Catalog 176

(Sausalito), (Point), 1985-1995. 41 issues: Nos. 45-88, missing Nos. 77, 78, 80. Note that Whole Earth Review began with No. 44 (following CoEvolution Quarterly 43 and merging with Whole Earth Software Review) and continued through No. 110 in 2002. So again, offered here are 41 issues of 67 total issues, but complete but for 4 issues, up to No. 88. Mailing label to most issues; very light overall wear: the lot is near fine. [#036246] $850

NY, A.S. Barnes, 1930. The theory and practice of physical education for women at the college level, written by the woman who served as a physical education instructor -- and later physical education director -- at Smith College for more than 30 years. Warmly inscribed by the author, to "Eisie", in memory of a fifteenth reunion. Ainsworth graduated from Smith College in 1916; there is a Florence Marion Eis listed in her class, who is possibly the recipient. A bit of waviness to the later pages; some mild, well-blended staining to the boards and tanning to the spine. A very good copy, without dust jacket. [#036499] $375

Boston, Little Brown, (1965). The biography covering the formative years and education of Dr. Connie Guion, who attended Wellesley and Cornell Medical College, with an internship and residency at Bellevue. The biography ends in 1919, when Guion was 37, though she would practice medicine until her death at 88, becoming known as "the dean of women doctors." She was the first woman in the U.S. to be made a professor of clinical medicine; the first woman to become a member of the medical board of the New York Hospital; and the first living female doctor in the U.S. to have a hospital building named in her honor. Guion never married, but had a lifelong partnership with Ruth Smith, a physical education teacher. This copy is signed by Guion and by the two authors, Campion and Stanton on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Gift inscription front flyleaf and owner's stamp front pastedown. Possible water damage to rear board and spine, and some discoloration there; a good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. [#036511] $250

NY, Vantage Press, (1995). A vanity press publication of her firsthand account of life at Los Alamos and the Trinity nuclear test. McMillan's husband was a physicist working on the Manhattan Project (Edwin McMillan would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for neptunium in 1951). They moved to Los Alamos with their infant daughter in 1943; their first son was born there. This copy is inscribed by McMillan: "To my friend Dr. Alan Ross/ we have had many good talks together/ Elsie Blumer McMillan." Erasure on front free endpaper; lower corners bumped, thus near fine in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket. [#036450] $250

NY, Macmillan, 1948. An early work by this scholar who often delved into the interplay of science and literature or the literary imagination and who here turns her attention to the possibilities for lunar travel and habitation, in fact and fiction. Includes a bibliography on the history of flight from 1493 to 1784. Nicolson earned her PhD at Yale; did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins; taught at the University of Minnesota, Goucher College and Smith College, where she also served as dean of the faculty; in 1941, she became the first female full professor at Columbia, later becoming the chair of Columbia's graduate department of English and Comparative Literature and president of the Modern Language Association. This copy is inscribed by Nicolson "For Jane Kaufman/ one of the students to whom this book is dedicated/ Marjorie Hope Nicolson." The book's printed dedication reads "To the Smith College Students in 'Science and Imagination' 1936-1941/ from whose ingenious and amusing term papers their teacher learned more than she taught." The inscription is on an index card, tipped to the front flyleaf. Sunning to the board edges; a very good copy in a supplied dust jacket with shallow edge chipping and rubbing to the folds. [#036451] $350

NY, The Century Co, 1903. Scidmore was a journalist, travel writer (Alaska, Japan, Java, China, India), photographer, conservationist, the first woman to serve on the board of the National Geographic Society, and the person responsible for bringing cherry trees to Washington, D.C. This is the dedication copy: inscribed by Scidmore, "To Caroline Tousey Burkham, the friend of an Indian Winter/ Hommage respectueuse [sic]/ Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. March 26th 1903." Red crayon on page 183; front hinge starting; a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. [#036014] $850

Boston, James H. Earle, (1902). The author's account of two trips to Alaska, "practically alone," and covering 18 months beginning in 1899. "I had first-class health and made up in endurance what I lacked in avoirdupois, along with firm determination to take up the first honest work that presented itself, regardless of choice, and in the meantime to secure a few gold claims..." Illustrated with maps and photos. Tipped to the front pastedown is a newspaper article from 1934, stating that the author had staked out claims to approximately 5000 acres of Alaskan oil lands and was headed back there in the coming weeks. Perhaps the definition of a woman ahead of her times: while the book went through at least 6 printings in the first year after publication, over one hundred years later it was issued in at least 6 new editions from 2007-2024. Owner name front flyleaf; minor shelf wear; stains to the rear cover; a very good copy, without dust jacket. [#036510] $250

NY, Dutton, 1941. The memoir of Dr. Withington, who graduated from Elizabeth Blackwell's Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1887; opened a medical and surgical practice in Massachusetts; served as a Red Cross physician in France during WWI; and eventually became a rural doctor in the mountains of Kentucky. This copy is inscribed by Withington. Foxing to the pages edges and endpages; a near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. [#036015] $500

(n.p.), Spottiswoode, 1914. The first separate appearance, reprinted, with additions, from the February 1914 Geographical Journal, and inscribed by Workman to J.P. (John Percy) Farrar on the front cover. Fanny Bullock Workman, suffragist, cyclist, mountaineer, cartographer, travel writer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, spent eight seasons exploring glaciers and mountains of the Karakoram and Punjab Himalaya between 1898 and 1912 (accompanied by her husband and countless porters). She first became aware of the Siachen Glacier (the second longest outside of the Polar regions, at 45 miles, and dividing India and Pakistan) during one of her and her husband's multi-thousand mile bicycle tours, which were the subject of her early books. An accomplished climber, Workman attained the women's altitude record (20,278 ft) in 1906, in the Karakoram. In 1912, she led the expedition to map the Siachen, becoming perhaps best known for unfurling a newspaper there, at nearly 21000 feet, with the headline "Votes for Women." This offprint includes approximately 18 photographs and a full fold out map inside the rear cover. Several instances of marginal notes, perhaps by Farrar, a climber who was an original member of the Mount Everest Committee and responsible for recruiting George Mallory to the 1921 reconnaissance expedition. The covers and several rear signatures are detached; the front cover is chipped; the text, photos and map are all preserved, although the tissue guards over the photos have darkened. A fair copy only, but scarce, and with a rare signature. [#036508] $500

Portland, SalMagundi Enterprises, (1982). An apparently self-published autobiography of a woman who married at 16 to a man twice her age and moved, in 1915, to one of five homesteads allotted by the U.S. Forest Service on the Illahee plateau in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest, 37 trail miles to the nearest road. Inscribed by both authors in the year of publication. Only issued in wrappers; rubbed; very good. [#036247] $350