Women's Studies

1808. HASTINGS, Sally. POEMS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. To Which is Added, A Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West; In the Year, 1800. In a Letter to a Lady. Lancaster, Pa.: William Dickson, 1808. Limited edition, "Printed and Sold ...for the Benefit of the Authoress" by subscription. 220 pp. 12mo., rebound in 3/4 green leather, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, top-edge gilt. Bookplate to ffep. Spine is sunned to brown. Joints are rubbed and weak, and just starting, but the boards are still attached. Light foxing to one section of text, else clean. It is a very scarce book in a fragile binding. Hastings (1773 - 1812) was a poet of local celebrity in Lancaster, PA at the turn of the 19th century. Her work combines religious sentiment with odes to nature and to acquaintances among her literary circle; her travel diary includes interesting descriptions of what was then the western frontier. (Streeter Sale vol. 2, 834; Howes H-289).

Huntington Woods, Michigan:: Land Marks Press,, 2001.. Edition of 300. 8 x 8" page size. 8 x 2.75" tab page. Double sided accordion, 11 panels. Laid in a letter-fold paper wrapper. Printed offset in full color and die-cut on 80# dulcet cover. Legend and Centaur types used on the text pages. Image pages created from original drawings that combine gouache, powdered graphite and letterpress printing. Produced at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Land Marks Press: "Imagine a conversation between two extraordinary women, separated by a thousand years, yet connected by acts of bravery and more than coincidental commonalities. Imagine that this dialogue transcends time, and links Queen Esther, from the Jewish story of Purim, and Scheherazade, the Muslim woman who told stories for a thousand an one nights. This is the inspiration for Lynne Avadenka's new artist's book. "The book structure reinforces the… Read More

1696. Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu" Orsaio, Domenico (Ursaya, Domingo, Ursaya, Domenicus). De Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Praesentiae Parochi: Dissertatio Theologico-Legalis Dominici Ursayae, In qua Incidenter Quidem, Sed Forsan non Injucunde Agitur: De Consensus Necessitate, Illiusque Probatione; De Abolendo Usu Contrahendi Matrimonia pet Nutus, & Signa.; De Clandestinis Matrimoniis, & Duabus Speciebus Clandestinitatis; De Poenis Parochi Voluntarie Assistentis Eisdem Clandestinis Matrim.; De Necessitate, Antiquitate, & Origine Denunciationum Matrimonialium; De Testibus Deponentibus Pro, & Contra Matrimonium; De Necessitate Praesentiae Moralis Parochi in Matrimoniis; De Parocho Affectante non Audire Verba Contrahentium Matrimonium, & Remediis Circa Ilius Affectationem; De Forma Conciliari, An Possit per Aequipollens Adimpleri, & de Dubietate in Ordine ad Matrimonium, An Scilicet, & in Quo Dubio Respondendum sit pro Matrimonio.… Read More

1861 Women of the South Mary Forrest Southern Literature Confederate Feminism
This mid-19th century book 'Women of the South' by Mary Forrest is a collection of biographical sketches and engravings of women writers including with a small collection of their works.
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Octavia Walton Le Vert;
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Catharine Anne Warfield;
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Eleanor Percy Lee;
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Susan Archer Talley;

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Augusta J. Evans;
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Mary S.B. Dana Shindler;
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Amelia E. Welby;
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L. Virginia French;
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Essie B. Cheesborough;

This 1861 subscription-only edition is illustrated with 7 portrait engravings.

Item number: #5808
Price: $399
FORREST, Mary
Women of the South distinguished in literature ...
New York, Derby & Jackson, 1861.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Illustrated with portraits of important women
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~9.5in X 7.5in (24.5cm x 18.5cm)
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MAUDE HUMPHREY: Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes. Frederick A. Stokes, undated. Circa 1894. FIRST EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY MAUDE HUMPHREY. Written by Mary Rice Miller and Elisabeth S. Tucker. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. 242 pages. Maroon boards with gold titling and ornamentation. Good condition front paper paste-down label of a little girl wearing a red feather in her blue hat. Please see our photos. Used. Good/ No DJ. A solid copy with intact gutters. "Humphrey was one of the first great American women illustrators paving the way for Jessie Willcox Smith, Grace Drayton and the many other women illustrators of the early 20th century. Humphrey is also known for being film star HUMPHREY BOGART'S mother (and in fact she used her son as a model for many of her pictures)." QUITE RARE. A NICE FIND.

