Search Results: Women Writers from Bygone Books

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Hardcover. VG/VG-. No printing statement, 8vo, blue decorated paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, 399 pages, illustrated with b/w contemporary 18th-century illustrations, color frontispiece. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has light edgewear; jacket has some edgewear of chipping at spine head and a few small closed tears, faint scuffing to front panel. Covers the 18th-century English novelists, both men (Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Goldsmith, MacKenzie, Johnson, Walpole, Lewis, Holcroft, Godwin, etc.) and women (Burney, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth), ending in a chapter on Jane Austen.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, ivory boards with black backstrip, 303 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE jacket: very nice copy of this biography that sheds new light on our understanding of Emily Brontë's personality, experience, and writing - all from a feminist perspective rather than the traditional patriarchal view of Emily.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st ed. [no additional printings], 8vo, reddish cloth, 176 pages, frontispiece of Brontë, notes and bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE / no jacket: appears to be unread, slightest of rubbing to spine tail.

NY: Macmillan / Viking, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, gray / black cloth hardcover, 305 pages. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has the slightest of marking to top page edge; jacket has a sl. tanned spine, sl. edgewear, scratch to spine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 1st edition, 340p. b/w illus. 1st edition. black cloth. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: spine ends creased; owner label and name. DJ: edgewear, spine sunned (in mylar) Burney [1752-1840] was the author of Evelina, Cecelia, Camilla, The Wanderer, and is most known for her Diaries.

London / New York: Frederick Warne, 1892. Hardcover. VG. With notes by W. C. Ward, and prefaced by Lord Macaulay's Essay "Madame D'Arblay." 3 volumes, 12mo, burgundy pebbled cloth w/ gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, vol. 1: 447pp, engraved frontispiece of Burney (based on a drawing by Edward Burney); vol. 2: 468pp, engraved frontis of George III, Queen Charlotte and their Family (from drawing by T. [ Thomas ] Stothard; vol. 3: 480pp, frontis of General D'Arblay (all frontispieces with tissue guards intact); decorative head, tailpieces and letters for each chapter. Condition: VERY GOOD set: covers have light toning at edges, "Warne" label on spine of v 1 and 2 are rubbed, some pages are unopened, minimal faint scattered foxing to each volume, light spotting to bottom page edges, label of the 'Paige Memorial Library' listing its many regulations is on the front pastedown of each volume but no other library markings and obviously little used (no location… Read More

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-/Fair. 1st edition, 8vo, blue cloth, 253 pages. VERY GOOD- book / POOR - FAIR jacket: book has lr. rubbing along edges and corners, sl. "dusty" top page edge, owner name on fep, sm. stain on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket is quite tattered with a few chunks missing here and there....all held nicely together in mylar. A collection of 16 essays, some of which first appeared in The Bookman and The Yale Review, offering short biographies and literary interpretation. Included are: Marie Bashkirtseff, Madame de Sevigne, Christina Rossetti, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sappho, George Sand, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Saint Teresa, Emily Dickinson, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Mew, George Eliot, Elinor Wylie, and Katherine Mansfield.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0-394-54418-8. 1st edition [stated], 8vo, gray boards, 638 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: faint spotting to top page edge, jacket is price-clipped.

NY: Stein and Day, 1981. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0812827619 1st Am edition [First published in 1981], 8vo, tan boards with burgundy cloth backstrip, 232 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear to book and jacket; jacket has slight yellowing and scuffing to white on rear panel. Frances Burney d'Arblay [1752-1840], one the the early women novel writers "before Jane Austen" who spanned the 18th and 19th centuries - Dr. Johnson said of her, "Miss Burney is a real wonder; " her life alone is a page-turner. Noted for Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, and her letters and diaries.

NY: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1st American edition, a title in the English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley, with the EML logo in gilt on front cover. This title on Burney seems to be the first biography of a woman writer in this series; a "new volume" list appended lists George Eliot. 12mo, black cloth, top edge gilt, 216 pages, [2] pages publisher ads. VERY GOOD+ condition: gentle rubbing to spine extremities, a lovely engraved owner bookplate on front paste-down with another owner name in pencil, internally clean and tight. A very nice copy. Frances Burney, 1752-1840, diarist, novelist and letter-writer... [The bookplate owner is Ruth Mary Sabin, listed in Lemperly's "A List of Book-plates Engraved in Copper" (1899)]

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Twayne's English Author Series No. 67. 1st ed. small 8vo, red boards with gilt titles and TEAS logo, 169 pages, notes, index, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD jacket: book is like new; jacket has slight edgewear, some spotting to rear panel. A short insightful analysis of Burney, in the days before she became the more proper "Frances." A lovely copy for your Burney collection.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0231042620 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, 283 pages, bibliographical notes. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 068481093X 1st ed., 8vo, hardcover, 333 pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: new except for remainder mark on bottom page edge.

New York: Brentano's, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Various.. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges, 502 pages, 44 b/w illustrated plates, index, list of "Works by the Brontës." Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities, a slightly toned spine, owner bookplate of Edith Scoville ["Be of Good Cheer"], some light foxing stains to deckled edges with very light scattered foxing on some pages (it is minor, a bit more foxing is on the title and dedication page), illustrations are clean. This is a lovely book, one of the earlier biographies. Chadwick lived in the Haworth area for a few years; she also wrote a book on Elizabeth Gaskell. "A few years after Esther Alice Chadwick (fl. 1882-1928) - who wrote under the name Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick - had read a copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë, she moved to a house near the Haworth vicarage where the Brontë family had lived.… Read More

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. Hardcover. G+. No edition statement, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. 8vo, brown paper-backed boards / olive green backstrip, 396 pp, 30 b&w plates. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket: boards are rubbed, esp. at corners, spine head and tail have small tears, front hinge sl. loose (webbing just exposed at ttile page), pages are clean excepting a few pages that have faint foxing. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741 - 1821), known mostly as Mrs.Thrale, was a good friend and correspondent of Dr. Johnson.

Praha [ Prague ]: Lmada fronta, 1957. Hardcover. VG+/G-. Paul Hogarth.. Czech text [ prelozila Jarmilla Fastrova], 8 vo, tan linen cloth with green and black illustrations and titles, 570 pages, b/w full-page illustrations by Paul Hogarth, ribbon bookmark. VERY GOOD+ book / GOOD- jacket: book has faint spotting to bottom and fore edges, internally clean and tight; jacket is edgeworn but presents well in new protecive mylar.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 2nd printing, UK edition, 8vo, illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket, 387 pages, color and b/w illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Condition is FINE, with a small crease to spine tail, unread. Worsley offers a fascinating view of Jane Austen's life through the lens of her various homes: Steventon, Bath, Southampton, Chawton, and finally College Street in Winchester. A lovely copy.

NY: NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974., 1974. First American edition . Hardcover. VG/VG+. 0151515395 1st American edition 9stated, letter line], 8vo, purple boards backed in black cloth, 316 pages, b/w illustrations, chronology, bibliography, family tree on endpapers. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: light sunning to board edges at top and bottom, faint spotting to top page edge, slightly cocked, internally clean and tight; jacket has slight edgewear.

New York: D. Appleton, 1857. First American edition . Hardcover. VG-. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st American edition, 12mo, blind-stamped patterned boards with gilt lettering on spine, blue paper endpapers, 2 vols. [285, 269 pages], publisher ads in vol. I are 2 pages [should be 6, but nothing is missing - misbound], vol. II has 6 pages of ads, vol. I has frontispiece engraving of Charlotte Bronte, by G. [ George ] Richmond, engraved by J. C. [ James Charles] Armytage; vol. II has engraving of Haworth Church and Parsonage, by E. C. Gaskell, engraved by J. C. Armytage; tissue guards intact (small tear to vol. I); "Books by the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe" [ i.e. Charlotte M. Yonge ] listing 9 of her novels is tipped in at front endpaper. Condition: VERY GOOD- : small chips and tears to spine extremities and corners are rubbed open, 2 small holes to spine gutter of vol. I, spines are sunned to a golden brown, sm. stain to spine of vol. II, owner inscription on… Read More

London: Peter Nevill, 1952. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. VG-/VG. 1st UK edition [originally published 1950], 8vo, reddish cloth, 424 pages, b/w illustrations, extensive bibliography and notes, index. Condition: VERY GOOD- book / VERY GOOD jacket: rubbing to board edges, small tear to spine tail, first 3 pages have small tears at top edge, faint spotting to top page edge; the lovely (pink with white flowers design) jacket has slight edgewear, toning to spine, price-clipped. "M. B. Stern 1952" is written on front endpaper - a previous bookseller has noted this as being "signed" - though I do not believe this is the case. The rare bookseller Madeleine Stern's classic biography of Alcott remains a must-read.