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Af-Am]
Old Aunt Dinah's Policy Dream Book.
1850s, ca.

First Appearance in Print of African American Folk Character "Aunt Dinah" One of Two Known Copies Of First American Numbers Gambling Book Old Aunt Dinah. Old Aunt Dinah's Policy Dream Book. Comprising a brief Collection of Dreams, Which Have Been Interpreted and Played with Wonderful Success to the Dreamer. [New York: Wm. S. Murphy, ND: but ca. 1850's]. 16mo; (4 5/8 x 3"); unpaged but 32 pp., plus wrappers, frontispiece, illustration on title, full-page illustration on p. 32; [...]
Travel - Australia]
Australia, the land of hope and sunshine : how women can get there, and what they say of it
1925

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ERA] Sachar, Hon. Libby E. and Joyce Capps
"A Brief and Argument in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution and Its Effect on Alimony, Custody of Children, Differential Age of Marriage and Protective Labor Legislation for Women".
1963

[ERA], Sachar, Hon. Libby E. and Joyce Capps. "A Brief and Argument in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution and Its Effect on Alimony, Custody of Children, Differential Age of Marriage and Protective Labor Legislation for Women". [NP]: National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, April 1963. Prepared for the Civil and Political Rights Committee of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. 8-1/2 x 11" sheets, 72pp; + preliminary [...]
Labor] Buffalo, NY and Niagra.
ARCHIVE: Material issued by Buffalo, N.Y. branch of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union
[circa 1883-1894]

Three ephemeral pieces issued by the Buffalo branch of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, a women's group founded in Boston in 1877 by Dr. Harriett Clisby, one of the earliest American woman physicians, for the advancement of (often immigrant) women in industrial cities. Louisa May Alcott and Julia Ward Howe were involved with the Union's early history, and for most of the early history men were excluded from membership. By 1894 chapters of the WEIU were established in Buffalo and Rochester. [...]
Scouting]
Women's Camping Trip
[c. late 1920s]

Oblong small octavo measuring 5" x 8". String-tied paper wrappers with "Album" stamped on the front wrapper. Contains 36 sepia toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2.5" x 4.5" and 3" x 4" without captions. Album is near fine with some creasing on the edges with fine photographs. A small album kept by a woman of a camping trip on a lake in the late 1920s. The photos show a group of about 14 girls enjoying their time outside acting silly, hiking, [...]
Suffrage] Disenfranchised Sister.
Disenfranchised Men.
[c. 1910]

Small handbill printed on both sides. Approximately 6.25" x 7". A couple of creases and small tears, small ink blot, else about very good. Signed by "Disenfranchised Sister", drawing a parallel to male Yale students who weren't allowed to vote by the New Haven Selectmen, and were consequentially greatly indignant, "Sister" is not immune to sarcasm over the plight of the men: "Since, for the moment, your temporary condition is something like my chronic condition... [...]
Abbott, Edith.
Tenements of Chicago, The: 1908-1935.
(1936).

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Abolition] Mossell.
The Work of the Afro-American Woman.
1894

The Chief Significance Of This Work Is That It Preserves For All Time A Chapter Of Humanity [Abolition] Mossell, Mrs. N.F. The Work of the Afro-American Woman. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894. 12 mo.; frontispiece photographic portrait of Afro-American woman with two children, a boy and a girl; floral endpapers; front hinge quite tender; 4 pages of advertisements bound in at rear, including one for the American Baptist Publication Society and another one for The A.M.E. Church Review, [...]
Abzug, Bella. [ERA]
Broadside: Bella Abzug Speaks on E.R.A.
1978, ca.

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Abzug, Bella. With Mim Kelber. [Gender]
Gender Gap.
1984

Abzug, Bella with Mim Kelber. Gender Gap: Bella Abzug's Guide to Political Power for American Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First edition. Signed and dated by Bella Abzug at the half title page. 8vo, x, 257pp; (including Appendix); deep rose boards with navy blue cloth spine stamped in gold; white dust jacket printed in dark blue and maroon with a photograph of Bella Abzug, in her customary hat, at the front cover. Front board rubbed; 1/4" short tear at front panel [...]
Acker, Kathy.
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac.
1974

Six volumes
Acker, Kathy.
Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, The.
1975 and 1976

Six volumes
Acker, Kathy.
Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, The.
1973

Six volumes
Adams, Abigail.
LETTER: ALS to Judge William Cranch.
1811; June 17th, 1811.

Adams, Abigail. Autograph Letter Signed, “A. Adams,” with address panel also in her hand, to Judge William Cranch; Quincy, Massachusetts: June 17th 1811. Single leaf, 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches, address panel, 4 x 2 5/8 inches, directing the letter to “Judge Cranch / city / Washington”; lower left tip chipped, not affecting text. Together with: Adams, Abigail. Engraved portrait. Mounted on sand-colored mat with dark brown undermat; medium brown wood frame with soft gold-gilt highlighting; [...]
Adams, Evangeline.
Astrology for Everyone: What it is and How it Works.


