Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip tipped in on the front flyleaf. From the library of journalist Elizabeth Brough (1867-1943), with her signature to the..... More
Santa Cruz, California: American Graphic Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Special Edition, numbered (no limitation stated) and signed by Cooney. Published on the 85th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and in collaboration..... More
An undated, two-page letter handwritten by Anne Seymour Damer at her London house, No. 27 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, to Mrs. Alexander Baillie (Marianne Baillie, née Wathen, 1788-1831). Presumably written at the end of..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1855. Hardcover. Third Thousand. Widely regarded as the founding text of the women's rights movement in the United States, as well as an important influence on many of the..... More
Los Angeles: Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 1966. Wraps. A reprint of this official history, which was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the WCTU’s Southern California organization. Includes profiles of the..... More
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Grace on the title page to Paul B. Scott, a noted temperance collector and former President of the Board of Trustees..... More
Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "...elucidates what the rules for women were during this time, while also discussing health habits, household remedies, theories on conception, the care of children, the making..... More
1909. Handwritten diary recalling a 1909 European trip made by Russell Hawes Kettell of Massachusetts with his parents and older sister Margaret. Kettell was 18 when they sailed on the steamer Saxonia to Liverpool. In..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. With this work and its follow up, Lives of the Princesses of England (1849-55), Green established a reputation for scholarship that made her one of the most respected..... More
Los Angeles: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. A compilation of the reports of the fiscal year ending October 1, 1963, including the official report on the 81st State..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Evangelina Enriquez on the front flyleaf. Pioneering study of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or American..... More
1972. A small archive of photographic negatives with contact sheets showing a protest in New York of the headquarters of the Olivetti typewriter headquarters in 1972. The protest was a response to an unfortunate advertising..... More
Barbara Brown Packer, 1990. Hardcover. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Quarto. Original..... More
New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1949. Hardcover. Second printing. "...the somewhat unorthodox account of the pungent doings in some state governments as observed by a civil service stenographer." Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. "A strong demand has been made on me for such a work as this … and from no source has the call been louder or more..... More
Oakland, California: West Coast Printing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers the establishment and organization of the WCTU in the Golden State in great detail, as well as its efforts following the 1906 San Francisco..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. In this collection of life lessons by the longtime president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard compares young women to innocent lambs that frisk..... More
A collection of reports, campaign literature, newsletters, and other literature produced in the early 1970s as part of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia. Among the organizations represented are the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Women’s..... More
This question is posed on an original poster, produced by the university’s admissions department, announcing that women would be admitted in 1972 for the first time since the Catholic university’s founding in 1842. A historic..... More
Washington, D.C. House of Representatives, 1890. Scarce anti-suffrage piece, expressing arguments in support of disenfranchising women, as well as Mormons. Springer (1836-1903), a Democrat, opposed the admission of the Territory of Wyoming to the Union..... More
Philadelphia and London: The Vir Publishing Company, 1905. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Wood-Allen (1841-1908) was an American doctor who emerged as a leading voice for the social purity movement during the late 19th century. In..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "...examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Göring and Pétain. Within their own artistic..... More