Search Results: Suffrage from Lorne Bair Rare Books

N.p., n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets (25x20.5cm.), rectos only, "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots, minor shallow creases and faint fold lines, else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" (though which President, and of what, is not stated), in which the author, quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors," strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature, hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box? And mingling in the excitement of an election, thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity? I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy, the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references (Mary… Read More

Atlanta: Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, [1969]. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 36pp. Fine. A roster of Black elected officials in the south as of 1969. Alabama had the most; North Carolina the least.

Boston: Suffrage League of Boston and Vicinity, [1905]. Souvenir Program. Quarto (27cm); staple-bound, coated paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Printed photographic portrait of Garrison inside front cover. Moderate external wear and soil; scattered spotting to contents; center 4-pp gathering pulled loose from staples but otherwise undamaged; complete and Good. The two-day festival included remarks by Clement Morgan, Francis J. Garrison, W.H. Scott, William Stanley Braithwaite (composer of the Centennial Ode), Gov. William Lewis Douglas, Julia Ward Howe, and others, with a Centennial Oration delivered by Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom. Musical interludes were provided by John Hutchinson (of the Hutchinson Family), Nellie Brown Mitchell, Genevieve Lee, and numerous others. Includes several halftone illustrations, including a full-page reproduction of Garrison's 1851 broadside warning Black citizens of Boston against the "Watchmen and Police Officers of Boston...as they are empowered to act as Kidnappers and Slave… Read More

London: Africa Bureau, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original blue staplebound self-wrappers; 11pp.; printed entirely on blue stock. Extremities a bit toned, else Very Good. Price cancel inside upper wrapper. Regarding suffrage in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and fuscia, top edge stained red; xiii,[5],445pp. Jacket spine toned with narrow 2-inch dampstain, spine ends a bit rubbed, else a Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Historical novel describing the plight of White Russians exiled in Manchuria after the Russian Revolution. Published in England the following year as Tobit Transplanted. NCBEL III, 525.

Washington DC: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, [ca 1992]. Single sheet, 8-1/2" x 14", folded to make six panels. Fine. Brochure announcing the establishment of the permanent women's history exhibition at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit stood from 1990 to 2004.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First Edition. Large Paper Issue, one of 450 numbered copies, each with an original manuscript leaf by Julia Ward Howe tipped in, this being copy no.197. Two octavo volumes (23.75cm); tan paper-covered boards and dark brown buckram backstrips, with gilt-stamped title labels mounted at upper spines; publisher's original cardboard slipcase; [x],392,[2]; [x],434,[2]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits and 21 full-page plates. Light wear to extremities, title labels a bit dulled, with a few small scuffs, else a fresh, Near Fine set. Slipcase is shelfworn, with some board exposure to corners, a few small splits at joints, and a tear at upper edge; printed title label dust-soiled; Very Good. "The present work contains so much material by Mrs. Howe here first published that it may properly be considered a primary production" (BAL 9530).

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1913. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original olive gilt-lettered cloth; 186pp. Rear cover with old red ink stain, else Very Good and sound. Rather unpopular study of female nature and the women's movement, in which the author comes to the conclusion that women are different from men.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1929]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vii,[1],357pp. Fine, presumably lacking jacket. Front free endpaper: "To Lowell Innes: Presented by the Publisher, T. Irving Crowell, and inscribed by the author, Seba Eldridge, with sincere regards. / July 24, 1931." Outline of deliberative politics, "more in line with ancient republican models than with the era of mass suffrage" (Andrew Jewett, Science, Democracy, and the American University, 2012).

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Corner-stapled wrappers; 11pp. Fine. Report on the effect of the SRC's Voter Education Project on the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election. "Of the six southern states carried by the Democratic Party in the 1964 Presidential election, four (Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia) clearly would have gone Republican had it not been for the Negro vote...

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 7pp. Fine. Position paper from this southern civil rights advocacy group on the 1967 race riots in Detroit, Newark and elsewhere.

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Corner-stapled wrappers; 17pp. Fine. Major statement, in the wake of the riots of the summer of 1967, by the influential African-American psychiatrist and civil rights leader, later first African-American president of the American Psychological Association. "...During the past few years, it became excruciatingly clear for the Negro that the more things changed, the more they remained the same--or worsened. The promises and hope for progress became a relentless quagmire of words...

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); corner-stapled self-wrappers; 8 leaves. Near Fine. Report of a survey conducted on black voter turn-out in the South during the November, 1966, election.

Williamsport: Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); single leaf folded into six-paneled pamphlet. Minor dustiness and light wear from handling, else Near Fine. Convention held November 14-16, 1927, at the Lycoming Hotel in Williamsport. The League was the "largest postsuffrage [National American Woman Suffrage Association] affiliate" (Anna L. Harvey, Votes Without Leverage (1998), p. 101n).

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 10pp. Fine. In terms of numbers of volunteers and public political support, the SRC was perhaps the most influential civil rights organization of the Fifties and Sixties.

New York: The Century Co, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); light green decorative cloth, stamped in black, dark green, and gilt; top edge gilt; 240pp, frontis., 10 plates. Boards moderately soiled and toned; mild edgewear and rubbing. Textblock shows reading wear, with light smudging throughout; dackled edges. Overall just about Very Good. Louisiana native Ruth McEnery Stuart, contemporary of Grace King and Kate Chopin, was especially known as an author and orator of "dialect" stories. Sonny's Father, the sequel to her popular Sonny: A Christmas Guest (1896) is written entirely in a southern dialect, as narrated by the eponymous father of Sonny, a precocious (and frankly spoiled rotten) boy who was born on Christmas day. Of particular interest may be our narrator's report of a suffrage meeting he attended and supported. Illustrators are not credited, but plates at pgs. 44 and 156 can be identified as the work of Jessie Willcox Smith.

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 46,[8]pp. Fine. On the failure of implementation of desegregation guidelines throughout the South in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. 8-pp Appendix includes facsimiles of handwritten letters from victims of racial discrimination.

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 23pp. Fine. On the failure of implementation of desegregation guidelines throughout the South in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 36pp. Fine. On racial conflict in Somerville and Fayette County Tennessee during the summer and fall of 1969.

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, [1968]. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 58pp. Fine. Includes "Full Circle of Failure," by Bartley; with Appendices: "Jefferson County and Macon County School Desegregation Decisions" by Gignilliat & Horwitz; Appendix II, text of a telegram sent to 1968 Presidential candidates Nixon & Humphrey by SRC, regarding school desegregation. In terms of numbers of volunteers and public political support, the SRC was perhaps the most influential civil rights organization of the Fifties and Sixties.