Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1832. First edition. Rare Proto-Transcendentalist Work. Baron De Gerando's important study of... Read More about The Visitor of the Poor; Translated from the French of the Baron Degerando, By a Lady of Boston....
Price: $2,250
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
Price: $650
London: The Religous Tract Society, 1894. First edition. Early travels by famous woman in Tibet. Read More about Among the Tibetans
Price: $300
London: George Newnes, 1900. First edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society..... Read More about Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the...
Price: $250
Saint Louis: Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby [By D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [October], 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Mrs. Frances Washington was the widow of George Augustus Washington. The original of this letter was in Bixby's fine collection. Read More about Martha Washington's Letter Written from Philadelphia, June 15, 1794 to Mrs. Frances Washington...
Price: $100
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1947. Portfolio number 5. First Edition. Read More about Portfolio
Price: $350
Cambridge: March 12, 1937. Brief letter written by Alice Stone Blackwell to Mr. Paine, offering assistance to the crew of the British merchant ship Linaria, who refused to put into port in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. She writes: "Dear Mr. Paine: Here is a small contribution for the..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, CONTRIBUTING MONEY TO THE CREW OF THE SHIP...
Price: $650
Cambridge: June 23, 1949. Letter signed by suffrage leader and activist Alice Stone Blackwell, less than a year before the end of her life. The letter, to Rev. George L. Paine, simply reads: "Dear Friend: Your kind communication has wholly bewildered me. I do not know in the least what..... Read More about Letter, Signed, from ALICE STONE BLACKWELL to REV. GEORGE L. PAINE
Price: $450
[Chicago]: Published by the Author [Charles H. Kerr], 1906. First edition. Translation sof Russian songs by the noted suffragist, Alice Stone Blackwell. Read More about Songs of Russia. Rendered into English Verse
Price: $50
[Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association, c. 1914]. Suffragte circular arguing that women have always been complicit in their own subjugation, citing women’s conservative reactions to Vassar College and female education in general. Blackwell aargues that the suffragists movement must persist despite the indifference or opposition of those who stand..... Read More about “Women Do Not Want It.”
Price: $450
Washington, D.C: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to "Miss Ada C. Bradley [?] from the Author" Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), a descendant of Signer of the Declaration Charles Carroll and the daughter of the Governor of Maryland, became active in politics..... Read More about A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of...
Price: $150
Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams of Windham, 1774. With an Early American Woman's Letterpress Booklabel. With the early booklabel of Jane Plumer (1748-1832). Read More about Forma sacra, or, A sacred platform of natural and revealed religion; : exhibiting, a scriptural...
Price: $350
n.p: v.d., ca. 1818-1839. 'Stanzas by the Countess of Blessington' and 4 Autograph Letters Signed. 1: “Stanza’s [sic] by The Countess of Blessington.” 1p. on folded sheet. A 16-line, 4 stanza poem opening with the line, “Like some lone Bird who in a Cage Confined …” 2: Autograph letter signed..... Read More about Collection of 4 autograph letters to various recipients and one fair copy poetical manuscript, in...
Price: $3,000
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $150
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Body of Death
Price: $225
Maud Ballington Booth, was an Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Read More about ANS
Price: $75
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. Translation of Boudier de Villemert's L'ami des Femmes, first published anonymously in Paris in 1758; the first American edition was published by Dunlap in 1771. Read More about The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest...
Price: $350
![Item #326903 Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino]. Jane Bourbon del Monte, Princess di...](/pictures/thumb/326903.jpg?v=1669656538)
The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino
Price: $2,500
Lawrence, MA: 1935 (Printed c. 1998). Number 15 of 250 prints. Bourke-White's striking image of man and machine, reminiscent of her earlier work in the Soviet Union, was published in a FORTUNE story on the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile industry. Read More about American Wollen Co
Price: $300
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World
Price: $200
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika, and she recounts adventures, hartebeest and zebra [sic]. Elephants were also collected, as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good..... Read More about My Farm in Lion Country
Price: $200
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1969). First Borzoi edition. First edition. Inscribed "March 1963 With my greetings and my gratitude to Paul Horgan Kay Wesleyan, Conn." Read More about The Smoking Mountain. Stories of Germany during the Occupation. With a foreword by William L. Shirer
Price: $100
London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, nd. Stereotyped edition. Read More about Charlotte's Inheritance. A Novel
Price: $650
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First expanded edition. Chapters include: "The Law for Women," "Woman's Legal Status," "Marriage and Divorce," "Child Labor and Minimum Wage," etc. Bres (1869-1927) was the associate editor of the ERA, a woman's publication. "When Bres moved to New York City in 1910..... Read More about Maids, Wives and Widows. The Law of the Land and of the Various States as it Affects Women
Price: $250
Northridge, California: 15 October 1958. Responding to Hartley's letter enquiring about her literary career and the importance of her education on her writing. She writes that she recommends them both for writers, finding them very important even though “some writers have done excellent work in spite of having had little..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Gwen Bristow”
Price: $50
Bombay [India]: March 1918. 'The Same Pleasure and Advantages as the British'. A British Raj era letter, written by the Marchioness of Willingdon, while in India with her husband, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who was serving as Governor of Bombay. Lady Willingdon organized the Bombay Presidency War and..... Read More about Typed letter signed Lady Marie Willingdon ("Marie Willingdon") to the Rajsaheb...
Price: $100