hamilton pseudonym mary abigail dodge (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Two copies available. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and lightly impressed texturing on covers and spine. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." 435 pages, complete. Twenty-three additional pages of advertisements for other books published by Ticknor and Fields in the back. One copy has a former owner's inscription in pencil: "Sarah L. Knor[?], San Jose, Dec 23, 1865." The other copy has a former owner's signature in pencil on the front free endpaper: "Emma S. B[.]." Pages are very clean and intact. Pages are Fine. Binding is tight. Covers are clean and intact overall but there are a few spots and faint staining on the front and back covers, respectively, and a small bump on the top edge of the back cover. A Near Fine copy. Stumbling-Blocks is a book about Christianity, Christian principles, and how to live a Christian lifestyle according to author's perspective. The author discusses many topics including the relation of the Christian church to the secular world. Chapter titles: "The Outs and Ins," "The Fitness of Things," "Ordinances," "Church-Sittings," "A View from the Pews," "Prayer-Meetings," "The Proof of Your Love," "Controversies," "Amusements," "God's Way," "The Law of Christ," "Praying," "Forgiveness," "Error," and "Words Without Knowledge." Gail Hamilton is the pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge (1833-1896). Dodge was an author and essayist. Through her written works, Dodge advocated for women's rights in education and employment.

Cloth. Etat : Binding. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First edition. Cloth binding, 335 pp. Spine cloth coming away from book, needs rebinding. First person with travel, feminist and abolitionist themes. Fair.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo; (4), 288 pages; terra cotta coloured cloth, gilt and black lettered on spine, simple black single line border on covers, yellow coated endpapers; a little wear to head & foot of backstrip; chapter head and tail pieces throughout; and ex-library - neat label of YMCA Library, Harbor Springs, Michigan, given by and date (1901); small neat purple stamp of the library on upper title, and on page 144. A very nice copy of this curious book, written in response to being badly treated by her publisher, Ticknor and Fields. Abigail Dodge felt she was paid a smaller royalty on her books because she was a woman! She realized her royalty payment of 15 cents per book sold was less than the average author pay of 10%. Ultimately she trumphed. BAL, 4720.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Copy of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Bancroft's signature in pencil on front free endpaper: "H. H. Bancroft." Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 288 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact except for very faint smudges on front cover. This book is listed in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 4720. Mary Abigail Dodge (1833-1896) was an American author who wrote under the pen name, Gail Hamilton. A Battle of the Books is a book she anonymously wrote after negative experiences with the publisher, Ticknor and Fields. Problems began when she had learned that her royalty payment was less than average because she was a woman (she had learned Sophia Hawthorne, widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was having similar pay issues from publisher's as well). Dodge advocated for women's rights and also supported the abolition of slavery. Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) was an American historian, publisher, bookseller, and ethnologist who published and collected books on British Columbia, Central America, and the western states of the U.S. including California, Texas, and Alaska. Bancroft had a vision to donate his personal library of approximately 60,000 books for the benefit of scholars. That vision was realized when the Bancroft Library, which is named after him, at UC Berkeley was founded in 1905 upon the acquisition of his book collection.

Frontis portrait, photos, 9 x 6, gilt lettered brown cloth, 722 pp, covers a bit worn, extremities bumped and fraying, top of spine torn, hinges loose, front inner hinge cracked, contents toned, with pencil line annotations throughout. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY LOUIS A. DENT, FORMER SECRETARY TO JAMES G. BLAINE, relating that he received this book from H. Augusta Dodge, the sister of the author, upon publication. ALSO: autograph letter signed (Aug 29th, 1895) from Augusta to Dent telling of her sister's illness; with mounting abrasion to fold else good.