Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism
Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1913.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Floyd Dell on the front free endpaper, inscribed to a Laura Tubry[?] "feminist and friend." 104 pp. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Very Good+ with light toning and moderate rubbing to covers, dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock. Light foxing to endpapers and sporadically throughout. Binding square.
A signed first edition of Floyd Dell's first book, a collection of admiring essays on feminist leaders originally published in the Friday Literary Review. The word "feminism" was first used to describe the advocacy of female equality around 1895. It was not widely used until the mid-20th century, and Dell's embrace of it in the subtitle and inscription places him in the avant-garde. The Socialist writer and activist went on to edit the radical magazine The Masses, which he wrote stood for "truth, beauty, realism, freedom, peace, feminism, revolution."
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