Women Writers
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Sunday Skaters: Poems
by Salter, Mary Jo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. [10], 102 p.; 22 cm. Light grey cloth with silver-stamped spine title and front cover author's initials. Dust jacket design by Martha Simpson. Stated First Edition. In Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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NZ$39.38
Itinerari Automobilistici d'Italia: Umbria
by Dainelli, Giotto and Umberto Gnoli
Firenze, Italy: Luigi Pampaloni, 1924. Fair. xviii, [10], 216, [8], I-16, II-20, III-26 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown flexible cloth printed in black. Advertisement on back cover for Veedol motor oil. Advertisements throughout. Automobile Club di Milano -- at head of front cover and title page. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of poet Leolyn Louise Everett. Leolyn Louise Everett Spelman (1888-1971) and her husband, composer Timothy Mather Spelman, spent much of their time in Italy,...
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NZ$22.26
The Old Brewery, and the New Mission House at the Five Points.
by Ladies of the Mission
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a notorious tenement and...
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NZ$128.40
Unjustified Lines: A Volume of Rhymes About Printers and Their Ancestors by Paul Beaujon
by Beaujon, Paul [Warde, Beatrice]
Middlesex, Eng: Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, 1935. Paperback. Very Good -. 40 p.; 21 cm. Brown wrapper with printed label on front wrapper. Small stamp on title page verso: "Bequeathed by Leonard L. Mackall." "Paul Beaujon" was the pseudonym sometimes used by Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), American scholar of typography. Former owner Leonard L. Mackall (1879-1937) was a book collector, scholar, and writer of the column "Notes for Bibliophiles" in the New York Herald Tribune. Scarce. In Very Good-...
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NZ$114.70
Black and White: An Anthology of Washington Verse
by Johnson, Georgia Douglas; Angelina Grimke; Walter Everette Hawkins; J.C. Byars [Editor]; Courtland Darke Baker;
Washington, D.C.: The Crane Press, 1927. First edition. Very Good+. First edition. 96pp. Bound in publisher's half black cloth with pictorial paper boards. Very Good+ with light rubbing to spine ends, soiled and toned edges at covers; corners scuffed and lightly bumped. Female ownership on front free endpaper; typed letter laid-in at front gutter. A scarce collection of 75 poems by 17 white and African American writers. Includes six poems by Angelina Grimke, author of the antiracist play Rachel and...
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NZ$1,027.20
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The Body's Question [first edition]
by Smith, Tracy K
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2003. First edition. 85 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Very slight rubbing to top corners, else a fine copy. The first book by an important poet: she served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-2019 and her 2011 collection Life on Mars won the Pulitzer Prize.
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NZ$214.00
MURDER IN THE DARK: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
by Atwood, Margaret
Toronto:: Coach House Press,, 1983.. First edition -. Very good (minor wear to the covers - no printed price on cover.). First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. As the cover describes it, this is Atwood's "seventh work of fiction, or her tenth work of poetry, depending on how you slice it." Second issue, with the error on pg 61 corrected. 62 pgs. Bound in stiff pink wrappers with a collage on the cover by Atwood.
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NZ$48.79
A Window in My Garden and Other Poems by Pearl B. Newell
by Newell, Pearl B
Chicago: Norman Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good +. [30] p. (on double leaves): frontispiece (signed L. Mennard) and illustrated title page; 20 cm. White paper spine with pink spine title; pink-and-white handmade paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 50 copies printed by the Norman Press under the directon of Robert B. Newell. Inscribed by Robert B. Newell to Luretta B. Crissey, 1940, on the front free endpaper verso. The Norman Press was founded by Norman Forgue. In Very Good+ Condition:...
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NZ$61.63
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by Yiyun Li
Random House, 2005-09-20. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine /Near Fine. New York: Random House, 2005. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Li's first book is a collection of short stories. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debuts. Mild shelf wear. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.
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NZ$51.36NZ$35.95
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Memoirs of Madame de Staal de Launay [Extra illustrated]
by Staal, Marguerite-Jeanne, baronne de; Bathurst, Selina, trans
London: Richard Bently & Son, 1877. Cloth. Scattered foxing mainly to preliminaries and edges of added plates else a fine copy. Slip case lightly worn at extremities.. viii, 350 pp. Illus. with 16 plates. 8vo. A beautifully extra illustrated edition of the English translation of Mémoires de Madame de Staal, écrits par elle-même (1755). Provenance: Jay B. Lippincott (bookplate).
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NZ$513.60
The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
by Ozeki, Ruth
Viking, 2021-09-21. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York: Viking, 2021. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ozeki on a tipped in page. Fine in like dust jacket.
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NZ$128.40NZ$89.88
Colectivo Andarax 81
by Vazquez, Teresa, editor
Almeria, Spain: Editorial Cajal, 1981. Paperback. Very Good -. [4], 169, [3] p.: portraits; 24 cm. Purple wrapper with silver spine and cover titles. Each author's section is preceded by an unpaginated leaf of orange paper with the author's name in black. Part of a series called Nueva Poetica Andaluza edited by Teresa Vazquez. Contains poetry by Ana Maria Culebras, Antonio Fernandez Ferrer, Maria Pilar Garcia-Pardo, Fernando Fernandez Bastarreche, Teresa Vazquez, Jose Tuvilla, and Vicenta Fernandez, as...
