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“To the Women of New England.” Autograph ink circular, signed by 11 members of the Committee...

[American Revolution]. [American Women]. [Sarah Josepha Hale].

“To the Women of New England.” Autograph ink circular, signed by 11 members of the Committee of Correspondence of Boston women raising funds for the Bunker Hill Monument.

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 about “To the Women of New England.” Autograph ink circular, signed by 11 members of the Committee...

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Constitution of the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society . . . [caption title]....

[Anti-Slavery]. [Women]. Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society.

Constitution of the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society . . . [caption title].

[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 about Constitution of the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society . . . [caption title

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The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters [caption title; wrapper title:] Intimate Loves and...

[Conjoined Twins]. [Movie Tie-In]. (Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton).

The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters [caption title; wrapper title:] Intimate Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters World Famous Siamese Twins.

(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 about The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters [caption title; wrapper title:] Intimate Loves and...

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Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and...

[Contraception]. Gardner, Augustus K.

Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and Child.

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 about Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and...

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The Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion, Embracing the Treatment of Menstruation, or...

[Contraception]. Mauriceau, A. M. [i.e., Charles R. Lohman or Joseph F. Trow].

The Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion, Embracing the Treatment of Menstruation, or Monthly Turns, During their Stoppage, Irregularity, or Entire Suppression. Pregnacy [sic], and How it May be Determined . . . Office, 129 Liberty steert [sic].

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 about The Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion, Embracing the Treatment of Menstruation, or...

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The Only Complete Report of the Burch Divorce Case: Containing a Comprehensive History of the...

[Divorce]. (Burch, Mary W. Turner and Isaac H. Burch).

The Only Complete Report of the Burch Divorce Case: Containing a Comprehensive History of the Case—The Preliminary Movements, The ‘Confession’ of Mrs. Burch, Opening Speeches of Counsel, the Deposition of Parties Implicated, and All the Testimony in Full, Together with the Letters Offered in Evidence but Ruled Out by the Court.

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 about The Only Complete Report of the Burch Divorce Case: Containing a Comprehensive History of the...

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Detroit Women’s Press. Detroit, MI. March, 1974. Vol. 1. No. 1 [caption title; with:] Vol. 1,...

[Feminism].

Detroit Women’s Press. Detroit, MI. March, 1974. Vol. 1. No. 1 [caption title; with:] Vol. 1, No. 5 [with:] Vol. 1, No. 6.

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. More about Detroit Women’s Press. Detroit, MI. March, 1974. Vol. 1. No. 1 [caption title; with:] Vol. 1,...

Price: $50.00

Grand Valley State Colleges Women’s Information Bureau Newsletter. February 19, 1979. Vol. 2,...

[Feminism].

Grand Valley State Colleges Women’s Information Bureau Newsletter. February 19, 1979. Vol. 2, No. 8 [caption title; with:] March 27, 1979. Vol. 2, No. 9 [with:] May 24, 1979. Vol. 2, no. 11.

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... More about Grand Valley State Colleges Women’s Information Bureau Newsletter. February 19, 1979. Vol. 2,...

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her-self: Community Women’s Newspaper. Vol. 1 No. 2 [caption title]. Feminism

[Feminism].

her-self: Community Women’s Newspaper. Vol. 1 No. 2 [caption title].

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. More about her-self: Community Women’s Newspaper. Vol. 1 No. 2 [caption title

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Women’s Liberation Newsletter . . Feminism

[Feminism].

Women’s Liberation Newsletter . . .

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... More about Women’s Liberation Newsletter

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Moving Out. Feminism, Catherine Claytor-Becker

[Feminism]. Claytor-Becker, Catherine, et al., editors.

Moving Out.

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. More about Moving Out

Price: $25.00

Moving Out. Feminism, Gloria Dyc

[Feminism]. Dyc, Gloria, et al., editors.

Moving Out.

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. More about Moving Out

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Moving Out. Feminism, Gloria Dyc

[Feminism]. Dyc, Gloria, et al., editors.

Moving Out.

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. More about Moving Out

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Moving Out. Feminism, Judith McCombs

[Feminism]. McCombs, Judith, et al., editors.

Moving Out.

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... More about Moving Out

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Moving Out. Feminism, Sharon Shaw

[Feminism]. Shaw, Sharon, et al., editors.

Moving Out.

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. More about Moving Out

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Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and...

Gardner, Augustus K.

Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and Child.

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 about Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health and their Effects upon the Father, Mother and...

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The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, to a...

[Political Controversies]. Jane Marie.

The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, to a Defenceless Woman. Written and published by the object of his cruelty and vengeance, and Addressed to the Public of Philadelphia and the Whole of Pennsylvania.

[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 about The Case of Jane Marie, Exhibiting the Cruelty and Barbarous Conduct of James Ross, to a...

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The Barber’s Shop . . . Illustrated by William Morton . . . Revised and Enlarged, with an...

Procter, Richard Wright.

The Barber’s Shop . . . Illustrated by William Morton . . . Revised and Enlarged, with an Introduction, by William E. A. Axon.

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 about The Barber’s Shop . . . Illustrated by William Morton . . . Revised and Enlarged, with an...

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Excessive Immoral Sexual Functions. By Dr. L. Lee Krauss, President of The Bureau of Moral and...

[Sexual Dysfunction]. Krauss, L[ouis] Lee.

Excessive Immoral Sexual Functions. By Dr. L. Lee Krauss, President of The Bureau of Moral and Hygienic Education Inc.

[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... More about Excessive Immoral Sexual Functions. By Dr. L. Lee Krauss, President of The Bureau of Moral and...

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Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of...

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Sarah Payson Parton; Sarah Jane Lippincott; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, et al.

Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation . . .

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 about Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of...

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University of Michigan. Twenty-Eighth Annual Commencement, Department of Science, Literature and...

[Women]. [Education]. [Ann Arbor]. University of Michigan.

University of Michigan. Twenty-Eighth Annual Commencement, Department of Science, Literature and the Arts. Wednesday, June 26th, 1872.

[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 about University of Michigan. Twenty-Eighth Annual Commencement, Department of Science, Literature and...

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Exhibit Pass Women’s Pageant of Progress. Women, Mrs. Eva Lawton, Reform

[Women]. [Reform]. Mrs. Eva Lawton.

Exhibit Pass Women’s Pageant of Progress.

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 about Exhibit Pass Women’s Pageant of Progress

Price: $75.00

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