Philadelphia Chapter National Association Of Fashion Designers & Accessory Designers (NAFAD) Presents A FASHION SALUTE TO NASSAU The Ten Best Dressed Women in the Philadelphia Area Sunday, May 7, 1967

NAFAD Fashion Show Souvenir Program, published by the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association Of Fashion Designers & Accessory Designers, Philadelphia, PA, 1967. First edition, 1st printing. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, side staple bound, 9" x 6", 24 pages, illustrated with b&w portraits and advertisements. VERY GOOD CONDITION: small penned numbers on the front covers upper margin, covers have light wear, internally tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce material documenting a fashion show held by the African American fashion trade, none located in OCLC collections worldwide.

The National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers (NAFAD) played a pivotal role in raising awareness of Black American Designers. NAFAD chapters staged local fashion events to showcase the design work of its members and earn cash for student scholarships.

African Americans have participated in the fashion industry in various roles, including as designers of men's, women's and children's wear, dressmakers, seamstresses, milliners and influencers. They have found ways to build spaces for their creative expressions, even when they have faced intensively challenging circumstances such as prejudices and discrimination based on race, gender and classism. NAFAD was a trade group founded in 1949 in New York City for Black Fashion Professionals who had been largely blocked from entree into the fashion industry. Founded by Mary McCleod Bethune and Jeanetta Welch Brown, both of whom were actively involved in championing professional opportunities for Black Women. NAFAD supported black fashion professionals with networking, responding to discrimination at work and in general, helping them navigate the fashion industry.

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.

PACIFIC MILLS ARE THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD OF COTTON GOODS, PRINTED - DYED -BLEACHED & WORSTED DRESS GOODS, COTTON - WARP and ALL - WOOL. With Manufacturing Plants Located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dover, New Hampshire, Columbia and Lyman, South Carolina.

Published by Pacific Mills, Boston, Massachusetts, 1924. First Edition. Hardbound, original Publishers navy blue cloth with gilt embossed Pacific Mills logo and vertical line on the front and rear covers, 11" x 8.75", navy blue endpapers, 123 pages, handsomely illustrated with 41 full page black & white photographs, 2 double page, and 18 full page color photos. VERY GOOD CONDITION: covers have light wear to the extremities, a few tiny droplet spots, and light foxing to the page edges, internally a touch of age toning, and light wear, overall a handsome, tight, bright, clean and unmarked example of this uncommon advertising promotional portrait.

A curated and sophisticated glimpse at Pacific Mills, one of America's largest textile producers of the early 20th century. Showcasing aerial photographs of the enormous factories and what occurs within them to descriptions of the factory towns equipped with electric lights, running water and sanitary plumbing, also photographs of the huge machines and of the women and men who tend them, overviews of the textile products, and the manufacturing processes of the cotton and wool from gathering, picking and shearing to the finished packaged fabric. Lawrence Massachusetts was named for the founder of Pacific Mills, Abbott Lawrence. Interestingly the wealth accumulated by this northern industrialist is integrally tied to slave labor by depending on cotton harvested on southern plantations.

MARIA LANI. Text by JEAN COCTEAU, Max Rambo and Waldemar George.

ILLUSTRATED with 52 PLATES of DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, and a Frontispiece Photograph, of MARIA LANI, the remarkable and unique ARTIST'S MUSE (and some would say Scam Artist) of the late 1920s. The artworks were by many important artists of the period.

PARIS: Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1929. First edition. French Text.

Limited Edition. This is number 78 of 525 copies, likely a "Hors Commerce" copy with "H C" handwritten beside the ink stamped number 78.

Tan wrappers, French folds, burgundy and black titling to the front cover, 9x11 inches (23x28 cm). Pagination: [2] Half-Title and Limitation Page, [6] Frontispiece Plate and Introductory Pages, 7-21 Text Essays, 51 numbered PLATES each printed on its own leaf, [2] List of Plates and Colophon Page.

