Approximately 34 volumes about the lives and works of notable women including: Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1937, 8vo, 318 pp. Frontispiece (photograph of author) and 7 plates (all photographs by Carl Van Vechten . * Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville with Selections from her Correspondence by her daughter Martha Somerville. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. 8vo. 377 pp. Frontispiece. Brick red cloth, black stamped on upper cover, gilt stamped backstrip, blind stamped lower cover. * Johnson, R. Brimley. Jane Austen and Her Life, Her Work, Her Family and Her Critics. London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1930. 8vo, 285 pp. Purple cloth with gilt stamping on backstrip and upper cover, handwritten (in pencil) Austen family tree on back endpapers. First edition. * Dimnet, Ernest. The Brontë Sisters. Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1928]. 8vo. 256 pp. Green cloth. First American edition of this translation.
Approximately 34 volumes about the lives and works of notable women including: Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1937, 8vo, 318 pp. Frontispiece (photograph of author) and 7 plates (all photographs by Carl Van Vechten . * Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville with Selections from her Correspondence by her daughter Martha Somerville. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. 8vo. 377 pp. Frontispiece. Brick red cloth, black stamped on upper cover, gilt stamped backstrip, blind stamped lower cover. * Johnson, R. Brimley. Jane Austen and Her Life, Her Work, Her Family and Her Critics. London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1930. 8vo, 285 pp. Purple cloth with gilt stamping on backstrip and upper cover, handwritten (in pencil) Austen family tree on back endpapers. First edition. * Dimnet, Ernest. The Brontë Sisters. Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1928]. 8vo. 256 pp. Green cloth. First American edition of this translation.
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