Women's History from PWK Books

A beautiful collection of aphorisms and essays compiled by Caroline May, a 19th-century English-American editor and literary critic who was particularly interested in works by and the education of women. Brown cloth jacket with blind and gilt stamping on front and back, with texture and gild on spine. Publication date listed as 1851 on title page and 1850 on copyright page.… Read more about this item

A 19th-century title about women's lives in the North American colonies. Tan leather over boards with gilt stamping on the front and spine, six raised ribs across spine. Text block is gilt on top with deckled edges. Tan marbled decorative endpapers. Protective tissue over B&W frontispiece is intact. Title page has blue & black print. Charming B&W chapter decorations. Front cover… Read more about this item

Elaborate black leather with gilt on front, back, and spine. Text block has gilt all edges. 17 of 18 B&W illustrated plates are intact, as is protective tissue. 18th plate (Bathesheba) is chipped at edges, although the picture itself is intact. FON inscription dated Christmas 1849. Front and back covers are entirely loose, leather on spine is very deteriorated and extremely fragile.… Read more about this item

1957 edition of the Westover girl's school yearbook. Green cloth cover with silver stamped on front. Decorative endpapers featuring the girls' signatures. Copious B&W illustrations, with vintage advertisements in the back. Cover has stains, with a narrow tear on the front. Spine is sunned.

The 1961 edition of Radcliffe's yearbook. Crimson cloth with gilt stamped on front and spine. Copious B&W illustrations and photographs. Cover has some stains and bumping, with wear on the spine heel.

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Madame Roland, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eight B&W engravings are intact, including frontispiece. (Plate on page 97 has a deckled bottom edge.) Spine is discolored and darker than… Read more about this item

A lovely book by a founder of modern environmentalism. Beautifully illustrated from the colorful dust jacket to seaweed-patterned endpapers to the many B&W drawings within. Book itself has a small white stain on the front cover and a small bit of writing on the half-title. Pages are age tanned. Dust jacket has numerous tears, wear, and stains.