Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$81.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 628+pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. All edges gilt. Some age toning to text and light foxing throughout. Small tear to bottom margin of one leaf, not affecting text. Hinges just starting. Richly illustrated w/ 14 steel engravings. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The American Womans Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful and Christian Homes. By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Printed in New York City by J.B. Ford and Company. 1869, 500 pp, 8.25 x 5.5, 8vo, hardcover full cloth. Overall good, with rubbing and wear to exterior, primarily along edges and corners. Some loss to head and heel of spine. Most wear concentrated along hinges, which are cracked at front and rear. Text block remains in good condition, with minor wear throughout. Light markings and marginalia. Periodic black-and-white sketches throughout. Catalogue of other books for sale at rear. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce reference piece on how women can create stable, prosperous, and Christian homes. By education activist Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), a prominent abolitionist and writer of Uncle Toms Cabin. COLU1869ABEX
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.60 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering on facade; gilt lettering and design on spine; front and back cloth boards single blind ruled. Brown endpapers; small bookplate on top left corner of front paste-down. B/W frontis plate showcases illustration of family; frontis protected by attached tissue. Opposite frontis is a decorated half-title page. Further B/W illustrative diagrams and drawings throughout text. Appeal to American women, glossary, and index can be located at rear. Original advertisement pages following index. Minor shelf wear and fading to boards and spine; edges of spine are beginning to fray. Front hinge is becoming loose. TExt is
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover is much-worn, rubbed and soiled. Heavy edgewear with fraying at corners, spine head and foot. Gilt is worn but still fairly bright. Book is shaken with front endpapers split along gutter. A bit of foxing to initial pages.Three previous owners' names on three separate pages (name on second free endpaper is stamped; name on third endpaper is dated 1869) ; Interior is clean and unmarked. Overall solid copy; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 500 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Second printing. 500, [12 ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 19453 Original green cloth. a.e.g. Extremities rubbed; Very Good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Duodecimo, green cloth over boards stamped in gilt on front and back cover. Salesman's dummy copy, first 124 pages of text, plus advertising broadside, and blank subscription pages, with examples of leather spines. Very good, example of calf spine chipped at lower spine, light edgewear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1869 1ed Harriet Beecher Stowe Woman s Home Economics Cooking Americana There is nothing which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the [mother]. Catharine Esther Beecher The American Woman s Home , originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century s most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct women s acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods available in the post-Civil War economic boom. It is an update to Catharine Beecher s influential Treatise on Domestic Economy and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. This first edition, in a beautiful green cloth binding, features a lovely frontispiece as well as 77 in-text illustrations throughout! Item number: #13885 Price: $499 BEECHER, Catharine; Harriet Beecher Stowe The American woman's home: or, Principles of domestic science; being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes New York, J.B. Ford and company 1869-70. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages [4], xii, 500, [12] 77 illustrated figures + 2 frontispiece engravings Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure Green cloth Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 13885 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.