Velvet Glove - Nos.1-3
by [WOMEN] SMITH, Ellen Kerrigan (editor)
Livermore, CA: Velvet Glove Press, 1971. First Edition. Three slim quarto issues (24.75-26.5cm); illustrated wrappers; [16]; [16]; 24pp; illus. Trivial wear and toning to wrapper extremities, else Fine. First three issues of this short-lived feminist journal, produced as a creative outlet by a group of Bay Area women with children. "Velvet Glove is a magazine where women will freely... Read More
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Records of Woman: With Other Poems
by [WOMEN] HEMANS, Felicia
New-York: William B. Gilley, 1828. 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full brown gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt spine; 324pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, chipping to spine leather, foxing throughout textblock, slightly later clipping on the life of the author in French tipped to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound, better than often seen. Published the same year as the Boston... Read More
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Young Voices in Soviet Literature: One of a series of research papers on subjects of interest to youth and students
by [WOMEN] [STEINEM, Gloria] INDEPENDENT SERVICE FOR INFORMATION ON THE VIENNA YOUTH FESTIVAL
Cambridge: Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival, 1959. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Having struggled to find work in New York City, 25-year-old Gloria Steinem moved to Cambridge in 1959 to assume the position of co-director of the anti-Communist program the... Read More
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Poster: Mother Lode - To Celebrate the Strength of Women - Issue 6 (Spring, 1973)
by [GRAPHICS] [WOMEN]
San Francisco: Mother Lode, 1973. First Edition. Original double-sided poster, with text and photo offset printed in black on powder grey stock, measuring 44.5cm x 59cm (17.5" x 23.25"). A Fine copy. A somewhat non-traditional format for this feminist newspaper published by San Francisco Women's Liberation. Recto reproduces a photograph of a pioneer woman standing in front of an... Read More
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La Mujer en Cuba Socialista
by [WOMEN - CUBA] MIGUEL, Guillermo Wasmer (et al, eds)
La Havana: Ministerio de Justicia / Editorial Orbe, [1977]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Original brown cloth hardcover, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; 392pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. Text entirely in Spanish. An "Official Publication of the Ministry of Justice" on the status of Cuban women under socialism; includes a brief introductory "Mensaje" by Vilma... Read More
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The Essential Faith of the Universal Church; Deduced from the Sacred Records
by [WOMEN] MARTINEAU, Harriet
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label; 170pp. Spine cloth a shade faded, endpapers toned due to inferior stock, light foxing throughout, else a Very Good and fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and... Read More
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The Faith As Unfolded by Many Prophets: An Essay
by [WOMEN] MARTINEAU, Harriet
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label; [2],177pp. Light wear to extremities, spine cloth a bit faded, corners bumped, light foxing throughout, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and... Read More
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La Psychologie Des Femmes; Enfance et Adolescence; Maternité
by [WOMEN] DEUTSCH, Helene [Trans: Benoit, Hubert]
Paris: Presses Universitaire De France, 1949. First French Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's pink and white illustrated card wraps. Glassine dustjackets. 327pp.; [1]; 418pp.; [2]. Striking and bright, a little light soiling to the white portions and some toning to the spine panel of vol II, one small closed tear to the upper edge of rear panel vol... Read More
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The Guts to Win
by [WOMEN IN SPORT] BLALOCK, Jane with Day Netland; Billie Jean King, introd
New York: Simon and Schuster / Golf Digest, 1977. First Edition. First printing. Warmly inscribed on front endpaper: "To Joyce / In appreciation for being one of my very special friends - if you'd only stay home once in a while!," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 158pp; illus. Fine copy in crisp, unclipped... Read More
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Corporeal Orgasm* and Personality Development in the Human Male (a spoof in the manner of Freud)
by [WOMEN] WALSTEDT, Joyce Jennings
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner; printed on pale blue stock. About Fine. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk, limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece. OCLC notes a single holding at U.Virginia (Nov.2018).
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Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led The Struggle
by [WOMEN] MAUPIN, Joyce
Berkeley: Union WAGE Educational Committee, 1975. Slim octavo (21.5cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 31,[2]pp; illus. A Fine copy. Collection of brief biographical sketches of ten female labor leaders: Sarah Bagley, Augusta Lewis, Kate Mullaney, Leonora Barry, Hanna O'Day, Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, Mother Jones, Agnes Nestor, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. With illustrations by Anne Garson.
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![[Cover title] What Is the Difference? Women's Rights and Women's Liberation](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/185/911/1242911185.0.m.jpg)
[Cover title] What Is the Difference? Women's Rights and Women's Liberation
by [WOMEN] [PHELPS, Linda]
Kansas City, MO: n.p., n.d., ca. 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); orange-yellow pictorial side-stapled wrappers; 3,[1]ll. printed from typescript. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Most likely published by the group the Kansas City Women's Liberation, this an uncommon essay on women's rights and women's liberation, the former considered to be limited to "the present... Read More
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Women Workers Through The Great Depression
by [WOMEN] [GREAT DEPRESSION] PRUETTE, Lorine
New York: Macmillan, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 164pp; tables; 1 chart (folding). Tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon dustwrapper, mildly toned on spine and with a tiny loss at upper flap-fold, otherwise quite clean and crisp. Sociological and statistical study of women's work in the Great Depression, conducted under... Read More
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A Widow Against the Courts
by [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [LAW] VAUGHN, Maria R.
