75th anniversary / A woman's right to vote [pinback button]
n.p. [1995]. Square pin, 2 inches each side, very good. More
Cat.No: 235897
Women's Suffrage
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Radcliffe College, 1978-1981
Cambridge: Radcliffe College, [1981]. Pamphlet. 49p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., staples heavily rusted else very good condition. Report on the Library's activities from 1978 to 1981. More
Cat.No: 279626
Jane Addams' Hull-House and Dining Hall
Chicago: Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, 1974. [am. 12p., stapled wraps, 4.25x11 inches, illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 281059
Report of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Labour Party held in the Central Hall, Westminster, London, S.W., on Wednesday, June 26th, 1918, and two following days.
London: Labour Party, 1918. Pamphlet. iv, 91, [1]p., tables, wraps. 9.75 x 6 in. Colophon: “Leicester Co-operative Printing Society Ltd., 99, Church Gate.” Front cover chipped and splitting at spine. Good. With detailed reports of each day’s sessions and resolutions. Topics covered: women’s suffrage, teacher salaries, Ireland, unemployment, Poor Laws..... More
Cat.No: 310867
Votes for Women: The militant suffragette movement
London: London Museum. 8.5x12.25 folder containing facsimiles of items in the London Museum's suffragette collection. Fourteen facsimiles of suffragette ephemera (postcards, ticket for a mass meeting, letters, newspapers, etc.) along with a one page introduction. Folder is lightly edgeworn with an old price sticker on the rear wrap, else very..... More
Cat.No: 320694
Women at the Hague; the International Congress of Women and its results
New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. vii, 171p., second printing, white boards in dustjacket; front board has a slight soil stain, slight tilt to the spine, faint edgewear on dustjacket, small stain on dj spine, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 324377
The hidden history of the female: the early feminist movement in the United States
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1970]. Pamphlet. 13p., pictorial wraps, 8.5x10.5 inches, wraps unevenly toned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 123497
Growing Up with a City
New York: Macmillan, 1926. Hardcover. viii+226p., cloth boards bumped at spine and lower corners, no dj, else very good, illus., first edition. Bowen worked closely with Jane Addams at Hull House; she also authored "Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play" More
Cat.No: 156551
Women's Rights Law Reporter: vol. 1, #1, July/August 1971; Child Care, Education, Birth Control, Employment, Poverty
New York: Women's Rights Law Reporter, 1971. Magazine. 71p., 8.25x11 inches, articles, opinion, news, reports, services and resources, illustrations, very good magazine in stapled red wraps. This first issue remembers Myra Bradwell who fought for a woman's right to become a lawyer in the Nineteenth century. Also LA Women's Center..... More
Cat.No: 230050
Apostle of Democracy: The life of Lucy Maynard Brown.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. Hardcover. [10], 315p. frontispiece, illustrations, previous owner's name and date and a few spots of foxing on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dj. Lucy Maynard Salmon (1853-1927) was a historian and one of Vassar's greatest teachers. She was a life long..... More
Cat.No: 4690
Ellen Hayes, trail-blazer
N.pl. [Louise Brown], [1930]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps toned, one corner bumped else very good condition, frontispiece portrait tipped in, Illus. Memorial work for Ellen Hayes (1851-1930). Hayes was a math teacher at Wellesley College for decades, wrote a number of math textbooks, was an astronomer, and was active in the..... More
Cat.No: 274780
Drake's England; An address given at Drake's Bay on the occasion of the 38th Pilgrimage of the Sir Francis Drake Association, Aug. 23, 1952
n.p. [San Francisco]: the Association, 1952. Pamphlet. 8p., softbound in 7.5x5 inch stapled wraps, sound and entirely clean, a very good copy. Rather than reprise Drake tails, Carruthers talks of the England of the time with a rousing appraisal of Duckess Elizabeth I. Sir Francis Drake Association leaflet no. 3..... More
Cat.No: 214462
The way of the North: a romance of the days of Baranof