Adams, Evangeline. Astrology for Everyone: What It Is and How It Works. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. 8vo.; cloth; fine. First edition of a popular and uncommon title, the autobiography of America's then best-known astrologer. A present
Adams, Hannah, related) Lowell, John.
Review of Dr. Morse's Appeal to the Publick
1815

Rev. Morse Pilloried [Adams, Hannah] [Lowell, John.] Review of Dr. Morse’s “Appeal to the Publick,” principally with reference to that part of it which relates to Harvard College. Boston: N.p., n.d. [1815]. 8vo.; stamp of the Presbyterian Historical Society at the foot of the first text page; small piece of paper affixed to page 40; final text page mildewed; five sewn signatures (42 pages); disbound; two small closed tears to title page. First edition of Lowell’s anonymously [...]
Adams, Hannah.
Memoir, A.
1832

Adams, Hannah. A Memoir of Miss Hannah Adams. Written by herself. With additional notices by a friend. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832. 8vo.; frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature; light foxing to preliminaries; reddish brown cloth; spine bumped; spine label lightly scuffed. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of Adams’s posthumously published memoir, written for the support of her younger sister. Singerman 525. Adams’s narrative fills the first 43 pages; the [...]
Adams, Hannah.
Abridgement of the History of New England, for the Use of Young Children, An.
1805

Adams, Hannah. An Abridgement of the History of New England, for the Use of Young Children. Boston: Printed for the Author and for Sale by B. & J. Homans and John West, July, 1805. 12mo., contemporary full sheep; red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt; expertly rebacked, preserving the original spine; some light foxing; discrete leather bookplate of Frank C. Deering on front endpaper. First edition of an uncommon little book, Adams’s abridgement of her second book, A Summary History of [...]
Adams, Hannah.
Truth and Excellence of the Christian Empire.
1804

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Adams, Hannah.
History of the Jews.


IN ORIGINAL BINDING Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Nineteenth Century. In two volumes. Boston: John Eliot, Jun., 1812. 2 vols., 12mo.; heavy foxing to preliminaries; blue paper-covered boards; original title labels affixed to spine; spines foxed; wear to extremities. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of the first survey of Jewish history published in America. Written by one of the earliest women authors in the United States, this [...]
Addams, Jane, Lillian Wald, Emily Balch, et al.
ARCHIVE: Emergency Peace Federation / American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace archive.
1914-17.

Women’s Peace Party correspondence With letters to Jane Addams and Lillian Wald collected by Addams’ secretary [Addams, Jane, Lillian Wald, Emily Balch, et al]. Archive of Material Relating to the Emergency Peace Federation, and the American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace. Chicago and elsewhere; ca. 1914 - 1917. Autograph manuscript, original and carbon typescript, printed material, carbons, telegrams and incidental correspondence relating to various women’s and peace movements [...]
Addams, Jane)
Hull-House Block News.
1939

(Addams, Jane) Hull-House Block News. Friday, June 16, 1939. Vol. III, no. 3. [Chicago]: [Hull-House], 1939. 4to.; blue illustrated wrappers, stapled; front wrapper illustration signed “A. Cross”; small tear at upper left margin; printed on rectos only. First edition of this mimeographed publication, which is a record of the activities at Hull-House four years after the death of its founder, Jane Addams. The attendance record indicates the number of participants registered for each of the [...]
Addams, Jane) Oakley, Violet.
Cathedral of Compassion: Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams 1860-1935.
1955

[Addams, Jane] Oakley, Violet. Cathedral of Compassion: Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams 1860-1935. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Privately Printed by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1955. 8vo., 104pp; beige cloth stamped in red at front cover; some soiling to binding; very good condition. Only edition. Limited edition, privately printed and distributed, signed by Violet Oakley at the colophon . Violet Oakley (1874-1961) is better known as an artist [...]
Addams, Jane, et al.
Overthrow of the War System, The.
1916

A Stellar Anti-War Compilation (Addams, Jane, contributor.) Mead, Lucia Ames, ed. The Overthrow of the War System. Boston: Massachusetts Branch of The Woman’s Peace Party, [1916]. 8vo.; interior fresh and bright; eight appendices bound-in at rear; ruby red cloth, stamped in gilt; a fine copy. First edition of this anti-war compilation featuring articles by seven well-known feminist authors, Addams being the most prominent. Addams’ article, “Women and War, Address Given At The Hague, May, [...]
Addams, Jane.
To the Women Voters…
1912

[Addams, Jane]. To the Women Voters of the United States from the Women in Political Bondage. Vote the Progressive Ticket and Make Us Free. [New York: Progressive Party, 1912]. 8vo.; one leaf, folded to make 4 pages; printed on all sides; lightly used, small closed tear to fold. Together with: [Addams, Jane]. To the Women Voters of the United States from the Women in Political Bondage. Vote the Progressive Ticket and Make Us Free. [New York: Progressive Party, 1912]. 8vo.; one leaf, folded [...]
Addams, Jane.
LETTERS: 5 Autograph letters signed, to Mrs. Lillian Silk Holt.
1916-29.

Addams, Jane. Five autograph letters signed, “Jane Addams,” to Mrs. Lillian Silk Holt, 1916-1929. Five leaves; 8vo.; rectos only; two letters in pencil; three in black ink; three on Hull House stationery; one on Queen’s Hotel stationery; one listing the address 1430 Astor Street, Chicago; together with one original mailing envelope, addressed in Addams’ hand. All letters fine, with creases where folded for mailing; envelope in good condition, with some stains and age-toning. In a specially [...]
Addams, Jane.
LETTERS: Four letters. (plus pamphlet: "Propaganda Section of the Chicago Political Equality League 1911-12 'Votes for Women.'"
1908-26.

