‎Women (the)‎

‎[WESTERN AMERICANA - WOMEN]. POWERS, Mary Rockwood.‎

‎A woman’s overland journal to California. Edited with an introduction by W.B. Thorsen.‎

‎Fairfield WA: Ye Galleon Press 1985. 8vo. 73 3 pp. Decorated title in red & black frontisp. numerous text illustrations plates decorated initials colophon in red & black. Burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & printer’s armorial front cover gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Ye Galleon Press edition of this very scarce diary of coming over the Oregon Trail and California Trail in 1858 recounting the grueling experiences of Mary and Americus Power. Ye Galleon Press, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 50113

‎[WESTERN AMERICANA - WOMEN]. JORDAN, Grace.‎

‎Home below Hell’s Canyon.‎

‎New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1954. 8vo. 6 243 1 pp. Photo frontisp. double-page map endpapers. Black boards gilt lettering on spine minor rubbing shelfwear w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine minor tear foot of spine edgewear still VG/G- copy inscribed by author on title w/ clipping & contemporary campground map laid-in. First edition inscribed of this account of Grace Jordan a sheepman rancher’s wife and her life in Hell’s Canyon working the Kirkwood Ranch on the Snake River during the Great Depression. Jordan 1892-1985 was married to former Idaho Governor and US Senator Leonard Jordan. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 47513

‎[Western Americana – Film – Women] [Sterling, Edythe] Unknown Artist‎

‎The Girl Who Dared. 1920‎

‎United States 1920. Painted poster with affixed photograph measuring 14 x 21 inches. Toned with water damage and slight damage to edges; very good to excellent. A painted poster advertising the 1920 film The Girl Who Dared a Western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Edythe Sterling. The story follows Barbara Hampton a rancher’s daughter who is elected sheriff of a small town and must take on the cattle rustlers who are after her father. Sterling born Edith May Kessinger 1893–1962 was a prolific actress known for working with animals; after her film career she performed riding stunts in a Wild West show. Smith 1894–1937 was similarly prolific directing more than eighty films during his career—mainly Westerns which were especially popular during the silent era. This poster is hand-painted with a photograph from the film affixed and advertises 1¢ admission which was remarkably cheap even for the time. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List3343

‎[WESTERN POETRY -- WOMEN]. HALL, Grace E.‎

‎Homespun.‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1922. 8vo. 12 130 pp. Quarter-brown publisher’s cloth over illustrated tan boards slight shelfwear w/ d.j. minor chipping to spine scuffing still NF/G copy. First edition of this uncommon anthology of 81 verse poems best remembered for “Defiance†with one stanza proclaiming “Let no man say to you that you shall fail -- fling back his words and prove they are but lies! Although your spirit falter -- aye and quail you shall not lose unless your courage dies. . . .†Grace Hall 1875-1939 was a longtime poetry editor and journalist with the Oregonian as well as Corvallis Gazette-Times actively supported local women authors and proponent of Pacific Northwest literature. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63532

‎[Women & Cars]‎

‎Cowgirl and a Car Original adult photograph c. 1970s‎

‎N.p. 1970s. Near Fine. Original photograph featuring blonde buxom women in cowboy hat and wedge heels one foot proudly on the door frame of a luxury sedan perhaps an Oldsmobile the passenger-side door pointed right at the viewer. Trucker lore and the likes of "Smokey and the Bandit" were in their heyday lending relevance to an "on the road" culture of the era. Photographer and model uncredited but produced for a magazine called "Coyote" that name and cropping notations on the recto in pencil. 8 x 10 inches b/w single weight small white border. Near Fine with brief numerical notations on the verso. For consenting mature audiences. N.p. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 126963

‎[Women - Domestic Life - Race Relations] Author Unknown‎

‎Letter Describing a Lonely Holiday Spent Cooking Alone Cool Sulphurs Arkansas 1854‎

