AN EXHORTATION TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, To Bring Their Deeds to the Light of Christ, In Their Own Consciences; In Which is Inserted Some Account of the Author's Experience in the Important Business Of Religion. By S. H. [Sophia Hume].

PHILADELPHIA, Self-Published (Sophia Hume), 1752. Originally Printed in 1748 by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) & D. Hall, Printer, Philadelphia; then in London in 1750; then this reprinting by James Lister, Leedes (Leeds), MDCCLII (1752).

Recent professionally bound hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling to the spine, new endpapers, original book bound within, 3.75x6.25 inches (9x15.5 cm), 100 pages.

Condition: The pages of this 1752 bound-in book are complete but show their age, they are age toned, the title-page is worn, edge chipped, pulling from the binding, and its gutter edge is repaired/reinforced with a strip of brown paper that has affected some text and letters along that edge (see photos); otherwise the pages just have some shorelining, age spots, small edge repairs, and a bit of edge wear here and there; the book is tightly bound making the words at the fold a bit difficult to read. The recent covers and new endpapers are fine. Overall a complete, presentable copy.

RARE COLONIAL AMERICAN BOOK written by an SOUTH CAROLINA WOMAN who self-published it in PHILADELPHIA.

About SOPHIA HUME (from Wikipedia):

******Sophia Wigington Hume (born South Carolina 1702 - died London 1774) was an American author and preacher associated with the Quakers. Hume was born and raised in a wealthy South Carolina Anglican family. In 1737, after the death of her husband, she gave up her wealth to live as a Quaker, becoming an outspoken advocate for the faith.

Hume was the author of books written to offer guidance to Quakers on a variety of topics including theology, philosophy, and personal ethics. She is significant as an early example of influential women whose writings were addressed to a wide audience regardless of the sex of the reader.

Given the wealth of her writings there is a puzzling lack of scholarship on Hume. One article by Phyllis Mack of Rutgers University is not focused specifically on Hume, but does discuss her place in both Quaker history and the larger contexts of women writers and feminism.******

1871-1895 FIFTEEN OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY MEDICAL PAMPHLETS Bound Together in Hardcovers, by Dr. Vulliet, Maternity Surgeon, Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris

FIFTEEN MOSTLY OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY PAMPHLETS dated 1871-1895, by Dr. F. VULLIET (Professor of Medicine University of Geneva, Maternity Surgeon, Member of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris). The 15 pamphlets are gathered and bound in one book, a sammelband.

The person who gathered the pamphlets and created this sammelband typed a two page Index which is pasted onto two blank front endpapers. The medical pamphlets are complete, with both their front and rear covers. All are professionally bound in hardcovers, 3/4 leather with five raised spine bands, gilt titling on the spine, and marbled endpapers. The book measures 6x9 inches. The pamphlets have various paginations and various publishers; they are bound-in chronologically with dates from 1871 to 1895. The TEXT of the pamphlets and the typed index are in FRENCH, except for two which are in German.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light wear to their corner tips and spine ends but are solid and attractive; the bound in pamphlets are all very nice, age toning to some of the pages, overall tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, very nice book and bound-in group of medical pamphlets.

The INDEX includes the following pamphlet titles and subject headings (accompanied with Google English translations, with the usual Google translation goofs)::

D' un nouveau moyen de contention de la Matrice. (A new Matrix restraint.)

D'un moyen de Contention de la Matrice et de traitement de prolapsus utérin. (A means of Compression of the Matrix and treatment of uterine prolapse.)

Rapport sur la potabilité des eaux du Rhône. La Fièvre Typhoide. (Report on the potability of the waters of the Rhône. Typhoid fever.)

Apropos du Traitement des ulcerations par le raclag ge et l'excision. (About the treatment of ulcerations by scraping and excision.)

Un cas de grossesse dans un Kyste Tubo-ovarique. (A case of pregnancy in a tubo-ovarian cyst.)

Contribution à l'étude du traitement des Fibro-Myomes utérins intrapariéteaux. (Contribution to the study of the treatment of intraparietal uterine fibro-myomas.)

Un cas de cancer primitif du col de l'utérus, traité selon la méthode du Prof. Vulliet. (A case of primary cancer of the cervix, treated according to the method of Prof. Vulliet.)

