simpson anna pratt (13 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Brown paper boards with cloth spine and mounted label. Slight bit of tanning to spine. Light edge wear. Pages/boards clean andvibrant, NO foxing or markings, binding tight. Lots of great tipped in photos. A nice copy, minus the jacket.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Original Cloth-backed Boards. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Corners minutely worn; small repair in rear inner hinge.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvii, 191 pages : mounted frontispiece, mounted illustrations, mounted portraits ; 22 cm.

First edition, first printing, fondly inscribed by the author on the first blank, "To my Faithful Magu [sic] - I'm sending my part in the history-making of our beautiful Exposition of cherished memory as a birthday token. It carries endless good wishes for now and all the years. Anna Pratt Simpson. May twenty-eighth, nineteen seventeen." Laid in is a cameo photograph of Simpson (1866-1930, right) and her daughter Fernanda (1885-1953, left), with the studio stamp of Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912), captioned on the rear in pencil. Based in San Francisco, Taber was known for his photographs of prominent Californians. Upon his death, he donated his collection to California State Library, so "that the state may preserve the names and faces, and keep alive the memory of those who made it what it is" (Online Archive of California). Problems Women Solved provides an overview of women's contributions to the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, which was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal and the recovery of San Francisco from its 1906 earthquake. The Exposition functioned as "a giant advertisement for California" and the prominence of "the Woman's Board reflected the feminization and domestication of the city, state, and fair" (Markwyn, pp. 52-3). A laid-in contemporary magazine clipping reviews the book as "artistically put out [with] a well-written history of the board of distinguished women who gave such valuable aid to the Exposition". Simpson was the Vice-President of the Woman's Board and Chairman of the Publicity Department. Also known as the Board for Lady Managers, it provided women with a campaigning platform for discussing women's rights and social issues at the exposition. One such technique was the installation of statues foregrounding women, such as the famous Pioneer Mother statue by Charles Grafly. The exposition also hosted the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, attended by pacifists from across the world in response to the First World War. "California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection", Online Archive of California, accessible online; Abigail M. Markwyn, "Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition", Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016. Quarto. Half-tone pasted frontispiece, 120 similar plates, headpieces. Original quarter buckram, paper spine label, brown sides, edges uncut. Corners worn, spine creased and a little foxed, covers clean, front free endpaper sometime removed, front inner hinge split but holding firm, a few plates a little loose as usual but holding contents clean: a very good copy.

First edition, first printing, of this overview of women's contributions to the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, which was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal and the recovery of San Francisco from its 1906 earthquake. "A giant advertisement for California", the prominence of "the Woman's Board reflected the feminization and domestication of the city, state, and fair" (Markwyn, pp. 52-3). Simpson (1866-1930) was the Vice-President of the Woman's Board and Chairman of the Publicity Department. Also known as the Board for Lady Managers, it provided women with a campaigning platform for discussing women's rights and social issues at the exposition. One such technique was the installation of numerous statues foregrounding women, such as the famous Pioneer Mother statue by Charles Grafly. The exposition also hosted the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, attended by pacifists from across the world in response to the First World War. Provenance: this copy bears the stamps, on the front free endpaper and rear pastedown, of the Women's Board of the 1939 and 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, held to commemorate the completion of the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Abigail M. Markwyn, "Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition", Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016. Quarto. Half-tone pasted frontispiece, 120 similar plates, headpieces. Original quarter buckram, paper spine label, brown sides, edges uncut. With dust jacket. shelf mark in pencil to rear free endpaper. Wear to corners, binding and contents clean, gauze occasionally visible, a few plates a little loose as usual but holding; unclipped jacket lightly creased, toning to rear panel, a handful of nicks and closed tears to extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket.