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Colet, Louise . LE POEME DE LA FEMME
Paris 1854 Perrotin. 2e Recit La Servante. In French. 8vo., 99pp., 1/2 leather. Owner bookplate. Nice leather backstrip with gilt lettering and trim and armorial shield in gilt on front board. Attractive blue marbled end papers. Good, some foxing. No ownership marks. Rare. (a10192)
$150.00 Henderson, Betty . FIRE AND FLESH A WOMAN'S TESTAMENT
New York 1928 1st edition. Harold Vinal . Sm.8vo., 74pp., hardcover. VG, no DJ. end papers toned. no ownership marks. Scarce. (a19144)
$49.00 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler . POEMS OF PLEASURE
Chicago 1902. 8vo., 158pp., frontis photo of Wilcox, attractive pictorial boards. Near Fine. Pretty binding. no ownership marks. (a20839)
$20.00 Lowther, Pat . A STONE DIARY
Toronto 1977 Oxford. Poetry by poet who was murdered in 1975. 8vo., 96pp., wraps. Good, cover worn and soiled. (a20904)
$25.00 Cooper, Clarissa Burnham . WOMEN POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN FRANCE A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
NY 1943 King's Crown. Octavo, 317pp., wraps. Owner signed. Good, some creases on front cover. (a23584)
$35.00 Marin, Gilda . DESSNUDA EL ALMA VERSOS
Madrid 1956 Editions Sixlo XX. 12mo., about 40pp. Poems written when young Cuban woman was 17-23 years old. Full blue leather. VG. (a24937)
$50.00 Greene, Aella . RIVER, BIRD AND STAR
1895 first edition Greene. Poetry. Greene was born in 1838 at Chester, Mass. Hardcover. Square 12mo., 151pp., cloth. Good, a bit worn. (a3265)
$29.00 Jordan, Charlote Brewster (ed); Mc Ilvaine, Thomas (ilus) . MOTHER-SONG AND CHILD-SONG
NY 1898 Stokes. Edited by C. Jordan. Vignette edition with numerous new illustrations. Poetry for mothers and children. Octavo, 306pp., drawings, hardcover. Good plus. light foxing on initial pages. no dj. (a4293)
$22.00 Marr, Fannie . HEART-LIFE IN SONG
Richmond 1883 2nd Randolph and English. Author was from Warrenton, Virginian. Poetic autobiography. small octavo. 183pp., original brown cloth hardcover with gilt trim. VG. Binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean. Original book, not modern remake. No ownership marks. (a4955)
$65.00 Blankner, Fredericka . ALL MY YOUTH A BOOK OF POEMS
NY 1932 st Brentanos. Sm.8vo., 86pp., hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Blankner. Good, cover worn on all edges and corners, no DJ. (a4977)
$35.00 (poetry) . THE LADY POETS. SPECTRUM: THE RICHMOND TRI-ANNUAL REVIEW VOLUME 5 NUMBER 3 SPRING 1970
Richmond 1970. In Spectrum: Richmond Tri-Annual Review, Volume 5 Number 3, at pp.552-70. Included in whole issue of theis journal. 8vo., 76pp., photo illustrations, wraps. Insert (4pp.) laid in. VG, light soiling, (a50806)
$35.00 Labe, Lovize . SONNETS DE LOV�ZE LAB� LIONNOIZE (with signed illustrations)
Berlin 1920 Euphorion. Leipzig (text) Dragulin. From the edition of 1556. In French. **Number 20 of an edition of 100 where each gravure a l'eau forte by M. Bob Bell is signed. Sq.8vo., 24 sonnets, 6 original gravures a l'eau forte by M. Bob Bell and each signed by Bell in pencil, bound in full armorial leather by Hubel & Denck, Leipzig. VG plus to Near Fine, a very small of amount of foxing in text; light board edge wear. (a53654)
$750.00 Painter, Lydia Ethel F. . MY ATHENE AND SONGS TO HER
Wausau (Wisconsin)1903. Made into this book by Helen Bruneau Van Vechten at the Log Cabin Shop of the Philosopher Press at the sign of the the Green Pine Tree. Limited to 150 copies of which this is copy No. 145. 8vo., 220pp., photo illustrations, 3/4 leather. Good, new paper backstrip. Rare. (a55988)
$275.00 Hermey, Carl, (editor) . CONTEMPORARY FRENCH WOMEN POETS: A BILINGUAL AND CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
Berkeley 1988 Perivale Press. Third Printing. 8vo., 207pp., original decorated wraps. Good, light soiling, light wear. (a58050)
$25.00 McDonald, Mrs. Mary Noel . POEMS
NY 1844 1st. 8vo., 208pp., original pressed grey-green cloth. Good, edges and corners worn, light soiling on initial pages. (a59463)
$45.00 Petitgard, Maryse (poetry); Anne Meyer (lithographs) . SULFURES
