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  • 1975 ANN LAUTERBACH American Female Poet BOOK ONE Her First Publication SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED 1/100 by Ann Lauterbach 1975 ANN LAUTERBACH American Female Poet BOOK ONE Her First Publication SIGNED & WARMLY INSCRIBED 1/100
    Ann Lauterbach

    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…

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    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.******

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  • 1976 PAULINE KAEL - REELING **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** First Edition by Pauline Kael 1976 PAULINE KAEL - REELING **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** First Edition
    Pauline Kael

    REELING, by PAULINE KAEL. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1976. First Edition, so stated on the copyright page.

    SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by PAULINE KAEL on the front free endpaper: "Pauline Kael / 31 March 76 / Berkeley".

    Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, 6.5x9.5 inches, 497 pages.

    Condition: The covers' spine and margins are sunned and faded, and the covers' corner tips are a bit worn, otherwise the covers are solid and doing their job well; the page edges (page edges of the closed book) have some foxing; internally the pages are nice, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Lacking the dustjacket. Pauline Kael's signature and inscription are bold and clear.

    Pauline Kael, the best film critic ever!

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  • 1976 Perishable Press THREE & ONE Toby Olson & Mary Laird Hamady INSCRIBED by Toby Olson 1976 Perishable Press THREE & ONE Toby Olson & Mary Laird Hamady INSCRIBED
    Toby Olson

    THREE & ONE - FOUR POEMS by TOBY OLSON & TWO DRAWINGS by MARY LAIRD.

    MT. HOREB, WISCONSIN: Perishable Press, 1976. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 145 copies.

    Original handmade paper covers, 4x5.25 inches (10x13.25 cm), 20 pages (10 with printing, most versos are blank).

    SIGNED and INSCRIBED by MARY LAIRD HAMADY, the illustrator and co-proprietor of the Perishable Press, to the poet SUE DIRIDONI: "for Susan Diridoni / this April summer day, the 23, 1977 / for passing on the information that is currently consuming me / Mary Laird Hamady".

    The little fine-printing book is in FINE CONDITION, bright, sharp and clean. The laid-in flyer for the Sue Diridoni / Clifford Burke Poetry Reading has been…

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    THREE & ONE - FOUR POEMS by TOBY OLSON & TWO DRAWINGS by MARY LAIRD.

    MT. HOREB, WISCONSIN: Perishable Press, 1976. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 145 copies.

    Original handmade paper covers, 4x5.25 inches (10x13.25 cm), 20 pages (10 with printing, most versos are blank).

    SIGNED and INSCRIBED by MARY LAIRD HAMADY, the illustrator and co-proprietor of the Perishable Press, to the poet SUE DIRIDONI: "for Susan Diridoni / this April summer day, the 23, 1977 / for passing on the information that is currently consuming me / Mary Laird Hamady".

    The little fine-printing book is in FINE CONDITION, bright, sharp and clean. The laid-in flyer for the Sue Diridoni / Clifford Burke Poetry Reading has been folded in half, otherwise Very Good.

    Accompanying the book is a small flyer announcing: "POETRY / SUE DIRIDONI / CLIFFORD BURKE / INTERSECTION / Dec. 29 - 8 pm".

    Susan Diridoni was a psychotherapist and poet. She was well known in the San Francisco Bay Area haiku poetry community. She died on July 30, 2022.

    About MARY LAIRD HAMADY, WALTER HAMADY, and THE PERISHABLE PRESS (from the Stony Brook University Archives and Wikipedia websites):

    ******Mary Louise Laird (formerly Mary Laird Hamady), b.1948, is an artist, printer, teacher, author and poet. She earned her MFA from University of Wisconsin at Madison and was married to and a collaborator with Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady. The couple were co-proprietors of The Perishable Press and Shadwell Papermill for many years beginning in the late 1960s. Laird was involved in every stage of the bookmaking process, from soliciting manuscripts to marbling the covers.

    Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, b.1940 d.2019, was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. In the mid 1960s, he founded THE PERISHABLE PRESS LIMITED and the SHADWELL PAPERMILL. In 1966 he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where for over thirty years he taught papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding.

    The Perishable Press's handmade books are in the collections of numerous libraries, museums and art centers in the United States and in other countries. These include, to name a few, the British Museum, Harvard University, Newberry Library, Oxford University, Yale University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Northern Illinois University, Getty Center, Grolier Club (New York), Lenin Library (Moscow), Library of Congress, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Royal Library (Stockholm, Sweden), Stony Brook University, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.******

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  • 1980s L.A. DINNER PARTIES: DAGNY CORCORAN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JOAN DIDION, CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, BARRY DILLER, RICHARD GERE, DIANE VON FURSTENBURG +++++ by Dagny Corcoran, et al. 1980s L.A. DINNER PARTIES: DAGNY CORCORAN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JOAN DIDION, CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, BARRY DILLER, RICHARD GERE, DIANE VON FURSTENBURG +++++
    Dagny Corcoran, et al.

    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…

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    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 GEHRY (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.

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  • 1983 UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY of a TRUMAN CAPOTE STORY by DONNA KANTER while at the American Film Institute Directing Workshop For Women by Donna Kanter, Susan Best, Truman Capote 1983 UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY of a TRUMAN CAPOTE STORY by DONNA KANTER while at the American Film Institute Directing Workshop For Women
    Donna Kanter, Susan Best, Truman Capote

    CHILDREN ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS. An UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY Adapted for the Screen by DONNA KANTER and SUSAN BEST, from the Short Story by TRUMAN CAPOTE. This screenplay was DONNA KANTER'S 1983 DIRECTOR'S PROJECT while in the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN. She was in the class of 1982-1984. The screenplay is a First Draft dated July 23, 1983. Photocopied on plain 8.5x11 inch paper, stapled at the upper corner, 34 pages plus a title page, printed on one side only. GOOD MINUS condition, the first and last pages have creases and soiling, there are numerous staple holes at the upper left corner (though only one staple currently holds the pages together), some pages are dog eared at their…

