![Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. Abell, Priest, photographers](/pictures/thumb/307182.jpg?v=1604707212)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore while in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In one photograph, Root wears the sari in traditional style, over her left shoulder and.....
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.....
Price: $50
![The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]. J. N. Templeman, Jasper Newton](/pictures/thumb/306905.jpg?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.....
Price: $300
![CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]. James Mahon, photographer](/pictures/thumb/306901.jpg?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
![Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]. Victoria Woodhull](/pictures/thumb/306900.jpg?v=1600749732)
A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph is blank.....
Price: $750
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.....
Price: $1,850
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.....
Price: $50
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.....
Price: $40
First Edition. 276 pages. An autobiographical account of a radical anti-abortionist's escape from jail and his use of an anthrax scare to disrupt hundreds of abortion clinics following 9/11. Waagner, now serving a long prison sentence, is associated with the Army of God, perhaps the most militant wing of the.....
Price: $30
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.....
Price: $300
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.....
Price: $30
First Edition. 341 pages. The third Sarah Keate novel, a closed-house mystery. Keate was a mystery-solving nurse and one of the first female series characters in the mystery genre (the first Miss Marple novel was published in 1930, a year after Keate's first mystery). The novel was filmed as Mystery.....
Price: $150
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.....
Price: $300
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.....
Price: $25
First Edition. xxxx, 376 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20
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.....
Price: $100
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
