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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Accounts of Edward, Prince of Wales; Empress Maria-Feodorowna, Sophie of Albania, Michael of Rumania, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith of England, and other European royalty written by a Romanian princess. This is one of Bibesco's scarcer books. First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the… Read more about this item

Wigan and Liverpool, England, 1870. Ephemera. Near fine. Five carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knoweledge, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book… Read more about this item

V Praze: Nákladem spisovatelovým, 1853. First Edition. xvi, 152 pages. A collection of German and Slavic proverbs. First edition (first printing). A fine set of folded and gathered pages. Never bound or sewn, as issued from the printer.