Addams, Jane. Four letters signed, “Jane Addams,” to various recipients. 1908-1926. As follows: Autograph Letter Signed “Jane Addams,” one page, 8.5” x 11,” on Women's International League for Peace and Freedom letterhead, Chicago, May 6, 1926, to Mrs. Leach. Addams thanks Mrs. Leach for her “generous check.” Typed Letter Signed “Jane Addams,” one page, on Hull-House letterhead, 5.5” x 8.5,” Chicago, April 28, 1908, to Mrs. R. H. Rice, Alliance, Ohio. Addams updates a [...]
Addams, Jane.
Peace and Bread in Time of War.
1922

Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. New York, 1922. Cloth. Autographed “Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago” on discolored front fly-leaf which was apparently removed at one time, then neatly reinserted. Slight sunning and edgewear to spine; pencilled owner’s inscription; otherwise very good. First Edition. The much-revered founder of the American Social Work movement here relates, in retrospect, her ill-fated trip to Europe on the much-lampooned Henry Ford “Peace Ship,” during [...]
Addams, Jane.
Long Road of Woman's Memory, The.
1916

Addams, Jane. The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 8vo.; blue cloth, stamped in gilt; few light abrasions to spine; dust-jacket; lightly browned, few chips to extremities removing a few letters from spine. First edition of Addams’ examination of the workings of memory in the old and young alike, derived from experiences and conversations with women at Hull House and on travels abroad on her own. Chapters include “Transmuting the Past, as illustrated by [...]
Addams, Jane.
Twenty Years at Hull-House.
1910

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. Thick 8vo.; printed on laid paper; internally fine; dark brown paper-covered boards; extremities worn; parchment spine; mildly darkened and lightly foxed; t.e.g. Limited and autographed edition, illustrated by Norah Hamilton with ink sketches and with half-tone photographs of Julia C. Lathrop and other associations of Hull House; one of 210 numbered copies (this is copy # 167), signed [...]
Addams, Jane.
LETTER: Autograph letter signed, July 15, 1927.
1927, July 15.

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Addams, Jane.
Why Women Should Vote.


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Addams, Jane.
Twenty Years at Hull-House; with autobiographical notes.
1910

Inscribed To Lillian Wald Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. With Autobiographical Notes. With illustrations by Norah Hamilton… New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. 8vo.; brown cloth, pictorially illustrated in several colors and stamped in gilt; lightly rubbed, especially spine; wear to extremities; all-in-all an attractive copy. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition. A foundational presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: To Miss Wald— “comps of the author” [...]
Adler, Renata
Toward a Radical Middle.
1969

Inscribed To Diana Trilling Adler, Renata. Toward a Radical Middle. Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism. New York: Random House, 1969. 8vo.; fore-edge lightly water stained; pea-green cloth, edges sunned, spine bumped; green price-clipped dust-jacket, gently rubbed. First edition of Adler’s first book, a collection of essays. Dedicated to William Shawn, then-editor of The New Yorker, where all of this work had been published previously. A presentation copy, inscribed to Diana Trilling: [...]
Adler, Renata.
Speedboat.
1976).

Both States Of The Proof Inscribed Adler, Renata. Speedboat. New York: Random House, (1976). 8vo.; red wrappers. (Together with) Adler, Renata. Speedboat. New York: Random House, (1976). 8vo.; red wrappers, labeled by hand on spine and cover. Two distinct states of the uncorrected proof of Adler’s first novel; with a promotional photo loosely inserted into each. Both are inscribed by Adler to New York bookseller Burt Britton: To Burt, The Random House bureaucracy’s mistake, [...]
Adler, Renata.
Speedboat.
1976).

Inscribed To Diana Trilling Adler, Renata. Speedboat. New York: Random House, (1976). 8vo.; black half-cloth, grey paper-covered boards, stamped in silver; dust-jacket, price-clipped. First edition of Adler’s first novel. A presentation copy, inscribed to Diana Trilling on the front endpaper: For Diana, with love, Renata. 9/26/76. This published version incorporates the emendations to the proof copy described below. (#405)
Agrippa Von Nettesheim.
Female Pre-eminence…
1670

Female Superiority Proved Agrippa Von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius. Female Pre-eminence: or the Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male. An ingenious Discourse: Written originally in Latin, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Knight, Doctor of Physick, Doctor of both Laws, and Privy-Counsellor to the Emperour Charles the Fifth. Done into English, with Additional Advantages by H.C. [Henry Care]. London: Printed by T.R. and M.D. and are to be sold by Henry Million, at the Sign of the Bible in Fleet-Street, [...]
Aguilar, Grace) Isaacs, A.S.
Young Champion, The.
1913

[Aguilar, Grace] Isaacs, A.S. The Young Champion. One Year in Grace Aguilar’s Girlhood. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1913. 8vo.; blue-grey cloth stamped in red, white and blind; light wear. First edition of an early Aguilar biography, fictionalizing a year in her youth; told with some liberties which Isaacs acknowledges in the preface: “There has been no conscious attempt to idealize her character or exaggerate her importance. To make her the centre of a group [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Home Influence.
1898

“Sentiment Is The Vehicle Of Thought, And Thought The Origin Of Action” Aguilar, Grace. Home Influence. A tale for mothers and daughters. New York: Appleton, 1898. 8vo.; contemporary ownership signature on front endpaper, inscription on first blank; two-page frontispiece, tissue guard; blue-grey cloth stamped in red and gilt; light wear to extremities. Later edition, stated “new edition” on title page; the first edition came out in 1847, and the 29th, in 1905; with an eight-page “memoir.” [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Vale of Cedars and Other Tales.
1892

