Original 1884 or 1885 Cabinet Card Photograph featuring an unnamed African American nurse or nanny dressed in a natural form bustle dress pinstripe uniform with matching pinafore apron and headscarf holding a white baby in a long gown and lace top. The back of the card does not identify the Black domestic employee but a penned notation states D.B.M. 3.5 months. The child's name is Dorothy B. Mann. Original Cabinet Card Photograph in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Albumen Print, 6.5" x 4.25" inches, the Photographer is Hugh J. Brady. Printed on the verso: "HJ BRADY Leading Photographer. COR[ner] MAIN and PARK STS. Orange N.J. Additional Copies Can Always Be Obtained And Instantaneous Portraits Of Children A Specialty"

In 1880, 35% of married Black women and 73% of single Black women were in the labor force compared with only 7% of married white women and 24% of single white women, most Black women were in low wage domestic service (Economic Policy Institute, 2019). The legacy of Black women's employment in industries that lack worker protections continues today. The culling of the federal workforce reinforces this historic discrimination.

Hugh J. Brady (American, b. circa 1859) Professional Photographer whose studio and business were in Orange, New Jersey from about 1884 to 1910. His cabinet cards from 1884-1885 were printed with variations of Main Street, Corner of Park Avenue, Orange, NJ. In 1886 his business burned down "The photographic gallery of Hugh J. Brady, Main and Park streets, Orange, N. J., was destroyed by fire lately." (Anthony's Photographic Bulletin of 1886.) After rebuilding, his cabinet cards were printed with the street address 393 Main Street, Orange, NJ, from 1887 to 1910.

TRANSFER 21 - THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE [now San Francisco State University], Spring 1966, Number 21.

Includes student ANNE RICE'S SECOND PUBLISHED STORY (the first with Counts, Bats, and mysterious, drippy, dark surroundings). Also contains poems by STAN RICE, Anne Rice's husband. And to top it off, there is an insert with a poem by the author THOMAS SANCHEZ.

The story by SFSU student ANNE O'BRIEN RICE is titled "NICHOLAS AND JEAN". It is subtitled "Chapter One of a Nouvella" (sic). This is Anne Rice's second published work, the first having been published in Transfer #19. "Nicholas and Jean" is, however, Anne Rice's first work with the eerie sensibilities of "Interview with the Vampire", and her other Vampire novels. "Interview with a Vampire" was published in 1976, ten years after the publication of this story / chapter one of a novella.

Anne Rice's "Nicholas and Jean" is 7 pages long (pages 3-9). Stan Rice has 3 poems in the issue, and Thomas Sanchez has two poems, one which is on an insert.

Printed paper covers, side stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, 48 pages.

GOOD condition: The wrappers have pulled from the staples at the front fold but are holding on at the back fold, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy.

Rare look at Anne Rice's early drift towards Vampires and Vampirism.

ANNE ROYALL - FIRST PROFESSIONAL FEMALE JOURNALIST in AMERICA -

"SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS in the UNITED STATES" - First Edition of Her First Book, 1826

SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS, IN THE UNITED STATES - BY A TRAVELER [ANNE ROYALL].

NEW HAVEN: Self-Published, 1826. First edition Anne Royall's first book. Because she was a woman, and because she was an unknown writer, Anne Royall wrote the book under the pseudonym "A Traveller". She self-published the book. It was widely read. She wrote all her later books under her name.

Hardcovers, 3/4 leather (spine and corners) and marbled paper covered boards, gilt edging to the leather, gilt designs and lettering to the spine, gilt top page edges, marbled endpapers, 4.5x7.5 inches, 392 pages. Lacking frontispiece (copy of frontispiece laid in), textually complete.

GOOD condition: The covers have some scraping to the edges, corner tips and spine folds, but remain solid and quite lovely; the page edges (page edges of the closed book) have some light foxing and soiling; internally, lacking the frontispiece (as noted above), the pages are bound too tightly in some sections, the pages have light toning and soiling especially to the margins and corners, and there is a spot here and there, overall the pages are well-bound, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

Important and rare self-published first edition copy of Anne Royall's first book. Many consider Royall to be the First Professional Female Journalist in the United States.

Please read all about Anne Royall on her Wikipedia page. Well worth reading!

