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First printing.  16mo, 43-62pp; buff beige wrappers printed in black and vermilion.  A discussion of contemporary bookplate designs and their designers with illustrations.  Among the designers highlighted:  Jay Chambers, Homer W. Colby, William Edgar Fisher, Elizabeth Hollowell, Mrs. Annie B. Hooper, Theodore Hapgood et al.  Fragile wrappers almost detached; 1/2" triangular piece lacking bottom tip rear panel.  An interesting source on turn-of-the-century bookplates and their artists.
"Recent American Ex Libris" THE CORNHILL BOOKLET
[Bookplates] Stone, Wilbur Macey.
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, September, 1901.
Price: $35.00
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Important account of the Nat Turner Insurrection.  8vo, 245pp; printed tan wrappers.  Blind owner's stamp front cover; covers edgeworn with spine lacking a 1/4"  at foot and partially detached.  About very good.  This issue contains Part IV of Harriet Beecher Stowe's AGNES OF SORRENTO, as well as articles on Stephen Douglas, the impact of the Civil War, etc.  Most interesting is T.W. Higginson's account of "Nat Turner's Insurrection" of 1831.   Higginson, who would command the first all-black division in the Civil War, was the first serious writer to examine the Turner rebellion.  A well-known abolitionist, Higginson's sympathies with the fiery preacher and slave are clear.  A critical landmark in the literature of the Southampton Insurrection.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, August, 1861, (Number 46)
[Nat Turner] Higginson, T.W.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.
Price: $100.00
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8vo, 410pp; dark blue wove cloth with printed black label lettered in gold front panel and smooth black cloth spine stamped in gold (without dust jacket, as issued).  Frontispiece photograph of the playwright.  The standard bibliography for Eugene O'Neill.  Fine.
EUGENE O'NEILL A Descriptive Bibliography
[O'Neill, Eugene] McCabe, Jennifer.
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
Price: $30.00
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First edition.  12mo (7-3/8 x 5"), iv, 107pp; + publisher's catalogue; brick cloth stamped in black at front cover and in blind at rear.  Printed endpapers, with publisher offerings.  Touch of wear to tips and ends; occasional pencil markings to text.  Very good.  No. IX of "The Handy-Book Series".  The author discusses:  "Outline History of Costume"; "What We Mean by Dressing Well"; "Things Indispensable"; "Color, Form and Suitability"; "Estimates of Cost"; "How and What to Buy"; and, "Hints on Dress".  The author considers the fashions which men have worn, in some periods more elaborate and fantastical than those for women, with observations such as:  "In France [the whimsies of Fashion] were often more ridiculous than in England; for in that country Fashion has ever been more fickle than elsewhere, and in her haste to adopt the new, she has more often accepted the hideous or the comic". Gale has a sharpish tongue which she enjoys exercising with the advice she dispenses:  "The sylph who scarcely turns the scales at a hundred pounds, cannot carry the flowing mantles which have become necessary to obscure the too expansive outlines of the matron, whose position in a carriage is sufficiently indicated by the condition of the springs".  However, she lays down clear, straightforward guidelines undoubtedly useful to her readers.  "The Handy-Book Series" also includes "How to Educate Yourself", "Social Economy", "The Home", by Frank Stockton, "What to Eat", etc. .  OCLC: 1289101.
HINTS ON DRESS: or, What to Wear, When to Wear It, and How to Buy It
[Advice Literature] Gale, Ethel C..
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872.
Price: $175.00
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First edition.  First printing.  8vo, 368pp; green cloth stamped in gold front and spine; green dust jacket printed in white, yellow and black; top edge stained yellow.  Touch of wear to foot of spine and slight rubbing to tips and spine.  Jacket a somewhat worn (as usual) with two shallow chips (1/4") at head of spine, to closed tears at top edge and minor wear at heel.  The book is firm and fresh.  Very good.  Carson's denunciation of the use of chemical pesticides was the wake-up call to U.S. environmentalists and resulted in passage of the first anti-pesticide bills here.  At the time of its original publication it received eight awards.  Its influence continues to be profound.  The importance of the book is suggested by its inclusion in the New York Public Library's BOOKS OF THE CENTURY, The NEW YORK TIMES 100 and MASTERPIECES OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE.  And in 1999 The New York University Journalism Department ranked the book #2 in "the best [100] works of 20th-century American journalism".  BOOKS OF THE CENTURY, p. 42. MASTERPIECES OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE, pp. 458-460.   100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN OF ALL TIME, pp. 104-107.  THE NEW YORK TIMES 100, No. 88.
