard a train to Switzerland. Being part of this Jewish “kinder transport” likely saved Ruth’s life. From a Swiss orphanage she emigrated to Israel, later moved to Paris and eventually landed in the U.S. Here she has found fame as the pioneer in using the media for sex education purposes. - 301 -

1007. WHARTON, Anne Hollingsworth. Colonial Days & Dames. Philadelphia:

Lippincott, 1895. Illustrated. 12mo, original blue cloth decorated in gray. Fine. First (trade) edition. $35.00

Historian and novelist, she was born in the unlikely named Pennsylvania metropolis of Southampton Furnace. Her special interest was America in colonial and revolutionary days about which she became an authority. In her preface the author states “it seems time to collect in permanent form memorials of a past that cannot much longer be held in the memory of the living”. [DAB]. 1008. WHARTON, Anne Hollingsworth. Social Life in the Early Republic.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1902. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of portraits, miniatures and residences. Octavo, original red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, a signed binding. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author.

$90.00 A gossipy (in the better sense of the word) history, centered around the social life of the nation’s capital. With an extensive index. [DAB]. 1009. WHARTON, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribner's, 1911. Octavo, origi-

nal gilt-lettered red cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine a trifle faded, rather minor $600.00 foxing to endpapers. Near fine. First edition, first state, first binding.

A bleak Massachussetts farm provides the backdrop for this grim domestic tragedy, the laconic unfolding of which takes less than 200 pages. Although not considered representative of her works, Ethan Frome remains one of the most popular, and surely one of the best, of Wharton’s novels. [Browne p. 70. DAB. NAW].

1010. WHARTON, Edith. The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre Des Sans-Foyer). New York: Scribner's, 1916. Quarto, black-lettered grey boards with design in green, gilt-lettered red cloth spine. Light foxing on paste-downs and endpapers. Fine. First edi$200.00 tion, after the limited printing of 175 copies.

The book contained original articles, poems and illustrations by well known literary and aritistic figures of the day. It was sold for the benefit of the American hostels for World War I refugees and the children of France Relief Committee, an organization which Wharton had founded in 1914. [DAB. NAW]. 1011. WHARTON, Edith. The Glimpses of the Moon. New York: Appleton, 1922.

Small octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket. Minor edgewear. Fine. First $275.00 edition.

A later one of Wharton’s novels of society. In a 1922 letter the author referred to it as “a very slight thing”. The previous year she had written the same correspondent that the book “tries to picture the adventures of a young couple who believe themselves to be completely affranchis [sic] & up-to-date, but are continually tripped up by obsolete sensibilities, & discarded ideals. -A difficult subject, which of course seemed the easiest in the world when I began it”. If not four star Wharton, in dust jacket it’s a scarce enough collector’s item. [DAB. NAW].

GRANDE DAME OF AMERICAN LETTERS

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Nancy Lewis. New York: Scribner's, (1988). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octa$25.00 vo, boards, cloth spine, dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

A product of the great age of letter writing, Wharton had a full life in two worlds, the creative and the social. Over 4,000 of Wharton’s letters have survived, about ten percent of which are included herein. Co-edited by Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, with a list of Wharton’s writings, a chronology of her life and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 1013. [WHITE, KATHARINE S.]. DAVIS, Linda H. Onward and Upward. A

Biography of Katharine S. White. New York: Harper & Row, (1987). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00

Editor and writer Katherine White joined the staff of the fledgling New Yorker magazine in 1925 and stayed for thirty-five years. She shepherded any number of the great magazine’s noted writers with, it has been said, “a velvet hand in an iron glove”. With notes, selected bibliography and an index. [Sweeney 1325].

1014. [WHITE, Pearl]. WELTMAN, Manuel and LEE, Raymond. Pearl White. The Peerless Fearless Girl. South Brunswick: Barnes, (1969). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (closed tear at top edge of rear panel, a little $30.00 dust soiled). Fine. First edition.

Pearl White became filmdom’s first heroine when she starred in The Perils of Pauline, the most famous of all motion picture serials. Each chapter ended with her struggling at death’s door, each subsequent installment showed a miraculous escape from the predicament. It was a cinematic sensation. The usually reliable Sweeney and this writer part company here, not being on the same page, chapter or, seemingly, book. “This is a candid biography that is basically unsympathetic to White. It covers all of her career and adult romances, from her first acting job until her death” –Sweeney. “From start to finish every page is constructed of imagined dialogue. It makes for an unilluminating, unreadable biographic gallimaufry. Partial redemption comes from the nearly 300 photographs.” –Randall. With an appendix listing all the films in which Pearl White appeared. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1327, listing the publication date as 1970 in error]. 1015. [WHITMAN, Christie]. MCCLURE, Sandy. Christie Whitman. For the

People. A Political Biography. Amherst: Prometheus Books, (1996). Illustrated with $20.00 photographs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

The first woman governor of New Jersey, the liberal Republican went from her second term of office to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a position she has recently resigned for valid ecological reasons. With an index of names. 1016. [WHITMAN, Narcissa]. ALLEN, Opal Sweazea. Narcissa Whitman. An

Historical Biography. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, (1959). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges a little rubbed, a few minor chips on top edge). Fine. $20.00 First edition.

The distinction of being one of the first two white women to cross the Rocky Mountains belonged to the newlywed Narcissa Whitman, neé Prentiss. The goal was to establish a mission near Walla-Walla, Washington, which the Whitmans accomplished in late summer, 1836. For their pains in bringing the advantages of the white man’s world (civilization) and its disadvantages (civilization), the couple were massacred by a band of dissident Cayuse indians in 1847. In - 304 -

the interim the disenchanted Narcissa’s enthusiasm for the dreary missionary life diminished along with her eyesight. Whitman had lost her two year old daughter in an accidental drowning and, ultimately, her own life in the savage wars of peace. With a bibliography and an index. [NAW. Sweeney 1328]. 1017. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. The Story of Patsy. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. Small octavo, original pictorial boards, cloth spine. Light cover wear, else near fine.

$50.00 The rare 1883 edition of this book was published to raise money for the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco. This had been established by the author and was San Francisco’s first kindergarten, in fact the first free kindergarten west of the Rockies. “This is the first formally published edition and is considerably expanded.” [BAL 22588, printing B (no sequence established). DAB. NAW]. 1018. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Boston: Houghton,

Mifflin, 1903. Octavo, original dark green pictorially stamped in lighter green, white, blue and henna. Ink inscription on endpaper dated 1903. A bright, lovely copy of $100.00 Wiggin’s most famous book. First edition.