BEAT AND BEATIFIC

Published by the Three Penny Press, Studio City, CA 1959, Grover Haynes (editor), Rosie Haynes (hand-lettering), first edition, "Superbly decorated bi John Fox II." Uncommon production from the Three Penny Press featuring early poetry by Lenore Kandel and Walter C. Brown. Another 1959 Three Penny Press production "Beat and Beatific II" is the second volume of this collaboration. From Grover Haynes epilogue "The THREE PENNY PRESS, inspired by the abundance of poetry on the lips of local barefoot bards, was conceived from the inky womb of a battered mimeograph machine to become the Boswell of our own "don't give a damn" poets." ... Our booklets of poetry are experiments." Softcover. First edition. Illustrated wraps, 8.5" x 5.5", 2pp, 20 leaves, 2pp, mimeographed sheets, side staple bound, text printed on recto of 20 leaves, except for first and final leaf, which contain text on recto and verso. The work of Lenore Kandel printed on blue, yellow and pink paper and is illustrated with a full page b&w drawing of her. GOOD Condition: age, wear and coffee rings to the covers, former owners name penned to inside front cover, internally some edge wear and a few light stains, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Lenore Kandel (1932-2009) Beat Poet, Digger, Visionary, quintessential San Francisco Hippie, Beatnik, Counterculture activist, girlfriend of Lew Welch and Jack Kerouac's lover whom he immortalized in his 1962 novel Big Sur. She bridged the gap between early Beat poetics and the psychedelic counterculture, famous for her "The Love Book," a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as obscene in 1966. In 1970 Kandel was in a horrific motorcycle accident from which she never fully recovered.

Walter C. Brown (b.1935), Poet, Naval Officer and San Francisco Giants sports commentator.

Kappa Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Presents "FASHIONETTA" 1986, 1988, and 1990 DEBUTANT BALL PROGRAMS

THREE SOUVENIR PROGRAMS, published by Kappa Beta Omega, Vallejo, California, 1986, 1988, 1990. First editions. Illustrated softcovers, 11" x 8.5", pink tinted paper, 208, 142, 151 pages respectively, featuring the b& w portraits of the Debutantes, their escorts, short biographies of each of the Debutantes that showcase their service to the community and educational activities, also Advertisements, many illustrated, from family, friends, community members, and local businesses in support of this group of young Black women. The Ball culminates in the crowning of "Miss Fashionetta." Also included are some invitations, programs and tickets. The 1986 and 1988 programs are in VERY GOOD CONDITION: just some light wear from age and use, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked, as are the invitations, program and ticket. The 1990 Program is in GOOD CONDITION: with nail polish stains, corner creases and chips on the covers, internally some light wear from handling and some corner-tip creases, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An uncommon group of vintage programs documenting the young Black Sorority Women of the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region.

Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first Greek sorority founded by African American women. Established on January 15, 1908 at Howard University by nine Black students wishing to create an organization for college educated women that would support their academic and personal goals. The Vallejo California's Kappa Beta Omega Chapter in the Bay Area's Solano County is known for their community service and sponsorship of Fashionetta, an annual event during which African American high school girls in their senior year compete for college scholarships by engaging in various academic and civic activities. The Ball is a fundraiser for the Kappa Beta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Debutante program is open to a select group of young Black ladies who are high school seniors or local college freshmen.

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

A unique, comprehensive and beautifully drawn anatomical study book by Louise Fairbanks Williams, a student at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, California circa 1950. She received an A+.

An impressive handmade work filled with pencil drawings throughout. Bound in a blue cloth covered top loading three ring binder embossed with the logo of the California School of Arts and Crafts, Oakland on the front cover, 12" x 9", 200 leaves, typescript in red and black ink (mostly printed on one-side), superbly illustrated throughout, with approximately 150 full page original anatomical drawings rendered in pencil and color pencil, many with tissue guards laid-on, and smaller in-text illustrations. Bibliography at the rear. This does not appear to be a copybook but her own interpretation of an anatomical treatise. Original Art Book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION: the title page and blank front endpapers pulled from the binder and laid-on, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A wonderful example.

* 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!

SELECTED POEMS, by DIANE di PRIMA..

VERMONT: North Atlantic Books, 1977. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the title page:

"For Jo / In friendship / HAPPY BIRTHDAY! / Diane di Prima / Aug 3 1999".

Softcover book, 6x9 inches, 386 pages.

GOOD MINUS condition, the covers are sunned, foxed, the spine has a crease, and there is some corner tip wear; the page edges are foxed; internally, the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear.

A special copy with di Prima's Happy Birthday inscription to her good friend Jo Kaufman.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEMINARY POEMS, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with much love / Diane".

Chapbook, paper wrappers with French flaps, string bound, 6x9 inches, 48 unnumbered pages.

POINT REYES STATION, California: Floating Island Publications, 1991.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear.

Rather special with the loving inscription to her close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEVEN LOVE POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE LATIN, translated by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / this chapbook from another time / In friendship and love / Diane di Prima".

Chapbook, paper wrappers, side stapled, 6x9 inches, 32 unnumbered pages. Text in Latin and English, on facing pages.

NEW YORK: The Poets Press, second printing, 1967.

