U.S. Actress best known for "Laura" and "Heaven Can Wait." Signed Photo, 8x10", glossy, b/w. A bust-length shot of a lovely, young Tierney. Signed "Gene Tierney" across a light background in bold blue ink. Excellent condition.
Langston Hughes. Signed contract authorizing use of Hughes' autobiography I Wonder As I Wander. New York, 1957. Measures 14" x 8.5". 2 pages. Contract between Hughes and Jacobo Huchnik for the publication and distribution of the book's Spanish-language translation. I Wonder As I Wander was published in 1934, twenty three.....
Langston Hughes. Signed contract with the Dramatists' Guild of the Author's League of America. Signed "Langston Hughes" above line designated "Author" on the "second day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty five." Measures 8" x 11" inches. The same year Hughes signed with the guild his play Mulatto debuted on.....
Sue Grafton, "E" is for Evidence. Signed first edition. Henry Holt and Company: New York, 1988. Title page inscribed in bold black marker, "For Judie, Sue Grafton." 6" x 8.5" inches. 227 pages. Original dust jacket showing picture of gift box in Christmas wrap with explosive devices just visible inside.....
Glendon Swarthout, The Shootist. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1975. Measures 5.75" x 8" inches. 186 pages. A classic western, The Shootist follows celebrated gunfighter JB Brooks as he confronts his own mortality, a metaphor for the Western genre also showing its age. The book was adapted into.....
Harriot Hunt (1805-1875) was the first American woman to practice medicine professionally. Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First edition, "Fourth Thousand" printing. Inscribed "From the Author" on inside front endpaper. Brown cloth boards. Very scarce, held.....
John Ball. In the Heat of the Night. First edition. Harper and Row: New York. 1965. Original purple dust jacket design by Luiz Woods. 184 pages. Measures 8.25" x 6" inches. The story follows Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective solving a murder case in notoriously racist small town South.....
Silver gelatin photo of nurses in uniform posed in operating room. C. 1900. Measures 8" x 11" inches. Photo shows 25 women arranged in three rows with 3 men standing behind them. The nurses wear long white smocks over gray dresses with white cuffs and small white hats perched on.....
Silver gelatin photo of female chemists at work in the Maryland State Bacteriological Laboratory. 1949. Measures 11.25" x 9.25" inches. Three women stand in white lab coats, hands busied with chemistry equipment, eyes fixed on their work, petri dishes and test tubes scattered on the counter before them. Image sharp.....
Certificate awarded to the Vicereine of India, Lady Hardinge of Penshurst, upon her visit to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School in Delhi. 1914. Measures 10" x 16" inches. Text enclosed in ornately decorative box with the school's seal centered at the top reading "The Hindu Girls School Delhi, First deserve.....
Large black and white photo of suffragists protesting outside the White House. 1917. Measures 38" x 10" inches. Image is sharp and clear, its details precise. 106 subjects pose in long rows, the White House visible on one side and road on the other. Dressed in coats with dropped waists.....
Archive of 9 stereoview photographs bearing a double 6" x 3" inch photograph showing various scenes from turn of the century Egypt. 1896-1900. Images include the Temple of Luxor, village women carrying pitchers of water on their heads, a caravan at the Tomb of the Khalif's, the Virgin's tree, and.....
Archive of 3 issues of the Women's Liberation Newsletter, Boston/New England. Volume 1 no. 3-5. 1969-70. Measurements range from 8.5" x 10" to 7" x 10" inches. Two issues are yellow, the other one red. One cover includes a short essay titled "Do you know this girl" in a text.....
"Labor's Stake in the Fight to Free Angela Davis," Chicago: National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy, 1971. Four panel handbill. 8.5" x 11" inches. Black and white photo on front page shows Davis speaking into a hand-held microphone with the text "Free Angela Davis" below. Inside of.....
Good Times, San Francisco: April 9, 1971. Volume IV No. 27. Bold cover image shows group of women partially colored by a red star. Larger image above them of woman in pith helmet, one hand on hip and the other extending a long barrel pistol with outstretched arm. Stories inside.....
Our Bodies Our Selves, A Course By And For Women, New Printing of Women and Their Bodies. Boston Women's Health Course Collective and New England Free Press: 1971. Fourth printing. 136 pages. 8.5" x 10.5" inches. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of three women marching, a sign.....
La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, Laurance L. Hill. Security-First National bank: Los Angeles, 1931. Measures 9" x 6" inches. 208 pages. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of Spanish settlement with dirt roads and a single street lamp. Black and white photographs of the city's early.....
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov. Signet books: New York, 1956. Measures 4.25" x 7". Soft cover reprint of original hardcover edition. 192 pages. Front cover illustration shows large gray robot carrying smaller body of a human in astronaut gear while another robot watches from behind them, feet planted on a foreign.....
Leaflet advertising protest march against Vietnam. Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee: New York. Front cover reads "10,000 GIs Killed since the peace talks started May 1968, Many more thousands of Vietnamese lives lost while U.S diplomats stall! How much longer will it go on? The time to stop is.....
Extensive photo archive of 98 color photos of African American children at home and play. C. 1950s-90s. Measurements range from 6" x 4" to 2" x 2" in. Photos show black children playing, swimming, making silly faces and striking poses for the camera. Photos both in color and black and.....
May 1 Rally, Music, People. 16 1/4 x 11 inches; Original 1970's poster,horizontal fold, minor wear. New Haven, 1 May [1970] A poster for an event at the center of the New Haven May Day protests in 1970. The trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins and others was underway, and.....
An archive of correspondence of the first generation of educated women in India. 60 letters totaling 190 handwritten pages from between 1930 and 1943 in British colonial India by young women native to the Indian subcontinent. In 1931, Indian female literacy hovered under 3% making this group of girls exceptionally.....
Extensive correspondence of 52 letters from 1930-1950 totaling 121 pages by various authors, mainly young women native to the Indian subcontinent. In 1931, Indian female literacy hovered under 3% making the experiences of these forerunners, and their correspondence, incredibly rare. These writers are highly unusual because of their level of.....
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Gift of Black Folk, The Negroes in the Making of America. The Stratford Co: Boston, 1924. Measures 5.5" x 7.5" inches. 349 pages. First edition. Has an inscription "D.W. Ruggles 1924", which we believe could possibly be a descendant of the famed Black abolitionist and Underground.....
Gregory Pincus. Father of The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Bound collection of 31 rare offprints of Pincus’s scientific publications on fertility research and the first oral contraceptive. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Dark red textured cloth boards. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 3 (1950-1959)” gilt on front cover. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 3” gilt on.....