We are happy to offer this list of items focusing on the lives and the writings of women. The group spans a broad range of topics, and includes some very special items like Ardienne Rich's first two books, printed when she was ten and twelve years old; Sarah Orne Jewett's A Marsh Island, arguably the first gay American novel; a substantial personal archive of the travel writer Freya Stark; a letter from the 14 year old Helen Keller discussing her interest in Japanese philosophy; a collected printing of the what is considered the best Mexican women's journal of the first half of the 19th Century; the finely bound and deeply personal bible of Sophia Augusta Brown, bibliophile and wife of John Carter Brown; and a group of Carl Van Vechten portraits of women writers, artists, and cultural figures.
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of..... Read More about Those Not Elect
Price: $750
[Philadelphia]: Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1913. Mrs. A.J. George of Brookline, Massachusetts argues against woman suffrage on the grounds that the majority of women do not wish to vote and that enfranchise them will upset traditional gender roles. An amusing account in Woman's Journal of Mrs. George's testimony..... Read More about Speech of Mrs. A.J. George before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate 1913...
Price: $100
London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
Price: $400
London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al This book was published to get..... Read More about A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
Price: $350
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and |Brown, 1823. First edition. Read More about A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors
Price: $250
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
Price: $500
New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
Price: $7,500
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
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
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. The Thornton Edition. Read More about The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott
Price: $700
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
Price: $600
London: Richard Bentley, 1891. First Edition. Read More about Patience Holt
Price: $1,100
London: Printed for R. Hunter ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-row, 1817. First edition. Read More about Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale. In Three Volumes
Price: $750
London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Third Edition. Read More about The Romance of Biography or Memoirs of Women Loved and celebrated by Poets from the Days of the...
Price: $500
Glen Ellen, California: May 10, 1984-February 11, 1985. A charming series of letters from the legendary food writer and memoirist M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), written from her final home in Glen Ellen, to one Maurice Gordon, a recently befriended fellow northern Californian, who shared with Fisher a love of food and..... Read More about Collection of 7 Typed Letters Signed ("Mary Frances," "MFKFisher,"...
Price: $2,500
Garden City, New York: Doubeday, 1952. First American edition. Read More about The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated from the Dutch by B.P. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an...
Price: $750
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Hiram, Ohio: June 17, 1873. Introduction of the suffragette Mrs. Helen M. Barnard to the U.S. Minister of France. In this letter Garfield writes as an Ohio Congressman to introduce Mrs. Helen M. Barnard to the US Minister in Paris during her survey of conditions for emigrants on board steamships..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to Hon. E.[lihu] B.[enjamin] Washburne, U.S. Minister at Paris, France
Price: $1,250
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, [c. 1888?]. First Edition, First Issue. Read More about Kate Greenaway's Painting Book. With Outlines from her Various Works for Girls & Boys to Paint
Price: $500
Alexandria, VA: Printed by Cotton & Stewart, for Samuel Bishop, 1803. First American edition, “from the Second London Edition”. The first and second editions were published in Bath, with subsidiary London imprints. Perhaps the Belfast-born novelist. poet and essayists most widely read non-literary work, offering "detailed theoretical explorations of how..... Read More about Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education
Price: $500
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington … and T. Hookham, 1821. First edition. Hawkins (1759-1835) was the daughter of Sir John Hawkins, friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. Read More about Heraline: or, Opposite Proceedings
Price: $900
London: Webb & Bower, 1977/1989. LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 15. Signed by Holden's great niece, Rowena Scott, on the limitation page. Copy no. 1 from an edition of 15. Facsimiles of two manuscript diaries from 1906, reproducing the hand-written text and watercolor illustrations from the originals. Holden, a relatively..... Read More about The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, and the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Price: $2,500
Boston: 241 Beacon St, Jan 1st, 1899. Howe thanks a woman in Utica who had recently hosted her during a lecture tour. In part: "After my pleasant visit in Utica, I proceded to Syracuse, where I enjoyed a good audience for my lecture, and the meeting with a number of..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Julia Ward Howe"), to a Mrs. ?Fiatt, regarding a recent...
Price: $500
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our protagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon (i.,e., Byron), her helplessness is described thus: "The eye of the rattle-snake, it has been said..... Read More about Glenarvon
Price: $2,000
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed for Charles Wood III, 2003. Deluxe edition, no. 10 of 50 copies printed by the Ascensius Press on handmade paper. Reprints Lady Agnes Macdonald's account of fishing the Restigouche from Murray's Magazine, 1887, with an introductory essay by Peter Thomas, author of Lost Land of Moses..... Read More about On a Canadian Salmon River. Lady Agnes Macdonald's Account of Fishing the Restigouche in 1887....
Price: $1,200
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page; first issue dust jacket. First Edition, in Jacket, With a Letter. Laid in is a one-page Typed Letter, signed (“Margaret Mitchell Marsh”), from Mitchell to bookseller Robert Wilson, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, on..... Read More about Gone with the Wind
Price: $12,000