Mercedes Gilbert. Aunt Sara's Wooden God First edition with related Langston Hughes playbill
HUGHES, Langston, & GILBERT, Mercedes. Aunt Sara's Wooden God. Boston: Christopher Publishing, [1938]. First edition Frontispiece portrait of Mercedes Gilbert . 271 pages. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Langston Hughes wrote the forward after meeting the novelist and actress Mercedes Gilbert (1894-1952) during her theater work. Hughes describes Aunt Sara's Wooden.....
Susan B. Anthony Writes About a “Women’s Lecture Course” By Women, to Promote Female Equality and Suffrage
ANTHONY, Susan B. Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page, dated August 1902. On National American Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead. Anthony writes in her hand with visible excitement about “what the Philadelphians are doing” to promote women’s suffrage. In addition to bringing in “600 members to her club,” they have also established.....
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The Fundamental papers on the creation of the Contraception Pill - Gregory Pincus Archive of 36 Rare Bound Offprints Documenting...
[Contraception] Gregory Pincus. Father of The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Bound collection of 36 rare offprints of Pincus’s scientific publications on fertility research and in vitro fertilization. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Dark red textured cloth boards. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 2 (1937-1949)” gilt on front cover. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 2” gilt on.....
"De L'Egalite des Deux Sexes," 1697 AKA "Woman as Good as the Man" An Early and Important Feminist Treatise Laying...
POULAIN, Francois. "De L'Egalite des Deux Sexes, Discours Phisique et Moral." Paris, 1697. François Poulain [Poullain] de la Barre (b. 1647 in Paris) . Rare second edition. In French. Octavo. Contemporary brown calf binding with some edgewear and bumping to corners and spine. Laying the groundwork for gender equality, this.....
Computer Pioneer Babbage Autograph letter Signed with Mathematical Equation in Seal
Mathematician, computer pioneer, inventor of the calculating machine. Autograph letter signed "C. Babbage", to Mrs. Ireland Blackburne of Westminster, asking whether his friend F [Francis] Offley Martin can join her party going to Richmond. 1 pg 4"x3-1/2". With the address leaf bearing Babbage's red wax seal showing a mathematical formula.....
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Original World War Two War Department Reference Work for Japanese Islands and Surrounding Areas Map Reading. Includes Names of Towns...
A reference work for US Army planners during the Second World War. First US edition. Issued by the War Department, Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Systematic listing of civil divisions, city, town, village, and hamlet names in Japanese script with furigana readings for the Sino-Japanese characters (kanji).....
Scarce First Printing of 4 Langston Hughes Works, 1933-1949
Langston Hughes. 4 magazines that published Hughes’s poems, short stories, and plays before they were collected in his books; some were never published in any other form. 1933-1949. Regarded as one of the leading literary figures of his time, Langston Hughes’s works centers around the the African-American experience, encompassing race.....
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Martin Luther King speech calling on fellow religious leaders to take a stand for racial justice. 1958
Martin Luther King, Jr. Christ, the Church, and Race. Detroit: Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1958. 9 pages. Paperback with original wrapper and staple binding. Reprint of Dr. King’s keynote address at a conference on "Christ, the Church and Race" in Detroit on May 16, 1958.....