Des avantages de la Dilatation dans le traitement curatif et palliatif du cancer de l'utérus. (Advantages of dilation in the curative and palliative treatment of uterine cancer.)

De l'extraction par les voies naturelles de Fibro-Myomes Utérins intra ariéteaux, selon la procédé de Vulliet. (Extraction by natural means of intra-arieteau uterine fibro-myomas, according to the Vulliet process.)

Vingt cas d'affections Gynécologiques, traités par le massage. Mihran Boyadjian. (Twenty cases of gynecological affections, treated by massage. Mihran Boyadjian.)

Le Listérism, son passé, son présent, son futur. Par Granville Bantock. Preface de Dr. Vulliet. (Listerism, its past, its present, its future. By Granville Bantock. Preface by Dr. Vulliet.)

Le Massage en Gynécologie. (Massage in Gynecology.)

Ueber einen Fall von Tube Ovarialcysten Schwangerschaft. (On a case of tube ovarian cysts in pregnancy.)

Discussion sur les Supperations Pelviennes. (Discussion on Pelvic Supperations.)

Ueber die Erweiterung von Verengerungen des Collum uteri auf plastischem Wege. (About the expansion of constrictions of the collum uteri in a plastic way.)

De la suture perdue, dans l'operation de la fistule vésico-vaginale. (Of the lost suture, in the operation of the vesico-vaginal fistula.)

De la Dilitation de l'utérus par le procédé des obturations progressives. (Of the Dilation of the Uterus by the Process of Progressive Fillings.)

PLUS MORE

Y FRYTHONES: AT WASANAETH MERCHED A GWRAGEDD CYMRU, Dan OLYGIAETH CRANOGWEN (Sarah Jane Rees). CYF. VI. A WELSH book comprised of articles and literary pieces from Volume VI of the Welsh Women's Periodical Y FRYTHONES:

AT WASANAETH MERCHED A GWRAGEDD CYMRU. The periodical was edited by CRANOGWEN, the pseudonym of Sarah Jane Rees. VOLUME VI (CYF. VI). One volume only. Perhaps a bound collection was published at the end of every year of the publication, I do not know. TEXT in WELSH. LLANELLI: Argraffwyd A Chyhoeddwyd Gan D. Williams A'I Fab., 1884. First Edition of Volume VI. Hardcovers, leather covered spine and corners with pebbled cloth covered boards, 5.5x7.5 inches, 384 pages. Illustrated with drawings and fancy title letters. Y FRYTHONES was a monthly Welsh language periodical for women, with much of the contents written by women of Wales. The contents were religious, literary, and general in nature, including articles on religion, raising children, the family, and the home, as well as poetry, music, games and biographies of prominent women. All was in Welsh. The periodical was edited by the teacher, poet, and unconventional woman, Sarah Jane Rees. The periodical was founded in 1874 and ended publication in 1891. It was created to continue the work of the Welsh women's periodical Y GYMRAES which was published for only two years, 1850 and 1851. Y GYMRAES was created in response to a government report which had strongly criticized the lax morals of Welsh women. Both Y GYMRAES and then Y FRYTHONES set out to promote higher intellectual and moral standards for women in Wales. Previously owned by KATIE HUMPHREYS, with her bookplate on the front free endpaper, and by ROBERT OWEN, with his small ink stamped name on the front free endpaper and title page. At the bottom of the front pastedown is a small label of A. BROMLEY / Printer, Lithographer, Bookbinder, &c / High Street / BANGOR (WALES). It appears likely that KATIE HUMPHREYS and ROBERT OWEN were both from Bangor Wales, as both names show up prominently there. GOOD CONDITION: the leather spine covering is scraped and rubbed, and the leather corners are rubbed at their edges; the pebbled cloth covered boards have a few smudges; otherwise the coverts remain solid and are doing their job well; internally there is a bit of foxing and some creases here and there, else the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, nice copy. About CRAGOGWEN, pseudonym of SARAH JANE REES (from Wikipedia): ******Sarah Jane Rees, b.1839 d.1916, also known as CRANOGWEN, was a Welsh poet, editor, teacher, temperance campaigner, and proto-suffragette. She had two long lesbian relationships. Sarah Jane Rees was born at Llangrannog in Cardiganshire, the daughter of a mariner John Rees. She was a precocious child and insisted that she accompany her father to sea rather than undertake sewing and cooking chores. She attended school in both Cardigan and New Quay, and for a time studied at a navigation school in London, where she gained her master's certificate, a qualification allowing her to command a ship in any part of the world. In 1859 Sarah Jane set up her own navigation school in her home village of Llangrannog. In addition to teaching navigation and other subjects, she became editor of the Welsh language women's periodical Y Frythones (1878 to 1889), a platform for Welsh bluestockings and proto-suffragettes. Rees had two significant same-sex relationships. Her first was with Fanny Rees, a milliner's daughter from Troedyraur, near LLangrannog. Fanny contracted tuberculosis and returned to Wales around 1874 to die. She moved into Rees' home rather than that of her family, and died in her arms. Rees commemorated Fanny in one of her best-known poems, Fy Ffrynd (My Friend). Her second relationship was with Jane Thomas, with whom she spent most of her life. Open about her unconventional domestic arrangement, Rees was nonetheless a committed Methodist.******

