New York: July 18, 1946. Fine, inscribed portrait, and a rare image of the playwright and historian Shirley Graham (1896-1977). Graham was the author of several plays, including "Elijah's Ravens" (1930), "Tom-Tom" (1932), "Dust to Earth" (1940), and "It's Morning" (1940). Graham was also a serious historian of Afro-American history..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Shirley Graham DuBois, inscribed to Saul Mauriber

Honolulu: c. 1870. A particularly fine example of Emma's photograph and signature in a contemporary frame. She has signed herself "Emma R / September 26, 1865." Born in Honolulu in 1836, she was adopted by her maternal aunt, the chiefess Grace Kamaʻikuʻi Young Rooke, and her husband, Dr. Thomas C...... Read More about Emma, Queen of Hawaii.] With a clipped signature and date 1865 in her hand

New York: Perennial, [2003]. First Perennial Edition. Inscribed to Emma Amos: "Emma!!!/ Endless love-/Bell Hooks." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a post-modern painter known for critically treating issues of racism and sexism in often-autobiographical work that combines figurative painting, textiles, and printmaking. She was a member of the pioneering African-American collection..... Read More about Communion The Female Search for Love

1916. A group of photo postcards showing a gathering of the Independent Patriotic Women's Division, which formed as part of the large national civic "preparedness" movement that arose in the early years of World War I. Images include a view of the division's tents pitched in a field, numerous group..... Read More about Group of 15 photo postcards showing the Independent Patriotic Women's Division

Mårbacka, Sunne [Värmland, Sweden]: 11 February 1926. First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A three page letter in Swedish, making mention of Princess Hildegard of Bavaria as well as her German publisher Albert Langen, who published her novel Charlotte Löwensköld in the year the letter is dated..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Selma Lagerlöf"

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, nd. Reprint, 60th printing. Signed on tipped in slip on ffep. Read More about To Kill a Mockingbird

London: Printed for W. Johnston [and others], 1769. Second and best edition including her correspondence with Benjamin Rush. Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791), sometimes referred to as the "Celebrated Mrs. Macaulay" and described as the first English female historian, proved an influential Whig political theorist, best remembered for her multi-volume History of..... Read More about Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’ Philosophical Rudiments of...

New-York: Published by E. Duyckinck; G. Long, Printer, 1820. First American edition thus (by this publisher). Jane Marcet [née Haldimand] (1769-1858) was born in London to Swiss parents. She was a prolific and influential author of books on science and political economy. Her most successful book, 'Conversations on Chemistry,' was..... Read More about Conversations on Political Economy

New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857. Read More about The “Manifest Destiny” of the American Union. Reprinted from the Westminster Review

Boston: L.C. Page, 1910. First Edition. The third book by Montgomery. It is a reworking of a serial called "Una of the Garden," about a mute girl who miraculously gains the power of speech. It was published in April of 1910. Read More about Kilmeny of the Orchard

Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1823. First Edition. "Born in to a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts, she received an extensive education, which is reflected in her neo-classical verse. Resisting her family's Loyalist proclivities during the American Revolution, she devoted herself to the Patriot cause. She remained an activist throughout her..... Read More about My Mind and Its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments and Essays

[Derby]: October 23, 1880. "I am very glad that there is to be a real life of the never to be forgotten glorious Dr. Livingstone. I wish Dr. Blaikie God speed. With regard to my private letter to you, it was, I need hardly say, from the depths of my..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed ("Florence Nightingale"), to explorer David Livingstone's...