Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![3736048] Songs of the Underworld by Clem Yore, 1914. Clem Yore](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
First edition of this collection of poems focused on the lives of society’s outcasts and downtrodden in 1914 America, including sex workers and abused women..... Read More about Songs of the Underworld by Clem Yore, 1914
![3735709] Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist. Earl Conrad](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735709.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759269383)
Harriet Tubman as Soldier, Nurse, and National Icon First edition, first printing of this important Tubman biography, published during World War II by a left-leaning..... Read More about Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist
![3734381] Temperance Parade Float of the Delaware Women’s Christian Temperance Union, original...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734381.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729783890)
Documentary photograph of a circa 1910s–1920s Delaware Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) parade float preparing to join a parade, likely in Dover. Built on a...... Read More about Temperance Parade Float of the Delaware Women’s Christian Temperance Union, original photograph...
![3735488] “Girl Campers” by Patricia Highsmith [first published work, in:] Woman’s World....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735488.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757615679)
Patricia Highsmith’s earliest published work: a series of letters written at age twelve from a girls’ summer camp, issued two years later when she was..... Read More about “Girl Campers” by Patricia Highsmith [first published work, in:] Woman’s World. July, 1935
![3735441] Outdoor Group Tintype with Photographic Props, Possibly Rockland, Maine. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735441.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756395001)
Circa 1870s–1880s outdoor tintype showing over thirty women and three men, posed before trees and a wooden structure, possibly a school. Notable details include: second..... Read More about Outdoor Group Tintype with Photographic Props, Possibly Rockland, Maine
![3735422] A Collection of Twenty-Two Protestant Episcopal Tracts, New York, ca. 1829–1835....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735422.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756417023)
A representative sammelband reflecting the religious and social themes promoted by the Protestant Episcopal Tract Society in early nineteenth-century New York, including moral narratives, practical..... Read More about A Collection of Twenty-Two Protestant Episcopal Tracts, New York, ca. 1829–1835. Accounts...
![3735395] Sorosis, Vol.1, 1901, 3rd Edition. A E. Little, Co](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735395.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755119929)
A scarce trade catalog, not a magazine, that doubles as a piece of social history, documenting both the rise of the Sorosis Shoe Company and..... Read More about Sorosis, Vol.1, 1901, 3rd Edition
![3735379] To Our Sisters. Chester County — Pennsylvania](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735379.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755725235)
A persuasive Pennsylvania temperance broadside, issued June 18, 1889, the day before the state’s prohibition referendum. Addressed to the women of Pennsylvania, the circular appeals..... Read More about To Our Sisters
![3735237] Follow Thru. “I Want to Be Bad.” (Jazz Age golf musical sheet music, later filmed.)....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735237.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750800582)
Copyrighted in 1928 at the height of the Jazz Age, this first edition sheet music for Follow Thru showcases the breakout number “I Want to..... Read More about Follow Thru. “I Want to Be Bad.” (Jazz Age golf musical sheet music, later filmed
![3735018] Children’s Liberation. Country Women](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735018.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749761458)
A significant issue of the pioneering feminist periodical Country Women, here devoted to the theme of “Children’s Liberation.” Published bimonthly by a rural women’s collective..... Read More about Children’s Liberation. Country Women
![3735342] The Animal Hotel. A Novella. (Paul Monette’s copy). Jean Garrigue](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735342.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205040)
First edition, first printing of this novella by the Indiana author. This copy with the bookplate of Paul Monette, the acclaimed gay author, poet, and..... Read More about The Animal Hotel. A Novella. (Paul Monette’s copy
![3732556] The Ego and the Centaur. (Inscribed to poet Odell Shepard). Jean Garrigue](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732556.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205040)
Association copy inscribed by Jean Garrigue to Odell Shepard: “For Odell Shepherd [sic] with admiration and appreciation / Jean Garrigue.” First edition, first printing of..... Read More about The Ego and the Centaur. (Inscribed to poet Odell Shepard
![3732555] The Ego and the Centaur. Jean Garrigue](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732555.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753910848)
First edition, first printing of this Indiana-author’s first solo book. Shepard taught English at Trinity College and won the Pulitzer for his 1937 biography Louisa..... Read More about The Ego and the Centaur