SILENT SPRING Drawings by Louis and Lois Darling
Carson, Rachel.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
Price: $300.00
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Celluloid button:  11/16" in diameter, "VOTES / FOR / WOMEN" in black against a gold ground; straight back pin.  With stiff gold celluloid ribbon imprinted in black, "VOTES 'YES' / NOVEMBER 2".  Gold ground of pin showing aging.  Generally very good.  Four key Northeast states held referendum on woman suffrage on November 2nd, 1915:  Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.  The National American Woman Suffrage Association produced buttons, banners, pennants, posters in quantity which could be used by the state associations.  Despite these pooled resources, all four referendums went down to defeat - it was a stunning setback to the movement.      This suffrage button is the one produced most widely during the final decade of the movement which saw the most vigorous public activity by its suffragists.  The presence of the celluloid ribbon, however, is unusual.  A very attractive example.
Political button: VOTES FOR WOMEN Vote "Yes" November 2
[Suffrage],
[NP]: , [ca. 1915].
Price: $195.00
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Two variants of a large leaflet advertising a march and rally in support of women's rights.  Leaflet:  14 x 8-1/2", 1pp; pale yellow stock printed in black (both sides).  With photograph of Bella Abzug speaking at an outdoor rally with a sign interpreter on the dais with her.  Leaflet folded once horizontally; minor crease to lower left corner.  Very good.  A second leaflet printed on white stock, lacking the photograph and with a slightly different listing of "Endorsements & Coalition Participants" at reverse.  Also very good.  The leaflet notes:  "The Day in the Park for Women's Rights has become a Bay Area tradition.  Occurring on or about International Women's Day eac hyear, it provides groups and individuals who support equal rights for women with an opportunity to come together in a visible show of strength, unity, and determination".  A map of the march route is printed as are essentials details for the march and rally.  The key note speakers - Bella Abzug, Ed Asner and Sonia Johnson - are announced in bold type at the front of the leaflet.  Among the organizations endorsing or participating are:  Options for Women Over Forty; Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women; Community United Against Violence; San Francisco Labor Council; National Task Force on Prostitution; Socialist Workers Party; Lesbian Rights Project, Equal Rights Advocates; Richmond Involved in Safe Energy; and, the Human Rights Foundation.  The list eloquently reflects the wide range and disparate missions of grassroots organizations involved in the women's rights movement of the period.  The leaflet also announces "1,000 Equal Rights Amendment bumper stickers will be given away to ERA supporters who consent to display them".  Within the next three years, of course, the ERA amendment would fail.
Leaflet: "6th ANNUAL DAY IN THE PARK FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS"
[Feminism], S[an] F[rancisco] NOW.
[San Francisco, CA: S.F. NOW, c. 1981].
Price: $150.00
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First edition.  8vo, 313pp; (including Index); wove blue cloth stamped in gold at the front and spine.  Institutional copy with stamps at the title page (lower right) and front pastedown, fittingly “Packard Commercial School” (Packard Junior College).  Title page separated along gutter (1-1/2”).  Some spotting and rubbing to spine.  About very good.          Helen Campbell (1839-1918), author and reformer, married a surgeon in 1860 and two years later divorced him.  It suggests the remarkable self-possession which characterized her even at age 23.  She wrote children’s stories and then novels and eventually began contributing weekly pieces to THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.  She appreciated the myriad difficulties which beset women in the work place and in 1887 collected the TRIBUNE essays in PRISONERS OF POVERTY.       Professor Richard Ely introduces WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS by saying, “The importance of the subject with which the present work deals cannot well be over-estimated”.  Campbell provides a salient look at women laborers in the United States from the Colonial period on, discussing factory labor, the rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, etc. and contrasting working conditions in Europe with those in the United States.  She concludes by reviewing the abuses women are subject to and offering ‘remedies and suggestions’.  The inequality of wages between men and women, not surprisingly, is a key component of her discussion.  The volume also prints three appendices, the third a “Bibliography of Woman’s Labor and of the Woman Question”.  THE FEMINIST COMPANION, p. 175.  Krichmar, 2297.
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen [Stuart].
