Delhi: New Vistas Publications, 2004. First edition. 27 pp. Saddle-stapled, glossy wrappers. Some light rubbing, Near Fine. This was the third of three pamphlets published by New Vistas on a socialist perspective of feminism leading up to the 2004 WSF. It's broken up into two parts: Part I: Women in... More
New York: AMS Press, 1972. Reprint. Reprint of the 1908 ed., which was issued as v. 1, ch. 13 of the 1906 Annual report of the American Historical Association. Octavo (23.5 cm); 235-450 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Other than some very light dust-soiling to the cloth, book... More
Baltimore: Women: A Journal of Liberation, Inc. 1971. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stitched wrappers; 64 pp.; illus. This issue of the seminal feminist publication focuses on women at work under capitalism, including "Wildcat Women," "Black Women and the Market," "Women Hospital Workers," "Women in Waverly: A Women's Collective," etc. Poetry by... More
Cambridge: [Women's Research Action Project], 1977. Second edition. Octavo (22 cm). Saddle-stapled yellow wrappers; 63, [2] pp. First published in 1975, this report sought to assess and contextualize abortion services only a few years after abortion was legalized. Included in the report is a table comparing data of the various... More
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
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
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
![Girls Who Did: Stories of Real Girls and Their Careers [SIGNED TWICE BY CLARA SIPPRELL]. Helen FERRIS, Virginia MOORE.](/pictures/thumb/03081.jpg?v=1471794139)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. First edition. 12mo. Red textured cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers; blue top-stain; viii, [2], 3-308 pp.; illustrations by Harriet Moncure; dust jacket. SIGNED twice by the Canadian-born photographer, Clara Sipprell, - who is profiled in the book - on the front... More
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
London: Peter Davies, 1940. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt to spine; red top-stain; xx, 407 pp.; collotype plates; dust jacket. The autobiography of Katharine Furse, daughter of the homosexual poet, John Addington Symonds, and the botanical artist, Marianne North. She founded the Voluntary Aid Detachment and... More
New York: The Cassell Publishing Co. [1893]. First American edition. 12mo. (19 cm). Cloth boards ornately stamped in silver and black; 679 pp. + adverts. A New Woman novel from the Irish feminist author, Sarah Grand (b. Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke), in which, for women, syphilis is but one negative... More
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
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
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
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
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
Boston: J. K. Wiggin & Wm. Parsons Lunt, 1866. First edition thus. From an edition of 250 small quarto (22 cm) copies hand-numbered and initialed by the publishers Wiggin & Lunt (this being copy '79'). There were also 35 royal quarto copies issued. Boards are 1/2 leather and 1/2 marbled... More
St. Louis 8, 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... More
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
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
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
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1915. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth ruled decoratively in gilt; oval photograph of Shaw to front board; top edge gilt; 337 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Autobiography of the physician, Methodist minister and leading figure in the woman's suffrage movement. An about Near... More
London: Institute of Race Relations, 1983. First edition. Octavo. Stiff, perfect-bound wrappers; 110 pp. This issue featuring Jenny Bourne's "Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism," Dipankar Gupta's "Racism without Colour: The Catholic Ethic and Ethnicity in Quebec," Chris Searle's "The People's Commentator: Calypso and the Grenada Revolution - An Interview with Cecil... More
!["Women Pioneer in War Wilderness" Address of Lyrl Clark Van Hyning Before Women's National Peace Conference, Hotel Hamilton, Chicago, Ill. [cover title]. Lyrl Clark VAN HYNING.](/pictures/thumb/02436.jpg?v=1475423925)
n.p. n.p. [1944]. First edition. Original stapled wrappers on light green stock printed in black; 16 pp. Van Hyning led the largest and most active women's anti-war organization called We the Mothers Mobilize for America, Inc. She convened the Women's National Peace Conference in 1944 through the pages of the... More
Oakland: Peoples Translation Service, 1981. First edition. Folio-size, magazine format (30 x 23 cm). Stapled wrappers; 32 pp. The first issue -- following an introductory issue -- of this feminist magazine, which was "the collective product of feminists of diverse nationalities and political perspectives committed to contributing to an international... More