Verneuil en Halatte 1976. **Copy No. 12 of 40. Poem in French. Lg.4to., title page plus 14 pages, poem in French by Petitgard illustrated with ***6 original lithographs, each signed and numbered by Meyer on bottom edge, original printed wraps in custom-made folder. Strong bold images of swirling women, etc. On fine onion skin paper, with protective tissues with each lithograph. Inscribed presentation copy from Petitgard; signed by both Petitgard and Meyer on colophon. VG, a few small tears on dust jacket and light cover wear. Later glassine cover in place of original glassine cover. Rare. (a67649)
$550.00 Sainte-Beuvre, C. A. . MEMOIRS OF MADAME DESBORDES-VALMORE, WITH A SELECTION OF HER POEMS
Boston 1873 (1872) Roberts. Translated by Harriet W Preston. Hardcover. Octavo, 227pp., original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. VG, light wear to spine ends and corners. (a71863)
$55.00 Fay, Anna Maria . IDYLLS AND POEMS
NY 1879 1st Putnam. Hardcover. Octavo, 103pp., original green cloth with gilt design and lettering. VG, light cover rubbing. Scarce. (a74658)
$145.00Brown, Mary C. Barrett. POEMS AND CHARADES WITH A KEY AND ANSWERS IN VERSE
New York 1888 1st Dutton. Hardcover. Octavo, 215pp., frontis portrait of Brown, original green cloth with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. VG, text very slightly browned, corners and spine ends a bit frayed. In protective removable glassine jacket. Nice condition. (a75622)
$75.00 Sigourney, Lydia H. . POEMS BY LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY
NY 1851 Leavitt. Hardcover. 16mo., 256pp., fine full page frontis engraving, gilt decorated boards and spine. All edges gilt. Owner signed (Mary Anne Kirby). VG, occasional light foxing in text. Attractive book with only light wear. (a79514)
$80.00 Wines, Mary J. . INFANT HARPER AND OTHER POEMS
NY 1874 Hurd and Houghton. 339p. All edges gilt. Sm8vo. Gilt illus of child playing harp on front cover. Gilt spine letters.G-VG minor spine end fraying. (a8065)
$75.00 Hemans, Felicia . POEMS BY MRS. FELICIA HEMANS VOLUME II
Boston 1827 Hilliard, Gray, Little. Hardcover. 12mo., 329pp., textured grey-green cloth with mounted printed spine labe. Tiney owner bookplate. Good, spine label chipped, a few light spots. Volume II only. (a81994)
$35.00 Kiehl, Emilie M. . GOLDEN GRAINS
Philadelphia 1891 1st Lippincott. Poetry. Hardcover. Small octavo, 82pp., original photograph portrait of Kiehl tipped in as frontis, green cloth. VG, light cover wear at corners and spine ends. Scarce. (a82592)
$145.00 Moulsworth, Martha (Evans, Robert C. and Barbara Wiedemann, editors) . MY NAME WAS MARTHA A RENAISSANCE WOMAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM
West Cornwall 1993. Edited with commentary. "The poem is one of the first autobiographical works (per se) by anyone in English." Hardcover. Small octavo, 117pp., red cloth. Institution stamps on fore-edges, a few internal marks, no spine numbers. VG. no dj. (a84158)
$29.00 Wallick, Frederick . A BOOK FOR BACHELORS
New York 1909 first edition Forest Press. Limited to 200 copies, this is copy No. 91. ***Original and attractive hand-drawn and hand-painted picture of a woman in a large red hat on front cover panel. Drawing presumably by Ekin Wallick. Small octavo, 20 leaves, one poem per recto, boards. VG, one tiny stain in margin of front end paper, light cover wear. (Title page says "Drawings by Wallick" but the only artwork is the picture on front board-none in text and none removed from text.) Poems as "Venus in the Kitchen", "The Suffragette", "Old Maids". No ownership marks. Rare. (a87446)
$650.00 Gardner, Celia E. . STOLEN WATERS
NY 1871 1st Carleton. Poetry. Octavo, 326pp., hardcover. Presentation copy to Mary A. Reed signed by "The Author." Good, corners and spine ends worn. (a9172)
$50.00Ward, James W. WOMAN . A POEM
Cincinnati 1852 first edition. Ward and Taylor. "Read before the Graduating Class of the Female College of Ohio at their commencement exercises July 17, 1852." 41p. Original maroon cloth on paper wraps. Gilt lettering. VG. Very Scarce in original first edition. (a9226)
$75.00