New Hampshire / East Aurora NY.: Self-published. Printers: Roycrofters., 1917. 1st edition, presumed. No print line. Short print run likely.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Author inscription w/ signature. Light spine wear. Beautifully designed and bound. Frontispiece tissue in place over steel plate photo.. 1 First edition. 127 p. Soft brown leather overlapping spine. Green paper over boards. White stamped titles, front. Brown spine title box, w/ gilt titles. 5.5x8.25in. Untrimmed right & lower blocks. Gilt top. B&W portrait, frontispiece. Red titles inside. Ornate drop caps, red. Feminism / New Hampshire native. Autobiography: Marilla Marks (Young) Ricker, 1840-1920, was born to a Free-Will Baptist mother and a freethinker father in New Durham NH. Educated at Colby Academy (now Colby-Sawyer College) in New London NH, she became a suffragist, philanthropist, lawyer, and freethinker, having at age 10 rejected her mother's church. Inscribed by the author to Claremont NH native "Ellen P. Sanders: from Marilla M Ricker: The bibles of the world are kept alive on Superstition; other literature on Merit: Yours Truly Marilla: December, 1917". She was the first woman accepted into the bar in NH, the first woman to run for governor (1910) there, the first woman to apply for a federal foreign ambassadorship post. She advocated for prisoners and the poor. Her run for governor was dismissed by the attorney general as she was not a registered voter (nor was any woman). Her campaign platform had included the vote for women and taxation of church property. Included herein, more than 3 pgs from Wikipedia about the author, plus a partial older news clipping.

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Bookseller: Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: Alibris.WS0007520
Title: I am Not Afraid--Are You?
Author: Ricker, Marilla M
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Author inscription w/ signature. Light spine wear. Beautifully designed and bound.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st edition, presumed. No print line. Short print run likely.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Self-published. Printers: Roycrofters.
Place of Publication: New Hampshire / East Aurora NY.
Date Published: 1917
Keywords: Free-Will Baptist|Atheism|Agnosticism|New Durham NH native|Ellen P Sanders, Claremont NH|Freethinker|Suffragist|NH bar 1st woman
Bookseller catalogs: New Hampshire; Women's Studies & Men's Studies;

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Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her; she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes. No pressure. Hedgehogs do have yearnings. If you should visit by chance or by appointment, enjoy our old New Hampshire farmhouse location alongside the Sugar River and its companion recreation Rail Trail, nearby two historic railroad covered bridges just off Chandlers Mill Road. Feel welcome. -- Lucy G Wells, proprietor.

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