The photographic image is 9.75 x 12.75 inches, mounted on a 11x13.75 inch stiff card mount. Fourteen women are in the photograph, eight of them are named on the backside of the mount. The mount has two holes at the top and one on the bottom, perhaps for hanging with a cord. Printed on the bottom left side is: "G. Waldon Smith", and on the bottom right side is: "Boston, Portland & Old Orchard".

The image is in VERY GOOD condition, some light shorelining to the upper left corner area, overall bright and clear, lovely. The mount is GOOD, with wear at its corners and edges. The mount is slightly bowed.

A previous owner wrote on the backside in pencil "Smith College / circa 1888", but the only woman that I investigated who had a degree mentioned was "Clara Elise von Wettberg" who graduated from Wellesley in 1879. Maybe she then went to Smith College? A couple of the other women whose names I looked into indicated that the date "circa 1888" is probably correct. "Jessie Estelle Kline" was born in 1870 and was married in 1900. Frances Marie Barker married Harvard graduate Hugh Means in 1901, they both were from and returned to Lawrence, Kansas. Miss Margaret Dale Harrison of Philadelphia was listed in the 1898 Philadelphia Blue Book, and she was married in 1899. I could not find another college mentioned, but then again these women had very little mentioned online that I could find, other than the MEN they married. Hmmm.

Whether Smith College or Wellesley, this c.1888 photograph of 14 well heeled college girls is quite a treasure.

* DOUBLY INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR to HER PUBLISHER * * INCLUDES a MOUNTED PHOTO of the AUTHOR that is unique to this copy * * Reed was the first woman to have her works accepted by the British Philosophical Society *

PERSIAN LITERATURE ANCIENT AND MODERN, by ELIZABETH A. REED.

Published by S.C. GRIGGS and Company, Chicago, 1893. First edition.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED on a blank prelim by the AUTHOR to her publisher: "Mr. S. C. Griggs / Author's Sincere Regards / May 4th 1893"

UNIQUE TO THIS COPY is a PHOTOGRAPH of the AUTHOR, mounted on a leaf tipped in between the color frontispiece and the title page, which is also SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Reed below her photograph: "Yours Truly / Elizabeth A. Reed".

Hardcover book, 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper covered boards, five raised spine bands, all edges gilt, spine filled with gilt lettering and designs, leather edges lined in gilt, marbled endpapers, 5.5x7.5 inches, xiv, 419 pages.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers are rubbed at the edges, spine ends and spine folds; internally, there is a previous owner's inscription on the blank verso of the front free endpaper: "Thomas E. Huser, Jr. / Harvard College / 1946"; otherwise tight, bright and clean. A solid, lovely copy.

About Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (from Wikipedia):

******Sophia Elizabeth Reed (née Armstrong), b.1842 d,1915, was an American Oriental scholar and author whose books were widely used as college textbooks in universities worldwide for Oriental studies. Hers were, at the time, the only works by a woman accepted by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.

In 1893, she was chairman of the Woman's Congress of Philology at Chicago and in 1896 became an editor of the Course of Universal Literature. Reed served two terms as the president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association. She received honorary degrees from Northwestern University, Wesleyan University,and Bethany College.