‎Arkansas 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds near fine. Fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “â€Alone†and laments her holiday spent alone. She writes:<br /> <br /> “Mother gave the D—--- free ticket and it was either work or starve so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking such as making cakes and nick knacks but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money.†She then elaborates on her loneliness stating: “It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe even for the mountains. One snow after another. “<br /> <br /> The letter is signed as “Lizzie†and we are unable to identify the author by last name. We believe her location to be in Arkansas despite not finding an exact match for the town Cool Sulphurs based on the provenance which included several other family papers from Arkansas. An interesting letter overall documenting a woman’s loneliness with insight into the domestic sphere of the time. <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Jennie<br /> <br /> I have just received Tesh's letter which I assure you was quite welcome enthroned in solitude as I am now. Mat and Saraph have been in Lexington for some time and I am all alone. <br /> <br /> I am alone the last light tread<br /> And laughs have died upon my ear; <br /> And I may weep unchecked - nor dread<br /> The scorn that forces back the tear.<br /> <br /> You see the blues have moved me to poetry. <br /> <br /> Oh! How much I would like to see you all. It is so terribly lonely here. I will give you an account of my Christmas Holidays. Mother gave the Darkies free ticket and it was either work or starve so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking such as making cakes and nick knacks but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money. I don't know what I would give for some of Aunt Cynthia's nice hot biscuits. We had a nice molasses stew and eggnog. Tesh did not give me a description of her holidays. Write me all about them. <br /> <br /> Well now I will interrogate you a while. <br /> <br /> Who is it Mr. Taylor visits so often you or Tesh<br /> Who are you traveling up to F- so often to see<br /> I will acknowledge the last is rather a straightforward question but you know I am interested. These and those visits to Cousin Addis excite the Green Eyed Monster. Mr. Jones who is he after Answer these in your next. I haven't seen hair nor hide of a man since I came home but once. There has been such a marrying about here lately that all the beaus that were presentable have disappeared. <br /> <br /> What has become of Pet Perry and Fannie married yet Tell Eliza to write and give me an account of the conquest she made in L- how Cora was dressed and everything. Mother intends commencing your apron as soon as Mat gets back from L as she was compelled to send there for the articles to work with. I am in hopes it will be pretty. <br /> <br /> It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe even for the mountains. One snow after another. Mat writes that the sleighing is fine in L. She has been attending several parties but they were dancing parties and I guess Saraph's conscientious scruples prevented her attending. Tell Tesh not to let anyone but Moses out. Give Aunt C a great deal of love also Uncle O. I would give anything in this world to see you all. Kiss Joe for me and Ned. Much love to Cousin Will. Tell him Mother intends writing to him in a few days. Tell Uncle Oscar Cook says he intends sending him a nice venison ham. He came in yesterday with a very nice fine deer on his shoulder. You never saw such a prouder creature. He is going to have the skin tanned to make us some gloves. He almost furnishes us with meat. It distresses me to see him leading such a roving life but he is yet young enough to enter College. Mother does not care about his graduating so soon. He studies very diligently at nights but I guess you are tired of home details so I will close with much love to all. Answer this soon and believe me ever your Dear Cousin <br /> <br /> Lizzie<br /> <br /> P.S. Give my love to Cousin Em when you write. Adieu. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List2043

‎[Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion‎

‎Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey as Well as Current Events 1838‎

