![Item No: #307605 [CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman]. Viola Myers](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307605.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1615568601)
In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (sic) "the best bearded woman in the business" (see February 15 issue). Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the most prominent bearded woman in the.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An important work in the history of gynecology and feminism—a scientific argument by one of the first American women doctors against the standard prescription of total rest for women during their periods. This medical practice sidelined middle- and upper-class women for several days each month (poor women have.....
Price: $2,500
![Item No: #307182 Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. 19th Century...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1604707212)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Root (1859–1944) graduated from the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia and was the first female doctor.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4.....
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![Item No: #306905 The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]. J. N....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/306905.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1600749735)
A nice image of a sod house on the Dakota prairie with its likely inhabitants, a white woman standing at the door, with a white man sitting on a barrel against the house holding two young children. This is a good illustration of pioneer family life and the exceptional hardships.....
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![Item No: #306901 [CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/306901.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1600749733)
Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the best-known bearded woman in the US. In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (as she was also known) "the best bearded woman in the business".....
Price: $300
First Edition. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages are mostly devoted to the.....
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A compelling but unidentified vintage cabinet card of two women wearing elaborate striped dresses, fringed hats and cross necklaces while holding playing cards. Just visible at their feet are the bases of stands used by the photographer to hold them in place during the long exposure needed for the photograph.....
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8-1/2 by 8 inches. 110 pages. Black-and-white photographs of Ann Richards taken during her successful run to be governor of Texas. The photographs are printed only on the odd pages. First edition, first printing. A bit of wear to the edges, but generally a near fine copy. This copy is.....
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First Edition. 63 pages. Ride was the first American woman in space as part of Space Shuttle missions in 1983 and 1987. This is a report, clearly aimed at a general audience, with illustrated with color photographs, explaining NASA's various programs and making recommendations for the future. First edition (first.....
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First Edition. 311 pages. The author's first mystery in book form, following several romance novels. A number of her mystery stories were serialized in newspaper beginning in the late 1920s. In this book, an unscrupulous stock promoter is murdered and in his will is a reward of $5,000 for anyone.....
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First American Edition. 144 pages. A collection of sonnets first published in 1609 by a woman who may have been Shakespeare's mistress. Introduction by A. L. Rowse. The American edition, using English sheets. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that is slightly faded.....
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8-by-10-inch black-and-white photograph (image 6 by 8 inches). Olsen is best known for her book, Tell Me a Riddle. In recent years, she has become a symbol of the hardships many women writers face when trying to juggle family and money and time to write. A fine photograph, inscribed twice.....
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First Edition. An illustrated circular seeking information about Marion Christopherson who disappeared with Dr. Robert Frank in December 1923. The title of the circular describes Frank as abducting Christopherson, but the lengthy narrative text, inset with pictures of "the girl" and "the man", tells a more complicated, but still troubling.....
Price: $75
