Our Famous Women. An Authorised and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds of Eminent Women of Our Times. Giving for the First Time the Life History of Women Who Have Won Me Away from Poverty and Obscurity to Fame and Glory......
by Various
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Hartford Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. 1.3 kg.; (4) V-XXVIII, 29-715 pages (3) publishers' preface, names of authors with a list of this subject, list of "Our Famous Women", list of portraits and illustrations. Pale green floral decorated endpapers. The text is illustrated with 47 black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Dark red coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panel and gilt embossed titles to the front panel and gilt titles and decoration to the backstrip. Heavy bumping, rubbing and fraying to the backstrip edges and book corners. Underlying board is visible to the book corners. Heavy rubbing, fading and marking to the book panels and backstrip. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and internal text. Staining to the endpapers and the result of insect activity can be seen to the endpaper through to the title page. The front hinge has cracked and the underlying webbing is very visible. In this book famous 19th-century American women write on their contemporaries; for example Harriet Beecher Stowe writes on Catherine E. Beecher and Susan Coolidge writes on Lydia Maria Child. In all, 30 women are written about. The full title page is " Our Famous Women. An Authorised and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds of Eminent Women of Our Times. Giving for the First Time the Life History of Women Who Have Won Me Away from Poverty and Obscurity to Fame and Glory. Replete with anecdotes, throwing incidents, and reminiscences. An entirely new and original work written by the following 20 distinguished authors: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Rose Terry Cooke. Mary A. Livermore. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Marion Harland. Mary Clemmer. Louise Chandler Moulton. Mrs A.D.T. Whitney. Lucy Larcom. Julia Ward Howe. Wusan Corbridge. Kate Sanborn. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Lucia Gilbert Runkle. Laura Curtis Bullard. Lillian Whiting. Elizabeth T. Spring. Elizabeth Bryant Johnson. Maud Howe. Superbly illustrated with full-page portraits mainly from photographs taken expressly for this work, and the full-page engravings from the original designs. " Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; America; 19th Century; Inventory No: 0110811. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0110811
- Title
- Our Famous Women. An Authorised and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds of Eminent Women of Our Times. Giving for the First Time the Life History of Women Who Have Won Me Away from Poverty and Obscurity to Fame and Glory......
- Author
- Various
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Hartford Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Biographies -- 19th Century -- America -- Women Biography & Autobiography; America; 19th Century; Illustrated Unbranded Various Our Famous Women. An Authorised and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds of Eminent Women of Our Times. Giving fo
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- America; 19th Century;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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