‎Claremont 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. Fine. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont New Hampshire defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837 which apparently had been the subject of previous correspondence between the two. She makes an interesting reference to “female rights†which she says she does not support perhaps also in reference to an earlier conversation. She writes “Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We as individuals it is true felt the change and with others echoed the cry 'hard times' but still in comparison with many suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise we retrenched our expenses adopting this plain sentiment 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics however interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic I confess but being neither an advocate of female rights and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence I leave such like to father and Congress. “ <br /> <br /> The next section contains a detailed defense of the yankee character:â€And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you Cousin suppose us to be an antisocial class of people & in order to lead you to a different conclusion I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings is perhaps equally so; but may not this in the end result to mutual benefit if a friendship is longer in maturing will it not stand a longer & severer test and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater than those based upon supposed merit liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings though concealed by a cold exterior can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains' we have imbibed a free independent spirit both in thought & action.†She also discusses the prospect of visiting Newark and writes that it is perhaps more appealing in her imagination than in reality. <br /> <br /> Overall an interesting rumination on the culture of New England and a woman’s perception of life further south during the period. <br /> <br /> $300<br /> <br /> Full transcription follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Cousin <br /> <br /> The receipt of your kind letter was to me a new and fertile source of gratification. Crowding thoughts that stranger hearts might yet be endeared in the sweet influences of friendship that we though far separated might commune on themes of kindred interest and kindred feeling that I occupied a place in the memory and affections of one under the fond appellation Cousin combined to excite deep and lively emotions and brighten the pleasing visions of the future. As long-tried friends we cannot recall the thoughts and sports of our school-going days; the past is a blank in our acquaintance which memory regrets but for which the present will most cheerfully make amends. Natural impulses of feeling prompt me to lay aside reserve and must excuse me if I betray a spirit of egotism or selfishness by placing ourselves first in importance and write of present plans and expectations. <br /> <br /> Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We as individuals it is true felt the change and with others echoed the cry 'hard times' but still in comparison with many suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise we retrenched our expenses adopting this plain sentiment 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics however interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic I confess but being neither an advocate of female rights and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence I leave such like to father and Congress. In regard to our long contemplated visit I am allowed Hobson's choice or in other words may stay at home and be content. A dear Aunt in the last stages of consumption has required the close attention of my mother for the last four weeks; this with the advanced state of the season the numerous calls in my father's profession will render a journey for the present altogether impracticable. <br /> <br /> Of the general character of the society of your more favored region I have ever entertained the highest opinion. Where superior natural advantages exist we are accustomed to associate with them ideas of a people of a truly open-hearted warm and generous temperament & in so doing are seldom mistaken. Newark and its sister city has in imagination presented many attractions. The unrivalled beauty of the scenery of New York and its environs the works of art as well as nature a desire of novelty have contributed to form a very agreeable picture & make me ardently wish to partake of the hospitality and luxuries of your land; but those I must forego and persuade myself that the pleasures of anticipation are greater than those of participation until circumstances are favorable or I can show a more adventurous spirit than at present. <br /> <br /> And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you Cousin suppose us to be an antisocial class of people & in order to lead you to a different conclusion I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings is perhaps equally so; but may not this in the end result to mutual benefit if a friendship is longer in maturing will it not stand a longer & severer test and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater than those based upon supposed merit liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings though concealed by a cold exterior can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains' we have imbibed a free independent spirit both in thought & action. As to honesty little can be said; the venders of wooden nutmegs and pumpkin seeds have in this point injured us much. Pumpkin seeds reminds me of a partial promise of a "Pumpkin Pie'. Now I can pledge you in return not only a pie from one of the sweetest pumpkins of the valley of the Connecticut but the many good things that accompany it & which make it so grateful to the true Yankee. I would mention some of the peculiarities & delights of N.E. but my limits will not permit. <br /> <br /> Accept my warmest thanks for opening a correspondence & be assured that I will cheerfully very cheerfully contribute in my sober way as often as is agreeable to yo. Remember that a friendly letter from you will beguile the long evenings that are fast coming & receive the best wishes of us all. <br /> <br /> Affectionately Yours <br /> Marion Richards<br /> <br /> to <br /> <br /> Sarah C. Richards.<br /> <br /> Claremont Oct. 11th 1838. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List2323

‎[WOMEN - WISCONSIN]‎

‎Whole Woman Vol. 2 no. 3 May 1974‎

‎Madison WI: Madison Women's Center 1974. First Edition. Tabloid newspaper folded into quarto 29cm.; photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. throughout including photographs. Stock uniformly toned faint mail fold line rather large loss to rear wrapper with very minor loss of meaning to the Directory of Women's Services and subscription. Good and sound overall. Issue devoted chiefly to sports and dance interspersed with poetry and essays. Madison Women's Center unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 47674

‎[WOMEN -- EDUCATION]. TEGETMEIER, W.[illiam] B.‎

‎A manual of domestic economy: with hints of domestic medicine and surgery prepared at the request of the Committee of the Home and Colonial School Society. . . .‎

‎London: Published for the Society at the Depository Gray’s Inn Road 1860. 12mo. viii 176 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Numerous text illustrations diagrams floor plans. Recent black cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine light uniform interior toning a few leaves w/ slight creasing still VG bright copy. Fifth edition revised & expanded of this compact manual on domestic economy designed as a succinct education tool for girls in Victorian Era training schools including descriptions on house design heating ventilation cleanliness cooking food & drink household finances and even managing livestock. Tegetmeier and the Committee possibly with influence from Florence Nightingale’s essay “Cassandra†1852 that women should be receiving far more training and information in medicine and surgery for possible future employment in nursing and other related fields. Tegetmeier 1816-1912 was a noted naturalist domestic animal breeder beekeeper and frequent correspondent with Charles Darwin receiving mention in both the groundbreaking Origin of Species as well as The Descent of Man on his studies and efforts in sexual selection and inheritance experiments through the 1860’s. Worldcat locates 3 copies British Library DLC NLM; See: Veak Exploring Darwin’s Correspondence: Some Important but Lesser Known Correspondents and Projects 2003; Sayaka Nakagomi English Middle-Class Girls’ High Schools and ‘Domestic Subjects’ 1871-1914 2016; Amanda Serpi The Education of Women in the Victorian Era 2024. Published for the Society, at the Depository, Gray’s Inn Road, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63213

