Search Results: Titles starting with J from Whitmore Rare Books

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Greene & Longman, 1833. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's cloth binding retaining the delicate paper label to front board. Some bumping to corners and faint spotting to boards, but a pleasing, square copy in all. Internally a clean, with just a bit of scattered foxing to endpapers and preliminaries. Scarce on the market, this book documents Marcet's efforts to expand knowledge access to the working classes in order to make political self-advocacy possible. Presented by Marcet to Professor Pierre Prevost, the philosopher and physicist best known for his experiment on the body's radiation of heat as well as for his translation of Thomas Malthus' Essay on the Principles of Population; this copy bears his ownership signature on the front endpaper and an inscription from Marcet at the header of the title: "Prof. Prevost from the Author." A peer of such feminist thinkers as Maria Edgeworth, Marcet is considered one of the most important figures in the history of… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1895. First editions. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth bindings with gilt to spines and boards. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Book one Near Fine, book two just slightly less, but a well-matched set overall. Spines bright and unfaded, with just a bit of wear at the spine ends and corners. A few spots to the front cover of book one and the occasional spot of foxing throughout. Book 2 with heavier foxing at pages 208-09, obscuring a few words, and rear inner hinge splitting, but holding well. Overall, an attractive pair of Kipling's most memorable works. Housed in a custom clamshell box that is a little worse for wear. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India but written while in Vermont. This work of several inter-related short stories met with huge success upon publication and continues to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller, their publication "caused even severe critics of… Read More

London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine, bright copy in original publisher's wraps; internally fresh and unmarked. A Jury of Her Peers is the short-story adaptation of Glaspell's one-act play Trifles (1916), in which two women unravel the truth behind a murder—that a woman has killed her abusive husband—and hide the evidence to protect the accused from jail. Set in the Midwest, the story is an ode to rural communities and the power of female solidarity told through the lens of a crime. Glaspell was inspired by the reporting that she did for the Des Moines Daily News on Margaret Hossack's murder trial. In its telling, readers must confront questions of morality, empathy, and justice. Fine.