The 51 artist plates are of artworks (paintings, drawings, sculptures) of Maria Lani by 51 noted artists of the period. The artists include Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Chirico, Cocteau, Matisse, Léger, Man Ray, Marval, Orloff, Max Jacob, Dufy, Rouault, Soutine, among many others. A page at the rear lists all the 51 artists.

CONDITION: The covers are toned, have some edgewear including some small closed tears, a few creases from handling, and most notably a well-worn spine that is now taped (not an uncommon feature as the issue is known for its weak glue binding). Internally, the pages are lightly toned, there is an approximately 1/4 inch piece of binding tape along the gutter edge of the blank backside of each plate, and an offset mirror image along the gutter margin of the facing plates - this is how the plates were mounted and is normal to all copies; there is just a bit of foxing found on the blank backsides and on a couple plates, the binding is shaky and is split between each plate, the plates could easily come out with a tug but currently all plates but one are still holding on by the sewn binding (plate 32 is loose but laid-in its proper place). Despite the flaws this is one of the nicer copies I have seen because the plates, which are the heart of this book, are all present, bright, clean, and clear.

About MARIA LANI (from Vanity Fair website):

******Maria Lani Was the Muse of Modernist Masters - Then She Vanished Without a Trace

Ninety years ago, an enigmatic actress and model swept through Paris, transfixing Cocteau, Matisse, Chagall, and dozens more of the day's visual artists. When she disappeared from the public eye, a myth emerged in her wake. Was she really who she said she was?****** (Please see the full Vanity Fair article by typing into the search bar: "Maria Lani Was the Muse of Modernist Masters Then She Vanished Without a Trace".)

About MARIA LANI (from Wikipedia):

Maria Lani (nee Maria Jeleniewicz), b.1895 d.1954, was an aspiring film actress and artists' model. In the late 1920s she was portrayed in paintings and sculpture by over fifty artists, including Bonnard, Chagall, Cocteau, Derain, Matisse, Rouault, and Suzanne Valadon.

Maria Lani was born in Kolno, Poland. She went to Paris in the spring of 1928 and falsely proclaimed herself to be a silent film star who had worked in Berlin. She claimed to be working on a film which required multiple portraits as part of the plot. She befriended Jean Cocteau and other artists, many of whom made portraits of her.

A limited edition book about Lani and the portraits was published in 1929 by Éditions des Quatre Chemins. It included fifty-one plates of artworks modeled by Maria Lani.

The film never materialized, but the portraits were exhibited as a group in Europe and the United States, and Lani kept them in her possession. She died in 1954 and was buried in a pauper's grave.******

ARCHIVE of ADA CLARK MERRELL, b.1856 d.1934, of RIPON, WISCONSIN (Wife of EDWARD H. MERRELL, second President of Ripon College). COMPILED AND HANDWRITTEN by ADA CLARK MERRELL, circa 1920s - 1950s.

Large, personal, in-depth archive on the genealogy of the Merrill, Clark and Related Families.

Includes 100s of handwritten pages, stuffed scrapbooks, notebooks, letters, etc. An incredibly comprehensive work that must have taken many years to compile and write. The papers and items have been separated into folders, most with an identifying post-it note on the front, likely by a relative or close friend. One post-it note reads; "Genealogy Papers as Found Together in A.C. Merrell's Trunk".

Includes:

Notebook filled with 148 pages of handwritten genealogy on the Clark and related families;

a folder with 25 manuscript pages;

a folder with letters and 25 pages of genealogy information;

a folder with about 54 manuscript pages plus genealogy charts and a Daughters of the American Revolution application;

a folder with 14 letters, 23 manuscript genealogy pages, some programs, and George C. Merrill biographical information;

packet of 20 or so manuscript genealogy papers and documents "found loose in Ada Merrell's Trunk";

more loose papers "found in AC Merrell's trunk" related to the Clark family, and to a Merrell Family Reunion;

a hardcover binder with a post-it title on the front cover that reads: "Ada Clark Merrell's genealogy research - 45 pages mostly handwritten, photos and postcards, DAR documents";

a hardcover binder with a label that reads: "Ada Clark Merrell's genealogy research and some writings, 149 pages plus other items mostly handwritten, a few typed, some clippings".

