New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1851], 1851. Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], viii, [5], 14-318, 1-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on each board, gilt lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a chromolithograph title page, a map for..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1879], 1879. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 14-328, [1]-7, [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Purple cloth with black lettering on the boards and spine, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Empress Josephine and with six full-page wood..... More
New York: Stein and Day Publishers [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-253, [3] pp. Quarter red cloth over beige paper boards, lettered in gold on the front board and spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a photograph frontispiece of Bessie..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [10], 3-187, [5] pp. Green cloth with black decorations and borders on the front board, gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns printed in black (maps). Price of $1.25 on the spine panel of the dust..... More
[New York]: A Dutton Book (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 1-94, [8] pp. Quarter blue paper over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Jacket design by Robin Locke Monda. Illustrated with in-text and full-page black and white photographs. Signed by..... More
n.p. n.p., ca. 1920. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. 1-28 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of Hirooka, and with a facsimile of a title page at the beginning of the volume. This volume contains excerpts from a weekly journal..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 4-296, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with a few borders and decorations in blind on the boards, a recent brown morocco label with gold lettering on the spine. Publisher's ads printed on the endpapers and pastedowns. National Women's History..... More
Paris: Librairie Félix Juven, ca. 1920. First French language edition. Paperback. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 14-323, [3] pp. Grey paper wrappers with a glassine wrapper folded over them. Illustrated with twelve full-page portraits of each courtesan, printed in orange on plates but incorporated into the pagination. Translated into French by..... More
[Madison, Wisconsin]: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, Inc. [1975], 1975. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. [1], i-v, 1-94 pp. Brown wrappers printed in black. Price of 3.95 on the rear wrapper. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. A publication from second-wave feminism, focused on the lives of select Wisconsin women..... More
Auburn: Derby, Miller, & Co., 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-xiii, [2], 16-190 pp. Brown blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Tan coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Martha Washington. Sabin 15627. Lacks the free rear endpaper, binding appears to have..... More
[New York]: HarperSanFrancisco [1992], 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiii, [1], 1-477, [5] pp. Quarter red cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Carrie Leeb. With a full-page photograph of the..... More
New York: A Bernard Geis Associates Book / Random House [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [5], 4-400, [4] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik..... More
[London]: Hamish Hamilton (2022), 2022. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xxx, [2], 3-358, [12] pp. Black cloth with black lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £20.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a new introduction by Davis. A touch of wear to the..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [4], 4-658, [4] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. Translated from the..... More
New York: Haper & Row, Publishers [1987], 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-255, [3] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Maps printed in red on grey paper for the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket..... More
New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-389, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with a flamingo embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on the spine; green topstain. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-310 pp. Quarter grey paper over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-310 pp. Quarter grey paper over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design..... More
London: Fourth Estate (2007), 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-x, [2], 1-304, [4] pp. Blue paper over boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of £17.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with eight double-sided plates of photographs: both in color and in black and..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-318, [2] pp. Pale green cloth with blue lettering and blue and red decorations on the front board and spine; tan topstain. Colorful glossy illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated..... More
London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. (1956), 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-301, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21/-net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Beryl Thornborough. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Thornton, and several additional black and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. bound in one. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-285, [1], [3], 2-269, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 2-268, [8] pp. Quarter green cloth over tan paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Numerous full-page black and white photographs, also with..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 3-389, [5] pp. White cloth with gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Bright yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed without personalization by Gordon on a tipped-in leaf. Ruth Gordon..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press [2018], 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xiii, [5], 1-327, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Faceout Studio. Illustrated with eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs..... More