GOOD condition: A paperclip imprint is on the front cover and the first leaf, the paperclip has also left its yellow ghost image on the first leaf; otherwise the chapbook is bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Unique with the loving inscription to a close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

TIMEBOMB, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, this being copy number 43 of only 100 copies. Each copy is SIGNED and NUMBERED by di Prima on the Colophon page (the last page).

THIS COPY is also INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the half-title page to her close friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with all my love / Diane di Prima / Thanks for the friendship - the play dates.... ....".

Self-produced publication, plain 8.5 inch sheets velo bound in clear plastic covers, approximately 52 pages (26 sheets). Produced in San Francisco in 2006.

Cover art by di Prima.

FINE condition, bright, clean and clear.

A wonderful inscription defining a long, loving friendship between two women.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

FOUR ISSUES OF OCCIDENT, U.C. BERKELEY'S LITERARY JOURNAL, 1957-1960. DIANE WAKOSKI was a student at UCB during those years, and in these issues she is a contributing poet, as well as an Editor and Manager of the literary journal. These issues contain some of her earliest poems.

Published by the Associated Students of the University of California, 1957-1960. First editions.

The OCCIDENT issues are:

FALL 1957. In this issue Wakoski is listed as being on the Editorial Staff;

SPRING 1958. Wakoski contributes two poems and is listed as Manager of the Publication;

WINTER 1958. Wakoski contributed three poems and is listed as the Editor of Occident;

WINTER 1950: Wakoski contributed two poems and is still listed as the Editor.

All four issues are in generally GOOD condition, some toning, some wear, soiling and creasing to the covers, overall still tight, bright and unmarked.

A nice collection of some of Diane Wakoski's earliest poetry, and a record of her working with poets and literary groups even as a young college student.

FALSE POSITIVE Donna Kossy, [Editor]. Published by Out-of-Kontrol Data Korporation, San Francisco and Massachusetts, 1984-1988.

Four original issues, of the eleven print run, of this elusive 1980s fringe culture underground zine by Discordian satirist Donna Kossy:

#1 Technology Issue, 1984; #5 Food and Drugs Issue, 1986; #7 Generic Issue, 1987; #11 The Last Issue [Art & Ladies], 1988. Vintage first editions, side staple bound, 8.5" x 11" xeroxed sheets, each cover is an original color xerox collage by Kossy, illustrated throughout. Contributors include: Tuli Kupferberg, Hakim Bey [Peter Lamborn Wilson], Bob Black, Ace Backwords, and Pagan Kennedy. Four issues in VERY GOOD Condition: staples oxidizing but holding, issue #1 with two light horizontal creases from folding, overall bright, clean and unmarked.

In 1984 Donna Kossy launched False Positive (1984-1988) a self published zine that delved into obscure and unconventional ideas, establishing her interest in documenting societal outliers. She released a total of 11 issues between 1984 and 1988, each spanning 20-32 pages, blending visual experimentation with textual excerpts from unconventional sources. An archive of fringe culture filled with eccentric personalities and belief systems documenting fringe thinkers, cultural oddities, Discordian ideologies, pseudoscience, conspiracy theorists and profiling "Kooks" who espoused extreme, aberrant and discredited viewpoints. The zine employed xeroxed and stapled production methods, emphasizing the punk counterculture DIY aesthetics typical of 1980s underground publishing.

Donna Kossy (b.1957) is an American writer, zine publisher, and independent researcher specializing in fringe science, pseudohistory, and extreme ideas dismissed by mainstream academia.

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 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.

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".******

ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE 1600-1800. Five (of Six) Volumes (V.1 - V.5) of this important work on Edited by Caroline Bowden, et al.

LONDON: Pickering & Chatto, 2012-2013. First Edition.

Five (of Six) Hardcover Books, matching set, 6x9 inches. Each volume focuses on a different part of the life, culture, and works (written and otherwise) that took place in the English Convents, and the life of the Nuns that lived in them and ran them in exile. Each volume stands on its own.

The five books are:

PART 1: Volume 1 - History Writing / edited by Caroline Bowden, 322 pages; Volume 2 - Spirituality / edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt, 532 pages; Volume 3 - Life Writing I / edited by Nicky Hallett, 411 pages.

PART 2: volume 4 - Life Writing II / edited by Katrien Daemen-de-Gelder, 338 pages; Volume 5 - Convent Management / edited by James E. Kelly, contributing editors Caroline Bowden, Richard G. Williams, 477 pages. (LACKING Volume 6 - The Convents and the Outside World / edited by Carmen M. Mangion.)

NEAR FINE condition: there is a light corner tip bump to the covers of two of the books (hardly noticeable), otherwise all is pristine, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A lovely, very presentable set of these important works on English Convents (i.e. English Religious Women) in Exile.

From the Publisher:

******In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200 year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.******

The 2012 Hardcover First Editions of this work are hard-to-find. When they can be found the books are often offered individually at quite high prices.

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).