August 2020 Catalogue

F i n e N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s 38 “In A Hundred Different Ways Women Have Helped To Shape Our Country’s Course…” 36. MELTZER, Milton, editor. Women of America Series. New York, 1969-78. Eighteen volumes. Octavo, original cloth, dust jackets. $4800. Click for more info First editions, first printings of 18 (of 22) titles from the Women of America series, including two review copies and three titles inscribed by the author. From 1969 to 1978, Thomas Y. Crowell published 22 titles in its “Women of America” series. Included here are 18 of the 22 titles, attractively issued, and with an impressively broad array of trailblazing female subjects such as Pearl Buck, Rachel Carson, Emma Goldman, Martha Graham, Mahalia Jackson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Books generally near-fine to fine, dust jackets very good to fine. Most copies of these titles went to libraries, with little exposure in the retail book trade, thus few copies survive in collectible condition.