What Katy Did. Catalogue XXX from Randall House

220. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. “Boots and Saddles”, or Life in Dakota with General Custer. New York: Harper, 1885. Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in gold and black. Light spotting to rear cover, name in ink on front endpaper, else fine. First edition, the preferred later issue with the portrait of Custer and the map not in the earlier. $250.00
After her husband died at Little Big Horn, Elizabeth was compelled to support herself as well as her husband’s parents. A charming and capable woman, she spent the rest of her long life as one of the great keepers of the flame. This book recalls the years the couple had spent on the Dakota frontier. [Dustin 74. Graff 960. Howes C980. Luther, Custer High Spot 4. Rader, South of Forty From the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. A Bibliography 1010. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 53].

221. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887. Profusely illustrated by Frederic Remington, and others. Quarto, original green cloth pictorially stamped in gold, red, blue and white, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Ink name and date on front free endpaper. About fine. First edition. $450.00
This volume deals with the Custers’ experiences from the end of the Civil War to 1867. [Dustin 77. Luther 5].

222. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Following the Guidon. New York: Harper, 1890. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in blue, black, silver, red and gilt. A beautiful, bright copy. First edition. $200.00
A continuation of Libby Custer’s experiences of her life with her husband, this volume covering the years 1867–1879 and includes a story of two white women ransomed from the Indians. When one of the victims is later blamed by her husband for being raped in captivity, Custer shows an awareness of the idiocy of blaming the victim. [Dustin 76. Luther 6. Rader 1008].

701. [NATION, Carry A.]. TAYLOR, Robert Lewis. Vessel of Wrath. The Life and Times of Carry Nation. (New York): New American Library, (1966). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (the jacket flaps were apparently affixed to the paste-downs at some point, causing damage when removed, especially to the front flap which is rather chipped, affecting text). Otherwise a fine, bright copy. First edition. $20.00
By the author of The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, a novel for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. “Any reasonable historian must admire Mrs. Nation’s armor-plated indifference to censure. At one point she was probably the most discussed woman in the world, and her detractors opened up with a vivid barrage of accusation. She was denounced as a quack, a humbug, a fourflusher, a felon, a bully, a busybody, a common scold, a secret drinker, a man in woman’s clothes, a nymphomaniac, an Amazon-gone-amok, a sub rosa traveler in bar fixtures, a reincarnation of Lucrezia Borgia, a possible werewolf and a professional peddler of cheap souvenirs. (Mrs. Nation was, at this last stage, hawking miniature hatchets, wrought of pewter, and making a very good thing of it, but she either gave her money away or ploughed it into campaigns intended to stave off boredom for the saloon-keepers)” - from the text. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 917].

926. STRAHORN, Carrie Adell. Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. New York: Putnam’s, 1911. Illustrated from 350 drawings (eighty-five by Charles M. Russell) and from photographs. Large octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover, top edge gilt. A beautiful copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author. $850.00
Mrs. Strahorn travelled extensively throughout the frontier with her husband while he was engaged in writing promotionals for the Union Pacific Railroad. The author’s enthusiasm and eye for detail make delightful reading of this, one of the key narratives by a woman in the early west. It is also a major Charles Russell item. [Graff 3999. Adams, Six Guns 2152. Adams, Herd 2180. Howes S1054. Yost and Renner, Charles M. Russell Bibliography 25].

496. [JACKSON, Mahalia]. GOREAU, Laurraine. Just Mahalia, Baby. Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1975). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). Fine. First edition . $35.00
The Mahalia Jackson story. The great gospel singer’s instructions to her biographer and friend: “Don’t make me no saint, baby!...” From her start as a singer in Baptist churches, by 1954 she was hosting her own weekly CBS radio program, cutting records and giving concerts. Jackson is also considered an early and important influence on rock and roll music and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1997. A big (613 pages) book about a concomitant talent. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 630].

194. [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK]. Lord Fairfax’s Kitchen. A Collection of Tried Recipes from Winchester Housekeepers. N.p: n.p, [1892]. Square 12mo, original pictorial brown wrappers. Front wrapper a little stained, name in ink upper right corner, spine with some loss of paper, occasional brown spots, a few leaves with crease marks from being turned down. First editionof a rare cookbook. $475.00
“ It is now four years since, by permission of the School Board, and the concurrence of the Superintendent and Teachers, sewing was introduced to the Colored Public School, as a weekly lesson. The following year the hall of the school house was converted into a kitchen and lessons in cooking were given twice a week.
This book has been compiled by ladies engaged in this work; the proceeds from the sale of the book are to be used for carrying on this work. The ladies are greatly obliged to the business men of Winchester, who have kindly advertised in the book and thus enabled us to publish it, and also to the housekeepers, who have given us their tried receipts” -from the Preface. Published in 1892, quite possibly in Winchester, Virginia. The collation given in Cook does not note the index which comprises the last five pages of this copy. [Cook, America’s Charitable Cooks, p. 259 locates one copy (University of Virginia, Charlottesville). Not in Bitting or Brown].

