Washington, D. C. n. p., [ca. 1925]. First edition. Unbound brochure, approx. 5.5 x 3.5 inches, [4] pages. "The purpose of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation is: First, to create and maintain an interest in the Pioneers of woman suffrage and other reform movements which occupied the attention of the...
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...
Hartford: Published by L. Stebbins, 1869. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering, 447 pages. Frontis, 20 plates. An extensive medical, social, and scientific argument against extending the franchise or social equality to American women. Includes satirical plates of such scenes as women in the U.S. Senate Chamber...
(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...
(Boston: American Woman Suffrage Association, 1885). First edition. Unbound sheet folded to make four pages, approx. 10-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches, printed in three columns. From one of the great progrssivces of the U. S. Senate and an early advocate for women's suffrage, this tract publishes an address from the Massachusetts...
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...
(Boston: New England Free Press), [1969?]. First edition, the first separate publication of an article that originally appeared in This Magazine is About Schools. 8vo, printed self wrappers, [16] pages, printed on newsprint. A Canadian feminist on sexual ojectification, repression and traditional gender roles in families. Krichmar 674.
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...
New York: [n.p], 1852. A new printing from the same plates as the 1847 first edition, with a reset title page. 12mo, original discreet blind-stamped unlettered black cloth, xiii, [1], 238 pages. An important early American book on contraception and abortion that went through numerous editions. Janet Brodie's Contraception and...
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.
Oneida Reserve, N.Y. (Leonard and Company, Printers), June 28, 1851. 8vo, unbound, eight leaves, [241]-256 pages, untrimmed. The weekly newspaper of the perfectionist utopian Oneida Community and its leader John Humphrey Noyes, edited by Noyes' sister Harriet. This issue includes a lengthy nine page account of the beginnings and the...
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...
Oneida Reserve, N.Y. (Leonard and Company, Printers), March 13, 1851. 8vo, unbound, eight leaves, [49]-64 pages, untrimmed. Two old stab holes. The weekly newspaper of the perfectionist utopian Oneida Community and its leader John Humphrey Noyes. With one of Noyes' lengthy Home-Talks (on killing off the mercantile spirit of bargaining)...
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...
New York: Printed by S. W. Benedict, 1851. First edition. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, 30 pages. Many of the expected themes from the reformer Smith, who here attacks government interference in commerce and education--though he also assails it for failing to protect women from civil inequities and for allowing slavery. Sabin 82673.
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...
(Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co. Ltd. Publishers (England) and New York), [ca. 1910-1915?]. Measures approx. 5.5 x 3.25 inches, postally unused. From the firm better known for its innuendo-laden seaside comic postcards.
[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...
Boston: New England Free Press, (1971). First edition. Large 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 19 pages. Krichmar 2968: "Statistics on age of working women, kinds of jobs held by women, salaries, nonwhite women, and women in labor unions."
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...
Zarephath, New Jersey: Pillar of Fire, 1943. First edition. 8vo, original gilt pictorial blue cloth, 184 pages. Frontis portrait, four plates. Illus. Arguments political and biblical for women's rights from the racist feminist Pillar of Fire Church leader Alma White, whose religious colony at Zarephath sat at the center of...
[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...
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