CONDITION: Lots of flaking to the edges of the old manila folders and some of the more fragile papers, but, with few exceptions, the manuscript pages, letters, documents, etc. are fully legible and in fairly good condition, with expected folds, edgewear, some stains, etc.

PLUS a FIRST EDITION COPY of ADA CLARK MERRELL'S book "LIFE AND POEMS OF CLARISSA TUCKER TRACY". Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908. Hardcovers, 150 pages. Illustrated. GOOD condition, the title page is pulling from its binding (though still holding well) and there is a small chip to the top edge, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A TREASURE TROVE OF GENEALOGY researched and written by ADA CLARK MERRILL of the NOTED RIPON, WISCONSIN, MERRELL FAMILY.

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IVONNE BAKI - PAINTINGS of WOMEN of the MIDDLE-EAST..

Ivonne Baki is primarily known for being a diplomat, politician and the first female Ambassador from Ecuador. She was an ambassador to Qatar and later to the United States. BUT she is also an artist. This book catalogs some of her paintings of Middle-Eastern Women (she lived 19 years in Lebanon where she raised her family) as well as promotes her as an artist.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED by IVONNE BAKI on the inside front cover, below her photo: "Muy estimado Fred, Con todo cariño y amistad! Te deseos stempu felicidad! / Ivonne / Dec. 7th, 1991". Baki also wrote a sentence in Arabic below the Spanish inscription.

Softcovers, 8.5x11.5 inches, 46 pages. TEXT in FRENCH and ENGLISH.

ILLUSTRATED with 6 reproductions of Baki's paintings, a photograph of a young Baki at work, and a photograph of Baki on the inside front cover. The book also contains listings of her exhibitions, works in private collections, press articles, etc.

GOOD condition, the covers are pulling from the inner text block due to weak glue, but the sewn text block remains tightly bound; otherwise bright, clean and clear.

Publisher not stated, perhaps self-published; printed by NAHHAL, Beirut, Lebanon, c.1991 (the date of the inscription).

An unusual item from a formidable Ecuadorian woman.

About IVONNE BAKI (from Wikipedia):

******Ivonne Leila Juez Abuchacra de Baki (aka A-Baki), b.1951, is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She is most known for her time as the Ecuadorian Minister of Industries and Productivity and as the President of the Andean Parliament. She is Ecuador's former Ambassador to Qatar and the United States. She is currently the Ecuadorian Ambassador to France. She was the first female ambassador in Ecuadorian history. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French, German and Arabic.

In 1998, she became the first woman in Ecuadorian history to represent her country in Washington as ambassador, and four years later, the first woman ever to run for president. A-Baki, as she is commonly known, spent 19 years in Lebanon, living through Lebanon's brutal 1975-90 civil war, and more recently has witnessed Ecuador's rapid slide into violence and gang warfare.

Yet "my first identity is as an artist," A-Baki told The Washington Diplomat some 25 years ago. "Art opens the right and left sides of your brain. It helps you see the whole picture. Music, poetry, painting and dancing make you more human. In order to be in politics, you have to be human. And that's what art does for me."******

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was the Grande Dame of Theosophy, her successor at the Theosophical Society Annie Besant issued the Adyar Pamphlets in the early 20th century. They're a series of monographs illuminating the esoteric occult mystical teachings Madame Blavatsky unveiled during her lifetime.

