Search Results: Authors starting with M from Whitmore Rare Books

New York; Chicago: Macmillan; McClurg, 1916. First editions. Very Good + to NF. Both books in original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spines and front boards. The former in VG+ condition with some sunning to spine and offsetting to rear board. The latter Near Fine, with the slightest bumping to extremities and early ownership inscription to front endpaper "C.W.B.M. [Christian Women's Board of Missions] Millersburg, Ohio Oct. 1918." Internally both copies clean, square, unmarked, and complete, with Wage-Earning Women retaining the two folding charts to the rear. A pair of important and ground-breaking studies on the conditions of working women in the United States and its national and international impacts. Annie M. MacLean was a cutting-edge sociologist whose work focused on the conditions of working women in the United States. Immersive in her work, she was a contributor to Jane Addams' Hull House and the settlement house movement as well as an investigative researcher who took on a… Read More

Edinburgh: Thomsons Brothers, 1822. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 140 x 80mm and collating complete including frontis and publisher's catalogue to rear: vii, [1, blank], 199, [1, errata], 8, [1, blank]. A Near Fine copy with some scuffing to boards and joints, and small chip to foot of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper: "Margaret Jane Palliser. Dublin 1824." A scarce work of juvenile fiction aimed at young women, it is unrecorded in OCLC and Sadleir (though there is mention of a later 1824 "fourth edition" and an American edition from 1827). Simple on its surface, each new chapter of Harriet and Her Cousin unfolds a new layer of prejudice that all too commonly prevents young women from finding meaningful connections with each other. Raised in a rural religious household, young Harriet has a spiritual awakening that leaves her soul altered. More excited about the world and the people around her, and more capable of… Read More

London: George Allen & Co, 1912. First trade edition. Original cream-colored cloth. Front cover lettered in gilt with floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray after a design by Detmold (signed E.J.D. at lower right), back cover with a similar floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. White endpapers with small black floral vignette, all edges uncut. Mild soiling to cloth, spine very slightly darkened, small stain at upper edge of rear cover. Otherwise a very good copy, internally crisp and clean. Partially unopened. Collating x, 181, [1, printer's imprint], [1, publisher's device], [1, blank] and including twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece). Belgian poetic dramatist and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) "wrote in French, establishing himself as one of the leading figures in the symbolist movement with his play La Princesse Maleine (1889; English trans. 1892). In 1892 Pelléas et Mélisande appeared (trans. 1894), the work for… Read More

[Dresden, Germany], 1891. Comprised of 124 handwritten pages, 13 albumen photos, 6 pieces of original artwork, and 5 mounted botanical specimens. Bound in half calf over embossed boards, with a metal clasp and patterned endpapers. A gift inscription on the front endpaper reads, "Maggie Jameson, with love from the girls. Rosebery House. Nov. 25th 86," identifying the owner as a student of the Dresden boarding school run by Scottish sisters the Misses Glendinning. An albumen image of the school, with handwritten label, visually supports this. Maggie's book is a beautiful and memorable compilation of poetry, music, and art that allows researchers a glimpse into the life and interests of young people from around the world. Entries are contributed by students hailing from Scotland, Australia, England, Denmark, Canada, and the US. Brought together under one roof in the pursuit of an education, the girls contributing to Maggie's album are cosmopolitan and intelligent. While many of the quotations come… Read More

Philadelphia: Charles A. Dixon and Co, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wraps, with stitching holding well. Small stamp of Andover Newton to top corner of front wrapper. Mild offsetting and toning to exterior, with top rear corner bent. 14 pages. Internally complete, clean and unmarked. The present argument for coeducation in the U.S. has become quite scarce, with no appearances in the modern auction record and no other copies on the market. Composed and presented by the President of Swarthmore College a decade after its foundation, the Address asserts the need for national access to coeducation, outlines its benefits both to women and the population at large, and strikes down counterarguments through the use of statistics from coeducational universities including Swarthmore and Oberlin College. While Magill posits that the burden of proof should fall on the detractors of women's education, he nonetheless uses Swarthmore and Oberlin's successes as evidence that women should not be… Read More

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Nearly Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Slight wear to the spine ends; dust jacket price-clipped and toned along the edges. Very slight wear at the spine ends. Mailer's first novel, a masterful saga of the Second World War. Mailer wrote the novel while studying in Paris, and based much of it on his own experiences serving in the Pacific. The book was not only well reviewed but extremely popular - and spent over 60 weeks on the New York Times' bestseller list. It would also mark the beginning of an illustrious career for one of America's foremost authors. The Naked and the Dead appears on Modern Library's list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. "...it bears witness to a new and significant talent among American novelists." (Contemporary New York Times review) Raoul Walsh directed the 1958 film of the same name starring Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson and Raymond Massey. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Read More

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Advanced Review Copy in self wrappers. A Very Good copy of this scarce edition of Mailer's first novel. Book appears gently read, with concave spine and gentle rubbing to edges of the wraps. Faint odor and mild soiling to book, but no internal markings or major blemishes. A high spot of military literature, the gritty account of a recon platoon scouting an enemy position during WWII. Raoul Walsh directed the 1958 film of the same name starring Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson and Raymond Massey. Additional photos available upon request. Very Good.

