NAWSA SUBJECT FILE Books relating to woman suffrage The Boston Post said of "Songs of Russia" - "Not only an artistic rendering, but a marvellously true adherence to the original text" ARGOSY BOOK STORES 114 East 59th Street New York 22, N.Y. PLaza 3-8868 Booksellers--Importers Old and Rare Books Libraries Purchased Want Lists Solicited BOOKS About WOMEN Index Books About Women ------------------ Biographies of Notable Women--- Unless otherwise specified, binding is in original cloth or buckram; size is 8vo or 12mo; condition, good or fine; place of publication, New York or Boston. ALL ORDERS SENT POSTFREE IN THE UNITED STATES 1 ABELARD and HELOISE, Lettere Amorose d'Eloisa e Abeilard, Con la Vita de Medesimi, Imitate dall'Originali Latine, e Ridotte in Versi da GIUSEPPE PICCINNI. 2 Engr. Frontis. Ports. (129pp). 24 mo, 1/4 calf. Paris, 1782. $7.50 **Neat little Italian edition, printed in Paris. 2 ADAMS, W.H. Davenport. Woman's Work and Worth: in Girlhood, Maidenhood, and Wifehood...with Hints on Self-Culture, chapters on Higher Education and Employment of Women. 1880 $2.00 3 18th Century Doctor's Ideas of Woman ALEXANDER, Wm. M.D. History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present. 2 vols. thick sq. 4to, calf (rebacked, rubbed ). First Edn. Scarce. $20.00 **A pioneer attempt to discuss woman in relation to ethnology; discusses employments and amusements, treatment and condition, ceremonies and customs observed only by women, delicacy and chastity, dress and ornament, courtship, matrimony, widowhood, legal status of British women, &c. "Composed soley for the amusement and instruction of the Fair Sex." 4 AMOROUS ROYALTY. Recueil de Diverses Pieces, Servant a l'Histoire de Henry III, Roy de France et de Pologne...239pp. 18mo, modern boards. Cologne, 1663 $12.50 **Surprising events in the time of Henry III, the deportment of Catherine de Medici, the loves of Henry IV, "Divorce Satyrique" or the amours of Marguerite de Valois, Confession Catholique du Sr. de Saney, &c. 5 Cubist Ballet BALLET. Hill, W.E. Original Pencil Drawing, finished in wash, "When the Cubists come into their own." 9 x 16 1/4"; mounted. SIGNED. $10.00 **Two stage-door johnnies before poster for the PONY BALLET, executed in cubist style. One is showing the other his bright particular star---"Some girl, eh, Tom?" 6 BALZAC, H. de. Physiology of Marriage 1/2 cloth. London, Privately Printed, 1904. $3.00 7 Brilliant Original Cartoons On Professional Divorces BARTON, Ralph. Original Pen-and-Ink Cartoon, in 4 sections on one sheet. 24 x 18" Ca. 1925. SIGNED. $15.00 ***Three Little Maids from School, at top; Mary becomes a secretary at $12 a week; Jane a bookkeeper, at $15; but Phryne learned "how to get a husband, a divorce and alimony, and ended her days in idleness, bad novels and Riverside Drive." MAGNIFICENT ORIGINAL CARTOON, highly reminiscent of illustrations from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 8 BEARD, Mary R. On Understanding Women. D.w. London, 1931. $1.75 9 BEAUMONT, E. de. The Sword and Womankind: an Informative History of Indiscreet Revelations. 1930. Ltd. Edn. $3.00 10 BEECHER, Henry Ward. Woman's Influence in Politics. Pr. wr. 17pp. 1870. $1.50 11 BELL, Lilian. From A Girl's Point of View. Frontis. 1987. $.90 PAGE 2 BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN 12 BELL, W. Balir. The Sex Compley. Illus. London, 1916. $4.00 **Study of the relationships of the internal secretions to the female characteristics and functions in health and disease. 13 BENNETT, John. Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects. 16mo, new buckram. Worcester, pr. by ISAIAH THOMAS, jr. for Thomas & Andrews, May 1798. $5.00 14 BERKOW, Saul G., M.D. Childless: a Study of Sterility, its Causes and Treatment. (1937). $2.00 15 The Lady Cyclist 50 Years Ago BICYCLING. Opper, F. Brilliant Original Pen-and-Ink Cartoon, satirizing the Bicycling Rage among women, in 7 sketches. 18 x 23 1/4". (1896). SIGNED. $12.50 ** The central figure is a woman cyclist in breeches, fearless of the mice at her feet. Six sketches on the sides show women cyclists--- drawing baby carriage; with laundry basket; in Salvation Army costumes; and one cyclist placing wreath on her husband's grave. BRILLIANT SATIRE, in Opper's most spirited style. 16 BLOCH, Iwan, M.D. Sexual Life of Our Time. Trans. by Eden Paul, M.D. Over 800pp. 1928. $5.00 17 Bloomer Girls on Parade BLOOMER DAYS. Print. American Fashions for 1851. "Publ. by Brace Breeches & Co., of Petticoat Lane." A. Sala del. Tinted Lithograph. Folio in width, mounted. 1851. Scarce. $7.50 18 French Manners & Morals BOUILLY, N.-N. Les Jeunes Femmes.....2 Engr. Title-Pages with Vignettes, & Numerous Other Plates, after Chasselat. 2 Vols. Marbled calf (rubbed; backstrips torn). Paris, ca 1820. First Edition. Scarce. **The prolific French writer of juveniles here sets down the rules and examples he supposes to be best for the preservation of virtue and the perpetuation of happiness. $20.00 19 BOUSFIELD, Paul. Sex and Civilization. London, 1925. $2.00 20 BRAUDE, Morris. Life Begins: Childbirth in Lore & in Literature. Illus. Chicago, 1935. d.w. $2.00 21 BRAZIL. Engraved Portrait. Maria daGloria, Konigin von Portugal (and Brazil). Hofbauer & Fr. Stoeber sc. 8 vo. Ca. 1840. $2.50 22 Ballad of the Famous "Fall River Tragedy" BROADSIDE BALLAD. Death of Sarah M(aria) Cornell. Woodcut of young woman. 9 3/4x 7 3/4", with border (mounted; somewhat worn, slightly affecting text). Boston, sold wholesale & retail at Burnham's, ca 1833. Rare. $7.50 **The Rev. E.K. Avery, her supposed seducer, traducer & murderer, was acquitted by the ecclesiastical & civil courts, but as the people believed him guilty he left for Ohio, where he became a farmer, dying in Pittsfield, O., 1869. "He'll say the welfare of your soul Is his supreme desire, Oh! flee from such hypocrisy, Remember poor Maria(r)." 23 Early Woman's College BROOKLYN, Engraved Diploma, not filled in, PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. Fine Vignettes embodying a Portrait & Arms of the Institute. Engr. by J.C. Buttre. Oblong folio, vellum, 1854. $5.00 24 BROWN, Thurlow W. Minnie Hermon, the Rumseller's Daughter; or, Woman in the Temperance Reform: A Tale for the Times. Frontis. Cloth, rubbed. g.e. Phila., (1874). $1.50 25 BRYCE, T.H., et al. Contributions to the Study of the Early Development and Imbedding of the HUMAN OVUM. 10 Plates & 12 Figs. Thin tall 4to, buckram. Glasgow, 1908. First Edn. Scarce. $10.00 26 BUCK, M.S. Rose of Corinth. Full-Page Illus. in Green by Franz Felix. Pink cloth. 1929. LIMITED EDN. $5.00 27 BULLIET, C.J. The Courtezan Olympia: Artists and their Mistress-Models. Profusely illus. 1930. $3.00 28 BURIALS. Print. Esther Hammerton, Female Sexton. 4to. (London), ca. 1800. $3.00 29 The Bald-Headed Row BURLESQUE SHOW. Grant Gordon. Fine Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing, showing the first of a burlesque theater, the familiar bald-headed enthusiasts all equipped with BINOCULARS FITTED OVER THEIR HEADS. The "beef trust" limbs are prominent on the stage. 14x22 1/2". 1907. SIGNED. $20.00 **For used in Puck magazine. DELIGHTFUL DRAWING. Lady seated behind the old bucks hold program to her mouth, in a great amusement. 30 BURNAP, George W. Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman and Other Subjects. Balto., 1841. $1.50 ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E. 59th St., N.Y.C. **BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN** PAGES 31 BUSCKE, A. and Jacobsohn, F., M.Ds. Sex Habits a Vital Factor in Well-Being. Trans. by E. and C. Paul. Illus. (1933). $1.50 32 BUSHNELL, Horace. Women's Suffrage; the Reform Against Nature. 1869. $1.50 33 BUTLER, Elizabeth B. Women and the Trades: Pittsburg, 1907-1908. Illus. 1909. $2.00 34 CALVERTON, V.F. Bankruptcy of Marriage. 1/2 cloth. 1928. $1.50 35 CANOEING. Taylor, C.J. Series of 7 Original Pen-and-Ink Sketches, on one sheet, showing Eccentricities of Summer Canoeing. 