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A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems by [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer

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Title: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems
Author: [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt, black, and blind (BAL terra cotta P. cloth). Blue coated endpapers. Complete with frontis and inserted plate. A bit of shelfwear to corners. Bookplate of Bacon to front pastedown; small binder's ticket of Riverside Press to rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing to endpapers, else an internally clean and unmarked. A just about Fine copy of this activist biography. Setting aside digital copies, it is surprisingly scarce institutionally, with OCLC reporting only 6 hardcopies of the first edition. Prolific poets who began publishing at a young age, the Cary sisters used their literature to promote the causes of abolition and women's rights. Alice, the first president of the first woman's club in America, was perhaps the most public in her activism; although Phoebe too was invested in these missions, serving as an assistant editor to Susan B. Anthony's suffrage newspaper The Revolution. Ohio-born, the sisters moved to New York in 1851, leaving behind the responsibilities of running their father's household and caring for their younger siblings. "Neither woman ever married, and they developed a symbiotic relationship. Alice was responsible for providing an income for the household" while Phoebe managed their home and assisted in running their Sunday salons, which were frequented by Horace Greeley and William Lloyd Garrison (ADNB). Critics have noted that the most interesting personae of the Cary sisters' poetry are the women. "A recurring figure is that of the unmarried but pregnant woman...Consistently they urge understanding, offering poverty as both an explanation and excuse that stands quietly on the woman's side. A second figure is the strong woman, who although she looks happily upon marriages retains her own identity" (Faust). Indeed, they depict a wide range of female experience; in Phoebe's poem A Woman's Conclusions, the female narrator looks back on an unmarried life without children, concluding "I am what I am, and my life for me is best." Their lives closely entwined, so too were the sisters' deaths: they passed within months of each other, in 1871, leaving behind a devasted network of friends and family. The present biography was composed by Mary Clemmer Ames, a fellow writer who resided with the sisters in New York while estranged from her husband. One of the highest paid women journalists of the age, Ames applies her training here: "months were consumed in writing to, and waiting for replies from, long time friends of the sisters" and working through "the mass of Alice and Phoebe's unedited papers." The result is a comprehensive memorial of the women's life, attempting to ensconce the sisters within the American literary canon as well as celebrating their activist contributions. BAL 2850. American Women Writers 99. Near Fine.

[HISTORY] A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN THE CITY, TO ONE IN THE COUNTRY; CONCERNING THE BILL FOR DISABLING THE DUKE OF YORK TO INHERIT THE IMPERIAL CROWN OF THIS REALM

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Title: [HISTORY] A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN THE CITY, TO ONE IN THE COUNTRY; CONCERNING THE BILL FOR DISABLING THE DUKE OF YORK TO INHERIT THE IMPERIAL CROWN OF THIS REALM
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Good binding
Description: London: Printed in the Year of, 1680. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good binding. A Letter... Concerning the Bill for Disabling the Duke of York to Inherit, or the ‘Exclusion Crisis,’ which were a series of bills aimed at excluding the Roman-Catholic Duke of York, the future King James II, from succession. This crisis directly caused two new parties to be formed, the Tories, who opposed the exclusion, and the “Country Party,” which was soon renamed the Whigs. This letter to a ‘Gentleman in the Country,’ supports the exclusion. A Good copy of the first variant of this text, with the C in “country” on the title page larger than the other letters; the last line of p. 3 reads: “and a glorious Crown;” the last line of the first paragraph on p. 7 reads: “of an aftergaim.” Disbound. [2], 21, [1] pp. (ESTC R14744). Good binding.

ANNA WEISER MUHLENBERG: A MORNING STAR IN THE DESTINY OF A CONTINENT by W.C.H.

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Title: ANNA WEISER MUHLENBERG: A MORNING STAR IN THE DESTINY OF A CONTINENT
Author: W.C.H.
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: 1916. W.C.H. ANNA WEISER MUHLENBERG: A MORNING STAR IN THE DESTINY OF A CONTINENT. 8vo., printed wraps. First Edition. Very Good (some wear). $75.00.

Report of the Select Committee on Transportation Routes To the Seaboard, With Appendix and Evidence by [United States Congress] [Transportation] [Agriculture]

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Title: Report of the Select Committee on Transportation Routes To the Seaboard, With Appendix and Evidence
Author: [United States Congress] [Transportation] [Agriculture]
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Part I only. [1], 232 pages. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and 3 folding charts. Brown cloth hardcover. Spine is missing. Front joint and inner hinge cracked. Light foxing to the map and chart edges. Folding maps and charts generally in good condition with a few minor pin holes at the fold intersections. Maps include corn, wheat, and cotton production areas and a map of Internal improvements to the transportation system.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED TO FREDERIC POHL DATED AUGUST 1, 1974 ABOUT 275 WORDS by Ernsting, Walter (Clark Darlton)

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Title: TYPED LETTER SIGNED TO FREDERIC POHL DATED AUGUST 1, 1974 ABOUT 275 WORDS
Author: Ernsting, Walter (Clark Darlton)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: TYPED LETTER SIGNED TO FREDERIC POHL DATED AUGUST 1, 1974 ABOUT 275 WORDS, expressing his thanks for accepting his novel, THE DAY THE GODS DIED, an upcoming Erich Von Daniken visit who is willing to help publicize his novel, enjoyed his time in Los Angeles seeing old friends Forry Ackerman, Robert Bloch, A. E. Van Vogt, Ross Rocklynn & Catherine Moore. (Walter Ernsting was a German science fiction writer often using the pseudonym Clark Darlton)

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