New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated, 22pp. Printed staplebound wraps. Mild edgewear to wraps, with shallow open tears to head and tail of spine. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked. A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions, for..... More
Atlanta: The League of Women Voters of Georgia, 1966. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Mild wear to yellow pictorial staplebound wraps, with edgewear, toning, foxing, and stain to rear through rear free endpaper. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this 1966 guide to..... More
East Lansing, Michigan: Helen Diner Memorial Women's Center Ambitious Amazons, 1993-2000. Staplebound. These 37 issues of the lesbian magazine Lesbian Connection span from 1993 to 2000 and hold letters and responses about issues as varied as nipple piercing, fatphobia, transgender politics, and adoption, the "Directory of Contact Dykes," subscribers who..... More
Raleigh, North Carolina: Pi Theta Mu and Sigma Phi Kappa Literary Societies of Peace Institute, 1920. First Edition. Leather bound. 10 1/2" X 8". 115pp, plus ten leaves of ads. Soft leather over stiff wraps, with upper wrap stamped in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with tearing, chipping, and flaking..... More
College Park, Maryland: National Women's Studies Association; The Feminist Press, 1980-2004. Paperback. This lot of eleven items ranges from a two-hundred-plus-page history of the National Women's Studies Association to a flyer supporting the legal rights of a Black Women's Studies professor discriminated against by San Diego State University in the..... 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
St. Petersburg, Florida: Women's Energy Bank, Inc., 1992-1998. Loose_leaf. These 55 issues of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based lesbian magazine Womyn's Words span from 1992 to 1998 and hold book and movie reviews, a sex advice column answering questions about orgasms and "computer sex" and more, classifieds, articles on the AIDS..... More
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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1900, 1893. Hardcover. This charming pair of educational fairy books are the work of “A.L.O.E.” (A Lady of England), the prolific writer and missionary Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893). In Fairy Know-A-Bit a “spoilt little boy” and his companion learn a thing or two from the..... 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
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 3/8". xiii, 409pp, plus 16pp ads. Brown cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, and mild scattered rubbing. Dark brown..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed and inscribed in ink by author, Gina Barreeca, to title page. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". ix, 262pp. Very mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with spine backed in white. Pages crisp, clean, and..... 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
New York: John Day Company, 1941. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 203pp. Dust jacket in pieces and laid in, with dampstains and creasing. Pale yellow cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in dark burgundy. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners gently bumped. Binding is firm and..... More
Torino, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1988. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes with original slipcase. Text in Italian. 9 3/4" X 5 5/8". CXLIII, 1-200pp, (iv); 205-512pp, (iv); 517-830pp, (ii). Decorative green paper over boards. Gentle rubbing to extremities of matching slipcase with green ribbon. Bindings are firm, tight, and..... More
Brooklyn: Faith Home for Incurables, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 6". viii, 120pp. Embossed dark green cloth over bevelled boards, with upper board stamped in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with corners torn and turned in, tears to head and tail of..... More
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Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Press, 1908. Hardcover. "The history of nations is, in its ultimate analysis, largely that of woman...." 8 X 5 3/8". 9 out of 10 volumes; lacking Women of the Romance Countries. Red-violet cloth over boards, with black morocco-grain pattern to covers, and woman standing upon a globe surrounded..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This charming introduction to astronomy through fact and fantasy was published in 1883 and is a stunning sidereal exploration from cover to cover. Employing classical myth, fantastical allegories, and imaginative journeys through the heavens, In the Sky-Garden follows its young heroine Joy as..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Hardcover. This creative imagining of the girlhoods of fifteen Shakespearean heroines is the work of Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare and Shakespeare Proverbs, among others, and friend to Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and Charles and Mary Lamb. In setting..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 186pp. Moderate wear to yellow patterned dust jacket, with original price of $3.00 intact to front flap. Small tears to edges and extremities, sunning to spine, light toning to rear, and line..... More
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. This medical, historical, legal, and literary study of the chastity belt is the work of Eric John "Dirty Ding" Dingwall (1890–1986), a respected anthropologist, skeptical psychical investigator, and sexologist who earned his nickname from his research interests in erotica and sexual customs. Dingwall..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. This Victorian travelogue is the work of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831–1892), the queer English novelist, journalist, Egyptologist, and co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys forms the account of her 1872 ramble through the northeastern Italian..... 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
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing, August 1984, with full number line. 7" X 4 1/8". 301pp, plus ads, including laid in Science Fiction Book Club mailer. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by Jill Bauman. Printer's error: raised red metallic title..... More
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 1984. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/8". 301pp. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by Jill Bauman. Creasing to corners and to spine. Slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name to first page. Pages are gently age-toned, else clean and..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5". vii, 288pp, plus two leaves of ads. Brown cloth over boards nicely stamped in gilt, red, and black. Spine split 4" from tail up along rear board, with smaller tear along upper board edge, shallow chipping to head and tail..... More