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    CHILDREN ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS. An UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY Adapted for the Screen by DONNA KANTER and SUSAN BEST, from the Short Story by TRUMAN CAPOTE. This screenplay was DONNA KANTER'S 1983 DIRECTOR'S PROJECT while in the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN. She was in the class of 1982-1984. The screenplay is a First Draft dated July 23, 1983. Photocopied on plain 8.5x11 inch paper, stapled at the upper corner, 34 pages plus a title page, printed on one side only. GOOD MINUS condition, the first and last pages have creases and soiling, there are numerous staple holes at the upper left corner (though only one staple currently holds the pages together), some pages are dog eared at their top or bottom corner, and their are general signs of handling and use; still a complete copy of an interesting screenplay resulting from the AFI's attempts to get more women into film directing. Though this early, student screenplay was never filmed, its creation at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women certainly had an impact on Donna Kanter. She later established a successful Television and Film Production Company, The Donna Kanter Company. About the AFI DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN (from the AFI site): ******Since 1974, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women has trained hundreds of women in the art of screen directing. Below are the alumnae from each cycle since the start of the program... (CLASS OF 1982-1984 includes Donna Kanter)... Distinguished DWW alumnae include Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Neema Barnette, Tricia Brock, Ellen Burstyn, Rebecca Cammisa, Dyan Cannon, Hanelle Culpepper, Jan Eliasberg, Naomi Foner, Jennifer Getzinger, Lyn Goldfarb, Randa Haines, Victoria Hochberg, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Lesli Linka Glatter, Lynne Littman, Matia Karrell, Nancy Malone, Becky Smith, Cicely Tyson and Joanne Woodward.******

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  • ARCHIVE of DR. HILDA BAILEY, FIRST WOMAN PEDIATRICIAN in SALISBURY, NC - 8 Volumes of Physician Records / Patient Visits / Narcotic Preparation Registers by Dr. Hilda Bailey ARCHIVE of DR. HILDA BAILEY, FIRST WOMAN PEDIATRICIAN in SALISBURY, NC - 8 Volumes of Physician Records / Patient Visits / Narcotic Preparation Registers
    Dr. Hilda Bailey

    ARCHIVE of DR. HILDA HART BAILEY, the FIRST WOMAN PEDIATRICIAN in SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA.

    (1) FIVE LARGE VOLUMES RECORDING DAILY PATIENT VISITS for the years 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958. The volumes are titled: THE PHYSICIAN'S DAILY RECORD and are stamped on the front cover with HILDA BAILEY, M.D. Each volume has 365 daily calendar sheets laid out for physicians, with columns for patient names, services rendered, and payment received. Dr. Hilda Bailey listed the full names of all the patients she saw, but only used a simple, usually single letter, code for services rendered. Presumably the patients were mainly children of Salisbury and Rowan County, North Carolina.

    (2) An Appointment Book for the year 1960. Filled with the…

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    ARCHIVE of DR. HILDA HART BAILEY, the FIRST WOMAN PEDIATRICIAN in SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA.

    (1) FIVE LARGE VOLUMES RECORDING DAILY PATIENT VISITS for the years 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958. The volumes are titled: THE PHYSICIAN'S DAILY RECORD and are stamped on the front cover with HILDA BAILEY, M.D. Each volume has 365 daily calendar sheets laid out for physicians, with columns for patient names, services rendered, and payment received. Dr. Hilda Bailey listed the full names of all the patients she saw, but only used a simple, usually single letter, code for services rendered. Presumably the patients were mainly children of Salisbury and Rowan County, North Carolina.

    (2) An Appointment Book for the year 1960. Filled with the full names of patients, with the dates and times of their appointments.

    (3) TWO NORTH CAROLINA POISON & EXEMPT NARCOTIC PREPARATION REGISTERS. One volume is for the year 1957 (and a couple months in late 1956), the other for the years 1961 and 1962. Filled with names/signatures of many people who bought various "exempt" narcotics, along with their address, the preparation purchased, who sold it, and the date sold.

    (4) Hilda Bailey's tax return for 1952. Ten loose pages.

    Condition: The covers of the Narcotic Preparation Registers are soiled and marked, the covers of the five Physician Daily Record volumes have a few marks and scrapes, otherwise all the volumes are in generally solid, GOOD condition, with handwriting that is bright, clear and legible throughout. The tax returns are toned, soiled and worn at the edges.

    A TREASURE TROVE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ROWAN COUNTY, GENEALOGY!

    About DR. HILDA BAILEY (from her Obituary):

    ******Dr. Hilda Hart Bailey, b.1921 d.2018, was the first woman pediatrician in Salisbury, NC. Dr. Bailey owned a private pediatric medical practice in Salisbury for close to 50 years.

    Dr. Bailey attended UNC School of Medicine from 1942-1944. She transferred to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1944, where she received her medical degree in 1946 at the age of 24.

    Dr. Bailey entered the North Carolina university system and its medical school during a time when women students had very limited opportunities in Chapel Hill.

    (Women in the 1940s encountered many barriers when trying to enter medical school. The average quota for women medical students in 1941 was 5 percent nationally. Women gained a foothold in medical schools during the early 1940s because World War II called men to service. The number of hospitals accepting women interns increased by 400% from 105 in 1941 to 463 at the end of 1942. As easily as the barriers were lowered during the war, they were once again raised after the war. In 1945, women physicians were removed from hospital staff to make room for returning male veterans. By the fall of 1946, a full page advertisement appeared in the New York Herald Tribune under the caption: "Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply." Nationally, the period from 1949 to approximately 1960 has been called the "era of hostility" for women in medicine.)

    In 1952, during the height of the polio epidemic, Dr. Bailey opened her private pediatric practice in Salisbury. The only other pediatrician in Salisbury at the time, Dr. William Kavanagh, ended his practice soon after Dr. Bailey opened hers.

    Dr. Bailey's dedication to children endeared her to Rowan County families and nursing staff. A hospitalized child received her tireless attention. She was sometimes seen rocking an unhappy hospitalized child, even if the child was not her patient. Every parent of her "children" has at least one Dr. Bailey story, some of them bordering on heroism.******

    (You can read her full obituary online by searching "Dr. Hilda Bailey obituary".)

    PLEASE NOTE: These EIGHT BOOKS weigh approximately 24 pounds packed for shipping. They will be well packed for safe shipping.

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  • BOOK INSCRIBED BY THE WICKED WITCH OF ENGLISH THEATRE American HELEN HUNTINGTON / HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER Second Wife & Ruination of HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER by Helen Huntington / Helen Granville-Barker BOOK INSCRIBED BY THE WICKED WITCH OF ENGLISH THEATRE American HELEN HUNTINGTON / HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER Second Wife & Ruination of HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER
    Helen Huntington / Helen Granville-Barker

    THE SOVEREIGN GOOD. A Novel by HELEN HUNTINGTON (aka HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER). Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1908. First edition.

    INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the front free-endpaper: "To Mrs. J.T.B. Hillhouse / With the / affectionate regards / of the author."

    Hardcover Book, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles and designs on the front cover and spine, 5x7.5 inches. Pagination: iv, 386 pages, plus 4 pages of Publisher's ads at the rear.

    VERY GOOD condition: a bit of wear to the corner tips and spine ends, a previous owner's name/address at the top of the rear free-endpaper, otherwise a solid, tight, clean copy with cover gilt that is bright and lovely. One of the…

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    THE SOVEREIGN GOOD. A Novel by HELEN HUNTINGTON (aka HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER). Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1908. First edition.

    INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the front free-endpaper: "To Mrs. J.T.B. Hillhouse / With the / affectionate regards / of the author."

    Hardcover Book, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles and designs on the front cover and spine, 5x7.5 inches. Pagination: iv, 386 pages, plus 4 pages of Publisher's ads at the rear.

    VERY GOOD condition: a bit of wear to the corner tips and spine ends, a previous owner's name/address at the top of the rear free-endpaper, otherwise a solid, tight, clean copy with cover gilt that is bright and lovely. One of the nicest copies of this book I have seen, and it's inscribed by the author!

    WHY HELEN HUNTINGTON aka HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER is THE WICKED WITCH OF ENGLISH THEATRE:

    Helen Granville-Barker, b.? d.1950, was a third rate playwright, poet and novelist, mostly remembered for being the second wife and ruination of Harley Granville-Barker who was the great hope of British theatre.

    "No history of British theatre would be complete without the acknowledgement of Harley Granville Barker's importance as playwright, director, producer, actor, essayist and theatre visionary in the first decades of the twentieth century. However, after the First World War he abandoned the professional theatre, and the prime culprit for this abandonment was his American second wife, Helen Huntington. A rich dilettante, third rate poet and second rate novelist, Helen, it is claimed, seduced Barker and turned him into a reclusive, snobbish country gentleman. Her visceral hatred of the theatre and all theatre people forced him to withdraw from lifelong friends and colleagues, thus cutting himself off from his true nature and his true talent. To complete all this horror, she even made her new husband add a hyphen to their name to assuage her own crass aristocratic ambitions. And so, Helen - perhaps unconsciously, but always selfishly - all but single handedly destroyed the great hope of the British theatre." - U.K. Times Literary Supplement.

    "Graville-Barker's second wife insisted on his almost complete severance from his work and friends in the theatre, and above all from Shaw, whom she detested. It was mutual: Shaw thought that Granville-Barker had buried himself alive on her account." - Oxford English Dictionary of National Biography

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  • DIANE DI PRIMA ILLEGAL ABORTION POEM Brass Furnace Going Out AMIRI BARAKA Association by Diane di Prima DIANE DI PRIMA ILLEGAL ABORTION POEM Brass Furnace Going Out AMIRI BARAKA Association
    Diane di Prima

    In this work Beat poet Diane di Prima penned some of the most powerful lines about abortion ever written.

    BRASS FURNACE GOING OUT SONG, AFTER AN ABORTION by DIANE DI PRIMA

    Published by PulpArtForms / Intrepid Press, Syracuse, New York, 1975. First edition, No. 9 from "The Beau Fleuve Series". Edited by Allen De Loach.

    Printed wrappers, side staple bound, 10.75 x 8.25 inches, thin item with 16 unnumbered pages, printed on newsprint, front cover with halftone reproduction of a sculpture by Suzanne Benton, "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and halftone portrait of the author.

    VERY GOOD Condition: age toning as normal (printed on newsprint), otherwise bright, clean, and unmarked, a very good copy of this…

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    In this work Beat poet Diane di Prima penned some of the most powerful lines about abortion ever written.

    BRASS FURNACE GOING OUT SONG, AFTER AN ABORTION by DIANE DI PRIMA

    Published by PulpArtForms / Intrepid Press, Syracuse, New York, 1975. First edition, No. 9 from "The Beau Fleuve Series". Edited by Allen De Loach.

    Printed wrappers, side staple bound, 10.75 x 8.25 inches, thin item with 16 unnumbered pages, printed on newsprint, front cover with halftone reproduction of a sculpture by Suzanne Benton, "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and halftone portrait of the author.

    VERY GOOD Condition: age toning as normal (printed on newsprint), otherwise bright, clean, and unmarked, a very good copy of this fragile work. OCLC locates no copies of this, or any other edition.

    One of her most acclaimed poems, written in 1960 after di Prima was pressured by her partner poet LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) to abort their child. A bewildering, raw and powerful work, from a lonely bus ride to an underground clinic to the life changing grief that came after. Di Prima believed that abortion, fraught, Illegal and dangerous as it was, was "our woman right". Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a rare, prominent female voice in the Beat community alongside her counterparts like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

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  • DORIS LESSING POSTER - SIGNED & INSCRIBED - LECTURE & CONVERSATION EVENT to BENEFIT AFGHAN REFUGEES 1984 by Doris Lessing DORIS LESSING POSTER - SIGNED & INSCRIBED - LECTURE & CONVERSATION EVENT to BENEFIT AFGHAN REFUGEES 1984
    Doris Lessing

    DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

    SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

    The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in VERY GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

    The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

    This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking…

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    DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

    SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

    The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in VERY GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

    The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

    This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how the West was doing little to help.

    An unusual Doris Lessing item.

