Light edgewear to two months: March and May, images of these two months available. This set is for 11 months, with July missing. ; Oblong 48mo 3½" - 4" tall; 11 pages; 30304 View More...
Illustrations in pen and ink and half tone together with reproductions from photographs of rare portraits, original garments, etc. Fashions in early America. Fourteen initial [of the first chapter word] illustrations and 371 (some glossy) plates. Usual ex-lib marks, green boards fraying at extremities, a few stains on rear board and a faint stain appearing to be the left handprint of a child on page 95. On the front pastedown, the 1915 penal code of California, section 623, regarding vandalism of anything in the arts, museums, and libraries, has been pasted. Original library pocket containing ... View More...
Pinochle simplified...how to value the hand and the widow...how much to bid and when. Advice on gin rummy, red dog and black jack. How to detect card sharps and avoid them in these games. Pages tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; 31107 View More...
53 color reproductions. Herein are artists, activists, businesswomen, scientists, quiet dreamers, and revolutionaries. Each one, in struggling to realize her own vision in her particular circumstances, has made a unique contribution to the world--and to a unique store of human inspiration, so long hidden from view, whose legacy can as yet only be imagined. Women featured: Mildred Capron; Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) ; Calamity Jane (also on cover) ; Jessie Redmon Fauset; Helen Brooke Taussig; Mary Stevenson Cassatt; Rachel Carson; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Patricia Roberts Harris; Ethel P... View More...
