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Votes for Women. London: The Reformer's Press, 1907-8. Very rare piece lavishly rebound using the original book covers with the large WSPU logo intact on the front cover, and the orginigal Vote For Women gilt title. Spine rebound in purple with gilt lettering. Original Volume representing October 1907 to September.....
An Appeal To The Women of the United States by the National Women's Suffrage and Educational Committee, Washington, D.C. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. Tall 8vo. Original paper wrappers. 4 pages. Folded. Light rubbing on top edges, still near fine. Scarce First Edition pamphlet of the suffrage movement, signed.....
Gregory Pincus. Father of The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Bound collection of 32 rare offprints of Pincus’s scientific publications on fertility research, conducted in the aftermath of the FDA approval for Enovid, the first Oral Contraceptive Pill. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Dark red textured cloth boards. “Gregory Pincus Vol. 4 (1960-1969)”.....
Suslowa [Suslova], Nadeschda. First Edition. Beitrage zur Physiologie der Lymphherzen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwurde in der Medicin, Chirurgie und Geburtshulfe vorgelegt der hohen medicinische Facultat der Universitat Zurich: Zurich, 1867. 24 pages. Original paper wrappers, with single loose leaf: “Praelectio inauguralis.” Suslova was one of seven women who pioneered.....
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.....
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.....
[Contraception] Compilation of all 24 Birth Control Review issues from 1926 and 1927 bound together. 342 pages total. 11.75" x 9" inches. Original covers. Scarce. The Birth Control Review was a crucial communication tool used by Margaret Sanger, a leading activist for women's reproductive rights and the founder of Planned.....
Extensive archive of 61 letters totaling 142 pages spanning the years 1930-43 with one from 1970. The letters are written by three-generations of subjects within the same Indian family. The two daughters, Avrani shortened to "Rani" and Probha, frequently called "Babs" are students, Rani studying at a teacher's college in.....
International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was organized to promote women's human rights around the world, focusing particularly on empowerment of women and originally pursuing political and legal equality through women's suffrage. The basic principle of the IWSA was that the full and equal enjoyment of human rights is due to.....
Emmeline Pankhurst Signed Photo. The vintage silver gelatin photo is signed in ink by Pankhurst on the lower white border, giving it excellent contrast. Pankhurst herself was imprisoned at Holloway in 1908 for obstruction after trying to enter Parliament to deliver a protest resolution to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.....
[Contraception]. 8 issues of Margaret Sanger’s "Birth Control Review" from 1920. Included magazine issues are from 1920: January, February, March, May, July, August, September, October. The Birth Control Review was a crucial communication tool used by Margaret Sanger, a leading activist for women's reproductive rights and the founder of Planned.....
George Sand, pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant , was a prolific writer and early feminist. 2 page Autograph Letter Signed in French, dated 4 June 1863. No place. To close friend and politician Emile de Girardin. Both Sand and the recipient of her letter, Emile de Girardin, were.....
DAVIS, Angela. Measuring 28.5" x 39". Black and white portrait of feminist, activist, and Black Panther Angela Davis in the early 1970s. During this period, Angela Davis was arrested and held on trial on the charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Davis had not been present but was alleged to.....
GIBSON, J. The Emancipation of Women. London, 1894. Second Edition. (No known copy of the first edition can be found, and this second edition is very rare) An important text examining the past subjection of women, and arguing that even greater efforts need to be made to free women from.....
Princeton University “Princeton Alumni Weekly” Princeton, N.J. Sept. 24, 1968. Vol. LXIX, No. 1. Titled, “The Education of Women at Princeton: A Special Report; On the Desirability and Feasibility of Princeton Entering Significantly into the Education of Women at the Undergraduate Level.” Inscribed by the Author on cover. In 1968.....
SHERMAN, Cindy. Cindy Sherman, 1991. Signed on front free endpaper. Printed by Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei GmbH & Co KG, Ostfildern bei Stuttgrt, 1991. Quarto, 9" x 11.5" in. 72 pages. Publishers original black boards. This comprehensive edition traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the.....
Original WW II Poster from 1942 reads "Women in the War, We Can't Win Without Them", Extra large size poster 29” x 41” in. Shows a woman factory worker wearing overalls or apron, riveting with both hands a weapon that looks like a torpedo. This highly visual poster was promoting.....
"The Handmaid's Tale". Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Advance reading copy. Softcover. Handwritten page numbers in the upper margins. Very good, almost fine condition. This seminal work of feminist fiction has seen a rise in popularity, and it is considered one of the most important dystopian novels written by a female.....
An extensive archive of 39 handwritten letters totaling 148 pages written to Dora Keen, a female American alpinist, traveler, and educator. In 1912 Dora Keen became the first person to reach the 16.390 foot summit of Mount Blackburn and the first woman to mountaineer in Alaska. The archive span the.....
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. First Edition, Fourth printing. 136 pages. 8.5" x 10.5" inches. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of three women marching.....
STOPES, Charlotte Brown Carmichael. THE CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE ... Edinburgh, the Darien Press, Bristol Place. 1908. ORIGINAL OFFPRINT. 8vo, 15 pages; disbound as issued; duplicate from the Women's Library in London with their ownership stamps, labels and pencillings Scarce offprint from The Fortnightly Review, written by Marie Stopes'.....
Stone, Lucy and Henry Blackwell. Canceled Check Payable to Lucy Stone. Boston: Jan 2, 1892. Canceled check drawn on the North National Bank by Henry R. Blackwell drawn to the order of "Mrs. Lucy Stone" and endorsed by her at reverse in black ink Lucy Stone. Size: 2-7/8" x 7-7/8".....
Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was an English writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, advocate for women's rights. She co-authored “How the Vote was Won” as a one-act comedy specially written to support women's suffrage. How the Vote was Won, which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his.....
Woman's Place Today. New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1883. First Edition in original wrappers. Softcover. 173 pages. Woman's Place To-day, a a collection of women’s rights writings which challenged the Lenten lectures of New York clergyman Dr. Morgan Dix, based its argument in women’s history. “So we find men.....
Catharine Beecher. Hartford Female Seminary collection of 4 items that includes Important Pamphlet “Address on Female Education” 1827. Original pamphlet address given at the opening of Hartford Female Seminary in 1827. Accompanied by 3 Hartford catalogues of the mid-19thcentury, all of which are the only recorded copy, and a reunion.....