Women, the Unions, and Work; or, What Is Not To Be Done
Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, [1973]. Reprint. Quarto (27.75cm.); mimeographed staplebound self-wrappers; printed on blue stock; 13pp. About Fine. More
Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, [1973]. Reprint. Quarto (27.75cm.); mimeographed staplebound self-wrappers; printed on blue stock; 13pp. About Fine. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 235pp. Ink ownership inscription inside front cover, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, fresh and unclipped with just a bit of wear at crown of spine panel. Novel of colonial rebellion and intrigue, set..... More
New York: Paul B. Hoeber Inc., 1934. First Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); publisher's black buckram lettered in gilt; xvi,175pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Minor scuffing to cloth, textblock just a hint cockled from exposure to damp, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. More
London: Faith Press, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; 126,[1]pp.; 4 leaves of plain photographic illustrations. About Fine. Memoir of Jarrett-Kerr's time serving as the Anglican chaplain in a hospital for non-Europeans in South Africa during apartheid. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First Edition. Blanck's second printing, with A Marsh Island priced at $1.25 in rear ads. 12mo (18.5cm). In original publisher's threepiece cloth binding, with dark green over boards and light green back, stamped in black on front and gold on spine; plain endpapers; list of works..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1901. Reprint. Octavo (20cm); medium blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 405pp, frontis., 3 plates. Spine slightly lolled, sunned; mild soiling and handling wear to boards, with small bumps and rubbing to extremities. Textblock mostly unmarked; bindings somewhat shaken, final signature pulled with staining along gutter;..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, [1929]. First Edition. Small octavo (17.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; [10],185,[4]pp. Jacket spine quite faded, else About Fine. Volume VIII of the series "Man and His World, Northwestern University Essays in Contemporary Thought," edited by Baker Brownell. This collection includes..... More
Detroit: Correspondence Publishing Co., 1962. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. Uncommon early pamphlet by the British anthropologist; predicts a post-nucler world society free of state controls. Gough was a member of the Johnson-Forrest Tendency and an outspoken Marxist and..... More
[Port of Spain, Trinidad]: Columbus Publishers Ltd., [1973]. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue and black pictorial card wrappers; [6],183pp. Light shelf wear, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good or better. Trinidadian author's first novel, "about the failure of the new Trinidadian middle class of the 1940s" (rear..... More
Seattle: Impact Communications, [1993]. Second (1999) Printing. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],69pp. Some wear from handling, else Near Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Poetry collection by the Seattle-based African-American author and educator. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Ocatvo (21.5cm.); pink cloth boards stamped in white on cover and spine; dustjacket; 86pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Slight forward lean, else Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $5.95). Sharp copy of..... More
San Francisco: Union W.A.G.E., 1977. First Edition. Broadside (28cm.); printed from typescript. Previous folds, light toning, else Very Good or better. Opens with the resolution "That we are for PAYMENT FOR CHILDREARING." Subsequent bullet points include creating more jobs, introducing a voucher system and a sliding scale of wages and..... More
San Francisco: Union W.A.G.E., 1977. First Edition. Broadsheet (28cm.); printed from typescript. Previous folds, light toning, else Very Good or better. Opens with the resolution "That we are for PAYMENT FOR CHILDREARING." Subsequent bullet points include creating more jobs, introducing a voucher system and a sliding scale of wages and..... More
[Lansing, MI: Majority Wins, 1974]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green staplebound card wrappers; [2],iii,[1],39,11pp. Fine condition. Order form laid in. More
New York: Lewis Colby, 1852. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's red blind-ruled and embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[10]-235pp. Boards rather chipped and rubbed at extremities with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, some old soiling, tiny loss mid-spine touching text, lacking front free endpaper, partially removed mid-20th-century bookseller sticker..... More
California: Dustbooks, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 163pp. Bright, clean, and attractive, in a slightly soiled predominantly white dustjacket with some light scuffing and wear, a couple of small closed tears to the upper edge and some..... More
Topeka: Crane & Company, 1915. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; 164pp; illus. Tight, clean, and unmarked. A nicely preserved copy, Near Fine, in the original binding. Ilustrated with photographic portraits and views (halftones); includes a complete list of place-markers. More
[London: Friends' Council for International Service, 1925]. Offprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); bifolium. Fine. Article first published in the World Outlook Section of The Friend, March, 1925. At head of title: "C.I.S." NYPL only in OCLC as of June, 2015. More
San Francisco: Institute of Domestic Relations, [1932]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 140pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Corners gently bumped, boards very slightly bowed, minor spotting to cloth sizing, else a Very Good, internally sound copy. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and grey dust jacket; [6],375pp.; pictorial endpapers. Jacket extremities rubbed and worn with a few shallow losses, some touching text without loss of meaing, spine faded. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Forms..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards, black and blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],310pp. Jacket a bit shelf-worn with a couple short closed tears and tiny chips, none affecting text, jacket spine lettering toned; Fine in Very Good jacket. NCBEL III, p. 626..... More
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Limited issue; no. 133 of 250 signed copies on handmade paper. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's black buckram, titled in gilt on spine, author's facsimile signature in gilt to front cover; 317pp. Tight, straight and clean, with mild rubbing to covers and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Forms part of the author's novels following the Alard family saga, here set during the sixteenth century's Reformation persecutions of Roman Catholics in England. NCBEL III, p. 626. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in green..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1920]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original green cloth lettered and ruled in dark green; v,[1],393pp. Light edge wear, else Near Fine, albeit lacking dust jacket. A "study of the human toll of all-consuming ambition" (Mary R. Reichardt, Catholic Women Writers, p. 193). NCBEL..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue pictorial cloth embossed in orange; 306pp.; frontispiece. Light rubbing to extremities, spine lettering partially perished, else Very Good. First published in Great Britain the same year as Three Against the World. NCBEL III, p. 625. More