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Camden, N.J.: Victor Talking Machine, 1916. Original shellac recording made February 3, 1916, labeled as "rural comedy" on the label of the record (not so funny if you were a woman!), with Old Country Fiddler at the Party on the second side, record housed in original brown paper envelope, printed on both sides, labeled Victor Record, and listing the artists that the company produced, record housed in black cloth over boards protective clamshell box, leather label stamped in gilt with title and artist on spine. This monologue was probably amusing in its day, describing the excitement in Pineville, VT, about the possibility of woman suffrage, and the founding of the Pineville Women's Rights and General Improvement League. The narrator opines that there is nothing wrong with women voting providing they do it quietly, commenting further the law will never pass as everyone in Vermont was a Republican and the Republican would never approve such a law. Victor 180360A.

[Bryn Mawr, PA]: Bryn Mawr College, 1912. First Edition. 8vo; 137pp; original blue gilt-stamped cloth with title on front panel and spine, a bit rubbed on bottom of spine, some minor soiling to covers, ink ownership inscription and date on inside front pastedown, pages a bit age-toned, about very good. Carola Woerishoffer (1885-1911), social work and philanthropist was born to a wealthy New York family. From her father who died the year after her birth, she inherited well over a million dollars. She attended Bryn Mawr determined to pursue a career in social work. Immediately upon graduation she joined the board of manages of Greenwich House, a neighborhood settlement founded by Mary Simkhovitch. Preferring that her good works remain anonymous, she worked for four months, fifteen hours a day, as a laundress in a dozen different establishments observing the deplorable conditions reporting them to the Consumer's League of New York City. She joined the New York Women's Trade Union League and backed the… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside press, 1884. First edition, with leaf excised that has list of illustrations as in copyright deposit copy, Binding A with publisher's monogram at foot of spine, BAL cites 1518 copies of the printing. Page size: 8-3/8 x 5-7/8 inches; 153pp. Bound: blue cloth with title stamped in gold on front panel above author's name in black above scene of small girl sitting on bench below tree, spine stamped in gold with author, title and publisher's monogram; spine tips rubbed as are joints and tips, bookseller's ticked removed from lower left corner of front flyleaf, trace of removal 3/4 x 1/2 inch on lower rear paste down, early ownership signature in pencil on front blank, probably that of a child, about very good. The text is printed in brown as are the 10 full-page illustrations (including frontis) and the 26 vignettes in text. Celia Thaxter (1835-1894), poet and artist, was born in Portsmouth, NH and for most of her life lived on the Isles of Shoals. Her… Read More

Stillwater, ME: Tomato Press, 1997. First Edition thus, one of 100 copies, each signed and numbered by the author and artist, all printed on Arches wove paste papers which have been hand-painted by the artist. Page size: 5 x 8". Bound by MacGregor & Vinzani: accordion fold sewn into yellow Allagash handmade endpapers, dark blue cover with hand-drawn symbol in gold gilt by Nancy Leavitt. Philip Booth's poem "Heading Out" originally appeared in SELVES (1990). Nancy Leavitt's distinctive calligraphy was printed from photo engraved plates and the illustration from reduction linocut. The colors of yellows with blue at the top of the page suggest dawn. There is gilt in the paper and the illustration is in buff and green. The text is printed in black. Nancy Leavitt's familiar highway motif, with her bright, beautiful colors, are a perfect match for Booth's poem. This is a charming book.

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. First Edition, limited, one of 150 copies, of this account of Ricketts' journey to Greece in 1911 with Charles Shannon. Ricketts kept a diary of this journey and turned parts of it into articles, translated into Italian for the magazine "La Ronda." Another bit -- on Wilde and Praxiteles -was published as a "tail-piece" to Ricketts' published letters and journals in 1939. This, then, is the first complete edition and the first edition in English. Illustrated with a reproduction of the photograph of Ricketts sitting in the Seat of the High Priest in the Theatre of Dionysos, Athens, February l911. 8vo, original blue cloth, issued w/o dj, as new.

Paris: Bordas, 1947. One of 2000 copies all on Lana pur fil paper, numbered, from a total issue of 2070. 8vo; handsomely rebound in 3/4 bordeaux morocco, marbled paper over boards, spine panelled, author and title in gilt, teg, original wrappers bound in. Each page illustrated with original colored lithographs by Raymond Peynet often with the text surround the images. The text was printed by Draeger Freres, the lithographs were pulled by Mourlot Freres. The opening illustrations are of Paris at Christmas with a Christmas tree, gifts, and skaters. The charming art work continues with French gendarmes directing traffic posted at the four corners of one page, elephants, diagonal lines of cafe et croissants, etc., all a wonderful evocation of Paris. Elsa Triolet (1896-1970) of Russian origin owes with her partner Louis Aragon she was a founding memeber of the Comite National des Ecrivains and worked on the clandestine Les Lettres francaises. Her later fiction (as this is) often has elements of fantasy… Read More

[Paris]: Seghers, 1953. One of 750 on verge de Hollande Pannekoek from a limited total issue of 850. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, gilt fillets, four raised bands on spine, author and title gilt, top edge gilt, marbled paste-paper doublures, original wrappers and spine bound in. Fine. Cover lithograph in color by Fernand Leger. Late poems by Tristan Tzara.