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  • ELISABETTA GONZAGA & ISABELLA D'ESTE Two INFLUENTIAL ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WOMEN by Alessandro Luzio and Rodolfo Renier ELISABETTA GONZAGA & ISABELLA D'ESTE Two INFLUENTIAL ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WOMEN
    Alessandro Luzio and Rodolfo Renier

    MANTOVA E URBINO (1471-1539): ELISABETTA GONZAGA ED ISABELLA D'ESTE Nelle RELAZIONI FAMIGLIARI e Nelle

    VICENDE POLITICHE, Narrazione Storica Documentada de Alessandro Luzio e Rodolfo Renier. (MANTUA and URBINO 1471-1539: ELISABETTA GONZAGA

    and ISABELLA D'ESTE - FAMILY RELATIONS and POLITICAL AFFAIRS, a Documented History by Alessandro Luzio and Rodolfo Renier.) Originally published in Rome in 1893 in an edition of 300 copies, THIS EDITION published by ARNALDO FORNI EDITORE, ITALY, 1976. Softcover Book in Printed Paper Dustwrapper, 6x8.5 inches, XV +333 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used, still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. This 1976 ITALIAN EDITION published in ITALY is hard to find. About ELISABETTA GONZAGA (from Wikipedia): ******Elisabetta Gonzaga, b. 1471 d. 1526, was a…

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    MANTOVA E URBINO (1471-1539): ELISABETTA GONZAGA ED ISABELLA D'ESTE Nelle RELAZIONI FAMIGLIARI e Nelle

    VICENDE POLITICHE, Narrazione Storica Documentada de Alessandro Luzio e Rodolfo Renier. (MANTUA and URBINO 1471-1539: ELISABETTA GONZAGA

    and ISABELLA D'ESTE - FAMILY RELATIONS and POLITICAL AFFAIRS, a Documented History by Alessandro Luzio and Rodolfo Renier.) Originally published in Rome in 1893 in an edition of 300 copies, THIS EDITION published by ARNALDO FORNI EDITORE, ITALY, 1976. Softcover Book in Printed Paper Dustwrapper, 6x8.5 inches, XV +333 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used, still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. This 1976 ITALIAN EDITION published in ITALY is hard to find. About ELISABETTA GONZAGA (from Wikipedia): ******Elisabetta Gonzaga, b. 1471 d. 1526, was a noblewoman of the Italian Renaissance, renowned for her cultured and virtuous life. A member of the House of Gonzaga, she was a sister of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and by marriage the Duchess of Urbino. Because her husband, Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, was impotent, Elisabetta never had children of her own, but did adopt her husband's nephew and heir, Francesco Maria I della Rovere.****** About ISABELLA D'ESTE (from Wikipedia): ******Isabella d'Este, b. 1474 b. 1539, was Marquess of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the French court. The poet Ariosto labeled her as the "liberal and magnanimous Isabella", while author Matteo Bandello described her as having been "supreme among women". Diplomat Niccolò da Correggio went even further by hailing her as "The First Lady of the world".******

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  • EVANGELICAL TRACT on FORNICATION, SEX IN MARRIAGE, BODY SANCTIFICATION, VIRGINS by LENA REA EVANGELICAL TRACT on FORNICATION, SEX IN MARRIAGE, BODY SANCTIFICATION, VIRGINS
    LENA REA

    SHOULD SONS OF GOD MARRY DAUGHTERS OF MEN?, by LENA REA, a Church of Christ Evangelist.

    Revised edition, distributed by Book World, Jenks, Oklahoma, 1966.

    Softcovers, booklet, side stapled, 5.5x8 inches, 80 pages.

    Chapters include: Types of Fornication; Law of Body Sanctification; Concerning Virgins, Adulterous and Fornicatious Marriages, and more!

    Basically a holier than thou tract on how to avoid birthing little devils (i.e. what fornication and sex outside of marriage or in a post divorce marriage create) and how to birth a bunch of little holy spirits (what sanctified, married only once, virginal sex create).

    GOOD condition, the covers have some edge wear and rubs, the rear cover has a small stain at its bottom spine corner; the…

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    SHOULD SONS OF GOD MARRY DAUGHTERS OF MEN?, by LENA REA, a Church of Christ Evangelist.

    Revised edition, distributed by Book World, Jenks, Oklahoma, 1966.

    Softcovers, booklet, side stapled, 5.5x8 inches, 80 pages.

    Chapters include: Types of Fornication; Law of Body Sanctification; Concerning Virgins, Adulterous and Fornicatious Marriages, and more!

    Basically a holier than thou tract on how to avoid birthing little devils (i.e. what fornication and sex outside of marriage or in a post divorce marriage create) and how to birth a bunch of little holy spirits (what sanctified, married only once, virginal sex create).

    GOOD condition, the covers have some edge wear and rubs, the rear cover has a small stain at its bottom spine corner; the title page has the ink stamp of "Book World / Jenks, OK" and a small price sticker with the price blacked out; overall a solid, complete copy with pages that are tight, bright, clean and unmarked (kind of like what this booklet says women should be).

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  • GROUP of SIGNED, INSCRIBED and ANNOTATED BOOKS by THREE IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND WOMEN HISTORIANS & AUTHORS LIVING TOGETHER in a "BOSTON MARRIAGE" -DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS - FRARY HOUSE by C. ALICE BAKER, EMMA L. COLEMAN, and SUSAN M. LANE GROUP of SIGNED, INSCRIBED and ANNOTATED BOOKS by THREE IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND WOMEN HISTORIANS & AUTHORS LIVING TOGETHER in a "BOSTON MARRIAGE" -DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS - FRARY HOUSE
    C. ALICE BAKER, EMMA L. COLEMAN, and SUSAN M. LANE

    * MRS. PUTNAM'S RECEIPT BOOK AND YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER'S ASSISTANT, by E. Putnam. Published by Phillips, Sampson, Boston, 1858. COOKBOOK with IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATIONS - Owned by C. ALICE BAKER and her mother C. C. BAKER [Catharine Catlin Baker], with the SIGNATURE of C.C. Baker and a handwritten presentation from her daughter on the Preface page: "from Alice / Feb. 1859". MANY PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN RECIPES ARE LAID-IN THROUGHOUT and TWENTY-TWO PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN RECIPES are on the blank pages at the rear, all (or most) in the hand of C. ALICE BAKER. Hardcover book, 5x7.5 inches, 223 numbered pages. Condition: The covers are stained and soiled but still doing their job. Internally, there is some foxing, toning, and soiling…

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    * MRS. PUTNAM'S RECEIPT BOOK AND YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER'S ASSISTANT, by E. Putnam. Published by Phillips, Sampson, Boston, 1858. COOKBOOK with IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATIONS - Owned by C. ALICE BAKER and her mother C. C. BAKER [Catharine Catlin Baker], with the SIGNATURE of C.C. Baker and a handwritten presentation from her daughter on the Preface page: "from Alice / Feb. 1859". MANY PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN RECIPES ARE LAID-IN THROUGHOUT and TWENTY-TWO PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN RECIPES are on the blank pages at the rear, all (or most) in the hand of C. ALICE BAKER. Hardcover book, 5x7.5 inches, 223 numbered pages. Condition: The covers are stained and soiled but still doing their job. Internally, there is some foxing, toning, and soiling throughout, otherwise the pages are bright and clear; the handwritten pages are mostly bright and legible but a few have faded away.