THE KABALAH AND THE KABALISTS By H. P. BLAVATSKY. Published by the Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, India, 1919. Adyar Pamphlets No. 105, First Edition Thus, originally published in the May 1892 issue of LUCIFER MAGAZINE. Softcover booklet, printed wrappers, 7.25" x 5", 23 pages. An exploration of the Kabbalah, a mystical tradition of Judaism that seeks to understand the nature of God and the universe through the use of symbols and esoteric teachings. VERY GOOD CONDITION: spine fold mostly perished and starting to pull apart at page 18, by page 23 it's holding by the middle thread, small ink stamp on title page, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) founded the Theosophical Society in 1883, a New Age Movement of Western occultism and Eastern mysticism that aspired to prepare humanity for the coming of the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher for the Age of Aquarius. After her death, her successor Annie Besant (1847-1933) the international leader of the Theosophical Movement continued in the preparation of a messianic disciple who would serve as the vehicle for the Master to reveal himself.

SLEEPY PEOPLE story and pictures by M. B. Goffstein

The scarce 1966 first edition of Marilyn Goffstein's enchanting story of a miniature family living in a slipper whose bedtime routine includes drinking hot cocoa, stretching, yawning, singing quietly and finally, snoring.

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Ariel, New York, 1966, First printing, so stated. Small format hardcover, periwinkle blue cloth with embossed white slipper design on the front cover and titling on the spine, 5" x 4.75", 30 un-numbered pages, beautifully illustrated with Goffstein's delightful drawings throughout. GOOD PLUS CONDITION: lacking dustjacket otherwise complete, covers have light staining/spotting but remain solid and bright, internally some small droplet staining, otherwise just lightly used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A scarce first printing of this iconic children's picture book.

Marilyn Brooke Goffstein (1940-2017) award winning American author, artist, photographer and painter renowned for her diminutive illustrations and charming stories. Awarded the Caldecott Medal and Jane Addams Children's Book Award, her themes are rich in friendship, family, natural history, and following one's heart. Goffstein taught Children's Book Arts at the New York Parsons School of Design.

UN PORTRAIT D'APRÈS NATURE - ou l'histoire telle qu'on la crée. A monograph on the Belgian Female Surrealist Artist JANE GRAVEROL, by the surrealist poet PAUL NOUGÉ.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JANE GRAVEROL in FRENCH on a blank prelim page. Graverol's inscription thanks a friend for their kindness and companionship during her trip to New York and Washington. Ends with: "Très affectueusement / Jane Graverol / Mai 1963".

PARIS: Le Soleil Dans La Tête, 1955.

Wrappers / Softcovers, 5.5x7.5 inches (14x19 cm), 126 pages. Illustrated with 30 b&w reproductions of Graverol's surrealistic art works (28 in-text and two on the covers).

Condition: The covers are soiled, sunned, smudged, peeling at the spine, and starting to pull from the text, nonetheless they are present and still doing their job. Internally the pages are nice, lightly toned at the margins, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked, and the sewn binding is holding the pages of text together well. Graverol's inscription is bright and bold.

Scarce with the Signature and Inscription of the sadly overlooked female Belgian surrealist artist, Jane Graverol.

About JANE GRAVEROL (from Wikipedia):

******Jane Graverol, b.1905 d.1984, was a Belgian surrealist painter. She started painting between 1920 and 1930, before the rise of surrealism and before she adapted the surrealist style she is known for today. She began to exhibit her work in 1927.

Graverol was closely linked to the development of surrealism in Belgium. She would considered her canvases to be "waking, conscious dreams". Her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nougé, and then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated on the periodical "Les Lèvres Nues", reconfirmed her belief in surrealism. Her painting La Goutte d'Eau is a collective portrait of the Belgian surrealists. Her paintings offered an original, dreamy version of feminine sensibility, painted with a figurative technique that was both precise and cold.******

About PAUL NOUGÉ (from Wikipedia):

******Paul Nougé, b.1895 d.1967, was a Belgian poet, founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium, sometimes known as the "Belgian Breton".******

'BOUT CULLUD FOLKSES, POEMS by LUCY MAE TURNER, Black Female Harlem Renaissance Vernacular Poet.

NEW YORK: Henry Harrison, [1938]. First edition of her first and only book.