The work was influenced by the poet William Wordsworth’s ideas of nature and childhood. [BAL 22632, printing 4, (order tentative) binding B (no priority). Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 121. Browne p. 87. DAB. NAW]. 1019. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Susanna and Sue. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1909.

Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens and N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, original gray cloth decoratively stamped in green, orange and blue, pictorial label, top edge gilt, pictorial dust jacket (extreme edgewear and chipping, some soiling). Fine. First edition, scarce in $125.00 jacket.

The publishers commissioned Wyeth to do the pen and ink chapter headings for this book and another Brandywine school artist, Alice Barber Stephens, painted the full page color illustrations. While not a particularly uncommon book, it is quite uncommon in the elaborate dust jacket. [BAL 22652. Allen p. 223. Dykes Wyeth 358. DAB. NAW].

1020. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Bluebeard. A Musical Fantasy. New York: Harper, 1914. Illustrated. 12mo, original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Endpapers a bit browned, tissue guard foxed. Near fine. First edition. Inscribed by the self critical author “I am an impassioned Wagnerite notwithstanding the insinuations in this nonsensical $100.00 book”. The title page further reads: “Herein Lies the Story of the Miraculous Discovery in a Hat Box of an Unpublished Opera by the Late Richard Wagner, Dealing in the Most Unique and Climacteric Manner with Feminism, Trial Marriage, Bigamy and Polygamy; Its Libretto and Leit–motive Have Been Studied with Passion and are Now Revealed with Religious Zeal”. It is an operatic spoof of which on occasion Wiggin gave a private performance “calculated to reduce an amateur to nervous prostration as I sang, played the piano, and gave the lecture, thereby using the resources of three arts in which I had received no training”. [BAL 22669, state B (no sequence established). DAB. NAW]. - 305 -

1021. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. The Girl and the Kingdom. Learning to Teach. N.p.:

n.d. (Los Angeles, 1915?). 16mo, original tan paper wrappers decorated in green. Fine. First edition of a rare and ephemeral item. $125.00

Presented to the Los Angeles City Teachers Club to create an educational fund to be used in part for the literacy campaign of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs. [BAL 22674. DAB. NAW].

WRITTEN IN THE TWILIGHT OF HER LIFE

1022. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. My Garden of Memory. An Autobiography. Boston:

Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in gold. $65.00 Fine. First edition.

Wiggin did not live to see her autobiography in print, passing away only days after completing the manuscripts ironically titled last chapter “The Song is Never Ended”. With an appendix listing translations of the author’s books and an index. [BAL 22689. DAB. NAW]. 1023. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas and SMITH, Nora Archibald. Kate Douglas Wiggin

as Her Sister Knew Her. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1925. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in gold. Lightly water stained throughout confined to outer edges, $20.00 else very good.

Wiggins and her younger sister were close siblings, collaborating upon or jointly editing fifteen books. [BAL 22701. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1333]. 1024. WILCOX, Ella Wheeler. Poems of Pleasure. Chicago: Morrill Higgins, 1892.

Frontispiece portrait of the author. 12mo, original green cloth pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine extremities very lightly rubbed, ink inscription, else fine. First edi$40.00 tion thus (originally published by Belford Clarke in 1888).

A sequel to her best known collection of verse, Poems of Passion, which contained the poem “Solitude” with its famous first lines: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone”. Scarcely remembered now, Wilcox has been called the feminine Edgar Guest of her day (this, in turn, recalls a couplet by the noted acerbic wit Dorothy Parker: “I’d rather fail a Wasserman test than read a poem by Edgar Guest”). Over forty published books –mostly verse– solidified her status as “the high priestess of platitude (who) exalted commonplaces to the stature of genius. The success of her prosy poems and her lush yet conventionally Puritanical romances is one of the mysteries of American literature” - Kunitz and Haycraft. [DAB. NAW]. 1025. [WILDER, Laura Ingalls]. ZOCHERT, Donald. Laura. The Life of Laura

Ingalls Wilder. Chicago: Henry Regnery, (1976). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $30.00

Although Wilder (1867-1957) had had lengthy experience as a contributor to and editor of periodicals, she did not publish her first novel until the age of sixty-five. Little House in the Big Woods (1932) was followed by seven others in the Little House series of pioneer life on the frontier. They have made a lasting contribution to adolescent literature and, as a gauge of their enormous success, total sales have reached twenty million copies while spawning the popular television series “Little House on the Prairie”. With appendices and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1336]. - 306 -

“A YANKEE MASTERPIECE”

1026. WILKINS, Mary E. A New England Nun and Other Stories. New York:

Harper, 1891. 12mo, orginal blue cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, oval silhouette of a woman on a white background and framed like a miniature inset on front cover. Spine ends slightly rubbed, smudge on bottom edge, else fine. First edition. $50.00 Wilkins was a Massachusetts native whose perceptions of the quaint surfaces and disturbed undercurrents of New England character are unexcelled. The title story of this book, not without justification, has been hailed as “a Yankee masterpiece”. She is credited with having written 238 short stories, twelve novels, a play and two volumes of verse. [BAL 6325. Wright III, 2036. Browne p. 112. NAW]. 1027. [WILLARD, Emma]. MORRIS, George P., Editor. American Melodies:

Containing a Single Selection from the Productions of Two Hundred Writers. New York: Linen & Fennell, 1841. Illustrated with four full page steel engravings. 16mo, original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated morocco, all edges gilt. A little rubbed, some $300.00 browning and offsetting of text, otherwise near fine. First edition. Rare.

Contains the first appearance in a book (at p. 103) of Willard’s well known two stanza poem, “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep”. Some of the numerous other writers represented are Sarah J. Hale, Eliza Leslie, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Caroline Howard Gilman among the women and O.W. Holmes, Francis Scott Key and Edgar Allan Poe among the men. The front free endpaper has an ink signature “William Burton”, possibly the actor and author whose poem “The Dollars” appears at pp. 278-281. [BAL 997. Wilson and Randall, p.444, incorrectly listing the publication date as 1831. DAB]. 1028. [WILLARD, Emma]. LUTZ, Alma. Emma Willard. Daughter of Democracy.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1929. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth, printed paper spine label (browned). Some slight browning of text, otherwise a fine copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author on a slip affixed to the front free endpaper “For one of $45.00 Emma Willard’s great great granddaughters”.

