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
Are You Coming to the National's Annual Campaign Rally?
Philadelphia: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [1914]. Handbill. Small handbill, printed one side only, 5.5x3.25 inches landscape format, very good condition. For a rally held in 1914. More
Cat.No: 299839
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
Femmes françaises. Journal de l’Union des femmes francaises. Hebdomadaire paraissant le jeudi. 16 novembre 1944
Paris: Union des Femmes Françaises, 1944. Magazine. 3-18 pp., illustrations, wraps. 12.25 x 9.5 in. Covers lightly toned around the edges. An issue of the official journal of the Union des Femmes Francaises (Union of French Women) founded in 1881. This issue announces the recently concluded first congress of the..... More
Cat.No: 298893
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
Suffragette Copette. Beware of the Dog [postcard]
New York: Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Co., 1909. Postcard. Color lithograph postcard depicting a woman in uniform holding up a rolling pin like a police baton. Her dog has a "Police" collar. The postcard is postmarked 1910, with a penciled note about rowing on Stow Lake in San Francisco. Suffragette Series 5..... More
Cat.No: 299150
Madame Aurora
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1983. Paperback. 248p., very good first edition stated, trade paperback in pictorial wraps. A deaf teacher, a scandalous book, her ex-Army nurse lover during the first 50 years of the women's movement. More
Cat.No: 109846
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
America through women's eyes
New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. 558p., first edition, original blue cloth boards with titling in gilt; spine slightly sun-faded, corners a bit bumped, fore-edge has some minor foxing, no dust jacket, some minor wear on back board, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 301156
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. 72p. includes covers, 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..... More
Cat.No: 230050
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
Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette, 1885-1961
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. Paperback. xi, 198p., wraps, illus., old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Adela was the youngest daughter of a famous British suffragette family. She moved to Melbourne in 1914, where she became involved with the women's and anti-war movements and was a...... More
Cat.No: 275734
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
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, 1969. Pamphlet. 15p., first printing, staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, touch of rust to staples, previous owner's name penned on first page else very good. First appeared in the Spring, 1955 issue of the Fourth International. Cowley later (as Joyce Maupin) founded UNION Wage. More
Cat.No: 63092
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
California Women; A Guide to Their Politics 1885-1911
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 1967. Hardcover. 201p., illustrated with scattered vignette clip-art, text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms, hardbound in openweave white cloth boards titled black with a decoration in blue. An amateur job but quite sound. However, front cover bears a nasty circular stain, an inch &..... More
Cat.No: 251573
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
Firemen's magazine, a monthly journal devoted to the social, moral and intellectual advancement of Locomotive Enginemen. January 1883 to December 1883
Terre Haute, IN: Brotherhood of Locomotive of the United States & Canada, 1883. Hardcover. 575p., half leather bound (spine and corners) in black leather rubbed and a bit cracked along the hinge, purple cloth unevenly faded, one page 15/16 has chipping and rips in the margins, a few gatherings slightly..... More
Cat.No: 214926