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Washington DC : National Home Library Foundation, 1932. First edition thus. stapled wrappers. Good. 16mo, 262 pages, gray wrappers, corner chipped, cover fold repaired with archival tape. The Jacket Library Edition. With an Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Dedicated to Alice Liddell Hargreaves.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1965. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. maps, portr. 16mo, 395 pages, blue cloth Covers the Sioux uprising of 1862-3 in Minnesota and Dakota Territory. [Howes M58; Graff 2578; Field 979]. Illustrated with maps, portraits. "Gen. Sibley, a prominent actor, as will be seen, said to the writer, after a close perusal of the first edition, that is seemed quite a mystery, 'how one, not an eye witness of the events, could detail them so graphically and minutely correct.' - Preface to the 1864 revised edition."

London: Macmillan, 1869. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos, 3/4 calf, extra-gilt spine, scuffed (DNB) Robinson was an intimate friend of Lamb, Hazlitt, Madame de Staël, Flaxman, Sir John Franklin, and was acquainted with Goethe, and other leading figures of his day.

Sotheby's, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 4to, 584 pages, cream wrappers Fully illustrated. An epochal, legendary auction.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 403, xiii pages, aqua cloth. A who's who of correspondents of a what's what of correspondence.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Clothbacked Boards. Fine/Fine Dj. First Printing. Octavo, clothbacked boards

No place: Privately Printed, no date. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo, 192 pages, green cloth, floral endpapers, paper label on spine, untrimmed, inked name from 1899 on top cover, tight, but hinges and joints worn. Scarce. Hazlitt's account of his attraction to his landlady's daughter. Published anonymously in the Bibliotheca Curiosa series: "A small number of the LIBER AMORIS have been printed for private circulation, and verbatim from the original edition, with a facsimile of the engraved title."

Boston: Leonard C. Bowles and William Crosby, 1844. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xx, 204 pages, contemporary embossed brown cloth, lacks top inch of spine; x-library with emboss on Contents leaf, pocket carefully removed from rear endpaper, bookplate at front Martineau was a remarkable women, and a remarkable woman in the 19th century. She was involved in travel, economics, philosophy, literature, and is considered by some "the first woman sociologist". Martineau wroter her equally remarkable autobiography. This anonymously published work focusses on the five years she lived the life of an invalid. Two of the chapters are, "Some Perils and Pains of Invalidism," and "Some Gains and Sweets of Invalidism,". Here, too, is perhaps the first book appearance of Richard Monckton Milnes' poem, "To Harriet Martineau. Christian Endurance." which appeared in 1843.

Philadelphia: Privately Printed by C. Sherman, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 336 pages, original cloth, spine lightly sunned. Scarce. Londoner Esther De Berdt married an American lawyer and re-located to Philadelphia in 1770. As part of the Philadelphia gentry, she met many of the important Colonists, including Gen. George Washington. Initially opposed, she warmed to the cause of independence. Her husband, Joseph, became Washington's aide and secretary and eventually a general ( and still later, Governor of Pennsylvania). Esther, meanwhile, headed the Ladies of Philadelphia and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Continental Army. She dies at age 34 in 1780, failing to see the success that crowned her efforts. Much of this text is in the form of letters. She was one of the outstanding women of the American Revolution.

Boston: Little, Brown, ( 1970 ). Hardcover. Very Good/good. photos. 8vo, 469 cloth & buckram; worn dj This Englishwoman was the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree. Founder of the NY Infirmary for Women & Children. One section of photos.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ( 1962 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 276 pages, cloth; dj short tear at head of spine, minor adhesive mark on rear panel, bookplate Another Suds adventure. Illustrations by George Price for the dj and inside.

St. Charles, MO, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, 167 pages, green embossed yearbook-style binding; Ex libris E. Lucile Fritz, with many, many inscriptions from freshman classmates and faculty. Lindenwood College is now Lindenwood University ( of course!). "Founded in 1827 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it is the second oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River and since 1990 the fastest growing university in the Midwest - Wikipedia." Nearly bankrupt in 1989, it began accepting farm animals toward tuition credits ! The founding Sibleys "Lindenwood University traces its roots back to George Champlin Sibley, an early 19th-century American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and politician, and his wife Mary Easton Sibley, an educator. " They worked at Fort Osage and Fort Sibley. This is the oldest woman's school west of the Mississippi.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. photographs. 8vo, 463 pages, orange cloth; faint spotts on top panel of dj Butcher was the Chicago Tribune literary editor. Curiously, she also owned a book store. . She wrote individual chapters about Cather, Sandburg, Mencken, Stein, Hemingway, Ferber, Sinclair Lewis; but mentions her experiences with many other 20th century authors, and with a section of photographs. Signed by Buther on the endpaper, Paul Horgan's review taped to front endpaper. Laid in is a photogravure of Fanny signing this book at her story, with her description.

Ye Galleon Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to, 70 pages, brown cloth, map endpapers Memoirs by the daughter of Chief Moses of Washington state, with intimate details of the situation of their tribe.

San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1948. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped. 8vo, green cloth, map endpapers, one section of photographs Inscribed To Ramona Gatewood in 1954. Utinsky lead the Underground in the Philippines for three years. " 'Miss U' took every chance, ran every risk, and underwent torture in order to help the poor men behind the barbed wire, and finally had to go to the hills adn join the guerrillas. Her gallantry and intrepidity were worthy of the very best traditions of our country." - Foreword by Gen. J. M. Wainwright.

Hartford, CT: Mutual Publishing, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, modern green cloth A later issue of the first edition, with a different title-page but printed from the same stereotype plates as the first edition, which was published in Cincinnati in 1871. [ Howes K62 ]. . Mrs. Kelly was captured by Ogalala Sioux in 1864 near Little Box Elder Creek in Wyoming en route via the Oregon Trail to Montana. Her captivity lasted five months. The work also includes a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864

Chicago: Pettibone & Company, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Good. photos. 8vo, 171 pages, green cloth lightly spotted. Hagiographical account of Mrs. Bertha Baur, one of the great civic leaders of Chicago. She rose from being the secretary to four Chicago Postmasters, and became a millionaire, a suffragette, a lawyer [ she graduated from the Kent College of Law in 1908], and a politician. Inscribed Presentation copy from the author. Illustrated from photographs.

Crown , 1972. Family Bookshelf edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 209 pages, cloth, inked name on pastedown. Widow Frederickson and two children lived on the frontier near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. This is her account of their struggle to survive with and despite the wild animals, through all hardships and dangers, on a pioneer farm in the Thirties. Photogravures.

New York: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Duodecimo, 280 pages, boards Daydreaming and smoking around America with interrruptions. A companion volume to her SKATING TO ANTARCTICA.

New York: Macmillan, 1910. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Norah Hamilton. 8vo; ix, 462 pages, cocked, variant publisher's binding lacking the picture of Hull House on the top cover and the title, but titled with imprint on the spine. Classic autobiography by this great lady who invented settlement houses, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A "faithful record of the years since the autumn of 1889 when without any preconceived social theories or economic views, I came to live in an industrial district of Chicago - Preface." Color cover plate by Frank Hazenplug, Twelve plates, including 9 drawings by Norah Hamilton; textual illustrations including 4 photographs by Lewis W. Hine. [ CHICAGO BY THE BOOK 101 Publications That Shaped The City and Its Image, 30 ]