She was the mother of author Myrtle Reed, and two sons, Earl Howell and Charles B. Reed.******

Two Large Format Sales Agent's Policy Kits / Books, with receipts for policies sold and with information for the agent regarding pricing and issuing policies. Hartford Fire Insurance, 1895 and 1896. The sales agent that owned these policy portfolios was a woman, Abby C. Sturgeon of Newman, Stanislaus County, California. Her territory, deduced from the bound in written policies, was apparently Stanislaus and Merced Counties, California, including Modesto and surrounding areas. The two portfolio type kits / books measure 12.5 x 18 inches. They open to show Hartford Company Rules for Agents pasted on the inside front and rear covers. Also bound inside the portfolios are the stubs for policies that have been issued and full policy issuing sheets. One of the portfolios has 12 stubs that are filled in with names and other relevant issuing information. This portfolio has no blank policy forms remaining to be used. The other portfolio has 5 stubs with filled in info and has 14 policy sheets that remain unused, unissued. The two portfolio policy books are only in FAIR condition, the covers are soiled, have stains and sunning, and are shaky; internally some of the items tipped onto the inside covers are creased and wrinkled. Nonetheless these vintage insurance items are original and all the printing and handwriting is clear and legible. Some interesting genealogy from 19th Century Stanislaus County and Merced County, California. Interesting also is that this 1895 insurance sales agent of farm policies was a woman. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These Two Portfolios are HEAVY and LARGE and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us in advance to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

ESSENTIALS OF OSTEOPATHY - NERVE CENTERS AND LANDMARKS, by ISABEL M. DAVENPORT, M.D., D.O. "Former Resident Physician and Gynecologist to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for Insane at Kankakee; Former House Physician to the Ravenswood Osteopathic Sanitarium; President Columbia College of Osteopathy."

Self-Published, Chicago, 1903. Printed by the Regan Printing House. First edition, with the date 1903 on the title page and the date July 1st, 1903 at the end of the Preface.

Hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the front cover, 6x9 inches, marbled endpapers, 102 pp. plus 2 pages of osteopathy related ads at the rear.

GOOD condition, the covers have some light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, a couple half-dime size stains to the front edge of the front cover, and some sunning to the margins, but remain solid, with bright gilt titles; internally, there is light toning throughout, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A nice, solid copy.

RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION. This important work by an early female Chicago M.D. and D.O. was reprinted many times, but the first edition has become almost impossible to find.

About ISABEL M. DAVENPORT, M.D., D.O. (from her 1939 NY Times Obituary):

******NY Times September 18, 1939 // DR. ISABEL M. DAVENPORT / ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN MEDICAL GRADUATES OF NORTHWESTERN - Isabel Montgomery Davenport, for many years a physician in Chicago, died today. Dr. Davenport was one of the first women to graduate from Northwestern University Medical School. She served on the staff of the Kankakee State Hospital and for many years was with the Chicago Board of Health.******

She is listed in the 1922 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF CHICAGO Directory published by The Biographical Publishing Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, with the following brief bio:

******Born September 18, 1860, in Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of Northwestern University Woman's Medical College, 1891. Practice; nervous, mental and children's diseases. Gynecologist and staff physician, Hospitals for Insane, Kankakee, 1893-98, Peoria and Jacksonville, 1917. Professor of surgery, Northwestern University Woman's Medical School, 1892-93. School physician, Chicago, 1916-22. Member of American Medical Association and Medical Women's Club. Author of "Five Cases of Hysterectomy in the Insane." "A Report of Fleischig's Opium Treatment in Epilepsy." "Garden Work for Women in Public Institutions." Originator of garden work for women in public institutions in America. Residence, 1248 Wilson Avenue, Chicago.******

1927 PHOTOGRAPH of ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI the POET LAUREATE OF ARKANSAS

1927 PHOTOGRAPH of ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI, a prolific Italian-American poet who became the first POET LAUREATE OF ARKANSAS in 1953 and retained the title until her death in 1970. In 1969 Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller proclaimed October 15 as Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Day. In 1990 her home was added to the National Register of Historic Places. A rather incredible woman poet who is now mostly forgotten, but hopefully not in Arkansas.

