Field, Rachel, arranger; Charles Dickens, author; Thomas Fogarty, illustrator
Hardcover. 8vo (9.5" x 7.5"), black cloth with pictorial front cover. Color illus. end papers. 208 pp., color and b&w plates throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, rubbed front cover, spotted rear cover, interior clean, binding sound.
Stearns, Charles
Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), green cloth, rebacked, original spine laid down, replaced endpapers. Frontis., xiv, [15] - 562 pp., 5 wood-engraved plates. CONDITION: Good ex-library, spine a bit darkened, spine-label removed from lower spine (color touched in), green library stamp at center of title, a few sprung gatherings, all holding. An first hand account of the Reconstruction Era south by a former Civil War physician who purchased and farmed a Georgia plantation, observing the behavior of freedmen and rebels who asked for shelter.
Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75"), red cloth, color dj. 599 pp., numerous b&w illus. Ownership stamp of "Richard Aldridge" on ffep. CONDITION: Near-fine, light foxing to endpapers, clean interior, sound binding; Very good dj, lightly worn at extremities. First edition, second printing, February, 1945.
Hardcover. Sm 4to (10" x 7"), white cloth, pictorial gilt and silver on upper cover, deckled edges. Frontis., [9], 263 pp., 10 color plates with tissue guards, early inscription on ffep reading "Francis M. Livingston. June 15th, 1896. From J. B." CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, bumped corners, cloth toned and somewhat soiled, foxing to preliminaries, inside hinges starting to crack but stable, light foxing throughout, several pencil notes in margins. Limited edition. "This edition, consisting of Two Hundred and Fifty Copies on Large Paper, was printed in the month of October, 1893. This Copy is No. 177. [signed] John Wilson and Son."
Broadside, 1 printed sheet, 7" x 5.25". CONDITION: Paper acidified, .25" chip near top right corner with no effect to text, .25" tear from old tack-hole to top margin with no loss. This New York suffrage broadside from the 1915 Empire State Campaign names the ten western states that had already given over three million women the right to vote and asserts several reasons why the men of New York should be "as generous-minded," including: "Women of New York are as intelligent, sane, law-abiding, public-spirited, patriotic as the women of the West. Why not confer the same political rights upon them?" Although it failed to pass its women's suffrage referendum that year, the 1915 campaign undoubtedly contributed to the women's suffrage movement's success in 1917, when New York established women's right to vote.
Hardcover. No jacket. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), green cloth, paper title label on spine. Frontis., xvi, [2], 19-40 pp., [2] blank leaves, b&w illus throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Author inscription in ink on front free endpaper, reading "To Ernest, with all my heart, Bob, 1918." CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at extremities, a few light spots to covers, a few light stains to preliminaries. First edition. An early depiction of cyborgs and technologically modified humans from the early years of the 20th century. Inscribed by Davis to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell. Includes a facsimile of a typed letter from T. Roosevelt expressing his hearty congratulations.
