Search Results: Women Authors from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Indianapolis, IN: Blanche Stillson and Dorothy Ritter Russo, 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Blanche Stillson on front end page - "To Lena with love Blanche Stillson, Aug. 18, 1939". With an Appreciation of Kin Hubbard by John Calvin Mellett. One of an unnumbered edition of 350 copies, 250 of which were for sale. 39 pp. in brown French Wrappers, Near Fine, a few spots of foxing, toning at front gutter. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited First Edition. French Wrappers. Near Fine/Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Chap Book.

Spencer, IN: Samul R. Guard & Co., Inc, 1941. SCARCE and invaluable resource for the collector of Indiana artists. Fine, nice prior owner bookplate front pastedown. 181 pages with 2 pages of advertising. Illustrated profusely.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Copy Number 25 of 125 in a Specially Bound Slipcased First U.S. Edition. There were also 26 copies lettered A-Z. As New in As New decorative slipcase.. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. Limited, Signed First Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket, As Issued.

New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1892. First Edition, 1892. 157 pp., 8vo, the full page illustrations are unpaginated. In publisher's black cloth with decorations in gilt, silver, and white, featuring two angels, white moire silk end papers, all edges gilt. Near Fine, rubs at spine ends and corners.RARE in such lovely condition, the gilt and silver bright, the moire silk end papers clean and bright. A marvelous example of late 19th century American publisher's fine decorative binding. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a quite successful poet of her day, perhaps best known for the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone." . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CO-AUTHOR L.S. McClung on the front end page of the Supplement - "For the Archives Of Indiana University L.S. McClung 21 Nov. 1983". Three Volume set. All 3 Volumes are Fine, SCARCE in such lovely condition and SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1949. Fine, prior owner name in ink front end page, in Very Good dust jacket, 1/1/2" x 1" triangular chip at top edge front cover, light rubbing at edges. x, 56 pages. The 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, which made Brooks the first African-American to win that award. This copy lacking the First Edition F-Y statement so a 2nd Printing, with same price of $2.50 and rear flap with "The Critics and Annie Allen" rather than "The Critics and A Street in Bronzeville" . SCARCE in any 1949 printing, an attractive dust jacketed copy of this important poetry collection. . Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Near Fine, very faint small spots of toning at end pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small chip at head of spine and small triangular closed tear top edge at spine fold, small ink inventory number by prior owner top of front flap above printed price. First Edition stated at copyright page. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday Crime Club, 1958. Dustjacket lightly rubbed. Hinge beginning to separate at half-title page. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Prentice Hall, 1970. SCARCE Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"to Janet Saxe, Best of Luck Teaching Black Literature. Louise Meriwether April 1972". Louise Meriwether (born1923) is an African-American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist. Daddy Was a Number Runner is her critically acclaimed first book, and the first novel to come out of the Watts Writers' Workshop. Considered an underappreciated classic, it is her fictional account of a year in the life of a 12 year old girl growing up in Harlem during the Great Depression. "It risks offending people by taking up such issues such as police brutality, the unemployment situation, the desperation caused by the Depression and the different ways that the Blacks and whites are treated by society." (Ishmael Reed, The New York Times, June 18, 2021 "A Novel From ’70 Is Still Resonant"). Janet (Cheatham) Saxe (Bell) is an African-American educator, author and independent… Read More