11 x 8". (1886). SIGNED. $5.00 **For use in Puck magazine. "Spooning" in canoes; etc. 36 CASTLE, W.E., and others. Heredity and Eugenecs. Illus. U. of Chicago Press, (1913). $2.00 37 CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. 1936. d.w. First Edition. Mint copy. $3.00 **The first volume of essays published by Miss Cather. 38 CHIDECKEL, M., M.D. The Single, the Engaged, and the Married. (1936). $2.00 39 CHILD, L. Maria. Brief History of the Condition of Women, In Various Ages and Nations. 2 vols. cloth, torn, w.c. 1845. $5. 40 CLARKE, Ida C. & Sheridan, Lillian B., eds. Women of 1924 International. (1924). $1.50 41 COHEN Solal, Georges. La Conservation Ovarienne Dans l'Hysterectomie: Etude Clinique et Experimentale... Illus. 4to pr. wrappers. Algiers, 1938. $4.00 **Thesis, presented at the University of Algiers. 42 COLORED BROADSIDE. "Mrs. Runnington's Wig." Colored caricature, with 48 lines of verse beneath. 8 3/4 x 11". London, Laurie & Whittle, 5 March 1806. Scarce. $5.00 **An unfortunate incident, in which an old suitor dewigged his aged lady-love. 43 CORBETT-Smith, A. Woman- Theme and Variations: A Divertimento. Frontis. 1932. $1.25 44 CORREGGIO. The Magdalen, Reading. Very fine engraving by Longhi, after Correggio. Oblong folio. Milan, 1810. Proof with the Arms. Rare. $15.00 45 Subway & Stage-Cracks COSTUME. Pair of Original Pen-and- Ink Sketches, by Ehrhart, on one sheet. 14 1/2 x 20". (1914). 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(Lacks blankflyleaf) Madras, 1922. $1.50 49 CURRIER & IVES. Genre Piece, in Color. The Blessing of a Wife. Folio. Tear (rather crudely repaired; marginal stain). ca. 1860-70. $10.00 **Also issued with title, "Raal Convenience." Irish couple. She mends his coat while he prepares to shave. 50 CURTIS, George W. Equal Rights for Women. Pr. wr. 24pp. 1869. $1.50 51 DALL, Caroline H. The College, The Market, and The Court; or, Woman's Relation to Education, Labor and Law. Hinges loose. 1867. $2.50 52 DELL, Floyd. Women As World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism. Chic., 1913. $1.00 53 DICKINSON, R.L., & Beam, L. The Single Woman: a Medical Study in Sex Education. 469pp. Baltimore, 1934. First Edition. $3.00 **Survey issued under the sponsorship of the National Committee On Maternal Health. PAGE 4 BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN 54 Dickinson, R.L. & Beam, L. A Thousand Marriages: A Medical Study of Sex Adjustment. 482 pp. Baltimore, 1931. First edition. $7.50. **Autograph presentation, from both authors. Standard pre-Kinsey classic, sponsored by the National Committee on Maternal Health. ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR ITS EXCELLENT CASE HISTORIES. 55 Discussion: of the Character, Education, Prerogatives, and Moral Influence of Woman. 1837. $1.00 56 DONALDSON, John. Influence of Woman in Society. Pr. wrappers, 16pp. London, 1858. $1.00 57 ELLIS, Havelock. Man and Woman: Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters. 1929. $1.50 58 EROTICA. Superb Mezzotints, after Titian. "Loves of the Gods" Series. John Smith sc. Tall folio. London, 1708-9. Each, $10.00 a) Neptune & Amphitrite. b) Pluto & Proserpine. 59 ERSKINE, Joh. Influence of Women: and Its Cure. (1936). $1.00 "To the Men of America (Those Who Remain)." 60 ERSKINE, Mrs. Monteith. Sex at Choice. London, (1925). $1.50 61 EUGENICS. First International Eugenics Congress, London. Problems in Eugenics. Papers Communicated to the Congress, July 1912. Illus. with Charts & Diagrs. (&Supp. Vol. II). Over 500pp. Pr. wrappers. London, 1912. Scarce. $10.00 **With the signature of Raymond Pearl, a contributor, on cover. Papers by important biological, medical, and sociological researchers. In English, French, German, Italian, etc. ALSO: Report of Proceedings. A Supplementary Volume (II) to the above. 62 Art of Begetting Beautiful Children EUGENICS. Quillet, Claude. Callipaedia, &c., et Scaevolae Sammarthani, Paedotrophia. Full straight-grain morocco, (corner rubbed; margins dampstained). London, J. Bowyer, 1709. $12.50 **With the general title, and both subordinate titles. "Denounced conventional marriages, and was, in some sort, a pioneer work in eugenics."--Garrison. 63 EUGENICS. Quillet, Claude. La Callipedier, traduite du Poeme Latin. Cont. mottled calf, back gilt, marbled endpapers. Paris, 1749. $15.00 **SCARCE FRENCH EDITION. Latin original and French prose on facing pages. "LA MANIERE D'AVOIR DE BEAUX ENFANS." The translator was C.P. de Montenault d'Egly. 64 EVANS, C.B.S.,M.D. Sex Practice in Marriage. Illus. 1935. $1.00 65 EXNER, M.J., M.D. Sexual Side of Marriage. (1932). $2.00 66 FEMINISM. Opper, F. Original Pen-and-Ink Cartoons, in 6 Sections, commenting on the Feminist movement. 14X18". Ca. 1890. SIGNED. $12.50 **Meeting of Feminists, with appropriate wall mottoes (Woman is NOT the Inferior Sex--au contraire, etc.); women's bicycle corps; woman driving coach; woman interviewer; women reading the paper, while father is bedeviled by the children; mannish fashions. 67 Over 40 Engraved Portraits FEMMES de Tous les Pays, Dessinees et Gravees par les Plus Habiles Artistes. Over 40 Fine Engraved Plates; no text. folio, gilt-lettered cloth, morocco back, g.e. Paris, Laplace, Sanchez, 19th century. $15.00 **Du Barry, Recamier, Marie Antoinette Pompadour, Lecouvreur, La Fornarina, Anne Boleyn, and others. Engraved by Gervais, Leguay, Demeersmann, Rouargue, and others. 68 FINCK, H.T. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty. London, 1887. $2.00 69 FOLIO, Fred. A Book For the Times: Lucy Boston; or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century. Illus. 1855. $3.00 70 Lady Freemason FREEMASONARY. The Hon. Mrs. Aldworth, the Lady Freemason. Lithograph, by Middleton, Strobridge & Co. Tall folio Cincinnati, 1860. $7.50 **Dedicated to Col. W.M. Wilson, Grand Master of Canada. Fine gift for the Eastern Star! 71 FULLER, Mrs. Marcus B. The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood. Introd. by Ramabai. Illus. (1900). $1.00 72 GALLICHAN, Walter M. Psychology of Marriage. (1918). $1.50 73 GEBHARD, C. Pathologische Anatomie der Weiblichen Sexualorgane. 200 Illus. 608pp. 4to, 1/2 cloth. Leipzig, 1899. First Edition. $7.50 **By the noted Berlin professor. ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114, E. 59th, St. N.Y.C. **BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN** PAGE 5 74 GEDDES, Patrick, and Thomson, J.A. Evolution of Sex. 92 Illus. London, and N.Y., 1901. $1.50 75 GIBSON, Charles Dana. Drawings. Over 80 Full Page Pen & Ink Drawings. Oblong 4to, 1/4 linen, (shaken). N.Y. & London, 1897. $5.00 **The Risque Nineties! - Especially picturing the fortunes and misfortunes of young American Heiresses on the hunt in Europe. Leap Year happenings; and some of the famous "Puzzle" pictures. 76 GOLDSCHMIDT, Richard. The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination. Trans. by W.J. Dakin. 113 Illus. 4to. London & N.Y., 1923. $7.50 77 GOODWIN, Grace Duffield. Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons. Cloth-backed. 1912. $1. 78 GRAVES, William P. Female Sex Hormonology: a Review. Illus. 131pp. 4to. Phila., 1931. $2.50 **By the Prof. of Gynecology at Harvard. 79 "GRETNA GREEN." Mezzotint. The Elopement, or a Trip to Scotland." Printed for Sayer & Bennett. Rather tall folio. London, 1777. $15.00 **The composed young lady descends a rope ladder, eagerly awaited by handsome young officer. Vehicle to left. Any history of 18th-century English manners would have to include an account of the numerous elopements of well-to-do young women. 80 (GUINEY, Louise Imogen). Three Heroines of New England Romance. Illus. by E.H. Garrett. (Binding trifle soiled). 1894. $3.- **Contains PRISCILLA, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; AGNES SURRIAGE, by Alice Brown; and MARTHA HILTON, by Miss Guiney, True Stories. 81 GYPSIES. Print. Margaret Finch, Queen of the Gypsies at Norwood. Engraved by Cook. 4to. (London), ca.1770. $3.00 82 HABERLLANDT, Ludwig. Die Hormonale Sterilisierung des Weiblichen Organismus. Illus. 