For Her Own Good: One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday. 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 369 pages; edgeworn covers else a clean tight copy. More
Social History
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Lectures to Young Men
Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. and NY: Charles S. Francis and Co. 1854. Third edition; 12mo. cloth covered boards; 190 pages; faded back cover else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Dangers of Dining Out, or, Hints to Those Who Would make Home Happy.
NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. 16mo; decoratively embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 174 pages plus 7 pages of D. Appleton & Co.’s Juvenile Publications; on spine: Tales for the People Family Secrets; sticker “Sold by Wm. W. Swayne, 210 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.” on..... More
The Daughters Of England: Their Position In Society, Character, And Responsibilities
NY: J. & H. G. Langley, 1845. 8vo.; disbound with gilt page edges, 125 pages; b/w illustrations; covers are missing else very good. More
Fair of Speech. The Uses of Euphemism
NY: Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition; 222pages; cloth; a collection of essays by 16 contributors on ‘general reflections on euphemism, a survey of its history in English and a look at its workings in other languages, and specifically euphemisms and children, in the office, the law, the media, etc.;..... More
Lighting Their Fires Raising Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
NY: Viking (2009). First Edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo; paper covered boards; hardcover; 195 pages; a very good clean tight copy in a similar quality pictorial dust jacket. More
Educational Opportunities for Young Workers
NY: The Macmillan Co. 1926. One of the ‘Studies in Adult Education’ series; 1st edition; 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; tanned pages else a very good, clean tight copy in a very poor sunned and heavily chipped dust jacket. More
What To Invent; The Evolution And Suggestions As To Active And Profitable Fields Of Inventions In Which Improvements Are Desired
Washington, D. C.: The Victor J. Evans Co, 1916. Small 12mo.; pictorial wraps, small softcover; 184 pages; b/w illustrations; torn cover with tight interior with some sunned pages else very good. More
Channels Of Desire Mass Images And The Shaping of American Consciousness
NY: McGraw-Hill (1982). First Edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo., brown boards, hardcover; 312 pages; a very good clean tight unmarked copy in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. with one very smallclosed tear. More
Clash Of Cultures
NY: W. H. Freeman and Co. (1984). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; glossy stiff wraps, softcover; 318 pages; black and white illustrations; endpapers and page edges are foxed else a very good clean tight copy. More
Person-Centered Graduate Education
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books (1977). First Edition; 8vo; red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 269 pages; slightly edgeworn boards else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Women and Higher Education in American History: Essays From the Mount Holyoke College Sesquicentennial Symposia
NY & London: W.W. Norton (1988). Stated1st Edition; 8vo.; 220pages; cloth backed boards; hardcover; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. More
A History of Education of Women in the United States
NY: Vantage Press. (1970). 8vo. black boards with silver lettering; hardcover; 586 pages; signed by the author a very good, clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn, sunned and price clipped dustjacket. More
It Has Come To Pass
NY: Theodor Herzl Press, 1958. First edition; 8vo; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 288 pages; impressions of the State of Israel; a very good clean tight copy in a in a lightly sunned pictorial dust jacket with edgeworn spine ends. More
Chinese Childhood
NY; Barron’s (1977). 1st edition; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 192 pages; black & white and color photographic illustrations; a miscellany of mythology, folklore, fact and fable; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a very good dustjacket of similar quality. More
Survival Till Seventeen Some Portraits of Early Ideas
London: Sheed & Ward, 1942. First edition; 12mo.; tan cloth covered boards, hardcover; 141 pages; lightly edgeworn boards else a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn, soiled and sunned dust jacket. More
Crane’s Blue Book of Stationery The Styles and Etiquette of Letters, Notes, and Invitiations
NY: Doubleday (1989). First Edition; small 4to; cloth backed boards; hardcover; 236 pages; black and white illustrations; Foreword by Stanley Marcus; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a very good decorative dust jacket of similar quality. More
Better say A Book of Helpful Suggestions for the Correct Use of English Words and Phrases
NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1910. 16mo; decorative cloth covered boards; hardcover; 34 pages; soiled and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy; domestic shipping will have a delivery confirmation tracking number. More
The Women of the Caesars
Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Institution (1911). 8vo; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 293 pages; 47 black and white glossy plates; the position of women in Ancient Rome; owner’s name on free front endpaper; a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn decorative dust jacket that has a sunned spine. More
People of Chance Gambling in American Society From Jamestown to Las Vegas
NY & Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 1986. 1st edition with 1 in the number line; 8vo, cloth backed boards, hardcover; 272 pages; black & white illustrations; a very good , clean, tight, copy in a very good dustjacket that has a sunned spine. More
The Distant Prize A Book About Rovers, Rangers and Rascals.
NY: Appleton-Century, 1935. small 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover; pictorial endpapers by Pitz; ix, 330 pages; black and white decorations; a very good, clean, tight copy in a poor chipped dust jacket. More
The Physician’s Wife And The Things That Pertain To Her Life.
Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co., 1894. 8vo.; green cloth covered boards; hardcover; glossy pictorial frontispiece; illustrated in b/w with “44 photo-engravings of sketches from life”; boards are rubbed especially on corners and at spine else very good. More
How to help YOUR HUSBAND GET AHEAD (The Amy Vanderbilt Success Program For Women)
NY: Nelson Doubleday (1964). 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 60 pages; black, blue and white illustrations; lightly rubbed and edgeworn covers else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
The Will of Charles Lounsbury
NY: Loring & Mussey, no date [1936]. First edition; 24mo.; tan cloth covered boards with black lettering, hardcover; 31 pages; black and white illustrations based on old wood engravings; very good. More
Reunion The Girls We Used to Be, The Women We Became
NY: Random House (2000). Stated 1st edition; small 4to.; covered boards, 282 pages; hardcover; the choices made by women who graduated from the Brearley School Class of 1968; very good in a dust jacket with a 1 inch closed tear and a circle water mark on front cover. More