Priscilla Juvelis – Rare Books
Catalogue 71: American Women Writers, Reformers and Achievers
Item #34 1. Addams, Jane. The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. New children” from Germany Russia, etc. For her efforts, she was expelled from York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. $350 the Daughters of the American Revolution but awarded the Nobel Prize for First edition in original dust jacket. 168pp; + 6 pages of ads for books by Peace. DAB XI, pp. 10-12. NAW I, pp. 16-22. 100 Most Influential Addams and Ida Tarbell, original blue gilt-stamped cloth, buff dust jacket Women of All Time, #5. NAW I, pp.16-22. Alonso, Peace as a Women’s printed in brown with title on Issue, pp. 66-69. (9830) front of book with blurb by pub- lishers explaining the intent of the Co-Founder of Radcliffe author to explain the scientific With Autograph Letter Signed theory of race memory; author, title and publisher printed on 3. [Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary]. A First Lesson in Natural spine; book is fine, jacket sunned History. By Actaea. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, at spine and edges, some chip- 1859. $300 ping along top edges, small chip First edition of the author’s first book. Page size: 7 x 4-5/8 inches; 82pp; with at spine with loss of “R” in Road 40 text illustrations, including map of Florida; original brown blind-stamped of title, flap corners clipped, cloth with title in gilt on spine; tips and spine edges a tiny bit rubbed, front closed tear about 1" long at top of front panel, generally very good and quite blank with gift inscription prob- unusual thus. Jackets from 1916 rarely survive in any kind of condition. ably contemporary with book pub- Jane Addams (1860-1935), settlement founder, social reformer, peace lication, very good+. Laid in is worker, author and first American woman to win a Nobel Prize, was born two-page autograph letter signed and educated in Illinois, which was to be the site of her life’s great work at “E. C. Agassiz / Cambridge / Jan and surrounding Hull House. Addams wrote a series of book connected with 28th” addressed to “Dear Sir”, 2 her work, “the long historical role of ministration to basic human needs.” pp. 6-11/16 x 4-5/16 inches, white (NAW I) THE LONG ROAD OF WOMAN’S MEMORY is one of them. paper with engraved “A” at top, The stories of those women passing through Hull House, struck by the “two letter answers inquiry about a unprofitable goddesses: Poverty and Impossibility,” is both troubling and pamphlet by her stepson, touching. This is certainly an early feminist tract pointing out the need for Alexandre, and mentions legislation to effect change, or what Addams called, the “most absorbing of Theodore Lyman, who studied all occupations, the reconstruction of a living world.” (p. 107) NAW I, pp. natural science with Louis 16-22. Women’s Writings, pp. 10-11. (9753) Agassiz, husband of Elizabeth and father of Alexandre. While copies of her second book (1865) are common, this title rarely appears. Signed Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, was born into a socially-prominent Boston 2. Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. New family. She married the famous Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz. York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. $600 Home schooled except for brief attendance at Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s First edition, in dust jacket signed by the author on the front blank “Comps informal history class, she devoted her life to learning. She was the of the author / Jane Addams.” Page size: 7-½ x 5 inches; 258pp, including indispensable president of Radcliffe from 1882 to 1903. She was one of the Appendix, blue cloth, title, author and publisher stamped in gold on spine, first women members of the American Philosophical Society and one of original yellow dust jacket printed in brown. with publisher’s blurb printed seven female managing directors of the Society for the Private Collegiate on front below title and author’s name, Instruction for Women. NAW I, pp. 22-25. American Woman Writers I, pp. spine with author, publisher and title on 23-24. Women Scientists in America, p. 86. (11205) yellow decorated ground, jacket chipped at spine ends, white shelf sticker bordered in 4. Alcott, Louisa May. Autograph quotation signed. red ¾ x ½ inch above publisher’s device at [Boston]: [1880]. $300 bottom of spine, spine chipped at corners Louisa May Alcott quotes Goethe with and spine ends with two triangular chips on this quotation, “Do the duty that lies / back panel each about 1 x ½ inch; exterior nearest thee. Goethe. / L. M. Alcott” of book near fine, front pastedown has 15 11 in ink on sheet 3- /16 x /16 inches, large ex-libris of previous owner as well as removed from autograph album, with his signature on front flyleaf, front matter autograph poem “To Tommie” on verso pages brittle and separated from book block, and signed “Alice J. Kelley”. Louisa half -title foxed; housed in custom-made purple cloth over boards clamshell May Alcott (1832-1888) is best known box with title and author stamped in gold on black leather label on spine. for her novel, LITTLE WOMEN, published in 1868. (11191) Addams organized the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915 (with Carrie Chapman Catt). This is an important title in Account of Sermon by Quaker Preacher, the bibliography of Jane Addams, representing her thinking on one of the two causes to which she dedicated the second half of her life: world peace and Priscilla Hunt women’s rights. In 1915, as newly elected chairman of the Women’s Peace Party she 5. Anonymous [Perhaps Gray, Alice]. Manuscript helped draft the platform for the group; some of the points she included were Commonplace Book. NP [perhaps Philadelphia]: ND but ca. later included in Wilson’s fourteen points. The following April she became 1830. $850 president of the International Congress of Women at The Hague, which had Hand-written collection of poems by various authors as well as elegies and a two-fold manifesto: anti-war and equality for women. The period imme- death notice from New Jersey paper and most notably a five page diately following World War I was difficult, indeed, for this woman of peace. transcription (or account?) of a sermon delivered in Philadelphia on the 16th Vilified and called unpatriotic for her anti-war stance, she persevered with day of the 2nd month of 1823 by Pricilla [sic] Hunt. Page size: 7-¾ x 4-7/8 her efforts against the greatest of social evils, war. She worked tirelessly in inches; 118pp. Bound: calf spine with marbled paper over limp boards, the post-war period to help feed children in this country as well as “enemy
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] binding worn and rubbed, Saint Susan’ as her followers love to call her. As vice-president-at-large she sewing very loose and presided over every session, and never was in better voice or more pages disbound, edges of enthusiastic spirits.” some pages ruffled but still Anthony then goes to the very important topic of the “Bible Resolu- quite readable, with signa- tion.” The 1896 convention had the contentious problem of approving or ture at last page in same censuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible (1895). The HIS- hand as the entries, “Alice TORY OF WOMEN SUFFRAGE reports a vigorous contest over the Bible Gray.” Priscilla Hunt Resolution. “Although this (THE WOMEN’S BIBLE) was done in her Cadwallader was born into [Stanton’s] individual capacity, yet some members claimed that, as she was a religious Quaker family in honorary president of the National Association, this body was held by the North Carolina. She trav- public as partly responsible for it and it injured their work for suffrage. A eled around the United States preaching, espousing the cause of Elias Hicks resolution was brought in by the committee declaring: This association is and the “Reformation” when the Hicksite Separation of 1827-1828 took non-sectarian, being composed of all shades of religious opinion, and has no place. Her belief in the “inner light” of all human beings placed her in the official connection with the so-called ‘Woman’s Bible’ or any theological reforming sect of Quakerism, resulting in advocating a greater role for publication.” women in society. (11217) Susan B. Anthony argued against the Bible Resolution, stating, “The one distinct feature of our association has been the right of individual opinion Anthony Writes Colby on “Bible Resolution” and for every member.” She went on to point out that the atheist, Ernestine Rose, Strategy to Obtain the Ballot was always welcomed at their conventions. She concluded, “This resolution adopted will be a vote of censure upon a woman who is without peer in intellectual and statesmanlike ability”. The original resolution was adopted 6. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony Autograph Letter Signed to by 53 yeas, 41 nays. Both Anthony and Colby voted nay. Clara Bewick Colby. Rochester, NY: Jan. 12, [18]97. $8,500 Anthony’s position on women suffrage was always on point: first the 3 7 Holograph, 39 lines on sheet 10- /8 x 7- /8 inches, on letterhead of National ballot and then other problems could and would be addressed. The second American Woman Suffrage Association, showing Elizabeth Cady Stanton page of this letter shows Anthony at her best, marshalling her arguments to as Honorary President and Susan B. Anthony as President, with daisy put the ballot first on the agenda, but allowing for personal liberty to do what emblem and year of Seneca Falls meeting, 1848, in center of flower, folded one deems best. A monumental letter, commenting on some of the key to fit envelope, a few brown spots, else fine, housed in custom-made black issues facing the women in their struggle for enfranchisement. HISTORY cloth clamshell box with gold-stamped leather label on spine. OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Vol. IV, pp. 158-269. (9769) A fine letter, full of details of the American Woman Suf- Original Pictorial Dust Jacket frage Association, written by the President that organization, who was, along with Elizabeth Cady 7. [Armstrong, Margaret] Wallace Edna Kingsley. The Stanton, the leader of the move- Quest of the Dream. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons The ment. Susan B. Anthony (1820- Knickerbocker Press, 1913. $100 1906), a Quaker who, like many First edition of this handsome Margaret Armstrong book, near fine in near other suffragists came to the fine dust jacket. Page size: 8 x 5 inches; 292pp. movement after activism in the Bound: blue cloth over boards with white poppy Anti-Slavery Movement, did not on front panel, the flower over gold disc with the live to see the passage of the 19th leaves and stems in stylized gold stamping, title Amendment granting women the and author in gold stamping, repeated on spine, vote. Her life was devoted the teg, minor rubbing to spine end and tips but cause of woman suffrage; her generally near fine in brown dust jacket repeated great organizational skills led her cover design but printed in brown, chip 1-1/8 x ½ to be called the “Napoleon” of inch to top of jacket spine but no loss of text, else the cause. near fine, with publisher’s postcard still inserted between pp. 248-249 Here she writes to Clara Bewick Colby (1846-1916) a key leader in the announcing publication of “Little Thank You” by O’Connor. Dust jacket and American suffrage movement, founder of the “Women’s Tribune” which binding signed in the plate by the artist, Margaret Armstrong with her initials. was the country’s leading suffrage publication. She was a lecturer and Gullans & Espey 298. (11213) writer, and interpreter of Walt Whitman. Born in England, immigrating to the US at the age of 8 years, she later entered the University of Wisconsin, then 8. Bates, Katharine Lee. Bates Autograph Letter Signed. in its infancy and struggling with co-education. She married Leonard Wright Wellesley, MA: October 16, 1921. $150 Colby, a graduate of the same university, and moved with him to Nebraska. Autograph letter to “Dear Leighton:” and signed Although a lifelong Congregationalist, she had an interest in esoteric Faithfully yours / Katharine Lee Bates” single spirituality and participated in the publication of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s sheet 8-½ x 5-½ inches, Wellesley College let- THE WOMAN’S BIBLE (1895). terhead, Department of English Literature, writ- The letter mentions Elizabeth Burrill, daughter of George William ten on one side, a letter of congratulations on Curtis, who delivered the keynote address in the 1896 National-American recipient’s success, with no indication of what Convention and laments that Colby refused to be “Spiritual Undertaker” for that is, with references to people they know. the 1896 meeting, noting that Ernestine Rose and John Greenleaf Whittier Nice, friendly letter, fine. Katharine Lee Bates and Frederick Douglass were not adequately memorialized. Anthony goes (1859-1929) is best remembered as the author on to thank the membership (children) for the dedication of the meeting to for the words to “America the Beautiful.” She her and says it is an honor to have her name cited with Colby’s. N.B. “The taught at Wellesley College from 1891-93, was Washington Star” reporting on the convention printed, “If the first day of the awarded an M.A. and became a full professor of convention was Mrs. Stanton’s, the rest have belonged to Miss Anthony,’ English Literature. (11192)