A biographer and journalist, Lutz was involved throughout her life with women’s rights. She authored biographies of such feminist leaders as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Emma Willard was her first book. It tells of a Middlebury, Vermont young schoolmistress who set out and succeeded in establishing the first school of higher education for women in America. With a bibliography of Willard’s writings and an index. [Krichmar 5132. DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1340]. 1029. WILLARD, Frances E. Glimpses of Fifty Years. The Autobiography of An

American Woman. Chicago: H.J. Smith, (1889). Illustrated with numerous pen and ink sketches, two colored lithographs and a fold-out facsimile of a hand-written composition on blue paper. Thick octavo, original black-stamped pictorial green cloth, gilt and silverdecorated. Slight cover wear, end papers cracked at hinges, else fine. A very nice copy $65.00 of a book difficult to find thus. First edition.

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nation’s largest organized body of women. She used the WCTU as a pulpit to further reforms in prisons, schools and labor, campaigning for an eight hour day and equal pay for equal work, the latter a still ongoing struggle. [Browne p. 38. Davis & Joyce 4793. Krichmar 5151. DAB. NAW].

WHAT KATY DID: A SUMMING UP TILL THEN

1030. WILLARD, Frances and LIVERMORE, Mary A. Editor.. A Woman of the

Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life.. Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. Profusely illustrated with portraits. Quarto, publisher’s pebbled morocco, gilt lettered, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints and spine ends rubbed, else $850.00 very good. First edition.

“Among all cyclopaedias and books about famous women, this is intended to be unique and to supply a vacant niche in the reference library. The nineteenth century is woman’s century. Since time began, no other era has witnessed so many and so great changes in the development of her character and gifts and in the multiplication of opportunities for their application. Even to those best informed on this subject, we believe that a glance at these pages will bring astonishment at the vast array of woman’s achievements here chronicled, in hundreds of new vocations and avocations. Few eminent names and faces will here be missed, while many worthy names, which can not be found elsewhere, are strung upon this rosary of ninteenth-century achievement. Every department of life and work is here represented. This book is not alone a book of record of famous names, but one which aims to show what women have done in the humbler as in the higher walks of life. It is a record of American women offered, at the close of four centuries of life in the New World, to the consideration of those who would know what the nineteenth century of Christian civilization has here brought forth, and what are the vast outlooks and the marvelous promise of the twentieth century.” -from the author’s preface. A highly useful vast compendium prepared by two noted feminists. This first edition is rare in the marketplace. As an aside: fittingly, it was the final item to be added to this collection. [ DAB. NAW].

1031. [WILLARD, Frances E]. EARHART, Mary. Frances Willard from Prayers to

Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1944). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth. Spine a bit faded, minute date stamp to rear pastedown. About fine. First edition. $40.00

A biography of the temperance activist and suffrage leader. Willard also had the distinction of being the first female college president (Evanston College for Ladies, 1871-1873) and the first president of the National Council of Women (1888-1890). With notes, bibliography and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1342]. 1032. WILLS, Helen. Fifteen-Thirty. The Story of a Tennis Player. New York:

Scribner's, 1937. Illustrated with photographs and examples of her considerable talent as an artist. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (minute wear). Fine. First edition, rare in $350.00 jacket.

Wills, dubbed “little Miss Poker Face” by the press, was one of the most famous women tennis players in history, winning the Wimbledon singles title in 1935 and numerous other championships in the decades of the 1920’s-1930’s. - 308 -

1033. WILSON, Edith Bolling et al. An Important Group of Material, including unpublished letters by and relating to President Woodrow Wilson and his family. This includes Edith Bolling Wilson, his second wife, as well as his three daughters, Margaret Wilson, Jessie Woodrow Wilson (who married Francis B. Sayre) and Eleanor Randolph $15,000.00 Wilson (who married Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo). A few highlights:

1. Letters from President Wilson to his daughter Margaret. 2. A number of Edith Wilson A.L.s., including a remarkable account of the end of the World War as experienced by America’s First Lady. Penned just two days after the armistice by Edith to her stepdaughter who was entertaining American troops in France; it is a vivid description by a notable eyewitness to an historic event. “Dear, Dear little girl, I am ashamed that nearly 3 weeks have gone since you sailed away and I have not written you but the truth is that since Monday - (day before yesterday) when the glad tidings came at 4 A.M. that the Armistice was really signed - and that blessed peace would follow - we have all been too busy for any but real work -I did all the coding of Cablegrams - and with the other duties of this house I did not have a free moment. But oh! how wonderful to be over there now - I know what it means to you and what you will mean to the boys in the reaction after these busy excited ..... Of course Col House keeps you in touch with things - and it does look like your “hunch” for Xmas will come true - Bless your heart! How we have missed you and with what thankful hearts we read in the papers of your safe arrival With the constant messages, back & forth, I feel that you have keeped up with us pretty thoroughly -so that I may be giving you only things you already know. But first of all I know you want to know of the dearest person in the worldI am writing at his big desk in the study while he is at the typewriter sending the Col. another message - which I will code later - He has just turned and wants me to send you his tender love and say how he misses you. He has worked day and night for days - but the relief of peace has renewed his strength and endurance - Monday the 11th was a day never to be forgotten -the world seemed mad with joy at 1 (o’clock) your Father addressed Congress and I wish you could have seen and heard him. Even he was never more splendid and there was something one could feel throughout the audience and yet which is impossible to define - a sort of awed wonder and the silence was tense for every one feared to miss a word - Afterwards a number of people tried to say something to me about the address & could not for the tears- That afternoon he reviewed a parade of War Workers which had been arranged for that day long before- but which was for more than originally planned. After dinner we went in the open car with the top down, all the way down the Avenue to the Capital, and the Crowds on the Streets went wild -They were so nice and jolly that although they nearly smothered us it was lots of fun- Finally Soldiers & Sailors in the Crowd Conscripted themselves as protectors and by holding hands like a grand chaise they completely circled the car-putting one big sailor in front carrying the flag -and so we were escorted home - all of them addressing your father as “Commander in Chief”- they threw flowers & flags into the car- & at times the crowds were so thick we would have to stop & wait a long time -we got back though perfectly comfortably and it did the tired, careworn Commander in Chief lots of good. I tucked him straight into bed for an hours sleep when he got up and we both went to a Reception at the Italian Embassy - It all seemed arranged long ago -for why should the King of - 309 -