Photograph, 6.5x8.5 inches. A publicity photograph taken by Underwood & Underwood Photography Studio. On the backside of the photo is pasted on information about Marinoni, with a notice that credit needs to be given to the photographer, Underwood & Underwood. The backside also has a few related stamps and marks.

GOOD MINUS condition, a number of light creases and signs of handling, still solid, bright and clear, with great information on the backside.

RARE 1927 PHOTOGRAPH of a LITERARY FEMALE ICON of ARKANSAS.

About ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI (from Wikipedia):

******Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, b.1888 d.1970, was an Italian-American poet. Marinoni had more than 1,000 of her short stories published in 70 magazines and her poems were published in more than 900 U.S. and international publications. Arkansas governor Benjamin Travis Laney named October 15, 1948, the state's first annual Poetry Day due to her efforts. Her home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Marinoni founded a northwest Arkansas chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. In 1928, the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs gave Marinoni the organization's title of poet laureate and in 1953, she was named the state's poet laureate by the Arkansas General Assembly. Due to Marinoni promoting poetry throughout the state, Arkansas governor Benjamin Travis Laney proclaimed October 15, 1948 as the state's first annual Poetry Day. Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller proclaimed October 15 as Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Day in 1969. She also published around 19 books. Marinoni died on March 26, 1970, and was buried at Saint Joseph Cemetery in Fayetteville.******

SEA-DRINKING CITIES. Poems by Josephine Pinckney. Her first book. Pinckney was a Southern Woman Poet and Novelist from Charleston, South Carolina.

Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1927. First Edition, so stated on the copyright page.

SIGNED & LIMITED "CHARLESTON EDITION", limited to 225 copies, this being #160. SIGNED and NUMBERED by Josephine Pinckney on the Limitation Page (page facing the title page).

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 5x7.5 inches, 86 pages.

Condition: GOOD book, the spine title label has brown staining (not affecting the spine), there are light bumps to the bottom front cover corner tips and a bit of rubbing to the spine ends, otherwise the covers remain sharp and solid; internally, the pages are lightly age toned, there is some offsetting to the endpapers and a bit of foxing to a few pages, else bright, clean, clear and unmarked. In a FAIR, price-clipped dustjacket. This very delicate and rare paper dj has completely split at the front flap fold, is splitting at the rear flap fold, has some corner tip wear and a bit of edge wear, but is complete (though again, the front flap is loose), bright and attractive in protective mylar.

RARE SIGNED LIMITED CHARLESTON FIRST EDITION of PINCKNEY'S FIRST BOOK, with its DUSTJACKET.

About JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY (from Wikipedia):

******Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney, b.1895 d.1957, was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first book was a book of poems, Sea-Drinking Cities (1927); her best-selling novel was the social comedy, Three O'clock Dinner (1945).

Josephine Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Thomas Pinkney and Camilla Scott. She attended Ashley Hall and established a literary magazine there, graduating in 1912. She then attended college at the College of Charleston, Radcliffe College, and Columbia University, and held an honorary degree from the College of Charleston, given in 1935. She received the Southern Authors Award in 1946.

As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Pinckney was an active participant in the Charleston Renaissance. In 1920, she co-founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina. She was involved in institutions such as the Charleston Museum and Dock Street Theatre and was an early proponent of the historic preservation of Charleston. She was an active member of the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals, which transcribed and annotated African American songs. Both organizations met for the first time at Pinckney's home at 21 King St. in Charleston.

She is buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston.******

BALLET SHOES, by Noel Sreatfeild. Illustrated by Richard Floethe. "A delightful story about three little girls who studied for careers on the stage."

Published by Random House, New York, 1937. Early printing, likely circa 1945, with Circus Shoes and Theater Shoes blurbs on the dustjacket.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered boards decorated with rose colored designs, rose top page edges, 5.5x8 inches, 294 pages plus 19 color plates each printed on its own leaf.

