Boston, April 3, 1830. 2 pages on 1 leaf, 10.13 x 8 inches, approx. 530 words. A fair copy of one of the American editor’s three great American legacies—Hale was not only the author of “Mary’s Lamb,” and the motive force behind the Thanksgiving holiday (as well as the longtime..... More
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[Boston? n. p., 1840?]. First edition. Unbound bifolium, 9.75 x 7.75 inches, [2] pages. “Believing slavery to be a direct violation of the laws of God, and productive of a vast amount of misery and crime; and convinced that its abolition can only be effected by an acknowledgment of the... More
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(Hollywood: Wonder Books Co.), [ca. 1962?]. First edition? Original pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [48] pages. Illus. A canned biography of the ex-vaudeville conjoined twins, this account itself fastened inextricably as published to a detailed novelization of the 1951 exploitation film Chained For Life—a potboiler starring the twins that... More
New York: [n. p.], 1858. 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. With a printed notice mounted to the front paste-down, “Ladies or Gentlemen writing to Dr. A. M.... More
Bound Brook, N. J. Asa K. Butts, 1886. A later American printing of this landmark work on contraception, but with an interesting imprint. (See below.). 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Besant. Besant had revolutionized the publication of contraceptive information in England after her republication of... More
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away with... More
New York: [n. p], 1858. 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. With a printed notice mounted to the front paste-down, “Ladies or Gentlemen writing to Dr. A. M.... More
New York: Robert M. De Witt, Publisher, (1860). First edition. 8vo, contemporary pebbled cloth spine and marbled boards, 116 pages. One of the great 19th century popular scandals, the divorce trial of prominent Chicago banker Isaac Burch and his wife, a niece of Erastus Corning. The husband alleged his wife... More
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. State fifth edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta printed wrappers, 240. [12] pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away... More
[Philadelphia: n. p.], Sep. 1808. First edition. Removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 8.88 x 5.5 inches, 28 pages. An early instance of opposition research in politics, an attack on the important early Pennsylvania Federalist (and Western Pennsylvania land speculator) James Ross (1762-1847); the publication of this former Pittsburgh resident’s allegations that... More
Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1883. First edition. Substantial 8vo, original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering, xxxii, 250 pages. Frontis, plates. Illus. Antiquarian and anecdotal history of the English barbershop, substantially revised and enlarged over the original 1856 edition and published after Procter’s death; includes... More
Hartford: S. M. Betts & Co. [etc.], 1868. First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 628, [2] pages. Double frontis, 12 steel engraved plates. A fine subscription doorstop of a book, with biographies of women ranging from Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, to Lydia Sigourney and Fanny Fern... More
[Ann Arbor: n. p., 1872]. First edition. Unbound bifolium, 9.5 x 6 inches, [4] pages. The ephemeral program for commencement, notable for the candidate named for a Bachelor of Arts degree, Madalon [sic, for Madelon] L. Stockwell, the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan... More
Chicago: April 18 to April 26, [1936]. Original photo portrait of Mrs. Lawton mounted to printed card stock, the ticket measuring approx. 2.5 x 4.25 inches. Per contemporary newspaper reports, sponsored by 70+ women’s clubs and organizations, with exhibitions, Good Government lectures, talks on women’s issues, etc. More
