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..... More
Philadelphia: Published [by Henry Porter] at No. 108 Chesnut Street [vol. 1; vol. 2:] Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chesnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Family Library of Health, &c. 1830-1832. First edition. 3 vols, 8vo (8.68 x 5.38 inches), vols. 1-2 in contemporary full calf with gilt lettering..... More
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
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
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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..... More
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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
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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)..... More
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..... More
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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
(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. 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
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..... More
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[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