28pp. 4to, pr. wrappers. Jena, 1931. **With a bibliography of 165 items. $4.00 83 HAIR. Fenn, Harry. Original Pen-and- Ink Drawing, "Manchu Hairpin, Back View." 6 1/2 x 13 1/2"; mounted. Ca. 1890. **Signed with monogram. For an article in Century Magazine. Brilliant, full-size drawing, showing the hair wound around the elaborately worked pin. Flowers form background. Lower center cut away, to permit insertion of text. $5.00 HAIRE, Norman, ed. Some More Medical Views on Birth Control. (1928). d.w. $2.00 85 HAMBLEN, E.C. Endocrinology of Woman. Illus. 571pp. 4to. Springfield, 1945. **By the Clinical Prof. of Endocrinology at Duke University. $6.00 86 HAMILTON, G.V. A Research in Marriage. 570pp. 4to. 1929. 1st Edn. $3.00 **Premarital, marital, and extra-marital sex relations of a selected group, revealing their normal and variant relations - sexual, social, and psychological. 87 HAMILTON, G.V., and MacGowan, K. What Is Wrong with Marriage. 1929 $2 88 HATS. Ehrhart. Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing, showing woman in theatre, opera glasses in hand, her view completely obstructed by 3 magnificently ornate hats in the row ahead. 12 x 11 1/2" (1891). SIGNED. $7.50 **In those unlucky days, one couldn't ask ladies to remove their hats. Her escort looks on with a very impolite snicker. 91 HATS. Copperplates, by Dupin after Desrais, showing 12 chapeaux and 4 coiffures for women. 17 x 11 1/2". Paris, Esnauts et Rapilly, ca.1785. $5.00 **Headed, "4le Cahier des Costumes Francais. Ile Suite des Coeffures a la mode en 1783." Elaborate coiffures, surmounted by small, elegant chapeaux. 92 HATS. English Mezzotints. Folio. London, 1772-82. Each, $7.50 **Miss Prim's HAT is something to marvel at and Dr. Tiptoe is exceedingly rakish. a) Miss in her Teens or a Chip of the Old Block. Same publ. (marginal tears). 1777. The mother's hair-do and headdress are terrific. PAGE 6 BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN A gallant is slipping the Miss a note. b) The Painting Room. Pr. for Sayre & Bennett. 1782. The two ladies are amazing--from the forehead up. 93 HEAPE, Walter. Sex Antagonism. 1913. $1.75 94 HECKER, Eugene A. A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States. 1914. $1.50 95 HEYWOOD, E.H. Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling WOMAN Without Her Consent. (Twentieth Thousand). Pr. wrappers, 23pp. Princeton, Mass., 1870. $3.00 96 HIGGINSON, T.W. Woman and her Wishes; an Essay. Pr. wr. 26pp. 1853. $1.50 97 HIRSCHFIELD, Magnus. Men and Women: the World Journey of a Sexologist. 325pp. (c1935). $5.00 98 HISTOIRE d'Amyntor et de Therese. Traduite de l'Anglois. 2 vols. Thin 18mo, 1/2 calf, (scuffed). Amsterdam, 1770. Scarce. **Inconsolable love and tragedy, with a suspicion of levity for flavor. $10.00 99 HOMMAGE aux Dames. Engraved Title; 6 Copperplates after Fagonard, Wilkie, and Mlle. Lescot. 24mo, orig. pict. pink boards, g.e. Paris, L. Janet, ca.1820. $7.50 **Poems by Saint-Ange, Desbordes-Valmore, and many others. At end, with title "Souvenirs et Pensees" are a series of blank pages, one for each month, headed by choice small vignettes. 100 Early Woman Theologian (HUBER, Mary). The World Unmask'd; or, the Philosopher and Greatest Cheat; in 24 Dialogues. With the State of Souls separated from their Bodies, and an Answer to an Enquiry into Origenism. Trans. from the French (454pp.), worn (hinges broken). London, A. Millar, 1736. First Edition. Scarce. $10.00 **With MIllar's leaf of ads. Small portion of last leaf of text torn away. By the Genevan writer, Mary Huber, whose liberal interpretation of Protestant doctrine caused her to be accused of infidelity. The work was formerly attributed to Bernard de Mandeville. 101 HUHNER, Max., M.D. Practical Treatise on Disorders of the Sexual Function in Male and Female. Phila., 1927. $2.50 102 HUNTING. Original Water-Color of young woman in hunting-costume, with shotgun. Unsigned. Ca.1890. $4.00 **On a forest road. 103 IMPOTENCY. The Case of Impotency Debated, In the Late Famous Tryal at Paris Between the Marquis de Gesvres...and Mlle de Mascranny, his Lady...Vol. 1 only (should be 2). (332pp). 12mo, wrappers. London, E. Curll, 1714. Scarce. $10.00 **"The Marquis...is not only descended from one of the best Families in France, but is likewise a very handsome jolly, and seemingly compeat Gentleman: BUT THERE'S NO TRUSTING TO LOOKS; as may be too well testify'd by his unhappy Spouse..." 104 Amours of the Jacobean Court; Only Two Copies Located in America (JAMES II). The Amours of Messalina, Late Queen of Albion...Imposture of the Cambrion Prince, the Gothick League, and Other Court Intrigues of the Four Last Years Reign, not yet made Publick. By a Woman of Quality, late Confident of Q. Messalina. 1 Plate. Small 12mo, 3 paginations, 1/2 roan; (page numbers cut into). London, J. Lyford, 1689. First Edition. RARE. $30.00 **ALL FOUR PARTS COMPLETE; the 3d and 4th have continued pagination, though with 2 title (one bears the imprint of James Beale). Part 4 is called Amours of the French King with the Late Queen of Albion. Corner of one leaf torn, affecting a few words. Scandalous amatory fiction based on the unahppy James and his wife. The "warming-pan" enters the narrative. STC Wing (A3023) locates only two copies of America. 105 JAMESON, Mrs. Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. 1850. $2.00 106 JOHNSON, Helen K. Woman and the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States...1897. $1. 107 JUDAICA. Esther before Ahasueres, by and after Antoine Coypel. Etching & line-engraving. Wide folio. (Paris), ca. 1710. $5.00 **Fine impression, dedication plate. Slight defects due to mounting. "Coypel's etchings, which are not numerous, are very highly finished and of excellent quality." 108 KELLER, Helen. Optimism: An Essay. Frontis. 1903. $2.00 109 KEY, Ellen. Love and Marriage. Frans. by A.G. Chater. Intro. by Havelock Ellis. (1911). $1.50 ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E. 59th St., N.Y.C. 22 **BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN** Pg. 7 110 KNIGHT, M.M., Peters, I.L., and Blanchard, P. Taboo and Genetics. 1920. $1.25 111 (LACLOS, Choderlos de). Les Liaisons Dangereuses; ou, Lettres Recueillies dans une Societe, et Publiees pour l'Instruction de Quelques Autres, par C...de L...Engr. Plates. 2 vols. 16mo, contemp. mottled calf (one hinge broken). Geneva, 1792. Scarce. $15.00 **Seduction and intrigue at its best, in a collection of letters about which the publishers disclaimed responsibility for their authenticity, saying "nous avons memes de fortes raisons de penser que ce n'est qu'un roman," in spite of the Editor's promise in the preface. With the armorial bookplate and signature of Edward Stuart Leslie. 112 LACLOS, Choderlos de. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Illus. With Plates From 18th Cent. Prints. 2 vols. Pr. wrappers. Paris, 1926. $15.00 **Published after the original text, and with a study of the author. INCLUDES A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDITIONS. 113 LA FOLLETTE, Suzanne. Concerning Women. 1926. $1.75 114 LANGDON-DAVIES, John. 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The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suggrage. Thin tall 8vo. London, 1913. d.w. $1.50 YOUNG, Saml. Suggestions on the Best Mode of Promoting Civilization and Improvement; or, the INFLUENCE OF WOMAN on the Social State. 36pp., wrappers. Albany, 1837. $3.50 ** "The interior of savage countries would probably now be unknown to us had not the hardy travelers ... been sustained ... by the benevolence of females." Cites Ledyard, Mungo Park. (P.9). Shakespeare, almost alone among great writers, just to woman. (p.18). Woman entitled to every right. (p.23). ******End of Books About Women******** ************************* BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE WOMEN 258 ADAMS, Abigail, by Janet Whitney. Illus. Boston, 1947. $2.50 259 ADAMS, Miss, Daughter of John Adams. Correspondence. Edited by Her Daughter. Vol. 2. Frontis. N.Y., 1842. $2.00 260 ADAMS, Mrs., Wife of John Adams. Letters ** Editor of the famous Little Review; notes on Pound, Joyce, Picasso, etc. 263 Inscribed Photograph ANDERSON, Mary. 