First Edition. The memoirs of the paleoanthropologist who discovered many fossils of early human ancestors in Africa. She also discovered and classified a variety of very early human-made tools. 224 pages (preliminaries included in pagination). First edition, first printing (states "First edition published in the United States..." on the copyright.....

Second Edition. This is a nicely inscribed copy of a reprint of the 1958 novel, "The Woman Thing." It is decidely more pornographic and less literary than other books Iris Owens wrote as Harriet Daimler for the Olympia Press. After leaving the Paris expatriate community, Owen wrote two novels under.....

First Edition. The uncommon first edition of this enduring Southern novel about a woman who is awakened to the possibilities of life when she falls in love for the first time with a man who is not her husband. Chopin was born in St. Louis but spent many years in.....

First Edition. One of the better-known British suffrage cookbooks, assembled by the Birmingham chapter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) as a fundraiser. Suffragists from around the United Kingdom submitted recipes. The final section includes "Menus for Meals for Suffrage Workers" offered as "an attempt to cope.....

First Edition. Bound with (as usual) The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...To Which Is Added, The Contents of the Second Blast and a Letter...to the People of Edinburgh, Anno 1571 by John Knox. The Oxford Dictionary of National (UK) Biography describes this book as.....

Broadside printing the text of a petition submitted to the legislative assembly of the Victoria stating "that the exclusion of women from the franchise is both unjust to them and inimicable to the welfare of the state" and asking that "this condition of injustice under which they labour be altered.....

First hardcover edition. A feminist science fiction satire, set on the penal planet where women who won't submit to the patriarchy are sent. This is the hardcover graphic novel issued for Local Comic Shop Day in November 2015, a month after the paperback original graphic novel came out. The series.....

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.....

A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows.....

A gelatin silver print image of women working in a munitions factory assembling aerial bombs. A man, possibly the supervisor, stands on the opposite side of the table. A 48-star American flag hangs above them. Your cataloguer has no expertise in identifying bombs, but these seem somewhat more advanced than.....

One of Holmes' (a second generation British photographer working in Pakistan in the early twentieth century) finest art prints, a platinum print of a studio portrait of a young Pastun woman taken in the North-West Frontier Province of India (near what is Peshawar, Pakistan, today). Holmes is best known for.....

First Edition. With a foreword by Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Denfeld, an amateur boxer, takes on traditional notions of women's peacefulness. 182 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both.....

First Edition. A well-known example of the popular 18th century British genre of collective biographies of women, with more than a hundred short entries on women dating back to ancient times. The subjects include Cleopatra; Sappho; the poet Anne Killigrew, described as "a great genius"; the painter and calligrapher Esther.....