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
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
Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Chattanooga Medicine Company, 1912. Staplebound wraps. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 32pp. Staplebound printed wraps show moderate wear, with some light chipping to extremities, mild soiling, toning, and surface and edgewear. Gathering including pages 15-18 loose from bottom staple, still secured by top staple. Binding remains sound..... More
Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Chattanooga Medicine Company, 1917. Staplebound wraps. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 32pp. Staplebound printed wraps show moderate wear, with rubbing to extremities, some minute tears to edges, mild soiling, foxing, toning, and surface and edgewear. Binding remains sound. Pages are age-toned with occasional scattered foxing, else unmarked..... 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
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
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
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
New York: Philomel Books, 2018. Hardcover. Two volumes in matching slipcase with print in original envelope laid in. Art print is signed by both Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger. 11 5/8" X 9 3/8". Mild edgewear to slipcase, with bumping to extremities, indentations, and "Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition" sticker..... 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