    * A SUMMER IN THE AZORES, by C. ALICE BAKER. Presentation copy inscribed by C. Alice Baker: "Mr. and Mrs. Charles (?) / from their friends: / C. ALICE BAKER / SUSAN M. LANE / EMMA L. COLEMAN". In addition the printed dedication page reads: "To S. M. L, my lifelong friend and companion / and E. L. C., to whose affection I owe my Summer In The Azores. / Cambridge, 1882." Published by Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1882. First edition. Hardcover book, 4.5x6 inches, 174 pages. Condition: the rear cover is covered with white spill stains (not affecting inner pages), otherwise the covers are solid and doing their job; internally there is foxing on the first and last few pages, otherwise the pages are tight, bright and clear. A solid, nice copy but for the unfortunate spill on the rear cover. Wonderful association of C. Alice Baker, Summer M. Lane and Emma L. Coleman.

    * TRUE STORIES OF NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVES - CARRIED to CANADA DURING the OLD FRENCH and INDIAN WARS, by C. ALICE BAKER. First Edition. Printed by E.A. Hall, Cambridge, 1897. SIGNED by C. Alice Baker's Uncle, GEORGE SHELDON, and by her Aunt, JENNIE ARMS SHELDON, on the front endpapers. Hardcovers, 7x9 inches, 407 pages. Condition: the covers are worn, scraped and rubbed; internally, there are some annotations in the margins and rear endpapers, the text block is cracked at places but holding well, overall the inner pages are nice, tight, bright and clear.

    * NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVES CARRIED TO CANADA Between 1677 and 1760. By EMMA LEWIS COLEMAN. Two Volume Set. Volume One has a portrait of C. ALICE BAKER and the printed dedication: "In Memory of C. ALICE BAKER". Self-published in Portland, Maine, and printed by the Southowrth Press, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Hardcovers, gilt designs on covers and spine, 6.5x9.5 inches, 438 and 452 pages. Condition: Both volumes are faded at the spine, have a bit of wear at the spine ends, and the covers have a few light stains; internally the binding is split here and there but holding well, otherwise bright, clean and clear. Signature of a previous owner "Louise A. Rawson / July 1926" on a blank prelim along with the bookplate of "Louise Cherry Brooks". LOUISE CHERRY BROOKS was an avid book collector and LIFELONG FRIEND OF ZELDA FITZGERALD.

    * DEERFIELD EPITAPHS in the OLD BURYING-GROUND at DEERFIELD, MASS. Copied by C. ALICE BAKER and EMMA L. COLEMAN. Published by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1924. First Edition. A relevant previous owner's inscription is on the front free endpaper: "Iola M. Marin / August 9, 1926 / Deerfield / Bought at FRARY HOUSE - oldest house in Deerfield..." VERY GOOD condition, some wear to the cover's spine ends and corner tips, pages have light signs of use, overall a solid, bright, clean copy. Laid-in is an unused circa 1910 Real Photo Postcard "RPPC" of the FRARY HOUSE. The photographer is unstated but likely Emma L. Coleman.

    This heavy lot will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the charges and be able to accept or reject them before payment is taken. Thanks!

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  • HEROIC EROTICS: ANATOMY of MISOGYNY in OVID'S ARS AMATORIA Original PhD Thesis by Laurie J. Churchill HEROIC EROTICS: ANATOMY of MISOGYNY in OVID'S ARS AMATORIA Original PhD Thesis
    Laurie J. Churchill

    HEROIC EROTICS: THE ANATOMY OF MISOGYNY IN THE ARS AMATORIA, by Laurie J. Churchill. An Original PhD Thesis.

    Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in LITERATURE.

    Self published, Laurie J. Churchill, June 1985.

    Printed paper covers, copy shop type printing, 8.5x11 inches, 163 pages, pages printed on one side only.

    VERY GOOD condition, the covers are lightly toned, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

    After graduating with a PhD. Laurie J. Churchill went on to become lead editor of the major scholarly work: "Women Writing in Latin: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity; Women Writing Latin…

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    HEROIC EROTICS: THE ANATOMY OF MISOGYNY IN THE ARS AMATORIA, by Laurie J. Churchill. An Original PhD Thesis.

    Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in LITERATURE.

    Self published, Laurie J. Churchill, June 1985.

    Printed paper covers, copy shop type printing, 8.5x11 inches, 163 pages, pages printed on one side only.

    VERY GOOD condition, the covers are lightly toned, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

    After graduating with a PhD. Laurie J. Churchill went on to become lead editor of the major scholarly work: "Women Writing in Latin: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity; Women Writing Latin in Late Antiquity; and Women Writing Latin in the Early Christian Era" (Routledge, 2002). She has also written numerous articles on classical literature and feminist pedagogy.

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  • LOS QUE VIVEN EN LA ARENA (Those Who Live In The Sand) - PHOTOGRAPHS by GRACIELA ITURBE First Edition MEXICO CITY 1/2000 by Graciela Iturbe and Luis Barjau LOS QUE VIVEN EN LA ARENA (Those Who Live In The Sand) - PHOTOGRAPHS by GRACIELA ITURBE First Edition MEXICO CITY 1/2000
    Graciela Iturbe and Luis Barjau

    LOS QUE VIVEN EN LA ARENA [Those Who Live In The Sand]. PHOTOGRAPHS by GRACIELA ITURBE with TEXT by LUIS BARJAU. This is the second book of photographs by Graciela Iturbe, following "Avándaro" in 1971. Text in Spanish.

    MEXICO: Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI-FONAPAS), 1981. First and Limited Edition, one of 2000 copies, as stated on the Colophon page (the last page). ISBN: 9688220159.

    Softcovers, 8x10.5 inches (20x27 cm), 74 pages. Illustrated throughout with Iturbe's b&w photographs.

    VERY GOOD condition: The covers have shelf rubs, light edge toning and signs of handling, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice copy.

    SCARCE - This early and important work by Graciela Iturbide has become very difficult to find.