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Catalogue XXX - What Katy Did A Recognition of Feminism in the American Experience.
752. [PERIODICAL]. Home Arts. Gift Things for Little Folks. Junior Needlecrafters. Augusta, Maine: Needlecraft Publishing Company, 1938. Volume 29, Number9, May, 1938. Illustrated profusely. Large quarto, pictorial colored wrappers. Fine. $40.00 Another magazine for the denizens of childhood, this one’s niche is elementary home economics. 978. ULMANN, Doris. Photogravure of a black woman with a basket of cotton on her head, posed against a rustic fence. 8-1/4” x 6-1/2”, 11-1/2” x 8-1/4” overall. Signed in pencil by the photographer. $1,000.00 A fine example of a remarkable woman’s remarkable work. Ullman had been born into an affluent and cultured Jewish household on Manhattan’s upper west side. Oddly, she was drawn to rural areas of Appalachia, the Carolinas (where she became a close friend and collaborator with the author Julia Peterkin) and elsewhere, documenting the simple people, customs and traditions of a vanishing bucolic culture. 952. THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden. London: Osgood, McIlvane, 1894. Illustrated with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam. Octavo, gilt-decorated white cloth, top edge gilt. Spine and foredges a litte browned, otherwise fine. First English edition. One of fifty-five copies. A notable rarity. $2,500.00 Celia Thaxter’s lyrical classic of her delightful garden on Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New England. From the decorative vellum-like binding to the moiré endpapers to the generous typography to the illustrations and the inserted full page chromolithographic plates protected by printed tissue guards, this is probably as charming a production as any book in the collection. “One of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period” (BAL). This copy, printed by the Riverside Press, is one of those fifty-five copies that were bound with English imprint on May 4, 1894. The binding was designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman. The cost of the expensively made book probably contributed to the first edition’s small print run of barely 1,000 copies. Basically a poet, Thaxter died shortly after the publication of this, her only book on gardening. With: a copy of 1988 facsimile edition by Houghton Mifflin, boxed as issued. [BAL 19923. DAB. NAW]. 139. BURNHAM, Miss A[vis]A. Fostina Woodman The Wonderful Adventurer. Boston: (Boston Stereotype Foundry), 1850. Illustrated with eight wood engravings. Octavo, original cream wrappers pictorially stamped and lettered in black. Spine and edges a bit chipped, some spotting and slight browning of wrappers, occasional light foxing throughout. First edition. $300.00 This is the second copy we have handled; Wright locates only a half dozen institutional copies of this melodramatic tale inspired by the California gold rush. Burnham was the nom de plume of Avis A. Standwood. A cursory partaking of the contents shows the author’s perspicacity in using a pen name: the sixty page tale is pulp fiction at its nadir. Fostina bids farewell to her lover Lewis Mortimer and his two brothers as they sail to California aboard the Essex, and later finds out Mortimer died suddenly on the leg from Panama to California. Later still, however, she learns he was merely near death. The woodcut on the front wrapper shows Fostina waving to the Essex as it leaves the harbor. Correctly, not in Eberstadt, Decker, Soliday, Cowan, Streeter, Graff, Kurutz, etc. [Wright I, 2491].	220. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. “Boots and Saddles”, or Life in Dakota with General Custer. New York: Harper, 1885. Octavo, original brown cloth pictorially stamped in gold and black. Light spotting to rear cover, name in ink on front endpaper, else fine. First edition, the preferred later issue with the portrait of Custer and the map not in the earlier. $250.00 After her husband died at Little Big Horn, Elizabeth was compelled to support herself as well as her husband’s parents. A charming and capable woman, she spent the rest of her long life as one of the great keepers of the flame. This book recalls the years the couple had spent on the Dakota frontier. [Dustin 74. Graff 960. Howes C980. Luther, Custer High Spot 4. Rader, South of Forty From the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. A Bibliography 1010. Jennewein, Black Hills Booktrails 53]. 221. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887. Profusely illustrated by Frederic Remington, and others. Quarto, original green cloth pictorially stamped in gold, red, blue and white, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Ink name and date on front free endpaper. About fine. First edition. $450.00 This volume deals with the Custers’ experiences from the end of the Civil War to 1867. [Dustin 77. Luther 5]. 222. CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Following the Guidon. New York: Harper, 1890. Illustrated. Octavo, original green cloth decoratively stamped in blue, black, silver, red and gilt. A beautiful, bright copy. First edition. $200.00 A continuation of Libby Custer’s experiences of her life with her husband, this volume covering the years 1867–1879 and includes a story of two white women ransomed from the Indians. When one of the victims is later blamed by her husband for being raped in captivity, Custer shows an awareness of the idiocy of blaming the victim. [Dustin 76. Luther 6. Rader 1008]. 701. [NATION, Carry A.]. TAYLOR, Robert Lewis. Vessel of Wrath. The Life and Times of Carry Nation. (New York): New American Library, (1966). Illustrated. Octavo, boards, cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket (the jacket flaps were apparently affixed to the paste-downs at some point, causing damage when removed, especially to the front flap which is rather chipped, affecting text). Otherwise a fine, bright copy. First edition. $20.00 By the author of The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, a novel for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. “Any reasonable historian must admire Mrs. Nation’s armor-plated indifference to censure. At one point she was probably the most discussed woman in the world, and her detractors opened up with a vivid barrage of accusation. She was denounced as a quack, a humbug, a fourflusher, a felon, a bully, a busybody, a common scold, a secret drinker, a man in woman’s clothes, a nymphomaniac, an Amazon-gone-amok, a sub rosa traveler in bar fixtures, a reincarnation of Lucrezia Borgia, a possible werewolf and a professional peddler of cheap souvenirs. (Mrs. Nation was, at this last stage, hawking miniature hatchets, wrought of pewter, and making a very good thing of it, but she either gave her money away or ploughed it into campaigns intended to stave off boredom for the saloon-keepers)” - from the text. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 917]. 926. STRAHORN, Carrie Adell. Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. New York: Putnam’s, 1911. Illustrated from 350 drawings (eighty-five by Charles M. Russell) and from photographs. Large octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover, top edge gilt. A beautiful copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author. $850.00 Mrs. Strahorn travelled extensively throughout the frontier with her husband while he was engaged in writing promotionals for the Union Pacific Railroad. The author’s enthusiasm and eye for detail make delightful reading of this, one of the key narratives by a woman in the early west. It is also a major Charles Russell item. [Graff 3999. Adams, Six Guns 2152. Adams, Herd 2180. Howes S1054. Yost and Renner, Charles M. Russell Bibliography 25]. 496. [JACKSON, Mahalia]. GOREAU, Laurraine. Just Mahalia, Baby. Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1975). Illustrated with photographs. Thick octavo, fabricoid, pictorial dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). Fine. First edition . $35.00 The Mahalia Jackson story. The great gospel singer’s instructions to her biographer and friend: “Don’t make me no saint, baby!...” From her start as a singer in Baptist churches, by 1954 she was hosting her own weekly CBS radio program, cutting records and giving concerts. Jackson is also considered an early and important influence on rock and roll music and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1997. A big (613 pages) book about a concomitant talent. [DAB. NAW. Sweeney 630]. 194. [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK]. Lord Fairfax’s Kitchen. A Collection of Tried Recipes from Winchester Housekeepers. N.p: n.p, [1892]. Square 12mo, original pictorial brown wrappers. Front wrapper a little stained, name in ink upper right corner, spine with some loss of paper, occasional brown spots, a few leaves with crease marks from being turned down. First editionof a rare cookbook. $475.00 “ It is now four years since, by permission of the School Board, and the concurrence of the Superintendent and Teachers, sewing was introduced to the Colored Public School, as a weekly lesson. The following year the hall of the school house was converted into a kitchen and lessons in cooking were given twice a week. This book has been compiled by ladies engaged in this work; the proceeds from the sale of the book are to be used for carrying on this work. The ladies are greatly obliged to the business men of Winchester, who have kindly advertised in the book and thus enabled us to publish it, and also to the housekeepers, who have given us their tried receipts” -from the Preface. Published in 1892, quite possibly in Winchester, Virginia. The collation given in Cook does not note the index which comprises the last five pages of this copy. [Cook, America’s Charitable Cooks, p. 259 locates one copy (University of Virginia, Charlottesville). Not in Bitting or Brown]. All books are subject to prior sale. Please call or email for copies of the catalogue What Katy Did. A Recognition of the Feminism Experience in America. $15.00 post paid.