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[Norman Kane]

MEARS, MADGE.  THE FLAPPER'S MOTHER.  London & N.Y.: John Lane, 1918. 1st edn. Novel. Orig. cloth, slight rubbing, very good. (OCLC: 4 copies in U. S.; 1 in Scotland.) $50.00

WELLS, CAROLYN.  PLEASANT DAY DIVERSIONS.  N. Y.: Moffat Yard & Co., 1909.  1st edn. Original attractive pictorial cloth of children and a clown in color, bright copy. (Divided into months: January, Gifts for a Baby; February, Valentines; March, Making Candy; April, Easter Toys; &c.)  $75.00

JOPLING, LOUISE, (MRS. JOPLING-ROWE.)  TWENTY YEARS OF MY LIFE 1867 -  1887. WITH 28 ILLUSTRATIONS. London: John Lane; N. Y.: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1925).  1st edn.  Original cloth-backed boards, title label, just light wear, complete with all plates - one a group photo including Meredith & Wilde, another of a women's art class, &c.  (Prominent artist and suffragette, friend of many leading personalities in the world of art and literature, the first woman member of the Royal Society of British 
 Artists.)   $75.00

EGERTON, GEORGE, (PSEUD. OF MRS. REGINALD BRIGHT, nee MARY C. DUNN.)  KEYNOTES.  Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894.  Original cloth stamped in gold, a very good plus copy.  Beardsleyesque title page.  The elusive first American edition of this famous book, which gave its name to the Keynote Series. (Novel of the intimacies of married life: a devoted wife married to a stupid husband.)  $175.00

SHARP, EVELYN.  THE MAKING OF A SCHOOLGIRL.  N. Y. & London: John Lane, 1897. 1st edn.  Original decorated wraps, some wear but a better copy than usual of this fragile little book. An early work by this suffragette and reformer. $75.00

SHARP.  AT THE RELTON ARMS.  Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: John Lane, 1895. 1st U.S. edn.  Original decorated cloth, very good plus. Ornate title page. (Novel). $70.00

WEXLER, JOYCE P.  LAURA RIDING, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.  N. Y.: Garland, 1981.  1st edn.  Original cloth, excellent copy.  Fronts, facsimiles, Index. $60.00

CLARKE, [MARY], MRS. COWDEN.  THE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE TO SHAKSPERE: BEING A VERBAL INDEX TO ALL THE PASSAGES IN THE DRAMATIC WORKS ... (NEW AND REVISED EDITION.) Boston: Little, Brown, 1877.  Thick 4to, original gilt-stamped cloth with a picture of Shakespeare, top edge gilt, triple columns, a quite well-preserved copy. Signature and bookplate of Francis C. Haines (of Germantown, Pa. ?)  $75.00

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