A small, charming, and well-executed handmade papercut memento enclosing locks of hair, possible from two sisters, dated 1874 and 1875. The enclosure is in the form of a paper lantern made from two pieces of lined paper. The lower piece is trimmed with a delicately scalloped edge. The upper piece.....

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.....

First Edition. A mystery for beginning readers, illustrated with line drawings. An uncommon book. 60 pages. First edition (stated). This is the library issue, bound in gold-colored cloth, with a small darkened patch on the front board. The dust jacket has a pinkish stain at the base of the front.....

First Edition. The collected edition of three of the best-known pre-feminist pamphlets from the mid-18th century. The first, Woman Not Inferior to Man by Sophia, a person of quality, appeared in 1739. It's arguments were refuted a few months later by a "Gentleman", who published Man Superior to Woman. Sophia.....

A wonderful letter by the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy touching on poems about dragons, Beowulf, and fellow Inkling C. S. Lewis. This letter to Prof. Henry Bosley Woolf thanks him for sending a copy of a paper he had written on Beowulf, a......

First Edition. Oscar Wilde's first successful play, written and produced in 1892 and published a year later. This was Wilde's first play produced in Great Britain. His previous major play, Salome, was banned because works with biblical themes were not permitted on the London stage, and two 1880s plays (Vera.....

First Edition. A feminist classic and one of Woolf's most popular novels, a satyric account of English literary history through the adventures of the title character, a very long-lived poet who begins the book as a man and ends as a woman several centuries later. Woolf incorporated details from the.....