A Memorial Aguilar Volume, Presented By The Synagogue Industrial School Aguilar, Grace. The Vale of Cedars & Other Tales...With an Introduction by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson. London, Philadelphia: J.M. Dent & Co. …, The Jewish Publication Society, 1892. 8vo.; printed endpapers, memorializing Aguilar, lightly darkened; few closed tears; multicolored frontispiece; full-color illustrations throughout; pages lightly browned; hinges tender; brown, green and tan cloth stamped [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Days of Bruce
1852

A Posthumous Aguilar Romance Aguilar, Grace. The Days Of Bruce; A Story From Scottish History. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852. 2 vols., 8vo.; brown cloth, stamped in gilt. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of this historical romance, which represents a sharp change from Aguilar’s usual themes of Judaism and domesticity. But, as her mother writes in the preface, these female characters are illustrative “of much that its Author considered excellent in women. In [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Essays and Miscellanies, Choice Cullings.
1853

Aguilar, Grace. Essays And Miscellanies, Choice Cullings. Selected by her Mother, Sarah Aguilar. Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey and Hart, 1853. 8vo.; 310pp; + 2pp ads; brown blind-stamped cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine. Contemporary ink signature dated July 7th 1853 on front blank and again on title page. Minor wear to tips and touch of very light foxing. Very good. First American edition. This selection includes her “History of the Jews in England” relating persecutions [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Home Influence.
1890

Aguilar, Grace. Home Influence. A Tale for Mothers and Daughters. New Edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. 8vo.; double page spread of illustrations preceding the title page, separated by tissue guard; dark blue cloth, decoratively stamped in dark maroon and gilt. First edition. (#3865)
Aguilar, Grace.
Home Scenes.
1853

Aguilar, Grace. Home Scenes and Heart Studies. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1853. 8vo.; dark blue pebble cloth; extremities lightly bumped and rubbed; spine faded, slightly cocked; contemporary ownership signature in pencil on the front endpaper. First American edition of Aguilar’s fourth book, edited and seen through press by her mother, Sarah. In the preface, Sarah pays a heartfelt tribute to her daughter: The Works of Grace Aguilar are now before the public—the present [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Women of Israel.
1872

Aguilar, Grace. Women of Israel. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. 2 vols., 8vo.; front paste-downs showing stains from adhesive; light foxing on frontispieces, original tissue guard present; burnt orange morocco, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt, extremities unobtrusively bumped, minimal wear. The scarce first American edition, published thirty years after the English; reprinted by Appleton in 1889 in their “Collected Edition” (see next entry), the first American attempt [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Jewish Year, The. Autograph poem signed, with engraved portrait.
1840s, ca. early.

Original Manuscript Poem Aguilar, Grace. The Jewish Year No. 1. [Shabbath Bereishith.] England, ca. 1838-47. 8vo.; four leaves; ink manuscript; rectos only. Each leaf encased in plastic, boxed together in a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase. Boxed together with: Aguilar, Grace. Engraved Portrait. Manuscript poem, four pages, rhymed couplets, in English with Hebrew transcription of title; describes the Creation of the World and establishes an intimate relation between each individual [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Vale of Cedars.
1850

Rare First Edition Aguilar, Grace. The Vale of Cedars; or, The Martyr. New York/Philadelphia: Appleton, 1850. 8vo.; one leaf of ads in the front; eight pages of ads, unopened, first page numbered “32,” in the rear; contemporary pencil inscription on first blank; brown cloth, elaborately stamped in blind; spine stamped in gilt; spine sunned. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of Aguilar’s novel about the victimization of the Jews under Ferdinand and Isabella, with an [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Spirit of Judaism, The.
1849

Second American Edition: One Of The Earliest Publications Of The Jewish Publication Society: With A Special Message Aguilar, Grace. The Spirit of Judaism. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 5609 [1849]. 12mo.; ex libris stamp to title page; occasional light foxing; brown coated endpapers; a.e.g.; brown cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, edgeworn with chips to extremities. In a specially made cloth slipcase. Second edition of Aguilar’s first book published [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
[Manusript]: The Stone Cutter's Boy of Possagno
n.d.

String-tied sheets. [16]pp. Undated and unpublished ink manuscript
Aguilar, Grace.
Collected Works: Mother's Recompense (1890); Days of Bruce (1890); Woman's Friendship (1889); Women of Israel (1889); Vale of Cedars (1889); Home Scenes (1889).
1889-1890.

The First American Edition Of Aguilar’s Collected Works Compiled, With Commentary, By Her Mother Aguilar, Grace. Collected Works, consisting of seven volumes: Home Scenes and Heart Studies (1889); The Vale of Cedars; Or, The Martyr (1889); Women of Israel (1889); Woman’s Friendship: A Story of Domestic Life (1889); The Days of Bruce; A Story From Scottish History (1890); Home Influence: A Tale of Mothers and Daughters (1890); and The Mother’s Recompense: A Sequel to Home Influence (1890). [...]
Aguilar, Grace.
Spirit of Judaism, The.
1842

The First Book By A Jewish Woman To Be Published In America Aguilar, Grace. The Spirit of Judaism. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia: Published at No. 1 Monroe Place, 1842. 8vo.; few pages occasionally foxed; maroon cloth, elaborately stamped in blind and gilt; covers lightly rubbed; a bit shaken. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of Aguilar’s first book published in the States, the last published before her death at the age of 31. In it, she argues for the superiority [...]
Athletics]
Poster: "Major League Girl's Baseball. Follow the Rockford Peaches".