London: J. M. Dent, 1894. First edition thus. Near Fine/Very Good. One of 1500 copies, complete in two volumes. Bound in full yellow cloth with elaborate gilt stamping to the front boards and spines. Retaining the very scarce original brown paper dust jackets. Books in Near Fine condition, some foxing to the cloth and the internal contents, but rarely seen when the cloth retains its natural color. Dust jackets both about Very Good, minor chipping to the spine ends and along the top of the rear panel to vol. 2. Vol. 2 also missing the lower half of the front flap. Interestingly, each book has an additional thin paper wrapper, between the printed jacket and the binding (as issued by the publisher). Unrestored 19th century dust jackets are uncommon. Malory translated and compiled the legends of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the Knights of the Round Table, using numerous French and English sources. His work was first published in 1485 by William Caxton, the first English… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Greene & Longman, 1833. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's cloth binding retaining the delicate paper label to front board. Some bumping to corners and faint spotting to boards, but a pleasing, square copy in all. Internally a clean, with just a bit of scattered foxing to endpapers and preliminaries. Scarce on the market, this book documents Marcet's efforts to expand knowledge access to the working classes in order to make political self-advocacy possible. Presented by Marcet to Professor Pierre Prevost, the philosopher and physicist best known for his experiment on the body's radiation of heat as well as for his translation of Thomas Malthus' Essay on the Principles of Population; this copy bears his ownership signature on the front endpaper and an inscription from Marcet at the header of the title: "Prof. Prevost from the Author." A peer of such feminist thinkers as Maria Edgeworth, Marcet is considered one of the most important figures in the history of… Read More

Madison, Maine, 1919. Pair of diaries, totaling 752 pages in a single hand, both from Madison, Maine resident and teacher Ruth Marden. Standard Diary and Daily Reminder (1909): First diary comprised of 371 pages in a single hand, with the ownership signature of Ruth Marden to header of title page. In addition to 365 detailed entries for the year, she includes an additional 6 pages of gifts recorded, addresses, and birthdays to the rear. Red cloth with gilt to spine and front board; all edges gilt. 1909-1910 calendar endpapers. Measuring 4.5 x 5.75 inches. Documenting her domestic and family life in her eighteenth year, with information on her education and entry into a teaching career. Lest We Forget: Being a Book for Ladies' Use (1919) Second diary comprised of 381 pages in Ruth's more mature hand, documenting the year leading up to suffrage. In addition to densely packing all 365 entries for the year 1919, she keeps an additional 16 pages listing gifts, expenses, visits, addresses, pamphlets… Read More

[Surrey], 1808. Vellum manuscript measuring 520 x 670mm with text to recto only. Original horizontal and vertical foldlines. Some minor toning to recto and verso. £1 impressed duty stamp and seal of King George III adhered to upper left corner with tin. Married in Southwark Christ Church, Surrey on 27 June, 1808, Mary Poulter and James Danvers previously established through this document their shared property and inheritances in the event that one pre-deceased the other. "As the nineteenth century began, real property owned by a married woman in a legal estate was subject to the management and control of her husband. Personal property of the wife became the property of her husband as soon as he reduced it to possession. Where equity courts existed, separate equitable estated could be created for married women's property, but the protections provided to a wife by the equitable forum had to be specifically delineated in the document creating the estate" (Chused). Even before the Married Women's… Read More

London: Jennings, 1809. Early edition. Broadside measuring 250 x 360mm and printed in five columns to recto only. Deckled bottom edge. A Near Fine example with a bit of toning to edges and archival reinforcement to verso along central fold line. Scarce in any version, Bodleian Broadside Ballads records The Rakish Husband (or The Rakish Husband's Garland) across nine variants -- the present undocumented -- from 1757 to 1836. While the majority open "You gallant beaus of pleasure," the present opens "Come all you rakish husbands" (an opening present in only two recorded variants). While ESTC is unavailable at the time of cataloguing, OCLC reports only one existing copy of this variant (at the BL). No examples appear in the modern auction record, and the present is the only example in trade. The Rakish Husband speaks to turn of the century anxieties about the rising wealth and influence of London's demi-monde community. Casting successful sex workers as a danger to men's economic power, the broadside… Read More

