Women of the Royal Air Force by A. Chauncey

London: Hutchinson 1899. (Hardcover) 736pp. Good to very good. Stamped red cloth with gilt spine decoration. The covers are worn at the corners and the top and bottom of the spine, and the binding is loose. Contributors include Gertrude Atherton (Ah Lon and Her Romance). Illustration by James Aylward, Florrie Barr, Tom Brown, W.G.R. Browne, W. Cubitt Cooke, Max Cowper, N.C. Bishop Culpeper, Paul Dare, L. Daviel, F. Dickson, Frank Feller, Eric Fitzgerald, Warwick Goble, A.J. Goodman, Gwenny Griffiths, C.T. Hobson, J. Jellicoe, Raphael Jones, Leonard Lindsdell, A. Ludovici, A.D. M'cormick, J. Merrin, M.H. Nisbet, Ernest Prater, Will B. Robinson, F.M. Rudland, E.J. Skinner, Murray Smith, C.H. Taffs, Adolph Thiede, J.H. Valda, S.H. Vedder, H.J. Walker, D. Whitaker & Cress Woollett. (Women's Magazines).

Boston: Marshall, Jones Company. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Slight soiling on cover and on endpapers. ; 275 pages .

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, hardcover, xvii-314 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without personal inscription, simply 'Peace, Wangari' on the title page, Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight signs of wear from handling, in new Brodart sleeve. This personal memoir from the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize follows the author through her early life and struggle for education, her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government, and her eventual election to the Kenyan Parliament in 2002. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-&-white photographs. Appended: Konyeki na Ithe, or 'Konyeki and His Father', Index. ISBN 9780307263483

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. The biography of one of the leading dancers with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 294 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket but for REMAINDER spray on the bottom edge. This copy is inscribed by Jamison to the collector Oliver St. Clair Franklin, To Oliver, Thanks for being a great human being & collector. Judith Jamison." Uncommon signed.

The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers. An Illustrated History, Including the Temperance "blue laws" of the New England Colonies; the Liquor Laws of the States; A Sketch of the Various Temperance Organizations; Biographies of Lyman Beecher, John B Gough, Dr Jewett, etc., A Chapter on the Medical and Chemical Phases of the Movement; "The Crusades"; the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions; "Red Ribbon" reform under Dr Reynolds; the Evangelistic Temperance Work Under Messrs Moody, Sawyer, etc.; History of the Murphy Temperance Movement; with Thrilling experiences of Reformed and Converted Drunkards; with Over Twenty Portraits of the Chief Reforms, and Characteristic Selections from their Best Writings and Addresses. Edited by Rev W H Daniels, A. M. With an Introduction by Rev Theodore L Cuyler, D.D. Published by Subscription. New York, Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and San Francisco: Phillips & Hunt. Hitchcock & Walden, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis. 1879 First Edition. Condition: Original with… Read More

London: Hutchinson 1899. (Hardcover) 736pp. Good to very good. Stamped red cloth with gilt spine decoration. The covers are worn at the corners and the top and bottom of the spine, and the binding is loose. Contributors include Gertrude Atherton (Ah Lon and Her Romance). Illustration by James Aylward, Florrie Barr, Tom Brown, W.G.R. Browne, W. Cubitt Cooke, Max Cowper, N.C. Bishop Culpeper, Paul Dare, L. Daviel, F. Dickson, Frank Feller, Eric Fitzgerald, Warwick Goble, A.J. Goodman, Gwenny Griffiths, C.T. Hobson, J. Jellicoe, Raphael Jones, Leonard Lindsdell, A. Ludovici, A.D. M'cormick, J. Merrin, M.H. Nisbet, Ernest Prater, Will B. Robinson, F.M. Rudland, E.J. Skinner, Murray Smith, C.H. Taffs, Adolph Thiede, J.H. Valda, S.H. Vedder, H.J. Walker, D. Whitaker & Cress Woollett. (Women's Magazines).

Boston: Marshall, Jones Company. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Slight soiling on cover and on endpapers. ; 275 pages .

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, hardcover, xvii-314 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without personal inscription, simply 'Peace, Wangari' on the title page, Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight signs of wear from handling, in new Brodart sleeve. This personal memoir from the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Africa and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize follows the author through her early life and struggle for education, her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government, and her eventual election to the Kenyan Parliament in 2002. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-&-white photographs. Appended: Konyeki na Ithe, or 'Konyeki and His Father', Index. ISBN 9780307263483

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. The biography of one of the leading dancers with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 294 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket but for REMAINDER spray on the bottom edge. This copy is inscribed by Jamison to the collector Oliver St. Clair Franklin, To Oliver, Thanks for being a great human being & collector. Judith Jamison." Uncommon signed.

The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers. An Illustrated History, Including the Temperance "blue laws" of the New England Colonies; the Liquor Laws of the States; A Sketch of the Various Temperance Organizations; Biographies of Lyman Beecher, John B Gough, Dr Jewett, etc., A Chapter on the Medical and Chemical Phases of the Movement; "The Crusades"; the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions; "Red Ribbon" reform under Dr Reynolds; the Evangelistic Temperance Work Under Messrs Moody, Sawyer, etc.; History of the Murphy Temperance Movement; with Thrilling experiences of Reformed and Converted Drunkards; with Over Twenty Portraits of the Chief Reforms, and Characteristic Selections from their Best Writings and Addresses. Edited by Rev W H Daniels, A. M. With an Introduction by Rev Theodore L Cuyler, D.D. Published by Subscription. New York, Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and San Francisco: Phillips & Hunt. Hitchcock & Walden, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis. 1879 First Edition. Condition: Original with… Read More