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A pleasant letter from the cartoonist who created Cathy which had a 34 year run in 150 major newspapers. She began drawing pictures as an "emotional coping mechanism" but when her mother suggested sending them to a publisher she did to stop the nagging. Instead she received a contract which changed her life. This letter is dated May 17, 1978 and addressed to Dear Thomasine, a fan, to whom she writes: "thanks for taking the time to remind me that all the free books I could ever need are at my public library. If I see the opportunity, I'll remind all my other readers, too." Best Wishes, Cathy Guisewite. The image she has at the bottom of the letter has her holding a book and in the spine is the word: Library. Matted and with original envelope.

New York: Dodd, Meat & Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, vi, (4) pp.534 pages. Profusely illustrated. Having illustrated over 50 books and with her posters being in the Smithsonian Art Museum, she also wrote books of travel aimed at the most affluent women of the early 20th century. This important book dealt with hiring servants and how the single woman might safely travel abroad with a guide to the most luxurious resorts for skiing, the finest art galleries and restaurants. It was her designs submitted for the Book of Common Prayer in honor of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897 that were selected out of an international context of artists. Bound in 1/4 red cloth over pictorial gray paper covered boards lettered and decorated in red, olive, white and gilt, spine lettering white. pictorial endpapers, light wear to corners. A lovely near fine copy.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885. First Edition. Octavo. 312pp., Second issue with portrait and map. Very little had been written about domestic life of an army family. The Cavalry post were isolate and quite inaccessible to travelers and of course with the warlike Indians, visits were not temped by friends or family. Here Mrs. Custer gives detail of life as it was living at a Cavalry post. A life separate from the rest of the world. Bound in brow pictorial gilt cloth accented in black, spine gilt, brown endpapers, previous owner's names on front endpapers, Bookseller's ticket, light wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 196 pages. Le Guin's primary purpose is to write about animals and other nonhuman living things in ways that belie the cultural myth that "animals are dumb: have no words of their own. She is drawing on Native American legends of the First People sometimes described as "members of a race of mythic prototypes who lived before humans existed. Significantly, "Buffalo Gals" begins with Myra's displacement across a boundary, into a realm where she is asked to take a drastically different view of life from that which separates "thinking" mankind from the sensitivity of animals. Feminist scholars see this work as an example of a poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism. This copy has the ownership signature of "Philomena Guillebaud" whose work in Cambridge was on behalf of the homeless while writing a guide to Cambridge's west end. Hartwell, 200 significant AF Books by Women, 1984-2001. A very good copy bound in 1/4 rust… Read More

San Franciso; (1994): Pomegranate Art Books. First Edition. Small Quarto. 79 pages. Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin to Philomena (Guillebaud) "with Christmas cheer" and signed by Susan Seddon Boulet, the illustrator, whose paintings deal with primitive man and creatures often with a Native American sensitivity. A beautiful work and Karla Armbruster have written an article on ecofeminism in this this book. (Interdisciplinary Studies on Literature and the Environment. Vol. 3, no. 1 (Summer, 1996). A near fine copy bound in pale blue cloth, slight bumping or spine ends, in clipped pictorial dust jacket.

London: T. Payne and Son, 1782. First Editions. 12mo. In five volumes. (1)pp. advertisement after title page. The author's second book. Evelina, her first book was written anonymously but became surprisingly popular. Burney laid the ground work for female novelists to come. She improved the respectability of the female writer. The contents of her books were considered proper even for the eyes of young ladies, and she displayed modesty in her personal life. Burney's works have more in common with Samuel Richardson's Pamela than Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess, but Burney's novels depict more realistic female heroines. Anne Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen were all subscribers to the serialization of Burney's Camilla, and all owe Burney a debt for advancing the popularity of the courtship novel and the possibility of women being considered as novelists of worth. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters. In one of her journals, she… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pages signed by the author. An abstract novel which uses abstractions to show how the children writes of their dreams in a psycho-analytic way accompanied with their waking fantasies. It is most completely enacted by a boy of seventeen, but in his relationship with others he reveals the persistence of this conflict in mature characters. The craving for freedom and the fear of being possessed. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, erasure mark to upper corner of front free endpaper, in unclipped dust jacket with a piece torn away along upper edge and chipping to corners, spine ends and front flap at fold. A very good copy.

