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Nineteenth Century Carte de Visite Album.

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Rare late nineteenth century carte de visite album containing dozens of original portraits of prominent members of the Griffith family of New York and several contemporary celebrities including Henry Ward Beecher, Washington Irving, and General Winfield Hancock. Quarto, original full leather richly decorated in gilt with inner dentelles, silk watered endleaves, gilt decorations and rulingContinue reading "Nineteenth Century Carte de Visite Album."

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-136095

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Montgomery, L. M.

Anne of the Island.

Boston : The Page Company, 1915.

First edition, first printing of the third title in Montgomery’s beloved Anne of Green Gables series with all first issue points including stated first impression on copyright page, 1915 date in roman numerals on title page. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece and mounted cover illustration in color by H. Weston Taylor, 16Continue reading "Anne of the Island."

$7,800.00

Item Number: RRB-135042

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Racinet, Auguste.

Le Costume Historique. Cinq Cents Planches, Trois Cents En Couleurs, or et Argent, Deux Cents en Camaieu.

Paris : Librarie de Firmin-Didot Et C, 1888.

First edition of Racinet’s monumental work on the history of clothing which took 12 years to complete. Folio, six volumes bound in full buckram with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 500 plates including 300 chromolithographic plates in color decorated with gold and silver and 200 in monochrome. InContinue reading "Le Costume Historique. Cinq Cents Planches, Trois Cents En Couleurs, or et Argent, Deux Cents en Camaieu."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-135242

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Webber, Andrew Lloyd and Tim Rice.

Evita: The Legend of Eva Peron 1919-1952.

London : Elm Tree Books, 1978.

First edition of this illustrated companion to the 1979 Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Tim Rice on the title page, “Hello Richard all best Tim Rice.” In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-135264

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Winfrey, Oprah; Danny Glover; Thandiwe Newton; Kimberly Elise. [Toni Morrison].

Journey to Beloved.

New York : Hyperion, 1998.

First edition of Oprah Winfrey’s emotional account of playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quarto, original illustrated boards, photographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Ken Regan. Presentation copy, inscribed on the second freeContinue reading "Journey to Beloved."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135044

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By a Lady. [Austen, Jane].

Sense and Sensibility: A Novel.

London : Printed for the Author and Published by T. Egerton, 1813.

Second edition of the first novel published during Austen’s lifetime. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edgesContinue reading "Sense and Sensibility: A Novel."

$17,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135337

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James, Henry.

The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.

London : Macmillan and Co., 1886.

First edition in book form of one of James’s “three formidable novels” published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, half-titles, 2 pages of advertisements at rear of vols. II and III. From the library of Barton Currie withContinue reading "The Princess Casamassima: A Novel."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135364

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Garrett Fawcett, Millicent.

Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.

London : T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1912].

First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s history of the women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher’s advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain’s largest women’s rights association, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of theContinue reading "Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-134219

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Hutchinson, John.

The Families of Flowering Plants. Arranged According to a New System Based on Their Probable Phylogeny.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

First edition of Hutchinson’s classic work on the classification of flowering plants. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, with illustrations by W.E. Trevithick and the author. In very good condition. Small ownership name to each volume.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-137296

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Fawcett, Millicent Garrett.

Political Economy For Beginners.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co, 1870.

Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett’s immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, original cloth, publisher’s advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain’s largest women’s rights association, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage SocietiesContinue reading "Political Economy For Beginners."

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-134388

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McClelland, Nancy.

The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments.

Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott, 1926.

First edition of Nancy McClelland’s authoritative work on interior design. Octavo, original decorated cloth, frontispiece in color with tissue guard present, eight other illustrations in color and 206 in doubletone. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice example, uncommon in the original dust jacket.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-132062

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Mill, John Stuart.

Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, Held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871.

Edinburgh : Printed by John Lindsay, For The Edinburgh National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1873.

First edition of the posthumously printed transcription of Mill’s famed speech in support of women’s suffrage. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards. In very good condition. Embossed stamp. Exceedingly rare.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135941

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Pethick Lawrence, Frederick W.

Women’s Fight For The Vote.

London : The Woman's Press, [1910].

First edition of the definitive collection Pethick Lawrence’s articles promoting Women’s Suffrage. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-135198

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Lytton, Constance.

Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.

London : William Heinemann, 1914.

First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress “Jane Warton.” Octavo, original publisher’s purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst to the front panel, illustrated with two portraits including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Lytton. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-135207

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Opinions of Women on Women’s Suffrage.

London : Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879.

First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women’s Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women’s Suffrage and containing the opinions of English women in official positions, scientific and political careers, and principals of colleges and high schools among others. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-135724

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Balfour, Arthur James.

Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.

London : Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892].

Rare printing of Lord Balfour’s speech supporting the Women’s Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-135551

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[Mackenzie, Poppy].

The Truth About My Friends.

London : Dow & Lester, n.d.

Small parlor game book belonging to Poppy Mackenzie, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or “truth” (one of them being “My sympathies are with the suffragettes”), below which the participants have signed their name. In good condition.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-135645

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Blind, Mathilde. [Emily Duval].

Madame Roland.

London : W. H. Allen & Co, 1886.

The Eminent Women Series edition of Blind’s biography of French revolutionary Marie-Jeanne ‘Manon’ Roland de la Platière. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of English suffragette Emily H. Duval with her ownership signature to the half-title page. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s votingContinue reading "Madame Roland."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-135220

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Stein, Gertrude.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

New York : Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.

First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-135222

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Stein, Gertrude. [Alice B. Toklas] Introduction by Virgil Thomson.

Bee Time Vine and other Pieces [1913-1927].

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1953.

First edition of volume three of the Yale edition of Stein’s unpublished writings, collected under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein’s partner Alice B. Toklas on the front free endpaper, “A peace offering to dear Elizabeth with love from Alice Paris 4 – VI – 54.”Continue reading "Bee Time Vine and other Pieces [1913-1927]."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135240

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Gross, Edward Augustus and Homer Joseph Dodge.

Manual For Women Voters.

New York : Federal Trade Information Service, 1922.

First edition of this introductory manual for newly enfranchised American women following the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-135244

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Macphail, Andrew.

Essays in Fallacy.

New York, Bombay, and Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co, 1910.

First edition of Macphail’s essay on the psychology of the suffragette. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-135199

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Fulford, Roger.

Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle.

London : Readers Union/Faber and Faber, 1958.

Reader’s Union edition of Fulford’s work on the UK women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth. English journalist, historian, writer and politician Roger Fulford authored several important biographies and other works. Between 1964 and 1981 he edited five volumes of letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal. He was President of the Liberal Party fromContinue reading "Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-135490

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Cobbe, Frances Power.

Why Women Desire The Franchise.

London : Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, 1869.

First edition of prolific Anglo-Irish suffragette Frances Power Cobbe’s feminist treatise. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine, burgundy morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Accompanied by an original albumen carte-de-visite of Frances Power Cobbe by Philip Crellin signed by her. In near fine condition. Library stamp toContinue reading "Why Women Desire The Franchise."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-135210

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