Ballet Shoes is the first title in the beloved "Shoes" series (as the books are known in the U.S.). It was adapted into a television series by the BBC in 1975, starring Elizabeth Morgan, Sarah Prince, and Jane Slaughter as the sisters, and later for a 2007 film, starring Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, and Emma Watson as the sisters.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, some small stains to the page edges, overall just lightly used, still sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that is toned, has some edge and spine end wear and closed tears, a crease to the spine, some toning and light soiling; still a complete dj that is doing its job and retains its $2.50 price at the top of the front flap.

Hard-to-find, especially so in an acceptable dustjacket.

About MARY NOEL STREATFEILD (from Wikipedia):

******Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE, b.1895 d.1986, was an English author, best known for children's books including the popular "Shoes" books. Streatfeild was a runner-up for the first annual Carnegie Medal for Ballet Shoes, and she won the third annual Carnegie Medal for Circus Shoes.

Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television.

In the 1998 film "You've Got Mail" Meg Ryan's character, a bookstore owner, recommends reading Noel Streatfeild: "Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theatre Shoes and Dancing Shoes and Movie Shoes...I'd start with Ballet Shoes first. It's my favorite ... although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful. But it's out of print."******

MOVIE SHOES, by Noel Sreatfeild. Illustrated by Susanne Suba.

Published by Random House, New York, 1949. First U.S. Edition, First Printing, with the statement "FIRST PRINTING" on the copyright page.

From the dj flap: "In this story of an English family in Hollywood Noel Streatfeild, author of Ballet Shoes and other well-known Shoes books, gives us an understanding picture of the life of children in the film industry that will captivate every young reader who has dreamed of a career in the movies."

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered boards decorated in black and burgundy on the front cover and spine, burgundy colored top page edges, 5.5x8 inches, X + 294 pages plus 5 b&w plates each printed on its own leaf (blank versos).

Condition: VERY GOOD book, just lightly used, still sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in an only FAIR dustjacket that has tearing at the spine ends and corner tips, a horizontal closed tear across the spine, edge wear including small chips and closed tears, scrapes and tenderness along the spine and flap folds, and tape repairs and reinforcement to the blank backside; nonetheless the dj is doing its job and retains its 250/250 price at the top of the front flap.

About MARY NOEL STREATFEILD (from Wikipedia):

******Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE, b.1895 d.1986, was an English author, best known for children's books including the popular "Shoes" books. Streatfeild was a runner-up for the first annual Carnegie Medal for Ballet Shoes, and she won the third annual Carnegie Medal for Circus Shoes.

Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television.

In the 1998 film "You've Got Mail" Meg Ryan's character, a bookstore owner, recommends reading Noel Streatfeild: "Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theatre Shoes and Dancing Shoes and Movie Shoes... I'd start with Ballet Shoes first. It's my favorite ... although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful. But it's out of print."******

KRISTIN. Screenplay by ERNEST PASCAL. From the Novel KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER by SIGRID UNDSET. The screenplay is undated but perhaps circa 1960 (Ernest Pascal died in 1966). The novel Kristin Lavransdatter was first published in 1921 and has been in print ever since. This screenplay by Ernest Pascal was never produced. The only film of the novel that I am aware of is a 1995 Swedish Film directed by Liv Ullmann. That film, in Swedish, has no relation to this screenplay. Photocopied on plain white paper (photo offset copies were, and still are, common among production and working scripts; drafts could be quickly made and sent to the film's writers, producers, directors, etc.), 8.5x11 inches, 170 pages printed on one side only, pages are 3-hole punched and bound in heavy stock yellow paper covers with 2 brass brads. VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light soiling and edgewear, otherwise the script is tight, bright, clean and unmarked. RARE and UNUSUAL screenplay by ERNEST PASCAL of KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER.

