howe bertha (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Howe, Gertrude Ilustrador. First Edition. In pictorial yellow boards.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Autobiography. Blue cloth covers rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped. Interior clean and tight, pages toned.

Hardcover. x, 142p., very good condition. No DJ. Howe was active in the women's suffrage movement and the Socialist Party.

Wrappers. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 72 pp. Printed on glossy paper. Masthead reads "The Magazine With a Double Message To the Woman in the Home To the Woman in the World". Two full-page fashion plates in full color, one full-page advertisement in color, for Sniders Tomato Catsup (bearded man plucking tomatos and grinning, tomato being poured on oysters, etc.) 75 cents a year. This copy with a few short tears at edges, one page missing a corner, one page with some light stains on both sides, none of which affect the color plates, and overall with remarkably little wear or damage.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with staple binding. No date, circa 1936-1937. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2." Eight pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. Sources of Northwest History No. 4. Part of the "Historical Reprints" series. "Reprinted from the Historical Section of Frontier and Midland, a Magazine of the Northwest, published at the Montana State University, Missoula. Vol. XVII, No. 2, Winter 1936-1937." This historical reprint contains the reminisces of two women pioneers and Mormon emigrants, Bertha Marie Eccles and Elizabeth Peery, who settled in Ogden, Utah. These interviews were overseen by Maurice Howe, director of writers' projects under the Utah Works Progress Administration (WPA). Eccles (nee Jensen) was born in 1857 in Aarhuse, Denmark. She recounts many episodes from her journey to Utah. She describes her transatlantic voyage with her parents from Denmark to New York in 1867 and traveling by train to St. Joseph, Missouri and from Omaha to North Platte, Nebraska. From there, her family waited for their outfits to arrive and then they proceeded to join a large emigrant train led by Captain Leonard G. Rice. She recalls being put in charge of feeding bread to a toothless brindle ox her father had been swindled into buying. She also recollects a frightening incident in which she and a few others got separated from their wagon team when the men had set down to repair the wagon but they continued marching forward. They eventually found respite from their thirst when they happened upon another traveler's camp. Eccles also describes some biographical details about her husband, David. David Eccles served as Ogden's mayor and was a leading industrialist of Ogden. Elizabeth Peery (nee Higginbotham) was born in 1846 in Nauvoo, Illiniois. She says her parents moved back to their home state of Virginia after being persecuted in Illinois for being Mormon. However, Peery describes how she and her family fled Virginia and traveled west again after Northern soldiers arrived during the Civil War. She recounts the early stages of her journey to Utah and how there were disagreements about who to elect as captain of the group. However, her family's choice of captain was eventually elected and he proved to be very capable. Peery describes how her experiences as a pioneer were relatively comfortable. At one point, she likened her journey to being on a picnic. Peery also recounts how her party was pursued by members of the Sioux tribe in the Black Hills after one of the men in their group mistakenly joked about selling one of the pioneer girls to them. The Sioux were angered when they realized the party would not follow through with a trade (they offered two ponies for the girl), so they sent a war party in retaliation. The pioneers happened upon the Arapahoe tribe, who, at the time, were at war with the Sioux. After describing their dilemma, the Araphoe sided with the pioneers and went after the Sioux party who were chasing after them. Peery also recounts seeing the names of countless pioneers and other travelers etched into Independence Rock and other geographical features on her journey. Peery eventually reached Salt Lake City and moved to Provo before settling in Ogden. She briefly describes some of the life of her husband, David Peery. David also served as one of Ogden's mayors.

Hardcover. Condición: Collectable, very good. 1st. Very nice collection of seven women's biographies in the series "Famous Women" published by Roberts Brothers between 1883 and 1884, all are first printings (no additional printings indicated). This is not the complete set; however, the volumes are not numbered so there is no external indication of incompleteness. Small (7"x5") hardcovers bound in mustard-colored cloth, covers blind-stamped with gold lettering and black design, endpapers have floral pattern. CONDITION: All volumes are almost like new--each volume has one or two very minor defects such as page edges not quite pristine, very small spot or two, cover very slightly rubbed -- no marks or writing, bindings tight and square, endpapers not split. Very nice. **OVERSIZE. Overseas orders may require additional shipping. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.