Women's Studies

Henry Holt, 1860 Her second published book. Engraved frontis of "The Sower and the Child" 48 pgs. Extremely Rare OCLC list 4 copies. Her poetry was admired by Whittier, her influence felt in the mills of Lowell, Massachuseets. Spine is damaged with chips top and bottom, some of gilt lettering visible, some edgewear, binding tight, water stains top margin and to fep/rep. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xvii, 462 Pp. #107 Of 210 Copies Of The Signed, Limited First Edition, Large Paper 9 5/8" Tall. Vellum Spine Over Brown Paper Covered Boards. A Very Nice Copy, Clean, Hinges Tight, Spine And Cover Gilt Lettering All Brilliant, Small Losses Of Paper On Edges At Tops, A Few Tiny Losses Of Paper At Edges Of Front Cover, No Damage To Vellum, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates.

[England, 1982]. Poster (420mm x 580mm). Professionally mounted, framed and glazed using archival materials. White text and graphic of a missile caught in a spider's web superimposed over a grey and red photograph of the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. Marker pen notes at the bottom of the poster give contact details and instructions for travelling to the camp by bus from Birmingham. Light creases from old folds into four, some slight surface scuffs. Very good condition. A rare poster advertising Embrace the Base, one of the key mass actions at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. We have been able to locate only two other copies in institutional collections, at the LSE Women's Library and the Glasgow Women's Library. The Greenham Common protest was established in September of 1981 by the Welsh group Women for Life on Earth, who were opposed to the deployment of nuclear tipped Cruise missiles at the site. What was initially planned as a single march became a permanent protest camp in place until… Read More

Washington D.C.: US Govt. Printing Office, 1942. Colour poster (28 x 40 in). Professionally mounted, glazed, and framed using archival materials. Original creases from folding, bright and fresh. Excellent condition. An important Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, "Women in the War" was one of the most widely distributed images of a woman laboring in war production, unlike the "We Can Do It" poster, which was produced only for Westinghouse plants during a few weeks in 1943 and did not become iconic until the 1980s. "Among the many agencies President Roosevelt had created during the war was the War Manpower Commission, formed in April 1942 to oversee war labor issues in the military, industrial, and civilian sectors. And in June 1942, the Office of War Information was formed to manage the flows of news and propaganda about the war to the public. By 1943, when the labor shortage was most acute, the two… Read More

1653. Utrecht, 1653. First edition.. Utrecht, 1653. First edition. Interesting Seventeenth-Century Dutch Treatise on Marriage Law Rodenburg, Christiaan [1608-1668]. Tractatus De Jure Conjugum. In quo de Viri in Uxorem Potestate, Eorumque Obligationibus, Judiciis, Mutuis Gratificationibus, Bonorum Communione, Pactisque Dotalibus, Illustriores Controversiae, Ad Usum Fori Patrii, Vicinarumque Regionum Expenduntur, Cum Tractatione Praeliminari De Jure, Quod Oritur Ex Statutorium, Vel Consuetudinum Discrepantium Conflictu. Utrecht: Apud Gisbertum Zylium, & Theodorum ab Ackersdijck, 1653. [xxvi], 358, [24] pp. Quarto (7-3/4" x 6"). Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, early hand-lettered title to spine. Moderate soiling and a few tiny stains, two chips to top-edge of front board. Some rubbing to corners, vellum just beginning to crack through pastedowns, lower section of front endleaf lacking, partial crack in text block between front endleaf and title page. Light toning to text, corners of a few leaves… Read More

Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1811. Early American edition. First English edition was printed in 1802 and first American edition in 1803. Present dedication page dated October 1, 1802. One twelvemo volume (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; 137 x 85 mm). iv, [1, contents], [1, blank], 5-292 pp. We could find no copies of either the first American or First English at auction. We could find only one complete copy of the 1803 edition in a library. Contemporary full sheep. Spine ruled in gilt. Morocco spine label. Boards rubbed and scuffed. Pages with toning and soiling as usual with American paper of this time. Pages 214-215 with some soiling, obscuring a few words. Small tear from upper outer corner of dedication page (pg iv), not affecting text. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Early ink ownership signature on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. "[Pilkington] decided to take advantage of her experience as a teacher and her interest in education and to become a professional writer for… Read More

Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1554. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (22 cm); 45, [3] pages (last leaf blank). Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper, titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner, subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki, Choix de livres anciens, VI, 5817 This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography, in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion, Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia (or, Atlantis), men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter, and that in Assyria, husbands were bound by law to obey… Read More

New York: McCall Corporation, 1950. Seven of the first nine Redbook Magazines from 1950-51 ( 1.3.4.5.6.7, and 9 ) that each contained an original Dr. Seuss story, overall Very Good, wear with paper loss at spine ends, some with tears at spine folds, toning, some pages with small corner creases. Jun. 1950, Vol. 95, No.2, "Gustav, the Goldfish", p. 48-51; Aug. 1950, Vol.95, No.4, "Tad and Todd", p.56-58; Sep. 1950, Vol. 95, No. 5, "Marco Comes Late" p.58-59, Oct. 1950, Vol. 95, No.6, "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town"; p.46-48; Nov. 1950, Vol. 96, No.1, "Steak for Supper", p. 44-46; Dec.1950, Vol.96, No.2, "The Big Brag", p.46-47; Feb. 1951, Vol. 96, No.4, "The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga", p.46-47. Between June 1950 and December 1957, Seuss had 23 original stories first published in Redbook Magazine. At least 3 of the 23 predated the first book publications of the same titles. "Gustav, the Goldfish" was… Read More