Italy have been born on that date - but to give your Father the chance to pay Italy this compliment on the day peace came to the world. ...” 3. A menu, octavo, printed in red and blue on white stock. “Train Presidentiel Brest to Paris Diner du 13 Décembre 1918. The Armistice ending the World War had been reached only three weeks earlier when the President sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on the George Washington December 4, 1918. The party landed at Brest on the 13th and were met by the personal train of France’s President Clemenceau, and left for Paris at 5pm. In her autobiography My Memoir Edith did not comment on the French cuisine, but did remark “The dining car service was terrible” attributing it to the results of the war. Among the 20 holograph signatures on the verso are Woodrow Wilson, Edith Bolling Wilson, (General) John J. Pershing, (Secretary of State) Robert Lansing and wife Eleanor Lansing, (General) Tasker H. Bliss, (Ambassador to France) William G. Sharp, Gordon Auchincloss (Colonel Houses’s son-in-law), Mary A. Benson (wife of the Admiral), (French Ambassador) Jean Jusseraud and wife, Joseph Clark Grew (Secretary to the United States Commission to the Versailles Peace Conference). 4. A group of snapshots of Edith and President Wilson and General Pershing in Paris during the dithyrambic reception received by them. Probably unpublished. 5. BONES, Helen. A.L.s. 3 pages. Stratford House January 2, 1919 to “Dear Big Chief”. A warm, wonderful letter from Helen Bones who had been secretary to the first Mrs. Wilson. She thanks him for the Christmas present and wonders at his thoughtfulness “It is just that we can’t help measuring you by ordinary standards when you are extra ordinary! We are thrilled every minute over here by what you are saying to the world.” [DAB. NAWM].

MADAME PRESIDENT?

1034. WILSON, Edith Bolling. My Memoir. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1939).

Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges lightly chipped). Fine. First edition. $50.00

President Wilson’s second wife was the seventh of eleven children, her lineage tracing back to the beginnings of Virginia. A chance meeting in the White House by the widow and widower led to a whirlwind courtship. During Wilson’s incapacity following a stroke, she held more American governmental power than any woman before or since. Nearly sixteen years the President’s junior, she outlived him by thirty-seven, attended the inauguration of John Kennedy in 1961 and, oddly enough, died that same year on her late husband’s birthday. In the interim she zealously guarded and nurtured his image. [DAB. NAWM]. (see illustration p. 315).

1035. [WILSON, Ellen]. MCADOO, Eleanor Wilson, Editor. The Priceless Gift. The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson. New York: McGrawHill, (1962). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First $40.00 edition. Inscribed by the editor.

A culling of the 1,400 letters exchanged by the Wilsons, edited by their youngest daughter. “Wilsons love letters are among the most eloquent in American presidential history” -DAB. With an index. [NAW].

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GENESIS OF BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE

1036. WILSON, Harriet E. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a

Two-Story White House, North. Showing That Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There. New York: Random House, (1983). Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. $25.00 First edition thus.

With an insightful introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Printed in facsimile from the first (and only previous) edition, printed for the author in 1859 by the Boston firm of George C. Rand & Avery. A black literary landmark, considered to be the first novel published by a black person in this country and one of the first two black women to publish a novel in any language. With an appendix, chronology and select bibliography. [Wright II, 2767 for first edition]. 1037. WILSON, Helen Van Pelt, Editor. The Joy of Flower Arranging. New York:

M. Barrows, (1951). With 105 illustrations, four in color. Octavo, pictorial boards, pic$30.00 torial dust jacket (a little chipped and rubbed at edges). Fine. First edition. The twelve chapters are presented by month and locale, from Januray jonquils in California through December greenery in Massachusetts, each arrangement the work of a gifted American woman. With notes and interpretations.

THE INITIAL PUBLICATION

1038. WILSON, Josephine, Acting Editor. Who’s Who Among the Women of

California. An Annual Devoted to the Representative Women of California with an Authoritative Review of Their Activities in Civic Social, Athletic, Philanthropical, Art and Music, Literary and Dramatic Circles. San Francisco: Security Publishing, 1922. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, original dark brown fabricoid decoratively stamped in gilt on front and spine. Worn at extremities, spine a bit cracked, else a very good copy. First $75.00 edition. A comprehensive (xliv, 612 pp) examination of women’s clubs, with lists of their leaders and members, short essays on various subjects (“Is Women’s Place in the Home?” by Kathleen Norris) and advertisements. 1039. [WINDSOR, Duchess of]. MARTIN, Ralph G. The Woman He Loved. New

York: Simon & Schuster, (1974). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. $35.00 Repaired at top of spine, spine a little wrinkled, else fine. First edition.

Wallace Warfield Simpson, a.k.a. the Duchess of Windsor, leading lady in the most famous love story of the twentieth century. [Sweeney 1361].

MAD DOGS AND MISSIONARIES

1040. [WINSLOW, Mrs. Harriet Wadsworth]. WINSLOW, Miron. A Memoir of Mrs. Harriet Wadsworth Winslow, Combining A Sketch of the Ceylon Mission. New York: Leavitt, Lord, 1835. Frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Winslow, engraved title page. Octavo, original green cloth, stamped in blind and lettered in gilt on spine. Rubbed, lower right cover and first 147 pages with brown stain, some foxing throughout. This first edition is rare. Reprints: Glasgow, 1838, American Tract Society 1840 and later.

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phy of this missionary by her widower contains much of Harriet’s own writing. A particularly poignant passage extends a variety of reasons to show that children of those thus called cannot be kept with their parents, but must return home “to enjoy their birth-right as Americans (of which the voluntary exile of their parents ought not to deprive them)”. Other reasons cited are the lack of proper educational facilities, endangerment to their moral and religious character, need for attentive parental support, lack of opportunities for forming suitable connections in marriage and meager employment prospects. In sum, “Southern Asia is no place for northern people to colonize. They dwindle away under a tropical sun. Besides, there is no room for them; the country is already full of inhabitants, to whom they cannot assimilate”. 1041. WINSOR, Kathleen. Forever Amber. New York: Macmillan, 1944. Illustrated

with endpaper map of London under Charles II. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (rear cover faintly soiled and spine ends a bit worn). Fine. First edition of the author’s first $175.00 book, in pleasing collector’s condition.

Winsor had become fascinated with the Restoration Period after randomly picking up a history book on the subject. Her resulting historical novel fared badly with critics but profitably with readers, becoming an enormous best-seller. Risqué in its day, though the Hays censorship office saw to it that the film version was discreet enough.

1042. [WISTER, Sally]. Sally Wister’s Journal. A True Narrative, Being a Quaker Maiden’s Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777-1778. Edited by Albert Cook Myers. Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. Illustrated. Octavo, original pictorially decorated gold cloth stamped in black, edges uncut. Full-page $45.00 inscription on free endpaper, else fine. First edition.