![3735249] All This and Heaven Too. (first edition; inscribed copy; trial dust jacket). Rachel Field](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735249.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205065)
First edition, first printing. Near fine in a good dust jacket (lacks the bottom 2″ of the spine) that was eventually issued with the book..... Read More about All This and Heaven Too. (first edition; inscribed copy; trial dust jacket
![3735142] Indian Summer. Autumn Poems and Sketches. Louise Clarkson Whitelock](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735142.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205070)
First edition. A richly designed American color plate gift book pairing 12 botanical illustrations by Louise Clarkson Whitelock (1865-1928), with poems by Celia Thaxter, Rose..... Read More about Indian Summer. Autumn Poems and Sketches
![3733935] Outline of the Course of Instructions on Ontology. (The Science of Being) given by Lola...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733935.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729783860)
A self-published recruitment tool for a larger program of metaphysical instruction offered by Lola E. Fellman, providing her detailed curriculum. Lola E. Fellman’s brochure centers..... Read More about Outline of the Course of Instructions on Ontology. (The Science of Being) given by Lola E. Fellman
![3734896] “And Now a Bow.” A Centennial Tribute to Gertrude Stein (1874–1896). An Exhibition...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734896.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744319380)
Mounted at The Grolier Club in 1974 to mark the centennial of her birth, this exhibition brought together rare manuscripts, photographs, and first editions from..... Read More about “And Now a Bow.” A Centennial Tribute to Gertrude Stein (1874–1896). An Exhibition at The...
![3734072] Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. [cover title]. Eugene Jolas Georges Braque, Tristan...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734072.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743445570)
“In later years Braque, Eugene Jolas, Matisse, Andre Salmon, and Tristan Tzara published jointly a Testimony against Gertrude Stein (1935), in which they denied her..... Read More about Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. [cover title
![3732349] Afro-Americans in the Civil War. From Slavery to Citizenship. Charles H. Wesley,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732349.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707859290)
Revised Edition. A volume in the series “International Library of Afro-American Life and History,” published under the auspices of The Association for the Study of..... Read More about Afro-Americans in the Civil War. From Slavery to Citizenship
![3733391] Miralda, das Negermädchen, oder die schwarze Nachtigall der Habana. Herchenbach](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733391.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706564310)
Second edition of this 19th century tale about Miralda, a 12-year old girl of mixed racial identity, and the “black nightingale of Havana.” In “What’s..... Read More about Miralda, das Negermädchen, oder die schwarze Nachtigall der Habana
![3733636] Prohibition and Woman Suffrage. Speech of Albert Williams of Ionia, Michigan, Made at...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733636.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709064176)
“Prohibition Economy, Pure Government, and Equal Rights for All.” A campaign speech from Judge Albert Williams (1817-1907) of Ionia, Michigan promoting the National Prohibition Party..... Read More about Prohibition and Woman Suffrage. Speech of Albert Williams of Ionia, Michigan, Made at Charlotte,...
![3733619] Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733619.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751674749)
Political broadside issued by the Baltimore City Federation of Republican Women, aimed at women voters, attacking the president of Johns Hopkins University, Joseph S. Ames..... Read More about Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside attacking...
![3733323] “To the Women of Canada.” First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force recruiting...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733323.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679941892)
A recruitment leaflet issued by the Royal Grenadiers Overseas Battalion, 123rd Canadian Expeditionary Force urging women to shun and shame men refusing to fight in..... Read More about “To the Women of Canada.” First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force recruiting broadside
![3733222] Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733222.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679338236)
Photograph of the soundstage and set of an experimental, early television production of Helen Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles. The 1916 play, based on a real-life..... Read More about Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of “Trifles,”...
![3731709] A Princess of The Stage. Nataly von Eschstruth, pen name of Nataly von...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731709.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706601310)
Translated into English by Elise L. Lathrop. An unrecorded American dime novel edition of this tragic-comedic tale by Nataly von Eschstruth (1860-1939) involving “a romantic..... Read More about A Princess of The Stage
