Women Writers
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Mastering the Art Of French Cooking
by Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone Child
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by American author Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle, both of France. Written for the American market, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961 (Volume 1) and 1970 (Volume 2). Widely credited with bringing French cuisine into the American home, it has since become a standard in the culinary world. Originally, a third volume was planned but Child lost interest in the project as her television career took off and...
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique, published 19 February 1963, is a book written by Betty Friedan which brought to light the lack of fulfillment in many women's lives, which was generally kept hidden.
Women Writers Books & Ephemera
Blue Pastures
by Mary Oliver
Blue Pastures by Mary Oliver. 1995 Harcourt Brace/ Harvest Original, first paperback edition, 122 pages. Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer and National Book Award winning prolific poet who was greatly inspired by nature. Her career in poetry was unusual in that her books actually sold well. In her New York Times obituary: "For her abiding communion with nature, Ms. Oliver was often compared to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. For her quiet, measured observations, and for her fiercely private personal mien (she...
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SGD 38.60
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
by Erdrich, Louise
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. [12], 158, [2] p.; 24 cm. Black and maroon cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Louise Erdrich often draws on Native American themes in her work. Book is in Near Fine Condition: black remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: rubbed at head of spine; otherwise, clean and bright.
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SGD 16.54
Margaret Fuller: A Brief Biography with Documents
by Kornfeld, Eve
Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. Paperback. Fine. xiii, [3], 252 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of The Bedford Series in History and Culture. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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SGD 13.79
New Boston Review, Volume 1, Number 1 (June 1975) - includes an interview with Susan Sontag and a review by Julia Child
by Alonso, J. M., et al. (eds.), Susan Sontag, Julia Child, Adrienne Rich, Fanny Howe, et al
Cambridge, MA: Boston Critic, Inc, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid, 32pp (self-cover). Rare literary tabloid, includes an interview (mainly on photography) with Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons F21). Also a cookbook review by Julia Child. Library stamp and underlining to cover, else an unmarked copy, horizontal fold, typical toning.
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SGD 41.36
Jes' a Lil' Black Lamb: Darkey Lullaby
by Johnson, Alice
New York: F.A. Mills, 1899. Sheet_music. Very Good -. [8] p.: music; 31 cm. Illustrated front wrapper in green and pink, with photograph portrait of a woman, presumably Alice Johnson. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrappers included in page count. Caption title: Jes' Ma Lil' Black Lamb. Publisher's advertisements on inside front wrapper, and both sides of back wrapper printed in green, consisting of the first lines of various examples of sheet music. Possibly written by Alice...
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SGD 26.20
Individual Recipes in Use at Drexel Institute
by Spring, Helen M
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1905. Paperback. Good +. Sixth Edition. 80 p.; 19 cm. Grey wrappers with black wrapper title. Black repair of spine. Anthony J. Drexel established the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in 1891 as a non-degree-granting institution (in 1914 the school began granting bachelor of science degrees). This cookbook would have been used by the Department of Domestic Science and Arts. The author, Helen M. Spring, was the first instructor of cookery at the...
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SGD 23.44
Selected Poems of Edith M. Thomas; edited with a memoir by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
by Thomas, Edith M
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good -. xiii, [1], 247 p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 20 cm. Light brown cloth spine with printed paper spine label; light brown paper over boards. Title page in red and black. Without dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The author, Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925), was an American poet who was born in the small town of Chatham Center, Ohio, but spent her adult life in New York City, the subject of some of her best known...
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SGD 20.68
Rememb'ring
by Duncan Sisters (Vivian Duncan and Rosetta Duncan)
New York: Irving Berlin, 1923. Sheet_music. Good. 5, [1] p.: music; 31 cm. Front wrapper illustrated, printed in red and black. Sheet music for voice and piano. Front wrapper illustration by P.M. Griffith is a photo of Vivian and Rosetta Duncan as Eva and Topsy (in blackface) with list of 12 titles from the musical "Topsy and Eva," book by Catherine C. Cushing (suggested by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin). Publisher's advertisements inside the front wrapper and...