An interesting item from John Munds, whose maternal grandmother was Fannie L. Willard and the first woman member of the second Arizona State Legislature. She was nominated by Governor Hunt for the state representative to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Budapest (1913). She was secretary of the first state suffrage organization and was a major voice for the Suffrage Bill of 1903 which passed the Legislature but was vetoed by Governor Brodie. Her husband had been a cattleman before becoming Sheriff of Yavapai County. The 3" x 5" card discusses how John Munds had been invited to hear the 75th Anniversary of Women Suffrage at which Justice O'Connor was awarded the first annual "Frances Willard Munds Award". The article in the Arizona Republic of September 24, 1995, reports she gave an "impassioned speech" to a crowd of 800 women. In the speech she notes how the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza had originally been the Adams Hotel and was the chief place woman suffragist met. (It was not until August… Read More

New York; (2009): Camrbidge University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Review Copy. 362p. index. The definitive study of how gender equality is dealt with in modern constitutional law. A fine bright copy bound in blue cloth, spine lettering white, in fine pictorial dust jacket.

New York; (1935): Falstaff Press, Inc. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pages. The original illustrated plates are held within various institutions. The author of this work was Solomon Malkin, founder of AB Bookman's Weekly. He had studies under Magnus Hirshfeld at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin before the Nazis shut it down. OCLC notes only his pseudonymous name though his papers both at the Grolier Club and the Pattee Library at Pennsylvania State have his name and list of erotica he translated. The various Anti-Vice organizations (often led by the Roman Catholic Church) attempted to not only suppress the publications but several of the major publishers drew long prison sentences (see Jay A. Gertzman, on the Mail Order Distribution of Erotica. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 86, No. 3 (September 1992). When the FBI arrested the publishers, they retained the evidence until the trial and then these items would be destroyed. This item is scarce since the arrests in 1935… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932. Limited Edition. Octavo. 146 pages. Number 231 of 500 copies with the rare #231 slip laid in at the limitation page. The major critics continue to quote the insights of Anais Nin whose understanding of Lawrence was not only a remarkable example of modernism but also courageous feminism which even today shows insights that continue to be discussed in the D.H. Lawrence Journal. John Erskine, who was an anti-feminist writer was quoted: "I am amazed at the scholarly and critical reaches--which theoretically no woman should possess." A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Macmillan: New York, 1940. Octavo. Later Printing. Inscribed by the author. 170 pages, illustrated by Carol Lane Fenton, index. The Exiled Writers Committee was a project to raise money for writers who had been exiled by the Third Reich. They were a part of the anti-Stalinist left wing. In February 1941, they asked major authors who were in sympathy with the Exiled Writers to sign and inscribe a book for an auction to raise funds for them. (It should be no surprise that though its supporters were anti-Stalinist, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover considered them subversive). Edith M. Patch was the first successful professional woman entomologist in the United States. "Greetings to the Exiled Writers Committee, February 14, 1941. Tenting in the various deserts of Southwestern United States for several months during the late winter and spring of 1936, I met the subject included in this book. I sent it with kind regards. Sincerely yours, Edith M. Patch." . Bound in light brown cloth lettered and decorated in… Read More

London: Elkin Matthews, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 124, 23pp. publisher's catalog. Seven short prose pieces on love and the loveliness of women. Bound in maroon cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, previous owner's bookplate and signature, edges and spine ends rubbed. A very good copy.

London: Printed by Harding and Wright for R. Priestley and R. Lea, 1810. Octavo. xxiii, 296 pages. Elizabeth Robinson Montague was known as the "Queen of the Bluestockings" whose major place in the literary circles of eighteenth-century England included such celebrities as Dr. Johnson, Lord Lyttelton as well as the Garricks and Sternes. Introduction -- On dramatic poetry -- On the historical drama -- The first part of Henry IV -- The second part of Henry IV -- On the praeternatural beings -- The tragedy of Macbeth -- Upon the Cinna of Corneille -- Upon the death of Julius Caesar -- Three dialogues of the dead. Bound in full brown diced calf, board edges ruled in gilt, flat spine stamped with gilt rules and decorations, newer double black leather spine labels gilt, shipping to spine ends, lacks one front blank. internally clean with only an occasional spot of foxing.