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
Price: $65.00
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Only edition.  Trade catalog:  9-1/4 x 6-1/4", [12]pp; light brown wrappers (stapled) illustrated with three pieces of Paul Revere Ware’ the logo of the Paul Revere Pottery at the rear cover.  Illustrated with photographs of the Nottingham Hill studio; an artist painting a large vase; and the studio's offerings.  Touch of dampstaining to upper front cover and first leaf; pencil note at second page of price list.  Generally very good.  The catalog prints brief profile of the Paul Revere Pottery; photographs of its offerings; and, a complete price list.     The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery (1908-1942) arose out of the confluence of the Arts and Crafts Movement with the women's movement and the progressive spirit of the early 1900s.  Founders and artists Edith Brown and Edith Guerrier had the full support of Boston philanthropist Helen Storrow in this experiment to provide a vocation for talented young women and convey the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement in pottery.  The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery became especially known for their engaging children's ware painted with geese, baby chicks and bunnies and often individualized with children’s names or initials.  The Pottery produced lamps, flower vases, bowls, candlesticks, tea caddies, trays, desk sets, pitchers, etc.  The pottery invoked a simple elegance in the shape of its ware and often relied on its glazes solely for decoration.  The catalog notes:  "The motto chosen for the ware on the first little circular is still and always will be the message the potters hope each piece will be worthy to carry - We derive all the value in us from the fact that our makers wrought at us with zeal, with integrity, with fail to do nobly an honest thing".     From its inception, the studio attracted an appreciative clientele and wide interest among contemporaries for its mission and its wares.  While the studio ceased operation during World War II, its pottery has continue to rise in the collectible market and its influence continues to be assessed by scholars.  OCLC records no holding, and only four locations of a 1915 catalog and two locations of a slightly smaller, undated, catalog.  Not in McKinstry or Romaine.  See:  Gadsden, Nonie, ART & REFORM:  Sara Galner, The Saturday Evening Girls, and The Paul Revere Pottery (2006, published in connection with the exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); and Chalmer, Meg and Judy L. Young, THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS; PAUL REVERE POTTERY (2005).
Trade Catalog: PAUL REVERE POTTERY WARE
[Saturday Evening Girls],
Brighton, Massachusetts: Paul Revere, [ca. 1921].
Price: $450.00
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MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
Stewart, Cora Wilson.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1922).
Price: $350.00
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Leaflet:  8-1/2 x 7", 4pp; printed blue on off-white stock.  Fine.  The leaflet addresses commonly raised questions and issues regarding the Equal Rights Amendment:  What is ERA?; What will ERA do?; How will the ERA become law?; Why do we need ERA?; What do national letters say about ERA?; ERA will equalize Social Security benefits; ERA will not interfere with an individual’s privacy; Will women be drafted under ERA?; ERA will remove discriminatory labor laws; ERA will not do away with laws against rape; How will ERA affect states' rights?;  What happens to women's rights in marriage and divorce under ERA?; and Who supports ERA?   The leaflet offers a succinct overview of the Amendment and addresses myths offered by its opponents.  It points out, for instance, as far as women and the draft:  "With a volunteer army about to go into effect, it's a dead issue for now".  Likewise, it reassures those concerned about the impact of the ERA on states' rights that it "does not take away states' rights", and compares the language of the amendment with the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments.  The leaflet lists numerous organizations which support the ERA, largely women's or labor organizations.   The national leaders they cite as pro-ERA are surprisingly few, just five, two of whom are Senator Strom Thurmond and Governor George Wallace.  Not in OCLC.  ERA literature, in general, is surprisingly uncommon.
Leaflet: THE ERA What It Means to Men and Women
[ERA], [League of Women Voters].
(Washington, D.C.): League of Women Voters of the United States, (ca. 1973).
Price: $75.00
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Thick 8vo, 528pp; dark red cloth with gilded label at front and spine and elaborate embossing in blind at front and spine; floral endpapers.  Title page printed in blue ink. Decorative initial caps, vignettes and full-page illustrations.  Frontispiece portrait of the author.  Front hinge a little strained; elaborate ownership signature at a front blank; some foxing to edges.  Mild overall use to binding with tips and corners somewhat rubbed; rear panel shows staining and the small remnant of a label (?).  About very good.        The contents are organized into "Women in the Business World" and "Women in the Literary World", the latter includes popular poems and prose pieces such as Lucy Larcom's "Hannah Binding Shoes" and Elizabeth Allen's "Rock Me to Sleep".  Brief biographical sketches accompany many of the selections.  "Women in the Business World" offers chapters  on  "Woman's Work"; "Wages in New York and Elsewhere"; "The Profession of Literature"; "The Profession of Journalism"; "The Profession of Law"; "Government Clerks"; "Women of Enterprise"; "The Profession of Telegraphy"; "Lady Canvassers"; "Raising Poultry"; and "Keeping Boarders" among other topics.  Mrs. Rayne writes in her prefatory note that some five decades earlier, Harriet Martineau reported while visiting Massachusetts that only seven professions were open to women.  In WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO, Mrs. Rayne sets out to "illustrate the many employments given, by facts and curious incidents gathered from various sources and from personal observation".
WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO; Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World
Rayne, Mrs. M[artha] L[ouise].
Detroit, Mich. Cincinnati, O. St. Louis, Mo.: F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1885.