‎[WOMEN -- ICE SKATING PHOTO ARCHIVE]. [MUNSTER BLOW, Sharlee Janet].‎

‎A sensational archive documenting the exceptional career of a Flushing NY professional ice skater during World War II and afterwards encompassing 300 silver gelatin photographs studio photos over 100 clippings ice show theatre programs and other ephemera. She performed and starred with Sonja Henie’s Rockefeller Center ice shows as well as 100s of ice shows from 1941 through 1948 on and off Broadway often appearing twice a night at the Iridium Room at the St. Regis or The Bowman Room at the Biltmore. The photographs clippings and documents reveal she was not only an excellent ice skater but also professional fencer skier and by the age of 20 had earned her pilot’s license with the intent to become a charter pilot after the War.‎

‎Flushing NY & Beverly Hills CA: Sharlee Janet Munster Blow Raymond Blow 42-20 Kissena Blvd.; 9168 Beverly Blvd. 1941-1968. Two vols. Thick 4to. 163 mylar sleeves with 300 silver gelatin photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 35 of the photographs are signed or dedicated either to Sharlee or Ray many have photographer’s stamp on versos or embossed photographer’s stamps some have lengthy explanatory location and/or identifying annotations on versos several are sleeved in nightclub portfolio sleeves 10 colour transparency slides & 20 snapshot negatives in photo lab sleeves over 100 newspaper clippings magazine clippings articles printed certificates brochures theatre programs etc. Recent 3-ring binders with stamping on front covers. This amazing photo and ephemera archive offers an invaluable visual record of a young Flushing NY ice skater performing at Rockefeller Center with Sonja Henie’s ice shows off-Broadway cabaret and night club venue during World War II and post-War New York. Munster 1924-2016 was one of the thousands of young girls inspired to become professional ice skaters by Sonia Henie’s ice skating movies ice shows glittering costumes and production numbers. By 1941 Munster was appearing in “It Happens on Ice†which ran for 386 performances and included such ice skating performers as Dorothy Allan Jo Ann Dean Paul Castle Edwina Blades and Mary Jane Yeo. Photos in the archive show her early practice sessions as a teenager in Flushing Queens NY signed photos from Betty Atkinson Paul Castle and other stars who appeared in the production along with newspaper clippings and program. Within two years she was appearing in the Iridium Room Ice Shows which were twice nightly affairs and designed for before & after Broadway shows featuring a 20 foot square ice rink and often elaborate sets. She would perform in the “Newfangles†Ice Show at the Terrace Room alongside Carol Lynne Rudy Richards Dorothy Lewis Bob & Peggy White; “Ice Capers†at The Bowman Room in 1944 at the Biltmore Hotel; the “Circus Haze Ice Review†at the Hotel Roosevelt; and finally the long running “Hats Off to Ice†which ran for 889 performances from 1944 through 1946 and was Henie’s most popular show also represented in this collection by the souvenir Center Theatre Orchestra Seat Stub for the first performance in June 1944. The Iridium Room and other New York supper club ice shows featured live music during and after the war often featuring Freddie Miller Cab Calloway -- represented here in the archive with a signed photo showing Cab and his band dedicated to Sharlee The Harmonicats -- another signed photo all signed by the trio Gus Martel and others thriving through 1947. After a cabaret tax was imposed by the city on the supper clubs offering live entertainment hotels across New York eliminated the very popular ice skating shows. Of additional interest are the many production photos showing performance practices publicity shots while dressed in elaborate costumes the chorus lines of male and female ice skaters and the tremendous stage backdrops for such productions as Hats on Ice. Some of the photos show Sharlee Munster and her future husband Ray Blow in skates in costume along with many of their costars in these large productions. Sharlee had tremendous drive and in addition to her passion for skating and performing was inspired to become a pilot and at 18 years old began flying lessons 2-3 times a week weather permitting often working around her show and social schedule. There are photos of her at the Bendix airfield her standing beside a Piper J-3 Cub in which she had purchased a half-interest and successfully completed her first solo flight at Lime Ridge Airport in Poughquag NY August 11 1944 with Norman Sylvia as her flight instructor. She joined the Women Fliers Club and began studying and taking the tests for a commercial pilot’s rating intending to become a charter pilot after the War. Following the closing of most of the ice shows in New York Sharlee and her cousin Ray Munster became ski instructors fencing instructors and performed in ice shows at at the famed Concord Resort Hotel in the Borscht Belt part of the Catskills. In January 1948 she marries one of her fellow skaters Raymond Kenneth Blow 1924-1992 who had also appeared in many of Sonja Henie’s productions at Rockefeller Center as well as the Roxy Theatre and as a couple continued living in the family apartment on Kissena Blvd. through 1950 while Ray performed. By 1952 the young couple and their son Greg had moved to an apartment in Beverly Hills CA with photos showing the family frolicking and fishing at the California beaches visiting Palm Desert in 105 degree heat the opening of Disneyland and more. See: Laura Jacobs Sonja Henie’s Ice Age Vanity Fair Feb. 11 2014; Ryan Stevens Inside Edges in the Iridium Room Skate Guard The Ultimate Archive of Figure Skating’s Fascinating and Fabulous History July 2 2018. Sharlee Janet Munster Blow, Raymond Blow, 42-20 Kissena Blvd.; 9168 Beverly Blvd., unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 55330