Some of the illustrations are printed in color. With an appendix of letters to Sally Wister, and an index. [DAB].

THE DARKEST CHAPTER IN COLONIAL HISTORY

1043. [WITCHCRAFT]. FISKE, John. Witchcraft in Salem Village. Boston:

Houghton, Mifflin, (1904). Illustrated. Octavo, original brown-lettered beige boards. Minor cover wear, bookseller’s label (from Salem, Massachusetts, of course) else excel$25.00 lent.

“Witch: 1. a woman supposedly having supernatural power by a compact with evil spirits; sorceress: the term formerly was also applied to men” – Webster. Thus, be it recognized that in those former times before equal rights, here, at least, was a case of equal wrongs; the male of the species was at similar risk of being denounced, tried and executed (and was). “This account of the remarkable witchcraft delusion and witch trials in Salem is reprinted from the author’s New France and New England” (Publisher’s note). 1044. [WITCHCRAFT]. TAYLOR, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial

Connecticut, 1647-1697. New York: Grafton Press, 1908. With a frontispiece. Octavo, $85.00 original green cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut. Fine. First edition.

While the modern world associates witchcraft with the Salem trials, it is less well remembered that the hysteria in the American colonies was not confined to Massachusetts. In neighboring Connecticut on May 26, 1647 Alse Young was hanged as a witch. It was the first known execution for the crime in New England. The book contains a list of cases, bibliographi- 316 -

cal notes and an index. 1045. [WOMEN’S CLUBS]. Historic Facts and Fancies. History and Landmarks

Section of California Federated Women’s Clubs. San Francisco: California Federated Women’s Clubs, n.d.. Illustrated. Octavo, original pictorially printed gray wrappers. Embossed and rubber stamps on title page, slight and decreasing marginal staining first $45.00 thirty pages. A very scarce compilation.

An interesting 152 page potpourri, circa 1910, anonymously cobbled together from contributions by various California women’s clubs. 1046. [WONDER WOMEN]. America’s Twelve Great Women Leaders During the Past Hundred Years as Chosen by the Women of America. Chicago: Associated Authors Service, (1933). Illustrated. 12mo, orange printed wrappers. Faint soiling to wrappers, $20.00 else fine. First edition.

A compilation from The Ladies’ Home Journal and The Christian Science Monitor. Each of the dozen biographical sketches of Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Baker Eddy, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Keller, Mary Lyon, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances E. Willard and Dr. Mary E. Wooley is illustrated with a drawing. Also included are five prize winning essays on “The Essential Qualities of a Woman Leader”. 1047. WONG, Jade Snow. Fifth Chinese Daughter. New York: Harper, (1950).

Illustrated by Kathryn Uhl. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very light wear). Fine. Signed by the author and the illustrator in English, and with their personal signature $60.00 stamps in Chinese.

The well known artist-ceramist’s charming memoir of growing up between the strictures and customs of the old world and the opportunities offered by the new in San Francisco’s Chinese community, the largest this side of Asia.

LIFE AT THREE DIGITS

1048. WOOD, Beatrice. Playing Chess with the Heart. Beatrice Wood at 100. San

Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1994). Illustrated with photographs by Marlene Wallace. Small quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Fine. First $30.00 edition. Photographs of, and reflective commentary by, the centenarian artist.

1049. [WOODHULL, Victoria]. The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Edited by Madeleine

B. Stern. Weston, Massachusetts: M & S Press, 1974. Illustrated. Thick octavo, cloth. $40.00 As new (at published price).

Even among unconventional female reformers Victoria Claftin Woodhull was the proverbial loose cannon. Free love? You got it. Female candidate for president? The first. Right to vote? She attempted to do so. Charlatan? So’s your old man! Onetime lady of the evening? Prove it. But let’s move on ... With a sister, Tennessee Chaflin, they opened a Wall Street firm and became the first women stockbrokers in history. Together they launched Woodhull and Chaflin’s Weekly which advocated equal rights for women, free love, world government and other - 317 -

revolutionary concepts. Incongruously, the sisters became closely involved with the millionaire widower Cornelious Vanderbilt, yet published the first appearance in this country of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto translated into English. And, speaking of England, the two sisters removed there, Victoria eventually marrying a wealthy English banker while Tennessee wed a future Baronet; both outlived their husbands. The sisters became noted for their charitable works; Victoria continued lecturing, writing and pursuing projects of interest to women. This anthology is a patchwork reprinting of Woodhull’s publications in the fields of sociology, political theory and economics, yet seamlessly sewn together with preliminary remarks to each section and with a bibliographical introduction by the editor. “An effective mouthpiece of reform, she takes a colorful place in the feminist movement whose sphere she boldly enlarged” – Stern. [DAB. NAW]. 1050. WOODWARD, Helen. The Lady Persuaders. New York: Ivan Obolensky, (1960). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (small tear in upper edge of front $20.00 panel). Fine. First edition. The influence of women’s magazines upon American life as informally traced from Sarah Josepha Hale’s Ladies Magazine and Louis Antoine Godey’s Lady’s Book to the Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Home Companion and Vogue. 1051. [WOOLLEY, Mary Emma]. MARKS, Jeanette. Life and Letters of Mary

Emma Woolley. Washington, D.C: Public Affairs Press, (1955). Illustrated with photo$25.00 graphs. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). Near fine. First edition.

An informal biography of Dr. Woolley, one of America’s most notable educators. She spent 37 years as President of Mount Holyoke College and was appointed by President Hoover as a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932. With notes and references and an index. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 1375]. 1052. [WROUGHT BY WOMEN]/ SIMPSON, Anna Pratt. Problems Women

Solved. Being the Story of the Woman’s Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. What Vision, Enthusiasm, Work and Co-operation Accomplished. San Francisco: Women’s Board, 1915 (i.e. 1916). Profusely illustrated with tipped-in photographs. Octavo, original brown boards, tan cloth spine with label lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. An exceptionally fine copy, uncut and unopened. First trade edition. $185.00 With a lengthy inscription by the author on the front endpaper. Printed under the supervision of John Henry Nash in January, 1916.

1053. [WORLD WAR I]. SCHNEIDER, Dorothy and Carl J. Into the Breach.

American Women Overseas in World War I. (New York): Viking, (1991). Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket . Fine. First edition.

$20.00 One of the husband and wife team’s several books on aspects of American womanhood. This one concerns the estimated 25,000 who served across the Atlantic during that war. With two appendices, notes, bibliography and an index. 1054. WRAY, Fay. On The Other Hand. A Life Story. New York: St. Martin’s, (1989).

