Hart Sara L (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. dj has nicks and tears along edges and shows light grime from handling and also faded in areas. (dj now in mylar protector). Worked beside Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Emil G. Hirsch, Louise de Koven Bowen and Hannah Solomon. part of Hull House staff. 288 pages; 6 1/2 x 9 1/8 ".

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, 288pp., bound in green cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, in unclipped just jacket rubbed and lightly soiled with chipping to foot of spine. Picture.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A very good copy in a well worn dust jacket. Jacket is missing several large pieces from the spine and back cover. The book is clean and tight. Ms. Hart incribed this copy to her cousins in ink on the front endsheet. Please view photo to determine exact condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Memoirs of a young woman in early Chicago, with personal anecdotes of Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop and Louise DeKoven Bowen. Price clipped, with two tiny edge chips to DJ; else a fine DJ in a Mylar cover. Scarce in a DJ this nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Phtographs (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with a biographically significant inscription. The memoirs of a Chicagoan and social worker who worked with Jane Addams at Hull House, with many vignettes of Addams and their work. In addition, Hart was responsible for electing the first woman judge of the Cook county Juvenile Court. Book is very good, clean and unmarked. Jacket has a1" square chip to bottom of spine, and is otherwise very good, clean and bright. Protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp. xii, [iv], 288. Portrait frontispiece. 16 pp. illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt on spine and with gilt decorative design on spine and upper cover. Presentation copy: 'Honorable Lily H. Montagu, With many pleasant memories. The Author. Sara L. Hart. Oct. 7/49.' Additional handwritten signed small card loosely inserted addressed from Chicago from the author to most probably Lily H. Montagu although she addresses her as 'Dear Friend' consisting of about 60 words in which she says she hopes the recipient has not forgotten the 'lovely days we had together in London' and when she saw Chicago. She hopes she will visit Chicago soon and offers to do anything to 'make that possible'. Lady Lillian 'Lily' Montagu (1873 Ð 1963) is mentioned on p. 132 of the text. She was the daughter of Lord Swaythling, Chancellor of the Exchequer during Queen Victoria's reign. She was the first woman to play a major role on Progressive Judaism and was awarded an OBE for her communal and civic work, including her chairmanship of the Westminister Juvenile Court. Sara Liebenstein Hart (1869 Ð 1949) devoted her life to social service starting as a volunteer in a small town in Missouri. In Chicago she became the volunteer manager of the Juvenile Detention Home, working beside Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Emil G. Hirsch, Louise de Koven Bowen, and Hannah Solomon. Her autobiography provides 'lively anecdotes of early Chicago, told with a sharp eye for details and an engaging sense of humor.' A few small scattered marks to lower cover, otherwise very good in torn and well used, good only dust jacket, with loss at spine head and top front corner. Signedes.