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] 9. Beach, Amy March Cheney. Original Photograph. was a success: two more editions, with revisions, of the title appeared in Syracuse, NY: Ruder Photographer, [ND, but ca. 1890’s]. 1870 and 1873. BAL 19453. (11179) $750 First St. Paul Public School Teacher Original photograph. 5-¾ x 4- 3/8 inches, mounted on grey board, 8 x 12 inches, within triple rules, some sunning to top inch of board on which Suffragist and Evangelist photograph is mounted, lacking tissue guard that was previously affixed, photograph is fine. This is a handsome image of 11. Bishop, Harriet E. Floral Home; or, First Years of the pianist and composer, seated on a rocker on Minnesota. Early Sketches, Later Settlements, and Further a porch most likely in the country, reading a Developments. New York Chicago: Sheldon, Blakeman and book. The tree outside the porch and the light Company S. C. Griggs and Company, 1857. $300 colored and light-weight dress indicates sum- First edition of author’s first book. 342pp; + 10 full page engravings; original mer. Amy Beach (1867-1944), composer and brown blind and gilt-stamped cloth with title and publisher in gilt on spine, pianist, showed her musical precocity early on; corners bumped and a bit rubbed, spine with a bit of chipping, text is lightly by four, she was composing waltzes. Her mother, foxed and browned as are plates, about very good. a talented singer and pianist, undertook her Harriet E. Bishop (1817-1883), teacher and missionary, was St. Paul’s first daughter’s first musical education; later she public school teacher, first arriving at the Minnesota outpost when it was a studied with Ernst Perebo, Junius W. Hill and trading post among the Sioux Indians containing approximately 20 families, Carl Baermann. During the winter of 1881- of which three were American. As early as 1869 she was active on behalf 1882, Hill taught her harmony, “the only formal instruction in music theory of woman suffrage and that year was chosen a vice-president of the Equal she every received”. [NAW] At the age of 16, she debuted with the Boston Rights Association. She married John McConkey in 1858 and was divorced Symphony Orchestra as a pianist and, finding favor with critics and public from him in 1867. She died in California in 1883, unknown, although she had alike, continued to give recitals. Her marriage in 1885 to Dr. H.H.A. Beach, fulfilled her mission to bring evangelical Protestantism and culture to the a distinguished surgeon and colleague of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Midwestern frontier. FLORAL HOME is the first of her three books on her considerably altered the course of her career. Her husband appreciated and life in Minnesota; it was followed by DAKOTA WAR WHOOP in 1863 and supported her music but disliked her performing in public. With his encour- MINNESOTA THEN AND NOW in 1869. Sabin 5604. BAL I, p. 151. agement she focused on composing, teaching herself the principles of Stanton et al. HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Vol. II, p. 381. (9762) musical composition. Her Mass in E Flat major for vocal quarter, chorus, orchestra and organ, was first performed in 1892 by the Handel and Haydn First Woman to Practice Medicine in US Society with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was the “first work by a woman performed by this oldest and most conservative of American choral 12. Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth. Five publications: Address organizations”. [NAW] Remarkably (for any composer) all but three of her Delivered at the Opening of the Woman’s Medical college of 150 works were published. She also sought to encourage other women in the New York Infirmary, How to Keep A Household in Health, music, founding 1926 and serving as first President of the Association of Christian Socialism, The Religion of Heal, On the Humane American Women Composers [THE BOOK OF WOMEN’S FIRSTS]. Highly regarded throughout her career, Beach’s music fell into oblivion after Prevention of Rabies. New York, London, London, Hastings: her death; new recordings in the 1970’s reawakened interest in this fine Edward O. Jenkins, S.W. Partridge, D. Williams, J. F. Nock, composer and musician. Ewen, AMERICAN COMPOSERS, pp. 44-46. 1869-1891. $3,000 DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, V. II, pp. 41-43. THE Five scarce pamphlets by the first woman to practice medicine in the U.S., NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. Read, THE BOOK OF WOMEN’S FIRSTS, —Address Delivered at the Opening of the Woman’s Medical College of pp. 434-44. FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN, pp. 2526. TIMELINES, the New York Infirmary, 126 Second Avenue, November 2, 1868. Pub- pp. 342, 347, 351. (11201) lished by Edward O. Jenkins, 1869, 13pp, original wrappers, crease in middle of sheet, some age toning at edges else fine. OCLC cites only 2 copies. 10. Beecher, Catharine E. and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The —The Religion of Health. A Lecture. Second Edition. Published by American Woman’s Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; S.W. Partridge and Co., [1869]. 31pp; pink wrappers, fine. OCLC does not Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical cite a first edition of this lecture and only 9 copies of this issue. —How to Keep a Household in Health. An Address Delivered Before Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes. New York: J.B. the Working Woman’s College. London, 1870. 24pp; original wrappers, Ford and Company / Boston: H. A. Brown & Co., 1869. $200 slight bit of age toning at edges, else fine. First edition, imprint A, no priority, second printing, with university imprint —Christian Socialism, Thoughts suggested by the Easter Season. on copyright page. 8vo; (i-iv), (i) - xii, (13) -500, 12pp. ads, frontispiece and Hastings: Sold by D. Williams, the Library, [1882]. 15pp; original grey vignette inserted, green gilt-stamped cloth, front board with gilt stamped wrappers, rust marks on wrapper at metal fasteners, else fine, signatures of Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, beveled —On the Humane Prevention of Rabies. [London]: [J.F. Nock, edges spine with elaborate gilt stamp design incorporating title and author Printer, St. Leonards, August 1891]. 3pp; self wrappered, fine. information, rubbing and fraying to extremities, head and tail, hinge starting, All five pamphlets are housed in black cloth over boards clamshell box with early owner inscription in pencil dated 1874 on endpapers and front blank, leather label stamped in gold gilt with the author’s name and “Five good only. Publications 1869-1891.” Much of the text appeared as articles in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), was born in England and later during the 1860’s when the impact of the Civil War and the rising tide for became an American citizen. She was the first woman to practice medicine women’s rights combined to dignify and expand women’s role in the home. in this country. A member of an extraordinary family of reformers: her sister The authors dedicated the book, “To the Women of America, in whose Emily also practiced medicine; her sister Anna was a newspaper correspon- hands rest the real destinies of the Republic...” Beecher and Stowe sought dent, another sister, Ellen, was an author and artist. Her brother Henry to create, more than a practical manual, a domestic encyclopedia using married Lucy Stone and Samuel married Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first science, religion, architecture, nutrition, etc. to emphasize the physical and woman minister. Elizabeth opened the first U. S. hospital run by women spiritual health of a family as an interdependent whole. Like their niece, doctors, and, during the Civil War, helped form the Woman’s Central Relief Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the authors saw a well-informed woman exercis- Association, spurring the formation of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. Her ing her skills as fundamental to a sound home and sound society. The book early medical career was a struggle against great opposition. After rejection
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] by about ten medical schools she was accepted, as a joke (and startled the This broadside is referred to as a kerchief in Herbert Ridgeway males by showing up), to Geneva College in western New York, where she Collins’ THREADS OF HISTORY Americana Recorded on Cloth 1775 to graduated at the head of her class in 1849. In 1853 she opened a small clinic the Present. An example of this same broadside is pictured on page 79, to treat mostly poor people. In 1857 she was a founding force in establishing although that copy is smaller by 2 inches all around then the copy offered the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, together with her here. The Boston Chemical Printing Company was active in the 1830’s, as physician-sister Emily and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. Although a U. S. citizen, was Henry Bowen’s Chemical Printing Company. Most textile broadsides Elizabeth Blackwell lived in England from 1869 onward, had a successful were approximately 12 x 12 inches, printed on cotton, and were for the practice, became a professor of gynecology at the new London School of instruction (religious and academic) of children. References: Herbert Medicine for Women, all the while continuing to write. In England she Ridgeway Collins, THREADS OF HISTORY. AMERICANA RE- embraced Christian Socialism and called for “a more just distribution of CORDED ON CLOTH 1775 TO THE PRESENT. (11204) income, greater governmental efficiency, workers’ insurance, and the establishment of agrarian communities by Christian joint-stock companies.” Inscribed NAW I, pp. 161-65. Hersh, THE SLAVERY OF SEX, p. 171. Read & Witlieb, THE BOOK OF WOMEN’S FIRSTS, pp. 54-55. Weatherford, 15. Call, Annie Payson. As a Matter of Course. Boston: AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY. pp. 39-40. TIMELINES, pp. 145, Roberts Brothers, 1898. $50 221, 222, 258. Please see image on back cover. (11210) First edition, inscribed on the front blank, “Robt C. Ogden Esq. / with compts of / Edward Payson Call / Mar. 15 ’99.” Edward Call 1910 Dust Jacket appears to be the brother of the author. Robert C. Ogden (1836-1913) was a business and civic activist, 13. Bosher, Kate Langley. Mary Cary “Frequently Martha” promoting education in the south, serving as a trustee New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910. $150 at the Hampton Institute of Virginia. He was a great First edition in original glassine dust jacket printed with title and author and financial support of Booker T. Washington and price in black on front panel and repeated on spine, pictorial binding visible spoke publicly on his behalf. 12mo, (1-9) 10-135pp; beneath glassine, colored frontispiece by Frances Rogers, housed black 8pp. ads for other Roberts Brothers titles; green gilt- cloth over boards clamshell box, label on spine. Page size: 7-½ x 5-1/8 stamped cloth with author and title on front panel, inches; [i-viii] 167 [1] plus inserted frontis. Bound: decorated trade binding repeated on spine with publisher’s device. Annie Payson Call (1853-1940) showing (presumably) the stone pillars and brick walls of the female was a Waltham author who wrote several books on mental health. This is orphanage where the heroine starts her story. her second such work. She was admired by William James, and her The image is on a green ground and the lettering advocacy of muscle relaxation and repose in combating stress and anxiety of the title and author’s name in white. have relevance today. (11183) Bookseller’s ticket on front flyleaf; dust jacket with ships on spine, browned and brittle but 16. Campbell, Helen (Stuart). The Easiest Way in largely intact and a rare survivor thus, housed in Housekeeping and Cooking. Boston: Little, Brown, and custom-made black cloth clamshell box with author and title in gilt on black Company, 1899. $100 leather label, book is near fine. While a common enough book without the Later printing of this successful cookbook, first published in 1880 and fragile dust jacket, it is unusual in this condition. (10523) revised in 1893. 