Books by and about Women

 Old Saratoga Books has just issued its latest E-list of Books by and About Women:

Some of the highlights include:

Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s, Cleveland, OH: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1980. Photo-illustrated wraps. Measures 9 x 10 inches. 64pp. 85 black and white photo reproductions. Checklist. Inscribed by the late, legendary Berenice Abbott on the title page. VG. An exhibition of Abbott’s documentary photographs of New York City and other American urban scenes shot privately and under the auspices of the WPA. The exhibition was curated by Michael G. Sundell and was shown at the New Gallery from November 7 - December 6, 1980. $125

Cooper, Katherine [Katherine Saunders], The Haunted Crust, Etc., NY: George Routledge & Sons, 1871 first American edition. 269pp. Brown decorative cloth with holly leaves and title stamped on front boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Fair. Musty, boards worn, top edge of rear boards gnawed, contemporary owner names on front flyleaf, waterstains to rear fifty pages. A collection of five short stories by the English Victorian author. The title story is a tale of ghosts, hunger, and a Christmas feast snatched from the mouth of a street cur. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English notes that “her lucid, often evocative style and the subtle, sympathetic treatment of characters from humble life” drew contemporary reviewers to compare her to George Eliot. $30

Hart, Frances Noyes, Pigs in Clover, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931, first printing. Blue cloth with paste-on front and spine labels and deckled fore-edge. xiii, 297pp. Endpaper map, black and white maps. VG/Good. Edges rubbed, two pages of book reviews neatly pasted in on rear endpapers, jacket price-clipped, chipped with closed tears, faded at spine. A lovely copy of this early 1900s autotour narrative of a trip though the French countryside. $75

Morrison, Toni and Slade Morrison, Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? NY: Scribner, 2003, first printing. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. Signed by the late Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, and her late son, Slade Morrison, on the front free endpaper. VG/VG. Front free endpaper wrinkled, jacket lightly worn and has one inch tear at head of spine. A frisky graphic novel version of Aesop's classic fable. Photos of the Morrisons and Lemaitre on rear jacket panel. $150

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 Our latest E-list of books about the book arts has just been published. It's full of books about typography, book design, fine press printing, bookplates, and more. 

Here is the link to the full E-list:

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And here are some of the highlights:

Type Spacing, by E.R. Currier, NY: J. M. Bowles and Company, 1912, limited edition. VG. Spine cloth eroded.One of 300 copies. Brown cloth spine. 19pp. Printed paper-covered boards. Printed on cream-colored laid paper. Currier Press printer's mark and initial T on page three drawn by Frederic W. Goudy and printed in orange ink. A republication of an article by Currier which originally appeared in the August 1910 edition of The Graphic Arts magazine. Printed by Norman T. A. Munder and Company of Baltimore. Inscribed by Munder on the title page "To some good friend of Mr. John Hoyle". "...The choicest type face in the world may have its beauty or its legibility nullified by bad spacing. The tools are not superior to the workman." $100

Libro Illeggibile N. Y. 1, by Bruno Munari, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. One of 2,000 numbered copies (#208). Stapled black card covers with red illustrated glossy jacket. Short descriptive text in Italian and English on rear jacket flap. Measures 8.5 x 8.5 inches. VG. Rear jacket flap creased.Artist book by the Italian designer with black and translucent pages with die-cut holes, threaded through with a red string. $400

Demonstrations of Type and Illustrations by Letterpress, Lithography and Sheet-Fed Gravure on Fine Text Papers, NY: The Canfield Paper Company, [1950]. Patterned paper-covered boards over green cloth. VG. Boards rubbed. Promotional book by Canfield Paper Company showing different appearance of the same illustrations and photos appearing on nine kinds of papers, printed through three kinds of printing methods. $25

Engraved Bookplates: European Ex Libris 1950-70, by Mark Severin and Anthony Reid, Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1972. One of 2,000 copies. 176pp. Green cloth binding. Presents over 500 bookplates (including some of Severin’s) with gazetteer and index of bookplate artists and many reproductions, review of technical symbols, bibliography. 4to. VG/VG. Boards worn, jacket faintly soiled. $65