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Roosevelt, Eleanor; Aitken, Irene.
ARCHIVE. (two bankers boxes)


Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Estate Documents and Correspondence, including Literary Copyrights and Contracts; together with John A. Roosevelt and Irene Roosevelt Aitken Estate Documents and Correspondence; and Anna Roosevelt Halsted Estate Documents. Includes letters by Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, et al.
Akers, Elizabeth (Florence Percy)
Poems.
1866

Akers, Elizabeth (Florence Percy). Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 12mo.; marbled endpapers and edges; three-quarter morocco, spine stamped in gilt; marbled boards, light wear to tips. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of the first volume in which Akers published her most popular poem, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” under her own name. It debuted in her first collection, Forest Buds, from the Woods of Maine, under the name Florence Percy, in 1856. Despite [...]
Albers, Anni) Baro, Gene.
Anni Albers: Brooklyn Museum Catalogue. Slipcased with #4259.
1977

(Albers, Anni.) Anni Albers. By Gene Baro. With an essay by Nicholas Fox Weber. (Published for the exhibition “Anni Albers: Drawings and Prints,” The Brooklyn Museum, October 1-November 11, 1977.) 8vo.; 78 black and white and color illustrations; white illustrated wrappers; lightly rubbed. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of this exhibition catalogue—the first publication dealing exclusively with Albers’s work in a graphic medium; with an introductory note by Michael [...]
Albers, Anni.
On Designing. Slipcased with #4260.
1959 and 1961.

Albers, Anni. On Designing. (New Haven, CT: The Pellango Press, 1959.) 8vo.; black and white illustrations; black and white paper-covered boards; dust-jacket printed in imitation of the cover; lightly rubbed; two minor closed tears.. Boxed together in a specially made cloth slipcase with: Albers, Anni. On Designing. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961). 8vo.; black and white illustrations; black and white paper-covered boards. First and second edition of Albers’s first book, [...]
Albers, Anni.
Work with Material; Designing. Two items.
1938, 1943.

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Albers, Anni.
On Weaving.
1965).

Inscribed Albers, Anni. On Weaving. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1965). 4to.; tan cloth, stamped in orage; dust-jacket; price-clipped; light wear to spine. First edition of Albers’s second book. A presentation copy, inscribed: For Neil/ Anni. Albers won the Decorative Arts Book Citation for On Weaving, in which she “discusses textile fundamentals and its underlying principles…focusing on the visual and structural side of weaving….Spanning a wide horizon, her analytic [...]
Albers, Annie.
Pre-Columbian Mexican Miniatures.


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Politics] Albright, Madeleine]
Wellesley College Yearbook: Legenda 59.
1959

First edition. Quarto. 190, [1]pp. Illustrated. Buff cloth lettered in yellow and brown. A trifle rubbed, near fine. Amongst the graduating seniors is pictured Madeleine Albright (here identified as Madeleine Korbel), the first U.S. female Secretary of State.
Alcott) Nieriker, May Alcott.
Studying Art Abroad and How to Do it Cheaply.
1879

SCARCE (Alcott) Nieriker, May Alcott. Studying Art Abroad, and How to Do it Cheaply. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. 16mo.; brown cloth covered boards; chipped at the top and bottom of the binding; small water stain to front and rear cover. First edition of a rare art study guide written by Louisa May Alcott’s sister, May Alcott Nieriker. Based on Nieriker’s personal experiences studying art in Europe, the book is a “how-to” guide for female art students – Nieriker describes the ideal reader [...]
Alcott, her copy) Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Norton)
Correspondence Between Goethe and Carlyle.
1887
Alcott, L.M.
Flower Fables.
1855

Alcott, L[ouisa] M[ay]. Flower Fables. Boston: George W. Briggs, 1854. 182pp; purple cloth, elaborately stamped in blind and gilt; spine browned. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Trace of wear to head of spine which is very slightly faded. A firm, fresh and remarkably clean copy for a children’s title. In a custom quarter morocco slipcase. Fine. First edition. (1/1600 copies). Louisa May Alcott’s first book and the first time she published under her name rather than a pseudonym. [...]
Alcott, Louis May) Cheney, Ednah D.
Louisa May Alcott, The Children's Friend.
1888

[Alcott, Louisa May] Cheney, Ednah D. Louisa May Alcott, The Children’s Friend. Illustrated by Lizbeth B. Comins. Boston: L. Prang and Co., (1888). 8vo.; full color frontispiece illustration with tissue-guard picturing Alcott surrounded by dozens of children and holding a copy of Little Women; with additional black and white illustrations throughout; 1” tear near top left corner of p. 25; pale blue and navy cloth; stamped in silver; ornate front panel decoration. First edition of Cheney’s [...]
Alcott, Louisa M.
Rose in Bloom.
1876

Alcott To Her First Biographer: One Of The Rarest Inscriptions Of The 19th Century Alcott, Louisa M. Rose in Bloom. A sequel to “Eight Cousins.” With illustrations. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. 8vo.; green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of this sequel to Eight Cousins; 10,000 copies. A presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank: “Mrs. Cheney/ from her friend/ L.M.A./ 1876.” Alcott had known Ednah Dow Littlehale [...]
Alcott, Louisa May)
Little Men" Play, The.
1900).

