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First Edition of Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
BROCKETT, L. P..
Woman’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience.
Philadelphia : Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867.
First edition of this major early history of Civil War women, published only two years after the war's end, with authoritative accounts of groundbreaking work by Clara Barton and over 80 field nurses. Thick octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 16 steel-engraved portraits and a contributing essay by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In near fine condition. A sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 140052
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Rare First Edition of Charlotte Perkins Stetson's masterpiece of feminist theory Women and Economics
STETSON, Charlotte Perkins [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some rubbing to the front panel. First editions are scarce, especially in the original cloth.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 124359
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Rare First Edition of Charlotte Perkins Stetson's masterpiece of feminist theory Women and Economics
STETSON, Charlotte Perkins [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,950.00 Item Number: 127602
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“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it": First Edition of Joseph McElroy's Women and Men; Signed by Him
MCELROY, Joseph.
Women and Men.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of this modern classic compared with Joyce's Ulysses. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joseph McElroy on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket illustration and design by Carin Goldberg.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138905
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First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love; In the Exceedingly Rare Dust Jacket
LAWRENCE, D.H.
Women in Love.
New York: Thomas Selzer, 1922.
First American trade edition of the author's classic work which many consider his masterpiece, in the exceedingly rare dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 139105
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First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love; One of only 1250 Examples
LAWRENCE, D.H.
Women in Love.
New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1920.
First edition of the author's classic work which many consider his masterpiece, one of only 1250 examples. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, name to the front pastedown. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 139392
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"'Woman' was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify": First Edition of Women, Race & Class; Inscribed by Angela Y. Davis
DAVIS, Angela Y.
Women, Race & Class.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of this thought-provoking piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ali, Best, Angela Davis 4/23." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Silverman. Author photograph by Phillipe Halsman. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145195
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First Edition of Annie Leibovitz's Women; Signed by Her and Susan Sontag
LEIBOVITZ, Annie.
Women. Essay by Susan Sontag.
New York: Random House, 1999.
First edition of this powerful work. Quarto, original cloth, with over 115 black-and-white and color photogravures (many double-page). Signed by both Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 132901
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First edition of Frederick W. Pethick Lawrence's Women's Fight For The Vote
PETHICK LAWRENCE, Frederick W.
Women’s Fight For The Vote.
London: The Woman's Press, [1910].
First edition of the definitive collection Pethick Lawrence's articles promoting Women's Suffrage. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135198
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"Mary Wollstonecraft started the demand of women for political liberty in England, Condorcet in France, and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in the United States": First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
GARRETT FAWCETT, Millicent.
Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1912].
First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's history of the women's suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134219
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Margaret Dilke's Women's Suffrage
DILKE, Margaret.
Women’s Suffrage.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d..
Stereotyped edition of English suffragette Margaret Dilke's treatise on women's suffrage. Octavo, bound in full cloth, original wrappers bound in. In good condition. Stamps.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135204
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First edition of Sharon Gosling's Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film
GOSLING, Sharon. Foreword by Patty Jenkins.
Wonder Woman: the Art and Making of the Film.
London: Titan Books, 2017.
First edition of the complete behind-the-scenes story of Wonder Woman. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 140108
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First Edition of Ken Purdy's Wonderful World of the Automobile; Inscribed by Him
PURDY, Ken.
Wonderful World of the Automobile.
London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1961.
First edition of this work by legendary automobile writer Ken Purdy. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jesse, with best wishes, Ken Hawlchurst, Kent 2 1962." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jozef Gross.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129763
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Joseph Fattorusso's Wonders of Italy
FATTORUSSO, Joseph.
Wonders of Italy: The Monuments of Antiquity, The Churches, The Palaces, The Treasures of Art.
Florence, Italy: Giuseppe Fattorusso, 1952.
Later printing of this handbook for students and travelers navigating the history and culture of Italy. Octavo, finely bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt onlay grid of the coats of arms of various Italian cities to the front panel, double gilt ruling to the rear panel, frontispiece of a partial view of the Palace of the Doges, generously illustrated with 3275 black and white photographs by Fratelli Alinari, Giacomo Brogi, and D. Anderson, numerous chronological and genealogical tables of various sovereign houses, and twenty-two plates in full color. In…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145486
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Large Signed Portrait of Woodrow Wilson; Signed by Him and the Artist Frederick Reynolds
WILSON, Woodrow; Frederick Reynolds.
Woodrow Wilson Signed Portrait.
Limited edition engraving by artist Frederick Reynolds, signed by both the artist and Woodrow Wilson, one of 300 numbered. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 24 inches. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 29015
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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television”: Rare Artist's Sketch of Woody Allen; Signed by Woody Allen
SOCCI, P.B. (Woody Allen).
Woody Allen Signed Sketch.
Rare graphite artist's sketch of American director and comedian Wood Allen. Signed by Woody Allen in the upper left corner of the sketch. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 89099