Rare/Collectible hardcover first edition copy of Anita Allen's Uneasy Access. Ex-library book. The book is otherwise in very good condition. The text is clean and unmarked and the bright blue cover is in very good condition. No dust jacket. See pictures.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953, first printing. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", xxx+842pp., extensive tables and figures. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles in reverse block. First edition of landmark study. Short, closed tear at the crown, otherwise fine with no names or markings. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Philip Goodman, 1918. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, 218 pages; VG; contemporary full navy cloth binding; spine with yellow lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown; bookplate offset; publisher's name misspelled at title page 'Ppilip Goodman'; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1346326. Special Collections.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1911. First Edition. First edition of this surprisingly scarce Rand McNally publisher's catalogue with a focus on illustrated children's books and classic literature. With colour plates by Lucy Fitch Perkins for 'The Enchanted Peacock' by Julia Brown, Grace Chandler Horn for 'Hiawatha' by Henry W. Longfellow, Hope Dunlap for 'The Rose Fairies' by Olivia McCabe, Magniel Wright Enright for 'The Garden of Hearts Delight' by Ida Huntingdon, Katherine Merrill for 'Edda and the Oak' by Elia Peattie, Fanny E. Cory for 'Jackieboy in Rainbowland' by William M. Hill, and Ruth Hallock for 'Other Rhymes for Little Readers' by Wilhelmina Seegmilla. No copies in Worldcat. Octavo, bound in printed paper wrappers, 85 pages [+3], 7 full page colour plates, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout, a couple of minor closed tears at fore-edges, mild bumping to corners, with original promotional slip laid in, a very good copy indeed.

NBM Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. Used- Near Fine Condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Binding is slightly bent toward the front cover. 4" light indentation in back cover. Appears unread. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books. Beautiful, bright, crisp copy!

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880 First edition. Original cream-colored paper boards, neatly rebacked, with modern paper spine label. . Octavo. Some dampstaining to boards. Toning to endpapers. Very clean inside. A very good copy. After a perusal of my list I think every gentleman will agree with me that Ladies really are very aggravating. It would be curious to hear the exclamation of any lady who has written as 'A lady,' upon looking it over. She would probably exclaim that when she wrote as 'A lady,' she thought she was the only one, at all events one of the first… "…[T]hough these ladies do not like placing their names on their books, yet there is little desire to disguise the authorship, and enquiries are generally soon satisfied if a work has attained any success. They like to see themselves in print, so long as there is no infringement of the patent of modesty," (p. 7).

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.

Unfortunately, not much is known about the photographer Diby Yao Christophe, but his photo book, Du twist à cocody, ou l'art de la natte, is an amazing document of hairstyles from the Ivory Coast of the 1970s.

This very scarce book was made between April 1970 and June 1972, in collaboration with the Institut d'Ethno-Sociologie
in Abidjan, which was at the time of publication the capital of the Ivory Coast. Interestingly, the book was published in French and English, by the French publisher Éditions Dalfoz, in 1972, translated by Timothy and Kathryn Weiskel.
Christophe ends his book with this very powerful statement:
"Why do some of our stylish women prefere [sic] bleached hair or wigs to genuine African creations? One's real hair, in my opinion, is worth more than faked hair, and an art evolved over time is always better than imported styles of others. I meet many of you who pretend to be European, trying to dress and act like white women.
Oh, my Black Sisters, why are you trying to forget… Read More

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. Finely bound in contemporary red morocco over marbled boards, the back intricately gilt, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, at rear states Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham MDCCCXLVIII. Portrait frontis of Mrs. Goldolphin. xviii, 291 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait, genealogical tables. Near Fine, tiny rubs at edges. This edition published by Longman uncommon in current commerce. WorldCat locates 8 institutional holdings. . Later Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co, 1905. First combined edition. Original tan wrappers. Published Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co., 1905. 12mo. printed wrappers, 5" x 6 7/8", 119pp. printed on laid paper, plus 9pp. ads. Scarce feminist work for reproductive rights. Some closed tears to the rear cover, few spots to front cover. Clean, bright, very good plus. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.