[Alcott, Louisa May]. The “Little Men” Play. A two-act, forty-five minute play. Adapted by Elizabeth Lincoln Gould from Louisa May Alcott’s famous story “Little Men.” With pictures by Reginald B. Birch, illustrator of “Little Lord Faunterloy.” Philadelphia/Boston: Curtis Publishing Company/Little, Brown, & Company, (1900). 8vo.; grey paper-covered boards; tips and spine rubbed; covers lightly soiled; a fragile book. First edition of this scarce and curious book. A note at [...]
Alcott, Louisa May) Harlow, Laurel.
Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir.
1889

The First Biography Of Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]. Harlow, Laurel. Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir. With Illustrations. Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1889. 4to.; text blocks of 3 x 4 inches printed in the center of pages 8 ½ x 10 ½ inches; Christmas gift tag affixed to first blank; light blue stiff wrappers, with “Louisa May Alcott” written in glitter-covered string affixed to cover; tied with blue ribbon; upper panel soiled. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of [...]
Alcott, Louisa May, contributor) Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.
St. Nicholas.
1884

[Alcott, Louisa May] Dodge, Mary Mapes, editor. St. Nicholas. An illustrated magazine for young folks. Vol. XI, Part II (May 1884 – October 1884). New York: The Century Company, 1884. 4to.; ownership signature on front endpaper reads, “Edith Williams. Groton, New York”; a few closed tears and stains; upper gutter cracked; brown and red marbled boards; ¾ morocco; stamped in gilt; extremities worn. Six issues, from May to October 1884, bound together of St. Nicholas magazine, which, while [...]
Alcott, Louisa May, her copy) Proctor, Richard.
Our Place Among the Infinities.
1876

Louisa May Alcott’s Astrology And Kabbala (Alcott, Louisa May). Proctor, Richard. A. Our Place Among Infinities...To Which Are Added Essays on the Jewish Sabbath and Astrology... New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876. 8vo.; green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; tips lightly worn, covers lightly rubbed. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of Proctor’s collection, printing twelve essays including “Past and Future of the Earth” (1-34); “Seeming Wastes in Nature” (35-44) [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
LETTER: ALS to "Kinsman."
1886, Oct. 12,

“the great American novel is yet to be written, & I haven’t had a try at it. Can’t die till I have” Alcott, Louisa May. Autograph letter signed, “L.M.A.” to “Kinsman,” October 12, 1886; also signed “L. M. A.” in the body of the letter; four pages, 4.5” x 7”, n.p. Two years before her death, the author of Little Women writes about the “Marchs [sic],” her attempt at writing “The great American novel,” and her satisfaction with her most recent novel. In part: [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
My Rococo Watch."
1875

A Little-Known Short Story (Alcott, Louisa May) “My Rococo Watch” in The National Elgin Watch Company’s Illustrated Almanac. Chicago: Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., 1875. 8vo.; illustrated wrappers, string-tied; four pages of ads in the front and rear; with black-and-white cartoons and full-page illustrations throughout. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition of an unusual periodical published by The Elgin National Watch Company. This volume contains a four-page story by Alcott [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
Frost King, The.
1855

A Rare Pirated Edition of Her First Book Alcott, Louisa May. The Frost King; or, the power of love, and how it prevailed over fear and cruelty. Illustrated. London: James Blackwood, 1855. 8vo.; navy cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; black-and-white Dalziel Brothers illustrations throughout; illustration and title variation (“The Frost King or the Power of Kindness”) on the front cover; foxed; all edges gilt; tips bumped. First British edition, possibly pirated. The first edition, published [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
LETTER: ALS to Edward Bok, editor of Brooklyn Magazine.
1886].

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. (1832-1888). American author best known for her novel Little Women. ALS. (“L. M. Alcott”). 4pp. 8vo. Boston, February 12 [1886]. Written on four sides of a single folded sheet to the editor of the Brooklyn Magazine, (EDWARD W. BOK; 1863-1930). My reply to your question “When Shall Our Young Women Marry?” is – from twenty three to twenty five, as few girls are ready for the duties of married life before then, either physically or mentally. Many are never fit, owing to [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
Kitty's Class Day: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.
1868

Alcott, Louisa May. Kitty’s Class Day: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. Boston: Loring, 1868. 12mo.; printed wrappers, 12 pages; foxed and wrinkled but a sound copy printed on heavy paper. In a specially made cloth slipcase. First edition; printing B (sequence possible); in the B state of the wrappers, without priority. BAL 154. A short story issued in “Loring’s Tales of the Day” series, a newsstand pulp publication for which Alcott wrote three stories in 1868: “Kitty’s Class Day,” [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
LETTER: Autograph postcard signed.
1879 ca.

Autograph Postcard Signed Alcott, Louisa May. Autograph postcard signed, “L.M. Alcott,” to Charles Hosmer Walcott, Concord, Mass., Sept. 22, [1879 or 1880]. U.S. postal card, 5-1/6 x 3,” addressed “C. Walcott Esq./Concord, Mass.”; message (approx. 50 words) written on verso. Post office stamps at front; some minor smudges. In a specially made cloth slipcase. Alcott wrote to Walcott, an attorney, requesting a list of women in his district who had registered to vote in the school committee [...]
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Lu Lu's Library, 3 vols.


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Alcott, Louisa May.
Six Stories in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
1862-68.