8vo; (i-iv), (1-3), 4-293, including 1-page Bibliography, 6- page index for Part II (recipes) plus 6pp. ads for other of Miss Campbell’s Broadside / Kerchief Printed on Muslin books; brown cloth stamped in gold with title and author on front panel and spine which also has Little, Brown logo, cover stained and rubbed - well- 14. Bowen, Henry and Nathaniel Boynton. A Mirror for the used cookbook might be, early owner’s signature on front flyleaf, good only. Intemperate. Ode to Rum by William Brown. An Extract from the Helen Stuart Campbell (1839-1918), author, reformer, and home economist, worked as a professor of economics at University of Wisconsin address delivered before the Temperance Society of Plymouth, (1893-96) and then as a professor of domestic science at Kansas State N.H. July 4, 1829 by J. Kittredge. Moderate Drinking an Agricultural College (1896-97). She began her writing career by publishing Extract of an Address by Rev. John Marsh. Extract from an children’s stories under her married name, Helen Weeks, and published essay on intemperance by Salmon Bronson. Extract of a speech several adult novels under the names “Campbell Wheaton” and Helen delivered by an Indian chief. Extract of an essay on alcoholic Stuart Campbell”. This latter name she used after her divorce for the rest and narcotic substances...by Edward Hitchcock, Prof. of of her life. She was active in the early home economics movement, helping Chemistry and Nat. Hist. in Amherst College. Boston: Henry organize the National Household Economics Association, an outgrowth of Bowen’s Chemical Print for N. Boynton, (1830). $850 the Women’s Congress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. She served Broadside (or Kerchief according to Collins THREADS OF HISTORY) on as head resident in the Unity Settlement in Chicago, with Charlotte Perkins plain weave cotton, laid out in five columns, with ornamental border, five Gilman, with whom she had lived in California in 1894, and continued her engraved vignettes in each corner and one in middle, showing a mix of association with Gilman for several more years. Like Gilman, many of her figures (male, female, young and old) one with horse, portraying the evils of works advocated female empowerment, but THE EASIEST WAY...is very intoxication. Size: 19-¾ x 18-¾ inches (approxi- much a “how to cook and keep house” book. NAW I, pp. 280-281. (11180) mate due to irregular salvage edges) printed image is 18-¼ x 17-¾ inches. Cloth is browned 17. Campbell, Helen (Stuart). Women Wage-Earners: Their with stains and impression of thumb-tack in Past, Their Present, and Their Future. Introduction by Richard each corner, traces of creases where folded in T. Ely...Director of the School of Economics, University of half and then in quarters, housed in custom- Wisconsin. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. $75 made black cloth clamshell box with title stamped First edition. 8vo, (i-v), vi-xii, 8-313pp. including Index and Bibliography; in gold on black morocco label. Despite minor green cloth gilt stamped with author and title on front panel and spine which problems with condition of cloth, this is a re- also has publisher’s logo, early ownership signature in pencil on front flyleaf, markable survivor, in much better condition than the one pictured in Collins very good. The author notes in her Preface that this book resulted from the THREADS OF HISTORY; 3 copies cited in OCLC. Reprinted at least monograph she prepared for the American Economic Association for which once by P. Youmans in 1834.
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] she received a reward in 1891. This enlarged treatise concerns the equality $750 of wages and the obstacles faced by women seeking to earn a living. See First edition, inscribed on ffe by the author to Samuel Bowles and dated May above item for details about Helen Stuart Campbell. (11181) 1, 1900, one of 50 (or 57) copies (notation on AAS copy cites 57 copies printed but colophon states 50), of this privately limited edition, a memoir of 18. Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Drawings by Louis and the author’s early childhood as daughter of Mark Healey, a Boston banker Lois Darling. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, , 1962. (President of The Merchant’s Bank). Page size: 9-¼ x 7 inches; [i-iiil] $225 100pp. + frontis half-tone engraving of medallion portrait of Mark Healey First edition, stated first printing on copyright page. 8vo, 368pp; green cloth at age 84 by Edward Spring. Bound: grey cloth over boards with title stamped in gold front and spine; green dust jacket printed in white, yellow stamped in gold gilt on front panel, 3 parallel vertical rules on either side of and black; top edge stained yellow with $5 on front flap, book shows tine front panel, spine a bit sunned, else near fine. traces of rubbing at tips and spine bottom else fine, The memoir cites reformers such a Elizabeth dust jacket shows a closed tear on flower front panel Palmer Peabody and Maria Weston Chapman, and about 1/8 inch deep chipping and rubbing to top amid the names of many Boston Brahmins. An and bottom edges of spine. An attractive, very good attendee of Margaret Fuller’s “Conversations” copy. Carson’s denunciation of the use of chemical her publication on the subject provides the only pesticides was the wake-up call to U.S. environmen- first-hand account of this important feminist talists and resulted in passage of the first anti- event. Dall became an important figure in the pesticide bills here. At the time of its original publica- organization of the woman’s rights movement tion it received eight awards. Its influence continues in Massachusetts. A devoted feminist (long to be profound. The importance of the book is before common use of the term) prompted her suggested by its inclusion in the New York Public book, THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND Library’s BOOKS OF THE CENTURY. The NEW THE COURT; OR WOMAN’S RELATION TO EDUCATION, LA- YORK TIMES 100 and in MASTERPIECES OF BOR, AND LAW (1867) which went beyond the suffrage movement, WOMEN’S LITERATURE. BOOKS OF THE CENTURY, p. 42. MAS- calling for removal of educational and legal disabilities based on sex and TERPIECES OF WOMEN’S LITERATURE, pp. 458-460. 100 MOST anticipated Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s WOMEN AND ECONOMICS INFLUENTIAL WOMEN OF ALL TIME, pp. 104-107. THE NEW (1898) by 31 years. This charming memoir is a rare look into the privileged YORK TIMES 100, No. 88. (11187) youth of one of one of the major women reformers of the 19th century, who helped shape today’s world. First editions of Dall’s works are quite scarce 19. Cooper, Anna J. Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne Publie with none located online at this time - although reprints abound. NAW I, pp. Avec Un Glossaire Par Cooper Introduction de Felix Klein. 428-9. (11211) Paris: A. Lahure, 1925. $225 22. Farmer, Fannie Merritt. Catering for Special Occasions First and only edition. 8vo; xvi, 99pp; + acheve d’imprimer page, index included, frontis portrait of Charlemagne by Durer; text in old and modern with Menus & Recipes. Illustrated with Half Tone Engravings French verse on facing pages; gray-green printed wrappers, part of spine of Set Tables. Decorations by Albert D. Blashfield. to light brown with some additional fading to edges of wrappers and age Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1911. $250 toning to pages, still very good. A medieval text, this chanson de geste, is First edition. Page size: 8 x 5-¼ inches; 240pp. Bound: blue cloth over boards based on the earliest known manuscript of Charlemagne travels to Jerusa- with title and author in white stamping on front panel above and below image lem and Constantinople and was intended for the use of American students of cherub in only a chef’s apron and hat standing in front of roast turkey of French literature. It is edited and put into modern French by Cooper, with getting ready to carve it; color illustration collaged to front cover of binding her preface, notes, and her French-English glossary. LE PELERINAGE is signed in the plate, “J. C. Leyendecker” in his usual orange, decorated DE CHARLEMAGNE was the author’s doctoral thesis for Columbia endpapers. The book itself is charmingly University and was published in Paris. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1859? illustrated in black and white with cherubs - 1964) was the fourth African American woman to earn a PhD. She was (with tiny wings) cooking, serving, doing battle a remarkable African-American scholar, suffragist, educator, feminist, and with lobster etc. Book is near fine; white dust Pan-Africanist. NAW Modern Period, pp. 163-165. (9846) jacket which repeats the front cover illustra- tion by Leyendecker with the title and author 20. [Cooper, Charlotte Fenimore] Pfeiffer, Ida. A Journey to in black letters, repeated on spine, small chips Iceland, and Travels in Sweden and Norway. Translated from to spine ends with loss of top part of “G” in the the German by Charlotte Fenimore Cooper. New York: George first line (Catering) of title, larger chip at left corner of top of spine about 1 inch x 1/8 inch, also small chips at flap folds, F. Putnam, 1852. $100 still a very good dust jacket. Unusual condition for a cookbook from 1911. First edition in English, translated from the original German by Charlotte Half-tones of table settings, plus menus for events. (8129) Fenimore Cooper. Page size: 7-¼ x 4-¾ inches; 273pp. including Salaries of Different Offices..., List of Insects, List of Plants, and folding map of Iceland. Bound: brown cloth over boards with the title and published 1906 Account of Travel to Japan stamped in gilt on the spine, small bookseller’s ticket at bottom right turn-in, some soiling to cloth on front and back covers, corners bumped and rubbed, 23. Fisher, Gertrude Adams. A Woman Alone in the Heart of small (½") closed tear at one of the map folds, but generally a much better Japan. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1906. $350 copy than usually found. (9482) First edition, first impression. 8vo; [i-viii] ix-x, 1-294pp; including Index; with 33 full-page plates from photographs, including color frontispiece. Inscribed Original gray cloth trade binding by “ES”; peach floral blossom vine surrounding image of Japanese boat against Mt. Fuji, title and author in gilt, 21. [Dall, Caroline Wells Healey]. “Alongside;” being notes title, author, and publisher in gilt on spine with decoration of white flying birds, top edge gilt; original gray dust jacket repeating floral blossom vine as suggested by “A New England Boyhood” of Doctor Edward on cover but author and title printed in blue surrounding photographic image Everett Hale. Boston: Privately Printed Thomas Todd, 1900. of author in rickshaw, a fine, partially unopened copy in a near fine dust
