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Souvenir of the City of Emporia, Lyon County and the State of Kansas [wrapper title] by [Kansas]

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Title: Souvenir of the City of Emporia, Lyon County and the State of Kansas [wrapper title]
Author: [Kansas]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Emporia, Ks: Gazette Print, 1905. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Illustrated. Minor wear and soiling. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. An unrecorded promotional pamphlet touting the advantages of the small city of Emporia, Kansas, as well as larger Lyon County near the turn of the 20th century. The work opens with a poem titled, "Opportunity" by notable Kansas Senator John J. Ingalls (who died in 1900) and a passage about the state of Kansas itself. This is followed by three pages on Lyon County, promoting the county's production of alfalfa, wheat, corn, poultry, butter, and milk, along with its railroads, churches, schools, and the mule and horse market. The remainder of the work focuses on Emporia, reprinting an article from the local newspaper heralding the town as the "Capital of Steerdom" and "Center of the Kingdom of the Big Fat Steer." The text also trumpets the town's churches, the College of Emporia, Sacred Heart School, the Business College, libraries, secret societies, and telegraph and telephone companies. The text is supplemented with photographs of the Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia State University), the College of Emporia, the Lyon County Court House, the Federal Building, the Peters Hardware Company's Building, the Emporia National Bank Building, and the Mit-Way Hotel. As of 2020, the population of Emporia was just over 24,000. We could locate no other copies of this pamphlet anywhere.

THE GNOME KING OF OZ by Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]

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Title: THE GNOME KING OF OZ
Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1927. Very good plus.. First edition of this adventurous OZ installment, in which the Gnome King's grudge against Ozma, the Scarecrow, and other beloved Oz characters leads to trouble. 9'' x 6.5''. Original green cloth, color pictorial paste-on. Yellow stained edges. Illustrated by J.R. Neill with 12 color plates (coated on both sides) plus and many black-and-white images. 282 pages. A couple small spots to boards and light edgewear, else fresh.

Womanhood...With a Preface by Mrs. Mary Scharlieb.. by Baird, Mona

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Title: Womanhood...With a Preface by Mrs. Mary Scharlieb..
Author: Baird, Mona
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Health Promotion, Ltd, 1919. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. 215, [9, ads] pp. Publisher's gray paper wrappers. Some toning and foxing to wrappers, first few leaves, and edges of closed text block. Overall a Very Good copy of a scarce and radical work on women's health that advocates for women's economic equality and the right to vote. Written under the pseudonym of Mona Baird, Womanhood presents both a frank discussion of women's health and the author's perspective on women's role in society. Baird supported suffrage, criticized eugenics, and identified discrimination as a root cause of women's poverty and suffering. Her radical perspectives led Dr. Mary Scharlieb (1845 - 1930), a pioneering gynecologist and one of the most prominent medical women of her day, to issue a warning in her preface: "I cannot see eye to eye with 'Mona Baird' with regard to the paramount necessity of full self-realisation. She says that she does not advocate 'free love,' but she appears to go perilously near to advocating a condition of things that seems to be subversive of social welfare and of individual purity" (p. 7). Scharlieb's criticism of Baird may have stemmed, in part, from Baird's view on eugenics (which Scharlieb supported). Baird was somewhat sympathetic to the notion of eugenics, but she firmly criticized the infringements on personal liberty mandated by eugenics policies. Baird wrote, "The way to deal with poverty and disease is not to limit births or to restrict human beings in their free choice of partners for life. They are human, after all" (p. 165). Instead, Baird argued that poverty could be alleviated with structural changes like state welfare and infrastructure improvements in impoverished areas. She also identified misogyny as a driving force of women's suffering and described women's inequality as "due to economic causes over which in the past she has had no control. For the rest, what is usually called man's selfishness, but what I prefer to call man's ignorance and low ideal of womanhood, are other factors which are responsible for the unfortunately low status of woman in social life" (p. 213). In Baird's view, "there would be no need either to limit the number of children born, or the type of man and woman who should become parents" if women had equal status in society (p. 164). In the final chapter, Baird also made a firm statement in support of women's suffrage and the role of women in social reform. Suffragists had just garnered a victory with the Representation of the People Act of 1918, which allowed property-owning women over the age of thirty to vote. Baird wrote, "While rejoicing over what has been already done towards raising the political status of woman, let us never forget, however, that the vote is not an end in itself. It is a tool which an intelligent and educated womanhood will be able to use with growing power. With its aid women will be able to help the helpless. For the tool which enfranchisement puts into their hands is not an axe with which to cut down existing institutions, or even a sword for defence. It is more. It is a spade which will dig deep into the hard ground of convention and ignorance, expose to the air what is rotting or diseased in our social growths, and let the rain of pity and the sun of love do their work in making the world bring forth health-giving and life-sustaining ideas" (p. 212). We could not locate much information about Mona Baird, which seems to have been a pseudonym. Dr. Mary Scharlieb, on the other hand, was a prominent gynecologist and professor who was both the first woman educated in medicine at the Madras Medical College and the first woman to earn both the M.D. and M.S. (Master of Surgery) in Britain. She operated a private practice in London for over forty years and published several books on women's health and pediatrics. Very Good.