London: Harper Collins / Voyager, 2018. First U.K. editions. Fine/Fine. A Fine set of the first UK printings of the A Song of Ice and Fire [Game of Thrones] books 1-6, including: A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows (signed); A Dance with Dragons (signed); and Fire and Blood (signed). The last three books signed directly on the title pages. All books in Fine, unread condition, with Fine dust jackets. One of the most impactful modern fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire has inspired generations of fans and two television series. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, George R. R. Martin's epic novels are a masterclass in worldbuilding. Readers follow a rich cast of heroes and villains as they vie for power often to violent and tragic ends. Each book is packed with vivid storytelling; a must-have while awaiting the publication of the final two novels. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Atlanta; and Burton, MI: Meisha Merlin; Subterranean Press, 2018. Firsts thus. Fine/Fine. Books 1 and 2 published by Meisha Merlin, both number 79 of 500 copies. Books 3 and 4 published by Subterranean Press, also numbered 79. Books 5 and 6, by Subterranean Press, numbered 30. (Note: the print run for book 6 expands to 800 copies.) An exceptionally Fine, unread set in pristine jackets and slipcases. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation pages. One of the most impactful modern fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire [Game of Thrones] has inspired generations of fans and two television series. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, George R. R. Martin's epic novels are a masterclass in worldbuilding. Readers follow a rich cast of heroes and villains as they vie for power often to violent and tragic ends. Each book is packed with vivid storytelling; a must-have while awaiting the publication of the final two novels. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910. Fine. Finely bound ca. 1910 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed on verso of front endpaper). Full scored red calf, covers with double-gilt ruled borders surrounding a blind-stamped geometric design. Front cover lettered in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, olive green morocco lettering label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.Small quarto (6 15/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 121 mm.). Collating viii, 72: complete, including six fine color plates and several line drawings in the text. A fine copy. Aucassin & Nicolette is an Old French story written in a mixture of prose and poetry. The name of the author is unknown, but he probably lived in Picardy during the early 13th century. It recounts the tale of Aucassin, son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, who so loved Nicolette, a Saracen maiden, who had been sold to the Viscount of Beaucaire, baptized and adopted by him, that he had forsaken knighthood and chivalry and even refused… Read More

London: David Bogue, 1847. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by the Kelliegram Bindery in fine red crushed morocco, recreating the George Cruikshank illustration from page 215 on the front cover in inlaid morocco. Green silk paste-downs and end papers, all edge gilt, decorative gilt details and inlaid morocco on the four corners of the front and rear boards. Front hinge a bit tender, otherwise in lovely, Near Fine condition. Internal contents in excellent condition. Augustus and Henry Mayhew combine forces to narrate the story of an anonymous woman who believes only one thing is lacking in her life: a housekeeper. Nameless -- likely so that readers can put themselves into her place -- the protagonist is otherwise fulfilled by her loving husband and two daughters. But she struggles with balancing her happy family life against the challenges of managing the domestic space she inhabits. "I had long felt (though I had never liked to confess as much) that my domestic cares had been making inroads… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern Women in Education." Two early ownership stamps to front wrapper and title page read "Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH" and "Compliments of Vincent A. Taylor, MC." Internally tight and pleasing, with the usual toning found in imprints of this era. While OCLC shows wide digital access to the text, only 3 institutions report the first edition in hardcopy. Rich with charts and statistics, Mayo's account of Southern education focuses in detail on women's role as educators and students in the decades following the Civil War. The report opens with information on "Schools for the Education of Southern White Girls," addressing… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First editions. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely, Near Fine or better set of McCarthy's Border Trilogy. All books appearing unread, with just trivial wear, in bright, clean dust jackets. Considered a trilogy, although written and published over a span of six years. Detailing the rough, cowboy lifestyle of protagonists living near the US-Mexico border. Winner of the "National Book Award" and the basis for multiple film adaptations, McCarthy at his best. "[McCarthy] is the great pessimist of American literature, using his dervish sentences to illuminate a world in which almost everything (including punctuation) has already come to dust" (The Guardian). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Near Fine book in VG+ jacket. Original yellow publisher's cloth binding. Faint offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Front hinge a bit tender. Jacket bright and pleasing, unclipped with original price of $2.50 to front flap. Spine slightly sunned. Some chips along the top of the front panel and extremities of spine; rubbing to corners. Some shelfwear along the top of the rear panel. In all a pleasing copy. Living in a communal house in Brooklyn, Carson McCullers was exposed to a world almost too literary to be true. "Paul and Jane Bowles, Gypsy Rose Lee, W.H. Auden, and Benjamin Britten all slept at the house regularly. And it was during her time there, after a boozy Thanksgiving dinner, that the spark for her third novel, The Member of the Wedding, was lit. On hearing a fire engine's siren, McCullers and Rose Lee gave chase through the streets; and McCullers had a sudden epiphany about the central concept of the book, which… Read More

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1911. First Thus. [The Memorial edition], limited to 1025 copies, this being copy 527, numbered and initialed (GMM) by Meredith. Thirty-six octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 216 x 142 mm.). Contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt by Birdsall of Northampton (stamp- signed). Spines decoratively gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Original cloth covers preserved at end. The mildest of wear. Occasional mild, scattered foxing. Frontispiece to first volume. Armorial bookplate of Louise G. Emmet on front pastedowns. A handsome set. "Ah, Meredith! Who can define him? His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning" (Oscar Wilde). His signature is extremely rare; lightning strikes this initialed set. The present is considered the gold standard of Meredith's works, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, bringing together Meredith's best writing which was "characterized by a fascination with imagery and… Read More