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Special, $.75 ** Varied social and political career by a former mistress of 10 Downing St. 267 ASQUITH. My Impressions of America N.Y., (1922). $1.00 268 ATHERTON, Gertrude, Adventures of a Novelist. Illus. Thick tall 8vo (shaken). (1932). $2.50 269 AUSTIN, Mary. Earth Horizon: Autobiography. Illus. N.Y., 1932. $1.50 270 AYER, Josephine Mellen: a Memoir. Port. 1900. $2.00 **Of Quaker descent; with an account of the persecution of her Quaker ancestors. 271 BACON, F. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America. Thick 8vo, 1/2 calf (worn). New Haven, 1833. $1.00 272 BALASCHEFF, Marie. The Transplanting. Ed. by Martha G. Stearns. Illus. 1928. d.w. $1.25 **Letters of a Russian refugee in France. ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E. 59th St., N.Y.C. 22 **BIOG. OF WOMEN** PAGE 15 273 BARCYNSKA, Countess, ed. The Little Mother Who Sits at Home. N.Y., (1915). 1.50 274 BARRYMORE, Ethel. Fine original Photograph of Ethel Barrymore and Mrs. Whiffen in "Captain Jinks." 4to, mounted. 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Ports. 4 vols. 1/2 morocco, gilt decor. spines, g.t. Paris, 1907-8. $17.50 ** The Countess conducted one of the most amazing of all literary-political salons, mastering the intrigues of her [*PAGE 16*] [*BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE WOMEN*] day with grace and daring. 294 BOLAINE, Betty, the Canterbury Miser. History of, Containing an Account of her Avarice, and Wonderful Escapes from Matrimony. Engr. Port. 36pp., 1/2 calf. Rochester (Eng.), S.Caddel, ca.1810.$7.60 295 BOLTON, Sarah K. Famous Types of Womanhood. Illus. (1892). $1.50 ** Harriet Martineau, Jenny Lind, etc. 296 (BONAPARTE, Pauline). Imperial Venus: a Novel of Napoleon's Favorite Sister, by Edgar Maass. Indianapolis, (1946). $1/50 297 BONAPARTE: Woman of Affairs, by Harrison Brent. Index. N.Y., 1946. $2.00 298 (BONAPARTES). The Women Bonapartes: The Mother & Three Sisters of Napoleon, by H.Noel Williams. Illus. 2 vols. Thick 8vo. Scarce. 299 BREMER, Fredika. Life, Letters & Posthumous Works. Ed. by Charlotte Bremer. 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I & II, on title-pages, CO is followed by a period and comma; in Vol. III the comma is absent."--Parrish in Victorian Lady Novelists. 304 BROWN, Audrey A. Log of a Lame Duck. Port. Toronto, 1938. 305 BROWN, Harriet Connor. Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927. Illus. Boston, 1929. 306 (BROWNE, Eliza S.). Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago. Ports. (N.Y.), 1899. $2.00 307 BRUSH, Katharine. This is on Me. Illus. by Susanne Suba. N.Y., 1939). $1.25 ** Amusing life of the well known novelist. 308 BUNSEN, Mrs. Henry. A Memorial, for the Family by Edw.O.Jenkins. Illus. 69pp. Morocco. (1860). $2.50 ** Wife of the inventor of the noted machine for making horseshoes and the spikes used generally on railroads, boat and shipbuilding. Native of Troy, N.Y. 310 BUTLER, Frances [A?e] (Fanny Kemble). Journal. Vol. 2 only. 1835. $2.50 ** Covers December 1832-33. 311 CAMERON, Lady Mary. Merrily I Go to Hell. 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One of the glamorous Mrs. Carter's earliest triumphs; the play (by Belasco) ran for three years. 307 Engaging Singer CATLEY, Anne: Life: Celebrated Singing Performer of the Last Century ... Her Professional Engagement in London & Dublin, and HER VARIOUS ADVENTURES AND INTRIGUES WITH WELL- KNOWN MEN OF QUALITY AND WEALTH...Port. 16mo, 1/2 morocco. London, 1888. First Edition. Scarce.7.50 [*ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E.59th St., NY.C. 22 ** BIOG. OF WOMEN** PAGE 17*] ** A precocious youngster, "she has reached her 14th year, when, as she was sitting one day in an alehouse, among her companions, she was desired to sing a song..." and thereby hangs her tale! With Viola Allen's bookplate. 318 CENCI, Beatrice, by C.Ricci. Trans. Illus. 2 vols. Thick tall 8vo. N.Y., 1925. Boxed. $4.00 319 ----. Same. 1 vol. 1933. d.w. $2.50 320 CHAMBRUN, Countess de: Shadows Like Myself. Illus. Thick tall 8vo. 1936. $2.50 ** American-born wife of a French general; Shakespeare scholar. 320-A CHANDLER, Mrs. Winthrop. Roman Spring: Memorials. Illus. Boston, 1934. $1. 321 Swis Social Life--18th Century CHARRIERE de Severy, Salomon & Catherine, et leurs Amis, par M.et Mme.Wm. de Severy. 69 Fine Plates. 2 vols., tall 8vo, pr. wrappers (backs frayed); uncut & unopened. Lausanne & Paris, 1911-12. $15. ** Much on relations of the family with GIBBON, BENJAMIN CONSTANT, and the noted physician TISSOT The main title is: La Vie de Societe dans le Pays de Vaud, a la Fin du 18me Siecle. 322 CHASE, Mary Ellen. A Goodly Heritage. N.Y., (1934). ** A record of a lifetime of teaching English, by the professor at Smith College. 323 CHILD, Lydia Maria. Letters, with a Biographical Intro. by John G. Whittier & Appendix by Wendell Phillips. Port. Boston 1883. Contains a bibliography. $3.00 324 CHILDS, Mrs. Mary Porter. Memorial. 47pp., wrappers. 1863. $2.00 ** Wife of Rev. 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Being Passages from a Life now progressing in the city of Boston. Illus. N.p., 1873. $3.00 ** Born Elizabeth M. Weymouth, of Mass. A very breezy, Bohemian account of a life complicated by the companionship, in young widowhood of a drunken brother, and an equally dissolute second husband. 355 DRAPER, Muriel. Music at Midnight. Illus. N.Y., 1929. $1.75 356 DREW, Mrs. John. Autobiographical Sketch. With Intro. by her Son. Illus. Linen cloth. N.Y., 1899. $1.50 357 DU BARRY, Madame la Comtesse. Fine Mezzotint Portrait, after B. Wilson, Wm. Humphrey fecit. 17 3/8 x 13", very full margins. London, 1770. $35.00 **C.S. No. 8. Second State, preceded only by proof. The plate was reduced in size in the next issue. The Mistress of Louis XV, visited England on several occasions; this portrait was made there. Guillotined 1793. There is one other English Mezzotint of Du Barry, by T.Watson, after Drouais' French portrait. 358 (DUC LOS, C.P.) 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Boston, 1923. $3.00 ** Describes her stay at the White House during Grant's Administration; her life at Santo Domingo, Newport, Boston in the 80's; New Orleans Cotton Centennial, etc. 373 ELY, Mrs. Edward: In Memoriam. Died February 17, 1876. $1.00 374 Sarah A. My Generation. 1893. $2. 375 ENGLISHWOMAN'S Love Letters. Parchment boards. London, 1900. $1.25 ** A tragic romance. 376 Most Famous Female Impersonator EON, Chevalier d'. Lettres, Memoires, et Negotiations Particulieres du: ...Avec les Ducs de Praslin, de Nivernois, de Sainte- Foy, & Regnier de Guerchy...2 vols. in 1. Thick 12mo, contemp. mottled calf. Londres, 1765. $20.00 **Adventures and intrigues of one of the most deceiving of female impersonators, and one of the most important diplomats of the period. 377 Extraordinary Rarity EON. Mezzotint. Charles Genovesa Louisa Augusta Andrew Timothy d'EON de Beaumont, Knight of the Royal & military order of St. Louis, Captain of Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to the Marechal Duke de Broglio(e); Minister Plentipotentiary from France... 18 1/2 x 11 1/2". London, Publ. by S.Hooper, 1773. Excessively Rare. Fine impression, with good margins. $25.00 **A seemingly unrecorded item. Shows d'Eon as a female warrior, in antique costume, with shield of Pallas Athena; French camp and troops in background. 36 lines of text, at base, recount the career of d'Eon in enthusiastic fashion, and state the supposed reasons for considering that person a woman, in profuse detail. 