Woman's Collections
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- A Boston girl : a story of Boston, Bar Harbor, and Paris [binding]
- Dark olive green diagonal fine rib cloth; girl with single oar standing in boat with Arc de Triomphe in upper right, all in black; gilt lettering; spine lettered in gilt and black with black ribbons and flowering branches and gilt fan; light yellowish-brown endpapers with pattern of leaves and stylized flowers.
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- A Manchester strike : a tale [binding]
- Moderate reddish-brown calico-texture cloth; lettered and ruled paper onlay on spine in black. H: 16.1 cm.; W:9.6 cm.; D: 1.6 cm.
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- A New England girlhood : outlined from memory [binding]
- Dark blue (C183) cloth; ornate floral design in black, with two panels lettered in black and within black single rule borders; spine lettered in gilt. Unsigned, designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman.
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- A New England nun : and other stories [binding]
- Moderate blue (C182) diagonal fine rib cloth; woman's silhouette in black on cream cameo within gilt oval border with gilt ribbon, gilt floral ornament border, gilt lettering; motif repeated on spine in gilt.
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- A New England tale
- Dark grayish-blue (C187) diagonal wave cloth; large central ornament and thick rule border in blind on front and rear covers; three blindstamped panels with large floral ornaments, gilt lettering and rule on spine. H: 19.5 cm.; W: 13.6 cm.; D: 2.8 cm.
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- A bachelor's talks about married life and things adjacent [binding]
- Dark yellowish-brown (C78) diagonal fine rib cloth; elaborately decorated in black with fronds, panels, medallions, borders, author's name, and rules across front cover and spine, gilt ornamental panel with title in reserved brown on cover and panel, gilt publisher's monogram on spine; large blind stamped ornament on back cover with thin and thick rules frame; olive floral patterned endpapers. H: 19.3 cm.; W: 13.8 cm.; D: 2.1 cm.
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- A beautiful bird without a name, or, A true Kentucky girl [binding]
- Dark grayish-purple patterned sand grain cloth; bird on branch with lettering above and below all in gilt, patterned border blind stamped at head and foot; front cover repeated on back cover, all in blind; border motif repeated on spine in blind, lettered in gilt. H: 19 cm.; W: 14.1 cm.; D: 2.6 cm.
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- A book of worthies [binding]
- Moderate olive bead grain cloth; central panel quadruple ruled with outer most rule in black and inner rules in gilt, title page vignette repeated within panel, two panels at head and foot with leaves at head and crowns at foot, ruled in black, gilt background; back cover has publisher's monogram in center, four rules across head and foot, all blind stamped; two panels at head and foot with leaves at head and crowns at foot on spine, ruled in black and gilt, publisher's monogram in gilt, lettered in gilt. Coated dark blue endpapers. H: 17.6 cm.; W: 12.3 cm.; D: 2.2 cm.
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- A bookful of girls [binding]
- Dark olive yellow (C72) ungrained cloth; light yellow open book in center with reserved olive yellow lettering, surrounded by large pink blossoms and green leaves, with stylized green vase below; lettered scroll below in light yellow and green, corner piece pink blossoms with two green leaves, all within green thick rule border, with all blossoms and leaves horizontally hatched; signed "AR", i.e. Amy Richards; motif repeated on spine with dark green lettering and rules. H: 19.5 cm.; W: 13.2 cm.; D: 3.2 cm.
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- A brief memoir of Maria Fox : late of Tottenham [binding]
- Vivid purplish-blue ribbed morocco grain cloth; five rules blind stamped with innermost two rules decorative; front cover repeated on back cover; spine lettered in gilt. Yellow endpapers. H: 15.8 cm.; W: 10.3 cm.; D: 1.9 cm.
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- A chariot of fire [binding]
- Medium green calico texture cloth; design of approaching automobile flanked by trees and fences in dark green within single rule border at sides and foot of cover, headlights and reflections on road in moderate yellow, gilt lettering; signed BS, i.e. Bertha Stuart; gilt lettering on spine; top edges stained green; untrimmed. H: 17.9 cm.; W: 11.6 cm.; D: 1.3 cm.
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- A colonial belle's message : my lady's toilette table ... [binding]
- White paper over boards; color illustration of woman putting on make-up within decorative frame, vertical lines with floral design in green, lettered in gilt; vertical line motif repeated on back cover and spine; tied with green ribbon. H: 13.9 cm.; W:12.9 cm.; D: 1.1 cm.
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- A country doctor [binding
- Grayish-olive green (C127) very fine diagonal rib cloth; shield at upper right with dark reddish-brown caduceus, word "Rusticus" in outline, and diagonal rules, dark reddish-brown lettering at foot; spine lettered in gilt; light grayish-olive coated endpapers. Unsigned, designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. H: 18.6 cm.; W: 12.7 cm.; D: 2.5 cm.
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- A country doctor [binding]
- Moderate yellow-green calico-texture cloth; caduceus on shield with word "rusticus" in top right corner with lettering below in reddish-brown; spine lettered in gilt; medium gray coated endpapers. Unsigned, designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. H: 18.6 cm.; W:12.5 cm.; D: 2.6 cm.
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- A daughter of Fife [binding]
- Dark yellowish-green (C137) calico-texture cloth; thistle design with flowers, lettered banner through thistles, all in silver and dark green; signed "AR" probably Amy Richards; three small silver hearts, two thistle plants and lettering on spine in dark green and silver. Also issued in yellow green calico-texture cloth and moderate yellowish-green. H: 16.2 cm.; W: 10.8 cm.; D: 2 cm.
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- A daughter of Fife [binding]
- Dark yellowish-green (C137) calico-texture cloth; thistle design with flowers, lettered banner through thistles, all in silver and dark green; signed "AR" probably Amy Richards; three small silver hearts, two thistle plants and lettering on spine in dark green and silver. Also issued in yellow green calico-texture cloth and moderate yellowish-green. H: 16.1 cm.; W: 10.8 cm.; D: 2.2 cm.
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- A daughter of the South : and shorter stories [binding]
- Dark greenish-blue (C174) calico-texture cloth; lettering within floral oval frame, lettering at foot, all within single outer rule border, all in gilt; floret and lettering on spine in gilt. H: 19.3 cm.; W:13.6 cm.; D: 2.5 cm.
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- A description of the Mount Vernon School in 1832 : being a brief account of the internal arrangements and plans of the institution : addressed to a new scholar [binding]
- Pale green (C149) paper over boards with black leather spine; two rules and lettering within decorative border in black; five rules on spine in gilt. H: 15.2 cm.; W:9.5 cm.; D: 9.2 cm.
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- A detached pirate : the romance of Gay Vandeleur [binding]
- Dark red (C16) calico-texture cloth; art nouveau floral design in moderate green and white forming heart-shaped frame transfixed by white arrow with white envelopes below, gilt lettering all within moderate green quadruple rule frame; signed with Amy Sacker's monogram; white and green ornaments, green rules and gilt lettering on spine. H: 19.7 cm.; W:13.3 cm.; D: 3 cm.
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- A diplomat's diary [binding]
- Quarter bound with sides in mottled dark yellowish-pink calico-texture cloth and spine in yellowish-gray calico-texture cloth; four feathers and lettering on spine in gilt H: 18.6 cm.; W:12.6 cm.; D: 2.8 cm.
