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.
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Uncorrected proof. This proof has differences from the final published text including differences in sequence of poems, with revised "Acknowledgements", and differs considerably from the final published text. Read More about Winter Trees
Price: $850
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1935]. First Expanded Edition. Flowering Judas was first published 1930, but contained only five of the ten stories contained in this edition. Read More about Flowering Judas and Other Stories
Price: $300
New haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition, one of 551 copies. Published when Rich was a 21-year-old senior at Radcliffe, A Change of World is the poet's first mature book, preceded only by juvenilia. Volume 48 of the Yale Younger Poets series edited by W. H. Auden. Read More about A Change of World. With a foreword by W. H. Auden
Price: $1,000
Baltimore: Printed for Thomas, Andrews & Butler. W. Pechin & S. Sower, 1802. First American edition of the author's first published work. Author's First Book. Read More about The Vicar of Landsdowne
Price: $1,250
[Chicago]: [1956]. Signed. In 1952, the Democrats had lost the White House to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, after holding it since 1932; in 1956, at their convention held in Chicago, they again nominated Adlai Stevenson on the first ballot. A supporter of Stevenson, 71-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt addressed the delegates on..... Read More about Typescript signed, her 1956 Democratic National Convention speech
Price: $3,500
London: J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. A first edition by an Englishwoman extraordinary in her time. Jane Vigor (née Goodwin, b. 1699, d. 1783), was born to a clergyman in Yorkshire. Her first husband was Thomas Ward, Esq Consul General to Russia, and it was through that marriage that she..... Read More about Letters from a Lady, who resided some years in Russia to Her Friend in England. With Historical...
Price: $1,750
London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. First edition. An adventurous female traveller, Scott-Stevensons' journeyed to Beyrout, Tripioli, Beilan and Aleppo, and turning north to Aintab, Adana and Central Anatolia. Read More about Our Ride through Asia Minor
Price: $950
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1960]. Second edition. Read More about To Bedlam and Part Way Back
Price: $1,250
New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1837. First American edition, and first one-volume edition (published the same year as the English edition, which was published in three volumes). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MARY SHELLEY'S FALKNER. Read More about Falkner. A Novel, by the Author of "Frankenstein," "The Last Man," &c....
Price: $1,250
[New York, Paris, etc: ca. 1969-1975]. From Her Early Years in New York. A nice clutch of material from Patti Smith’s early years in New York, written or inscribed to Faith Cross, long time employee of the Scribner Book Store, where Smith also worked. a) “Happy birthday to my New..... Read More about Group of Autograph Notes, signed (“Patti”), to Faith Cross, “my New York mother”
Price: $25,000
New York: Gotham Book Mart and Gallery, 1977. First edition, copy H of 26 lettered copies, lettered and signed by the author. Copy H of 26, Signed by Patti Smith. Nice copy of the lettered state (100 numbered copies were also issued), with the original lock. Smith has lettered this..... Read More about Ha! Ha! Houdini!
Price: $3,000
Lexington, KY: James E. Hughes, 1902. Inscribed by Stanton. Inscribed on the inside upper wrapper: "Miss Alice E. Ives. With the compliments of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 250 West 94th St. New York. Sept. 14, 1902. Read & ponder the tyranny of the church & how it has degraded women." The..... Read More about Woman and Her Relation to the Church
Price: $4,500
Various places: Delhi, Baghdad, Asolo, Aden, Cairo, London, Cyrenaica, etc: 1935 to 1979. A substantial archive of unpublished letters of Freya Stark (1893-1993), author and intrepid traveller in the greater Middle East who moved in military and intelligence circles during the war years. Stark wrote a multi-volume autobiography and an..... Read More about Archive of 88 Autograph letters, signed, from Freya Stark, to Lucy Beach, Minnie Gray Granville,...
Price: $22,500
New York: [Printed by Horace F. Temple, West Chester, Pa.], [1917]. Copy No. 3 of 200 printed. Important Association Copy. Very scarce and early Stein pamphlet, published in the June, 1917 issue of Vanity Fair, and reprinted separately here in an edition of 200 copies. This copy has an important..... Read More about Have they attacked Mary. He giggled. (A Political caricature), by
Price: $2,500
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first issue. With Rev. Henson's Autograph and Stowe A.L.s. tipped in. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent..... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Price: $15,000
Isle of Shoals: May 29, 1886. Text cannot be found online. Read More about Holograph fair copy of poem, 2 quatrains. Signed Celia Thaxter Isle of Shoals July 29th 1886
Price: $650
various places: c. 1881-1887. An extensive archive in Davenport's scrawling hand, chiefly to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor, Edward Bok, during his tenure as editor of The Brooklyn Magazine, discussing current and future articles and writing projects for submission. Bok was also the noted editor of the Ladies Home Journal..... Read More about Autograph letters signed Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport ("Fanny Davenport") chiefly to...
Price: $1,250
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, [1968]. First Edition. First Book, Review Copy. Read More about Once. Poems
Price: $900
1939. Inscribed photograph of African-American television, theater, and film pioneer, Ethel Waters (1896-1977), depicting her in one of her most famous roles, and inscribed: "To Alice with the same devotion Hagar has for Lissa and you have for Natalie, I have for you Ethel Waters." The photograph shows Waters as..... Read More about Photograph signed ("Ethel Waters") and inscribed, from the Broadway production of...
Price: $2,500
London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1792. Second edition. Second edition of Wollstonecraft's famous argument for equality of education for both sexes. Published the same year as the first edition in London in 1792. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) felt that women ought to be the equal partners..... Read More about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Price: $6,250
[Boston]: [1915]. Founded by Jane Addams and others, The Woman's Peace Party (WPP) was an American pacifist and feminist organization formally established in January 1915 in response to World War I. At the party's founding convention on January 10, 1915 in Washington, D.C., Addams was elected President and the convention..... Read More about Woman's Peace Party. Preamble and Platform Adopted at Washington, January 10, 1915
Price: $350
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1930. An Early Publication on Women's Sport in America. Among the contributors to this collection of articles and opinions is the popular author John R. Tunis, who deplores the increasing commercialization of women's sport. In strangely prophetic words he writes, in 1929, 'soon we shall begin..... Read More about Women and Athletics. Compiled and Edited by the Women's Division, National Amateur Athletic...
Price: $250
Amsterdam: By Jan ten Hoorn, boekverkooper, 1699. Luyken, J. First Edition. In four parts, each with half-title and separate pagination and signatures. Compendium of short biographies illustrating the rise and fall of princesses, women martyrs of the church, and other notable women from history. With eleven “curious” plates by Luykens..... Read More about Treur-tooneel der Doorluchtige Vrouwen, of Op en Ondergang der Vorstinnen, en andere Beruchte...
Price: $2,500
Richmond: Hogarth Press, [June] 1919. “Second Edition”. First separate edition, originally published in Two Stories, July 1917. Read More about The Mark on the Wall
Price: $1,500
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First American edition. First American Edition in Rare Dust Jacket (Not Seen by Kirkpatrick). Read More about Night and Day
Price: $15,000