Rowntree, Isabella Ann.
Poems:
(Maurice L. Rowntree, 1930).
Scarce collection of poems by the Scarborough poet Isabella Ann Rowntree. With illustrations by Isobel M. and Eirene W. Rowntree, her grandchildren. Card covers. Some light foxing to pages, especially endpapers. Card covers lightly soiled, & yellowed with age at edges - but overall a good copy. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-C15951
Keywords: Scarborough, Yorkshire, women poets, woman poet, 1930s, thirties, Rowntrees, verse, North Yorkshire, social history, inter-war, antiquarian, poetry, inter war, Isabella Ann Rowntree, Isobel M. Rowntree, Eirene W. Rowntree, stored with booklets
Price £45.00.
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Kilham, Walter H.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period:
(Longmans, Green, 1927).
Illustrated with 84 plates. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine faded with some wear to spine ends & corners, otherwise very good, solid. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15128
Keywords: B0014NWU2S, Mexico, Mexican, Vice-Regal, Central American, Central America, Americas, buildings, Mexico City, churches, palaces, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Real Photographic Suffragette Postcard, Original.
Suffragettes' Parade. March 3rd 1913. Washington DC: Liberty and her Attendants. Suffragettes' Tableau in Front of Treasury Bloc
(I. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore, MD., 1913).
An original photographic postcard for collectors of original suffragette / Votes for Women memorabilia. On March 3, 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association - NAWSA - organised a woman suffrage parade and demonstration in Washington DC. (Pennsylvania Avenue). It was timed to coordinate with Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, the following day. The marchers were jeered and attacked, and had to fight their way through the mob, and the resulting publicity focused the country's attention on the issue of Woman Suffrage. This is an original, contemporary postcard, issued at the time, and shows suffragette women in costume. Liberty and her Attendants. Suffragettes' Tableau in Front of Treasury Bloc. Photo by Harris-Ewing. On the back of the card, there's a handwritten contemporary message in ink: "This photo was taken on the Treasury Steps. It was quite cold that day and blowing hard. They did not have much clothes on". The card has not been posted and there is no stamp or postmark. Postcard. Rear is a little browned, slightly soiled and darkened, naturally with age, minor wear to corners and edges.Otherwise overall good condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15905
Keywords: suffragette ephemera, suffragette postcards, history, original postcards, women's suffrage, suffragettes, woman suffrage, Votes for Women, women's movement, antiquarian, parade, procession, antiquarian, American, United States of America, USA, Washington, collectible, National American Woman Suffrage Association
Price £85.00.
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Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Hamilton, Janet.
Poems, Sketches & Essays:
(James Maclehose, Glasgow, 1870).
Works of Scottish working woman writer. Hardback. Gilt lettering. Light rubbing / scuffing / marking to green cloth, espec. at edges, a little splitting internally at spine, otherwise good, solid. xiv + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A2445
Keywords: B001SHOSAM, Janet Hamilton, woman writer, women writers, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, poem, poetry, poet, poets, British, women, Britain, memorial edition, poems, Scot, Scotch, literature, collectible, antiquarian
Price £36.00.
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Honey, W. B.
Victoria and Albert Museum: A Handbook for the Study of Glass Vessels of All Periods and Countries and a Guide to the Museum Collection
(Ministry of Education, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library in library binding, with usual library stamps and markings, edges worn, otherwise good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A16036
Keywords: B000S5HB7W, Victoria and Albert Museum, history, glass, antiquarian
Price £16.95.
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Sinclair, Catherine.
Modern Accomplishments: or, the March of the Intellect
(William Whyte, fourth edition, fifth thousand, 1837).
Hardback. All page edges gilt. Boards worn at edges but attractive with gilt decoration. A little splitting, internally and externally at spine, but overall good and solid. xii + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C16050
Keywords: Catherine Sinclair, women, education, accomplishments, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, women's, antiquarian
Price £36.00.
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Hemans, Felicia.
The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc
(Frederick Warne & Co, n.d.).
Hardback. An edge-worn copy, internally good. Page edges gilt. xxiv + 708pp. Order No. NSBK-C654
Keywords: B01B6K155Q, Felicia Hemans, poems, poetry, women writers, sonnets, hymns, Mrs Hemans, nineteenth century, Britain, British, women, poets, poet, antiquarian
Price £7.00.
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Aldrich, Mildred.
A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3 - September 8, 1914
(Houghton Mifflin, 19th impression, 1917).
Hardback. Nice green pictorial boards with gilt lettering and black decorations, minor wear to corners and dent to rear board, otherwise very good and bright. 188pp. Order No. NSBK-C16107
Keywords: First World War, Great War, letters, history, women, correspondence, France, French, Marne, Mildred Aldrich, Western Front, antiquarian
Price £20.00.
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