Stuttgart: Detusche Verlags-anstalt, 1892. Small Octavo. . 96 pages, (4) pp. publoisher's ads, drama in German. Sophie Godden was a major force in the women's movement. She wrote this play while still in Germany. She met her husband Dr. Bernard C. Gudden in Germany and returned to his native Oshkosh, Wisconsin where she was to spend her last thirty-four years. She crusaded for equal pay for women which passed into law in the state as well as women's suffrage. She entertained the English suffragists Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Snowden as well as Jane Addams of Hull House in Chicago. She became Vice-President of the National Consumers league and while an invalid maintained a correspondence with many noted writers. Laid in this book is a diary note from April 14, 1914 with the note: "I was surprised most pleasantly last evening by receiving from Mrs. Gudden her "Famielienfestspiele". I can hardly take in the honor bestowed. Several other related items laid in. A fine bright copy bound in original… Read More

Roma: (Tipografia Poliglota Vaticana), 2006. First Edition. Large Octavo. Volume 2. xlvi, 1174 pages. Index. Bibliography. M. Pilar Fox y Fox is not only an archivist but a major historian, not just on the history of women in the Catholic tradition of Mexico but it has significance for all of Latin America. The first 400 pages give historical context to the archival descriptions. The author was able to complete this item just a year before she died and in so doing made the major contribution to the first religious order dedicated to female education. A fine copy bound in beige linen lettered in dark brown, spine lettering brown, in fine dust jacket.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. First Edition. Octavo. 191 pages and (8) pp. publisher's ads. In evaluating George Eliot's work, the author uses the classical myth of the golden apple of Discord to ask why The Spanish Gypsy fails to make itself felt as a poem. What troubled Cleveland was Eliot's agnosticism. A very good copy bound in a decorative gray cloth lettered and decorated in dark brown and gilt, spine gilt, spine darkened, chipping to spine ends, binding finger soiled, lacks rear free endpaper, previous owner's bookplate. Internally clean and free from foxing.

[Chicago, 1928]: Privately Printed/The Peacock Press. Octavo. Unopened, 145(1)pp. translated by Ernest Dowson and illustrated in two states (black and white and very rich color) by Donald Denton. A lovely copy with beautiful color illustrations with tissue guards, bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with marbled endpapers, spine lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt. minor spot of rubbing to head. A fine copy.

New York; (1943): Doubleday, Doran and Co. First Edition. Octavo. ). 209pp. While the author is known for being the first American reporter to die in military action (Chau Lai, South Vietnam, November 4, 1972), her career is one of the great women of adventure from World War II to her demise in Vietnam. At age 14 she wrote an article "Why We Want to Fly" (which was published in the U.S. Air Service magazine. In 1939 she was a correspondent for the NY Times covering a Cuban air show. At age 25 she was the first woman photographer accredited to the Pacific Fleet. After World War II, she was in trouble spots around the world. While at the Hungarian border near Andau, she became friends with writer James Michener who wrote: "Dickey and I sometimes went far beyond the Russian lines. I was cautious, she was totally fearless. I would draw back from spots of danger; she would crowd forward." Her actions led to bringing out over a hundred Hungarians and Michener wrote: "If she were a man, they would have… Read More

New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 397 pages, subject, names and title index. bibliographic references. Annotated with many works by Gypsy authors or which highlight Gypsy voices. Gypsy authors, reflecting their oppression, were often angry, defiant, or just plain weary of the struggle. During the writing of this book, (1995) the communist regimes in Eastern Europe were dismantled and anti-Gypsy violence in the form of pogroms and lynching was then commonplace. Gypsies in Eastern Europe then were organizing to protest and change the situation. A very useful guide that not only lists the major items but also provides helpful annotations. A fine copy bound in blue-gray cloth lettered in silver, spine lettering silver.