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] jacket. An elegant forerunner of the later sump- very good. Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822- tuous travel books from the later part of the 1895) was the first historian of Transcendental- century. Little is known about Gertrude Adams ism, organizer and first president of the Free Fisher. She may be the 71-year-old Mrs. Fisher Religious Association, an anti-slavery leader, cited in 1940 U. S. Government Census as living associated with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth in California, born in 1869. This would place her Cady Stanton in advocating equal rights for at age 34 when her book was published. A women, as well as an early and ardent sup- WOMAN ALONG IN THE HEART OF JA- porter of Darwin and Spencer, The recipient of PAN was successful, with a reprint of this edition this copy, Henry Wilder Foote, was (as and a published sequel. Both of these have been Frothingham) a graduate of Harvard Divinity reprinted, the first editions cited in Western Books School and served as minister at King’s Chapel on Japan. From today’s point of view, Mrs. Fisher’s impressions seem in Boston. A nice association copy. (11188) patronizing but at the time of publication they were ground-breaking observations from a Western woman on a little-traveled part of the world. 26. Fuller [Ossoli], Margaret. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Cited in Woman Adventurers 1750-1900, A Biographical Dictionary and Ossoli. Two Vol. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1852. $250 Western Books on Japan. (9934) First edition, first printing with type on spine 3/16" high and Channing not credited in Table of Contents. Page size: 5-½ x 4-¾ inches; 351pp. and AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, FIRST STATE — 352pp. Bound: original black cloth, author and title in gilt on spine, blind rules AN AMERICAN RARITY and devices on front panels, bindings on both volumes rubbed, spine ends chipped down to book block, corners bumped, interiors tight and sound, early 24. [Freeman], Mary E. Wilkins. Decorative Plaques. Designs ownership signature of Minerva Dominick on titlepage of Vol. I, good only. by George F. Barnes. Poems by Mary E. Wilkins. Boston: D. It is hard to overstate the importance of Margaret Fuller in the history of women’s rights in the United States. She was a leading thinker in the Lothrop, [1883]. $750 nineteenth century, a major influence on Transcendental thought. She edited Firstedition, Binding A, of the author’s first book, a notorious rarity of the Transcendental journal, The Dial, and was as much a part of that group American literature, missing from most of the “First Book” collections/ as Emerson or Thoreau. Her 1855 book, WOMAN IN THE NINE- catalogues, including the New York Public’s well-known Berg Collection TEENTH CENTURY, is considered the first important statement of Catalogue. Page size: 7-1/16 x 6-7/8 inches. Bound: pale blue boards, faded women’s rights and had a profound effect on the movement. Her MEM- to brown, cloth spine faded to tan; front cover OIRS has become a scarce book in any condition. BAL 6500. Myerson with decorative roundel within another roundel, (Fuller) A7.1.a. Myerson (Emerson) F4. (11184) showing silhouette of girl in red hat with feather and lace and dress with elaborate lace ruff and 27. Fuller [Ossoli], [Sarah] Margaret. At Home and Abroad, sleeves, outer roundel decorated with butter- flies and flower branches, pale buff endpapers, or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by her with “Decora- / tive” on upper left of front Brother, Arthur B. Fuller. Boston and London: Crosby, Nichols, cover; wear to all extremities, soiled, hinges and Company. Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856. $250 split, good only, housed in custom-made black First and only edition, first printing. 12mo, 468pp, including a page of ads for cloth over boards cloth clamshell box with title and author and date stamped other books by Fuller; dark grey-green cloth, triple-ruled border, tips worn, in gold on black leather spine label. spine sunned and stained, lacking both flyleaves, traces of label removed Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) began her literary career writing from front blank and from back pastedown. Early pencil signature “Whitford poems for children. Her first poem, “The Beggar King” was published in Esq. on p. 336, still an acceptable copy of a scarce book. Margaret Fuller 1881 in “Wide Awake,” a magazine for children. DECORATIVE PLAQUES Ossoli (1810-1850) was an author, critic, teacher, feminist, Transcendental- her first book, appeared two years later. By 1897, when her first collection ist and revolutionary. Her WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY of adult short stories appeared, A Humble Romance and Other Stories, was the first important American feminist book and places Fuller as one of Wilkins’ reputation as a writer of note was established. Her use of New the movement’s key figures. Had she written nothing else, she would still England settings for stories of ordinary folk — using dialect in her writing enjoy her considerable reputation among today’s scholars. However, Paula — leads to comparison with Sarah Orne Jewett. In fact, Howells cited her Blanchard, in her biography of Fuller, points out that, along with Poe, Fuller with Jewett and Twain and Garland as the finest American writers of their was the U.S.’s first important literary critic and that she was the first time. Her popularity culminated in 1925 when she was awarded the William American foreign correspondent. This collection of Fuller’s writings, Dean Howells medal for fiction. She was elected a member of the National posthumously edited by her brother, contain the first appearances in book Institute of Arts and Letters in 1926. Although a bit forgotten immediately form of those articles Fuller wrote for publication in Horace Greeley’s after her death in 1930, her reputation has undergone a revival, and her “New York Tribune,” as the first American foreign correspondent. The works are now included in the major anthologies of American literature. collection also contains a reprint of her first original published work, BAL 6302. (10954) SUMMER ON THE LAKES. Edited by her brother, this collection of Fuller’s writings ends with her account of the Italian struggle for nationhood, Inscribed a drama in which she and her husband were prominent players. Fuller died at sea with her husband and child in the wreck of the Elizabeth which went 25. Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. Transcendentalism in down in 1850 off Fire Island and her brother includes an account of the shipwreck and memorials to Margaret Fuller. Myerson A9.1.a. Grolier New England A History. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Club, Emerging Voices, p. 33. (5846) 1876. $150 First edition, inscribed by the author, on the front blank, “Henry Wilder Foote Unusually Large Format / from his friend / O. B. Frothingham.” Page size: 7-¾ x 5-¼ inches; 396pp; including Index + 2 pp. ads. Bound: green cloth stamped in gold with author’s name, title, and publisher on spine, facsimile of author’s signature stamped 28. Fuller, Sarah Margaret. Autograph Signature of Margaret on front panel, minor rubbing to tips and spine ends, ink stain at top of back Fuller. New York: 1846. $1,200 panel about 3-¼ inches long and ½ inch wide, discoloring to top edge, still Full large signature, “Sarah Margaret Fuller / New York. 24th August.
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] 1846.” on white paper, 6-5/16 x 4-¼ inches, some soiling from glue from boards with white label printed in black with decorative board above, “Sold previous mounting, edges of paper folded back on three sides and glued by Bennet & Walton, No. 31, Market st. Phila.” and hand written on label down for previous mounting, traces of folds, else very good with signature in a young hand, “Elizabeth Hoops / 1814 / Cyphring Book/ 1811.” Each uncharacteristically large for Fuller. Housed in custom-made red morocco page written on in ink and pencil and decorated and cloth clamshell box, the author’s name in gilt on the paneled spine which with leaves and flowers, 10pp. of numbers and has four gilt tooled fleurons. math problems followed by 28pp. of traditional It is hard to overstate the importance of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) folk song lyrics: “The Shannon Side” / The Girl in the history of women’s rights in the United States. She was a leading I Left Behind Me” / “Her Answer” / “Owen” thinker in the nineteenth century and a major influence on Transcendental / “Battle of Baltimore” / “Barbara Aden” / thought. She edited the Transcendental journal “The Dial.” Her 1845 book, “Hard Times”. A charming souvenir of early childhood learning in the US WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is considered the first during the time of the War of 1812. (10228) important American book advocating women’s rights. On August 1, 1846, Margaret Fuller sailed on the S.S. Cambria from 31. Howe, Julia Ward. Autograph Quotation Signed. [NP]: New York for Liverpool. She had been planning this trip, accompanied by December 1904. $1,500 Marcus and Rebecca Spring, since perhaps as early as the fall of 1845. She Card size: 4-3/8 x 4-5/8 inches. The quote reads “Julia Ward Howe / Pres’ was working for Greeley’s “Tribune” and sent her first letter on August 23, New England Women’s / Club / Ex-pres’ of the Association for / the 1846 from Ambleside, Westmoreland. Her Advancement of Women. / Mine eyes have seen the glory” and is all in second letter for the “Tribune” was dated Howe’s hand. On the verso is the autograph of “Charles W. Eliot / Harvard August 27, 1846. There is no indication University / 1904”. Julia Ward Howe has summed up her life’s work citing what this signature accompanied. Both contributions to women’s rights first. Housed in custom-made blue linen “letters” were published in the “Tribune” clamshell box, lined with blue velvet, indent for quotation housed in plastic and later collected in AT HOME AND sleeve that can be flipped to view either side without removing, although ABROAD published in 1856. These ar- plastic is open at top edge for removal as well, red morocco label on spine ticles made Fuller the first American foreign correspondent. Fuller, At stamped in gold gilt, fine. Home and Abroad, or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe, pp. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was catapulted to instant fame in 119-33. Blanchard, Margaret Fuller from Transcendentalism to Revolu- February 1862 when the Atlantic Monthly published the “Battle Hymn of the tion, pp. 243-50. (8475) Republic.” Mrs. Howe’s activities increased after 1868 in the burgeoning postwar woman’s movement. She served as President of the Massachu- Signed setts Woman Suffrage Association, the New England Woman Suffrage Association and was a leader in the national organization was a suffrage 29. Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. With leader and one of the founders of the New England Women’s Club and the Biographic Sketch by Hippolyte Havel. New York and London: New England Woman Suffrage Association. She founded the weekly Mother Earth Publishing Assn. and A. C. Fifield, 1911. “Woman’s Journal” in 1870. She was the first woman elected to the $450 American Academy of Arts and Letters (1908), a precedent not repeated until 1930. In this autograph note written at age 85, just six years before her Second revised (third) edition, signed on the front flyleaf in faded ink, death, Mrs. Howe seems to be summing up her life. What is particularly “Emma Goldman / San Francisco July 1915.” Page size: 7-¼ x 4-¾ inches; fascinating is the order - one assumes 12mo, 277pp; + 8pp publisher’s ads, light gray linen cloth lettered in black listed in importance - of her not inconsid- at front and spine, with “Third Edition: stamped at lower right front cover, erable achievements. She first lists “Presi- 3 faint numbers in white ink, each about 1/8 x 1/16 inches, on lower spine, dent New England Women’s Club (which two brown stains, each ¼ x ½ inches, on lower back cover, age toning to text, she founded in 1868, assumed presidency but generally a very good copy. in 1871, holding this office almost continu- “Red Emma” Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist, feminist, pioneer advo- ously until her death). The second achieve- cate of birth control, was born in Kovno Russia (Kaunus in modern ment she lists is “Ex-pres of the Associa- Lithuania) into a ghetto Jewish family. Emigrating to the U.S. in 1885, she tion for the Advancement of Women” (which she helped found in 1873 with found work in a Rochester clothing factory. Deeply affected by the Chicago the pioneer New York woman’s club, Sorosis). The last achievement Mrs. Haymarket executions, she devoted the rest of her life to revolt and reform. Howe lists is “Mine eyes have seen the glory-” which is, of course, the Goldman was, according to her biographer, “perhaps the most accom- opening line of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” It is interesting that this is plished, magnetic speaker in American history.” Editor of the radical in “third place” in her catalogue of accomplishments. Charles W. Eliot monthly, MOTHER EARTH (1906-1917), she published her own writing. (1834-1926) was the President of Harvard and the most influential leader J. Edgar Hoover called her “the most dangerous woman in America”. in the educational activities of the country during his tenure there (1869- Hippolyte Havel’s 44-page profile of Emma Goldman is the first formal 1909). We can find no mention of a meeting between Howe and Eliot in biography of her. Goldman provides a preface to the 12 essays which 1904. Her biographers note that Howe almost never refused a request for comprise the book’s substance. As THE FEMINIST COMPANION notes, a verse or sentiment and in 1904, Charles Eliot was fund-raising for the book “foregrounds sexual politics” with its condemnation of marriage as teacher’s salaries at Harvard. In any event, this is a wonderful piece, an unequal and often coercive relationship. THE FEMINIST COMPAN- confirming that Julia Ward Howe, author of one of America’s most famous ION, PP. 435-436. 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN, pp. 170-173. poems, felt her real contributions were to women’s rights. Richards and NAW II, pp. 57-59. (11175) Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, V. II, pp. 355-356. DAB, pp. 71-78. NAW pp.225- 229. (7269) 1811 “Cyphering” Book 32. Irwin, Mabel MacCoy. Whitman The Poet-Liberator of 30. Hoops, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Hoops Cyphering book. Woman. New York: Published by the Author, 1905. $150 Philadelphia: 1811. $750 First edition, signed, one of 500 copies, this copy with enclosed typed letter Manuscript notebook, with seller’s label of “Bennett & Walton, No. 31, signed in ink by the author enclosing the book. Page size: 7-¼ x 4-¾ inches; Market st. Phila.” signed several times by the young student, Elizabeth 77pp; including frontispiece half-tone portrait of Whitman after the “Lear” 3 Hoops. Page size: 7-½ x 6- /8 inches; 38pp. Bound: salmon pink paper over photograph drawn by Julia Greene. Bound: decorated grey cloth over
