Crescent City, Florida: Privately printed, 1947. Loose_leaf. Two pieces of ephemera from Crescent City High School in 1947, both attached to a small loose-leaf scrapbook page: 4-page program for a "Style Show" and list of cheerleading cheers for the '46-47 school year. Scrap paper to which both pieces of ephemera..... More
New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions, for the purpose of ordering sewing patterns, published by The Home Pattern Company, sole manufacturer of patterns for The Ladies' Home Journal. Filled throughout with outstanding illustrations of gowns..... More
New York: National Cloak & Suit Co., 1907. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 3/8" X 7". 60pp, plus order forms and size guide. Blank post card for requesting sample materials laid in, with heavy toning to front pastedown. Pictorial staplebound paper wraps show moderate wear, with open tears to corners..... More
New York: Delta Epsilon Pi, 1960. Pamphlet. 11" X 8 1/2". Toning and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Two 1/2" closed tears to edges of covers. Lacks marks and notation. A pamphlet featuring a headshot of Bonnie Jo Marguis, Miss New York State, and "The Rose of Delta Sigma..... More
Washington DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, February 1975. Paperback. A solid copy of this 1975 fitness manual for the US Women's Army Corps, illustrated in 99 figures demonstrating exercises for recruits and commanders to develop and maintain high standards of physical fitness. 10 3/4" X 8 1/4". 205pp. Moderate..... More
Frederick, Maryland: [Frederick News-Post Publishing Co.], 1921. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 26pp. Signed by Eleanor D. Abbott at title page. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with small closed tear to front panel and tail of spine, creasing, and edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. This 1851 edition of John S. C. Abbott's history of Joséphine Bonaparte features a stunning chromolithographic title page as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Empress and 6 engraved plates throughout. 6 3/4" X 4 1/2". [xiii], 14-328pp..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Sappho Was a Right-On Woman comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023). The first nonfiction book to discuss lesbianism positively and non-diagnostically and the..... More
Angerton Gardens: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to the founders of Serenbe in ink by author, Virginia Apperson, at half-title page. Stated first edition. 8 1/4" X 6". xviii, 271pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges, with..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/4". viii, 244pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of orange cloth over boards. Remainder mark to edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Page noting errata is laid in. ABOUT..... More
Los Angeles: Camera Obscura, 1983. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 160pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with edgewear, bumping to extremities, light toning and soiling, and sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this eleventh issue of Camera Obscura: A Journal..... More
Albion, California: Times Change Press, 1973. Third printing. Paperback. Featuring essays by Joanna Russ, Bertha Harris, Esther Newton, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Florence Rush, Jill Johnston, and more, this early feminist, lesbian anthology presents important voices of Second Wave Feminism on such subjects as culture, herstory, politics, celebration, and lesbian feminism. This..... More
![Item #17030 Woman Suffrage: Arguments and Results [The Blue Book] FIRST EDITION. Frances Maule...](https://undergroundbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17030_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751934210)
New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [1912]. First Edition. Hardcover. This rare first edition of the women's rights handbook that would become known as "The Blue Book," with that title and the editors' names added to later, revised editions, collects eight popular booklets into one handy, nearly pocket-size volume..... More
Minneapolis: Vanilla Press, 1978. Stated First Edition. Paperback. 8" X 6 1/2". 95pp. Toning, creasing, and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Coffee ring to rear cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to unmarked pages. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this..... More
Iowa City: Aunt Lute Book Company, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. This history of the Chicago lesbian newspaper Lavender Woman tells the story of one of the earliest out lesbian periodicals in the United States through interviews with and updates on the lives of key contributors, reprinted articles, notices, letters to..... More
Torino, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1988. Hardcover. A bright, tight, clean, and complete set of this 1988 reprinting of the Giornale delle Nuove Mode di Francia e d'Inghilterra, a Milanese fashion magazine that ran from July 1786 to December 1794, edited and introduced by historians Grazietta Butazzi and Stefania..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1977, 1979. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/4"; 6 7/8" X 4 1/4". 214pp, 246pp. Mild wear to color pictorial wraps featuring the art of Gene Szafran (1941-2011) and others, with bumping and rubbing to extremities and faint creases to spines. Bindings are firm, tight, and sound..... More
San Francisco: University of California, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1986. Paperback. Compiled by the co-directors of the Women, Health and Healing Program at the University of California, San Francisco in 1986, this set of resources for instructors of courses on Women, Health and Healing includes: Teaching Materials on..... More
Emporia: Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 89pp. Rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A journal of the practices..... More
Paris: Éditions 7L and Important Flowers, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. This signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by Sofia Coppola and glued into the inside back cover. 13 3/4" X 11 1/2". 448pp. New, within publisher's box, still in original shrink wrap. Gentle bumping to corners, else fine..... More
Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. "In one very useful book pulled together from vastly scattered sources, college students and nonstudent lesbians alike will now be able to learn more about what it means to be a lesbian in America in the 1980s..." — Judith Schwarz..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. This presentable first printing of Angela Y. Davis' landmark account of her life as one of the 1960s' most iconic Black activists comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023)..... More
Riverside: The Herve van Caloen Foundation, 2003. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 8 1/4". 160pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Beguines were neither religious not lay. These were women who as..... More
![Item #17064 [Feminist Lesbianism] Sinister Wisdom, 22 Issues, 1984-1998: Issues 25, 35-40, 42-54,...](https://undergroundbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17064_1.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776717172)
Charlotte, North Carolina; Amherst, Massachussetts; Rockland, Maine; Berkeley, California: Sinister Wisdom; Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Ellenberger Desmoines; Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich; Elana Dykewomon, 1984-1998. First Edition. Paperback. A solid collection of these 22 issues of the foundational feminist, oldest surviving, and longest operating lesbian journal to date. Founded in..... More
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 1994. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing, February 1994, with full number line. 6 7/8" X 4 1/8". 255pp, plus ad. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by John Jude Palencar. Lean and creasing to spine. All edges yellow. Despite creasing to spine..... More