‎[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR I COOKERY]. CHAPEL, Inie Gage.‎

‎An all-Western conservation cook book. Containing all the tables recipes and important items discussed in Aunt Prudence’s Kitchen Department of the Evening Telegram. . . .‎

‎Portland OR: Evening Telegram 1917. 8vo. 288 pp. With illustrated ads laid-in clippings. Limp printed oilcloth linen as issued decoration front cover illustrated ad back cover some soiling edgewear rubbing light uniform toning still VG copy. First edition of this remarkable local promotional cookbook issued during World War I to aid the Portland Oregon housewife in cutting down on waste and extravagance and still cook plain healthy meals and even calculated the fuel cost by ingredient for cooking times. In addition the author has included specific instructions on which vegetables could be harvested from Victory Gardens and provided tips for preserving them. Chapel 1863-1955 was a Michigan school teacher who married the local druggist Fred Chapel and moved to Portland OR after 1910 and started writing a cooking column with the Evening Telegram as Aunt Prudence and later with The Oregonian from 1919-1921. See: Heather Anderson Portland: A Food Biography 2015 pp. 246-247; Dora Engeman A Century of Oregon Eating 1880-1980 July 4 2014. Evening Telegram, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 60220

‎[WOMEN -- GREAT BRITAIN]. HOWITT, Mary.‎

‎Biographical sketches of the Queens of Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to the reign of Victoria: or Royal book of beauty. Edited by. . . .‎

‎London: Henry G. Bohn York Street 1851. Tall thick 8vo. 7.75 x 11 in. viii 516 pp. Steel-engraved frontisp. 27 steel-engraved plates. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth decorated & illustrated in gilt front cover & spine back cover embossed in blind a.e.g. chipping wear rubbing to corners spine rebacked w/ original spine laid-back down endpapers renewed a couple signature slightly sprung a few engravings w/ old scotch tape ghosting at gutter margins still a VG- copy. First edition of this nicely illustrated book production from Mary Howitt issued as homage to Queen Victoria the year that the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace in London opened. Several of the Queen of England biographies featured with include Eleanor of Acquitaine Bernegaria of Navarre Eleanor of Castille Anne of Bohemia Margaret of Anjou Elizabeth of York Katharine of Aragon Anne Boleyn tragic Lady Jane Grey Mary the First Queen Elizabeth I and even Queen Victoria herself. Howitt 1799-1888 is best remembered for her first translations into English of Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales and titles often featuring elaborate gilt publisher’s bindings. Uncommon in the trade. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 61544

‎[WOMEN -- SEX EDUCATION]. LOWRY, Dr. E.[dith] B.[elle].‎

‎Herself: talks with women concerning themselves.‎

‎Chicago: Forbes & Co. 1917. 8vo. 221 ppp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads. Text illustrations & diagrams. Blue publisher’s cloth green lettering & decoration on front cover & spine minor soiling spotting slightly cocked minor sunning to spine still G copy. Revised edition of this uncommon work on sex education and medical instruction for women issued during the Progressive Era in order to provide the latest concise and necessary information to young women who typically received little education or medical information on their sexual organs bodies and potential dangers. Lowry 1878-1945 was a leader in health reform and served as Acting Chief for the Bureau of Hospitals for the Dept. of Health in World War I and in this work details the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases incest masturbation rape abortion inter-racial pregnancies and more. Forbes & Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63214

