![[Drop title] The Politics of Touch](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/344/383/1234383344.0.l.jpg)
[Drop title] The Politics of Touch
by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.
Baltimore, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. printed from typescript. Near Fine condition. "The act of touching, when nonreciprocal, is, I believe, an even more subtle physical threat used to remind persons of their status, and is particularly used by men against women" (p.2). A paper presented at the 1970 meeting of the American Psychological Association "as part of a panel discussion of 'Social Psychology and Women's Liberation.'" The Pittsburgh-based women's liberation association Know, Inc., would reprint... Read More
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![Facing Down the Man [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/960/279/876279960.0.l.2.jpg)
Facing Down the Man [cover title]
by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, n.d., ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); illustrated self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 3pp. Fine. Collection of 25 tips on how to face down the man based on the author's experiences fighting sexist policies within the American Psychological Association. (No. 7: "Never smile, never laugh, never hesitate. There are no jokes except against them...") OCLC locates 5 copies as of October 2018 (Northwestern, U.Chicago, U.Michigan, UVA and Waterloo (Canada)).
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Report of Women's Caucus to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ, Dallas, Texas, December 6. 1972
by [WOMEN'S CAUCUS] BILLINGS, Peggy, Betty Witherspoon Webb, and Claire Randall
Dallas: National Council of Churches of Christ, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 28cm.); side-stapled self-wrappers; 4pp. printed mimeograph. Upper margin toned, else Very Good. Reports on the Women's Caucus presented by members of the United Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the United Presbyterian Church. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of April, 2020.
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The Anti-Suffrage Rose
by [WOMENS' HISTORY & LITERATURE] HANNA, Phil (words & music)
Boston: Women's Anti-Suffrage Association, 1915. First Edition. Quarto (35.75cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Modest wear and handling, some dust-soil and faint foxing to wrappers, with several small tears and attendant creases to extremities, and a faint tide mark affecting lower right corners; complete, but just Very Good. A key piece of anti-suffrage sheet music - a strident response to the wave of feminist songs proliferating the marketplace in the years prior to the passage of the 19th... Read More
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Address on the Education of Woman, Delivered at the Anniversary of the Pittsfield Young Ladies' Institute September 30th, 1852
by [WOMEN'S EDUCATION] PALMER, Ray
Albany: Gray, Sprague & Co. [Joel Munsell, printer], 1852. First Edition. Octavo. Printed self-wrappers; 31,(1)pp. Removed, with trace of adhesive residue at bound edge, lacking cover wrappers if issued, else fresh and unmarked, Very Good or better. The author, now mostly remembered as one of America's leading early hymnodists, here stresses the importance of moral and practical education for women, to achieve "...the formation of pure and elevated tastes" and develop a "moral sense" and "conscience." See... Read More
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Your Mother's Gone Away To Join The Army
by [WOMENS' HISTORY & LITERATURE] [SUFFRAGE] GRAY, Thomas J. (words); WALKER, Raymond (music)
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1913. First Edition. Quarto (35cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Old horizontal fold at center, some creasing to wrappers, a few splits along the spine-fold, and several small tears and attendant creases to edges and margins of the inner leaf; Good to Very Good. Attractive piece of suffrage-themed sheet music, the lyrics told from the perspective of a father and his little boy, whose mother was absent due to her involvement in the women's... Read More
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The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters
by [WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott
Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover; 150pp; frontis. portr. Sight rubbing to cloth on spine, endpapers darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Elaborate presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "Sister Leonard" from eleven fellow members of Myrtle Rebekah Lodge #84 [Lockport, NY], dated 1917. A romance of New York and London. Urania Nott Sangster, a native of Buffalo, New York, was the sister of... Read More
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Sex: Female; Religion: Catholic
by [WOMEN - RELIGION] CUNEEN, Sally
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xv, [v], 171pp. Remaindered price neatly rubber-stamped to front endpaper, with a hint of offset to same, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $4.95). Portrait of the woman's viewpoint on the American Catholic church, written by the co-founder of Cross Currents.
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![Zhenshchiny i ekonomicheskoe otnoshenie: issledovanie ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii mezhdu muzhchinami i zhenshchinami kak faktora sotsialnoi evoliutsii [=] Women and Economics: An examination of the economic relations between men and women, as a factor in their social evolution](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/995/697/1687697995.0.l.jpg)
Zhenshchiny i ekonomicheskoe otnoshenie: issledovanie ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii mezhdu muzhchinami i zhenshchinami kak faktora sotsialnoi evoliutsii [=] Women and Economics: An examination of the economic relations between men and women, as a factor in their social evolution
by [WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE] STETSON, Sharlotta [i.e. Charlotte Perkins Stetson; aka Charlotte Perkins Gilman]; A. [Andrei Vasil'evich] Kamenskii, translator
St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov, 1902. First Russian-Language Edition. Octavo (18.7 × 12.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 367, [1] pp. Very light wear to wrappers; private inventory number and a few ink spots to title and front wrapper; else Very Good; text uncut and unopened. Women and Economics, generally considered Gilman's most important theoretical work (described by one historian as "the first real, substantial contribution made by a woman to the science of economics"), first appeared in Boston... Read More
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American Women: Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women
by UNITED STATES PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
[Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office], 1963. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); original white pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; [2],v,[7],86pp.; illus., including plain photographic portraits of President John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt. Fine.