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] boards stamped in dark green with stalks of Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966) was an African grass, title in gold gilt with author’s name in green American poet and playwright, and considered part of the Harlem Renais- script on front panel, author and title in gilt on sance. She became the first widely recognized African American female spine; spine sunned with gilt faded, teg, age toning poet since Frances Harper, and like Harper was to edges of front and back panels, generally very at the forefront of political and social events of good. An impassioned essay on Whitman’s verse her time. She and her husband opened their as treating man and woman equally, which the home to other writers; their “Saturday Nighter’s author cites as an admirable. Mabel MacCoy Club” was attended by writers such as Jean Irwin (referred to in a review of this book in Toomer, Langston Hughes, Angelina Grimke “Mind” magazine as Reverend but little else is known about the author. and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. T. A. Munder was a While reprints of this essay abound, the original edition is scarce. (11212) well-known type designer who was awarded the gold medal for excellence in 1920 by the Inscribed AIGA. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) noted American artist worked in oils, watercolors, 33. Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. studying with Robert Henri and was closely Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The associated with his Monhegan Island (Maine) group. He worked in graphic arts and design and was well known for his wood engraving and lithography. Riverside Press, 1897. $350 He designed bookplates as well as illustrating books. Oxford Companion Later printing (Ninth Thousand), lovely association copy from the most to Women’s Writing in the US, pp. 447, 29-30, 640-642. (9502) noted of the female “Local Color” authors to another female “Local Color” author. Inscribed 35. [Jones, Mary Cadwalader Rawle]. Lantern Slides. by the Sarah Orne Jewett on the front free endpaper, “Annie Trumbull Slosson / Sarah [Boston: The Merrymount Press], 1937. $150 1 First edition, posthumously printed, by Daniel Berkeley Updike’s Merrymount Orne Jewett / 1899.” Page size: 7- /8 x 4-½ inches;
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] well as Katherine Flynn, “A Case of Mistaken facsimile. Bound: original blue wrappers printed in black, white sticker Racial Identity...” National Genealogical Soci- showing price of 12’6 net at bottom of front cover, stamp on back cover ety Quarterly 94:1 from 2006) suggests she was “Revised prices on application,” minor wear to covers and trace of age toning not African American. This novel, her second, to page edges, a handful of small pencil notes in text, but generally very good+. might well fall into the category of “Sunday In English with Greek translation by Dr. Nestle opposite the Syriac. School” literature with its recounting of four Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis (PhD., LL.D., D.D., Litt.D.) and her sister Dr. young women passing from childhood to mar- Margaret Dunlop Gibson (LL.D., D.D., Litt.D.) were born in Ayrshire, riageable age with the requisite Christian con- Scotland, in 1843, the twin daughters of a wealthy solicitor. Upon the death version while summering in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s of their father, the heiresses went to Greece in 1866. Agnes devoted herself Vineyard. (9864) to learning Greek; she later learned Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew (among other languages). In 1890, both 37. [Kirkland, Caroline]. A New Home - Who’ll Follow? or, sisters now widowed, traveled to St. Catherine’s Glimpses of Western Life. By Mrs. Mary Clavers, An Actual Monastery at Mt. Sinai where they discovered a Settler. New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. version of the Old Syriac Gospels (5th century AD) $750 - the Sinai Palimpsest. By now they were established as serious Semitic scholars. The sisters continued First edition. Page size: 7-¾ x 4-½ inches; 317pp; 2pp. publisher’s ads, their travels in the Middle East and made even brown blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine with chipped at ends, greater discoveries. Their cataloguing of the manu- with lower left end piece about ¼ x ¼ inches missing a piece, joints split but scripts of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, their acqui- binding intact, corners bumped, text foxed with a few minor stains, early sition of some 1700 manuscript fragments, and subsequent translation and owner’s name on title page, better than it sounds copy of a scarce Emerging publication profoundly affected scholarship of the early Christian church. Voices title. (11216) Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865) was an American author and editor, early exponent of frontier realism, Unitarian, temperance advocate, aboli- tionist, teacher and interested in the plight of the unfortunate. In 1828, Founder of Medical Women’s International Association Caroline married William Kirkland, a classics tutor at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. William, from a distinguished family of scholars and 39. Lovejoy, Esther Pohl. Certain Samaritans. New York: divines, significantly influenced Caroline’s views and interests and she, in The MacMillan Company, 1927. $150 turn, was a valued aid in his career. In 1835, they moved to Michigan where First edition, boldly inscribed by the author on the front blank in black ink “To William was the first principal of the Detroit Female Seminary. Succumbing our friend & colleague / Dr. Ella B. Atherton / with all good wishes / Esther to the fever for land speculation, in 1836 William resigned from the seminary Pohl Lovejoy”. 8vo, (i-viii) ix-xii; 1-302pp; endpapers map of Russia, and purchased about 1,300 marshy acres sixty miles north of Detroit. Turkey, Persia and Greece and Serbia, Romania, etc.; numerous black and William moved his family to Pinckney, a tiny village that he envisioned as the white photographs. Bound: blue gilt-stamped cloth with author and title on nucleus of a thriving city, but which was, in front panel with device of the American Women’s Hospitals, author, title reality, little more than a clearing in the forest. and publisher in gilt on spine, blue decorated dust jacket repeating in blue on They lived nearly six years in extremely difficult blue ink the full-color image that is the frontispiece which is a dedication to conditions. Their battle with nature proved as the American Women’s Hospitals; bottom tips of book bumped, gilt on front trying as the conflicts with disillusioned settlers panel dimmed, spine of dust jacket sunned, top ends of spine of jacket following the panic of 1837. Mrs. Kirkland was chipped about ¼ x ½ inch, no loss of text, overall a very good+ copy with ill prepared for frontier life - her ideas of the nice inscription. The book is a first-hand account of the AWHS work in American wilderness having been shaped by Europe, especially Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, helping to relieve the romantic confections such as Chateaubriand’s populations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. The black and white ATALA. However, she coped successfully photographs are of the women doctors and their patients, in various with these unfamiliar demands, only to be con- countries, all identified with captions by the author. Reprinted in 1933, this fronted with more insidious pressures: boredom and a sense of intellectual title was the first of her books. It was followed by others, all dedicated to isolation. To relieve these feelings, she began to write long, rueful and raising opportunities in the field of medicine for women. descriptive letters to friends in the East. These narratives grew into the Esther Pohl Lovejoy (1869-1967) dedicated to her life to helping classic account, A NEW HOME - WHO’LL FOLLOW? OR GLIMPSES others. She received her M.D. from University OF WESTERN LIFE, a novel written from a decidedly woman’s point of of Oregon in 1890. She took an active part in the view. At its best, the novel is marked by a fresh and flexible style, accurate woman suffrage movement in 1905 and was descriptions of frontier life, penetrating characterization, and skilled use of instrumental in the fight against tuberculosis, dialect. While setting forth, at times with shrewd satire, what to a cultivated becoming the first woman to serve as Director Easterner seemed the crudities and vulgarities of Western life, the book of the Portland Board of Health in 1907. During revealed the author’s admiration for pioneer fortitude and neighborliness. World War I, Dr. Lovejoy became a member of Howes K-184. BAL 11143. Wright I, 1580. NAW II, pp. 337-9. Oxford the American Medical Women’s Association Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, pp. 461-2. Ameri- and worked for the American Red Cross in can Women Writers I, pp. 380-2. Emerging Voices, p. 31. (11196) France in 1917. One of the founders of the Medical Women’s International Association, 38. Lewis, Dr. Agnes Smith. Codex climaci rescriptus. she was their first President and then President Fragments of Sixth Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the of the AMWA. Until the end of her life she continued to raise money for the AWHS, creating more health-related jobs Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles and of St. Paul’s Epistles. for women. NAW: Modern Period, pp. 424-426 (11182) Also Fragments of an Early Palestinian Lectionary of the Old Testament, etc. Transcribed and Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis. Women Booksellers With Seven Facsimiles. Horae Emiticae No. VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. $400 40. Mendell [Sarah] and Hosmer [Charlotte]. Notes of Travel First edition. Page size: 9-¾ x 7-¼ inches; i-xxxi, 201pp; 7pp. folded and Life. By Two Young Ladies. New York: Published for the