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    LOS QUE VIVEN EN LA ARENA [Those Who Live In The Sand]. PHOTOGRAPHS by GRACIELA ITURBE with TEXT by LUIS BARJAU. This is the second book of photographs by Graciela Iturbe, following "Avándaro" in 1971. Text in Spanish.

    MEXICO: Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI-FONAPAS), 1981. First and Limited Edition, one of 2000 copies, as stated on the Colophon page (the last page). ISBN: 9688220159.

    Softcovers, 8x10.5 inches (20x27 cm), 74 pages. Illustrated throughout with Iturbe's b&w photographs.

    VERY GOOD condition: The covers have shelf rubs, light edge toning and signs of handling, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice copy.

    SCARCE - This early and important work by Graciela Iturbide has become very difficult to find.

    About GRACIELA ITURBIDE (extracts from Wikipedia and Other Internet Sites):

    ******Graciela Iturbide, b.1942, is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of many major museums, including MOMA, LACMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

    In 1978, Iturbide was commissioned by the Ethnographic Archive of the National Indigenous Institute of Mexico to work on a series about Mexico's Seri Indians who lived in the Sonoran desert along the Arizona/Mexico border. She was in Punta Chueca for a month and a half working on the series. There were about 500 people within the community. It was while working for this series that her photograph called "Mujer Ángel" was taken. The image depicts a Seri woman walking towards a cave carrying a boombox, looking as if she could fly off into the desert sky.******

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  • LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Lover's Saint Ruth's SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY with AUTHOR'S SELF-DEPRECATING INSCRIPTION 1895 by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Lover's Saint Ruth's SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY with AUTHOR'S SELF-DEPRECATING INSCRIPTION 1895
    LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

    LOVERS' SAINT RUTH'S and Three Other Tales, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.

    BOSTON: Copland & Day, 1895. First edition.

    SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front pastedown by the author to "SKIFF" (likely Frederick W. Skiff, noted book collector). Inscribed as follows:

    "Mr. SKIFF : Dear Sir : / The author disclaims, condemns and excommunicates this good-for-nothing output. Not one story of the four holds water, as a story; and each is full of silly aberrations and improbabilities! Ne Autor ultra crepidam. / L. I. G. (signed with initials) / A.D. 1904".

    If anyone out there thinks the author was proud of this book her inscription should clear that up!

    Hardcovers, decorated cloth covered boards, 5x7.5 inches, 123 pages.

    GOOD Condition:…

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    LOVERS' SAINT RUTH'S and Three Other Tales, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.

    BOSTON: Copland & Day, 1895. First edition.

    SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front pastedown by the author to "SKIFF" (likely Frederick W. Skiff, noted book collector). Inscribed as follows:

    "Mr. SKIFF : Dear Sir : / The author disclaims, condemns and excommunicates this good-for-nothing output. Not one story of the four holds water, as a story; and each is full of silly aberrations and improbabilities! Ne Autor ultra crepidam. / L. I. G. (signed with initials) / A.D. 1904".

    If anyone out there thinks the author was proud of this book her inscription should clear that up!

    Hardcovers, decorated cloth covered boards, 5x7.5 inches, 123 pages.

    GOOD Condition: The covers' spine is sunned and the spine titles have faded, the front and rear boards are sunned and a bit soiled, and the corner tips are worn, nonetheless the covers are solid, their decorated boards attractive, and they are doing their job well, Internally nice, many of the pages remain uncut, the text block is cracked at a number of places but is holding well with the sewn binding. A solid, presentable copy.

    SCARCE with the unusual, self-deprecating inscription to the noted book collector Skiff.

    About LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (from Wikipedia):

    ******Louise Imogen Guiney, b.1861 d.1920, was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She worked at various jobs, including serving as a postmistress and working in the field of cataloging at the Boston Public Library. She was a member of several literary and social clubs, and according to her friend Ralph Adams Cram was "the most vital and creative personal influence" on their circle of writers and artists in Boston. While in Boston she was believed to be in a "Boston Marriage" (the cohabitation of women, sexual or not) with the author Alice Brown, b.1857 d.1948.

    In 1901, Guiney moved to Oxford, England, to focus on her poetry and essay writing. Soon after she began to suffer from illness and in 1920 died of a stroke near Gloucestershire, England, age 59. Much of her work was left unfinished. After Guiney died the noted historian and novelist Eva Tenison became enchanted with her works and in 1921 published "Louise Imogen Guiney; an Appreciation", and in 1923 published "Louise Imogen Guiney: Her Life and Works 1861-1920" and "A Bibliography of Louise Imogen Guiney 1861-1920". Tenison also published "The Recusant Poets: An Unpublished Work of Louise Imogen Guiney and Fr. Geoffrey Bliss, S.J."******

    About FREDERICK WOODWARD SKIFF:

    ******Frederick Woodward Skiff, b.1867 d.1947, was an author, noted collector, bibliophile, expert on Americana and American Literature, and founder of the Acorn Club. Over the course of his life, Skiff amassed one of the most important private libraries in the United States, with particular emphasis on literature and history. After his death in 1947, the library's contents were sold at auction by Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonham's) in San Francisco. Many of the books made their ways into other important collections. Countess Doheny purchased 800 books from Skiff's library, becoming part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature, which was in turn auctioned off by Christie's New York in 2001.******

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  • MARGARET FISH McMANUS & GENEALOGY / ANCESTRY of the FISH FAMILY of BERKELEY, California by Thomas McManus, Margaret Fish MARGARET FISH McMANUS & GENEALOGY / ANCESTRY of the FISH FAMILY of BERKELEY, California
    Thomas McManus, Margaret Fish

    I'M A FISH, A MUSICIAN, A WIFE, AND A MOM. An illustrated biography of Margaret Fish and her relations, put together and self published by her husband, Thomas K. McManus, after her death in 1994. Self published softcover booklet, undated but circa 1995. The front page is a printed reproduction of a painting of Margaret Fish, it is covered with a clear vinyl cover. The rear cover is black vinyl, the spine is covered with black cloth tape covered spine. There are 68 pages, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of vintage b&w photographs of Margaret Fish and Her Relations. Contains a lot of genealogical information regarding Margaret Fish and her relations. VERY GOOD condition. There is a name/address sticker…

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    I'M A FISH, A MUSICIAN, A WIFE, AND A MOM. An illustrated biography of Margaret Fish and her relations, put together and self published by her husband, Thomas K. McManus, after her death in 1994. Self published softcover booklet, undated but circa 1995. The front page is a printed reproduction of a painting of Margaret Fish, it is covered with a clear vinyl cover. The rear cover is black vinyl, the spine is covered with black cloth tape covered spine. There are 68 pages, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of vintage b&w photographs of Margaret Fish and Her Relations. Contains a lot of genealogical information regarding Margaret Fish and her relations. VERY GOOD condition. There is a name/address sticker of Thomas McManus, the author and Margaret Fish's husband, on the front vinyl cover, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

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  • MARIANNE MOORE - UNFINISHED POEMS - ROSENBACH FOUNDATION 1972 by Marianne Moore MARIANNE MOORE - UNFINISHED POEMS - ROSENBACH FOUNDATION 1972
    Marianne Moore

    UNFINISHED POEMS by MARIANNE MOORE. The Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1972.