FEMMES DE COREE (WOMEN OF KOREA) Issue NUMBER 1, 1971. The First and apparently Only Issue of this magazine on NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST WOMEN. Features North Korean Women singing the praises of Kim Il Sung and Communism, 1971. Produced and Published by Le Comite Central de l'Union Democratique des Femmes (Central Committee of the Democratic Union of Women), PYONGYANG, KOREA, 1971. Magazine, side stapled, 8.5x11.5 inches (22x28.5 cm), 64 pages. TEXT IN FRENCH. Illustrated with photographs, including an 8 page photographic section and other in text photos. Includes an eight page section of photographs of women singing (literally) the praises of Kim Il Sung and the communist dictatorship, lots of parades too. GOOD condition, some light creases and general signs of handling, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Sections include: Rapport d'Activité du Comité Central au IVe Congrès de L'Union Démocratique des Femmes de Corée (Report of the Activities of the Central Committee at the Fourth Congress of the Democratic Union of Women of Korea); L'Appel Lancé Aux Femmes Sud Coréennes (An Appeal to South Korean Women); La Lettre à l'Adresse des Femmes Coréennes Résidant au Japon (Letter Addressed to Korean Women Living in Japan); L'Atrocité Diabolique du Loup, Impérialiste Américain (Diabolical Atrocities of the Wolf, the American Imperialist); and more. SCARCE. This is the only copy I have ever seen.

BOOK ONE. Poems by ANN LAUTERBACH. Published by Spring Street Press, New York, February 1975. Limited First Edition, this being copy #62 of only 100 copies. (A second edition was printed later the same year, in a different format.)

SIGNED, DATED and NUMBERED on the inside front cover. Additionally LOVINGLY INSCRIBED, Signed and Dated on the title page:

"To the one lady who spans the ocean / with both grace and endurance - my / 'presentation piece' for her, with / continuing admiration and love / Ann / 30 March 1975."

Gray paper wrappers, side-stapled, title ink-stamped on front cover, 8.5x11 inches oblong, 12 unnumbered leaves printed on one side only.

GOOD condition, a light vertical crease at the cover's spine from being opened, age toning as normal (not acid free paper), else tight, bright, clean and clear. A nice, presentable copy.

LIMITED, SIGNED, FIRST EDITION - SCARCE with the WARM INSCRIPTION.

About ANN LAUTERBACH (from Wikipedia):

******Ann Lauterbach, b.1942, is an American professor and poet. Her most recent book of poetry is SPELL (Penguin Books, 2018). Her book OR TO BEGIN AGAIN (Penguin, 2009) was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and in 1995, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (the Genius Award).

Lauterbach has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, Princeton University, the City College of New York, and is currently Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, where she is also co-chair of writing in the Milton Avery School of the Arts.

Ann Lauterbach lives in Germantown, New York.******

GUEST DINNER PARTY PLANNER & ARRANGER BOOK owned by DAGNY CORCORAN, L.A. SOCIALITE, ART-BOOK MAVEN, BONNE VIVANTE, PHILANTHROPIST, and, perhaps most important, BEST DINNER PARTY HOST of the 1980s. The Planner provides handwritten details about Dagny's PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES and the leading Artists, Writers, Film Directors, Actors, Models, and others that attended from 1983 to 1987.

Faux leather covers titled in gilt with spiral bound inner pages. The Dinner Party Planner is in the form of a Date Book Planner. Published by At-A-Glance record books. Includes the following categories for each dinner party: Occasion, Time/Date, Guest List, Menu, Special Notes (China, Crystal, Centerpiece, Linen, etc.), and Seating Arrangement. There are 28 Dinner Parties recorded, each is detailed on one or both of two facing pages. Though the Hostess, and owner of this Dinner Party Planner, was clearly Dagny Corcoran, the details of the parties were written in various hands, some in Dagny's (she referred to herself as ME when noting the seating arrangements), while most are probably in the hands of her assistants. There are also unused pages. VERY GOOD condition, solid, clean, with writing that is bright and clear throughout.

TWENTY-EIGHT DINNER PARTIES held by DAGNY CORCORAN from 1983 to 1987 are recorded in this book. If you attended one of these dinner parties you were at the HEIGHT of the L.A. ART & LITERARY SCENE. This DINNER PARTY PLANNER gives an almost I WAS THERE look at each of the Dinner Parties.