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] Authors, 1854. $150 Complete Run of First Year First edition. Page size: 7-¾ x 5 inches; 288pp; Bound: blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine ends shipped, bottom edge rubbed, tips 42. National American Woman Suffrage Association. bumped and rubbed, dampstain at bottom of pages of front matter though p. Progress. Volume I No. 1-4. New York: National American 85, about 3 inches long and 2 inches high lessening with each successive Woman Suffrage Association, October 1901, January 1902, page, scattered foxing on first 97pp; pp. 265-268 misbound after p. 272; pp. April 1902, July 1902. $1,500 281-288 misbound after p. 288, good+. A travel narrative in the form of 52 Complete run of first year of this quarterly suffrage journal, 4 folio issues. letters by two women who financed their travels along the East Coast in Page size: 14 x 10.5 inches; 4pp. each. Each folio has been folded in 1853 as subscription booksellers, with accounts of visits to the pre-war south quarters, probably for mailing, minor age toning to extremities, creases but (Norfolk, Richmond, Raleigh) as well as Canada, Massachusetts, New generally very good+. In 1895, Carrie Chapman Catt (then head of the York and New Jersey. They give accounts of the society they encounter as Organization Committee of NAWSA) started a Bulletin for her committee. well as commentary on their reception as women traveling alone. They By 1897 it became the organ of NAWSA and was named PROGRESS. By tread carefully around the subject of women’s independence but clearly are 1901, Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellis Meredith and Laura Gregg became in favor of it as shown by their own lives. Generally accepted as non-fiction the editors of PROGRESS, and were charged with the task of acquainting and cited as “a real contribution to travel literature” by Clark, Clark III: 361, state and national legislatures with argu- Howes 513. Sabin 47798. (8892) ments for equal suffrage. In 1907 the NAWSA Playing Cards Convention voted that PROGRESS, now edited by Harriet Taylor Upton, should be- come a weekly with expanded mailings. Af- 41. National American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes ter 1910, PROGRESS was absorbed into the for Women Playing Cards. New York: National Woman “Woman’s Journal,” which had been the Suffrage Publishing Company, [ND but ca. 1915]. $1,000 published by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell “Votes for Women” playing cards, a complete deck including the joker, box and Mary Livermore since 1870 as the suf- opened but cards lightly used. 53 cards (52 + joker) in original purple frage newspaper. While the first four num- decorative box. 2 ¼ x 3 ½ inches. Cards in original glassine inside box; box bers of PROGRESS may have had a print shows some rubbing and soiling, has minor tears at top of opening with run of 10,000, very few have survived with remnant of revenue tax stamp, original glassine wrapper around cards inside OCLC citing only 12 institutions with the first year of this important woman box lightly rumpled and chipped, preserved with additional wrap around of suffrage publication. Among the articles included are “Women and Educa- mylar. A complete deck as issued, and quite unusual thus. Each card repeats tion” and the president of Stanford’s letter advocating woman suffrage. the image on the box in purple, black and white of lady justice holding What we take for granted was once a hard-fought battleground! See: balanced scales against a rising sun (motif often used by suffragists, Harper, The History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. V. pp. 35, 60, 162, 205. especially in New York) on the back of the card. The joker has the lady Flexner and FitzPatrick, Century of Struggle, pp. 146, 148, 246, 292. (11203) justice image on both sides. The Ace of Spades has a superb decorative emblem of the herald figure blowing a trumpet with the legend “Votes for 43. North, Helen and Eliza Cobb, Florence Abbot et al. Women”. Housed in custom-made purple box. Women’s Colleges and College Life in American and Great The NAWSA sold decks of playing cards with several different Britain. Metropolitan Handy Series. Vol. IV. No II. London and designs and colors for the benefit of their association. Their use of common New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., May 1898. $850 household items, like playing cards, to further their cause, was a masterstroke First and only edition, part of Metropolitan Handy Series issued quarterly. of public relations. The colors purple, white and green originated with the Page size: 9-3/16 x 6-5/16 inches; 134pp. with 3 page-index listing women’s Women’s Social and Political Union in the British suffrage movement to colleges. Bound: green wrappers printed in red symbolize loyalty, purity and hope. The use of these colors was transferred and black with image of female graduate, some to the American scene by Harriot Stanton Blatch (daughter of Elizabeth age toning at spine and edges but generally near Cady Stanton) after returning from her work with Emmeline, Christable and fine. Heavily illustrated with images of the various Sylvia Pankhurst, leaders of the militant college campuses covered, i.e. Vassar, Smith, suffrage movement in England. The use of Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, the colors purple, white and green was Women’s College of Baltimore, Cornell, Oberlin, concentrated primarily in New York where Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Blatch set up her own, more radical, suf- Wisconsin, Ohio State, Canadian Colleges for frage organization, The Women’s Political Women including Alma College, Ontario Ladies Union. These colors also were used in the College, UK Universities and Colleges for Women neighboring states of New Jersey and including Girton and Newnham at Cambridge, Oxford, London, Egham, Connecticut. As these states had strong suffrage organizations, these colors Glasgow, Dublin and Elsewhere. A very scarce pamphlet, only a copy also became symbolic along with the more traditional American color, gold. located at the Library of Congress. (11215) Complete decks of cards are rare, although single examples turn up with some frequency. This set, in the original box, clearly has stayed together since issue in 1915-16! Account of Key Legal Case Affecting Married In Selling Suffrage, Margaret Finnegan makes several key points Women’s Rights and the Rights of the Mentally Ill about the use of suffrage goods in the drive to win the vote for women. She points out that the early (pre-1910) use of commodities sent a message of 44. Packard, Mrs. E[lizabeth] P[arsons] W[are]. The defiant unity and confidence, while after 1910, the goods legitimized the Prisoners’ Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled: As movement. Further, they neutralized fears and anxieties about the effects Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of of votes for women by making the goods themselves less threatening. The the Legislature of Illinois. Together with Mrs. Packard’s playing cards are a fine example of this. Not the least of their effects, the CoAdjutor’s Testimony. goods raised money for the movement. Finnegan, Selling Suffrage, pp. 111-139. (8445) Bound Together with (as issued): Mrs. Olsen’s Narrative of her One Year’s Imprisonment, at
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] Jacksonville Insane Asylum: With the Testimony of Mrs. Minard, inauguration in 1913, just two years after the American publication of this Mrs. Shedd, Mrs. Yates, and all Corroborated by the account of the British militants. This is a key book in the history of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Collected American suffrage movement. Romero, E. SYLVIA PANKHURST. and Published by Mrs. E.P.W. Packard. Chicago: Published by Bullock and Pankhurst, Ed. SYLVIA PANKHURST FROM ARTIST TO ANTI-FASCIST. Winslow. SYLVIA PANKHURST SEXUAL POLI- the Author. Chicago: A.B. Case, 1868. $400 TICS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM. (10853) First edition, both books as issued, bound together. 8vo; 346pp; and 140pp; + 1p. ads of other titles by Mrs. Packard. Bound: original brown blind and 46. Phillips, Wendell, Theodore Parker, Mrs. [John Stuart] gilt-stamped cloth with title on spine, corners bumped and edges rubbed but still a very good solid copy with the pages clean and bright and the binding Mill, T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson and Mrs. C[larina] sound. A rather scarce title in the 1868 edition, OCLC listing 26 copies, with I. J. Nichols. Woman’s Rights Tracts. (NOS. 1-5). NP but at least 12 reprints during the author’s lifetime. It was reprinted in the 1970’s possibly Rochester, NY: Possibly Steam press of Curtis and microfilmed. Butts, ND but not after 1854]. $500 Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (1816-1897) was a reformer whose First omnibus edition collecting Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the WOMAN’S confinement in a mental hospital by her husband led to her career as RIGHTS TRACTS each of which had issued separately as pamphlets or in advocate of married women’s rights and protective legislation for the self-wrappers. BAL cites the first combined edition of the five woman’s insane. Born in Ware, MA, the daughter of a Congregational minister, she rights tracts was ca. 1860 and published in wrappers. This clearly precedes received a superior education and was the principal teacher at a girls’ school that edition. Page size: 7-5/8 x 4-11/16 inches; 1-24, 1-24, 1-28, 1-32, 1-18pp. by age 19. There was a family history of mental illness, and Elizabeth was Bound: self-wrappers with title on front page. We have had two other copies hospitalized at age 20, recovering within two months. Her marriage at age of this omnibus edition, both printed in 1854, both printed in Boston by Robert 23 to Theophilus Packard, a Presbyterian clergyman, led to a move to Wallcut, one hard-bound measuring 7-¼ x 5-3/8 inches and one wrappered Illinois. After several changes of congregations — due to Mrs. Packard’s printing measuring 9-7/16 x 5-11/16 inches; spine chipped but intact, stitched openly disputing her husband’s theology with the congregations — her corners turned, light water staining throughout husband had her committed to the state hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois and slight occasional foxing, good+ for such a (1860-3), under a law which gave a man commitment power over his wife fragile piece. Printed here are “Speech of Wendell provided the superintendent agreed. Fearing her husband would re-commit Phillips, Esq. at the Convention Held at Worces- her in Massachusetts in 1864, she obtained a jury trial, with the support of ter, October 15 and 16, 1851,” “A Sermon on the friends and neighbors, and was vindicated as sane. According to NAW, she Public Function of Woman, Preached at the saw herself as another Harriet Beecher Stowe and started writing, advocat- Music Hall, Boston March 27, 1853 by Theodore ing married women’s rights, trying to support herself as well. At the same Parker,” “The Enfranchisement of Women” [by time, she was actively lobbying in state legislatures to change methods for Mrs. John Stuart Mills],” “Woman and Her committing the insane. This book was republished in 1871 and reissued in Wishes” by T.W. Higginson (with an Appendix 1873 as MODERN PERSECUTION. Although Mrs. Packard’s campaign containing remarks on a petition by Abby B. to require jury trials before commitment was viewed as retrogressive, Alcott et al.)” “The Responsibilities of Woman” by Mrs. C. I. J. Nichols. through her lobbying, Mrs. Packard was responsible for securing the Two of the tracts are speeches delivered at the second National Woman’s passage of laws in four states, Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa and Maine Rights Convention held in Worcester in 1851 and which “drew three times dealing with the legal rights of married women and mental patients. NAW as many participants as the year before, with women in the majority.” III, 1-2. (10472) Clarina Nichols (1810-1885), reformer editor and publicist, was in 1851 the publisher of the Windham County Democrat (Brattleboro, Vt) for which she 45. Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette. The History of the wrote editorials vigorously supporting women’s rights and particularly Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910. Preface by property rights. Her speech is modest in tone but determined in character. Mrs. [E] Pankhurst. New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, A valuable compendium of the arguments and issues of the early women’s 1911. $100 movement as articulated by some of the period’s most influential thinkers and leaders. Krichmar 830, 867, and 1906. BAL 8218 and 8226. (11171) First American edition. 8vo; 517pp; including index; illustrated with 32 half- tones. Bound: green cloth stamped in white with author, title, and publisher on spine and author and title on front panel, edges rubbed, lettering on spine 47. Pickard, Kate E. R. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. flaked off, age toning to text, good only. Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was the youngest daughter of “Vina,” After Forty Years of Slavery. With an Introduction by Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst. Her parents were active left-wing intellec- Rev. Samuel J. May; and an Appendix by William H. Furness, tuals, at first on the fringes of the Fabian Society and later the Independent D.D. Syracuse New York and Auburn: William T. Hamilton Labour Party. But Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst found her calling in the / Miller, Orton and Muiligan [sic], 1856. $1,000 burgeoning suffrage movement, establishing the Women’s Social and First edition. 