Trenton: Privately Published, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Gilt-decorated cloth (hardcover); 162,(2)pp. Stamped "Complimentary Copy," with presentation inscription from the author to a Samuel D. Lenox, dated November 28, 1939. Title page foxed, with scattered toning to contents; light external wear and soil; Very Good. An uncommon first-hand account by a self-professed victim of legal treachery. Mrs. Vaughn... Read More
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Women of New York
by [WOMEN] HANKINS, Marie Louise
New-York: Marie Louise Hankins & Co, 1861. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's decorative orange cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; x,[11]-354pp.; 34 leaves of portraits printed on green stock, text illus. throughout. Boards quite rubbed and worn at extremities, the whole rather soiled and toned, textblock a bit foxed throughout; a Good only copy in... Read More
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The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women
by [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [GREAT BRITAIN] JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. First Edition. 12mo (17cm). Flexible red cloth boards, lettered in gilt; [i-viii],[1]-156,24pp. Binding spotted and a bit rubbed at edges, but still a pretty copy, clean, tight and unmarked; with bookplate of Arthur Hoe to front pastedown. A late but important work by the noted Anglo-Irish feminist, art historian, and traveller.... Read More
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Facing Down the Man [cover title]
by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, n.d., ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); illustrated self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 3pp. Fine. Collection of 25 tips on how to face down the man based on the author's experiences fighting sexist policies within the American Psychological Association. (No. 7: "Never smile, never laugh, never hesitate. There are no jokes except against them...") OCLC... Read More
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[Drop title] The Politics of Touch
by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.
Baltimore, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. printed from typescript. Near Fine condition. "The act of touching, when nonreciprocal, is, I believe, an even more subtle physical threat used to remind persons of their status, and is particularly used by men against women" (p.2). A paper presented at the 1970 meeting of the American Psychological Association "as... Read More
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Report of Women's Caucus to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ, Dallas, Texas, December 6. 1972
by [WOMEN'S CAUCUS] BILLINGS, Peggy, Betty Witherspoon Webb, and Claire Randall
Dallas: National Council of Churches of Christ, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 28cm.); side-stapled self-wrappers; 4pp. printed mimeograph. Upper margin toned, else Very Good. Reports on the Women's Caucus presented by members of the United Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the United Presbyterian Church. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of April, 2020.
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Address on the Education of Woman, Delivered at the Anniversary of the Pittsfield Young Ladies' Institute September 30th, 1852
by [WOMEN'S EDUCATION] PALMER, Ray
Albany: Gray, Sprague & Co. [Joel Munsell, printer], 1852. First Edition. Octavo. Printed self-wrappers; 31,(1)pp. Removed, with trace of adhesive residue at bound edge, lacking cover wrappers if issued, else fresh and unmarked, Very Good or better. The author, now mostly remembered as one of America's leading early hymnodists, here stresses the importance of moral and practical... Read More
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The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters
by [WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott
Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover; 150pp; frontis. portr. Sight rubbing to cloth on spine, endpapers darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Elaborate presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "Sister Leonard" from eleven fellow members of Myrtle Rebekah Lodge #84 [Lockport, NY], dated 1917.... Read More
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Sex: Female; Religion: Catholic
by [WOMEN - RELIGION] CUNEEN, Sally
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xv, [v], 171pp. Remaindered price neatly rubber-stamped to front endpaper, with a hint of offset to same, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $4.95). Portrait of the woman's viewpoint... Read More
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Program and Structure [drop title]
by SEATTLE RADICAL WOMEN
Seattle: Seattle Radical Women, [1969]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); 10 leaves printed from typescript; upper left-hand corner stapled. Original ink manuscript price to upper wrapper, light toning, else About Fine. An early publication of the still extant Seattle Radical Women group, whose Preamble reads: "WE BELIEVE THAT THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN IN THIS SOCIETY IS A FIRST-PRIORITY POLITICAL, LEGAL,... Read More
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Seattle Women Speak Out! A reprint of the "Seattle Post Intelligencer" series on the Women's Liberation Movement, January, 1970
by SEATTLE RADICAL WOMEN
Seattle: Radical Women, 1970. Quarto (28cm.); [14] staplebound leaves; title page printed from typescript, the remainder consisting of reproductions of illustrated newspaper articles appearing in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, January 18-25, 1970. Very minor toning to extremities, else About Fine. 5 copies located in OCLC as of May, 2015, none in the state of Washington.
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![Zhenshchiny i ekonomicheskoe otnoshenie: issledovanie ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii mezhdu muzhchinami i zhenshchinami kak faktora sotsialnoi evoliutsii [=] Women and Economics: An examination of the economic relations between men and women, as a factor in their social evolution](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/995/697/1687697995.0.m.jpg)
Zhenshchiny i ekonomicheskoe otnoshenie: issledovanie ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii mezhdu muzhchinami i zhenshchinami kak faktora sotsialnoi evoliutsii [=] Women and Economics: An examination of the economic relations between men and women, as a factor in their social evolution
by [WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE] STETSON, Sharlotta [i.e. Charlotte Perkins Stetson; aka Charlotte Perkins Gilman]; A. [Andrei Vasil'evich] Kamenskii, translator
St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1902. First Russian-Language Edition. Octavo (18.7 × 12.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 367, [1] pp. Very light wear to wrappers; private inventory number and a few ink spots to title and front wrapper; else Very Good; text uncut and unopened. Women and Economics, generally considered Gilman's most important theoretical work (described by one... Read More
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