First Edition. A cocktail book published during Prohibition with hors d'oeuvres and mixed drinks recipes, mostly dreadful, yet such was the state of entertaining "for the American People in the twelfth year of Volstead, 1930." The Volstead Act, the law implementing Prohibition, outlawed offering instructions on how to make alcohol.....

First Edition. An illustrated guide to sea animals with radial symmetry, written by Elizabeth Agassiz with illustrations by her step-son Alexander. Illustrated with lovely small reversed (white lines on black background) images. 155 pages. A near fine copy in the publisher's blue-green cloth binding.

First Edition. A stand-alone graphic novel from the author of Persepolis. In this book, Satrapi imagines the women of her extended Iranian family sitting around drinking tea and talking about their relationships with men. The book was originally published in France. "As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their.....

First Edition. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. 63 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

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 portrait of two unidentified women holding strands of yarn. They are wearing distinctive uniforms of thick gathered skirt over a second, stiff, horizontally pleated skirt; a tunic over a blouse, and a flat cloth head covering that seems to tie in a large bow around their necks. On the.....

A carefully posed full-length albumen silver print portrait of two women, possibly Bengali, working as dirt haulers. They pose behind a small pile of soil, a shovel, and a basket partially filled with dirt. One woman balances a basket on her head. In style, this is a very typical occupational.....

Five carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by women anywhere.....

Fourteenth edition "enlarged." A guide to painless childbirth, which seems to rely mostly on baths, a fruit diet, and a good attitude. The book was very popular, being reprinted every year for more than a decade. 159, [9] pages. A near-fine copy in terra cotta cloth. While this is not a......

An original mounted albumen photograph of a woman making tortillas outdoors on a stone pavement. In the photograph she is leaning over a stone metate, grinding corn. To the left (her right) is what appears to be a flat metal sheet for cooking. She is surrounded by clay ollas and.....

First Edition. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today.....

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.....