378 EPINAY, Madame d': Une Femme du Monde au 18me Siecle. par Lucien Perey et Gaston Maugras. Port. 2 vols., tall 8vo, crimson 3/4 morocco, g.t. Paris, 1883-91. $7.50 **Vol. 1-La Jeunesse; Vol. 2-Dernieres Annees, son Salon et Ses Amis. 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Fine. $10.00 648 SOUTHGATE, Eliza (later Mrs. Walter Bowne). A Girl's Life 80 Years Ago. Selections from her Letters. Illus. Linen. N.Y., 1888. $2.50 ** Letters from Boston, N.Y., LI. & Charleston, S.C., 1797-1809. 649 SPENCER, J.A., ed. Women of Early Christianity. 17 fine Engravings. 4to. gilt-morocco (1 hinge broken), g.e. N.Y., 1853. $2.50 649-A SPRAGUE, Wm.,ed. Women of the Old and New Testament. 18 Engravings (Some foxing). Sq. 4to. N.Y., 1850. $4.00 650 120 Photogravures STAGE and Its Stars Past and Present: Ed. by Howard Paul and G.Gebbie. 128 Photogravure plates; over 400 Text Illus. 2 vols., large folio, red 3/4 morocco (joints cracked); g.e. Phila., ca. 1890. $20.00 ** A vast gallery of portraits and scenes from plays, illustrating the English and American stage from Shakespeare to 1890. 651 STANTON, Eliz.Cady. Reminiscences of 80 Years and More. Ports. N.Y. , 1888. $2.00 652 STANTON: As Revealed in her Letters, Diary & Reminiscences. Ed. by T. Stanton & H.S.Blatch. 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N.Y., (1933). 1.75 ** Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Montague, Voltaire, Walpole, etc. 662 STRANG, Lewis C. Famous Actresses of the Day in America, 2d Series. 16mo. Boston, 1902. $1.25 ** Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Mrs. Fiske, Ann Held, Ada Rehan, etc. 663 STRICKLAND, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. 7 vols. 3/4 morocco. Phila., 1859. $20.00 664 STRONG, Anna Louise. I Change Worlds: Remaking of an American. Thick tall 8vo. N.Y., (1935). $2.00 ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E. 59th St., N.Y.C. 22 ** BIOG. OF WOMEN** PAGE 31 665 SUKLOFF, Marie. Life Story of a Russian Exile. Trans. Illus. N.Y., 1914. $2.00 **Peasant childhood, girlhood in prison, exile to and escape from Siberia. 666 SVENSON, Emily. A Modern Valkyrie. N.Y., 1909. $.75 667 TABOUIS, Genevieve. Ils l'ont Appellee Cassandre. Thick 8vo, pr. wrappers. N.Y., 1942. $2.50 668 TABOUIS, Genevieve. They Called Me Cassandra. Post. 1942. $1.75 669 TALMA, F.J.: Vie Amoreuse de, par A. Antoine. Flex. leather, wrappers bound in. (Paris, 1924). $1.50 670 TARAKANOVA, Princess: A Dark Chapter of Russian History, by G.P. Danilevski. 4 Ports. N.Y., n.d. $1.50 671 TARNOWSKA, Marie: by A.V.Chartres. Intro. Letter by Prof. L.M.Bossi. Illus. London, (1915). $2.50 **Exotic Russian beauty, found guilty of instigating the murder of Count Kamarowsky. 672 TCHERANAVIN, Tatiana. Escape From the Soviets. Trans. Frontis. N.Y., 1934. d.w. $1.50 673 TCHIRIKOVA, Olga. Sandrik: Child of Russia. Ed. by Frank Scully. Intro. by Grand Duke Alexander. N.Y., 1934. $1.50 674 TEMPSKI, Armine von. Born in Paradise. (1940). $1.00 675 TERRY, Ellen & her Secret Self, with a Plea for G.B.S., by Edw. Gordon Craig. Illus. N.Y., (1932). $3.50 676 TERRY and Bernard Shaw: a Correspondence, ed. by Christopher St. John Large thick 8vo. N.Y., 1931. d.w. $3.00 677 THAXTER, Celia. Letters, ed. by A.F. & R.L. Illus. Boston, 1896. $1.50 678 THERESA, Empress of Brazil. Engraved Portrait. W.Wellstood sc. 4to. (Cinn.), ca. 1856-8. $2.50 679 4 Charming Signed Etchings THORNE, Diana. Group of 4 charming Etchings, by this noted artist, all PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS SIGNED. 4to. Each, $5. a) Girl in swing, with cat looking up. b) 3 little dancing to music of organ-grinder with monkey. c) Girl with 2 large dogs on leash. d) Little girl on roller skates, being pulled by frisky dog. 680 TITAYNA. Mademoiselle Agains the World. Illus. Trans. (1931). $1.00 ** Travels of an adventuresome French woman in Europe and the Far East. 681 TOPHAM, Anne: Memories of the Fatherland. Ports. Thick 8vo. 1916. $1.50 ** Tutor to Kaiser Wilhelm's daughters. 682 TOWNLEY, Lady Susan. "Indiscretions" of Lady Susan. Illus. 1922. $1.00 ** Diplomatic adventure in Asia, Europe and America. 683 (TOWNSHEND, Viscountess). The Lively Lady T. and her Friends: by Erroll Sherson. Fine Plates. Large 8vo. London, 1928. d.w. $3.00 ** "One of the most beautiful, witty, audacious women of the 18th century." 684 TRAFTON, Adeline. An American Girl Abroad. Illus. 16mo. Boston, 1872. $2.50 ** Quaint tale of travel in Europe in the 1800s. 685 An Early Currier TREE, Ellen. Portrait, as Mariane in The Wrecker's Daughter. Henri Heideman del. N. Currier lith. Small folio, (brown spots). N.Y., 1837. An Early Currier. Scarce. $12.50 ** Tourned in America, 1836-9. Later married Kean, retiring from the stage on his death. 686 TREE, Viola. Castles in the Air. Illus. Thick 8vo. 1926. $1.25 687 TRENCH, Mrs. Richard. Remains: Selection from her Journals, Letters, and Other Papers. Ed. by her Son. Port. 3/4 morocco. London, 1862. $4.00 687-A TROLLOPE, Mrs. Portrait. F. Elias del. Lith. by Pobuda, Rees et Cie. Ca. 1840. 8vo. $3.00 688 (TSCHAIKOWSKY & Nadejda von Meck): "Beloved Friend." By C.D. Bowen & B. von Meck. Port. Thick tall 8vo. N.Y., 1937. $3.00 689 TUCKER, Sophie. Some of These Days: Autobiography. N.Y., (1946). $1.50 690 TUSSAUD, Madame. The Romance of: by John T. Tussaud. Intro. by Hilaire Belloc. Illus. (1920). $3.00 691 TWEEDIE, Mrs. Alec. Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life. Illus. Thick 8vo. London, 1912. $2.00 ** Author & world traveller. 692 TYLER, Gertrude and her Family, 1660-1860. American Backlogs (their) Story, compiled by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt & Kermit Roosevelt. Illus. N.Y., 1928. $2.00 ** The Tylers were seafarers all. PAGE 32 BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE WOMEN 693 TYLERS, The. American Backlogs: Gertrude Tyler & Her Family, 1660-1860, Comp. by Mrs. Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt. Illus. 1/2 cloth. 1938. $2.00 694 UELAND, Brenda. "Me." Port. Thick 8vo. N.Y., 1939. d.w. $1.75 ** Delightful recollections of Greenwich Village, Minneapolis, etc. 695 UNCENSORED Recollections. Tall 8vo. Phila., 1924. $1.25 696 MORE UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS. N.Y., 1926. $1.50 697 UNDERWOOD, Sarah A. Heroines of Freethought. N.Y., 1879. $2.00 ** Madame Rolland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Geo. Sand, Harriet Martineau, Emma Martin, George Eliot, etc. 698 UPTON, Florence: Painter, by Edith Lyttelton. Illus. London, 1926. $1.00 699 UPTON, Sarah B. Sketch of (her) Life. 81pp. Phila., 1886. $2.50 ** A Quaker, native of Phila., 1797-1881 700 VAKA, Demetra (Mrs. Kenneth Brown). Haremilk. Boston, 1909. $2.00 ** Pages from the life of a Turkish woman. Bruce Rogers Edition. 701 VAN COTT, Maggie N. Harvest & the Reaper; Reminiscences of Revival Work. Intro. by Bishop Haven. Port. N.Y., 1877. ** The first woman licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. $3.00 702 VARNHAGEN, Rahel: a Portrait, by Ellen Key. Trans. Illus. N.Y., 1913. $2.00 703 (TZU-Hsi). The Last Empress, by Danielle Vare. Illus. Garden City, 1938. $1.50 704 VESTRIS, Madame: Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures. Frontis. 1/2 calf, g.t., London, 1839. $4.00 ** Celebrated English actress. 705 VESTRIS, Madame & Her Times: by Chas. E. Pearce. 17 Illus. Thick 8vo. N.Y., n.d. $4.00 706 VIDAL, Lois. Magpie. Boston, 1934. 1.50 ** War worker in France, governess in Corscia. 707 VIROUBOVA, Anna. Memories of the Russian Court. Illus. N.Y., 1923. $1.50 708 WADDINGTON, Mary King. My War Diary. Frontis. N.Y., 1917. $1.50 709 WADDINGTON. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900. Illus. Large 8vo. 1903. 1.25 710 WALD, Lillian D. House on Henry Street. Illus. N.Y., 1915. $1.50 711 WALFORD, L.B. 12 English Authoresses (Burney, Austen, C. Bronte, Eliot, &c), Port. Boards. London, 1892. $1.75 712 WALPOLE, Horace. Extracts of the Journals & Correspondence of Miss Berry, 1783-1852. Ed. by Lady Theresa Lewis. Frontispieces. 