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London/ Philadelphia: Augener Ltd./ David McKay, 1911. First English language edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Square 16mos. Illustrated Green pebbled cloth over white illustrated paper boards, with brown and black lettering on the front covers. This is a collection of 4 whimsical illustrated children's book, about the seasons, with text in verse. These are the English-language translations of the works that were published in the Utrecht by W. de Haan around the same time (with different cover images). There is no publication date listed. Dust jackets with tears, chipping, rubbing and age toning, mostly along the edges. Dj for "Autumn" with only the front cover present. Bindings with rubbing, abrasions, and sunning to extremities. Interior with some occasional sporadic minor to light pencil markings and/or smudges. Book blocks tight overall. Dj in poor to good-, bindings in good- to good+, interiors in very good- to very good condition overall. Scarce. *Marie "Rie" Cramer (1887-1977) was a Dutch… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XI, [1], 173, [1]pp. Original photographic wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This captivating work is an interdisciplinary study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Considering drama, fiction, and dance, as well as a range of performance events such as suffrage demonstrations, lectures, and a legal trial, Penny Farfan expands on theatre-historical narratives that note the centrality of female characters in male-authored modern plays but that do not address the efforts of women artists to develop alternatives both to mainstream theatre practice and to the patriarchal avant-garde. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan, Farfan identifies different… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Artists Edition. Hardcover. vg. Limited edition of 750 copies. Complete in 9 volumes (consisting of seven volumes of "The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier" & 2 volumes "Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier" by Samuel T. Pickard). Octavo. Brown cloth, title-label with red and black lettering. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Frontispiece in each volume. Title-page printed in red and black with vignette. Artists Edition with the works of American Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. The poet was strongly influenced by Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Whittier was an ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. This view is apparent in his anti-slavery poems (present in this edition) and in Vol. VII "The Conflict with Slavery." Each volume illustrated with steel portraits and photogravures from paintings, drawings or photographs by M. J. Burns, Howard Pyle, Mary Hollock Foote, I. H. Caliga, C. S. Reinhart, W. L. Sheppard, Chas. H.… Read More

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. g. Sm. octavo. 203pp. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with title in gold on spine. Frontispiece of a b/w reproduction of a drawing showing Wallis Island. "The Glide, owned by the late Joseph Peabody, Esq., and commanded by Captain Henry Archer, sailed from Salem for the South Pacific, on the twenty-second day of May, 1829. Her crew were mostly young men, some of whom were entering, for the first time, on a sailor's life, exchanging the comforts of home for the rough berth and coarse fare of the forecastle, and the courtesies of friends for submission to the authority of the quarter-deck. As we sailed slowly out of the harbor, little did our joyous crew think, that the Glide was taking her final departure from that port, where she had so often arrived, laden with the treasures of other climes for her wealthy proprietor, and that, as we passed the lighthouse, some of our number would never be cheered by seeing it again"....so begins James… Read More