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NZ$39.38
Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics #16 Film Video Media [vol. 4, no. 4)
New York: Heresies Collective, 1983. Paperback. Very Good -. 95, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Includes: Nicaragua Journal by Victoria Schultz; Three-Minute Heroes by Annie Goldson; Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden; Lois Weber's Sacred Duty by Lisa L. Rudman; The Women behind the Camera by Julianne Burton and Zuzana Pick; Reinventing Our Image: Eleven Black Women Filmmakers by Loretta Campbell; Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises by Lis Rhodes and Felicity Sparrow; The Case of the Missing...
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NZ$150.66
Marzilian and Other Poems ( with 2 Page ALS)
by Young, Ella
Oceano, CA: Harbison & Harbison, 1938. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition, #293 of 500 copies, SIGNED in pencil on the Limitation Page, additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"To Helen and Karl Klein with Good Wishes from Ella Young 16 July 1945". Laid in is a 2 page letter handwritten in ink by Ella Young - "Box 136, Oceano, Calif. July 1945 Dear Helen & Karl Klein, It is a great delight to read your letter and to have your greetings from that part...
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NZ$2,140.00
IN OTHER WORDS.
by Lahiri, Jhumpa
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2016.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped) . First printing. The first non-fiction work by this Pulitzer prize winning novelist, a reflection on the her experiences in immersing herself in another language and in living abroad, published in a bilingual edition with the Italian and English on facing pages. Written in Italian by Lahiri and translated by Ann Goldstein. xiv, 233 pp
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NZ$33.38
Perpetua
by Broumas, Olga
Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Paperback. Fine. [2], 108, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Second printing. Olga Broumas (b. 1949) is a Greek-American poet who has received fellowships from the NEA, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation, a Lambda Poetry Award, and has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University since 1995. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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NZ$17.12
The Home: Its Work and Its Influence
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Good, with rubbing to cloth at extremities, light fraying at corners and heavy rubbing to spine ends. Discoloration to top edge of rear cover. Front inner hinge slightly exposed, previous owner name stamp to front free end paper. Gilman's scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century, asserting that liberation requires getting women out of the house.
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NZ$856.00
Pretty Good for a Woman": The Enigmas of Evelyn Scott
by Callard, D. A
New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiv, 202 p., 8 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black and beige cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) was an American author who was very active in the 1920s and 1930s but largely forgotten before her death in 1963. She wrote 12 novles, 2 volumes of poetry, 4 children's books, and 2 autobiographical works from 1921 to 1941. In this praised biography, D. A. Callard draws on a variet of...
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NZ$17.12
Echo in My Soul
by Clark, Septima Poinsette; LeGette Blythe
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dubbed as the "Mother of the Movement," whose civil rights activism focused on voter registration, citizen education, and women's rights. While teaching in the Sea Islands off South Carolina she developed innovative methods to teach adults to read rapidly using common items such as the Sears catalogue. These methods would come in handy...
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NZ$4,793.60
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Tide [one of 26 copies with an original drawing]
by Bächli, Silvia, ill. Jamaica Kincaid, text
New York: Peter Freeman, Inc, 2011. First edition. [96] pp. Printed paper boards, housed in a custom clamshell case with special insert for original drawing. A book of drawings by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli, with text by Jamaica Kincaid. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, signed by Bächli and Kincaid, and accompanied by an original Bächli drawing. Fine copy.
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NZ$1,626.40
Provincetown Review 4 (Summer 1961) - contains early extracts from The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
by Ward, Bill (ed.), Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), David Amram, Diane di Prima, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Alfred Chester, Jeff Marks, Joel Oppenheimer, et al
New York: Provincetown Review, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 84pp, printed wrappers. Includes "Dreams of Hippolyte" by Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons G23), comprising material from a draft of "The Benefactor." Issue also includes Beat writers and Abstract Expressionist artists. Tight, unmarked copy, typical rubbing to covers, light bump to one corner.
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NZ$102.72
Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography
by Moody, Anne
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. x, 348 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with purple lettering on spine. Very Good+ with small coffee stains to front board and bottom edge, tiny ink stain to fore edge, bumped corners, in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket, a few closed tears, unclipped ($5.95). A memoir about growing up Black and female in '40s and '50s Mississippi and the author's awakening working for the civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality.
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NZ$428.00
(Association Copy) A Residence on The Shores of the Baltic. Described in a Series of Letters. In Two Volumes
by (Anonymous - Elizabeth Rigby, Afterwards Lady Eastlake)
London: John Murray, 1841. Two volumes handsomely rebound in late 20th c. quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Both volumes with the ownership signatures of fellow author J. G. Lockhart (John Gibson Lockhart, 1794-1854, Scottish biographer and author), Tipped at 2nd front end page a one page ALS, dated April 8, 1844, SIGNED BY AUTHOR to Lockhart -"Dear Mr. Lockhart, I return your ? books with many thanks. I hope by the time they reach you the country air will have done you much good. We are...
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NZ$1,369.60
Firstborn
by Gluck, Louise
Middlesex, England: Anvil Press Poetry, 1969. First British Edition, Signed Limited Issue. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, one of a limited 50 numbered copies signed by Louise Gluck. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt, printed on rose-colored Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Near Fine with lean to binding, light rubbing to cloth at edges and gentle bump to crown of book and jacket. Jacket is price-clipped, Near Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winner's first book.
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NZ$5,478.40
Playing the Past Three Plays by Australian Women. Delphiniums , The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife , Feet of Clay
by Shepherd, Catherine; Wilkinson, Mary; Roland, Betty. Editedby Kerry Kilner & Sue Twegg
Sydney: University. 1995. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Introduction by Kerry Kilner. Australian Drama Project Series No. 1. 54 pages.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$27.63