3 vols., thick 8vo, 1/2 calf, backs gilt. London, 1865. First Edition. $15.00 ** Important picture of the society, history and literary thought of the early 19th century by an intimate friend of Walpole, to whom he dedicated by Catalogue of Strawberry Hill. 713 Madame Du Deffand (WALPOLE). Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to (him), 1766-1780. To Which Are Added Her Letters to VOLTAIRE, 1759-1775. Port. 4 vols. in 2. 1/2 morocco (rubbed). London, 1810. $20.00 714 WARD, Mrs. E.M. Memories of 90 Years, ed. by Isabel McAllister. Illus. Royal 8vo. N.Y., (19-7). $3.00 ** Wife of the artist James Ward, the author was friend and hostess of Sir Arthur Sullivan, Edward Sothern, and most of Victorian London. 715 WARE, Mary S. New World Through Old Eyes, with Reminiscences from My Life. Port. Tall 8vo. N.Y., 1923. $2.50 716 WARNER, Susan ("Elizabeth Wetherell"), by Anna B. Warner. 509pp. Illus. N.Y., 1909. $3.00 717 WARWICK, Frances. Countess of Life's Ebb & Flow. Illus. Thick 8vo. 1929. $1.50 718 The First "First Lady" WASHINGTON, Martha. Fine Mezzotint-and-line Portrait. Drawn by Wm.Oliver Stone, "after Wollaston." J.C. Buttre sc. 27 x 19 1/4", in mount. N.Y., 1876. $12.50 ** This well-modulated Print is a fine example of Buttre's craftmanship. The figure is mezzotinted, the background, in line, is very skillfully subdued and subordinated, with excellent effect. Well-known portrait--full length, with the Potomac, trees and pillar as background. Suitable for framing. 719 WASHINGTON. Engraved Portrait, after Gilbert Stuart. Buttre sc. Border with Scenes. Folio. N.Y., 1870. $4.00 780 WEBB, Beatrice. Our Partnership. Illus. 544pp. N.Y., (1948). $2.75 ARGOSY BOOK STORES, 114 E. 59th St., N.Y.C. 22 ** BIOG. OF WOMEN** PAGE 33 721 WEBB, Beatrice, by Margaret Cole. Illus. London, (1946). $2.50 722 WEBB, M.G. & E.L. Famous Living Americans. Ports. Thick tall 8vo. Greencastle, Indiana, 1915. $5.00 723 WEBSTER, Caroline LeRoy. "Mr. W. & I": being (her) Authentic Diary, during a famous journey with Daniel Webster in Great Britain and the Continent, in 1839. Illus. (N.Y., 1942). $2.00 724 WEETON, Miss (Ellen). Journal of a Governess. 1807-11. Ed. by Edw. Hall. Illus. Oxford U. Press, 1936. $2.50 725 WELLS, Carolyn. The Rest of My Life. Illus. Phila., (1937). $2.00 726 WELLS, Mrs. E.R. Lingering Sounds from a Broken Harp. Photograph. Albany, 1869. $2.00 ** A collection of her writings, mainly of a religious nature. Native of Albany, N.Y. 727 WENCKEBACH, Carla: by Margarethe Muller. Illus. Boston, 1908. $1.50 ** German-born American educator. 727-A WEPPNER, Margaretha. The North Star & the Southern Cross: a 2 Years' Journey round the World. 2 vols., thick 12mo. (N.Y.), the Author, 1876. $3.00 728 WEST, Rebecca. Autograph Letter signed, to Viola Allen. 1 page, small 8vo. London, April 7, (1918). $10.00 ** "I have never yet left Europe..." In original envelope addressed by R. West. 729 WHARTON, Grace & Philip. Queens of Society. Frontis. 2 vols. Phila., n.d. $2.50 ** Duchess of Marlborough, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mme. Roland, Sevigne, Recamier, Mrs. Piozzi, &c. 730 WHARTON. Wits & Beaux of Society; Queens of Society. Illus. Thick 12mo, 3/4 morocco. 2 vols. London, 1867. Each vol., $2.50 731 WHISHAW, Mrs. Bernhard. My Spanish Year. 20 Illus. Thick tall 8vo. (1914). $3.00 732 WHITALL, Mary. Memoir, by her Granddaughter, R.N.T. Illus. Phila., 1885. $5.00 ** Life of Mary Tatum Whitall in N.J. and Pa. A family remembrance. 732-A WHITE, Alma. The Story of My Life. Illus. Vol. 1. Zarephath, N.J., 1919. $2.00 ** Evangelist; account of her youth in Kentucky, (1862). 733 WHITE, Eldress Anna) & Offord. A Memorial to, by Leila S. Taylor. Illus. Mt. Lebanon, 1912. $2.50 ** SHAKERS. 734 WHITELEY, Opal. Story of Opal. Pref. by Grey of Fallodon. Illus. 1/2 cloth. Boston, (1921). $1.75 735 SIGGIN, Kate Doug.as. As Her Sister Knew Her. By Nora A. Smith. Illus. Thick 8vo. 1925. $1.00 736 WIGGIN. My Garden of Memory: An Autobiography. Illus. Thick 8vo. Boston, 1923. $1.25 737 (WILCOX, Ella Wheeler). Period Piece: by Jenny Ballou. Illus. Boston, 1940. $2.00 738 WILKINSON, Jemima, a Preacheress of the 18th Century. Memoir, containing an authentic narrative of her Life and Character and of the Rise, Progress and Conclusion of her Minister. New 1/2 calf. Bath, N.Y., 1844. $5.00 ** Founder of a peculiar sect, which settled on a tract of land about Crooked (Kenka) and Seneca Lakes. They called this land Jerusalem. 739 WILLARD, Emma. Life, by John Lord. Port. N.Y>, 1873. $2.50 ** Pioneer of female education. 740 WILLARD: Daughter of Democracy, by Alma Lutz. Illus. Large 8vo (shaken). Boston, 1929. $2.00 741 WILLARD & Her Pupils: or, 50 Years of Troy Female Seminary. Ed. by Mrs. A.W. Fairbanks. Numerous Ports. 895pp., sq. 4to. N.Y., Mrs. Russell Sage, (1898). Scarce. $5.00 742 WILLARD, Frances E. The Beautiful Life of, a Memorial Volume by Anna A. Gordon. Illus. Tall 8vo. Chicago, (1898). ** Organizer and leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. $2.50 743 WILLETS-Burnham, Anita. Round the World on a Penny. Profusely Illus. N.Y., 1937. $1.50 **AUTO. PRES. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, an American painter. 744 WILLIAMSON, Alice M. The Inky Way. Photographic Illus. Thick 8vo. N.Y., 1931. $2.50 ** British literary life, by the author of the "Lightning Conductor." 745 WILLS, Helen: Fifteen-Thirty. The Story of a Tennis Player. Illus. N.Y., 1937. d.w. $2.00 746 WILSON, Edith Bolling. My Memoir. Illus. Tall 8vo. Indianapolis, *1939). First PAGE 34 BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE WOMEN Edition. ** Second wife of President Wilson. $2.00 747 (WILSON, Woodrow). Elliott, Margaret Axson. My Aunt Louisa & Woodrow Wilson. Chapel Hill, (1944). $2.00 748 WINTHROP, Margaret, by Alice Morse Earle, 1895. $1.50 **Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times, series. Home and social life in Bostin, in colonial days. 749 WOERISHOFFER, Carola: her Life and Work. Illus. N.p., 1912 $2.00 **Tributes to a social worker, by Seligman Simkhovitch, and others. 750 WOFFINGTON, Peg: a Tribute to the Actress & the Woman. By Augustin Daly. Fine Photogravures. Small folio, gilt-pict. cloth, g.t. Troy, N.Y., the Author, (1892). FINE. $6.00 751 WOLCOTT, Frances M. Heritage of Years: Kaleidoscopic Memorics. 1851-1889. Illus. N.Y., 1932. $2.00 752 WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 16mo, mottled calf, leather label. Printed for, & Sold by J. Wilson, & J. Johnson, Booksellers, Wilmington, (Del.) 1796. First American Edition. $15.00 753 (WOLLSTONECRAFT). Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By Wm. GODWIN. 1/2 calf. London, 1798. SCARCE. $7.50 754 WOOD, M.A.E., ed. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain. Illus. With Facsimile Autographs. 3 vols. London, 1846. $7.50 **From the commencement of the 12th Century to the close of the reign of Queen Mary. 755 WOODBURY, Miss Fanny (who died in Beverly, North America). Memoirs and Writings. By Rev. Joseph Emerson. Port. 1/2 calf, gilt. Edinburgh, 1816. **with Journal and Letters, Died at 43. $3.50 756 WORTHAM, H.E. Three Women. Ports. Boston, 1930. $2.00 **St. Teresa, Mme. de Choiseul, Mary Baker Eddy 757 WYLIE, Mrs. Sarah Murray. Memoir, by A.M.R. Phila., for Private Circulation, 1861. $3.00 758 WYNNE, Diaries. Vol. I, 1789-1794. Ed. by Anne Fremantle. Ports. & Folding Map. London, 1935. $2.50 **Part of a delightful coverage by two "upper-class" 18th Century sisters. 759 ZAIMI, Nexhmie. Daughter of the Eagle: Autobiography of an Albanian Girl. Port. N.Y., (1938). $2.00 760 ZENGER, Anna: Mother of Freedom, by Kent Cooper. N.Y., 1946. d.w. $2.00 **Novelized biography of the first woman newspaper editor and publisher. ADDENDUM 761 (CHARLES II). Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II, by Mrs. Jameson. Fine Full Page Engravings after Lely. Thick 4to, publisher's morocco, gilt, g.e. N.Y., 1852. $5.00 **Biographical sketches of 21 beautiful women, the Countess of Grammong, Nell Gwynn, Miss Jennings, etc. With exceptionally fine Portraits. 