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Four Consultations: Private Employment Opportunities; New Patterns in Volunteer Work; Portrayal of Women by the Mass Media; Problems of Negro Women
by [UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT] [PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN]
Washington DC: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); original off-white pictorial staplebound wrappers; v,[1],38pp. About Fine.
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![The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Time to the Present: With Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World [&c...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/746/1680746820.0.l.jpg)
The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Time to the Present: With Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World [&c...]
by [WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE] WOODHULL, Victoria [née Claflin]
New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co, 1871. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Original terracotta cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece; 247pp. Shallow chips to cloth at head and tail of spine; corners and board edges tapped; spine gilt very slightly dulled, else a tight, straight, Very Good copy, free of restoration and with joints (external) and hinges (internal) tight and strong. Woodhull's important first book, in which she analyzes the evolution... Read More
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British Poetry Today
by WOODCOCK, George
Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [4],15pp. Small chip at bottom fore-edge corner affecting entire textblock, light toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. An address delivered at the University of British Columbia by the Canadian political historian and anarchist. "Lecture Series no. 7" (upper cover).
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The Kestrel
by WOODCOCK, George
Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1978. First Edition. First printing, limited issue. No. 39 of 50 signed copies. Printed stiff card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 54pp. Faint crease to front wrapper, else Fine in dustwrapper. Anglo-Canadian poet and anarchist philosopher.
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Selected Poems of George Woodcock
by WOODCOCK, George; Pat Gangnon, illus
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; [84]pp.; illus. throughout. Boards rather bumped with brief exposure at corners, else Very Good, internally fine. Poetry collected by the Canadian political historian and anarchist.
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Homes or Hovels: the Housing Problem and Its Solution
by WOODCOCK, George
London: Freedom Press, 1944. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; bright pink card wrappers printed in blue; 32pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy. Analysis of WW2-era housing conditions by the Canadian anarchist.
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![First, the Fields [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/208/889/1212889208.0.l.jpg)
First, the Fields [Inscribed & Signed]
by WOOD, Charles
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 308pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with some shallow chipping, spine darkened, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and signed on title page. The author's first novel, chronicling the life of a North Carolina tobacco farmer and his relationship with the land. In the dustjacket... Read More
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First, The Fields
by WOOD, Charles
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 308pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn, with more pronounced wear along spine ends and some shallow loss to upper left corner of rear panel; Very Good+. The author's first novel, chronicling the life of a North Carolina tobacco farmer and his relationship... Read More
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The White Peacock
by WOOD, Clement
New York: Harold Vinal, Ltd, 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo (16cm); grey paper-covered boards, with red printing, in grey and red dustwrapper; 54pp. Dustwrapper verso taped at joints and extremities with kraft paper; toning, smudging and soiling, with minor creases. Dampstain to upper extremities of boards and textblock; gentle handling wear. Unusually, a slip of paper with a "Bruce Humphries, Inc." imprint is tipped in over the publisher's information on the title page. Boards and copyright page show "Harold... Read More
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The Note-Book of An Intelligence Officer
by WOOD, Eric Fisher
New York: Century Co, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's original ribbed bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xii]; 346pp. Light rubbing and edgewear, minor bumping to spine ends, gilt bright, cloth clean, a slight spine lean; internally clean, illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some folding. A very good, bright copy indeed. Eric Fisher Wood Sr. was an American in Paris at the outbreak of WW1, volunteered as a US attaché, served as... Read More
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Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood
by WOOD, Erskine
Vancouver, WA: Rose Wind Press, (1991). Second printing (first published 1978). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 174pp; illus. Fine copy in jacket. Biography of the Indian fighter turned socialist attorney and radical author, written by his son.
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The Struggle for Greece 1941-1949
by WOODHOUSE, C.M.; Richard Clogg (introd)
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. New edition, with introduction by Richard Clogg. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; xxxviii,324pp; illus. Fine, tight copy in unworn dustwrapper; apparently unread.
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The Victoria Woodhull Reader
by WOODHULL, Victoria (text); STERN, Madeline B. (editor)
Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [vi],[640]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. A substantial compilation of works by Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), a noted suffragist and social reformer who in 1872, had been the first woman to run for President of the United States. The volume has a lengthy introduction by Madeline B. Stern, partner in the firm of Leona Rostenberg Rare Books in New... Read More
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Illustrated Natural History
by WOOD, J. G.
New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth series binding, stamped in black and gilt; xxxiv,351,[5]pp; 4pp publisher's catalogue at rear; four full-page chromolithographs, numerous wood engravings. Sound, externally rubbed, spine sunned, occasional foxing: Good or better. With a racist introduction on the "Natural History of Man.
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