New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 8vo. 234 pages, [4] pages ads at end, including for Henderson's first book and a 2-page list of "Useful Books for Women." Vignette illustrations in text. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, following her successful 'Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving'.....
Schenectady: Gazette Press, 1919. 8vo. 105 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white, including full-page. Blue gilt-lettered cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Fannia M. Cohn, one of the leading Jewish women trade union activists in the United States: "To Miss Fannia M......
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906. 2 volumes. 8vo. 237 and 230 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary blue half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: W. Macdoland MacKay (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Mary Augusta was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. 8vo. 373 pages. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. "A gallery of brilliantly colored portraits of rebellious American ladies who broke with the traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries." This was the author's first full-length book.