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This section includes literature by lesbian authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of lesbian political and social organizations. Many items that are relevant to the broader LGBTQ+ movement will also be found listed in the Gay studies section.
SF: H. S. Crocker Co, 1917. 2488p. hardcover, cloth boards; neatly ex-library with internal "General reference" rubberstamp, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 329725
New Orleans, LA: Free Men Speak, Inc., 1955-57. Newspaper. Ten issues of the broadside newspaper, four pages apiece, printed on better-quality paper, some edgeworn, many with address labels, some with uneven toning to the cover. Issues present are Vol. 1 nos. 6-9, vol. 2 nos. 1-3, 6-8. States-rights paper opposed..... More
Cat.No: 312494
New York: National Coordinating Committee to Free the Five, [1976]. Poster. 17.5x22.5 inch offset litho poster, faint toning, very good. Depicts Andres Figueroa Cordero, Irvin Flores, Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Oscar Collazo in front of a Puerto Rican flag. Announces demonstrations at the UN, in San Francisco, and..... More
Cat.No: 221996
San Francisco: Black Panther Party, 1969. Poster. 17.5x21.75 inch poster, apparently untrimmed at left and right edges (register marks still visible), very good condition. An unusually clean example of this poster, from the library of a journalist/activist who was involved in the defense of Eldridge Cleaver (provenance available upon request)..... More
Cat.No: 298963
San Francisco: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California; later The Movement Press, 1965-1969. Thirty-five issues of the tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise generally very good condition. Issues present are vol. 1 no. 5 (edgeworn), vol. 2 nos. 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11; vol. 3 nos. 1, 2, 4-8..... More
Cat.No: 304380
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1928-1929. Hardcover. Complete set of six volumes, including the supplement, first edition, volumes 1-4 were published in 1928, last two volumes in 1929, 7.5x10 inch cloth boards with spine in gilt; photographic evidence and illustrations (guns, bullets, etc), two folding maps with aerial views..... More
Cat.No: 288159
Berkeley, CA: Philosophical Union, 1889-1929. Ephemera. 28 issues (pagination varies). Minor edge tears and blemishes. Very Good. The Philosophical Union was established in 1889 by George Holmes Howison and invited some of the best-known philosophers from England to speak at the fledgling university. Discussants in sessions include Reverend E.B. Payne..... More
Cat.No: 343293
Lorain, OH: 1908. 8.5x11 inch wanted poster, with portrait of the wanted Raymond S. Conner and his teenaged wife Maud Jacobs; pasted to a tattered scrapbook page; also present are eight other wanted posters from assorted police departments and agencies around the country, including Pinkerton's Detective Agency, for various other..... More
Cat.No: 255121
Köln: V.i.S.d.P.: P. Müller - Wildcat, 1999-2021. Thirty six issues of the German language journal and nine supplements, two of which don't accompany an issue. Staplebound magazine wraps; one supplement has a rear cover detached, no. 87 has a bumped corner, some slight creasing throughout and minor handling, overall items..... More
Cat.No: 331756
New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. Hardcover. 320p., first edition, very good condition in a good unclipped dj with minor chipping along the top edge. "The story centers around the unsuccessful uprising of the Austrian Social-Democrats against Dollfuss fascism in 1934. It deals with those three fateful days in which..... More
Cat.No: 275441
San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League SF, 1969. Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, poetry, fiction, services and resources, events, nude photos and illustrations, erotic one-act play, very good newsletter on pastebound newsprint. Debut issue of the SFL newsletter/magazine. According to the Online Archive of California, Bancroft: "The Sexual Freedom..... More
Cat.No: 314505
Concord: Horatio Hill, 1832. Hardcover. vi, 234p., cloth spine over plain boards with paper spine label, corners bumped, front hinge cracked, front pastedown endpaper foxed, else very good condition. Bookplate and signature of Dr. Benjamin Cory on the front pastedown endpaper, dated Nov. 1851. Cory (1822-1896) was San Jose, California's..... More
Cat.No: 316970
New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. 185p., very good first edition, first printing with First Edition slug and number line ending in 2 as called for according to Zempel and Verkler. Hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and price-clipped dust jacket. Grier A*. Kentucky born African American novelist's first book, edited..... More
Cat.No: 6712
New York: American Federation of Labor, 1892. Pamphlet. 19p., rosy pink printed wraps slightly soiled with minor chipping; has a cancel neatly applied with nearly the same color stock: publishing information pasted over original imprint. First edition, internally very good condition. "Dyer D. Lum was leading anarchist-syndicalist of the 1880s..... More
Cat.No: 213741
Amsterdam :: Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing company, 1990. Hardcover. xvii, 409p., navy blue boards; spine slightly sunned, hint of rubbing on board edges, else in very good condition. Foundations of Semiotics, Volume 24. More
Cat.No: 297615
Republic of Zaire: Sous Presse de l'Imprimerie de Boma, 1973. Hardcover. 138p., texts in French and Bantu, professionally printed; a Curriculum Vitae of the author is laid-in on a single sheet, very good first edition in 8x5 inch brown cloth boards, pink endpapers. A slang dictionary, Bantu to French. More
Cat.No: 213272
Detroit: Artists Workshop Press, 1966. Magazine. vi, 118p., back cover missing, poetry, jazz reviews, news, essays, music notation pages, photos, good mimeographed journal in side stapled pictorial blue cover. The rear cover which is missing contained some texts. The issue had been held up by the arrest of Sinclair on..... More
Cat.No: 299526
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1966. Magazine. viii, 98p., 8.5x11 inches, editorial, letters, poetry, photos, very good mimeographed first edition in original stapled pictorial wraps. This issue was essentially co-edited by Sinclair and Raworth as it was incomplete as Sinclair began his sentence for marijuana possession. Includes a series of letters..... More
Cat.No: 138895
Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1864. Hardcover. viii, 223p., cloth-covered boards, illus., ten fold-out maps, boards lightly edgeworn, top of spine chipped, front hinge cracked, rubberstamp and contemporary ownership name on title page, else good condition. Confederate imprint. Palmetto Series. More
Cat.No: 283347
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890. Hardcover. [4], 208, [4], 7, [1]p., cloth-covered boards with gilt titling, boards edgeworn at corners and head and tail of spine, else very good first edition with bookplate of cartographic historian Carl I. Wheat on the front paste-down endpaper and his penciled signature..... More
Cat.No: 274756
[Archive of the lesbian photographer Shelby Cohen, including 1980s BDSM...
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