Chekhov in My Life
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine. More
Cambridge: Women's Research Action Project, 1974. Second Edition. Revised & expanded. Quarto; staple-bound wrappers; 70pp; illus. Mild external soil, else Near Fine. Substantially expanded from the first edition. More
Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994. Second printing. Small octavo; pictorial gray card wrappers; 84pp. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title, undated. Early collection by the Argentinian-American poet. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [8],408pp. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn, small chip at spine, old tape repair to spine end versos; Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Bailey's memoirs, though told in the third person..... More
New York: Williams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930. Reprint. Large octavo (24.5cm); black cloth boards, stamped in gilt, beveled edges; 154pp frontis.,5 plates. Gilt dulled on spine; extremities rubbed, thin spots along spine and leading corners; mild soiling and wear. Top edge stained black, fore edge dackled; some interior toning and..... More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Fine. Collection of love poetry by various black authors, including Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Richard Walter Thomas, and James Weldon Johnson. Ends with quotes on Woman from notable African American figures, including Muhammad Ali..... More
Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1921. Nouvelle Édition. Collection of aphorisms extracted in part from an unfinished novel and separated into four loose groupings, the greater portion on the waste of the Great War and love between women. Additionally this edition offered with a 24pp. pictorial side-stitched pamphlet of blurbs written by..... More
London: Zed Books, 1985. First Edition. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 266pp; illus. Clean, unworn copy, free of markings or soil; Near Fine. More
Pittsburgh: Know, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Fine. Paper presented at the Symposium on Behavioral Sciences, American Psychological Association, September 3, 1969. More
London: Women's Co-Operative Guild, N.d. [ca 1927?]. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 8pp. Bit of staining to covers; creased at upper margin; Very Good. The Women's Co-Operative Guild was founded in 1883 and, while never extensive in terms of membership, bore an outsize influence on British politics, being..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1983]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],236pp. A couple of soil spots to spine, else Fine. More
Accra: Anowuo Educational Publications, [1966]. Second Printing. 12mo (17.5cm.); original white and red wrappers; 118,[2]pp. About Fine. Bediako's early novella, describing contemporary Ghanaian marriage. "Richly entertaining and educative" (upper cover). More
New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1911. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on front cover; 61, [3]pp (final three blanks). Minimal external wear; faint upper marginal stain to a few leaves (not approaching text), else internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine. One of those dreary little volumes..... More
Rome: École Française de Rome, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's purple pictorial wrappers, French flaps; [6],419pp.; illus. Wrappers slightly creased at edges, with mild bumps to corners; Very Good, internally clean and fine. At head of upper cover: "Collection de l'École Française de Rome - 282." Text chiefly in..... More
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994. First Edition in English. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 412pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Near-new. Nicaraguan author; original published in Spanish (Managua: 1989) as La mujer habitada. More
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc., n.d., ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner. About Fine. Study conducted at Carnegie-Mellon on sex-segregated wants ads as published by The Pittsburgh Press. Unlocated in OCLC as of August, 2018. More
Stanford: Stanford University, 1971. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 44pp.; printed from typescript. Fine. Research prepared in the Department of Psychology at Stanford for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction "for distribution to all high school guidance counselors in the state..." Includes sections on discrimination..... More
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition. Novel set in a Louisiana steamboat town, featuring a prostitute protagonist who takes a pair of youths under her protective wing and moves them to New York, where they accomplish (and ultimately suffer) more than they ever thought was possible. Basis for..... More
London: Souvenir Press, [1965]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in brown dust jacket; ix,[1],495pp. Light wear to jacket extremities; Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First published in the United States a year earlier. More
London: Cassell and Company, [1923]. Cheap Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green blind-ruled cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [6],249pp. General shelf wear, corners rather bumped, spine gilt dulled, interior clean and fine. About Very Good overall. "Chapters on the Sex-Discord" - upper cover. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and fuscia, top edge stained red; xiii,[5],445pp. Jacket spine toned with narrow 2-inch dampstain, spine ends a bit rubbed, else a Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Historical..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth, spine label printed on orange stock; green pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],275pp. Extremities rather dust-soiled, especially to top textblock edge, jacket spine a hint faded and rather cockled from damp. Very Good in About Very Good jacket..... More
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc., n.d., ca. 1971]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 10pp.; printed from typescript. About Fine. Generously annotated bibliography compiled by Bereaud, a member of the Female Studies Program at Cornell University. Includes monographs and scholarly articles, chiefly published in the 1950s and 1960s..... More
New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, [1962]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.25cm.); original white staplebound wrappers illustrated by Jesse Sorrentino; unpaged. Wrappers a bit toned and slightly finger-soiled, light wear, else Near Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by Wakoski laid in. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1976]. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); original boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],403pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and minor dust-soil, else Just About Fine. Biography of the lawyer Fanny Holtzmann who specialized in the film and theater industries. More