Here are some of the guests (many, such as David Hockney, came repeatedly):

DAGNY CORCORAN (the Host), KIRSTIN "KIKI" KISER (Model, famous Architect), KATHRYN BIGELOW (Film Director, one time spouse of James Cameron), DAVID HOCKNEY (artist), FRANK GHERY (architect), PAUL MORRISSEY (filmmaker, Andy Warhol associate), MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN (American actor and director, son of Roy Lichtenstein), HELMUT NEWTON (Photographer) DENNIS HOPPER (Actor, Artist), MARIN HOPPER (Filmmaker, daughter of Dennis Hopper), SAMANTHA EGGAR (Actor), LISA LYON (Model for Mappelthorpe, Bodybuilder), RICHARD SERRA (Artist), JOAN DIDION (Writer), JOHN DUNNE (Writer), BIANCA JAGGER (Actor, Activist), CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (Writer), DON BACHARDY (Isherwood's Life Partner), NINA CAMPBELL (Interior Designer), WILLIAM STYRON (Writer), PRINCE RUPERT LOEWENSTEIN (Aristocrat, Financial Manager of the Rolling Stones), RICHARD GERE (Actor), SYLVIA MARTINS (Artist - from 1978-1986 Gere and Martins were in an on and off again relationship), DIANE VON FURSTENBURG (Designer), BARRY DILLER (Media Honcho), BROOKE HAYWARD (Actress), PETER DUCHIN (Pianist), and others.

Here are the details of the book's first recorded dinner party:

The Occasion: KIKI'S RETURN.

Time/Date: 01.02.83 8ish.

Guest List: KIKI KISER, KATHRYN BIGELOW, MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN, DAGNY (DAGNY CORCORAN), and DENNIS (DENNIS HOPPERr).

Attire: Extremely Casual.

Menu: Port + Stilton, Cracked Dungeness Crab, Pasta Primavera, Radicchio & Arugula Salad, Raspberry Mousse, Beer, Vodka, Grape Juice, Wine, Soda. Special Notes: Metropolitan Dishes, Japanese Wine Glasses, Cluff Family Linen, Cluff Silverware, Janss Finger Bowls. Seating Arrangement: (as shown in the diagram).

THIS GUEST DINNER PARTY PLANNER IS INCREDIBLE READING, so much can be conjectured from these parties: Was Dagny trying to play matchmaker? Was she trying to set Kathryn Bigelow up? Who was Bianca Jagger's date which is written down in the Guest List as "Eurotrash #1"?

Truly a UNIQUE LOOK at what was happening in the 1980s gatherings of the high society Artists and Literati, and the wealthy that wanted to be seen among them.

Dagny Corcoran, and every one of the guests that attended her parties, is worth reading about on the Internet, together they formed an intimate part of the 80's L.A. scene.

IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS, by ELLEN GILCHRIST.

The National Book Award winning Southern author's FIRST BOOK of FICTION, preceded only by a book of poems.

Published by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1981. Second Printing of the First Edition, with "Second Printing" stated on the copyright page.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by GILCHRIST on the title page:

"For Ann / Done in the fullness of time / Ellen Gilchrist".

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, brick colored cloth covered boards, spine titled in gilt, 5x8.5 inches, 167 pages.

Condition: NEAR FINE book, sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a GOOD dustjacket that is sunned at the spine, has a bit of wear at the top of the spine and corner tips, and has two pea-size brown stains on the blank backside. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

From the front dj flap: "Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will shock and compel readers. Gilchrist's characters, women who dream of independent lives beyond the shadows of their husbands and fathers, resort to outrageous schemes in pursuit of freedom and fulfillment, despite the consequences."

Ellen Gilchrist was born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She was a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas.

SOME COMMUNICATIONS OF BROAD REFERENCE, by LAURA RIDING JACKSON. This is the RARE PUBLISHER'S COPY kept by HERB YELLIN, owner of the Lord John Press. It is SPECIALLY BOUND in the manner of the 26 lettered copy, but printed prior to the lettered copies with the statement "Publisher's Copy" on the Colophon Page (the last page). Reportedly this book came from the estate of Herb Yellin who died in 2014. SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON on the half title page. Published by the Lord John Press, Northridge, California, 1983. First Edition. Specially Bound in handmade marbled paper covered boards with a cloth covered spine lettered in gilt, no dustjacket as issued, 6.5x9.5", 30 pages plus several prelim pages and the Colophon Page. NEAR FINE condition, a thin 1" scrape to top edge of the cloth of the front spine fold, overall tight, bright and clean. A lovely copy. An interesting book of short letters, talks and essays by Laura Riding Jackson from 1973 to 1982. Scarce Copy of the Specially Bound SIGNED PUBLISHER'S COPY.