A scarce book poster by an acclaimed graphic designer who was the most famous female poster artist around the turn of the 20th century. This poster promotes the poetry collection of the Canadian Mohawk writer Pauline Johnson, who also went by Tekahionwake. Art News, in reviewing a 2022 show of.....

First Edition. This book provides a "historical background to illuminate current struggles of Chicanas for the full expression of their human potential"—introduction. 115 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good or better in wrappers (paperback).

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.....

A compelling image of Dr. Walker, wearing her usual frock coat, trousers, a necktie, and her Congressional Medal of Honor. The image dates from her lecture tour of Great Britain in 1866 and 1867. Walker (1832–1919) obtained a medical degree in 1855 and practiced medicine into her old age. During.....

First Edition. An early 20th century female professional in the biological sciences provides detailed descriptions of the invertebrate specimens of the Boston natural history museum. The author (1852–1938) worked under the zoologist Alpheus Hyatt for many years and was later the curator of the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts.....

First Edition. The first edition of the first American woman's suffrage movement cookbook, printed for sale during the woman suffrage bazaar held in Boston on six days in 1886. Harriet "Hattie" Burr, who was active in suffrage and other community causes, in Boston compiled recipes and household advice from more.....

First Edition. A World War One book that simultaneously recruits women to work in the British munitions industry and explains their presence to a public skeptical of the appropriateness of women working in factories. The author, a successful novelist, argues that women shouldn't be given just two choices when it.....

A promotional card, illustrated with a half-tone portrait, of an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools for mountainous Trinity County in far northern California. This card most likely dates from before 1911, when women won the right to vote in California. Katherine "Kittie" or "Kitty" O'Neil was born in California.....

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.....

A head-and-shoulder's portrait of the novelist Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919), the author of some 80 books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Barr, née Huddleston, was born in Lancashire, England, and emigrated to the US in 1853. Her first novel was published in 1872. Image, roughly 4 by.....

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.....

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 a Newhaven fish wife, one of the many women who worked in the fishing industry in 19th century Scotland. Men did most of the fishing and women gutted and prepared the fish and hauled the results to market. The fish women of Newhaven, a village north of.....