Dinah. Featured Song Success in the New Plantation Revue (Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.) by [Music – Jazz Age] Akst, Harry; Lewis, Sam; Young, Joe; Barbelle, Alfred Willard [Baker, Josephine, et al.] [illustrator]

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Title: Dinah. Featured Song Success in the New Plantation Revue (Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.)
Author: [Music – Jazz Age] Akst, Harry; Lewis, Sam; Young, Joe; Barbelle, Alfred Willard [Baker, Josephine, et al.] [illustrator]
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Fine condition.
Description: New York City: Henry Waterson, Inc, 1925. Folio, illustrated wraps. 5 pp. Fine condition.. A striking Jazz Age sheet music issue and likely first edition for “Dinah,” the widely popular song composed by Harry Akst with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, here promoted as a “Featured Song Success” from The New Plantation (Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.), a Harlem revue-style theatrical production. The revue was advertised as an all-Black production reopening the Plantation Cabaret at 50th Street and Broadway, featuring prominent performers including blues singer Ethel Waters alongside Will Vodery’s Parisian Orchestra, Josephine Baker, Bessie Allison, Leonard Harper, Jimmy Ferguson, and the Plantation beauty chorus.[1] “Dinah” would go on to become one of the most enduring standards of the decade. Multiple versions were published in 1925, this one in June, and though we are not able to establish definitive priority we guess that this is the first edition. Very scarce, with three copies found institutionally, at the Francis G. Spencer collection at Baylor University, BYU, and the British Library reference collection. [1] “Ethel Waters Is Featured In New Plantation Revue,” The New York Age, June 20, 1925, 6.

Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Title: Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. 47 pages. Printed purple-gray dust jacket pasted into brown boards at spine, as issued, though now separated per notes below. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends, toned along spine, and coloring of exterior has largely faded to gray. Dust jacket now detached from boards due to glue deterioration. Boards with some light chipping along fore edge of front and, naturally, exposure along spine due to jacket situation. Binding otherwise holding soundly. Foxing along top edge of text block but interior otherwise clean and unmarked.

The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey

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Title: The Blade Itself
Author: Marcus Sakey
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780312360313
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

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Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany by Yokoyama, Olga T. and Emily Klenin, Eds

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Title: Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany
Author: Yokoyama, Olga T. and Emily Klenin, Eds
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ISBN: 9780893572693
Description: Columbus: Slavica Publishers, 1996. 391p., original stiff wrappers,

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by Waters, John

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Title: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Author: Waters, John
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780374214968
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x5x1. Full number line; 8vo, 372 pages, black and white photographs. John Waters dishes up stories of his life and the people in it. Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with photos from Water's own personal collection.

Botanica Neglecta. William Young, Jr. (of Philadelphia) "Botaniste de Pennsylvani" and His Long-Forgotten Book, Being a Facsimile Reprint of His "Catalogue d'Arbres Arbustes et Plantes Herbacees d'Amerique" Published In Paris In 1783 by Young, Jr., William; Rhoads, Samuel N. (Ed.)

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Title: Botanica Neglecta. William Young, Jr. (of Philadelphia) "Botaniste de Pennsylvani" and His Long-Forgotten Book, Being a Facsimile Reprint of His "Catalogue d'Arbres Arbustes et Plantes Herbacees d'Amerique" Published In Paris In 1783
Author: Young, Jr., William; Rhoads, Samuel N. (Ed.)
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1916. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 6 1/2". 55pp. Preface in English, original text in French only. Stated 1916 reprint, possibly later. Edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies, 50 are printed on large paper, quarto; the remainder, octavo , on buff-tinted rag paper, all are uniformly bound in boards, uncut, paper label. This copy is unnumbered and unsigned, perhaps a printer's or binder's copy. All leaves have been opened, likely rebound as well. Bound in blue paper over boards, with spine backed in blue cloth and lettered in black. Binding shows moderate wear, with edgewear, bumping, spot of heavy rubbbing to upper board, toning, and corners split and turned in. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, dated 1951. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid and presentable facsimile reprint of the first book published in the United States by an American botanist about American botany, horticulture, and floriculture.

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