First Edition.The first book by Frances Wright (later D'Arusmont). Wright began writing the play in Scotland, but did not publish it until she moved to the United States in 1818. In the Preface she comments on the friendly reception she has received in the U.S., as a young, unknown author, and how it would have been difficult for her to publish and have performed such a play in England. Wright's sentiments were with social reform and progressive movements, and she became an influential abolitionist and promoter of feminist causes.8vo. Modern green cloth, dark green morocco label on spine, gilt lettering. Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey and Son, 1819. First Edition. (American Bibliography 50175; Wegelin, Early American Plays, page 82; Hill, American Plays, 334). Text somewhat browned and foxed.

HERCULE POIROT The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (1926, Dodd, Mead. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Stated 7th Printing Thus, December, 1926. WITH NEW FAX JACKET. USED. VG CONDITION. Agatha Christie. HERCULE POIROT. 306 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 5/8. A nice copy.

1715. London: E. Curll, 1715. 1st ed.. London: E. Curll, 1715. 1st ed. Issued by a Notable Grub-Street Publisher [Divorce]. [Great Britain]. Cases of Divorce for Several Causes; Viz. I. Memoirs of the Life of Robert Feilding, Esq; Containing an Account of His Amours; A Collection of His Love-Letters; Characters of His Mistresses; And a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament. II. The Case of Barbara, Late Dutchess of Cleaveland, With the Whole Proceedings Between Her Grace, And Major-General Feilding, In Doctors-Commons; And Sir John Cooke's Definitive Sentence at Large in this Remarkable Tryal. III. The Case of John Dormer, Esq. IV. The Case of Sir George Downing, Bart. And Mrs. Mary Forester. V. Depositions Taken in the Lady Howard's Case: Also the Judgment of the Most Eminent Divines, &c. Concerning the Dissolution of Marriage. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1715. [viii], xlvii, [1], 48,40, [2], 41-60, [2], 34 pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece (of Robert Feilding). With a 7 pp. catalogue of… Read More

London: The Author / R. Ackermann / Simpkin and Marshall, 1823. Reprint. Published by the author, and sold by R. Ackermann & Simpkin & Marshall. Third Edition - the first publication was in 1821. Complete as issued with nine hand coloured plates of dressing table paraphernalia; with moveable flaps each revealing a supposed female virtue. Bound in the original printed paper coloured buff boards, with original end papers. In very good plus condition overall; some foxing. Collates thus: Frontis engraving (by R. L Wright), showing a dressing table, title page, dedication leaf, [iv dedication signed S. G.] pp24 printed on rectos, with nine plates. The plates consist of 1) The Enchanting Mirror 2) A Wash to smooth Wrinkles revealing "contentment" 3) An universal and genuine beautifier revealing "good humour" 4) A Matchless pair of Ear Rings reveals "Attention" 5) Best White Paint reveals "Innocence" 6) Rouge Superieur ne se vend pas a Paris reveals "modesty" 7) Mixture giving Sweetness to the Voice reveals… Read More

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Small quarto, [16]pp., plus 15 leaves of color plates. A very good copy in the publisher's printed wraps, with some scuffing to the base on the rear panel. Contents clean and bright. A marvelous example, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Krasner on the title page in an aged hand, and dated on the first day of the exhibition: "For Alan, Lee Krasner 10/26/82." Krasner autographs (those not on her valuable paintings and lithographs) are elusive, and this one was clearly procured on one of the few days where she could be expected in polite company to sign an exhibition catalog. Krasner, who had been married to fellow Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, died less than two years after this exhibition.

1847. 1847 French Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage [Manuscript]. [Dossat, Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Alphonse (b.1823)]. [Legal Thesis on Women and Marriage in Roman and French Law]. [Grenoble?], 1847. 202 pp. Quarto (10" x 7-3/4"). Contemporary quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, raised bands, gilt ornaments and gilt title (Condition des Femmes) to spine, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing and a few nicks to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and somewhat worn, owner bookplate (of Dossat) to front pastedown, a bit of glue transfer from edges of bookplate to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior, content in handsome, mostly correction-free hand to rectos and versos of numbered leaves. $1,950. * This is a personal copy of a law-degree thesis on woman and marriage according to Roman law and the laws of pre-revolutionary and contemporary France. Its author, Dossat, was born and probably educated in Grenoble. He had a successful legal career, first as a lawyer in Bordeaux and… Read More

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4° (mm 200x150); ll. 30. At the back of the volume, traces of the original decorated wrappers. A very fine copy, in a modern sleep case.
First edition, very rare, of a detailed description of the ceremonies of the profession of faith, which includes copious details on the clothing, ornaments, orations and participants of the significant moment of the Nun´s life.
BNE, R/2324 and R.MICRO/38997 ("reproduccion de R/2324").
The Trinitarians, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Latin: Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum; abbreviated OSsT), is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church for men founded in Cerfroid, outside Paris, in the late 12th century. From the very outset, a special dedication to the mystery of the Holy Trinity has been a constitutive element of the order's life.
"From the fourteenth century the Trinitarians had lay assistants, i.e., charitable collectors, authorised by… Read More