Illustrated with photographs. Octavo, boards, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. - 318 -

$25.00 Although the screen star’s biggest admirer, King Kong, was captivated by her beauty, non-simian suitors such as writers Clifford Odets and Sinclair Lewis also admired her intelligence and her humor. With a filmography and an index. 1055. WRIGHT, D. Giraud, Mrs. A Southern Girl in ‘61. The War-Time Memories of

a Confederate Senator’s Daughter. New York: Doubleday, Page , 1905. Profusley illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original green cloth pictorially stamped in silver and gilt, lettered in gilt on spine. Very slight rubbing of edges, covers dust soiled, else fine. $135.00 First edition. Rare.

As the daughter of Senator Louis T. Wigfall, one of the most partisan of Southern secessionists, the author and her family travelled between such Southern cities as Richmond, Montgomery, Charleston and Atlanta, and had the opportunity to know personally such important figures as Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston. “Contemporary family letters add to the usefulness of these memoirs of social and economic conditions” –Nevins. With an index. [Harwell, In Tall Cotton. The 200 Most Important Confederate Books, 198. Nevins II, p. 207]. 1056. [WRIGHT, Fanny]. ECKHARDT, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Rebel in

America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, picto$25.00 rial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper.

Francis Wright, a native of Dundee, Scotland, lived a free thinking kaleidoscopic fiftyseven years. Close friendships ranged from Lafayette to Robert Dale Owen. She championed such avant-garde reforms as free education for children and the gradual emancipation of slaves and, in the latter case, put her money where her mouth and pen were. With a list of abbreviations, notes, and an index. [DAB. NAW]. 1057. WRIGHT, Richardson. Forgotten Ladies. Nine Portraits from the American Family Album. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. With 32 illustrations. Octavo, original pictorial lavender cloth printed in red and green, top edge gilt. Fine. First edition. $30.00

Nine mortal muses, selected from footlights’ afterglow and given a genial curtain call by the author. With a bibliography and notes. 1058. [WYETH, Henriette]. HORGAN, Paul. The Artifice of Blue Light. Henriette

Wyeth. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, (1994). Profusely illustrated with full page plates in color. Large quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $25.00

Eldest child of the famous illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Henriette met, married and moved to New Mexico with Peter Hurd, a student of her father’s. Henriette’s art, however, was her own, as this amply illustrated monograph clearly presents. 1059. YEAGER, Jeana and RUTAN, Dick. Voyager. New York: Knopf, 1987. Profusely illustrated with photographs and endpaper map. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Ink notation on front endpaper. Fine. First edition. Signed by the $25.00 authors. The exciting story of the pilots and their hand built airplane, in which they became the first to circumnavigate the globe nonstop without refuelling. Today, Voyager hangs suspended at - 319 -

the National Aerospace Museum in Washington. 1060. [YARBROUGH, Nettie Hight]. WYNN, Marcia Rittenhouse. Pioneer Family of Whiskey Flat. (Los Angeles: Marcia Rittenhouse Wynn, 1945). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (a tad rubbed at spine ends). Endpapers a little $100.00 browned, else fine. First edition. Frontier life on the remote Greenhorn Mountains of the southern Sierra Madre. Gold is where you find it: there are some nuggets in these homely pages. [Rocq 2514]. 1061. YEZIERSKA, Anzia. Bread Givers. A Novel. Garden City: Doubleday, Page,

1925. Octavo, original black cloth decorated in yellow, pictorial dust jacket (edges chipped and rubbed). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by the author. A scarce book, $150.00 extremely so inscribed and in jacket.

The story of a new world daughter struggling to liberate herself from filial servitude to and domination by a rabbinical, grasping father; set in the squalor of New York’s lower east side tenements. Perhaps art imitating life: the novelist and short story writer was born in an eastern European village, daughter of an impecunious Talmudic scholar. In America Yezierska came to form a happier relationship with a more provident scholar, the famous educator and philosopher John Dewey. Under his tutelage she blossomed, though the later years of her long life (1880?1970) were spent in literary twilight as a free-lance writer . [NAWM]. 1062. YOUNG, Philip. Revolutionary Ladies. New York: Knopf, 1977. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition. $20.00 An examination of the Loyalist women of the American Revolution. While modern history books take little note that many colonists opposed the venture, this study provides a bit of insight into some of the largely forgotten females who did, and the consequences. With a list of resources and an index.

THE WEAKER SEX

1063. ZAHARIAS, Babe Didrikson. This Life I’ve Led. My Autobiography. New

York: Barnes, (1955). Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.

$250.00 Born Mildred Ella Didrikson in Port Arthur, Texas in 1911, the sixth of seven children of Norwegian immigrant parents. An athletic sensation, she excelled at track and field, starred at basketball, did a bit of boxing, played tennis and a mean game of billiards, could throw a baseball over 300 feet ... yet probably Didrikson’s best sport was golf. All this, though her place in the sun was brief: cancer claimed her at forty-two. As the inevitable and endless polls that ushered out the twentieth century were all tabulated, one foregone conclusion was acknowledgement of this Babe as its nonpareil all-around female athlete and, by extension, up to this date in the history of the world. [DAB. NAWM].

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Mary Margaret McBride Lucy Larcom Amy Lowell Bonnie Parker Mary Pickford Eleanor H. Porter Alice Hegan Rice Helena Rubinstein Margaret Sidney Kate Smith Eileen Southern Sara Teasdale Octave Thanet Susan Bogert Warner Ethel Waters Phyllis Wheatley Elinor Wylie

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BENNETT Whitman. A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1633-1940). New York, Bennett Book Studios, (1941).

CARR James F. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. With and Addendum Containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. New York, James F. Carr, 1965.

BENNETT Whitman. A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books. New York, Bennett Book Studios, 1949. BITTING Katherine Golden. Gastronomic Bibliography. San Francisco, (A.W. Bitting), 1939. BLAIN Virginia, CLEMENTS, Patricia and GRUNDY, Isobel. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven`, Yale University Press, (1990).

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BLANCK Jacob. Peter Parley to Penrod. A Bibliographical Description of the BestLoved American Juvenile Books. New York, R.R. Bowker, 1938.

COOK Margaret. America’s Charitable Cooks: A Bibliography of Fund-Raising Cook Books Published in the United States (1861-1915). Kent, Ohio, Self published, 1971.

BLANCK Jacob, Compiler. Bibliography of American Literature. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1955-1991. Nine volumes.

