Hampton, CT, [199-?]. A 1½” diameter pinback button in support of reproductive rights for women. "Uterine Slavery" is crossed through and encircled by the phrase "Action for Reproductive Freedom." More about Action for Reproductive Freedom Pinback Button
San Francisco: The Women's Page, [1971]. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 8 pp. A single issue of this Bay Area feminist periodical with articles on labor, office politics, a long article on instructions for the overthrow of male supremacy, class, etc. Light toning to newsprint, but about Near Fine. More about The Women's Page, No. 5, April-May, [1971
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; color illustrated endpapers; xiv, 273 pp.; 26 photographic plates. A memoir of the author's life in central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, in which she hunts big game in the wilds of the African jungle... More about My Farm In Lion Country
London: Sands & Company, 1901. First edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, others deckle; xxxii, 276 pp.; 12 photographic plates, more than two dozen in text photographs. Neatly ex-library. Unobtrusive call & personal library numbers to spine, a few penciled numbers to ffep and title... More about Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys
Rochester, New York: New Women's Times, 1983. First edition. Tabloid newspaper printed on newsprint; 16 pp.; illus. Sub-titled "A review of literature and the arts issued six times a year as a regular supplement to the New Women's Times." Some browning to newsprint, a few nicks to edges; about Near Fine. More about New Women's Times Feminist Review, Vol. IX, No. 29, Sept./Oct. 1983
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Octavo (22 cm). Cloth boards; map endpapers; 340 pp.; dust jacket. 23-year-old journalist, Joy Homer's, adventurous account of her travels through all but three of China's provinces in 1938-39. A Near Fine copy, although slightly musty, in a rubbed and worn dust jacket with a.... More about Dawn Watch in China
[New York: Designed and Printed in the Shop of William Edwin Rudge], [1910]. Privately published. 4to; boards with inlaid illustrated label and paper title label to spine; decorative endpapers; deckle edges; 155 pp. A well-preserved, Near Fine, copy with some very faint foxing. The author spent time traveling as a.... More about Letters from Japan Written By An American Girl Traveling in the Far East To Her Friends At Home
Columbia: League of Women Voters of South Carolina, 1970. First edition. 8vo; orange, illustrated, stapled wrappers, 46 pp. A collection of recipes from members and friends of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Appetizers, soups, salads, meat, vegetables and desserts. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers and... More about Time for Action Cookbook
[Birmingham, Alabama: La Verite Club], 1924-74. Stapled and string-bound wrappers in a variety of formats, colors, and paper stock varying pagination. Light wear and creasing to wrappers with some errant pencil markings; some booklets contain penciled notes or emendations. All VG or better. A grouping of annual program booklets for the..... More about 17 Program Booklets for the La Verite Literary Club, 1924-1974
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); pale yellow cloth lettered in purple; xxii, 298 pp.; dust jacket. Foreword by William L. Shirer. Autobiography of the Scottish Labour Party politician. Lee became an M.P. at twenty-four as a member of the left wing Independent Labour... More about This Great Journey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American edition. Small octavo (19.5 cm). Lime green cloth stamped in red to front board and spine; red top-stain; xxxvii, 220, [2] pp.; photographic frontispiece of the author. German writer, Lilo Linke's (1906-1963), first travelogue concerning her youthful peregrinations around France. With a.... More about Tale Without End
St. Louis, MO: Central Bureau Press, 1947. Later edition. Sixteenmo (16.5 x 11.5 cm). Green, stapled wrappers printed in black; 40 pp. A Near Fine copy with some very light toning and one sliver missing from top right corner. Unsurprisingly, the Central Bureau Press was a Catholic publishing imprint disseminating... More about Contraception: A Common Cause of Disease: An Address Delivered at a Conference Held in Paris
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First edition. Twelvemo. Pebbled, green cloth decoratively blind-stamped with gilt spine; brown endpapers; 295 pp. A novel from the early feminist, anti-vivisectionist and spiritualist most famous for her "The Gates Ajar." A Very Good copy with cloth rubbed; some chipping to crown; clean throughout. More about Hedged In
[New York: Progressive Women's Council], [n.d., ca. 1930s]. 8.5" x 11" mimeographed flyer for a forum called 'China Resists' featuring Paul Maurice, youth director of "China Today." Sponsored by the Progressive Women's Council #33 and held in cooperation with the forum division, W.P.A. adult education program of the Board of... More about China Resists
[New York]: Red Women's Detachment, [ca. 1971]. Offset poster measuring 17" x 11" promoting Womens Armed Defense Groups, the clandestine wing of the Maoist Red Women's Detachment's. Beneath an image of militant Chinese women reads Mao's oft-repeated slogan regarding political power growing out of the barrel of a gun. The... More about Womens Armed Defense Groups
New York: Red Women's Detachment, 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, illus. Browning to newsprint, horizontal fold, else Fine. A single issue and one of only six published by the Red Women’s Detachment, a Maoist feminist group which emerged in 1968 on the Lower East Side of NYC... More about Red Star, Number 4, December, 1970
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1934. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm). Brown cloth stamped in brown; brown top-stain; photographic frontispiece of the author. The scarce autobiography of Elsinore Justina "Aunt Elsie" Robinson (1883-1956) who worked as a miner in California before finding her calling as a Hearst columnist. An... More about I Wanted Out!
New York: New Star Press, 1965. First edition. Thick 8vo.; blue cloth boards with gilt printed spine, xxxii, 1018 pp. An uncommon and truly bizarre work from the inveterate factionalist and polemicist, George Spiro, who maintains that a Marxist-Capitalist force under andrarchy (male domination) is on course to destroy the... More about Marxist-Capitalist Threat to Destroy the Human Race - A Call for Survival: On the Evolution,...
London: Labour Party, 1935. 4to (8½” x 11”); stapled wrappers, 178-192 pp, illus. A single issue of this monthly Labour Party periodical begun in 1913 and devoted to the interests of women. Content for this issue includes a profile of Labour Party leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Arthur Henderson;... More about The Labour Woman: A Political Monthly Journal for Working Women, Vol. XXIII, No. 12, December, 1935
Ann Arbor: Her-self, Inc., 1976. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; 24 pp.; illus. Lengthy cover story on the feminist controversy at the Feminist Economic Network, Detroit Feminist Federal Credit Union and the Feminist Women's City Club. Some toning to newsprint. More about Her-self, Volume 5, Number 2, May 1976
New York: Hearst's International Library Company, 1916. First edition. Quarto. Green, gilt-stamped cloth with embossed flower; top edge gilt; 126 pp.; tissue-protected color frontispiece with illustrations from many different artists. A Very Good, sound copy with slight rubbing and darkening to cloth. Clean throughout. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) was a.... More about World Voices