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
Civics catechism on the rights and duties of American citizens
Washington DC: The Committee on Special War Activities. National Catholic War Council, 1920. 71p., slender booklet, very good. Second edition, with folded form cover letter to priests laid in. "Citizenship" penciled on cover, erased. More
Cat.No: 221868
The way it's going / The new woman [anti-suffrage postcard]
n.p. 1912. Color lithograph postcard depicting a man holding two crying babies as his wife prepares to leave. Reverse has a canceled stamp from 1912 and an unrelated message to Myrtle Johnson of Fruitvale, CA from her grandmother. One of many postcards of the period implying that men would be..... More
Cat.No: 248723
Proportional representation the case for a better election system
Northhampton MA: Crescent Street Press, 1997. 43p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch glossy cardstock wraps, a very good copy. Per moi, mechanization and blindfolds should speed things up; but Amy and ourselves don't see eye to eye. More
Cat.No: 168950
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
The Pacific Monthly, A Magazine Devoted to the Elevation of Humanity. Vol. I No. 3, March 1898
San Francisco and Pacific Grove: Marie Eva Bradford, 1898. Pp.111-156, printed on semi-coated paperstock, reasonably alkaline, with scattered illustrations (portraits). Softbound, a sewn magazine in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. A fair-only copy, quite worn with handling, cover bears dust-soil and flecking, foxing, some casual pencilling, a small stain and some..... More
Cat.No: 241262
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. 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 libris Anita Whitney with her ownership signature and book plate (Whitney was a leader of..... More
Cat.No: 109384
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
Pioneers of women's liberation
New York: Merit, 1969. Pamphlet. 15p., first printing, staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 63092
Pioneers of women's liberation
New York: Merit Publishers, 1969. Pamphlet. 15p., 5.5x8.5 inches, cartoon od anarchist 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. First appeared in the Spring, 1955 issue of the..... More
Cat.No: 56325
The elected mother, a story of woman's equal rights
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. Hardcover. 31p., original green cloth binding, previous owner's name else very good condition. Pro-suffrage work, reprint from a short story collection. First separate printing. More
Cat.No: 199725
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. 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. 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
Class coalition and class conflict in the California woman suffrage movement, 1907 - 1912. The San Francisco Wage Earners' Suffrage League
San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992. Hardcover. viii, 193p., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 245684
To believe in women; what lesbians have done for America - a history
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Hardcover. xii, 434p. + 16p. photos, signed by the author, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 200902
Frances E. Willard educator
Washington, D. C: The National Education Association, no date, circa 1950. Pamphlet. 16p., staplebound self-wraps, 5 x 3 inches, ownership mark on the face, otherwise faint handling wear. Personal growth leaflet no. 85. On the teaching career of the temperance and women's suffrage activist. More
Cat.No: 68297
The pale woman and other poems
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. Hardcover. 81p., untrimmed edges, very good first edition in marbled boards and white cloth backing. Suffragist poet. More
Cat.No: 212261
Putting a smile into politics: a reply to ex-Senator Root's objections to woman suffrage
East Stroudsburg, PA: The Hughes Press, [1914]. 16p., staplebound pamphlet, vertically creased, with edgewear. More
Cat.No: 214876
From Parlor to Prison: five American Suffragists talk about their lives
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1985. Paperback. 300p., introductions, afterword, chronology, very good first printing of this edition trade paperback in pictorial yellow wraps. New Feminist Library. Originally published by Vintage in 1976. More
Cat.No: 242412
The traffic in women and other essays on feminism, with a biography by Alix Kates Shulman
Albion, CA: Times Change, 1970. 63p., staplebound pamphlet, lightly worn covers. Three essays on prostitution, marriage and suffrage by the anarchist, originally published in this form in 1917. More
Cat.No: 78412
Alexandra Gripenberg's a half year in the New World; miscellaneous sketches of travel in the United States (1888)
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1954. xv, 225p., frontis, translator's preface, author's preface, index, very good in cloth. Chapters on Indianapolis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Women's Convention, Slavery etc. More
Cat.No: 127614
The life and work of Susan B. Anthony, including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years. A story of the evolution of the status of woman. In two volumes
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1898 & 1899. Hardcover. Two volumes [xxiv, 513, xi, 515-1070p.], original cloth binding with minor edge wear, corners slightly bumped, previous owner's gift inscription on front blank end papers (dated 1909), minor wrinkling of the first few pages in vol. 1, a few pages roughly opened..... More
Cat.No: 218747