    Photocopied pages, plastic spiral bound, 8.5x11 inches, 76 pages printed on one side only. VERY GOOD condition, the front and rear clear plastic covers are age toned and a bit soiled, the inner pages are lightly toned, the photocopied pages have many of the usual early copy machine lines, spots and changes in clarity. Overall a wonderful look at Marianne Moore's unpublished and often incomplete poems.

    SCARCE. In 1972, the year Marianne Moore died, the Rosenbach Foundation realized it was necessary to get copyrights for Moore's unpublished poems, none of which were copyrighted at the time. The result, apparently, was this photocopied publication that was put together by the…

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    UNFINISHED POEMS by MARIANNE MOORE. The Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1972.

    Photocopied pages, plastic spiral bound, 8.5x11 inches, 76 pages printed on one side only. VERY GOOD condition, the front and rear clear plastic covers are age toned and a bit soiled, the inner pages are lightly toned, the photocopied pages have many of the usual early copy machine lines, spots and changes in clarity. Overall a wonderful look at Marianne Moore's unpublished and often incomplete poems.

    SCARCE. In 1972, the year Marianne Moore died, the Rosenbach Foundation realized it was necessary to get copyrights for Moore's unpublished poems, none of which were copyrighted at the time. The result, apparently, was this photocopied publication that was put together by the Rosenbach Foundation for the sole purpose of being sent to the Library of Congress for copyright protection.

    In 1972 Patricia C. Willis was curator of the Marianne Moore papers at the Rosenbach Foundation. Here is what she wrote in 2015 about this 1972 photocopied collection of "Unpublished Poems" that she assembled for copyright protection (taken from the Internet):

    "When as curator of the Moore papers at the Rosenbach I first sorted the poetry manuscripts...I saw that each was typed with Moore's typewriter of the time on the blue stationary that she customarily used for poems she sent to little magazines and most bore her Carlisle return address in the upper left corner. With the permission of her estate, I prepared a photocopy edition of "Unfinished Poems" in order to secure copyrights for her unpublished poems... - Patricia C. Willis, November 16, 2015."

    I have no idea how many of these "Unpublished Poems by Marianne Moore" were put together for internal distribution at the Rosenbach, but it is the only copy I have or have ever seen.

    ************************************** From Wikipedia and various Internet sources:

    Marianne Craig Moore, b.1887 d.1972, was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

    The Rosenbach Foundation's literary collection includes virtually all of the manuscripts and papers of Marianne Moore (1887-1972), as well as her personal library, thousands of photographs, and the contents of her Greenwich village living room, thus making the Rosenbach the undisputed center for the study of Marianne Moore.

    Patricia C. Willis is the author and editor of a number of books on Marianne Moore. She worked at the Rosenbach Foundation and later at Yale's Beinecke Library as its Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator of the Collection of American Literature.

    Clive E. Driver, whose name is on the copyright page, was the Literary Executor of the Estate of Marianne C. Moore. He worked at the Rosenbach Foundation and has written a number of works published by the Foundation. **************************************

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  • MARY E. RICHMOND - CHILD MARRIAGES **SIGNED INSCRIBED & DATED** Important and Influential SOCIAL WORK PIONEER and Fighter for Women's & Children's Rights 1925 by Mary E. Richmond / Mary Ellen Richmond MARY E. RICHMOND - CHILD MARRIAGES **SIGNED INSCRIBED & DATED** Important and Influential SOCIAL WORK PIONEER and Fighter for Women's & Children's Rights 1925
    Mary E. Richmond / Mary Ellen Richmond

    CHILD MARRIAGES, by MARY E. RICHMOND.

    SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED on the front free endpaper by Mary E. Richmond: "Louise (?) / 1925 / From Mary E. Richmond".

    Published by Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1925. First edition, with the date 1925 on both the title page and copyright page, with no indication of later printings.

    Hardcover book, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on the front cover and spine, and a blind embossed emblem of the Russell Sage Foundation on both the front and rear covers, 5.5x8 inches, 159 pages including an Index at the rear.

    VERY GOOD condition, a touch of wear to the cover's corner tips, spine ends and edges; internally, the pages are lightly toned,…

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    CHILD MARRIAGES, by MARY E. RICHMOND.

    SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED on the front free endpaper by Mary E. Richmond: "Louise (?) / 1925 / From Mary E. Richmond".

    Published by Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1925. First edition, with the date 1925 on both the title page and copyright page, with no indication of later printings.

    Hardcover book, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on the front cover and spine, and a blind embossed emblem of the Russell Sage Foundation on both the front and rear covers, 5.5x8 inches, 159 pages including an Index at the rear.

    VERY GOOD condition, a touch of wear to the cover's corner tips, spine ends and edges; internally, the pages are lightly toned, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

    SIGNED BOOKS by MARY E. RICHMOND are nearly impossible to find.

    About MARY ELLEN RICHMOND (from Wikipedia):

    ******Mary Ellen Richmond, b.1861 d.1928, was an American social work pioneer. She is regarded as the mother of professional social work along with Jane Addams. She founded social case work, the first method of social work and was herself a Caseworker.

    Richmond was raised by her widowed maternal grandmother, Mehitable Harris, and two aunts. Her grandmother was an active women's suffragist who was well known for being a spiritualist and a radical. She grew up being constantly surrounded by discussions of suffrage, political and social beliefs, and spiritualism.

    In 1900, she became general secretary of the Philadelphia Society of Organizing Charity. While there she advocated for legislation for compulsory education, against child labor, and for requiring support for spousal desertion. In addition, Mary believed the government should create a children's bureau and a juvenile court system. These were all radical ideas in her time.

