n.p., n.d. 22" x 17" screenprinted poster in celebration of International Women's Day celebrated every March 8 since 1911. Although undated, it appears to be from the 1970s based on the graphics. Features Mother Jones' famous quote: "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living." Very light edgewear. More
Detroit: Electric Living, 1971. First edition. Oblong stapled wrappers (5½” x 8½”), [12] pp, photographs. A complimentary publication from the Detroit Edison Company dedicated to the 400,000 women in Southeastern Michigan who work full-time, but also find the time “to be creative and imaginative cooks.” Includes ten recipes, with photos... More
![Voice of Women, No. 1, August, 1973; No. 3, January, 1974; No. 2, August, 1976; [three issues]. Women's Section African National Congress.](/pictures/thumb/02617.jpg?v=1533519185)
Lusaka, Zambia: A.N.C. Women's Section, 1973/1976. First edition. Side-stapled, crudely illustrated wrappers; 18 pp.; 18 pp.; 29 pp.; illus. Three scarce, and relatively early, issues of this important apartheid-era magazine published by the ANC Women's Section from 1971-1994. As noted by Hurley in her indispensible thesis, The Voice of Women... More
Somerville, MA: The New England Free Press, 1976. First edition. Stapled, oblong wrappers; 43 pp.; illustrations, photographs. Provides a contextual history for the evolution of songs amongst working class women, in the fields, the factories, the home, etc. followed by musical scores and brief descriptions. An uncommon New England Free... 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 and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First American edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); yellow cloth with green speckles, orange paper label to spine; xiv, 275 pp.; dust jacket. The memoir of Count de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine as told to the feminist British novelist and poet, Stella Benson... 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
[London: BM Bookserv], [ca. 1987]. 4to; side-stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, [26] pp on pink stock, illus. A single, unnumbered issue of this controversial anarcha-feminist publication whose purpose was to "raise controversial subjects." Articles on female roadsweepers, sex work, drag queens and the gay community, childbirth and motherhood, sex toys, and politics... More
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
![1996 Women in the Trades [calendar]. Inc Employment Options.](/pictures/thumb/02588.jpg?v=1533437179)
Madison, WI: Employment Options, Inc., 1995. First edition. Published by Employment Options, Inc., a non-profit women's career development center, this calendar celebrates women in non-traditional job roles. Each month features a black & white photo of a woman engaged in carpentry, electrical work , plumbing, welding, automative services, etc. A.... 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=1509131656)
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
Cambridge: Bread and Roses / Boston: New England Free Press, 1970. First edition. 4to; stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 24 pp, photographs. A second wave feminist discourse on "why we think that familiies are bad for women, men, and children; and why we think they are a crucial part of the oppressive... 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
Philadelphia: A Housekeeper Company, 1892. Tall 4to. (29.5 cm); stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers; 16 pp. A single issue of this "Journal of Home Help, Information and Entertainment" with a profile and cover photo of Kate Greenaway. A Near Fine copy. More
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. First edition. 12mo. (18.75 cm); brown paper over vellum with gilt spine; pages printed in green and black; 57 pp.; illustrated frontis by John La Farge. A poem by the American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite and philanthropist, Helen Julia Jay Whitney. Paper chipping... 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
![Jenny Devlin [INSCRIBED]. Sophie KERR.](/pictures/thumb/03814.jpg?v=1512095036)
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
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
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
![‘76 Sexuality (The Ditto Rations Chapbook Series - 3) [INSCRIBED]. Rose LESNIAK.](/pictures/thumb/05718.jpg?v=1535913218)
[Chicago]: Ommation Press, ©1975. First edition. 4to; wrappers with cover illustration by Pam Kohnke, linen tape spine as issued, 26 ditto printed leaves on rectos only. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to poet Jack [Collom] (verified by our correspondence with Lesniak). An early poetry collection by New... 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