‎[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR I]. McKENNA, Marthe [Mathilde Cnockaert].‎

‎I was a spy!‎

‎New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1933. 8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Quarter-black cloth over photo-pictorial boards cover art images of WWI rubbing & wear to lower fore-edge very minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. photo cover art of images from World War I minor edgewear creasing VG-/VG copy. Second printing of this remarkable memoir recounting the World War I espionage adventures of this Belgian nurse working at a German military hospital in Roulers and passing on information to British Intelligence during the war. She was eventually captured after a sabotage bombing of an ammunition depot and served two years as a prisoner-of-war rather than being executed due to having received prior the Iron Cross from the German Army. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 53800

‎[WOMEN -- FOREST FIRE LOOKOUT]. KINGSBURY, Ruth Foote.‎

‎Lookout tower: Illustrated by Ernest Norling.‎

‎Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1957. 8vo. 254 pp. With numerous illustrations. Red publisher’s cloth pictorial map endpapers minor shelfwear slightly cocked w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Norling minor edgewear 1 very small closed tear VG/VG copy. First edition of this adventure novel of a young woman securing a summer job as a Lookout Tower forest fire guard with the forestry service in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Kingsbury 1889-1986 who was a Seattle WA teacher based the novel on her own experiences in the National Forest. The book features illustrations by Norling 1892-1974 a Washington State native and one of fifty artists in Washington to take part in the Public Works of Art Project during the Great Depression well known for his “Pogo†the dog books series. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 59592

‎[WOMEN -- LABOR HISTORY]. ANDERSON, Earl N. (Director); MULHOLLAND, DJ. (Supervisor), et al. D. J.‎

‎Minimum wage order -- No. 43 effective April 1 1949. Office workers -- women and minors. . . .‎

‎Olympia WA: Department of Labor and Industries Industrial Welfare Committee Dec. 29 1948. Folio. 1 broadside leaf minor creasing to folds very minor age toning to fore-edges still a VG copy. First edition thus of this scarce Minimum Wage Order updating rules for women and male & female minors following World War II as they were steadily pushed out of the well-paying manufacturing and office jobs from the War to make way for returning veterans. Although this particular order includes restrictions on adequate lunch and break periods safety and sanitary requirements as well as Progressive heating lighting and ventilation women and minors were still subject to employers deducting for shrinkage and breakage until the January 23 1950 update Order No. 46. Until the New Deal legislation reforms of the Great Depression both women and minors were not subject to minimum wage laws largely due to the 1923 laissez-faire labor law case Adkins v. Children’s Hospital of the District of Columbia which had ruled that it was a violation of the Fifth Amendment’s right to free contract to force employers to pay women minimum wages. This ruling was overturned in the landmark case of Elsie Parrish suing her employer in the State of Washington in the West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish in 1937. No copies in Worldcat; See: Margaret Murphy The Constitutionality of Minimum Wage: The Legal Battles of Elsie Parrish and Frances Perkins for a Fair Day’s Pay 2022. Department of Labor and Industries, Industrial Welfare Committee, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 63621

‎[WOMEN -- SUFFRAGE]. DUNIWAY, Abigail Scott.‎

‎Path breaking. An autobiographical history of the equal suffrage movement in Pacific Coast States.‎

‎Portland OR: Abigail Scott Duniway James Kerns & Abbott Co. 1914. 8vo. xvi 2 297 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illusts. Orange cloth black lettering & ruling on front cover & spine decorative ornament in brown slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners still a NF copy presentation inscription by the author “Mrs. Duniway†dated 1914. Second edition inscribed of this informative memoir by noted Oregon Woman author & suffragette whose family had come across the Oregon Trail. Sister of Harvey Scott -- noted historian and columnist of the Oregonian -- she bought a printing plant in Portland in 1871 and began the weekly journal The New Northwest which championed woman’s rights and was an important literary paper. She organized suffrage groups in California Oregon Washington and Idaho. She expresses forcefully in this memoir and many of her other writings that the fight for Prohibition was distracting and wasted needed political capital to bring equal rights to women. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 214-219. Abigail Scott Duniway, [James, Kerns & Abbott Co.], hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 61302