COOK Margaret. America’s Charitable Cooks: A Bibliography of Fund-Raising Cook Books Published in the United States (1861-1915). Kent, Ohio, Self published, 1971.

BLISS Carey S. Autos Across America. A Bibliography of Transcontinental Automobile Travel 1903-1940. Austin, Jenkins & Reese, 1982.

COWAN R.E. and R.G. A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930. Los Angeles, n.p., 1964. Four volumes bound in one.

BORDMAN Gerald. American Musical Theatre. A Chronicle. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978.

CRANE Joan. Willa Cather. A Bibliography. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, (1982).

BROWN Eleanor and Bob. Culinary Americana. Cookbooks Published in the ... United States .... 1860 through 1960. New York, Roving Eye Press, (1961).

CULLEN-DUPONT Kathryn. The Encyclopedia of Women’s History in America. New York, Facts on File, (1996).

BROWNE Anita. The One Hundred Best Books by American Women During the Past Hundred Years 1833-1933 As Chosen by the National Council of Women. Chicago, Associated Authors Service, (1933).

CURREY Lloyd W. and KRUSKA, Dennis G. Bibliography of Yosemite, the Central and the Southern High Sierra and the Big Trees 1839-1900. Los Angeles, Dawson’s Book Shop, 1992.

BRUCCOLI Matthew J. F. Scott Fitzgerald. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Pittsburgh), University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.

DARLOW T.H. and MOULE, H.F. Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961 . Revised and expanded by A.S. Herbert. : London, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1968.

BRUCCOLI Matthew J. Supplement to F. Scott Fitzgerald. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Pittsburgh), University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. BURKE W.J and HOWE, Will D. American Authors and Books 1640-1940. New York, Gramercy Publishing, 1943. CAGLE William R and STAFFORD, Lisa Killion. American Books on Food and Drink. A Bibliographical Catalog of the Cookbook Collection Housed in the Lilly - 324 -

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DOBIE J. Frank. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Dallas, Southern Methodist Press, 1952.

GLOZER Liselotte F. and William K. California in the Kitchen. An Essay Upon, and a Check List of, California Imprints in the Field of Gastronomy from 1870 (?) - 1932. (Berkeley), privately printed, 1960.

DRURY Clifford Merrill. California Imprints, 1846-1876 Pertaining to Social, Educational, and Religous Subjects .... (Glendale), Privately Printed for the author, 1970.

GOLDMAN Sheerli Evans. Mary McCarthy. A Bibliography. New York, Harcourt, Brace, (1968).

DYKES Jeff. Fifty Great Western Illustrators. A Bibliographic Checklist. Flagstaff, Northland Press, (1975).

GRAFF Everett D. A Catalogue of the .... Collection of Western Americana . Compiled by Colton Storm. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1968.

EBERSTADT Edward. The Annotated .... Catalogues of Americana. New York, Argosy Antiquarian, 1965. Four volumes.

GROCE George C AND WALLACE, David H. The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860. New Haven, Yale University Press, (1969).

EDWARDS E.I. The Enduring Desert. A Descriptive Bibliography. (San Francisco), Ward Ritchie Press, 1969.

HACKETT Alice Payne. Fifty Years of Best Sellers 1895-1945. New York, R.R. Bowker, 1945.

EGLI Ida Rae. No Rooms of Their Own. Women Writers of Early California. Berkeley, Heyday Books, (1992).

HAMILTON Sinclair. Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 16701870. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1968. Two volumes.

FARQUHAR Franics P. The Books of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. A Selective Bibliography. Los Angeles, Glen Dawson,1953.

HANNA Archibald and REESE, William S. From Train to Plane Travellers in the American West 1866-1936. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979.

FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence and PETERS, Nancy J. Literary San Francisco. San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1980).

HANNEMAN Audre. Ernest Hemingway. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1967.

FIELD T.W. An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography. New York, Scribner, Armstrong, 1873.

HARLAN Robert D. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966 and Grabhorn Hoyem 1966-1973. (San Francisco), 1977.

FLAKE Chad J., Editor. A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1978.

HARLAN Robert D. The Two Hundredth Book. A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California 1958-1993. (San Francisco), Book Club of California, 1993.

FORBES, David W. Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900. Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 1999-2001. Volumes I-III.

HART James D. The Popular Book. A History of America’s Literary Taste. New York, Oxford University Press, 1950.

FRANKLIN Joe. Classics of the Silent Screen. A Pictorial Treasury. Secaucus, New Jersey, Citadel Press, (1976).

HART James D. A Companion to California. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978.

GILBERT Sandra M. and GUBAR, Susan. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. The Tradition in English. New York, W.W. Norton, (1985).

HARTE Barbara and RILEY, Carolyn, Editors. 200 Contemporary Authors. Detroit, Gale Research Company, (1969).

GLOVER Dorothy and GREEN, Graham. Victorian Detective Fiction. London, The Bodley Head, (1966).

HARWELL Richard B. In Tall Cotton. The 200 Most Important Confederate Books .... Austin, 1978.

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M.C.). Emerging Voices. American Women Writers 1650-1920. (New York, The Grolier Club, 1998).

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HEFELE Bernard. Jazz Bibliography. Munich, K.G. Saur, 1981.

KLAPTHOR Margaret Brown and BLACK, Allida M. The First Ladies. Washington, White House Historical Association, 1999.

HELLER Elinor Raas and MAGEE, David. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940. San Francisco, (Grabhorn Press), 1940.

KRICHMAR Albert. Women’s Studies: A Bibliography and Research Guide. Santa Barbara, University of California, 1978.

HERZBERG Max J., Chief Editor. The Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1962).

KUNITZ Stanley J. Authors Today and Yesterday. A Companion Volume to Living Authors. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1934.

HILLS Margaret T. The English Bible in America. A Bibliography of Editions of the Bible and the New Testament Published in America 1777-1957. New York, American Bible Society, 1962.

KUNITZ Stanley J. and COLBY, Vineta, Editors. Twentieth Century Authors. First Supplement. A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1955.

HOWES Wright, Compiler. U.S.IANA (1650-1950). A Selective Bibliography in Which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States. New York, R.R. Bowker, 1962. Revised and enlarged edition.

KUNITZ Stanley J. and HAYCRAFT, Howard. Twentieth Century Authors. A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1942.