Hardcovers, yellow cloth covered boards titled in black on the front cover and spine, 5.5x8.5 inches, 64 pages. In its original dustjacket.

Condition: GOOD book, the covers are lightly soiled otherwise solid and sharp-cornered; internally the pages are lightly toned, else tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that is chipped at the margins and spine ends (including missing a 2 inch piece from the bottom of the spine), toned at the spine, and has other signs of general wear; nonetheless this delicate dustjacket is still holding together and retains its $1.50 price at the top of the front flap. A presentable copy with its rare dustjacket.

About LUCY MAE TURNER (from Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Maureen Honey, Rutgers University 2006):

******Lucy Mae Turner, b.1865 d.1963, was the granddaughter of Nat Turner, who led the most famous slave revolt in American history in 1831, She was a highly educated and talented poet whose single volume of verse, 'Bout Cullud Folkses (1938), deserves greater attention. Like Zora Neale Hurston, Turner excelled at literary rendering of the working class black vernacular. Going against the tide of literary history, both Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Turner's 1938 collection are among the last examples of black dialect to be produced by African American writers. Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Ralph Ellison, and other black writers who came to the fore in the 1940s and 1950s created northern urban characters and eschewed dialect as an inappropriate throwback to plantation stereotypes. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would continue to work in the vernacular, but it was a northern urban slang very different from that used by Hurston and Turner. Lucy Mae Turner's wit, good ear, and political acumen shine through in her vernacular poems.******

HERESIES : A FEMINIST PUBLICATION ON ART AND POLITICS. Numbers 1 - 26 (a complete run but for the last issue, #27). Twenty-six numbers in twenty-five volumes, numbers 18 and 19 being a double issue. Issue #5 is the second edition, with the variant cover, all others are first editions.

NEW YORK: The HERESIES COLLECTIVE, 1977-1992.

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches (but for numbers 14 and 15 that are 10x12 inches and side stapled), approx. 100 pages per issue.

The collection belonged to Anne Taylor Gibson and Annie Cheatham. Anne Taylor Gibson's signature is on the first page of the first issue, and issue #20 has "Annie Cheatham's Copy" written at the top of the first page. Laid into issue #20 are two relevant items. One is a 5 page article by Betty Friedan that was folded and sent to Ann Gibson by Annie Cheatham (based on her return address). The second item is a handwritten note to Anne from another woman thanking her for the loan of these issues, it is written on a lovely 1983 postcard from the Women's Peace Encampment at Seneca Army Depot. The back cover of this issue is of a man proudly displaying his tee shirt that says "Nuke The Bitches - The Women's Peace Encampment". Yikes.

All 26 numbers / 25 issues are in generally GOOD condition, there is some edge, spine end, and corner wear here and there to the covers, a few articles have some underlining and a bit of yellow highlighting, there is foxing to the page edges (page edges of the closed issues), the first issue has some clear tape repair to its bottom corner and a couple rusty paper clips to a couple pages; overall the issues are just lightly used, complete, bright, clean, and clear. A solid, nearly complete run (lacking only the last issue) of this hard-to-find feminist publication of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Included is a second copy (duplicate) of the double 18/19 issue.

About HERESIES (from Wikipedia):

******HERESIES was a feminist magazine published from 1977 to 1993, organized by a collective known as the Heresies Collective based in New York City. Each of the 27 issues (including the 18/19 double issue) was collectively edited by a group of volunteers interested in a single topic under the guidance of the "mother collective"; each issue had its own style and perspective. Subjects included feminist theory, art, politics, patterns of communication, lesbian art and artists, women's traditional arts and crafts, and politics of aesthetics, violence against women, working women, women from peripheral nations, women and music, sex, film, activism, racism, postmodernism, and coming of age.