‎[WOMEN -- SUFFRAGE & PROHIBITION]. DUNIWAY, Abigail Scott.‎

‎Printed facsimile fundraising letter issued by Duniway for the National Council of Women Voters in 1913 where she details to Peter Kuehnling her opposition to joining suffrage and prohibition of alcohol.‎

‎Portland OR: Abigail Scott Duniway Bushong & Co. Printers 1913. 4to. 1 leaf broadside facsimile ALS on National Council of Women Voters letterhead and dated Oct. 24 1913 fold creases from mailing 2 very tiny closed tears discretely repaired on verso still VG. First edition thus of this scarce broadside ALS from the noted Oregon Woman author & suffragette explaining to Peter Kuehnling Esq. 1859-1928 the German-American Manager of the Hotel Dalles The Dalles Oregon in response to a letter of his. She writes that she actively supports “moral reform based on human nature human needs human justice human freedom and common sense but not under the prohibition movement as at present agitated.†She further points out that she “had the honor to counsel the Equal Suffragists of San Francisco and Los Angeles to avoid extremes of every sort; and by their votes they have proved worthy.†Although Duniway’s suffrage efforts and campaign succeeded the Temperance Movement succeeded in banning alcohol sales and alcohol in Oregon by 1916 which lasted until the state ratified the 21st Amendment in 1933. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 214-219. Abigail Scott Duniway, Bushong & Co., Printers, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 63603

‎[WOMEN -- AFRICA]. AKELEY, Mary L. Jobe.‎

‎Restless jungle. Illustrated.‎

‎New York: National Travel Club 1936. 8vo. xiii 1 313 1 pp. Photo plates colour maps on endpapers. Black cloth gilt logo front cover lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. extraordinary Art Deco cover art by Mahlon Blaine slight shelfwear rubbing NF/NF copy. First National Travel Club edition of this account of Mary Jobe’s expedition to explore the animals in Kruger National Park Portuguese East Africa and the Transvaal together with ethnological studies of the Zulu and Swazi peoples. See: Hunt The Outlandish Art of Mahlon Blaine p. 449. National Travel Club, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 57745

‎[WOMEN -- CINEMA & ROMANCE FICTION]. GLYN, Elinor.‎

‎Romantic adventure: being the autobiography of. . . .‎

‎London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Ltd. 1936. Thick 8vo. vii 1 330 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous photo plates. Green cloth printed paper spine label extra label inserted at rear pastedown minor bumping to couple corners shelfwear light foxing to fore-edges slightly cocked w/ d.j. portrait of Madame Glyn minor shelfwear toning to spine still VG/VG copy. First edition 2nd printing July 1936 1 month after June 1st printing of this outspoken frank and often humorous author whose shocking “Three Weeks†1907 bestseller titillated and attracted readers with her heroine seducing a younger man to conceive a child on a tiger skin rug; or her flapper era screenplay “It†which offered up Clara Bow as the quintessential sexually powerful Jazz Age heroine in 1927. She writes of defying her family as a young woman spurning suitors who were too old too fat or just didn’t appeal to her before they forced her exiled to Jersey where she would write columns on fashion and design clothing with her sister Lucy Duff-Gordon. The original British editions are surprisingly scarce and even more so in the original dustjacket predating the 1937 Dutton American edition. See: Erin Blakemore Before There Was ‘50 Shades’ . . . There Was Elinor Glyn’s ‘It†JSTOR Daily Feb. 20 2015; Denise Cummings & Annette Kuhn Elinor Glyn Women Film Pioneers Project 2013. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd,. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63389

‎[WOMEN -- MEDICINE & SUFFRAGE]. ADAIR, Dr. [Bethenia Angelina] OWENS.‎

‎Some of her life experiences. Gleanings from a pioneer woman physician’s life.‎

‎Portland: Mann & Beach ca. 1906. 8vo. 537 1 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Publisher’s ribbed olive-green cloth black decoration & lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear chipping w/ minor loss to head of spine still VG- copy from library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this autobiographical account by one of the first practicing woman physicians in the Pacific Northwest whose support for the passage of the notorious forced sterilization law shaped the State’s mental health and disabled community for decades. Adair 1840-1926 migrated over the Oregon Trail in the first major wagon train led by Jesse Applegate. At age 14 she was married and by 17 opened a millinery in Roseburg OR and later lived and attended school in Astoria Oregon prior to medical school in Pennsylvania during the Civil War. Subsequently she returned to Roseburg OR where she was a practicing physician and surgeon who established the first hydrotherapeutic electrical and medicinal practice in Southern Oregon. She was a vociferous supporter of women’s rights health issues heredity & hygiene and eugenics. In addition she includes biographical notices of Mrs. O. Hosford Mrs. Nancy Morrison Nancy Dickensen Welch and other Oregon pioneer women. See: Jean Ward Bethenia Owens-Adair The Oregon Encyclopedia 2018; Suffrage and Sterilization: Dr. Owens-Adair Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health 2020; Elaine Katz Women & The American West 2 Note. Mann & Beach, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63530

