Women's History Month 2023

Women's History Month 2023

To celebrate Women's History Month, James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list—comprised of groundbreaking artists, feminist activists, scientists and more—illustrating the grand scope of women's history. Highlights include an inscribed image of Josephine Baker; a signed first edition of Jhumpa Lahiri's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Interpreter of Maladies; and an inscribed photograph of film pioneer, Ethel Waters.

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Item #338784 My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling....

Candy says…

My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling.

Honolulu: Hardy Marks Publications, 1997. First edition. Candy says…. Of all Andy Warhol's superstars Candy Darling was arguably the brightest. This book compiles edited diary entries written at different times and in different journals with various letters and sketches. Includes a preface by filmmaker Mary Harron who directed 'I Shot..... Read More about My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling

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Item #323798 Pride and Prejudice with a Preface by George Saintsbury. Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice with a Preface by George Saintsbury.

London: George Allen Ruskin House 156 Charing Cross Road, [1894]. Thomson, Hugh. First Trade edition. In the late 1880’s and through the 90’s, a remarkable illustrator made his appearance on the London scene: Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), perhaps the pre-eminent representative of what has come to be known as ‘the Wig..... Read More about Pride and Prejudice with a Preface by George Saintsbury

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Item #310808 Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" Josephine Baker

Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928"

Copenhagen: 1928. Inscribed "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" in pencil. Baker's (1906-1975) first performed in Copenhagen in June 1928 in the show "Wien, Wien – Oh Josephine" at the Dagmar Theatre. Her performance, which included her famous banana skirt dance, caused a sensation. The Danish avant-garde embraced her, while the conservative..... Read More about Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928"

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Item #63014 Le Magasin des Jeunes Dames, ou Instructions pour les Personnes qui entrent dans le...

Le Magasin des Jeunes Dames, ou Instructions pour les Personnes qui entrent dans le monde et se marient leurs devoirs...

Paris: Chez J.-B. Garnery, Librairie, rue de Pot-de-Fer, No. 14, [c. 1823]. Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a Royal Governess, Teacher, Popular Novelist, Educational Writer for Women and Children. She settled in London and started a Monthly Magazine for Women: "Nouveau Magasin" and the first woman editor of..... Read More about Le Magasin des Jeunes Dames, ou Instructions pour les Personnes qui entrent dans le monde et se...

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Item #311641 Photograph signed ("S de Beauvoir") and inscribed to William Targ. Simone de Beauvoir

Inscribed to her American editor

Photograph signed ("S de Beauvoir") and inscribed to William Targ.

Inscribed to her American editor. Inscribed to her editor, "Mr. Targ, avec toute ma sympathie S. de Beauvoir". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and collector. During his tenure at Putnam's, 1964-1978..... Read More about Photograph signed ("S de Beauvoir") and inscribed to William Targ

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Item #238905 “Women Do Not Want It.”. Alice Stone Blackwell

“Women Do Not Want It.”.

[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.”

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Item #237259 American Wollen Co. Margaret Bourke-White

American Wollen Co.

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

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Item #220208 Margherita Pusterla, racconto di. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Cesare Cant&ugrave

Inscribed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story

Margherita Pusterla, racconto di.

Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1845. Inscribed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Edith Marion Story, from her affectionate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rome - Dec 26 - 59.” Edith Story (1844-1907) was the daughter and youngest child of the expatriate American sculptor, lawyer..... Read More about Margherita Pusterla, racconto di

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Item #319806 Self-Control. A Novel. Mary Brunton

Self-Control. A Novel.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1860. First American Edition. One of two novels by Brunton, it was wildly successful and Jane Austen's family, who eventually read it with not a little bit of enjoyment, even had difficulty in locating a copy, which she found to be "an..... Read More about Self-Control. A Novel

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Item #352273 Swastika Night by Murray Constantine. Katharine Burdekin

In Dust Jacket

Swastika Night by Murray Constantine.

London: Gollancz, 1937. First edition. In Dust Jacket. ‘not begotten, not born of a woman, but Exploded’ Outstanding copy of the prescient, alarming novel of Nazism triumphant, written by Katharine Burdekin and published as by Murray Constantine. The pseudonym was not unlocked until the mid-1980s, long after Burdekin’s death, when..... Read More about Swastika Night by Murray Constantine

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Item #247069 Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (born Littlehale). Ednah Dow Cheney

Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (born Littlehale).

Boston: Lee & Shephard, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: “Miss Estelle M. H. Merrill “Pres. of the ___ (?) Association “from ED Cheny “January 13, 1903” A rare inscription from this Boston abolitionist (1824-1904), ardent women’s suffragist, secretary of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society, author of many..... Read More about Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (born Littlehale

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Item #338676 An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans.

New York: John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition and first edition published in New York (originally published in Boston in 1833). Presentation copy inscribed to Caroline Weston. Inscribed by the author: "To Caroline Weston, from his affectionate friend, L. M. Child." Caroline Weston served as Vice President of the Boston..... Read More about An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

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Item #233767 Typed Contract signed between Dorothy Dandridge and Twentieth-Century Fox, to...

Dorothy Dandridge in Hollywood

Typed Contract signed between Dorothy Dandridge and Twentieth-Century Fox, to "render services as star or co-star in two class 'A'...

Los Angeles: February 15, 1955. Dorothy Dandridge in Hollywood. A complex contract with the legendary Dandridge and the studio, coming on the heels of her triumph in Carmen Jones, for which she won an Academy Award nomination for best actress — the first Afro-American woman to be so honored. The..... Read More about Typed Contract signed between Dorothy Dandridge and Twentieth-Century Fox, to "render...

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Item #345809 The Mill on the Floss. George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1860. First edition, with half-titles, without any advertisements. Eliot's second novel, her follow up to Adam Bede. It sold 4600 copies within four days after publication. From the collection of William N. Banks, Jr., journalist with a long association with Antiques magazine, playwright, and patron..... Read More about The Mill on the Floss

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Item #225931 Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field. Sara Bard Field, Johan Hagemeyer

Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field

Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field.

[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Field was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field

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Item #345641 The Notion of Family. Latoya Ruby Frazier

Inscribed to Emma Amos

The Notion of Family.

New York: Aperutue Foundation, 2014. First Edition. Inscribed to Emma Amos. With essays by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler. Also includes an interview by Dawoud Bey. Inscribed on half-tiitle: "For Emma Amos – Thank you for helping change my life. Love always, Latoya Ruby Frazier." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was..... Read More about The Notion of Family

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Item #325346 My Disillusionment in Russia ... With an Introduction by Rebecca West. Emma Goldman

SIGNED BY EMMA GOLDMAN IN DUST JACKET

My Disillusionment in Russia ... With an Introduction by Rebecca West.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1925. First English edition. Signed by Goldman on the endpaper. SIGNED BY EMMA GOLDMAN IN DUST JACKET. First published New York, 1923, the work did not include significant portions of the original manuscript, which were subsequently published as My Further Disillusionment in Russia. This..... Read More about My Disillusionment in Russia ... With an Introduction by Rebecca West

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