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.....
(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...
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...
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....
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...
Detroit: Detroit Women’s Press, 1974. 3 vols, folded tabloid newsprint, [16], [16], [12] pages. Illus. Detroit feminist community newspaper, with much on local events, blue collar and black perspectives missing from other feminist publications, labor actions, directories of Detroit feminist organizations (the Feminist Credit Union, etc.), Lesbian resources, health care, etc.
Allendale, Mich. WIB, 1979. 3 numbers (plus a duplicate of no. 8), newsprint, small broadsheet format, 8 pp. each issue. Illus. Feminist newspaper for this West Michigan university campus, with news of area events of interest to women (including lesbians), articles on current issues (pornography, sexual harassment) and historic feminism...
Ann Arbor: Her-Self, Inc., 1972. Newsprint tabloid, [16] pages. Illus. Ann Arbor feminist community newspaper, with articles on contraception, women and financial credit, local labor action, women’s softball leagues, upcoming school board election, etc.
Ann Arbor: Women’s Liberation Office, 1970-1971. 5 numbers (nos. 2, 4-7), unbound and stapled in the upper corners, issue #2 legal-sized, the rest letter-sized, various paginations (usu. about 10-12 pages), generally reproduced from typescript, issue #6 printed rectos only. Illus. Fugitive feminist newsletter, evidently originally published twice-monthly, then monthly, these...
Detroit: Moving Out, 1972. Original pictorial red wrappers, wire stitched, 10.88 x 8.5 inches, 107 pages. Illus. Vol. 2, issue no. 1. Feminist cooperative literary magazine published at Wayne State University.
Detroit: Moving Out, 1973. Original pictorial wrappers, wire stitched, 10.88 x 8.5 inches, 44 pages. Illus. Vol. 3, issue no. 1. Feminist cooperative literary magazine published at Wayne State.
Detroit: Moving Out, 1972. Original pictorial wrappers, perfect bound, 10.88 x 8.5 inches, 119, [1] pages. Illus. Vol. 2, issue no. 2. Feminist cooperative literary magazine published at Wayne State.
Detroit: Moving Out, 1971. Original pictorial yellow wrappers, wire stitched, 11 x 8.5 inches, 116, [3] pages, reproduced typescript on newsprint. Illus. Vol. 1, no. 1. The first number of this long-running cooperative feminist literary magazine, published at Wayne State University. Deaccessioned from the Wayne State U. Libraries Social Studies...
Detroit: Moving Out, 1974. Original pictorial wrappers, wire stitched, 10.88 x 8.5 inches, 70, [2] pages. Illus. Vol. 4, issue no. 1. Includes poetry from Marge Piercy, illustration from Ann Mikolowski.
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...
[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...
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...
[Newark, N. J. Bureau of Moral and Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 6.5 x 4.88 inches, 12 pages. With the printed legend on the front wrapper, “Adults Only.” Noted on the title page as “Book III,” in an unknown series (though the chiropractic sex education...
Boston: Oliver Johnson, Court-Street, 1842. First edition. Original printed peach wrappers, 8.63 x 5.75 inches, 46, [1] pages. “It has been our practice for nine successive years, to give, at the end of each, a statement of the efforts that we have made, the obstacles that we have encountered, and...
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...
[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...
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.
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