[Rarebooks] FS: Pulitzer Prize Winning Biography of Julia Ward Howe by her daughters with a leaf of ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT bound in

Tue Oct 18 11:22:47 EDT 2011

 From our new catalog containing 45 items related to WOMEN AND THEIR 
QUEST FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, recently posted on our website.

1.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards. Copy 
#98 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a numbered (11) leaf 
of Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher, this 
example with interesting content on women's rights. In full: "cry of the 
state, they are allowed no will, no voice. This half of the moralising 
[?] of [society?] is paralysed at its source. The mothers, the sisters, 
the daughters, the women who fill the churches, & carry out the precepts 
taught them, these women must remain dead letters in the state. When we 
talk of women & children, we talk of a large proportion of the human 
race. More, who do not know what children are, who do not know what 
women are, must legislate for them. No brave voice of a mother can say 
aye or no [?] [?] prohibitions affecting their life." Illustrated with 
plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript of "The Battle 
Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 
Former library copy with bookplates, pockets, and a few stamps; front 
free endpaper lacking in first volume. Exteriors a bit rubbed but clean. 
About Very Good. (#016119)        $350.00

2.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards. Copy 
#54 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a numbered (12) leaf 
of Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher. In 
full: "The reason that morals are democratic is this, that they are 
equalising. [?] to every human soul an identity of interest and of 
obligation, at our individual and universal, they call to all men to [?] 
and when the same lack of good faith & intention, however diverse they 
may be in power." Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a 
facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 
1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Newspaper clippings pasted to front 
pastedown and free endpaper in the first volume with an owner's name 
dated 1915. Exteriors a bit rubbed but clean. Very Good set. 
(#016120)        $250.00

3.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Two volumes: the first rebound in library buckram 
and the second in original cloth-backed boards. Copy #250 of 450 copies 
of the Large-Paper Edition with an unnumbered leaf of Howe's unsigned 
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher. In full: "Perhaps I 
cannot do better at the beginning of this inquiry, for it is such, than 
to touch for a moment the master ]?] of philosophy. This tells us, I 
think, that opposition & harmony are the two words of creation in the 
moral & the physical universe. The laws of nature are every where 
coupled in this double relation, with action distinct, but both 
continuing in a composite result. I need only remind you of the [?] [?] 
[?] to make you aware of this in the correlative opposition in the." 
Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript 
of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize 
for Biography. Library bookplate on front pastedowns, occasional ink and 
blindstamps but manuscript leaf is Fine. Exteriors rubbed and a little 
worn. Good set. (#016122)        $200.00

4.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Volume 1 only of two volumes in original 
cloth-backed boards and the scarce dustwrapper. One of 450 numbered 
copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a lettered (A W. S.) leaf of 
Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher, this 
example with 23 lines including some exceptional content on women's 
rights. In full: "It is not natural for women to make their lives 
entirely secondary to and dependent upon those of man. Nature, who 
divides her offices so equally between the sexes, nowhere gives any 
indication of an inferior intention or position for the mothers of 
living things. On the contrary, it is natural for the male animal to 
show a certain respect and tenderness for his female companion, while 
she busies herself principally with the arduous duties of rearing her 
tender brood. The [?] of the him-her [?] is proverbial. Among insects, 
the female is usually stronger than the male, a fortunate fact, since to 
her belongs the office of finding food for the [?] family." Illustrated 
with plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript of "The 
Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize for 
Biography. A Fine copy with a Very Good example of the printed white 
dustwrapper. (#016167)        $500.00

5.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards. Copy 
#392 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a numbered (3) leaf 
of Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher. 
Though not directly making a statement about women's rights, a favorite 
subject of Howe's, this 20-line manuscript seems to be part of an 
argument for equal treatment of women. In full: "...difficulties will 
have to be imagined by me. I know there are difficulties connected with 
the treatment of this question, for I have encountered them myself. But 
if we try to think at all in the direction of progress, are we not [?] 
[?] encounter difficulties? Look at the opposition which any 
acknowledged doctrine makes to a new one. We [?] slowly & unwillingly 
mankind [?] find out that they have been in the wrong. The [?] doing its 
best to [?] & [?], see the old systems of astronomy reluctantly giving 
place to the Copernican system. With Europe holding on to aristocratic 
traditions," Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a 
facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 
1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Some fraying to the spine tips and 
rubbing. Very Good. (#016168)        $400.00

6.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards. Copy 
#8 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a numbered (23) leaf of 
Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher. This 
example is about Christ and eternal life. In full: "The promise of a 
future life is held to have such prominence in Christ's teaching as to 
lead Paul to say that the Master 'brought life and immortality to 
light.' How did he do this? By filling the life of today with the 
consciousness of eternal things, of truths and principles which would 
not change if the whole visible universe were to pass away. No one 
today, I think, will maintain that Christ created the hope which he 
aroused in an activity before undreamed of. The majority of the Jews 
be-" Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a facsimile 
manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 
Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Some fraying to the spine tips and 
rubbing. Very Good. (#016169)        $300.00

7.  [HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA 
WARD HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 
1915. First Edition. Volume 1 only of two volumes in original 
cloth-backed boards and the scarce dustwrapper. One of 450 numbered 
copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a leaf of Howe's unsigned 
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT titled "Values" tipped in by the publisher, this 
example with 18 lines. In full: "A point too much neglected in the 
education of both men and women is the proper sense and comparison of 
values. Although we must not confound money with morals, yet the proper 
handling of money has much to do with the moral rectitude of our lives. 
In thinking of this, let us begin by acknowledging that we women, like 
other human creatures, are very liable to be dazzled by false values, 
and to mistake show for substance. We are commonly most likely to do 
this in the inestimably precious days of our youth, when our bodily 
strength &." Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a 
facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 
1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. A Fine copy with a close to Fine 
example of the printed white dustwrapper. (#016170)        $450.00

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