London: Watts & Co., 1913. Second edition. Original printed orange wrappers, approx. 7.25 x 5 inches, vi, 122 pages. "The prosecutions for blasphemy which have taken place during the past three or four years (1908-1911) ought to make it perfectly clear that no laws can be said to be really... More

(Boston: New England Free Press), [1969?]. A later edition? Noted on the verso of the front wrapper, "First published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee." Unbound self wrappers, 5 pages. Ultimately, we want to destroy the three pillars of class and caste society -- the family, private property, and the... More

London: Printed by Frederick Bell & Co., 1873. First separate edition. 8vo, removed self-wrappered pamphlet (retaining the original stitching), 14 pages. At the head of the title, "Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights." From the radical Scottish politician and lawyer comes this argument for women's rights--including the right... More

New York: American Tract Society, [after 1848?]. Likely a later edition of this tract; this version appears to have been printed with the post-1848 American Tract Society typeface, with an edition appearing as early as 1831 for the Baptist General Tract Society. Small 8vo, printed self wrappers, 24, 4 pages... More

Detroit: Radical Education Project, [ca. 1970?]. A later printing of this pamphlet. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 27 pages. Here separately published from an article in New Left Review in 1966, an influential essay on the myriad forms of women's liberation. Cf. Krichmar 767, which notes the New England Free Press edition. More

Oneida Reserve, N.Y. (Leonard and Company, Printers), March 6, 1851. 8vo, unbound, eight leaves, [33]-48 pages. The weekly newspaper of the perfectionist utopian Oneida Community and its leader John Humphrey Noyes, edited by Noyes' sister Harriet. This issue seems particularly preoccupied with the humility and criticism which Noyes advocated for... More

Chicago [etc.]: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 271 pages. A collection of newspaper pieces taken from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, generally attempting a light and literary touch to his reactionary views on various progressive social causes, viz. his various anti-women's rights articles... More

Charleston, S. C. Printed by B. Jenkins, 1846. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 32 pages. An anti-Catholic argument against Mariolatry, with a coda addressed to women that argues that virginity (as such) is no especial virtue when compared with marriage. The Belfast-born Smyth (1808-1873) was a moderate slavery reformer and... More

[New York: n. p., 1845-1847?]. Broadside, approx. 20 x 16, blanks completed in autograph ink (with penciled revisions). Typographic border. A piece of exuberant typography, an early charter certificate dated December 23, 1845 for a lodge in the women's temperance fraternal order, with a few small contemporary pencil revisions to... More

Oxford: W. A. Powell, Printer, Citizen Office, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 18 pages. Of more interest than the usual run of college annual reports, this volume with the wrapper title, "Western Female Seminary, Shall it be Rebuilt?" Founded in 1853 as a "daughter school" of Mount Holyoke... More

[Washington, D.C. n. p., 1881]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [4] pages. "Sickness, leathing of food and indigestion follow the terrors and buffetings of the sea. Cordials, delicate gruels, and light simple broths and food, with good tea and coffee, are very requisite under these circumstances. All that the Government... More