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Alcott, Louisa May.
Good Wives: a Story for Girls. Being a Squel to "Little Women".
1871

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Alcott, Louisa May.
Little Women.
1870-71.

FIRST EDITION Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. With illustrations. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870. 2 vols., 8vo.; discreet ownership stamps (“Mrs. Geo. W. Prentiss”) to first blanks; green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; lightly worn. First edition, later issue; original published in 1868; this copy without “Part First” on the spine of volume one, but with the statement on page 341: “End of Part First. Part Second, completing Little Women, is published [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
Concord Sketches.
1869

Illustrated by May Alcott (Alcott, Louisa May) Concord Sketches. Consisting of twelve photographs from original drawings by May Alcott. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869. 4to.; green cloth, stamped in gilt; illustrated pages tipped-in; all edges gilt; edgeworn. First deluxe edition, 160 copies, the entire edition. With a preface and captions by Louisa May Alcott. A collection of twelve of May Alcott’s sketches of the homes and landscape views in Concord, MA. The book is divided [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
Hospital Sketches.
1863

Inscribed by Her Mother to a Cousin Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston: James Redpath, 1863. 8vo.; green cloth, stamped in gilt; two pages of publisher’s ads in the rear; foxed; hinges tender; tips worn. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front endpaper: Rev. Charles C. Sewall from Cousin—Abby Alcott. Alcott and her mother were extremely close and she always gave her one of the first copies of her newly published works. Affectionately nicknamed [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
LETTER: Autograph letter signed, to Mrs. Williams.
1887

Letter to an Old Family Friend Unpublished Alcott, Louisa May. Autograph letter signed, to Mrs. Herbert Williams. Boston; March 18, 1887. 8pp.; two leaves; 8½ x 11 inches; rectos and versos; creased. With original envelope. In a specially made cloth slipcase. A long, warm and touching letter from Alcott to an old friend of her parents, Mrs. Herbert Williams, née Lucy Bigelow (1797-1890). It remains unpublished. Alcott is responding to a letter from Williams, who either sent a letter to [...]
Alcott, Louisa May.
Manuscript; Photographs; Textiles. (7 items total)
1870-71.

Textile Archive from the Alcott’s Home (Alcott, Louisa May) Textile samples from the Alcott home. Ca. 1870s. One leaf of 8-1/2 x 11” personal stationery (“Mrs. F. Alcott Pratt”); five fabric samples loosely attached; handwritten notes in ink; recto only. Together with: (Alcott, Louisa May) Autograph letter signed, “Jessica L. Pratt,” to Mrs. V.W. Raymond, Rochester, NY, February 2, 1923. One 6-1/2 x 10-1/4” leaf of black-and-white stationery, folded to make four pages, all [...]
Alcott, Louisa May. (Cheney, Ednah D., ed)
Life, Letters, and Journals.
1889

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Alcott, May.
LETTER: ALS to a friend.
1874

SCARCE LETTER BY MAY ALCOTT Alcott, May. Autograph letter signed, “May Alcott,” to Miss Prescott, June 8, 1874. The second letter by May Alcott we have seen in trade in over twenty-five years – her paintings appear more often than her correspondence. In this one May – Louisa May Alcott’s youngest sister, who appears as “Amy Marsh” in Little Women – writes to a Miss Prescott: Dear Miss Prescott Was’nt I promised a day in Concord from yourself & sister, & can’t that day [...]
Aldred, Guy A. and Witkop, Rose Lillian.
Spur, The.


ALDRED, Guy A. & . WITKOP, Rose Lillian. THE SPUR. Because the Workers Need a Spur. Edited and Published by Guy A. Aldred, 17 Richmond Gardens, Shepherds Bush, London, W. Annual Subscription 1s. 6d. All unsigned matter is written by the Editor. Vol. 1.-No. 1 [Vol. III.-No. 13., ie. 14]. London, Printed and Published by The Bakunin Press, June 1914 [-May, 1918]. FIRST EDITION. 43 issues bound in one volume, folio, pp. 184; original red cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, some rubbing and chipping [...]
Algeo, Sara Barbara.
Story of a Sub-Pioneer, The.
1925

Algeo, Sara Barbara. The Story Of A Sub Pioneer. Providence, RI: Snow & Franham Company, (1925). 8vo, 318pp; maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author’s signature on front panel; white dust-jacket with title and author printed in black with a half-tone of the author at her desk, above which is an emblem of the U.S. and R.I. flags between a ballot box with a feminine hand depositing a ballot in red, white and blue; title and author on spine. Jacket slightly soiled with [...]
Beauvoir, Simone, her copy) Algren, Nelson.
Man With the Golden Arm, The.
1949

First edition, without jacket. Inscribed by Nelson to Simone de Beauvoir.
All, Catherine.
Petition.
1788 ca.

A Widow’s Maritime Petition [All, Katherine.] To the Gentlemen of the Fellowship Club in Newport. Ca. 1789-90. One leaf, recto only; watermarked “C Olney”; uniformly browned; creased. All’s petition to the members of Newport’s Fellowship Club, sent after the death of her husband, Captain Abraham All. All explains that her husband had been ill for many years, and that the expenses incurred in caring for him were considerable. She asks that the Club return to her the money that her [...]
Allingham, Margery.
LETTERS.
1949-1965.

