Action for Reproductive Freedom Pinback Button
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
Women's Studies
Off Our Backs, Vol. 1, No. 15, December 31, 1970
Washington, D. C.: Off Our Backs, 1970. Tabloid format printed in red and black on newsprint, 16 pp, illus. An early single issue of the popular feminist periodical and a "special edition" on women and imperialism. Centerfold comic strip poster about a young "Yankee" girl feeling empowered after meeting women... More
Off Our Backs, Vol. 1, No. 7, June 26, 1970
Washington, D. C.: Off Our Backs, 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, [16] pp, illus. An early single issue of the popular feminist periodical. Content for this issue includes a long interview with Charlotte Bunch-Weeks after her trip to Vietnam, a centerfold article on Bernadette Devlin, the fiery Irish activist... More
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The Women's Page, No. 5, April-May, [1971]
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
Paid My Dues: Journal of Women and Music, Vol. III, No. 1
Chicago: Calliope Publishing, Inc., 1978. First edition. Quarto (27 x 21 cm). Stapled and printed wrappers; 44 pp. Contents of this issue include: "How to Find Music in You" by Jeriann Hilderley, "Round Robin Song Sharing" by Ginni Clemmens, "The Technical Art of Equalization and Sound Checks" by Woman Sound... More
My Farm In Lion Country
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
Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys
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
New Women's Times Feminist Review, Vol. IX, No. 29, Sept./Oct. 1983
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
Hungarian Rhapsody
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. First edition. 12mo. Decoratively-stamped grey cloth boards; illustrated endpapers; 284 pp.; dust jacket. The well-reviewed first novel by the Irish playright, Maeve O'Callaghan, about a Hungarian family in the days after WWI. Under the pen name, Sheila Fitzgerald, O'Callaghan wrote a.... More
The Second Wave: A Magazine of Ongoing Feminism, Volume 5, Number 3, 1979
Boston: The Second Wave, Inc., 1979. First edition. Quarto-size (27 cm). Stapled and printed wrappers; 56 pp.; illus. This issue featuring "Politics of Women Writing" by Karen Brodine, "Towards a Feminist Economics: A Global View" by Kathy Parker and Lisa Leghorn, "Way Off Broadway: A Feminist Response to Theatre" by... More
hagborn, Vol. II, No. II, Summer 1981
Albany: hagborn, 1981. First edition. Tabloid format printed on newsprint; 20 pp.; photographs. Feminist/lesbian newspaper out of Albany, NY, named for the "witches, crones, hags, and all women who threaten patriarchal culture." Some staining to the first four pages; a couple of nicks & closed tears to the edges; horizontal... More
Dawn Watch in China
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
Letters from Japan Written By An American Girl Traveling in the Far East To Her Friends At Home
[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
Time for Action Cookbook
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
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Jenny Devlin [INSCRIBED]
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1943. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); cream cloth stamped in black; 279 pp.; dust jacket. With a collegial inscription on the ffep to "The First Lady of Radio," Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976): "I hereby broadcast that Mary Margaret McBride is my favorite radio personality!"... More
The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism, Vol. 4, No. 4, Summer/Fall 1976
Cambridge: The Second Wave, 1976. First edition. Quarto-size (27 cm). Stapled and printed wrappers; 48 pp.; illus. This issue featuring "Anarchism, Feminism and Economics" by Peggy Kornegger, "A Look at Women's Mystery Fiction" by Kathi Maio, a short story, "Penguin," by Catherine Avril, "Organizing Clerical Workers" by Jean Tepperman, "Prostitution... More
This Great Journey
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
Tale Without End
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
Moving Out: Feminist Literary & Arts Journal, Volume 5, Number 1
Detroit: Moving Out, 1975. First edition. Quarto-size (28 cm). Stapled card wrappers; 65 pp.; photographs. Fiction and poetry, including Audre Lorde's "Blackstudies," along with graphics and photographs. An uncommon feminist arts magazine supported by Wayne State University. Slight rubbing to wrappers, else Fine. More
Contraception: A Common Cause of Disease: An Address Delivered at a Conference Held in Paris
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
Off Our Backs, Volume V, Number 10, December 1975
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs, 1975. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; 32 pp.; illus. Single issue of this long-running feminist newspaper. Information covering national and international news stories, health, women in the workforce, reviews, prison, sports, revolutionary struggles, letters & adverts. Some toning to newsprint and chipping... More
Off Our Backs, Volume VIII, Number 1, December 1978
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs, 1978. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; 28 pp.; illus. Single issue of this long-running feminist newspaper. Information covering national and international news stories, National Women's Conference, poetry, reviews, letters & adverts. Some toning to newsprint and chipping along the edges; horizontal fold as issued. More
Hedged In
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
China Resists
[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
Womens Armed Defense Groups
[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