The journal was seen not only as a major contribution to the feminist art scene, but as a forum for feminist thinking that experimented with an editorial format that asked contributors to grapple with hierarchical and societal issues of difference. And it created a public discourse in feminist thought and expression. Initial members of the Heresies Collective included Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Elizabeth Hess, Ellen Lanyon, Arlene Ladden, Lucy R. Lippard, Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.******

About the SENECA WOMEN'S ENCAMPMENT FOR A FUTURE OF PEACE (from Wikipedia):

******The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was a women only peace camp formed to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca Army Depot to Europe in the fall of 1983.

The camp took place mainly during the summer of 1983, from July 4 through Labor Day, concluding with a Labor Day Action honoring workers and highlighting the inflation and job loss that militarism brings. Thousands of women came to participate and rally against nuclear weapons and the patriarchal society that created and used those weapons.******

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DAISY WITH ALL THE PETALS YES / Two Heads Really Are Better Than One / Yes. Yes. Yes. / Art D'Eglise by SISTER MARY CORITA KENT

Published by Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA, 1966. First edition, softcover, illustrated wrappers, side staple bound, 11.25" x 8.5", 32 pages, off-set printed, profusely illustrated in black & white and color, edition size unknown. A promotional booklet by and about Sister Corita, her art, prints and serigraphs with contributions from various authors including poet Robert Lowell and artist Ben Shahn. GOOD Condition: covers have light foxing and some staining, corner-tip, spine edge wear but remain bright. Internally, the staples are oxidized but holding well, otherwise the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A respectable copy of this uncommon Sister Corita Artist Monograph.

Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986) was the most controversial nun of the 1960s and is one of the most famous Graphic Artists in America. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles until 1968 when she left the Order to pursue her art.

SACRED SYMBOLS OF THE ANCIENTS The Mystical Significance of our Fifty Two "Playing" Cards and Their Amazing Connection with our Individual Birthdays by Edith L. Randall and Florence Evelin Campbell, M.A.

Published by DeVorss & Co. Publishers, Marina Del Rey, California, 1974 printing, originally published in 1947. Softcover, illustrated blue covers, blue plastic spiral comb binding, 11" x 8.5", 198 pages, plus one folded illustrated color leaf. GOOD Condition: complete as issued, wear and spotting to the covers, spirals are a little tight and fore-edge not flush (as normal with old spiral bindings, but the pages turn well), some spotting here and there, offsetting from an oxidized paper clip to the upper margin of 6 pages, penned writing on the Birthdate Memoranda page at the rear, otherwise the inner pages are bright, clean and unmarked and the color fold-open chart at the rear is bright and clean.

The book explores the mystical connections between the 52 cards of a standard playing card deck and how they can be used for divination. Edith L. Randall (1896-1978) and Florence Evylinn Campbell (1878-1964) were authorities on astrology, cartomancy, numerology, and tarot. They were influenced by the teachings of Olney H. Richmond (1844-1920) head of The Order of the Magi, a secret society tasked with preserving the system of the cards, of whom Randall was a student and follower.

CONVERSATIONAL OPENINGS & ENDINGS - Some Hints for PLAYING the GAME OF SMALL TALK and Other Society Pastimes. By Mrs. Hugh Bell (Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell).

LONDON: Edward Arnold, 1899. "Revised and Enlarged Edition".

In the book Lady Bell instructs how to play the game of Conversation as a Chess Game. Like chess, the conversationalists play either Black or White, making "moves" meant to win the game of conversation at evening gatherings. In the book, women play White and men play Black.

From the book: "I have adopted the phraseology of a Handbook to Chess as being most suitable for my purpose. By Player is meant the interlocutor, and for further convenience I shall designate the male interlocutor as Black, and the female as White...these being the prevalent hues of male and female costume at evening gatherings, where conversation runs the highest..."

Hardcovers, paper covered boards titled in black on the front cover and spine, and with black lining on the front and rear boards, 6x8.5 inches, 63 pages.

