New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1936. 7.25" x 9.25" pp. 96, including 8 mounted color plates and multiple line drawings by famed Hungarian illustrator, Willy Pogany. Inscribed by illustrator Pogany on the front free end paper, "To Anges Grey - with best wishes / 1937 / Willy Pogany." First.....
![Item #2712 [Anette Busch ephemera, first non-Japanese female sumo wrestler]. Anette Busch](https://tempobookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2712.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779567617)
[Tokyo]: [publisher not identified], [ca. 1917]. 10.5" x 7.5" broadside advertising a circus-like event featuring "strong woman" Anette Busch, promising a series of stunts, celebrities, and "super-human" strength. Broadside is very good to near fine, prominently featuring Busch herself, ready to rumble. A pair of two small staple holes along.....
Shelton, Connecticut: The First Edition Library. Facsimile First Edition. 4.75" x 7.5" pp. [4], 303, [1]. Light green cloth boards with green and red stamping. Includes gray cloth slipcase with pasted illustration. Boards and text are fine. Very good to fine.A Creole woman gets a taste of life, free of.....
Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Press, 1933. 5.5" x 8" pp. [10], 3-104. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown. Hardcover bound in brown boards with red stamping on the cover and spine, light wear to the edges, overall sound. Text is clean with some toning on the end.....
Paris: Editions Bell, 1934. 15" x 9" comprised of 18 color pochoir fashion plates on translucent paper. Includes a series of numbered plates in art deco style featuring individual day and evening wear dress designs (front and back) starting with #74 and ending with #105. This is an incomplete gathering;.....
![Item #2717 [Parisian art deco pochoir fashion sketches ca. 1935]. Editions Bell](https://tempobookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2717.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779567005)
Paris: [Editions Bell], [1935]. 13" x 9.5" comprised of 12 color pochoir fashion plates in art deco style on translucent paper, one "Les Creations Parisiennes" color print, "Supplement a mes croquis - Numero 8," and a cover envelope for "Les Creations Parisiennes: La Mode est un Art." This is a......
London: Mitre Press, 1932. 7.5" x 9.5" pp. 130, [2]; hardcover bound in blue cloth boards with gold stamping. Text is yellowed but readable and clear. All else good and sound. ~1500 biographies of prominent American women from the early 20th century. Includes 1 page front and back of advertisements from.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 5.75" x 8.75" pp. xii, 436. Red cloth boards are clean with some very light scuffing along bottom of spine. One small pen dot on page 275. Text is otherwise clean and sound. Very good.An exploration of the roles of women within Tibetan society.....
Paris: Imprimerie, 1937. 12.5" x 9.5" comprised of 29 pochoir fashion plates on translucent paper. Includes title plate, unnumbered "collar" plate, and a series of numbered plates featuring individual dress designs (front and back) in art deco style starting with #31 and ending with #59, missing #36 and #56 which.....
San Francisco & New York: Paul Elder and Company, [1903]. 6" x 7.75" pp. [32], inc. multiple illustrations and handwritten aesthetic. Original cloth wrappers in a red and black patchwork quilt motif with title applied to cover. First edition of an early publication from the 238 Post Street iteration of.....
Afton, Minnesota: Afton Press, 2011. 9.25" x 12" pp. 259, [1], includes multiple illustrations (chiefly color). Red cloth boards with gold stamping on spine in illustrated black cover jacket, overall clean with light scuffing at top edge. Boards are bright and crisp. Inscribed by owner on front free endpaper. Text.....
St. Paul, MN: Afton Press, 2017. 9" x 12" pp. 172; heavily illustrated (chiefly color). Orange cloth boards in an illustrated white cover jacket. Jacket has a few light smudges. Boards and text are bright and clean. Signed by authors (L'Enfant and Hansen) on title page. Very good.A biographic examination.....
New York: National Arts Club Gallery, 1973. 8.5" x 11" pp. 26; b/w illustrations. Illustrated white wrappers are clean with a few faint smudges on covers and slight bending at corners. Text is clean and bright. Very good.A catalog for the 77th annual open exhibition of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.....
Paris: Publications A. Louchel, 1935. 13" x 8" comprised of 27 color pochoir fashion plates on translucent paper. Includes a series of numbered plates in art deco style featuring individual dress and bridal designs (front and back) starting with #61 and ending with #90. This is an incomplete gathering, missing.....
Paris: Publications A. Louchel, 1935. 13" x 8" comprised of 27 pochoir fashion plates on translucent paper. Includes a series of numbered plates in art deco style featuring individual dress and overcoat designs (front and back) starting with #151 and ending with #209. This is an incomplete gathering. Collected in.....
New York: Random House, 1987. 7.5" x 10.25" pp. [84]; color illustrations on every page; first printing of commemorative reissue. Tan paper boards quarter bound in brown cloth in an illustrated salmon cover jacket. Cloth binding has a few loose threads with some faint toning at the bottom edge. Text.....
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1869. 2 volumes, 8vo (approx. 5" x 7.5"), volume 1: pp. xi, [1], 432 (1 plate), volume 2: pp. viii, 320 (10 plates); includes nearly 200 illustrations (including 14 by Charles Darwin) and 11 plates printed in deep cobalt blue; complete. First edition. Contemporary green.....
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center, 1977. 8.5" x 11" pp. 39, [1], includes black and white illustrations. Illustrated white wrappers are clean with a few minor smudges along bottom edges. Text and illustrations are bright and clean. Includes a 24" x 33" fold-out poster featuring photos of Julia Child and.....
Concord, NH: Rumford Printing Company, 1909. 6.25" x 9.25" pp. [1], 36, includes frontis portrait and 4 plates. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover; light wear, "January 1956" written in pen on front free end paper. Very clean text; very good overall. Sarah Thompson was.....
San Francisco, California: RE/Search Publications, 1990. 8.5" x 11" pp. 205, [11]; copious black and white illustrations. Illustrated red wrappers are clean with very minor bending/scuffing to corners. Text is bright and crisp. Very good."Modern Primitives" Issue featuring various people who have undergone tattoos, piercings, scarification, and other forms of.....
San Francisco, California: RE/Search Publications, 1991. 8.5" x 11" pp. 239, [1]; first edition; copious black and white illustrations. Illustrated tan wrappers are clean with light scuffing along edges and corners. Text is bright and crisp. Very good."Angry Women" Issue featuring interviews with 16 female performance artists giving their takes.....
Yankton, South Dakota: Daughters of Dakota, 1993. 5.5" x 8.5" pp. [x], 137, [1], includes multiple black and white printed photographs. Third printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Paperback in colorful paper covers, overall slightly worn at the edges. Text is clean. Very good. "These stories, selected from.....