‎[WOMEN -- SPORTS & DOMESTIC ARTS]. BEARD, Lina & Adelia B.‎

‎The American girls handy-book: how to amuse yourself and others. . . .‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1915. Thick 8vo. xiii 3 559 1 pp. Illustrated title 100s of text illustrations diagrams & plates. Khaki-coloured pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of girls bicycling hiking playing badminton and golfing on spine with initials of the author cover designers at lower fore-edge very minor shelfwear very slight rubbing still a VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. Revised & expanded edition of this remarkable work filled with a tremendous array of craft projects: such as how to build telephones and other devices toys dolls recipes decorative arts instructing young women in how to prepare and preserve botanical samples for their own herbariums perfumes painting and exercises for Victorian girls by two of the founders of the Girl Scouts. This edition features an additional eight chapters and expanded sections in the rest of the book which had not previously appeared in original edition. Of special sports interest are the chapters on swimming for girls target shooting golf including an excellent brief history of women in golf and glossary of terms and physical culture. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63212

‎[WOMEN -- AUTHORS & ARTISTS]. KEYES, Frances Parkinson.‎

‎The cost of a best seller. Illustrated by Susanne Suba.‎

‎New York: Julian Messner Inc. 1950. 8vo. 8 126 pp. With numerous plates illustrations. Quarter-red publisher’s cloth over gray tweed boards small gilt illust. of author writing on front cover gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Suba minor chipping head & foot of spine couple minor closed tears edgewear still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition of this breezy autobiography detailing how she always aspired to being a writer and launched her career in secret both from her mother and later husband former New Hampshire Senator Henry Keyes d. 1938. Frances Parkinson Keyes 1885-1970 during the Mid-20th-Century was a best selling American author perhaps best remembered for her Dinner at Antoine’s. Suba McCracken 1913-2012 was a noted Hungarian-American artist who illustrated books for Colette Eleanor Estes her husband’s children’s books including the Elegant Elephant and the Gentle Giraffe. Julian Messner, Inc., hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 59330

‎[WOMEN -- BUS TRAVEL]. WINN, Mary Day.‎

‎The macadam trail. Ten thousand miles by motor coach. Illustrated by E.H. Suydam.‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1931. Tall 8vo. xiv 319 1 xii pp. Colour frontisp. 34 pen & ink plates numerous line drawing chapter heads illustrated endpapers. Publisher’s adobe-coloured linen brown decoration & gilt lettering front cover & spine slight bumping to corners shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Suydam minor chipping head of spine toning to spine fore-edges minor closed tears slight tears still VG/G copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition stated of this wonderful and sometimes tragic travelogue through 34 states by bus during the Depression. Issued as part of Borzoi Books “Around the World†series. Winn 1888-1965 was a noted reporter and editor for the New York Herald Tribune’s magazine section and also wrote Adam’s Rib an early feminist work promoting employment for women and advocating independence and education for women. Alfred A. Knopf, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 62078

‎[WOMEN -- SATIRE]. McCARDELL, Roy L.‎

‎The show girl and her friends: Dopey McKnight Mama de Branscombe Louie Zinsheimer and others. Illustrated by Gene Carr.‎

‎New York: Street & Smith 1904. 12mo. 200 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Frontisp. numerous plates. Red pictorial publisher’s cloth splendid Art Nouveau cover art by Gene Carr slightly shaken very slight bumping to couple corners 1 corner of ffep. repaired still a VG bright copy. First edition of this splendidly illustrated satirical take on the Broadway show girl adventures of Lulu Lorrimer written in a distinct New York dialect and all enhanced by the Progressive Era comic art of Gene Carr. The book is perhaps best remembered as the source for the first citation of the term “Wisenheimer†for a smart-aleck and followed up the duos very successful “Conversations of a Chorus Girl.†Gene Carr was the creator of Lady Bountiful possibly the earliest comic strip to feature a female protagonist who made her first debut in 1902 two years prior to this work. Street & Smith, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 63459