FAIR condition, the covers are soiled, worn at the corner tips, edges and spine ends, and the spine bottom is lacking 1 inch of its paper covering, nonetheless the covers are original and still doing their job; internally, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, there is a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: "L. F. S. / from D. A. / July 1900" (maybe significant, no idea), and there is the signature of

"Willard Pope" on the front pastedown, the pages have yellowed with age as normal, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

RARE 1899 book instructing young ladies on how to checkmate men through conversation.

About Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell (from Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet):

******Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell, Lady Bell, DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire), née Olliffe, b.1851 d.1930, was a British writer and playwright.

Lady Bell was born in Paris, France in 1851, the youngest of four children of Irish born Joseph Francis Olliffe (later Sir Joseph Olliffe) and Laura Cubitt. She was the second wife of Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, of Rounton Grange, and therefore became Lady Bell.

Lady Bell was the stepmother to her husband's children from his first marriage: British explorer and key political figure in the Middle East, Gertrude Bell, b.1868 d.1926, and Maurice, 3rd Baronet, b.1871 d.1944.

In 1918 she was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She died on 16 May 1930 at her home, 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea.******

Your Move, Quick, Speak.

ORGANON OF THE ART OF HEALING, by Samuel HAHNEMANN. Fifth American Edition. Translated from the Fifth German Edition, by C. Wesselhoeft, M.D. Hahnemann was the founder of homeopathy.

Published by the HAHNEMANN PUBLISHING HOUSE, Philadelphia, [1887]. Though the copyright is 1875, the Publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear is for titles published in 1887, which dates this Fifth American Edition as 1887.

Hardcover book, cloth covered boards, gilt titling and designs to the spine, 6.5x9 inches. Pagination: xix, [17]-244, plus a 16 page "New Catalogue" for Homoeopathic Publications for the year 1887 by Hahnemann Publishing House / F. E. Boericke's.

VERY GOOD condition, light wear and some light spots to the covers, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

COPY of AUGUSTINE C. HAUB, with her signature and "Boston / Mass. / Oct. 12, '91" handwritten on a blank prelim.

About AUGUSTINE CHRISTINE HAUB (from Woman's Medical Journal - A Monthly Journal Published in the Interests of Women Physicians, August, 1914):

******Dr Augustine Catherine Haub died November 13, 1913, at her place of residence on Beacon Street in Boston after a painful illness of nine months. She was 33. She was born in Gold Hill, Nevada, September 19, 1870. She graduated from Boston University Medical School in 1893. She served as an intern [at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, Boston] the year after her graduation and showed a marked aptitude for surgical work. Her faithfulness to high ideals in her professional work gained for her a devoted clientele. She was fortunately the recipient of a considerable legacy from one of her patients in acknowledgment for unremitting devotion. Her parents are both living in Santa Rosa California.******

Dr. Horace Packard, a noted homeopathic surgeon, gave an acknowledgement to Dr. Haub in his 1906 book on homeopathic surgery FIVE YEARS' WORK IN SURGERY: "Grateful acknowledgement is herewith expressed for laborious work in surgical tabulating by Dr. Augustine C. Haub..."

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.

PLANTATION BIRD LEGENDS, by MARTHA YOUNG, with illustrations by J.M. Condé.

NEW YORK: R. H. Russell, 1902. First edition, first printing, with the statement "First Impression, October, 1902" on the copyright page with no indication of additional printings.

The book is dedicated 'To all the Dear Namesakes of E.Y. and A.E.Y.' (Elisha Young and Anne Eliza Young, Martha Young and her siblings' parents.)

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR, MARTHA YOUNG, to her SISTER, ANN ELIZA MUCKLE, on the front free endpaper:

"To Ann Eliza Muckle / One of the Namesakes / With the love of her sister / Martha Young".

LAID-IN is a HANDWRITTEN LETTER by Martha Young to her sister "Mrs. Alfred Muckle". It is written on 1 1/2 pages of a 4 page single fold sheet of paper. Much of the handwriting is indecipherable to me, but here is how it begins: "Dearest Fredie: / This may be a help to you. If Fettie comes through and I see her I will ask if she has the book of..." The letter is signed/initialed M.Y. and dated (?) 20, 1934. On the folded backside it is addressed to Mrs. Alfred Muckle / Courtesy of Agnes Tutwiler". (AGNES TUTWILER was a relative of Martha Young; FREDIE likely was Martha Young's nickname for her married sister.)

