The Education of Undergraduate Women at Princeton: An Examination of Coordinate Versus Coeducational Patterns.
by [ Women. Education. ]
[Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University,] March 1969 Pale bule printed paper wrappers. . Octavo. With a full-page table comparing educational models. Fading and light foxing to front cover. Very bright and clean throughout. A very good copy of an uncommon item reporting the results of a study on how Princeton University could implement their decision to admit women. A committee of Princeton students, faculty, and administrators considered five models for incorporating women into the college: (1) "Separate educational institutions, joined... Read More
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Curt Muller, Plaintiff in Error v. State of Oregon. Brief for Defendant in Error. Louis D. Brandeis, Counsel for the State of Oregon. Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1907. No. 107.
by [ Women's Studies. Brandeis Brief.] Brandeis, Louis D
[Boston?: 1908]. In February 1903, Oregon enacted a law that prohibited women from working in "any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry" for more than ten hours a day. Curt Muller, a laundry owner, was charged in 1905 with requiring his employee, Mrs. E. Gotcher, to work a ten-hour day. Muller's attorney argued that the law violated Gotcher's Fourteenth Amendment rights by preventing her from freely contracting with her employer, but attorney Louis D. Brandeis (1856 – 1941) successfully contested... Read More
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Four suffragist signatures, with sentiments matted with photo plates
by [ Women's suffrage. Stone, Lucy, Frances Willard, Mary A. Livermore and Anna Howard Shaw
[n.p.: [ca. 1880-1900.] It is unclear when these folios were made, but the photo plates and signatures themselves are likely ca. 1880-1900. The sentiments that accompany the signatures are very brief. For example the Lucy Stone one reads: "Equal Rights for All;" and the Frances Willard one reads, "For God and Home and Native Land…October 19, 1883. Cream-colored art board folios. Two are mounted on the board behind a plastic sheet and two are mounted without plast. Four art board... Read More
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Games for Children.
by [ Women's Health]. Pinkham, Lydia E
Lynn, Massachusetts: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, [n.d., ca. 1920s] A collection of testimonials from Pinkham's customers, mixed with instructions for various children's games. A brief introduction informs readers, "We are better equipped to play the Game of Life when we are physically fit. Ill-health is always a handicap. For over fifty years Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines have been helping thousands of people to get well and to keep well." Games include "Fruit Game," "Call Ball," and "Sea Urchin Tag."... Read More
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Réflexions Hazardées d'une Femme Ignorante, Qui ne connoît les défauts des autres que par les siens, & le Monde que par relation & par ouï-dire.
by [Women]. Verzure, Madame de
A Amsterdam; & se trouve à Paris: chez Vincent, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue S. Severin, 1766 First edition of a legendary rarity. Barbier and Cioranescu ascribe this work to Madame de Verzure, about whom little is known, though Quérard tells us she was the wife of a Geneva banker. She apparently wrote no other books. Contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, blue marbled edges. . Two volumes in one, twelvemo. Bottom corners worn, leather worn in... Read More
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Lectures of Interest to Women for Mothers and Nurses
by [ Women's studies. Medicine.] McClue, Royal A.[lfred] & [McClure, Helen Catherine Golbach].
Seattle: Seattle Maternity Hospital, Inc., C.S. Colhouer, Managing Director, 1919] First edition. Rare. OCLC records only 4 copies in libraries. Publisher's black flexible faux leather binding. Title stamped on front cover. . Quarto. With a reproduced photograph on the second leaf. Front hinge cracked. Minor tears to a few leaves throughout. Inscribed "Mrs. E.A. Fuller, Anton, WA" dated 1914. Very good- copy. Royal A. Mclure (1867-1928) was a doctor who established a successful private practice in Seattle. In 1915, he... Read More
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Women...Our Wounded Need Your Care!
by [ Women's Army Corps ].
[Washington,D.C.] United States Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau 1945 First edition. Full text as follows: "Women…our wounded need your care! You can serve as medical technicians, surgical technicians, and other Army hospital assignments. Join a hospital company. Other assignments available at Army Air Forces, Ground Forces, and Service Forces installations. Text printed in blue, black, and gray. Some creasing. A very good, bright, and clean copy of this uncommon item encouraging women to serve in Army hospital assignments.. Broadside (17"... Read More
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The WAC with the Army Ground Forces
by [Women's Army Corps.]
