James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue related to women, from their unique influence in the abolitionist movement to their role in the arts . Highlights include Lydia Maria Child's first published work, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times; Sarah Bradford's biography of Harriet Tubman; and a suffrage arm band.
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Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. Second editions of vols. 1-2, first edition of vol. 3. Each volume inscribed by Anthony to suffragist Annie McLean Marsh. Each Volume Inscribed. Sometimes referred to as the "bible" of the suffrage movement, Anthony's History of Woman suffrage comprises "a vast compendium of reminiscences, reports..... Read More about History of Woman Suffrage
Price: $17,500
Rochester, Caldwell [i.e. Lake George] and Ogdensburg, NY: February 8-27, 1855. Among the earliest Susan B. Anthony letters we have encountered, the present correspondence relates directly to the beginnings of her work advocating for women's suffrage. Anthony was introduced to Elizbeth Cady Stanton in 1851 and attended her first women's..... Read More about Small archive of 5 items pertaining to Susan B. Anthony's upstate New York speaking tour on...
Price: $27,500
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985. First edition. A fine copy of the true first, signed. The true first edition, preceding both the UK and US first editions, signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award..... Read More about The Handmaid's Tale
Price: $3,750
London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. A nice copy of Jane Austen’s last works, with interesting provenance: the ownership signatures of Harriet Gordon, Esslemont. A grand daughter of the second Earl of Aberdeen, Harriet Elizabeth Gordon (1806-1859) was born in Demerara (British Guiana) and was orphaned by the death of..... Read More about Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice,”...
Price: $25,000
[Pondicherry, French India: Published by Miss Christabel Bevan, Sri Aurobindhu's Ashram ... printed by D.A.Lakin at the Statesman Press, Calcutta, 1950]. ‘Tibet is changing fast’. "Now this year 1950 is highly important as it marks the beginning of a New Era in the world as well as the beginning of..... Read More about “The most Difficult Journey in the World”. A Pilgrimage to Tibet and Back [Cover title
Price: $1,750
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1808. First edition. Rare American Bible in Contemporary Full Black Morocco – Printed and Likely Bound by Jane Aitken. "Charles Thomson (1729-1824) made the first translation of the Septuagint into the English language, and the first English translation of the New Testament in the western..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Covenant ... Translated from the Greek by Charles...
Price: $15,000
New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793. First Edition. With the Fictionalized Indian Captivity of Maria Kittle. Among the works is this volume of early American literature is the first printing of The History of Maria Kittle. The work is a fictionalized story of the real-life captivity of..... Read More about The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, In Prose and Verse. To which is added, A Collection...
Price: $6,000
[Newport, Rhode Island?]: Re-printed from the second Edition [by Anne Smith Franklin and James Franklin, Jr.?], 1758. Second American edition, and the earliest obtainable one. Poems by the First American Woman Author. Although this edition is traditionally ascribed by Evans and others to have been printed in Boston, Stoddard and..... Read More about Several Poems Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight ... By a...
Price: $75,000
Florence: c. 1848-1861. Browning writes, sending a poem at that point unpublished: "Sir, You ask me for a short unpublished poem, and I send you a very short one – a song. I hope it may not be unsuitable to your purpose, while wishing it were worthier; and I have..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("Elizabeth Barrett Browning"), with Autograph Song...
Price: $30,000
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
Price: $7,500
Purchase: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, [1998]. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY CATLETT TO EMMA AMOS. Inscribed on ffep: "To my friend Emma Amos,/ Sincerely/ Elizabeth Catlett/ 2/21/98." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a post-modern painter known for critically treating issues of racism and sexism in..... Read More about Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture. A Fifty-Year Retrospective. Organized by Lucinda H. Gedeon. Essays...
Price: $750
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
Price: $9,500
Boston: Cummings, Hillard & Co, 1824. First edition. Her First Work. Published anonymously by Lydia Maria Child, the noted abolitionist and advocate for woman suffrage, the novel, set in the early 17th century, is about an upper class white woman who marries a Native American man named Hobomok, has a...... Read More about Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times. By An American
Price: $12,500
Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Co, [1866]. First edition. "By far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). With a pencil note on the rear blank by an early North Carolina owner, echoing the myth of the lost..... Read More about A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the...
Price: $3,500
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $15,000
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. First edition, first printing. Inscribed 'with love'. Inscribed copy of Didion's third novel, which Joyce Carol Oates, writing in the New York Times called, “an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing;..... Read More about A Book of Common Prayer
Price: $7,500
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Calgary: [ca. 1920]. Hill is listed as a photographer in Calgary directories at 233 Eighth Avenue East as early as 1913. The studio images comprise four photographs of a Blackfoot woman named May Field and seven images of Sarcee women. A scarce western Canadian photographer. Read More about Group of 11 gelatin silver print photographs of Native American women
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition, second printing published the same year as the first, with sixteen advertisements on seven pages, rather than six on four pages (except for the advertisements, the contents and pagination of the 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887 printings are identical). A LANDMARK AMERICAN COOKBOOK. Read More about Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and What not to do in Cooking
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Washington, D.C: [Government Printing Office], November 9, 1904. First Woman to Argue Before the Supreme Court. In 1873, Belva Lockwood graduated from the National University Law School (now George Washington University Law School), though the school granted her a diploma only after she appealed to President Ulysses S. Grant. In..... Read More about In the United States Court of Claims. The Cherokee Nation vs. The United States ... Reply Brief...
Price: $5,000
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...
Price: $12,000
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Nantucket: "Tuesday" [September 1854]. "The most prominent woman professor ... and the first real 'scientist' since Jane Colden in the 1750s, in that she published at least seven scientific articles, was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, certainly the most important woman scientist in America in the nineteenth century. Her election to..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, "Maria", to Mrs. Gay[?], on social matters, seeing Ida,...
Price: $1,200
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
Price: $2,500
Chico Springs, NM: December 19, 1877. "...Don't talk to me about prairies ... I had expected a wild place but this was roughing it with a vengeance..." Written from Chico Springs, New Mexico – in the northwest corner of the territory about half-way between Sante Fe and Colorado Springs –..... Read More about Autograph letter signed to Ida B. Taylor, describing her travels to the west, life on the New...
Price: $3,750
[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...
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Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1832. First edition. Rare Proto-Transcendentalist Work. Baron De Gerando's important study of benevolent activity, first published in French in 1820 and here translated into English by Peabody, greatly influenced Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson, who used this philosophical framework..... Read More about The Visitor of the Poor; Translated from the French of the Baron Degerando, By a Lady of Boston....
Price: $2,250