Allingham, Margery (1904-1966), mystery writer and creator of "Albert Campion," D'Arcy House, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Near Maldon, Essex, 3 June 1949 to 12 August 1965 to James Keddie of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts (Scottish born American editor and publisher, 1907- 1983, known as "Cheetah" by The Speckled Band Of Boston, the Sherlockian society of which he was a lifetime member).  Superb collection of ten letters (7 TLsS, 3 AlsS, some aerogrammes) and two press photos, some [...]
Alta.
No Visible Means of Support.
1971

Inscribed to Gwendolyn Brooks Alta. No Visible Means of Support. California: Shameless Hussy Press, 1971. 8vo.; printed in several colors; wrappers; stapled; staple rust stains on lower panel. First edition of this collection of poetry. A presentation copy, inscribed inside the upper cover: for Gwendolyn Brooks, ‘we are each other’s business,’ Alta. Gwendolyn Brooks, the prolific African-American poet from Chicago, was appointed Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois in 1968. Alta [...]
Alta.
I Am Not a Practicing Angel.
1975).

Inscribed to Pauline Kael Alta. I am Not a Practicing Angel. Foreword by Marge Piercy. Drawings by Raymond Larrett. Trumansburg, New York: The Crossing Press, 1975. 8vo.; wrappers; perfect bound; spine worn. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the upper cover to Pauline Kael. For Pauline – my buddies & I used to tell my Mom we were going to A & W in Castro Valley, & sneak off to yr. movie house to watch Pull My Daisy, Oedipus Rex, The Fatal Glass of [...]
American Female Reform Society) Burchard, Frances M.
LETTER: ALS to "Beloved Sister" (Mrs. Julia E. Brewer).
1839

Early Months of the American Female Reform Society. (REVIVALISM). (WOMEN). BURCHARD, FRANCES M. (EMERSON). 3-1/2 pp. ALS (signed F.M.B.) to "Beloved Sister," Regarding Evangelistic Travels. Utica, (New York) Sept. 27, 1839. Sheets 7.75 x 10 inches. Folded with Integral address and postmark to Mrs. Julia E. Brewer, McIndoc Falls, Vermont. Legible ink. Married to the controversial evangelistic Presbyterian preacher, Rev. Jedediah Burchard, Frances was an enthusiastic evangelist in her own [...]
Anarchists] Haymarket Riot.
Haymarket Riot, The. 2 titles in one slipcase.
1886

Rare Souvenirs Of The Haymarket Riot [Haymarket Riot]. The Accused The Accusers: The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court. When Asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon them. On October 7th, 8th and 9th, 1886. Chicago, Illinois. Chicago: Scholastic Publishing Society, 1886. 8vo.; occasional pages foxed; pink printed wrappers, stapled; a well-loved copy of a fragile publication. Boxed together with: [Haymarket Riot]. Twenty-fifth Anniversary [...]
Anarchists] Meserve, Gertie Vose.
LETTERS: ALS, with related material.
1897

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Anderson, Christine.
Tour of Palestine and Egypt.


Manuscript. 41pp. [with] Typescript. 28pp. A 1920s-era woman's travel journal of the Holy Land and Egypt. Unpublished.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett.
LETTER: Autograph letter signed, to Elizabeth Blackwell.
1871, February 7.

ANDERSON TO BLACKWELL Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett. Autograph letter signed, to Elizabeth Blackwell, February 7, 1871; two pages. In this hasty letter, Garrett Anderson – the first woman to gain a medical qualification in the United Kingdom – expresses frustration at not being able to obtain any tubes of lymph. She also mentions her upcoming February 9, 1871 wedding ceremony at the Presbyterian Church on London’s Upper George Street, to James George Skelton Anderson, director of the Orient Line. [...]
Anderson, Marian)
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 19, 1939.
1939

[Anderson, Marian]. Program: "Marian Anderson at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 9, 1939". [Washington, DC, 1939]. 4to; single sheet 12 x 18", folded to 6 x 9"; printed on off-white heavy stock; some age-toning to stock, else very good. Program for Marian Anderson's landmark concert at the Lincoln Memorial, inscribed by her to a sponsor of the concert: To / Mr. Doxey A. Wilkerson / Gratefully / Marian Anderson. Marian Anderson, born in 1902, [...]
Anderson, Mary.
LETTERS: 4 Autograph letters signed, and 1 envelope, to publisher R.R. Bowker.
1887-1929.

MARY ANDERSON WRITES ABOUT MRS. CRAIK'S FUNERAL AND GENERAL SHERMAN ACTING IN SHAKESPEARE. 4 ALS's & one addressed envelope, all to publisher R. R. Bowker in New York. 10pp., 8vo & 12mo, signed variously “Mary Anderson”, and “Mary de Navarro,” London, Brussels, Cambridge (England), and Rome, 118871: Feb. 12th, 1928; Jan. 4", 1929; Feb. 26", 1929. (ANDERSON), Mary (Mrs. Antonio F. de Navarro, 1859-1940). American actress. An interesting series of letters to her friend, [...]
Anderson, Mary.
Woman at Work: as told to Mary Winslow.
1951

Signed By Both Authors Anderson, Mary. Women at Work. The Autobiography of Mary Anderson as told to Mary Winslow. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1951. 266 pp; yellow cloth stamped in black on spine; front panel jacket illustration of painting of women factory workers by Mary Winslow in black and white; gold borders; back panel with portrait of Anderson; slight wear and discoloration along edges; end pages a little sunned; jacked rubbed and chipped along edges, but no text loss; [...]
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