Washington, DC: Recruitment Publicity Bureau of the US Army, 1944 First edition. Uncommon. . Original wrappers, depicting blonde woman in WAC uniform working on a map. . Quarto. 7.75 in. x 8.25 in. . With photographic reproductions on every page. There is some toning to back cover. Staples are rusted. A very good copy. This printed booklet promotes the Women's Army Corps to potential recruits. The first leaf introduces the WAC woman: "She has enlisted for the duration. Her hands... Read More
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Collection of ephemera by a World War II- and post-World War II-era anti-conscription women's organization
by [ Women's Committee to Oppose Consciption ]
[ Philadelphia: Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription, 1945-1947] The documents include a mimeographed letter on Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription letterhead calling for support for an anti-conscription constitutional amendment (dated December 3, 1945); and four letters (dated between June 1946 and April 1947) opposing the Selective Service System and proposed legislation for mandatory military training during peacetime. One of the letters addresses the censorship of anti-conscription sentiment expressed by soldiers, who were forbidden "under threat of court martial" from sending... Read More
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What A Married Woman Should Know.
by [ Women's health ]
Chicago Snyder Products Co., 1935 Pictorial paper wrappers printed in blue. Text also printed in blue. . 5 x 3 in. . Illustrated throughout. Some blemishing to wrappers, and mild wear to extremities. Moderate chipping at spine, though staples still tight. Light foxing. An illustrated catalog of Snyder Products Co.'s feminine health offerings, paired with brief instructional essays on divining one's fortune through palmistry, tea leaves, cards, and astrology. "From the dawn of civilization to the present day, woman's greatest... Read More
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A New System of Practical Domestic Economy; Founded on Modern Discoveries, and the Private Communications of Persons of Experience.
by [ Women's Studies. Home Economics.]
London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1823 Third edition, "revised and greatly enlarged. To which are now first added, estimates of household expenses, founded on economical principles, and adapted to families of every description." OCLC records no copies of any earlier editions and only eight copies of this edition in North America. Jisc (COPAC) also does not record copies of any earlier editions. Contemporary marbled boards rebacked in modern calf with red spine label. . Twelvemo. . Some rubbing... Read More
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Sur le Divorce. Malheur et Sensibilité.
by [ Women's studies ]
Paris: Imprimerie et Fonderie de Fain, 1831 First edition. The present item, which was published during a period of repeated attempts to reestablish a right to divorce in France, collects sensational scenarios of young women trapped in marriages with adulterous and abusive husbands. . Disbound. 5 x 8 in. . Some foxing. Still a very good copy of a rare and fragile item Divorce had been legalized in France in 1792, but it was abolished again in 1816 under the... Read More
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Lizzie Nutt's Sad Experience. A Heart Broken, and a Family Plunged in Grief. WRECK AND RUIN! The Shooting and Tragic Death of Noble-Hearted Captain Nutt, Lizzie's Brave Father, Who Flinched Not, Like a True Soldier, to Die in Defence of His Daughter's Honor. The Great Dukes Trial at Uniontown, PA. Full Account, and all "Those Terrible Letters."
by [ Women's Studies ]
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1883 McDade #718 calls this the second edition."The Dukes-Nutt affair was an internationally famous murder case of romance, betrayal and honor. What started out as a small dispute and an unwanted engagement led to multiple murders…[T]he passion and recognition of this grandiose affair…at times seems fictitious, due to its many plot twists and scandals," (Uniontown Public Library website). Publisher's pale blue pictorial paper wrappers. 6 x 9 in. . With seven-full page illustrations. Some chipping and... Read More
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Your Career: How to Win Health, Beauty, Fame, Popularity, Independence…; Ned Wayburn Dancing Courses for Children…;
by [ Women's studies. Theatre.]
New York: Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing, Inc., 1841 Broadway, 1929 Two pieces of ephemera. Your Career is an octavo. 60 pp. Ned Wayburn is also an octavo. [4 pp.] Unpaginated. 5.5 x 8 in. Rare first editions. OCLC records 4 copies in libraries worldwide of Your Career and no copies of Ned Wayburn.T. Your Career has publisher's beige wrapping with illustration of ballet dancer and title in blue and orange. Minor edgewear. Reproduced photographs throughout. Ned Wayburn printed... Read More
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![Made-Up Saleslady. Gossiping Wash-Lady. The Laundress. [Three comic valentines, a.k.a. vinegar Valentines or penny dreadfuls.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/156/1392156992.0.l.0.jpg)
Made-Up Saleslady. Gossiping Wash-Lady. The Laundress. [Three comic valentines, a.k.a. vinegar Valentines or penny dreadfuls.]
