London: Chapman and Hall, 1883. First edition, first printing of what is widely recognized as one of the first feminist novels. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding, pages toned and with occasional instances of light spotting. Finely bound in full black ostrich skin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, mirroring the..... More
New York: Wallis and Newell, 1835. First American edition. (Following the three volume British edition.) Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper..... More
Northampton, MA: Department of History of Smith College, 1935. First edition. Signed by Vera Shlakman on front free endpaper, association copy inscribed to Smith College colleague Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, "To K.D.L. - (a) with thanks, and (b) in memory of the preface that could never be written [initialed] V.S."..... More
New York: Olympia Press, 1968. First trade edition, preceded by a virtually impossible to find self-published mimeographed edition. Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with light foxing and light wear to wraps, light sunning to spine and pages toned. A very nice copy of this radical feminist manifesto..... More
European Publishing Company, 1898. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed in the year of publication by Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a lengthy inscription on the dedication page to renowned first-wave Portland feminist Abigail Scott Dunaway. Dunaway was a women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. First edition in book form, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Very Good with rubbing to extremities, bookseller ticket and contemporary owner name in pencil to front free endpaper and pages lightly thumbed. This story was originally published in New England Magazine..... More
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Boston: New England Magazine Corporation, 1892. First edition, featuring the first appearance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's iconic feminist short-story, "The Yellow Wall Paper," seven years before it would be published by Small, Maynard & Co. in its first stand-alone version. Bound in brown pebbled cloth decorated in blind with spine..... More
New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1928. First edition. Signed by the poet and inscribed to former owner on the dedication page in ink, dated 1929. [viii], 150 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with spine lettering rubbed off, small ink smudge on dedication page, in a...... More
New York / Santa Monica, CA: Semiotext(e) / Smart Art Press, 1998. First edition. Signed by Michelle Tea on the half title, inscribed to former owner. 185, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with light wear. Signed Dar Williams postcard laid in (if this book was your jam..... More
New York: Published for the Author, 1853. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated..... More
Oxford: Mrs. C.L.H. Wallace, [1883]. First edition. 135, [3], xii pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate gilt and black stamping, patterned endpapers. Very Good+ with light wear, a few tiny stains to cloth, a few spots of foxing to edges, hinges starting. A scarce vegetarian cookbook with..... More
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs Collective, 1970-1979. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-5, [8] -24; Vol. II, Nos. 1-4, 6, 8-10; Vol. III 1-4, 6-12; Vol. IV Nos 1-12; Vol. V 1-4, 6-11 (includes misnumbered "Vol. IV No. 3" which is actually third number of this volume); Vol. VI Nos. 1-10; Vol..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798. First edition. [xviii], 181; [vi], 196; [viii], 192; [viii], 195 pp. Complete in four volumes. Contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper sides, spines ruled and numbered in gilt with morocco labels. Bound with half titles, errata noted on versos of Vol. I b6 and..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. First edition, first printing of Wollstonecraft's radical and instructive treatise on female education which anticipated many of the themes in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. iv, 160 pp. Bound in contemporary calf without half-title page as issued. Near Fine with spine expertly..... More
Philadelphia: William Gibbons, 1792. xvi, [17], 274pp + [1] contents + [1] ads. First American edition, published the same year as the British first edition; and preceding the Boston edition, also published the same year but advertised for sale before the Philadelphia edition. Bound in modern three-quarter calf over marbled..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited first edition. Copy 68 of 861 copies signed by Virginia Woolf. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to boards and fading to spine cloth. Former owner bookplate to front paste down with offsetting to front..... More
The Fountain Press and The Hogarth Press: New York and London, 1929. First edition, large paper issue, copy number 400 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with subtle sunning to cloth..... More
