Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1869-1902. Hardcover. 878, 959, 1013 (Appendix & Index), 1144 ( Appendix & Index) pages. 23.5 x 16,5 cm. Second edition of Vol. 1. First editions of Vols. II-IV. Illustrated with portraits of women. Vol. I plates dampstained below the portrait images. Texts of all four..... More
New York: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. More
Paris: Delarue, 1850. Original Wraps. 272 pages in text. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. 25 numbered full-page plates (some double-paged), plus 32 supplemental plates numbered A-Z, AA-FF, with additional plates and illustrations within the text - all in black and white. Text in French, interior clean, initial decorated letters, Glossary..... More
Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1880. Malval. First edition. leather_bound. 178 pages. 22 x 13 cm. Etchings in sepia and black and white by Malval. Limited edition, copy 70 of 100 on Whatman paper. Lovely binding by R.W. Smith, raised bands, gilt spine panel florets and lettering. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition. Hardcover. 330 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Bronte's first novel, an intensely autobiographical story, and ironically published after her death. It was initially rejected by several publishers. Charlotte Bronte reworked this novel into a similar tale entitled, "Villette," published 1853. PARRISH..... More
Albany: Packard, Hoffman & White, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 126 pages. 12.5 x 8 cm. This Christian biography take place in Scotland during the persecution of non-conformity by the Stuarts. The adherents of Presbytery, though most numerous in the south and west of Scotland, were scattered more or less numerously..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. Extra illustrated with numerous inserted engravings. Mrs. Siddons, the sister of John Kemble, the actor was a force on the English stage in her own right, "and probably the one great tragedy queen that Britain ever produced. She first attracted attention in the..... More
London: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More
Madrid: Fernan Gomez Arte Y Ediciones, 1984. Cavazos, Alberto. First edition. Hardcover. 28.5 x 40 cm. One page of text by Pedro Beltran in Spanish explicating the images of "desnudas" (silhouettes of to naked women) with images of the bull ring to create a magical world. Born in Mexico, Cavazos..... More
Paris: Georges Guillot, Editeur, 1948. Hardcover. 96 pages. Folio. 32 x 25 cm. One of 45 copies on Arches paper, with an extra suite of plates, hors commerce for the artist and collaborators -- and numbered XI of a total edition of 325 copies. The extra suite housed in original glassine..... More
Np: Np, ca 1950. First edition. Spiral Bound. 22 unnumbered leaves. Oblong folio, 25 x 36 cm. Numerous watercolor pen and ink illustrations, pencil and charcoal, and tipped-in designs [nine are tipped-in fabric samples]. Fashion manuscript by a young Coos Bay, Oregon student. She includes skirt, blouse, and sleeve designs..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First English edition. Hardcover. 148 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. Crane self published the first edition in 1893. To his great dismay it sold so poorly, he was forced to give copies away. Today, he is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative..... More
London: A. Buego, Madien Lane, 1819. Cruikshank, George. First edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 15 cm. The headline above the image reads, " Annual Parliaments & Universal Suffrage defeated." An early attempt and failure to promote voting rights. COHN 639. "An extremely rare pamphlet, a political squib on the Westminster Election..... More
NY: Dickinson Roundell, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Approx. 100 pages. 12 x 9". 51 color plates. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Grass, Gunter. Hardcover. 530 pages. 26.5 x 28 cm. The history of women and cooking is Grass's subject mater. Etchings by Grass: each image was printed from two plates. One flatback-ground plate was printed in a transparent green tint with the image overprinted in..... More
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, ca 1884. Greenaway. Hardcover. 19 x 25.5 cm. Color printed on card stock with adhesions to the verso. The entire year for 1884 with rather tiny type detailing a notable activity for each day. Right margin browned and nicked at corners. Assume..... More
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate..... More
Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 191 pages. Limited edition, one of 150 copies. Mostly unopened. "Printed by the Bibliophile Society for the owner of the originial manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members." The first few letteres in this collection were written after..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Nell Gwyn from an engraving of the painting by Sir Peter Lely. Based on the life of Nell Gwyn, the Drury Lane favorite during the English Restoration. Printed by The Merrymount Press by..... More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 24 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 189 of 1003 signed by Alice Hubbard, all copies illumined by hand. Illustrated with photographs, latter with tissue guards. Unopened, bright, very fresh copy. More
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Cloth. 264 pages. 30 x 25 cm. More than 700 illustrations, including 12 maps. Bright, fresh copy. More
Paris: Andre Balland, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 152 pages. 31 x 31 cm. A cornucopia of color and black and white illustrations on lustrous stock with high quality imagery. Text in French. Post Card subjects cover politics, religion, military, war, women and eroticism. Interior contents very clean and bright. Index..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 202 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic widow secretly married the Prince of Wales in 1785. George later denied it and married Princess Christina prompting something of a scandal and a good deal of "blimey". Mrs. Fitzpatrick buried two husbands..... More
London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion? More
New York: Privately Printed For Subscribers Only, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 536 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 982 of 1250, printed by Seltzer. During World War I Lawrence had two projects, "The Rainbow" & "Women In Love." He rewrote and revised until it split into two major..... More