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
Chicago: Experience Pub. Co., circa 1926. Staplebound wraps. "This is the only publication on the market that defends and upholds the modern flapper instead of ridiculing and reviling her" (rear cover). This "Naughty-Nice Annual" of the 1920s flapper lifestyle and humor magazine Flapper's Experience. Flapper's Experience was the successor to..... More
Washington DC: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1927. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/8" X 5 7/8". 30pp. Mild edgewear and light toning to stapled pictorial paper wraps. Small closed tears to edges. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and photographic reproductions. A...... More
Loose_leaf. This rich archive celebrates the eight decades long career of a girl scout, from 1917 to the 1990s. Gail Remington Willits (1904-2003) joined the Girl Scouts in 1917 and went on to become the first Eaglet in Essex County, New Jersey, a leader of the Orange, NJ scout troop..... 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
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
St. Petersburg, Florida: Women's Energy Bank, 1991. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 3/8". 46pp. Rather heavy wear to staplebound paper wraps, with warping to wraps and text block, ring and dampstain to upper wrap, and creasing to extremities. Binding is sound. Faint dampstain to title page, else pages unmarked. An..... 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
Brigade of the American Revolution, Inc., 2004. Spiral_bound. 11" X 8 1/2". 94pp. Very mild rubbing and wear to covers and edges. Price sticker to rear cover. Small price sticker to inside of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. An overall solid copy of this spiral-bound guide to women's clothing..... 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
Boston: Thomas H. Webb, & Co., 1843. Revised Edition, with numerous additions and illustrative engravings. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 4 7/8". 383pp. Bound in full tan buckram, with spine lettered in gilt within border. Moderate soiling and scattered rubbing to cloth, with mild edgewear and corners turned in. Hinges a...... 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
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
San Marcos, California: Pacific Press, 1981. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 3/8". 273pp. Signed by the author to title page and dated 1987. Ex-Andersonville NHS Library, with the usual stamps and marks to title page, fore-edge, spine, and endpapers. Soiling, edgewear, and coverwear to paper wraps. Binding is sound. Pages..... More
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. 6 1/2" X 5". 164pp, plus 4 pages index. Moderate wear to pictorial paper wraps, showing a naked woman wearing a chastity belt from both anterior and posterior views, with sunning, light soiling, and edgewear. Ink stains to front and rear wraps. Heavy..... 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
Eugene, Oregon: The Feminist Theory Collective, 1976. Staplebound wraps. 8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 36pp. Staplebound printed warps. Mild edgewear and light toning to wraps. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable copy of this illustrated, annotated bibliography on women's labor in Twentieth Century America from..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 320pp, with 4pp Berry College leaflet on glossy paper tipped in to rear. Inscribed by Inez Henry to half-title: "For my friend Betty Reaid, who has inspired me in my work for Berry. Sincerely, Inez Wooten..... More
Seoul, Korea: Pagijong Press, 2014. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 6". 227pp. Very mild edgewear to paperback binding. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. From rear cover: "The Gyu-Bang is a woman's private dormitory established due to the extreme inequality and segregation between the roles of..... More
Paris: Charpentier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. Leather bound. 6 3/4" X 4 1/4". 696pp. Text in French. Bound in full deep royal blue leather, with gilt-stamped floral details, six raised bands to spine, and inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with some heavy rubbing to extremities and scattered..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1922. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 3/8". 191pp. Pattered paper over boards with spine backed in white cloth and lettered in gilt. Heavy rubbing to edges and extremities, with hard bumping to corners, sunning to spine, fading to gilt, and moderate scattered rubbing..... More
Boston: Griffith-Stillings Press, 1906. January Edition. Paperback. 6 7/8" X 4 3/4". 48pp. In original mailing envelope, showing edgewear and light soiling. Moderate edgewear to paper wraps, with spots of light toning and soiling. Binding is sound. Spot of soiling to margin of pages 28 to 32. A solid copy..... More
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Charlotte, North Carolina; Amherst, Massachussetts; Rockland, Maine; Berkeley, California: Sinister Wisdom; Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Ellenberger Desmoines; Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich; Elana Dykewomon, 1977-1990. Paperback. A solid collection of these six issues of the foundational feminist, oldest surviving, and longest operating lesbian journal to date. Founded in 1976 by..... More
