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Orange Blossoms. The Story of A Beautiful Marchioness under the Second Empire
Anonymous
Paris: Privately Printed [Charles Carrington], 1903.English translation published by Carrington of, Souvenirs d’une Cocodette, first published in full clandestinely by Jules Gay in Brussels. Edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered on thin wove paper in plain brown wrappers, as suggested by Mendes in Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930, Carrington likely ran additional copies beyond the 200 on this thinner paper. MENDES 154(b)(iii).
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Republics versus Woman: Contrasting the treatment according to women in Aristocracies with that meted out to her in Democracies
Mrs. Woolsey
New York: The Grafton Press, 1903.Theory of American suffragist Kate Trimble Woolsey (1858-1936) that women fare better under the monarchies and aristocracies of Europe than republics such as the United States. Woolsey regularly traveled between Europe and the US on behalf of women’s rights. This copy inscribed by Woolsey to the front free endpaper in ink, some pencil text in the margin below the inscription now illegible.
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Minute Marvels of Nature: Being Some Revelations of the Microscope
John J. Ward
London: Ibister and Company, 1903.A close up look at the natural world with 185 photo-micrographs taken by the author.