JAMES Edward T., JAMES, Janet Wilson and BOYER, Paul S., Editors. Notable American Women 1607-1950. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1971. Three volumes. JENKINS John H. Basic Texas Books. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library. Austin, Jenkins Publishing Company, (1983). JENNEWEIN J. Leonard. Black Hills Booktrails. Mitchell, South Dakota, Dakota Centennial Commission, (1962). JOHNSON Merle. High Spots of American Literature. A Practical Bibliography and Brief Literary Estimate of Outstanding American Books. New York, Bennett Book Studios, 1929.

KUNITZ Stanley J. and HAYCRAFT, Howard, Editors. American Authors 16001900. A Biographical Dictionary of American Authors. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1938. KURUTZ Gary F. The California Gold Rush. A Descriptive Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets Covering the Years 1848-1853. San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1997. LAMAR Howard R., Editor. The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977. LUNARDINI Christine. What Every American Woman Should Know About Women’s History. Holbrook, Massachusetts, Adams Media Corporation, 1997. LUTHER Tal. Custer High Spots. (Fort Collins, Colorado), The Old Army Press, (1972).

JOHNSON Merle. You Know These Lines! A Bibliography of the Most Quoted Verses in American Poetry. New York, G.A. Baker, 1935.

MAGEE David. The Hundredth Book. A Bibliography of the Publications of the Book Club of California. (San Francisco), Book Club of California, 1958.

KANE Joseph Nathan. Famous First Facts. A Record of Frist Happenings, Discoveries and Inventories in the United States. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1934.

MAGEE Dorothy and David. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1940-1956. San Francisco, (Grabhorn Press), 1957.

KELLY Mary, Editor. Woman’s Being, Woman’s Place. Female Identity and Vocation in American History. Boston, G.K. Hall, (1971).

MAGGIO Rosalie. The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. Boston, Beacon Press, (1992).

KELLY William W. Ellen Glasgow. A Bibliography. Charlottesville, University Press

MINTZ Lannon W. The Trail. A Bibliography of Travelers on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, and Montana during the Years 1841-1864.

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Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, (1987). First edition. MONAGHAN Jay, Compiler. Lincoln Bibliography 1839-1939. Springfield, Illinois, Illinois State Historical Library, 1943-1945. Two volumes.

RADER Jesse L. South of Forty from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande: A Bibliography. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. RAINES C.W. A Bibliography of Texas. Austin, Printed for the Author, 1896.

MYERSON Joel. Emily Dickinson A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.

RANDALL. and WINDLE, . Rare Books V. Famous Films in First Editions. San Francisco, Randall and Windle, (1978).

MYERSON Joel. Emily Dickinson. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Pittsburgh), University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.

READ Phyllis and WITLIEB, Bernard L. The Book of Women’s Firsts. Breakthrough Achievements of Almost 1,000 American Women. New York, Random House, (1992).

NEVINS Allan, ROBERTON, James I., Jr. and WILEY, Bell I. Civil War Books. A Critical Bibliography. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Universtiy Press, 1970-1969. Two volumes.

REED Walt and Roger. The Illustrator in America 1880-1980. New York, Society of Illustrators, (1984).

OSBORNE Robert. Oscar At the Academy Awards. N.p, A. Lee Schwarck, 1977. PAHER Stanley W. Nevada An Annotated Bibliography Books and Pamphlets Relating to the History and Development of the Silver State. Las Vegas, Nevada Publications, (1980). PERINN, Vincent L. Ayn Rand: First Descriptive Bibliography. (Rockville, Maryland): Q & B, (1990). PETERS Harry T. America On Stone. The Other Printmakers to the American People. A Chronicle of American Lithography Other Than That of Currier & Ives, From Its Beginning, Shortly Before 1820, to the Years When The Commercial Single-Stone HandColored Lithograph Disappeared From the American Scene. (New York, Arno Press, 1976).

REESE William S. Six Score the 120 Best Books on the Range Cattle Industry. New Haven, Reese Co., 1989. REITER Joan Swallow. The Old West. The Women. Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, (1979). Revised second printing. RITTENHOUSE Jack. The Santa Fe Trail. A Historical Bibliography. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, (1971). ROCQ Margaret Miller, Editor. California Local History. A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1970. Second edition, revised and enlarged. ROSENBACH A. S. W. Early Amerian Children’s Books. New York, Kraus Reprint, 1966.

PITCH Anthony S. Exclusively First Ladies Trivia. Potomac, Maryland, Mino Publications, (1998).

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PITCH Anthony S. Exclusively Presidential Trivia. Potomac, Maryland, Mino Publications, (1998).

SABIN Joseph. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time. New York, Mini-Print Corporation, n.d. Two volumes.

POWELL Lawrence Clark. A Southwestern Century. Van Nuys, J. E. Reynolds, (1958).

SCHIMMEL Caroline F. Women in the American Wilderness, 1662-1985 : short-title catalogue of an exhibition from the collection of Caroline F. Schimmel. The Grolier Club of New York, 11 September to 6 November 1985. New York, Grolier Club, 1985.

POWELL Lawrence Clark. California Classics. The Creative Literature of the Golden State. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, (1971). QUEEN Ellery. The Detective Short Story. A Bibliography. Boston, Little, Brown, 1942. - 330 -

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Women. The Modern Period. A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1980. SMITH Charles W. Pacific Northwest Americana. A Check List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon Historical Society, 1950. Third edition, revised and extended. STEINBRUNNER Chris and PENZLER, Otto, Editors-in-Chief. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. New York, McGraw-Hill, (1976). STEPHEN Sir Leslie and LEE, Sir Sidney, Editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. London, Oxford University Press, (1921) 1986. Third edition, revised and extended. STEVENSON Burton. The Home Book of Quotations Classical and Modern. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1952. Seventh printing. SWEENEY Patricia E. Biographies of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Santa Barbara, ABC: CLIO, (1990). TANTE Dilly, Editor. Living Authors. A Book of Biographies. New York, H.W. Wilson, 1932. TAYLOR Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem. Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. New York, Pantheon Books, (1983). TEBBEL John. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. New York, R.R. Bowker, 1972-1981. Four volumes. THOMSON Peter Gibson. A Bibliography of the State of Ohio: Being a Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets Relaing to the History of the State ... Cincinnati, The Author, 1880. WAGNER Henry R AND CAMP, Charles and BECKER, Robert. The Plains and the Rockies. A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in the American West 1800-1865. San Francisco, John Howell-Books, 1982. Fourth edition.

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WALKER Franklin. San Francisco’s Literary Frontier. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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WALKER Franklin. Literary History of Southern California. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1950.

ZAMORANO CLUB. The Zamorano 80: A Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by Members of the Zamorano Club. Los Angeles, 1945.

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