Women's Studies from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

1801. 1st Edition. pp. viii, 413, [3]. Note: this is the true first printing, published as such complete in one volume. Scarce: Copac shows just 3 copies with UK institutions. Very good in contemporary brown leather with slight wear to extremities. Book plate of Charles Smith on the front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. An excellent copy.

Clean original maroon cloth with gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece and half title page. Additional fourteen steel engravings. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Prior owners' inscription. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine sunned, else a near-fine copy. Contents: Superintendent of Nurses; Ladies who ministered to the sick, wounded, in camp, field and… Read more about this item

Octavo, contemporary calf boards. Half-title in vol-II, Gilt decorated spines with red and black leather labels. An attractive set. First edition of Hester Thrale Piozzi s significant selection of Dr. Johnson s erudite and entertaining letters the first publication and canonization of a large body of his correspondence uncut in original boards. Samuel Johnson once hailed Hester Thrale, later Piozzi,… Read more about this item

8°. XV, 557 p. folded with 1 multip. Card and 116, partly whole. Fig. Green OLn. with gold embossed. Lid and Back title, lid with red, gold embossed linen application. First and last pages slightly foxing, otherwise well preserved and near fine. EA. Henze I, 268f. - First edition of the travel report of the "rapless English world travelers" (Henze)… Read more about this item

Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. First edition of this epic saga of the American Dream, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber, basis for the 1956 Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson & James Dean."One of the 20th century's most popular writers" Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big in 1925 and throughout her career consistently… Read more about this item

Octavo, Publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth. First edition. Fine in fine unclipped ($2.00) dustwrapper. The story of a romance between two charming youths. Basis for the 1930 film directed by Monta Bell and featuring Ginger Rodgers, Norman Foster, and Claudette Colbert. A beautiful copy showing no previous signs of ownership. Katharine Brush (August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952) was… Read more about this item

Octavo, 294pp. + 14pp ads. Publisher's blush cloth with stamped board and spine. A near fine copy in a beautiful striking dustwrapper with an iconic image of Jean Harlow. This particular Photoplay edition was released to coincide with the 1932 and followed the release of the original 1931 novel by a year. The film was adapted for… Read more about this item

Tarkington's classic novel of small-town American social anxiety and romantic awkwardness, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, and wonderfully filmed by George Steven's (with Katherine Hepburn) in 1935. This reprint, issued to coincide with the release of the film, has beautiful (uncredited) jacket art depicting Hepburn in a front porch swing, although the book itself, alas, contains no illustrations… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION in English (French edition published on 1777). Full contemporary speckled calf, gilt title on red spine label, full gilt decoration to spine, & gilt decoration to board edges; A bright very good copy with front hinge slightly starting but strong, early ink owner name/date inside front cover, & later bookplate to fep; 242 pages + Errata. Size: 4.75"x8.25."… Read more about this item

Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. First British edition of Eartha Kitt's intimate autobiography which was published a year earlier in New York. In Thursday s Child, Eartha Kitt recalls her poor childhood and early career as a performer whose trademark highly mannered singing style, colored with gargling growl added to her sultry brilliance as a distinctive singer and… Read more about this item

12mo, original cloth with decorative floral design, spine sunned a little, decorative endpapers, [xii], (7)-265pp. The free front endpaper is ink inscribed "Compliments of Harriet H. Robinson Feb. 1883." There are other provenance markings from the Berkeley Massachusetts Public Library, which apparently received the book as a gift from Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Hon. Roger Wolcott. KRICHMAR 1944. First Edition.… Read more about this item

First edition with "(1)" at foot of last page, 8vo, 409 pages; green publishers cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, boards slightly rubbed and mild wear at extremities, center crease to spine, hinges slightly starting but firm. Previous owner's name and date at top of front free endpaper, pages lightly toned, margin notations and very… Read more about this item

Octavo 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches, full period calf. First work THE LADIES CALLING engraved title, printed title with vignette, preface, 271 pages. Second work THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE- (xiv), 224 pages. Third work THE ART OF CONTENTMENT- engraved frontispiece, (viii), 218 pages, printed title torn at the bottom corner with slight loss. Fourth work THE LIVELY ORACLES… Read more about this item

Octavo, contemporary calf boards. Half-title in vol-II, Gilt decorated spines with red and black leather labels. An attractive set. First edition of Hester Thrale Piozzi s significant selection of Dr. Johnson s erudite and entertaining letters the first publication and canonization of a large body of his correspondence uncut in original boards. Samuel Johnson once hailed Hester Thrale, later Piozzi,… Read more about this item

Large Quarto. A FINE copy in a bright price-clipped very good dust wrapper. SIGNED AND DATED BY LILLIAN GISH TO THE OWNER OF THE BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL IN THE 1970s, WHO WAS A PERSONAL FRIEND OF GISH. The book is a lavish exploration of the careers of Lillian and Dorothy Gish told in pictures. This work came just four years… Read more about this item

Octavo, A beautiful Contemporary full decorative dark blue morocco binding, elaborately gilt decorated spine and boards, raised bands, All edges gilt. No previous ownership inscriptions. Housed in green clamshell box with a marbled interior and a black morocco label. FIRST EDITION of this collection of works by these three Romantic poets. Comprises the first collected edition of Shelley, the first… Read more about this item

Octavo. Original blue-green cloth backing beige cloth boards, titles to spine gilt, original unclipped dustwrapper in excellent condition. This first printing of Lillian Gish s biography is a presentation copy INSCRIBED (dated April 12, 1969) over to her good friend director Gilbert "Gil" Cates (1934-2011) and his wife. He was an American film director and television producer, director of the… Read more about this item

In 1980, MOMA in NYC did a tribute to Lillian Gish. There were large format (8.5 x 11) programs sold in limited numbers (this particular one is signed on the cover by Gish) in which this copy belonged to Citizen Kane actress Ruth Warrick. The 40 year old program is still in presentable condition and has quite a few nice… Read more about this item