Price: $100.00
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Broadside:  10-1/4 x 6", printed black on buff stock (at one side), with red title.  Creased where folded twice (likely to fit an envelope); two short closed tears at folds (right margin, not affecting text); small nick at left edge; browning along creases at verso.  About very good.  The Republican National Committee prints a series of "Because" answers, emulating the style of various suffrage broadsides.  Here, of course, the RNC provides reasons why women should vote Republican, starting first with Republican support for woman suffrage ("It gave WOMEN the right to vote").  It also credits the Republican Party for creation of the Women's Bureau, sponsorship of child labor legislation, advancing education, generous veteran benefits, the prosperity of American labor, reduced taxes which have enhanced the economy, and stable business conditions ("BUSINESS looks forward to a period of unprecedented prosperity").  The RNC's final claim is that Republicans "called, directed, and inspired the Disarmament Conference, the greatest victory of the ages in the cause of PEACE"  (1931-1937), which suggests it issued the broadside during the 1932 election campaign.  The Republicans played a key role in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and sought the support of women voters on the strength of this throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s.  The language of the broadside offers, in retrospect, a rather extraordinary example of campaign rhetoric.  OCLC does not show an institutional holding.
Broadside: "EVERY WOMAN A VOTER"
[Women & Politics], Republican National Committee.
Washington, D.C.: Republican National Committee, [ND, but ca. 1932].
Price: $200.00
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WOMAN'S WORK IN MUNICIPALITIES National Municipal League Series
Beard, Mary Ritter.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1915.
Price: $125.00
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Only edition.  Pamphlet:  5-1/4 x 3-7/8", [12]pp; black wrappers (stapled) with silver lettering and decorations; halftone photographic portrait of the writer at the last page, with facsimile signature.  Very good.  An account of an aged couple who lose their home, despite having worked all of their lives.  At the story's end appears a letter from [Bishop] Frances McConnell as President of the American Association for Old Age Security.  He writes the enactment of a state "Old Age Security Law" could prevent stories such as that of Martin and Bertha.  Obviously written prior to the passage of the Social Security Act, LIGHTS OUT is a sentimental, but effective argument for enabling those earnings have provided them a meager living to grow old in the comfort and dignity of their home.  Jane Addams, who served as a vice president of the Association and was a good friend of Zona Gale, wrote an endorsement of the piece.  The writer's first stories featured two elderly lovers, suggesting her empathy for the elderly throughout her life.  It was after she met Senator Robert M. La Follette in 1913, however, that she became an activist in a variety of causes:  the American Civic Association, the Women's Trade Union League, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Wisconsin Peace Society and the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association.  As Walter Rideout summarized in his profile of the writer in NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, "A conscientious author, she was equally a conscientious citizen of her nation and her state, both in her devotion to idealistic causes and in her willingness to assume public responsibilities".  LIGHTS OUT is an excellent and unusual example of these qualities.
Pamphlet: LIGHTS OUT A Tragedy
Gale, Zona [and American Association for Social Security].
[New York City: American Association for Old Age Security, ca. 1927-1933?].
Price: $450.00
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BEACON HILL: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive. Book I
M[orton], S[arah Wentworth].
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797.
Price: $5,500.00
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Sheet Music: A SONG OF LOVE (Chanson d'Amour)" (Words by Victor Hugo)
[Sheet Music] Beach, Mrs. H.H.A. [Amy Marcy Cheney Beach].
Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, [ca. 1893].
Price: $250.00
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Only edition.  4to, vii, <200>pp; including endmatter; gray endpapers; red wove cloth with blue oval framing title in gold (front and spine). Printed in black with red highlights.  Illustrated with halftone portraits of Republican political figures.  Touch of wear to tips and ends.  Near fine.  The Preface states:  "This cookbook is for Republicans.  In it you will find recipes for an infinite variety of dishes...all reflecting the traditions and ancestry of the people of each state in our wonderful nation".  Accompanying recipes are brief biographies of a number of Republican notables:  "You will be gratified to perceive that Republican leaders are family-type people like you and me....who are today shaping the destiny of the United States".  The cookbook begins with President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew and follows with a leading Republican, with photograph (very often with family), and recipes, representing each state and the District of Columbia.  Dinner menus are offered as well.  Regional recipes are emphasized:  "Alabama quail"; "Baked Salmon" (Alaska); "Mint julep" with a Derby breakfast menu from Louie B. Nunn, governor of Kentucky; "Crab cakes" and "Carne adobada" (New Mexico).  Casseroles make frequent appearances.  Also printed are "Republican Members of the Ninety-first Congress" and additionally a brief list of other Republican cookbooks.  A rare instance when culinary and political text are interwoven (and equally represented).  OCLC records 14 locations.
THE REPUBLICAN COOKBOOK with Recipes for Political Success
[Political Cookbooks],
[Barrington, Ill]: The Brownstone Press, Inc., (1969).
Price: $95.00
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