Woolley mary e (9 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.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. HC/NO DJ - Green cloth boards with dark green spine. Rubbing to extremities. 3 HC - Green boards with dark green spine. Minor scuffing to cover boards/rubbing and bumping to corners. Grey endpapers. B/W Frontis with tissue guard. Deckled edges. Pristine Interior. Clean with no markings. B/W Illust throughout along with tissue guards: These photos represent with men/women who are talked about in this volume: Ernest Renan, Thomas Huxley, Leo Tolstoy, Arminius Vambery, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sonya Kovalevsky, Oscar Wilde, Marie Bashkirtseff, Clarence Hawkes and Clifford Beers. Thick 8vo. 388pp. B.R. Box 37.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1927. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine with black titles and vignette, pictorial front cover shows boy in jester's outfit, advert to rear cover. 13 colour plates plus b/w photos and illustrations. 416 pages. Serial stories are Feversham's Fag, The Guides at Calamity Hill and The League of Adventurers. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine slightly darkened. Dent to outside edge of front cover. Covers slightly grubby. One hinge cracked. Some foxing and light browning. Contents generally clean. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Anderson, Florence Mary & Woolley, Harry & Bernard, C.E.B. & Rountree, Harry & Pearse, S.B. & Earnshaw, Harold & et al., (illustrator).…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Offprint. Octavo. 33pp. Printed pale brown wrappers. Small chip, age-toning, and faint stain, mostly on the front wrap, very good. Card laid in with the compliments of important historian, J. Franklin Jameson.

Edition limited to 650 copies, small 8vo, pp. [6], 12, [2]; plate of the portrait; original tan cloth-backed green paper-covered boards; fine. Attractively designed and printed on hand-made Venetia paper. "Lida Shaw King was born in Boston. Her parents were Henry Melville King and Susan Ellen Fogg King. She graduated from Vassar College in 1890 and from Brown University (A.M.) in 1894 and continued her graduate studies at Vassar (1894-1895), Radcliffe (1897-1898), Bryn Mawr (1899-1900), and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1900-1901) where she was awarded the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship. She taught the classics at Vassar (1894-1897) and at the Packer Collegiate Institute (1898-1899, 1901-1902), and at Brown was assistant professor of classical philology (1905-1909), dean of the Women's College from 1905-1922, and professor of classical literature and archæology 1909-1922" (Wikipedia). Smith-Bianchi 574.…

1 page. 4to. Zustand: Fine, old folds. 1 page. 4to. Woolley writes a letter seconding the nomination of Lucretia Mott for inclusion in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. In part: "Lucretia and James Mott were two of the noblest of those Quakers who worked for the freedom of the Negro . The Motts were active also in working for the freedom of women from legal discrimination. Both were present at the Seneca Falls Convention where . the famouse Declaration of Sentiments . was read aloud . It is my hope that you will . plac[e] Lucretia Mott in the Hall of Fame as an inspiring evidence of what can be accomplished when men and women become 'co-workers in all that concerns the destiny of human beings.'" A peace activist and educator, Woolley was the first woman to attend Brown University. She taught at Wellesley College before becoming, at age 38, President of Mount Holyoke College, a position she held from 1901 to 1937. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans was founded in 1900 by New York University chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, and is now situated in the Bronx.…