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SGD 20.68
The Kossuth Offering and Family Souvenir: A Gift Book for All Seasons: 1852
New York: Mark H. Newman & Co, 1851. Hardcover. Good -. Sartain, John. iv, 241, [1] p., engraved frontispiece portrait of Kossuth and 15 leaves of engraved plates: music; 25 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped portrait of Kossuth on front cover, with the same blind-stamped on back cover; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Gift inscription on front free endpaper: "From M. H. Bidwell Jany 1st 1852...
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SGD 177.85
The Everyday Way and Other Poems
by Bennett, Carolyn
New York: Slow Motion Press, 1985. Paperback. Fine. Cover illustration from a painting by Teresa Ratel. [6], 18 cm. 22 cm. Stapled wrappers; front wrapper illustrated. Stated First Edition. Gift inscription by the author on title page. (The front wrapper looks rubbed in the center section of the illustration, but that is the way the illustration was printed -- all copies look the same). In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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SGD 17.92
Green Mountains Review -- 10th Anniversary Double Issue -- American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
Johnson, VT: Johnson State College, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine. New Series, vol. 9, no. 2 Fall/Winter 1996-97 and vol. 10, no. 1 Spring/Summer 1997. 271, [17] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Contains essays and poetry. Contributors include Robert Pinky, Maxine Kumin, Robert Bly, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, and Molly Peacock. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; one name underlined in table of contents; otherwise, clean and tight.
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SGD 17.92
Not So Deep as a Well
by Parker, Dorothy
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of her collected poems, signed limited issue. Copy number 324 of a limited 485 signed by Dorothy Parker. Bound in publisher's reddish-pink paper covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine cloth, endsheets a little browned, former owner bookplate to front pastedown and small bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. In publisher's original gold paper-covered slipcase,...
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SGD 2,274.86
Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis
by Hejaiej, Monia
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Near Fine. xi, 369 p.; 22 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. The author presents 47 tales "told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and this book examines its role in their shared world and its significance in the lives of the three tellers." The introduction provides "an overview of the history and culture of Tunis and...
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SGD 15.17
Elizabeth Fry: A Biography
by Rose, June
London, Eng: Macmillan, 1980. First Edition. Fine/very good. [14], 218 p.: frontispiece, 4 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Includes sources, bibliography, and index. First Edition. ISBN 0-333-23806-0. Former owner's name on half-title page: Craig Horle, a noted historian of early Quakerism and early Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister and mother of eleven...
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SGD 26.20
Christopher Wren
by Whinney, Margaret
New York: Praeger, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/very good -. 216 p.: 166 illustrations consisting of plans and black-and-white photographs; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket with black spine and cover titles, and color photograph of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, on front. White call number at tail of spine on book, not dust jacket. Includes a chronological table, bibliography, and index. The author, Margaret Dickens Whinney (1894-1974), was a Courtauld Institute scholar of...
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SGD 17.92
H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet
by Robinson, Janice S
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. xxii, 490 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustration; 24 cm. Light brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; "H.D." gilt-stamped on front board. Illustrated dust jacket designed by G.G. Laurens. First edition. American poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), known as H.D., moved to London in 1911 and became one of the avant-garde poets known as the Imagists. She was a prolific writer of both poetry and prose throughout her life. This...
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SGD 13.79
One Above & One Below: New Poems
by Belieu, Erin
Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. Paperback. Fine. First Edition, First Printing. viii, 85, [3] p.; 23 cm. Paperback with cover design by Valerie Brewster; cover art by Jordana Munk. Wonderful poetry from the Nebraska-born poet. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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SGD 17.92
Bennett & Walton's Almanac, for the Year of our Lord 1815, Being the Third After Leap Year: Calculated by Joshua Sharp
by Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa: Bennett & Walton, 1814. Paperback. Good +. [48] p.: woodcut title vignette and illustration, tables; 18 cm. Publisher's advertisement on last page. Although Sharp is named as the calculator of this issue, the calendar pages and the eclipse predictions (except for changes at the head and foot of the former) are offprints from Bailey's Rittenhouse Almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey) calculated by William Collom. Sharp's name has, apparently...
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SGD 46.88
![The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known -- May 1898 Vol. IV, No. 5 [Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/763/753/868753763.0.b.jpg)
The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known -- May 1898 Vol. IV, No. 5 [Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson]
by Watson, Rosamond Marriott
Portland, Me: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1898. Paperback. Good +. Printed by Smith & Sale, Portland, Maine. [6], 163-184, [4] p.; 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. In this issue he reprints Tares: A Book of Verses by Rosamond Marriott Watson. In Good+ Condition: front wrapper and upper edge of back wrapper are sunned; wrappers are separated along spine and chipped along some edges; pages are clean and bright.
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SGD 17.92
Poèmes: Premier Cahier de Habitude de la Poésie
by Penrose, Valentine
Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. Fine. [24] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Salmon wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on salmon paper. In a glassine cover. Contents: A Une Femme a Une Route -- A Francesca -- SevilleValentine Boué Penrose (1898-1978) was a French surrealist poet and collagist; she also wrote La Condensa Sangrienta, a fictionalized biography of the serial killer Elizabeth Báthory. She was married to Roland...
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SGD 106.16
The Sea Around Us
by Carson, Rachel L
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition, first printing, second state in glossy boards. Signed by Rachel L. Carson on the title page. Very Good+ with rubbing to extremities, pages toned, browning to preliminary pages with an exposed hinge. In a Very Good third state dust jacket with toning, shallow chipping to crown and top edge, light wear with a small scrape to the front flap and a corresponding ding the board below; several tape reinforcements made...
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SGD 4,825.45
Men, Maids, and Match-Makers: An Up-to-Date Comedy in Three Acts
by Crane, Eleanor Maud
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1901. Paperback. Good +. 60 p.; 19 cm. Stapled. American author Eleanor Maud Crane was a very active playright from 1897 into the 1920s. This comedy has roles for 5 women and 5 men (one playing a cat?). This part was used by Camille Stark Miller playing the role of Katherine Howard, with relevant pencil marks. In Good+ Condition: "Camille" in pencil on the title page; lightly creased; first and last pages are lightly soiled; pencils marks; otherwise,...
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SGD 34.47
![The Frugal House Wife [Housewife]: or, Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/725/929/1592929725.0.b.jpg)
The Frugal House Wife [Housewife]: or, Complete Woman Cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts, in roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, gravies, sauces, stews, hashes, soups, fricassees, ragoos, pasties, pies, tarts, cakes, puddings, sylabubs, creams, flummery, jellies, giams, and custards. Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying and pickling. To which are prefixed various bills of fare, for dinners and suppers in every month of the year; and a copious index to the whole
by Carter, Susannah
Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury, 1765. First Edition. Near Fine. Evident first edition, this Dublin imprint was functionally published simultaneous with the London imprint (see Maclean, pages 23-24). Bound in contemporary full speckled calf; five raised bands, later gilt-tooled red morocco spine label. Spine rebacked with original laid-down and early repairs to edges, 6.5 x 4", 18mo. Near Fine with small patches of worming at front pastedown and bottom margins of the first...
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SGD 55,148.00
The Procession of Flowers in Colorado by Helen Jackson (H.H.); illustrated in water colors by Alice A. Stewart
by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 30, [4] p.: hand-painted, water color floral illustrations on 13 pages; 29 cm. Original wide cream calf spine with gilt-stamped cover title; light green paper over remainder of boards, with gilt-stamped floral decoration running along leather-paper border. White moire endpapers. Lacking original slipcase. This is no. 47 of a limited edition of 100 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist, Alice Stewart. There are two or more binding...
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SGD 2,556.11
Vain Pomp and Glory.
by Graham, Abbie (Adella), 1889-1972
"Copyright, 1927, by the National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association..." Contents: The Vain Pomp and Glory of the World; Secular Society; Children in the Lamplight; Hills for Sale!; The Streets of Their Cities; Angels at High Noon; An Old Lady with Teakwood Stairs; 'Don't Bother To Pack, Joseph!'; Random Provocations; 'Boston'. Involved with the YWCA throughout her life, Graham's several books "covered subjects including spirituality, race relations, girls' camps, travel, and women's...
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SGD 13.79SGD 5.51
