BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ( 1962 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 276 pages, cloth; dj short tear at head of spine, minor adhesive mark on rear panel, bookplate Another Suds adventure. Illustrations by George Price for the dj and inside.

Boston: Leonard C. Bowles and William Crosby, 1844. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xx, 204 pages, contemporary embossed brown cloth, lacks top inch of spine; x-library with emboss on Contents leaf, pocket carefully removed from rear endpaper, bookplate at front Martineau was a remarkable women, and a remarkable woman in the 19th century. She was involved… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Row, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. photographs. 8vo, 463 pages, orange cloth; faint spotts on top panel of dj Butcher was the Chicago Tribune literary editor. Curiously, she also owned a book store. . She wrote individual chapters about Cather, Sandburg, Mencken, Stein, Hemingway, Ferber, Sinclair Lewis; but mentions her experiences with many… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Macmillan, 1910. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Norah Hamilton. 8vo; ix, 462 pages, cocked, variant publisher's binding lacking the picture of Hull House on the top cover and the title, but titled with imprint on the spine. Classic autobiography by this great lady who invented settlement houses, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ( 1953 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 12mo, 218 pages, cloth; dj edgeworn, one tear repaired with cellophane tape on top panel (inch) Another nautical adventure. Illustrations by George Price.

No place: Privately Printed, no date. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo, 192 pages, green cloth, floral endpapers, paper label on spine, untrimmed, inked name from 1899 on top cover, tight, but hinges and joints worn. Scarce. Hazlitt's account of his attraction to his landlady's daughter. Published anonymously in the Bibliotheca Curiosa series: "A small number… Saber más sobre este artículo

Sotheby's, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 4to, 584 pages, cream wrappers Fully illustrated. An epochal, legendary auction.

Hartford, CT: Mutual Publishing, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, modern green cloth A later issue of the first edition, with a different title-page but printed from the same stereotype plates as the first edition, which was published in Cincinnati in 1871. [ Howes K62 ]. . Mrs. Kelly was captured by Ogalala Sioux in… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1948. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. 8vo, green cloth, map endpapers, one section of photographs Inscribed To Ramona Gatewood in 1954. Utinsky lead the Underground in the Philippines for three years. " 'Miss U' took every chance, ran every risk, and underwent torture in order to help the poor men behind… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ye Galleon Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to, 70 pages, brown cloth, map endpapers Memoirs by the daughter of Chief Moses of Washington state, with intimate details of the situation of their tribe.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 24mo; 158, 15 pages of publisher's ads, contemporary quarter morocco; marbled paper very worn, lacks free endpapers and 4 of the 5 woodcut plates, stained, bookplate of the Milwaukee Sunday School Depository. Preface by James W. Alexander, D.D. An allegedly true account ("not in the shape of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Chez Bechet, 1822. First French Language edition. Original Boards. Good. 8vo, xiv, 351; vi, 359 pages, untrimmed in contemporary boards. Very scarce. Attracted by the ideals of the "Declaration of Independence", Fanny Wright traveled extensively through the U.S.A. tracking how those ideals were being realized. In France, who became almost like a daughter… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Privately Printed by C. Sherman, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 336 pages, original cloth, spine lightly sunned. Scarce. Londoner Esther De Berdt married an American lawyer and re-located to Philadelphia in 1770. As part of the Philadelphia gentry, she met many of the important Colonists, including Gen. George Washington. Initially opposed, she warmed to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 403, xiii pages, aqua cloth. A who's who of correspondents of a what's what of correspondence.

Crown , 1972. Family Bookshelf edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 209 pages, cloth, inked name on pastedown. Widow Frederickson and two children lived on the frontier near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. This is her account of their struggle to survive with and despite the wild animals, through all hardships and dangers, on a pioneer farm in the Thirties.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington DC : National Home Library Foundation, 1932. First edition thus. stapled wrappers. Good. 16mo, 262 pages, gray wrappers, corner chipped, cover fold repaired with archival tape. The Jacket Library Edition. With an Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Dedicated to Alice Liddell Hargreaves.

St. Charles, MO, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, 167 pages, green embossed yearbook-style binding; Ex libris E. Lucile Fritz, with many, many inscriptions from freshman classmates and faculty. Lindenwood College is now Lindenwood University ( of course!). "Founded in 1827 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: John Day, n.d. (1942). First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Small 8vo, 55 pages, vg pink cloth; darkened dj spine nicked at heel Includes, "My boys, the Flying Tigers", "China Emergent," "Of Women and Men," "East Speaks to West"

Chicago: Pettibone & Company, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Good. photos. 8vo, 171 pages, green cloth lightly spotted. Hagiographical account of Mrs. Bertha Baur, one of the great civic leaders of Chicago. She rose from being the secretary to four Chicago Postmasters, and became a millionaire, a suffragette, a lawyer [ she graduated from the Kent College of Law… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1965. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. maps, portr. 16mo, 395 pages, blue cloth Covers the Sioux uprising of 1862-3 in Minnesota and Dakota Territory. [Howes M58; Graff 2578; Field 979]. Illustrated with maps, portraits. "Gen. Sibley, a prominent actor, as will be seen, said to the writer, after a close… Saber más sobre este artículo