Hardcover Book, illustrated covers, 249 pages. ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece photograph "Witch Menées Child" and 27 b&w drawings. Though the drawings and their captions are meant to illustrate the folktales and dialects of Southern Blacks (mostly former slaves), and were widely admired by writers of the day, many would be considered racist today.

FAIR condition. The covers are soiled with a scattering of scrapes, the rear cover has some water staining to its bottom edge, the spine is substantially scraped and rubbed; nonetheless the covers are still solid and doing their job. Internally, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, there is foxing primarily to the first and last few pages, light finger smudges here and there, and one page has a thumbprint size chip to its front margin (not affecting text) and another with a 2 inch closed tear, else the inner pages remain tight, clean, clear and unmarked. All 27 b&w plates are present, a few have a bit of foxing. The laid-in letter has folds, creases, smudging and some stains, but the text remains clear (though the handwriting is difficult).

About MARTHA YOUNG (from Wikipedia and the Alabama Women's Hall Of Fame websites):

******Martha Strudwick Young, b.1862 d.1941, was an American regionalist writer known for her recounting of Southern folk tales, fables, and songs of Black life in the plantation era. She was admired by other writers for her skill with dialect. Young was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.

Martha Strudwick Young was the daughter of Confederate surgeon Elisha Young and Anne Eliza Ashe (Tutwiler) Young. The women's education and prison reform advocate Julia Strudwick Tutwiler was her aunt. Her family moved to Greensboro after the Civil War, and it was there that she learned the Southern folk tales and stories of African-American culture that would form the basis of her writings.

In 1901 Young published her first book, Plantation Songs for My Lady's Banjo and Other Negro Lyrics & Monologues. She followed up in 1902 with Plantation Bird Legends, which established her reputation as a leading writer of dialect tales. Young was one of a group of regional writers who helped to popularize the use of dialect as an adjunct to realism, including George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Joel Chandler Harris. She has been called "Alabama's foremost folklorist."

From her 1986 induction into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame: "During a life which bridged two centuries, she recorded a rapidly disappearing culture, preserving it as a heritage for future generations."******

RAW by Roxanne Klein & Charlie Trotter

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by ROXANNE KLEIN Groundbreaking Raw Food Author and Chef Owner of her eponymous Larkspur, Marin County restaurant ROXANNE'S in black ink on the title page " Doug, Enjoy your Raw experience! Roxanne Klein 3.04 "

Published by Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2003. First edition, first printing so stated, number-line starts at 1. Hardcover in dustjacket, black cloth with green printing on the spine, 11.25" x 9.25", avocado green endpapers, 215 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs of the captivating dishes detailed in the book. NEAR FINE CONDITION BOOK & DUSTJACKET: tight, bright, clean and unmarked, the unpriced-clipped DJ has a touch of edge and corner-tip wear. A handsome and uncommon copy SIGNED by iconic vegetarian chef and restauranteur Roxanne Klein.

In the early 2000s Chef Owner Roxanne Klein was the hottest thing on the American food scene. People called her a revolutionary, comparisons to Alice Waters were made. Klein created quite the stir in the culinary world by introducing a new fine dining cuisine based on raw, organic vegetarian ingredients. Roxanne's was one of the most innovative new restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. The restaurant's "living food" cuisine earned rave reviews from both diners and food critics. Gourmet Magazine stated, "Roxanne's is simply the most innovative restaurant of our time." Famed Bay Area critic Michael Bauer said Roxanne's offers "truly four-star dining, with a world class wine list and elegant decor." A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, her creativity with vegetarian cuisine and her broad knowledge of organic ingredients earned her respect from a variety of culinary authorities.