Anna Pratt Simpson (36 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown paper boards with cloth spine and mounted label. Slight bit of tanning to spine. Light edge wear. Pages/boards clean andvibrant, NO foxing or markings, binding tight. Lots of great tipped in photos. A nice copy, minus the jacket.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Jacket is worn, torn, and chipped, but held intact by mylar cover. Bottom corner of front cover is frayed. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book chronicles the successful collaborative and independent endeavors of Californian women to bring the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to fruition, funding it entirely through their own efforts. Despite never having held official roles in previous world expositions, these women, led by Phoebe Hearst and Frederick Sanborn, spearheaded fundraising and administrative responsibilities to create a spectacular spectacle that celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal. The exposition they created featured a host of California-specific attractions such as a building dedicated to the state's history and contributions, as well as many events that highlighted the area's natural beauty and resources. This book stands as a testament to the power of women's ambition, ingenuity, and their ability to make positive change in the world. Through the women's collective efforts, California became the first state to fund and manage a world's fair on its own. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean copy in an attractive jacket and scarce thusly! Mounted photo illustrations, paper covered boards with cloth spine and mounted printed spine label. Photo illustrations of all members of the Board.

Original Cloth-backed Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Corners minutely worn; small repair in rear inner hinge.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Book.

Condition: VG. San Francisco 1915 1st Woman's Board. Hardcover. Square large octavo, 191pp., mounted photo illustrations, paper covered boards with cloth spine and mounted printed spine label. Photo illustrations of all members of the Board. VG, spine label a bit rubbed, spine toned.

First Edition. 191+[111]pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over brown boards with a printed paper label on the backstrip. Very good. 191 pages of text are followed by 111 tipped-in identified portraits of the Woman's Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Printed at the press of the Blair-Murdock Company under the direction of John Henry Nash. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority of his career in the San Francisco area, founding the Twentieth Century Press with Bruce Brough, which was renamed Tomoye Press when Paul Elder was made a partner. Later Nash founded his own eponymous printing venture, this is where he cemented legacy as one of the great American printers. Later in his life he would teach printing and typography at the University of Oregon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Original half leather with cloth, gilt. One of a special edition of 250 copies printed on Strathmore Japan paper, this one not numbered. Stamped to pastedown is "George Metaxas Library", presumably a PO stamp. Tipped-in frontis and numerous tipped-in photos. Light edgewear to boards, pages mildly age-toned. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: NVG. No Jacket. First Edition. Three quarter leater with bumped and worn corners, foxed endpapers, modest cover wear, owner bookplate, modest cover wear. Limited edition #118 of 250 copies printed on Japanese paper. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Thick 8vo. xvii, [1], 191, [1] pp, w/ 108 pp of tipped-in portrait photos. Frontisp. photo, numerous tipped-in photo plates. Quarter-beige cloth over brown boards, printed paper spine-label (minor rubbing & scuffing, minor wear to corners), still VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this informative and well illustrated report issued by the Woman's Board detailing their efforts to coordinate efforts with the Red Cross, assorted Woman's Auxiliary organizations, and created a California Chapter of the Travelers' Aid Society. The Woman's Board representatives all wore a uniform badge, met every boat and train arriving into San Francisco, and aided nearly 140,000 visitors at a cost of nearly $ 30,000. They were essential in not only organizing venues for entertainment, but also aiding visitors in finding housing, and amenities.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. San Francisco: The Woman's Board - Press of the Blair-Murdock Co. under the direction of John Henry Nash. 1915 (Copyright 1916). First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. 1/4 linen hardcover, puckered, title stamped spine label, age-toned, brown boards, slight edge wear, tipped-in black/white photo plates, brown dust jacket, sporadic fine tears at edges, chipped at spine crown/heel. Very good +.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 344. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1916 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 344.

First Edition. 8vo, three quarter red morocco and cloth, pages unopened and untrimmed, illustrated with numerous tipped in photographs, xviii, 191 pp. Bottom edge rubbed, some wear at extremities, some browning to endpapers and other page edges slightly browned at edges; else near fine. A very nice copy. This edition is believed to have numbered 250 copies (this copy not numbered), and printed privately by the Blair-Murdock Company on Strathmore Japan paper. The work serves as a record of the contributions of women of California to the Panama -Pacific International Exposition.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

First edition, first printing, fondly inscribed by the author on the first blank, "To my Faithful Magu [sic] - I'm sending my part in the history-making of our beautiful Exposition of cherished memory as a birthday token. It carries endless good wishes for now and all the years. Anna Pratt Simpson. May twenty-eighth, nineteen seventeen." Laid in is a cameo photograph of Simpson (1866-1930, right) and her daughter Fernanda (1885-1953, left), with the studio stamp of Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912), captioned on the rear in pencil. Based in San Francisco, Taber was known for his photographs of prominent Californians. Upon his death, he donated his collection to California State Library, so "that the state may preserve the names and faces, and keep alive the memory of those who made it what it is" (Online Archive of California). Problems Women Solved provides an overview of women's contributions to the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, which was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal and the recovery of San Francisco from its 1906 earthquake. The Exposition functioned as "a giant advertisement for California" and the prominence of "the Woman's Board reflected the feminization and domestication of the city, state, and fair" (Markwyn, pp. 52-3). A laid-in contemporary magazine clipping reviews the book as "artistically put out [with] a well-written history of the board of distinguished women who gave such valuable aid to the Exposition". Simpson was the Vice-President of the Woman's Board and Chairman of the Publicity Department. Also known as the Board for Lady Managers, it provided women with a campaigning platform for discussing women's rights and social issues at the exposition. One such technique was the installation of statues foregrounding women, such as the famous Pioneer Mother statue by Charles Grafly. The exposition also hosted the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, attended by pacifists from across the world in response to the First World War. "California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection", Online Archive of California, accessible online; Abigail M. Markwyn, "Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition", Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016. Quarto. Half-tone pasted frontispiece, 120 similar plates, headpieces. Original quarter buckram, paper spine label, brown sides, edges uncut. Corners worn, spine creased and a little foxed, covers clean, front free endpaper sometime removed, front inner hinge split but holding firm, a few plates a little loose as usual but holding contents clean: a very good copy.

First edition, first printing, of this overview of women's contributions to the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, which was held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal and the recovery of San Francisco from its 1906 earthquake. "A giant advertisement for California", the prominence of "the Woman's Board reflected the feminization and domestication of the city, state, and fair" (Markwyn, pp. 52-3). Simpson (1866-1930) was the Vice-President of the Woman's Board and Chairman of the Publicity Department. Also known as the Board for Lady Managers, it provided women with a campaigning platform for discussing women's rights and social issues at the exposition. One such technique was the installation of numerous statues foregrounding women, such as the famous Pioneer Mother statue by Charles Grafly. The exposition also hosted the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, attended by pacifists from across the world in response to the First World War. Provenance: this copy bears the stamps, on the front free endpaper and rear pastedown, of the Women's Board of the 1939 and 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, held to commemorate the completion of the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Abigail M. Markwyn, "Queen of the Joy Zone Meets Hercules: Gendering Imperial California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition", Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016. Quarto. Half-tone pasted frontispiece, 120 similar plates, headpieces. Original quarter buckram, paper spine label, brown sides, edges uncut. With dust jacket. shelf mark in pencil to rear free endpaper. Wear to corners, binding and contents clean, gauze occasionally visible, a few plates a little loose as usual but holding; unclipped jacket lightly creased, toning to rear panel, a handful of nicks and closed tears to extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1915 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 348 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 348 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 346 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 346 Language: Englishlish.