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Presented with a clever aphorism to his friend and neighbor, the activist stockbroker Sumner Bass Pearmain
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The Innocents Abroad (Inscribed with...

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Later edition. Original publisher's cloth with gilt to spine and front board. Extremities a bit shelfworn and spine somewhat sunned; small stain..... (Item #4389)

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An assertion not only of women's quality, but of their personhood, and a marked shift in early feminist discourse
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Beauty's Triumph: Or, the Superiority...

London: Printed and Sold by J. Robinson, 1751. First collected edition. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with gilt and morocco label to spine. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 190 x 125mm and..... (Item #4388)

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Finely bound set of this preeminent American statesmen, conservationist, soldier, and author
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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Memorial Edition. Limited to 1,050 sets signed by Edith Kermit Roosevelt, with this being number 163. Original publisher's cloth with gilt to spines. Top..... (Item #4387)

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"A book with rude, startling power… like a good, long scream in the ear"
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Suttree

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. McCarthy's fourth book and one of his best. A Near Fine copy, square and pleasing with just a bit of wear to the..... (Item #4385)

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Exposing children to the truth about chattel slavery and teaching them to be allies in the fight for Black Americans' freedom and civil rights
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The Young Abolitionists; or, Conversations...

Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1848. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and embossed in blind. Spine a bit faded; some gentle wear and staining to cloth..... (Item #4292)

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Mary Roberts' influential zoological work, which made science a more accessible field for young women
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The Conchologist's Companion; comprising the...

London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition. Later black cloth with gilt to spine. Collates xii, 251: complete, including frontis and the author's List of Authorities Consulted. Previous..... (Item #4375)

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An early appearance in English of the influential Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman...

London: M. Flesher for Richard Mynne, 1635. Second edition in English. Released one year after the extremely scarce first edition in English. Bound to style in full calf with gilt..... (Item #4381)

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One of the only surviving documents from a group committed to diverse membership and intersectional activism
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Constitution of the Massachusetts Female...

[Boston]: [N.P.], [1840]. First edition. Bifolium, 2 printed pages on recto and verso. Uniformly toned, with two small snags affecting two words on page 1. Horizontal fold lines. A pleasing..... (Item #4377)

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Pairing a man's didactic attempt to redefine the novel with a woman's feminist fantasy novel of escaping the patriarchy
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The School of Virtue, A....

Philadelphia: William Spotswood, 1790. First American edition. Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked to style and retaining original morocco label. Slight bowing to front board, but a pleasing and tight copy overall..... (Item #4270)

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The first biography of gender non-conforming preacher Public Universal Friend, whose sect urged abolition and gender equality in early America
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History of Jemima Wilkinson

Geneva, New York: S.P. Hull, 1821. First edition. Original printed boards rebacked to style, overall with some rubbing and soiling. Endpapers renewed. Edges uncut. Bookplate of Edward G. Miner to..... (Item #4254)

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The third generation of a brothel honors her predecessor: "It must be remembered, that though we are who--es, still we are women"
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A Funeral Oration in Honour...

Amsterdam [Edinburgh]: [N.P.], [1760]. First edition. Original printed self-wraps, with contemporary ink notations to title page. Measuring 185 x 110mm and complete in 16 pages. Outer leaves somewhat soiled and..... (Item #4247)

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Among the few surviving contemporary resources on the history of castrati and the very public debates seeking to regulate their bodies
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Eunuchism Display'd. Describing all the...

London: Printed for E. Curll, 1718. First edition in English. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Measuring 155 x 95mm and collating: [2], v-xxiv, 240, 12: conforming..... (Item #4228)

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"The poem insistently forces a choice from the reader: to oppose, sympathise, and react" to the enslavement of other human beings
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A Poem on the Inhumanity...

London: G.G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1788. First edition. [with] Yearsley, Ann. Poems on Various Subjects. London: Printed for the Author, 1787. First edition. Two volumes in one, bound to..... (Item #4182)

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California's preeminent political magazine comments on the suffrage movement's relationship to class, race, and queerness
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Get Off the Steps: Woman...

[San Francisco, CA]: [May 12, 1894]. First edition. Large chromolithograph centerfold from the California magazine The Wasp. Measuring 513 x 339mm and in excellent condition, retaining its bright colors with..... (Item #4112)

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The second play by one of England's earliest female playwrights, centering the female gaze and questioning strict gender roles
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The Spanish Wives, A Farce...

London: R. Wellington, 1696. First edition. 18th century quarter calf over marbled boards, with gilt to spine. All edges stained red. Joints and corners professionally repaired. Small early auction house..... (Item #4020)

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A haunting meta-fictional novel focused on literary ambition and obsession
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Pale Fire

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First edition. Fine book with bright gilt to spine. Red topstain lightly sunned. Unclipped jacket in VG+ condition, with sunning to spine resulting in..... (Item #3380)

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"Certainly the greatest literary work in classical Arabic, and for all Muslims it stands as the definitive word of God"
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The Koran, Commonly called The...

London: C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734. First Thus. First appearance of the Sale translation into English. Quarto: xii, 187, [1], 508, [15, index]. Engraved foldout map of "Arabia," three..... (Item #2416)

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A tribute on the passing of Frederick Douglass, written by a friend and ally and presented to the future Librarian of Congress
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Sonnets to the Memory of...

Paris: Brentano's, 1895. First edition. Original printed wrappers stitched at spine. Central vertical fold to both wraps, with some splitting near foot of front; some chipping along outer edges, and..... (Item #4357)

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Arguing that when education is the only path to moral truth, education must be equally available to all
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A Treatise on the Immutability...

London: Printed for A. Hamilton, Jun., and Sold by C. Dilly, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, T. Lewis, J. Walter, and R. Faulder, 1783. First edition. Half calf rebacked to style..... (Item #4356)

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Featuring 13 stories by a woman who "opened the flood-gate of Literature to her own sex"
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Nouvellettes, Selected for the Use...

London: Fielding & Walker, 1780. First edition. Finely bound in full red crushed morocco with five raised bands and gilt to spine. Inner dentelles gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled..... (Item #4355)

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