    In 1909 she helped establish networks of social workers and a method by which they did their work. This all started when she became the director of the Charity Organizational Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. While director, Mary E. Richmond worked to improve record keeping, improved training for caseworkers, and helped implement new social works programs. She believed a firm cooperation between social workers, educators and the health care system was crucial to successfully helping those in need. Her career took off from charity organization leadership in Baltimore and Philadelphia to an executive position with the prestigious Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.

    Some of the more notable contributions of Mary Richmond were her fight for legislation to help deserted wives, the founding of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee, her work to establish a juvenile court, and the creation of a Housing Association.

    A large part of her work was dedicated to research in the field of social work. She created methodologies on how to establish contact and conduct information gathering conversations. She is considered to be the first to have established social work as a profession.******

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  • MARY MOULTON CHENEY (Chemith Press) - ILLUMINATED & SIGNED - CHAPTER THIRTEEN of the FIRST EPISTLE to the CORINTHIANS WRITTEN by PAUL the APOSTLE by MARY MOULTON CHENEY MARY MOULTON CHENEY (Chemith Press) - ILLUMINATED & SIGNED - CHAPTER THIRTEEN of the FIRST EPISTLE to the CORINTHIANS WRITTEN by PAUL the APOSTLE
    MARY MOULTON CHENEY

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN of the FIRST EPISTLE to the CORINTHIANS WRITTEN by PAUL the APOSTLE.

    FINE PRINTING, DESIGNED, ILLUMINATED and PUBLISHED by MARY MOULTON CHENEY, [Chemith Press], Minneapolis, MCMIII (1903).

    HAND SIGNED by MARY MOULTON CHENEY on the limitation page. One of only 500 copies: "This Book is number 137 of 500 copies which have been made".

    Hardcovers, cloth covered boards with a color illustration by Mary Moulton Cheney on both the front and rear cover, 5.25x9.5 inches, 14 pages (7 leaves) printed on heavy stock watermarked paper (Strathmore). Each page is beautifully HAND ILLUMINATED with GOLD, GREEN, RED and BLACK. The colors are brilliant and the gold glitters.

    From the Colophon page (the last page): "This book was printed by…

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    CHAPTER THIRTEEN of the FIRST EPISTLE to the CORINTHIANS WRITTEN by PAUL the APOSTLE.

    FINE PRINTING, DESIGNED, ILLUMINATED and PUBLISHED by MARY MOULTON CHENEY, [Chemith Press], Minneapolis, MCMIII (1903).

    HAND SIGNED by MARY MOULTON CHENEY on the limitation page. One of only 500 copies: "This Book is number 137 of 500 copies which have been made".

    Hardcovers, cloth covered boards with a color illustration by Mary Moulton Cheney on both the front and rear cover, 5.25x9.5 inches, 14 pages (7 leaves) printed on heavy stock watermarked paper (Strathmore). Each page is beautifully HAND ILLUMINATED with GOLD, GREEN, RED and BLACK. The colors are brilliant and the gold glitters.

    From the Colophon page (the last page): "This book was printed by Hahn and Harmon, bound by A. J. Dahl & Co., published by Mary Moulton Cheney at Minneapolis, Minnesota". The illuminations and designs are by Cheney, her printed initials "M. M. Cheney" are on the covers and the Colophon page.

    VERY GOOD Condition: The covers are toned, lightly soiled, have a few spots, and have slight wear at the corner tips and spine ends, but are solid and attractive; the inner pages are lightly toned, are cracked at the hinge at one or two places but holding well, the illuminated pages are BRILLIANT!

    A gem with gorgeous illumination by Mary Moulton Cheney.

    About MARY MOULTON CHENEY and her CHEMITH PRESS(from Wikipedia):

    ******Mary Moulton Cheney, b.1871 d.1957, was a Minneapolis based artist, designer, publisher and bookbinder associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. In 1897 she opened a printmaking shop with Mary Marsh Smith named The Artcraft Shop: Sign of the Bay Tree. It was one of the first all woman private presses in the United States, making books, pamphlets, and bookplates. In 1902 she expanded into bookbinding and founded The Chemith Press which produced uniquely designed and finely printed books and pamphlets.

    Cheney was also an influential figure in the development of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 1897 she organized the college's first course on design. She went on to become the principal of the college's design department, then the Dean of Women, and finally served as the college's president from 1917 to 1925.******

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  • Original FBI WANTED POSTER Murderous SLA Cult Member KATHLEEN ANN SOLIAH Symbionese Liberation Army 1978 by Federal Bureau of Investigation Original FBI WANTED POSTER Murderous SLA Cult Member KATHLEEN ANN SOLIAH Symbionese Liberation Army 1978
    Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Celebrity Criminal and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah built bombs, helped kidnap Patti Hearst and spent decades on the run posing as upper class housewife Sara Jane Olson.

    WANTED BY THE FBI: KATHLEEN ANN SOLIAH

    Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1978. Broadside, printed on cream card stock, 8" x 8", horizontal fold for mailing, with list of FBI offices on the verso, illustrated in b&w with two portraits of Soliah, her ten finger prints, and signature. VERY GOOD CONDITION: two pea-size hole punches in the upper margin as issued for placement in a law enforcement binder, lightly affecting text, light signs of age and wear, overall solid, bright and clean. An…

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    Celebrity Criminal and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah built bombs, helped kidnap Patti Hearst and spent decades on the run posing as upper class housewife Sara Jane Olson.

    WANTED BY THE FBI: KATHLEEN ANN SOLIAH

    Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1978. Broadside, printed on cream card stock, 8" x 8", horizontal fold for mailing, with list of FBI offices on the verso, illustrated in b&w with two portraits of Soliah, her ten finger prints, and signature. VERY GOOD CONDITION: two pea-size hole punches in the upper margin as issued for placement in a law enforcement binder, lightly affecting text, light signs of age and wear, overall solid, bright and clean. An excellent example.

    The Symbionese Liberation Army was a radical cult advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. In 1973 they murdered Oakland Superintendent of Schools Marcus Foster, in 1974 they kidnapped publishing heiress Patty Hearst who apparently got Stockholm syndrome and indelibly became the semi automatic brandishing Tania during an SLA fundraiser at a bank, and a few months later they got into a huge shootout with the Los Angeles Cops. The surviving members were the subject of the largest FBI manhunt since Dillinger.

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