by [ Women workers ]
[n.p.: ca. 1895] Three leaves (two sized 7" x 10", one sized 6 " x 11 "). . Printed in color with caricatures mocking the appearance and character of three working women. With captions in verse. Some creasing and a few small open tears to edges. Two sheets reinforced with document tape on versos. A few stains to "Made-Up Saleslady." Pencil signatures of Clementine Allen to rectos of "Gossiping Wash-Lady" and "Made-Up Saleslady," plus pencil inscription on verso of... Read More
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An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology sed Chiefly on the Titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, and other Libraries of McGill University, Montreal
by Wood, Casey A., ed
London: Oxford University Press, 1931 First edition of this important reference work. Cloth. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Very good.
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Surreptitious Printing in England 1550-1640
by Woodfield, Denis B
New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1973 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Very good+.
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Biology and Language: An Introduction to the Methodology of the Biological Sciences including Medicine
by Woodger, J.H
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1952 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good. Philosopher Donald Davidson's copy, with his pencil signature, and that of his wife, philosopher Marcia Cavell.
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Songs
by Woods, Margaret L
Oxford: Printed by H. Daniel, Fellow of Worcester College, 1896 Limited to 200 copies, printed at the Daniel Press. Original printed wrappers, overlapping edges. Twelvemo. Light discoloration to wrappers, two short tears.A very good, clean copy. Margaret Louisa Woods (1855-1945), who was known to her friends as Daisy, was the daughter Granville Bradley (1821–1903), dean of Westminster and schoolmaster, and the wife of Henry George Woods, who became President of Trinity College, Oxford and Master of the Temple. She was... Read More
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The Wonderful Letter-Bag of Kit Curious. By Uncle Frank
by [ Woodward, Francis Channing ]
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Company, [1852] First edition, a work for children that contains chapters on a variety of subjects, many are scientific: the boiling springs of Iceland, the properties of magnets, life among the icebergs, the wonders of Egypt, the North Pole, et. Publisher's red cloth stamped and lettered in blind with central gilt design, gilt spine, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Small octavo. Engraved half-title and seven engraved plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Light offsetting from... Read More
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Fair Warnings to a Careless World, or, The Serious Practice of Religion Recommended by the Admonitions of Dying Men, and the Sentiments of All People in Their Most serious Hours: and Other Testimonies of an Extraordinary Nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, Serious Advice to a Sick Person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also, a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay. With Suitable Cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals
by Woodward, Josiah
London: Printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer Senr & Junr, 1707 First edition. Rebound in modern vellum, title hand-lettered in ink on spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. Illustrated with six full-page cuts reminiscent of the "Danse Macabre" depicting skeletons, sepulchers piled high with skulls, and other morbid imagery Scattered light foxing throughout with greater degrees of foxing to signatures K-M. Repair to p. 15, touching text, but not affecting legibility. Union Theological Seminary's blindstamp on title-page, p. 113, and p.... Read More
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Lost Hollywood
by Woody, Jack
Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers, 1987, First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Cloth. Folio. Full-page black and white photos, with descriptive text at the end. Fine in very good+ d.j. Jacket has one small, closed tear. With photographs from 1916-1933, including work byf Hurrell, Bull, Richee, Hesser, Ball, and Weston.
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An Introduction to Logic, Designed for the Use of Younger Students. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1840.
by Woolley, John
Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1840 First editions of two scarce nineteenth-century logic books. Newman, Francis W. Lectures on Logic, or on the Science of Evidence Genrally, Embracing both Demonstrative and Probable Reasonings, with the Doctrine of Causation. Delivered at Bristol College in the Year 1836. Oxford: J.H. Parker, 1838. Twelvemo. [8], 192 pp. Full brown calf. Gilt-ruled covers, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label. . Twelvemo. . Binding extremities rubbed. Contemporary ink inscription on title of first work (H. Hull... Read More
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The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper Book-Edges Etc. Containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples.
by Woolnough, C.W
[Oxford: The Plough Press, 1985] One of 150 copies. Green cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. . Octavo. Facsimile reprint or the larger second edition of 1881 printed by George Bell, with 39 pages of marbled samples reproducing the patterns of the original, made by Katherine Davis of Payhembury. A fine copy.
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Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction
by Woozley, A.D
London: Hutchinson's University Library, [1949] First edition. Cloth. Small octavo. Former owner's rubberstamp on front pastedown. Very good in lightly edgeworn, very good d.j.
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