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.....

First Edition. A very scarce guide to women's health, written by the first woman admitted to the American Medical Association. It is one of the first guides to women's health written by a female doctor. The Atwater collection of popular medicine included only the second and third editions, the annotations.....

The fifth edition, revised and corrected, of the first comparative history of women by an American writer. This book, first published in 1835 and popular for several decades, assembles a considerable amount of information about the historical role of women in various societies. Originally written when Child was in her.....

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.....

92 pages. 7-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. Colección Trébol. One of 200 copies. A collection of short stories photocopied from computer typescript onto white paper. The title of each story is printed on green handcolored paper affixed a reproduction of handwritten text. The cover design incorporates a paper sculpture of the left.....

92 pages. 8 by 11-1/2 inches in an 11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inch handmade paper bag decorated with collage elements. Colección Puente de la Concordia. An edition of 50 copies. A collection of poems by Cuban women. The typeset text pages are reproduced by photocopy. Several leaves have handcoloring and collage elements.....

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.....

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".....

First Edition. 226 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. 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.....

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.....

First Edition. 80 pages. 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 was the law implementing Prohibition). The Volstead Act prohibited offering.....

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.....

First Edition. xxxx, 376 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.