762 ELIZABETH, Her Majesty, of Austria-Hungry, by Marie Louise, Countess Wallersee-Wittelsbach. Illus. Thick tall 8vo. N.Y., 1934. $2.00 763 LE GALLIENNE, Eva. at 33. N.Y., 1934. $1.75 764 LAMB, Lady Caroline: by Eliz. Jenkins. Illus. Boston, 1932. $2.00 **Byron's would-be mistress. 765 MAINTENON, Madame De: "L'Enigme de sa Vie aupres Du Grand Roi, by Mme. Saint-Rene Taillandier. Pref. by Paul Bourget. Illus. Paris, (1920). j $3.50 766 MARSHALL, Katherine Tupper. Together: Annals of an Army Wife. FRontis. N.Y. 1946. $2.00 767 NOVIKOFF, Madam Olga ("O.K."), Russian Memories, 15 Illus. London, 1917. **Gladstone learned from her what Russia was: Rubinstein, Liszt, Dostoyevsky, and prisons, etc. $3.50 768 (REMBRANDT). Saskia: The Wife of Rembrandt, by Chas. K.Bolton. Illus. N.Y., 1893. $2.50 769 VIGEE-LeBrun, Mme. Elizabeth Louise: Memoirs, 1755-1789. Trans. Numerous Illus. In Septa. 1/4 cloth. N.Y., n.d. $3.00 770 WEBB, Beatrice. My Apprenticeship. London, 1926. 1st edn. Pres. Copy. $6.00 Other books on Radcliffe list, to supplement our collection: Portraits of American Women - Gamamiel Bradford Meditationon Votes for Women by Samuel MoChord Crothers Woman and the Commonwealth, or a Question of Expediency by George Pellow, 1888 Small bound volume "Woman Suffrage Pamphlets" containing Objections Answered by A. S. B. and many others Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot by - 3 volumes of anti suffrage leaflets bound. Woman and the Republic - Helen Kendrick Johnson Jailed for Freedom - Doris Stevens The unexpurgated case against woman suffrage - Sir Almroth E. Wright [?] Equal Suffrage by Helen L. Sumner The Wrong and Peril of Woman Suffrage by Buckley 2 editions - anti-suffrage The Ladies' Battle, 2 copies by Molly Elliot Seawell The Case for Woman Suffrage - Bibliography - Margaret Ladd Franklin Anti-suffrage - 10 good reasons - Grace Duffield Doodwin Anti Suffrage Essays by Mass. Women (given by anti-suffrage chapter of Radcliffe Civics Club) (cont. on another page) Mrs. Hinckley thinks all books pertaining to suffrage and the woman question should be transferred from the Library to our collection. She says they can be catalogued in the regular college files as being shelved in our room. Mrs. Hinckley also thought we ought to have bookcases for the books rather than open shelves. But she says that is a matter for you to decide because she remembered your plan to have the books on the file cases under the various picture groupings. Radcliffe has Margaret Fuller's works: Women in the 19th Century Art -- Literature -- The Drama At Home and Abroad Life Without and Life Within There is a good picture in front of the life of Margaret Fuller Ossili by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Mrs. Arthur Nicholls of Cambridge is a niece of Margaret Fuller. (note somewhere at Radcliffe that there is a good collection of Mrs. Fuller's works and books at Harvard College Library) The Boston Almanac for 1854, AND ITS NEW COMPANION, THE LADY'S ALMANAC. JOHN P. JEWETT & CO. will publish the above beautiful and useful Annuals, the Boston, Dec. 19, the Lady's, Dec. 1st. A work so long and favorably known as the Boston Almanac simply needs announcing to secure its sale. This number will contain sixty new and superb engravings, twenty-four of these being the new churches of Boston built since 1842, elegantly engraved, with the usual variety of other matter. THE LADY'S ALMANAC, after the elegant style of the other, is a new claimant for public favor, which we believe it will find. It will be a most useful little pocket manual for the ladies, containing a great variety of useful receipts, bouquets of flowers, and calendar and memorandum vignettes, pages for each day and month of the year, portraits of our most distinguished female authors, hints for the toilet, numerous engravings, &c. &c. ; elegantly bound in cloth, with gilt edges. Same price and the Boston Almanac. For sale by all Booksellers. [*p 203 Dec 23/53 Liberator*] Science and Health Among Best Books By Women Authors (Continued from Page 1) at Hull House," by Miss Jane Addams. "A History of Woman Suffrage." by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. "The Promised Land," by Mary Antin. "The Great Catherine," by Miss Katherine Anthony. "Earth Horizon," by Mrs. Mary Austin. "Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson," by Mrs. Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi. "Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years," By Mrs. Harriet Brown. "Mozart," by marcia Davenport. "Angels and Amazons," by Inez Haynes Irwin. "The Story of My Life," by Helen Keller. "A New England Girlhood," by Lucy Larcom. "John Keats," by Amy Lowell. "Pere Marquette, Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer," by Agnes Rapplier. "My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt," by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. "The Story of a Pioneer," by Anna Howard Shaw. "Life of Abraham Lincoln," by Ida M. Tarbell. "Glimpses of Fifty Years," by Frances Willard. Drama Six books of drama are included in the list. They are: "When Ladies Meet," by Rachel Crothers. "The Poor Little Rich Girl," by Eleanor Gates. "Allison's House," by Susan Glaspell. "The Piper," by Josephine Preston Peabody. "Fashion," by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. "Sun-Up," by Lula Vollmer. Essays "Godey's Lady's Book," by Sara J. Hale, quaint record of times when society in the United States was beginning to develop a flavor of its own, is one of the give volumes of essays on the list. The others are: "On Understanding Women," by Mary Beard. "Letters from New York," by Lydia Child. "Papers on Literature and Art," by Margaret Fuller. "Poets and Their Art," by Harriet Monroe. Fiction Fiction on the list included 19 volumes, tanging from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and "Ramona," by Helen Hunt Jac e Good Earth," by Pea e other titles are: "[?] or," by Gertrude Atherton. "Death Comes for the Archbishop," by Willa Cather. "The Lamplighter," by Maria Cummins. "Show Boat," by Edna Ferber. "Deepening Stream," by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. "Miss Lulu Bet," by Zona Gale. "Leavenworth Case," by Anna Katherine Green. "Lummox," by Fannie Hurst. "Led Horse," by Mary Hallock Foote. "The Country of the Pointed Firs," by Sara Orne Jewett. "To Have and To Hold," by Mary Johnson. "Mother," by Kathleen Norris. "Scarlet Sister Mary," by Julia Peterkin. "The Times of Man," by Elizabeth Madox Roberts. "The Little French Girl," by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. "Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton. "St. Elmo," by Augusta Evans Wilson. Humor Three volumes of humor were selected: "The Peterkin Papers," by Lucretia Peabody Hale." "Samantha at the Centennial," by Marietta Holley. "American Humor," by Constance Wayfield Rourke. Juvenile Fiction Twelve books of juvenile fiction on the list are: "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott. "Little Lord Fauntleroy," by Frances Hodgson Burnett. "Dotty Dimply," by Rebecca Clark. "Cat Who Went to Heaven," by Elizabeth Coastesworth. "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates," by Mary Mapes Dodge. "Elsie Dinsmore," by Martha Finley. "Pollyana," by Eleanor H. Porter. 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," by Alice Caldwell Rice. "Five Little Pepper Stories," by Margaret Sidney. "The Wide Wide World," by Susan Warner. "Daddy-Long-Legs," by Jean McKinney Webster. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," BY Kate Douglas Wiggin. Poetry Fourteen books of poetry selected by the committee are: "Poems," by Alice and Phoebe Cary. "Bells at Evening and Other Poems," by Fanny J. Crosby. "Honey Out of the Rock," by Babette Deutsch. "Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson." :Collected Poems of H.D.," by Hilda Doolittle. "Later Lyrics," by Julia Ward Howe. "Renascence," by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Poems," by Louise Chandler Moulton. "Death and Taxes," by Dorothy Parker. "Selected Poems," by Lizette Woodworth Reese. "Fiddler's Farewell," By Leonora Speyer. "Rivers to the Sea," by Sara Teasdale. "Lyrics and Sonnets," by Edith Thomas. "Complete Poems," by Elinor Wylie. Religious Besides "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Stories." by Mary Wilkins Freeman. "In the Tennessee Mountains," by Mary N. Murfree. Social Science Under social science," the committee chose: "Women in Industry," by Edith Abbott. "Woman Suffrage and Politics," by Carrie Chapman Catt. "Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States," by Dorothea Dix. "Husbands and Homes," by Mary Harland/ "My Story of the War," by Mary A. Livermore. "Coming of Age in Samoa," by Margaret Mead. "Women and The New Race," by Margaret Sanger. Travel Under travel, the committee chose: "Carl Akeley's Africa," by Mary L. Akeley. "Spanish Highways and Byways," by Katherine Lee Bates. "New Orleans, The Place and the People," by Grace King. "Ports and Happy Places," by Cornell Stratton Porter. "A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt," by Grace Thompson Seton. "House of Exile," by Nora Waln. The committee was comprised of Faith Baldwin, Ellis Parker Butler, Stephen Vincent Benet, Alice Booth, Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Harry J. Burnhan, Coningsby Dawson, Babette Deutsch, Nathan Haskell Dole, Irita Van Doren, Robert Frost, Wilfred J. Funk, Zona Gale, John Wesley Hill, Fannie Hurst, Henrick W. Van Loon, Fulton Cursler, Julia Peterkin, Russell Potter, Don Seitz, Ida M. Tarbell, Charles Edward Russell. Charles Hanson Towne, Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, and representatives of 60 colleges and universities in all parts of the United "Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson," by Mrs. Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi. "Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years," By Mrs. Harriet Brown. "Mozart," by Marcia Davenport. "Angels and Amazons," by Inez Haynes Irwin. "The Story of My Life," by Helen Keller. "A New England Girlhood," by Lucy Larcom. "John Keats," by Amy Lowell. "Pere Marquette, Priest, Pioneer, and Adventurer," by Agnes Rapplier. "My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt," by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. "The Story of a Pioneer," by Anna Howard Shaw. "Life of Abraham Lincoln," by Ida M. Tarbell. "Glimpses of Fifty Years," by Frances Willard. Drama Six books of drama are included in the list. They are: "When Ladies Meet," by Rachel Crothers. "The Poor Little Rich Girl," by Eleanor Gates. "Allison's House," by Susan Glaspell. "The Piper," by Josephine Preston Peabody. "Fashion," by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. "Sun-Up," by Lula Vollmer. Essays "Godey's Lady's Book," by Sara J. Hale, quaint record of times when society in the United States was beginning to develop a flavor of its own, is one of the five volumes of essays on the list. The others are: "On Understanding Women," by Mary Beard. "Letters from New York," by Lydia Child. "Papers on Literature and Art," by Margaret Fuller. "Poets and Their Art," by Harriet Monroe. Fiction Fiction on the list includes 19 volumes, ranging from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and "Ramona," by Helen Hunt Jac? [?] e Good Earth," by Pea [?] e other titles are: "T[?]or" by Gertude Atherton. "Death Comes for the Archbishop," by Willa Cather. "The Lamplighter," by Maria Cummins. "Show Boat," by Edna Ferber. "Deepening Stream," Dorothy Canfield Fisher. "Miss Lulu Bett," by Zona Gale. "Leavenworth Case," by Anna Katherine Green. "Lummox," by Fannie Hurst. "Led Horse," by Mary Hallock Foote. "The Country of the Pointed Firs," by Sara Orne Jewett. "To Have to To Hold," by Mary Johnson. "Mother," by Kathleen Norris. "Scarlet Sister Mary," by Julia Peterkin. "The Time of Man," by Elizabeth Madox Roberts. "The Little French Girl," by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. "Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton. "St. Elmo," by Augusta Evans Wilson. Humor Three volumes of humor were selected: "The Peterkin Papers," by Lucretia Peabody Hale." "Samantha at the Centennial," by Marietta Holley. "American Humor," by Constance Wayfield Rourke. Juvenile Fiction Twelve books of juvenile fiction on the list are: "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott. "Little Lord Fauntleroy," by Frances Hodgson Burnett. "Dotty Dimply," by Rebecca Clark. "Cat Who went to Heaven," by Elizabeth Coatesworth. "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates," by Mary Mapes Dodge. "Elsie Dinsmore," by Martha Finley. "Pollyanna," by Eleanor H. Porter. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," by Alice Caldwell Rice. "Five Little Pepper Stories," by Margaret Sidney. "The Wide Wide World," by Susan Warner. "Daddy-Long-Legs," by Jean McKinney Webster. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Poetry Fourteen books of poetry selected by the committee are: "Poems," by Alice and Phoebe Cary. "Bells at Evening and Other Poems," Fanny J. Crosby. "Honey Out of the Rock," by Babette Deutsch. "Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson." "Collected Poems of H.D.," by Hilda Doolittle. "Later Lyrics," by Julia Ward Howe. "Renascence," by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Poems," by Louise Chandler Moulton. "Death and Taxes," by Dorothy Parker. "Selected Poems," by Lizette Woodworth Reese. "Fiddler's Farewell," by Leonora Speyer. "Rivers to the Sea," by Sara Teasdale. "Lyrics and Sonnets," by Edith Thomas. "Complete Poems," by Elinor Wylie. Religious Besides "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, other books selected in the religious classification are: "The Sabbath in Puritan New England," by Alice Earle. "Franciscan Adventures," by Vida Scudder. Natural Science Under the classification of science, the committee selected: "Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars," by Caroline Furness. "An Atlas of the Medulla and Mid-Brain," by Florence Sabin. Short Stories Under short stories the titles selected are: "Meadow Grass," by Alice Brown. "Old Chester Tales," by Margaret Deland. "A New England Nun and Other Stories," by Mar [?] "In the Tennessee [?] by Mary N. Murfree. Social Science Under social science, the committee chose: "Women in Industry," by Edith Abbott. "Woman Suffrage and Politics," by Carrie Chapman Catt. "Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States," by Dorothea Dix. "Husbands and Homes," by Mary Harland. "My Story of the War," by Mary A. Livermore. "Coming of Age in Samoa," by Margaret Mead. "Women and The New Race," by Margaret Sanger. Travel Under travel, the committee chose: "Carl Akeley's Africa," by Mary L. Akeley. "Spanish Highways and Byways," by Katherine Lee Bates. "New Orleans, The Place and the People," by Grace King. "Ports and Happy Places," by Cornell Stratton Porter. "A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt," by Grace Thompson Seton. "House of Exile," by Nora Waln. The committee was comprised of Faith Baldwin, Ellis Parker Butler, Stephen Vincent Benet, Alice Booth, Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Harry J. Burnham, Coningsby Dawson, Babette Deutch, Nathan Haskell Dole, Irita Van Doren, Robert Frost, Wilfred J. Funk, Zona Gale, John Wesley Hill, Fannie Hurst, Hendrick W. Van Loon, Fulton Cursler, Julia Peterkin, Russell Potter, Don Seitz, Ida M. Tarbell, Charles Edward Russell, Charles Hanson Towne, Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, and representatives of 60 colleges and universities in all parts of the United States. 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