8vo; 409pp; + 6pp. ads for other publications by Miller, Orton Political Union (WSPU) in 1903 with Sylvia’s sister, Christabel. At that time & Mulligan, (including a quote from Lydia Maria Child urging reading Sylvia was studying art with the pre-Raphaelite, Walter Crane; her career ARCHY MOORE, THE WHITE SLAVE by Richard Hildreth, one by as an activist, author and left-wing militant came a few years later. Fanny Fern praising MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM, By Frederick In THE SUFFRAGETTE, Sylvia writes the history of the movement Douglass, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE by Solomon Nothrop, a temper- (and her family’s role in it) up until 1910. The effect of this book in the ance tract and another title, LIVES OF JUDGES, INFAMOUS AS American struggle for women suffrage was monumental. Harriot Stanton TOOLS OF TYRANNY) frontispiece, engraved half-title, and 2 other Blanch (Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter and founder of the Woman’s plates. Green blindstamped publisher’s cloth with gilt-stamped spine, bind- Political Union), Alice Paul (founder of the Congressional Union) and Alma ing signed in blind on back panel join, “Davies” “& Hand”, professionally Vanderbilt all visited London and worked directly with the Pankhurst family. rebacked, endpapers rehinged; spine skewed, corners bumped, scattered They brought the English militancy to bear on the (by comparison) staid foxing or smudging throughout text, former owner’s name on front free American movement. The effects were extraordinary. Women took to the endpaper, an acceptable copy housed in custom-made cloth clamshell box. public forum - marching, demonstrating, and speaking - in events that often This is the first edition of the extraordinary slave narrative of Peter Still, turned violent. It is no accident that the major turning point of the American kidnapped from his home in New Jersey as a young child and made a slave movement was a very public parade in Washington the day before Wilson’s in Kentucky and Alabama for forty years. Kate Pickard, a teacher at the
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] Female Seminary of Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Peter Still was employed, inches; (i-ii) iii-xviii) 285pp. including index. Bound: brown cloth over has written the narrative. Still finally, at age fifty, devised a plan of escape boards, title and author stamped in gold gilt on front panel and spine, spine by being purchased by the southern Jewish merchants Isaac and Joseph also with publisher’s paraphe, original tan paper dust jacket printed in brown Friedman. The Friedman’s went north and Peter was able to self-redeem on front cover and spine repeating book cover design, book with some pale his freedom with money the Friedman brothers paid him for his work. Peter foxing on top edge and on blanks, tiny bit of rubbing to bottom edge of back Still then returned to the south for his wife and children. His family escaped panel about 2 inches long, else fine; jacket with traces of rumpling about ¼ with the help of Seth Concklin, a white abolitionist, who was captured by inch down at top edge of spine, a bit of fading to front panel, else fine and slave hunters in the north and, while being taken south, he was either killed remarkable thus. THE WOMAN’S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY or committed suicide at the hopelessness of his plight. Dr. William Furness’ LAW was an extremely popular with over 30 appendix is an account of Concklin’s life. This slave narrative begins with editions published between 1891 and 2012. the Still’s kidnapping and, although a serious and traumatizing story, it was Copies of the early editions are scarce, and also read as an exciting adventure story. It can also be read as a history of there are no holdings in OCLC in the original the contribution of Jews to the Abolition movement. An unusual feature of dust jacket. This appears to be the second the work is explicit mention of miscegenation between white and black - a printing. Harriette Robinson Shattuck (1850- completely taboo subject at the time. This is a slave narrative of the greatest 1937) was a teacher of parliamentary law, author and journalist. Born in detail and scope, written from Peter Still’s account by a woman of ability Lowell, MA, she was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement helping who had close knowledge of the subject. Because it is skillfully written, with her mother organize the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massa- the use of dialogue, it appears to be a novel. It was so regarded by Wright chusetts. She was active in the women’s club movement, founding the “Old (II, 1893), but it is not. In fact, correspondence by Peter Still detailing his and New” club of Malden as well as being active in the General Federation efforts to purchase his wife’s freedom, his account book, and other papers of Women’s Clubs. (11206) are located at Rutgers and at the Library of Congress. No less a respected figure in the American abolition movement than the Rev. Samuel J. May has 50. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, written a persuasive argument for reading this account of the horrors of The Modern Promotheus. Boston and slavery and the generosity of two Jewish merchants. Reprinted by the Cambridge: Sever, Francis, & Co., Negro Publication Society of American in 1941 and the Jewish Publication 1869. $650 Society of America in 1970 with an introductory essay on Jews in the anti- Third U.S. edition. Page size: 7-1/16 x 5 inches; slavery movement by Maxwell Whiteman. Blockson 9601 and 9603 respec- 177pp; LL+ 2 pp. ads. Bound: brown cloth over tively. Dumond, Bibliography of Antislavery in America, p. 94. Jackson, A boards with title stamped in gold gilt on front History of Afro-American Literature, I, p. 153. Sabin 62614. Blockson panel, title in decorative script in gold gilt on 9602. (9598) spine, 6 tiny holes alone hinge and spine, brown endpapers with early ownership signature, about Advice to Young Ladies very good. (11207)
48. Sangster, Margaret E. Winsome Womanhood: Familiar Inscribed Talks on Life and Conduct. New York Chicago Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900. $225 51. Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. Scenes in My Native Land. 1 First edition. Page size: 7- /8 x 4-¾ inches; 160pp. illustrated with sepia half- Boston: James Monroe and Company, 1845. $175 tones after photographs by William Buckingham Dyer. Bound: red cloth First edition, binding A (no priority), inscribed on the front flyleaf, “Marshall stamped in gold gilt and white with title and author within multi-ruled borders, P. Wilder / From the Author”. [iv, ads], iv, 319pp; blue cloth with blind flower in each corner, profile of woman in center of gilt floral cartouche, title vignette on front panel and gilt-stamped spine with author and title. vine-like and author repeated on spine with floral motif, tan dust jacket repeating ornaments, page size: 6-12/16 x 4-7/16 inches, engraved frontis of “Niagara binding stamping in dark brown, teg, book and Falls from the Ferry,” titlepage vignette of the “Ruins of Church at jacket both fine except for rough opening of first Jamestown; a lovely, bright copy with the gilt strong, very good+. SCENES 8 pages (apparently all that were read). A IN MY NATIVE LAND” is a selection of Sigourney’s verse, opening with handsome trade binding by J. P. Archibald. her well-received “Niagara,” as well as essays and travel accounts New Margaret Sangster (1838-1912) was a maga- York State, Hartford, Boston, etc. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), zine editor and author who supplied verse, ar- known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford” and ticles and stories to a number of publications enjoyed a successful career as a poet, essayist, including Harper’s Bazaar. She regarded her- and author of “conduct literature.” A popular self as a “Christian leader of women” and was interested in the welfare of author, she also interested herself in reform girls. Originally opposed to woman suffrage, she changed her views about issues, especially the plight of the Native Ameri- 1910 because she saw “the helplessness of woman as a competitor in the can, influencing many young women. After her labor market when she has no voice in the making of the laws affecting her.” death, Mrs. Sigourney came to stand in 20th- NAW III, pp. 235. Feminist Guide, p. 946. (11214) century eyes for much deemed unsatisfactory in 19th century taste. How-ever, in recent years, Near Perfect Copy in Original DJ her work has been more favorably re-appraised Perhaps Unread The fine penmanship in this volume reflects Mrs. Sigourney’s early days as a teacher of, among other things, “chirog- 49. Shattuck, Harriette R[obinson]. The Woman’s Manual of raphy.” BAL 17795. Sabin 80951. (11173) Parliamentary Law. Twenty-fifth Thousand. Revised and Enlarged. With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Advance Review Copy Women’s Organizations. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., [ND but 1895]. $150 52. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Probable second printing (first was in 1891) of this important tool for the Osgood, & Co., , 1869. $750 newly-organized woman suffrage organizations. Page size: 5-¾ x 4-½ First edition, printing A, advance review copy of sewn sheets, never glued
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] or cased for binding, in contemporary maroon cloth over boards box influenced by John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell). BAL (slipcase) with old home-made labels, the first with author and title labeled 19891. (11186) “Advance Sheets of First Edition 1869) and the bottom label, “This copy reviewed for the Boston Transcript by Mr. Babson — from his library” a 55. Wharton, Edith. Lettres a l’ami Francais. Correspondance very good + copy, with only slight age toning, labels on home-made box etablie et presentee par Claudine Lesage. Paris: Michel slightly ruffled at edges, box slightly rubbed at corners. Page size: 7-½ x 4- Houdiard Editeur, 2001. $30 ¾ inches; [i-iii] iv-viii, 1-608pp. From the estate of Boston Transcript book First edition. 8vo; 158pp; buff printed wrappers, new. Printed here for the reviewer Dorothea Lawrence Mann, author of critical biography of Ellen first time are over 150 letters from Edith Wharton to her intimate French Glasgow. We know of no other such review copies of this title. While BAL friend, Leon Belugou, detailing their friendship of over 25 years. Wharton records sets of unbound sheets for many books, there is no such listing for wrote these letters in French and they are faithfully reproduced here. The this title. BAL states that publisher’s records indicate 12 printings in the first originals of this correspondence are in Yale’s Beinecke Library. Leon edition; BAL has only been able to identify 5 printings. The first edition Belugou would come to play a crucial role in Edith Wharton’s expatriate life. consisted of 10,000 copies. Over the next 25 years they developed an intimate friendship; he was, Mrs. Stowe’s novel of “Oldtown” is a fictionalized version of Natick perhaps, her closest French friend. MA, the home of her husband where they both spent time at his parents’ Leon Belugou (1865-1934) French scholar was introduced into the home. Set in the Federal period, the novel is considered an early example best “salons” in Paris; in fact, he was private tutor for noble wealthy of local color, as well as a discussion of changes in religious mores, BAL families, including that of the Duke de Gramont. Although not actually part 19452 (11176) of the highest French society, he was quite close to them and often acted as a sort of non-clerical Abbe Mugnier when their money or love affairs 1916 Shellac Recording on Women’s Suffrage became compromising. He was known for his tact and ability at handling embarrassing situations. As such, he was invaluable when Wharton decided 53. Taggart, Charles Ross. Old Country Fiddler on Women’s to conquer the Faubourg Saint-Germain. Later, when her marriage to Teddy Suffrage. Camden, N.J.: Victor Talking Machine, February was ending, Edith approached her dear friend, Leon Belugou for assistance; 3, 1916. $100 he complied, finding her an attorney to handle the divorce and acting as Original shellac recording made February 3, 1916, labeled as “rural com- official translator for the letters Teddy and his family wrote that were edy” on the label of the record (not so funny if you were a woman!), with introduced into the legal proceedings. It is clear that Belugou served as the Old Country Fiddler at the Party on the second side, record housed in original model for the character in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, the secretary of brown paper envelope, printed on both sides, labeled Victor Record, and Count and Countess Olenska. Although he remained nameless, he is listing the artists that the company produced, record housed in black cloth referred to and cited as assisting the Countess in obtaining her divorce later over boards protective clamshell box, leather in her life - much as the author had. (9024) label stamped in gilt with title and artist on spine. This monologue was probably amusing in its Inscribed to Leon Belugou day, describing the excitement in Pineville, VT, about the possibility of woman suffrage, and the 56. Wharton, Edith. Leurs Enfants. [The Children] Traduit de founding of the Pineville Women’s Rights and l’anglais par Louis Gillet. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1931. General Improvement League. The narrator $1,500 opines that there is nothing wrong with women First French edition, Inscribed by the author, on the front free endpaper, voting providing they do it quietly, commenting “L.B. / from E.W. / aout 1931”. “L. B.” was Leon Belugou (1865-1934), further the law will never pass as everyone in Vermont was a Republican French scholar and journalist, perhaps, her closest French friend. 16mo; and the Republican would never approve such a law. Victor 180360A. 304pp; yellow printed paper wrappers printed in black with author and title, Reference: http://www.authentichistory.com/1898-1913/2-progressiv- translator and publisher on front cover, reverse of wrapper is cover for ism/6-civilrights/2-women/19160203_Old_Country_Fiddler_ another title from Plon; wrappers dusty, spine a bit soiled, ex-libris of Leon on_Womans_Suffrage-Charles_Ross_Taggart.html. (11208) Belugou on verso of front wrapper, very good. The first edition was published in 1928; this French translation not cited by Garrison. Louis Gillet, 54. Thaxter, Celia. Poems for Children...With Illustrations by the translator of this novel was the curator of a museum at Chalis as well Miss A. G. Plympton. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, as a literary critic and art historian, who eventually became one of France’s The Riverside Press, 1884. $250 “immortals” a member of the Academie Francaise. His first translation of First edition, with leaf excised that has list of illustrations as in copyright one of Wharton’s novels was in 1927 when he published Le Bilan (The deposit copy, Binding A with publisher’s monogram at foot of spine, BAL Mother’s Recompense). Her evident approval of Gillet’s previous transla- cites 1518 copies of the printing. Page size: 8-3/8 x 5-7/8 inches; 153pp. tion led to this 1932 translation. Wharton’s friendship with Gillet continued Bound: blue cloth with title stamped in gold on front panel above author’s until her death; he was one of the mourners at her funeral. French editions name in black above scene of small girl sitting on bench below tree, spine of Edith Wharton’s novels are scarce. See item #55 for information on the stamped in gold with author, title and publisher’s monogram; spine tips relationship of Edith Wharton and Leon Belugou. (9059) rubbed as are joints and tips, bookseller’s ticked removed from lower left corner of front flyleaf, trace of removal ¾ x ½ inch on lower rear paste 57. Wharton, Edith. Promotion Broadside for The Valley of down, early ownership signature in pencil on front blank, probably that of a Decision. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1902]. $75 child, about very good. The text is printed in brown as are the 10 full-page Broadside advertising THE VALLEY OF DECISION, single leaf, printed illustrations (including frontis) and the 26 vignettes in text. Celia Thaxter on both sides, printed in brown ink with photograph of the author. Page size: (1835-1894), poet and artist, was born in Portsmouth, NH and for most of 6-½ x 3-7/8 inches, fine. (9052) her life lived on the Isles of Shoals. Her unfortunate marriage to Levi Thaxter left her the sole financial support and care-giver of her three sons Inscribed (one with a severe disability) and her ailing mother. In her poetry she found both an avenue of expression and a means of support. Her first book, 58. Wharton, Edith. Tales of Men and Ghosts. London: POEMS, appeared in 1874. She published five more books of verse with each finding a poetical voice more and more her own (and less and less Macmillan, 1910. $3,000 First edition, first printing, first English issue, inscribed by the author on the
Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] front blank, “L. Belugou / from his friend / Edith Wharton (with a flourish) enchanting.” She notes that plants and seeds were obtained from a variety Oct 26th 1910.” 8vo; 438pp; + 8pp. ads, publisher’s blue cloth blind and gilt of sources, including her niece, noted landscape gardener and landscape stamped; ex-libris of Leon Belugou on front pastedown, endpapers a bit architect, Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand, and that Mrs. Wharton was browned, spine a bit cocked, corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. admired by her fellow gardeners, such as the Vicomte de Noailles, with Leon Belugou (1865-1934) French scholar and journalist was, perhaps, her visits from journalists of “Country Life.” (11193) closest French friend. Garrison A18.1.a.2. See item 55 for information on the relationship of Edith Wharton and Leon Belugou. (9058) First National Woman’s Rights Convention “The reformation we propose — radical and universal 59. Wharton, Edith. Xingu and Other Stories. London: emancipation of a class — the redemption of half the MacMillan and Co., 1916. $150 First edition, first printing, English issue, Leon Belugou’s copy. Leon world...” Belugou (1865-1934) French scholar and journalist, was, perhaps, Wharton’s closest French friend. 8vo; 436pp; maroon gilt-stamped cloth, with Belugou’s 62. Woman’s Rights. The Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights initials in blue grease pencil on upper left corner of front cover, ex-libris of Convention, Held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850. Belugou on front pastedown, Belugou’s initials in blue grease pencil Boston: Prentiss & Sawyer, 1851. $5,000 repeated on titlepage, dampstain on front cover about 3 x º”, corresponding First edition. 8vo; 84pp; original yellowish-green wrappers, printed in black, red stain on first 8 pages, else very good. Garrison A.24.1.a2. See item #55 for spine mostly flaked away but sewing holding, wrapper starting to split at information on the relationship of Edith Wharton and Leon Belugou. (9065) front join with ½ inch closed tear at center, lower corner of wrapper chipped about ½ inch, several successive pages chipped and ruffled at corner, tiny 60. [Wharton, Edith and Walter Berry]. Le Rire Rouge, No. bit of ruffling to corner tips at top wrappers a bit soiled and text a bit 27 “Dans Les Ruines” Paris: Felix Juven, 22 Mai 1915. $150 yellowed, ownership inscription on the front cover, “Editor of the Boston Single issue of French humor magazine, this issue “Dan Les Ruines” with Transcript / 76 Congress Street.” This the finest copy we have seen of this a color chromotypograph caricature by Abel Faivre of Edith Wharton and scarce pamphlet documenting the first convention ever held on the subject Walter Berry in the back of their chauffeur-driven car, of women’s rights and the only one in the original wrappers. touring the front with the caption “Ce n’est que ca!” Two years after the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (the first women’s Page size: 12-¼ x 9-1/8 inches; 12pp; wrappers, pages rights convention in history) Lucy Stone called for a national convention on a browned and ruffled at edges, some chipping at woman’s rights, the first such national convention. Women and men from edges, but generally sound and good, housed in black nine states attended the two-day meeting in Worces- cloth over boards custom-made clamshell box with gilt ter, including Susan B. Anthony, Antoinette Brown stamped leather label on spine. Hermione Lee, in her (later Blackwell), Sojourner Truth, and Lucretia biography of Edith Wharton, notes that on Wharton’s Mott. The Proceedings contain a clear record of the and Berry’s third journey to the front (1915), they first attempt to organize the suffrage movement on were accompanied by war cartoonist Abel Faivre, who did the “brilliant and national level. What committees were formed, what unkind caricature” that appears on the cover of issue No. 27. Wharton is resolutions were passed, who spoke (with reprints of standing in the back of the car, gazing through a lorgnette, while Walter with the major speeches), and the fact that contributions hat and white moustache, sits glowering next to her, with the back of the in the amount of $119.65 were collected, are all chauffeur’s head visible against the distant outline of bombed and ruined recorded. Paulina Davis presided at this extraordi- homes. The caption, “Ce n’est que ca!” may be translated, “Is that all?’ but nary event, and opened her keynote address with the also could be translated as “Why make such a fuss.” This probably refers following call to revolution, “The reformation we propose in its utmost scope to the quote by Marie Antoinette during the Revolution, “S’ils n’ont pas de is radical and universal. It is not the mere perfecting of a reform already in pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche.” The unkind caricature and the satirical motion...it is an epochal movement - the emancipation of a class, the reference to a privileged woman with no understanding of the problems of redemption of half the world...” the average man did not vex Wharton. Rather, Lee cites one of Wharton’s “The Boston Transcript” was started in 1830. In1848 Epes Sargent letters in which she describes the caricature with mild amusement. The became editor. From the same family as John Singer Sargent, he had a caricature is reproduced in black and white in the Lee biography. See Lee, considerable literary reputation as a poet and dramatist, and he moved the Hermione. EDITH WHARTON, pp. 484-486. (11190) paper to a more liberal and cultural bent. That Mr. Sargent kept or purchased this account meant it was seriously considered as newsworthy by the news 61. [Wharton, Edith] De Ganay, Ernest and Jean Gallotti et media of the day. WOMEN’S HISTORY, pp. 311-312. TIMELINES OF al. L’Illustration. Le Jardin with image of Edith Wharton’s AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY, p. 22. Flexner & Fitzpatrick, CEN- TURY OF STRUGGLE, pp. 73-95. Krichmar, 1944. Chamberlin, Joseph. Garden. Paris, France: 28 Mai 1932. $150 THE BOSTON TRANSCIPT. (9734) Journal devoted to gardens in France, illustrated with photographs and drawings in color, sepia, and black and white of the most important 63. [Women]. Accurate Portraits of Female Beauties. Shanghai: landscaped spaces, including the garden of Edith Wharton at Pavillon Colombe, near Montmorency. World Book Co, 1922. $750 Her rock garden is featured with a half-page photo- Modernized version of an ancient Chinese classic being the second volume graph with legend identifying it as hers. Page size: 15 of “One Hundred Beauties” with 50 full-page portraits and pictorial titlepage x 11-¼ inches; magazine format with color cover, and colophon, text in Chinese, original green 43pp. ads, plus Supplement and 70pp. of gardens printed front wrapper and tan back wrapper, with images after watercolors by M. Reol et al., a hand-sewn. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn at very good copy with some loss of spine ends but title edges as are some pages but generally sound, still legible on spine and pages sound, housed in housed in custom-made black cloth over boards custom-made black cloth over boards clamshell box clamshell box. Issued during the Republic pe- with black leather label stamped in gold on spine. Mrs. Wharton’s gardens riod when Shanghai was known as the Paris of at Pavillon Colombe were well-known and admired. Hermione Lee’s the East and the Chinese cinema flourished as biography devotes pp. 557-564 to them, calling her garden “dramatic and a new art form - that effect seen in the images in this book. (9947)
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