Meherin, Elenore. "Sandy." Gosset & Dunlap, 1926."She defied life's Conventions in her search for THRILLS!"Photoplay edition.Women on the move, on the make, on the day shift, on the night shift, on their feet, on their backs, on the go, on their way, onward and upward.Sometimes a rare book catalog is organized like a library exhibition, the dealer/cataloger as curator to a wide variety of books that when grouped together tell a compelling story.West, Mae. The Constant Sinner (Babe Gordon). Macaulay, 1931.4th printing, first with ths title and dust jacket.The story of a dope-dealing prostitute who has anaffair with a black...
When "Little Women" and "Little Men" Get Together, Hubba-Hubba
True first editions of Little Women and Little Men in the publisher's original cloth.“I plod away, through I don't enjoy this sort of thing. Never liked girls, or knew many, except my sisters, but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it... Sent twelve chapters to Mr. N [Thomas Niles, her editor at Roberts Brothers]. He thought it dull; so do I. But I work away and mean to try the experiment; for lively, simple books are very much needed for girls, and perhaps I can supply the need.” - Journals of Louisa May Alcott, 1868.Another...
Winslow Homer and the Women of “The New Novel”
The New Novel. Watercolor, 1877.In 1877, Winslow Homer exhibited his watercolor, The New Novel, at an exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.It is an image that below its surface of innocent, leisurely repose churns a contemporary cultural scene fraught with change and fear; the culture-war in the U.S. had begun.“...Avoid also all those miserable sensational...novels and illustrated papers which are so profusely scattered around on every side. The demand which exists for such garbage speaks badly for the moral sense and intellectual training of those who read them...The extent to which the press is used in the publication of romance...