London: John Murray, 1841. Two volumes handsomely rebound in late 20th c. quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Both volumes with the ownership signatures of fellow author J. G. Lockhart (John Gibson Lockhart, 1794-1854, Scottish biographer and author), Tipped at 2nd front end page a one page ALS, dated April 8, 1844, SIGNED BY AUTHOR to Lockhart -"Dear Mr. Lockhart, I return your ? books with many thanks. I hope by the time they reach you the country air will have done you much good. We are off by ? ?? Eliz. Rigby". viii, 293, vi, 286, (4) adverts. pages. Near Fine, browning mainly at front end pages due to paper used for frontispieces, bookplate front paste down Vol. !, rear end page Vol. I a 1" horiz. tear. Elizabeth Rigby's signature quite uncommon. . SIGNED. First Edition. Quarter Polished Calf . Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition of author's 1st book. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Ltd., 1922. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half crushed tan morocco over decorative boards, five raised bands with five gilt fleurs-de-lys, lettering and tail date, top edge gilt, decorative end papers, ribbon markers. A Fine set, with the original 73 full-page engravings designed by S. Freudenberg and 150 head and tail pieces by Dunker. Queen Margaret's bawdy tales of the 16th century French nobility. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman". Handsomely bound, a set that would grace any fine collection. . Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: C. S. Francis & Co., 1854. A SCARCE early collection of her poems, beautifully bound in contempoary chocolate morocco, gilt titles, 5 raised bands, stamped and tooled rules and decorations, all edges dyed red, dark brown endpapers. xvii, 312. xvi, 300. viii, 234. Contains all her poems to date, the third volume contains "Prometheus Bound and other Poems, including Sonnets from the Portugese, Casa Guidi Windows, etc." Volume I contains her 1844 Dedication to her Father, and Introduction by H. T.Tuckerman, and the 1850 author's advertisement. Near Fine, a few small rubs to morocco, white end pages toned, period armorial bookplates of Ward front paste downs, the owner's name "Julia F. Ward, 1855" front end pages is nearly invisible due to dark brown color of paper. . New American Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848. A First Edition set, published 1848, 1850, 1852, and 1864 of her major works on Christian art, done in the last twenty years of her life, the last completed after her death in 1860 by her friend Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Lavishly illustrated by her own drawings and etchings, and by those of Gerardine Macpherson, her niece. Finely bound by Bickers, London, their name stamped on wide inner dentelles each volume. Dark blue crushed morocco with gilt rules and lettering, top edges gilt, marbled end papers, silk markers, Near Fine, the scantest of shelf rubbing. end papers evenly toned from dentelles. An exceptional and heavy set, please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . First Editions. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St Martins Press, 1984. Her first book. Faint erasure front endpage. A lovely collector's copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. Vol. I, 311, 1-146, Vol. II, 147-312, 273 pages. Three volumes bound in two in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, marbled edges, tan end papers. Near Fine, rubs to calf at spine of Vol. I, light edge wear, contemporary gift inscriptions at front end pages. A contemporary calling card for "Mifs Stillingfleet" laid in. SCARCE in true 1868 First Edition. Last copy sold at auction 1979 (RareBookHub) "Decidedly 'Blindpits' ia not a commonplace novel. Not only does its writer exhibit delicacy as well as power, but the story is characterized by tenderness and pathos, and enlivened by the perhaps rarer quality of humour." ("A Critical Dictionary of English Literature: And British and American Authors", Allibone, Vol. V., p. 1419). First Edition. Half Calf. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dutton, 1938. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - " To Bernard B. Perry from Louise Townsend Nicholl, September 1938". Bernard B. Perry became the first Director of Indiana University Press in 1950 and is credited with building it into a major university press. Very Good, end pages toned, cloth rubbed at the tips, in a Very Good dust jacket, 3/8" paper loss at head of spine, 2" tear top edge rear spine fold. A rather uncommon title. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1948. Fine, prior owner name in ink front pastedown, hidden by front flap, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, front flap price-clipped, slight edgewear. A RARE book, especially so in dust jacket and collectible condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Robert Doremus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. Autograph Letter Signed by author of appendix and noted English shipbuilder J. Wigham Richardson attached at front end page, dated 30 March 1889 on his Newcastle on Tyne stationery and adressed to prior owner of the book W.E. Adams. 4 1/2" x 7" note card, single fold with writing on all 4 sides. " I have forwarded your letter to Miss Gatty requesting her to give effect to it. Yes I sent you that volume, but not in your editorial capacity..." ( W.E. Adams, 1832-1906, was editor of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle). Richardson goes on to talk about his embarrassment at having been given authorial credit for his contribution, particularly "...had I known what Miss G. was going to do, I should have omitted the verse at the end." The book is Very Good in original quarter beige buckram over pale red buckram, gilt lettering, bit of soiling rear end page, page block uniformly browning, light wear to boards at corners and spine ends. . Autograph… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at 2nd front end page -"Madame Mary Edwards, with the affectionate regards of the authoress. Christmas 1888". Philadelphia essayist and feminist Agnes Repplier's (1855-1950) first book and first collection of essays; she later earned the nickname "our dean of essayists" from Edward Wagenknecht. Very Good, likely no jacket issued. Prior owner name dated 1889 front end page, light wear to cloth at spine ends. Top edge gilt. A SCARCE signature. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Presentation Copy.