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Hardcover. 320p., hinges cracked, spine lettering totally eroded, decorations and lettering on front panel partly eroded, original blue cloth edge worn, inscribed by Cheney and dated in 1905, ex library Anita Whitney with her ownership signature and book plate (Whitney was a leader..... More
Cat.No: 109384
Essays on social topics
Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, n.d. Hardcover. 126p. hardcover, very good, frontispiece portraits of the author and her husband, boards still bright. Claflin, the sister of Victoria Woodhull, started as a medium and quack healer, but with the backing of Cornelius Vanderbilt, she and her sister opened the first woman-run stock..... More
Cat.No: 275544
Essays on social topics
Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, n.d. Hardcover. 126p. hardcover, minor shelfwear and darkening of maroon boards, top of spine panel creased, otherwise very good, frontispiece portraits of the author and her husband. Claflin, the sister of Victoria Woodhull, started as a medium and quack healer, but with the backing of Cornelius..... More
Cat.No: 275547
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette & political activist
San Francisco: Joss Press, 1990. 11p., very good in wire-spiral-bound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated with black and white photos and facsimiles of documents from Pankhurst's time. More
Cat.No: 194716
Nature's aristocracy; or, battles and wounds in time of peace. A plea for the oppressed. Edited by Russell H. Conwell
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1871. Hardcover. x, 322p., first edition in original brick red cloth which is slightly edgeworn (some fraying at head and tail of spine), minor stains on front panel, paper slightly toned, previous owner's names (in pencil, datelined New Orleans year of publication) on front blank..... More
Cat.No: 61284
Born one year before the 20th century; Minnie Fisher / an oral history
New York: St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 1975. Pamphlet. 30p., staplebound decorated wraps, faint browning, else good. Mostly childhood near Minsk. Once in NY, she heard Debs, the young Nearing, Melech Epstein, did some speaking herself. More
Cat.No: 67133
Two sisters for social justice: a biography of Grace and Edith Abbott
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. xv, 315p., preface, bibliographical essay, chapter notes, published works, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. The two sisters were mentored by Jane Addams and fought for suffrage, worker's rights, and child labor laws, among other issues. More
Cat.No: 19601
Pioneers of women's liberation
New York: Merit Publishers, 1969. Pamphlet. 15p., 5.5x8.5 inches, cartoon of a woman pushing a baby carriage with bomb in it, very good first printing thus, pamphlet in stapled gray pictorial wraps with photo of Women's Freedom League marchers on cover, very good condition. First appeared in the Spring, 1955..... More
Cat.No: 56325
Sylvia Pankhurst: A Life in Radical Politics
London: Pluto Press, 1999. Paperback. xv, 157p., wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 272976
The conservative party and the county franchise. Second edition
London: Wyman & Sons, Printers, 1883. Pamphlet. 33p., disbound with threads lacking, 8x5 inch self-wraps. Binder's paste is failing and signatures are beginning to part, with terminal leaf detached and small chips at the gutterline. Little or no edgewear, paperstock alkaline, good copy. Against the reform act of 1884, which..... More
Cat.No: 172953
The ballot and class struggle
Brooklyn: New York Labor News Company, 1971. Pamphlet. 76, [4]p., staplebound pamphlet, very good; rubberstamp with new address on title page. "An address delivered by De Leon under the title of 'Woman Suffrage' at Copper Union, May 8, 1909, under the auspices of the Socialist Women of Greater New York."..... More
Cat.No: 296124
The ballot and class struggle
Brooklyn: New York Labor News Company, 1971. Pamphlet. 76, [4]p., wraps, very good condition; rubberstamp with new address on title page, variant binding with blue wraps. "An address delivered by De Leon under the title of 'Woman Suffrage' at Copper Union, May 8, 1909, under the auspices of the Socialist..... More
Cat.No: 325317
Woman's suffrage
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1925. 48p., slender paperback, toned area inside front cover from a clipping formerly laid in, otherwise minor shelfwear. Fourth printing. An address delivered under the auspices of the Socialist Women of Greater New York on May 8, 1909. "All the facts -- all..... More
Cat.No: 322520