Gifts - For Her

Webber, Andrew Lloyd and Tim Rice

Evita: The Legend of Eva Peron 1919-1952.

London : Elm Tree Books, 1978.

First edition of this illustrated companion to the 1979 Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Tim Rice on the title page, “Hello Richard all best Tim Rice.” In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

Winfrey, Oprah; Danny Glover; Thandiwe Newton; Kimberly Elise. [Toni Morrison]

Journey to Beloved.

New York : Hyperion, 1998.

First edition of Oprah Winfrey’s emotional account of playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quarto, original illustrated boards, photographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Ken Regan. Presentation copy, inscribed on the second freeContinue reading "Journey to Beloved."

By a Lady. [Austen, Jane]

Sense and Sensibility: A Novel.

London : Printed for the Author and Published by T. Egerton, 1813.

Second edition of the first novel published during Austen’s lifetime. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edgesContinue reading "Sense and Sensibility: A Novel."

James, Henry

The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.

London : Macmillan and Co., 1886.

First edition in book form of one of James’s “three formidable novels” published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, half-titles, 2 pages of advertisements at rear of vols. II and III. From the library of Barton Currie withContinue reading "The Princess Casamassima: A Novel."

Garrett Fawcett, Millicent

Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.

London : T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1912].

First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s history of the women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher’s advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain’s largest women’s rights association, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of theContinue reading "Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement."

Hutchinson, John

The Families of Flowering Plants. Arranged According to a New System Based on Their Probable Phylogeny.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

First edition of Hutchinson’s classic work on the classification of flowering plants. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, with illustrations by W.E. Trevithick and the author. In very good condition. Small ownership name to each volume.

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett

Political Economy For Beginners.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co, 1870.

Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett’s immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, original cloth, publisher’s advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain’s largest women’s rights association, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage SocietiesContinue reading "Political Economy For Beginners."

McClelland, Nancy

The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments.

Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott, 1926.

First edition of Nancy McClelland’s authoritative work on interior design. Octavo, original decorated cloth, frontispiece in color with tissue guard present, eight other illustrations in color and 206 in doubletone. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice example, uncommon in the original dust jacket.

Mill, John Stuart

Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, Held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871.

Edinburgh : Printed by John Lindsay, For The Edinburgh National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1873.

First edition of the posthumously printed transcription of Mill’s famed speech in support of women’s suffrage. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards. In very good condition. Embossed stamp. Exceedingly rare.

Pethick Lawrence, Frederick W

Women’s Fight For The Vote.

London : The Woman's Press, [1910].

First edition of the definitive collection Pethick Lawrence’s articles promoting Women’s Suffrage. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.

Lytton, Constance

Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.

London : William Heinemann, 1914.

First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress “Jane Warton.” Octavo, original publisher’s purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst to the front panel, illustrated with two portraits including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Lytton. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.

Opinions of Women on Women’s Suffrage.

London : Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879.

First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women’s Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women’s Suffrage and containing the opinions of English women in official positions, scientific and political careers, and principals of colleges and high schools among others. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition.

Balfour, Arthur James

Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.

London : Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892].

Rare printing of Lord Balfour’s speech supporting the Women’s Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

[Mackenzie, Poppy]

The Truth About My Friends.

London : Dow & Lester, n.d.

Small parlor game book belonging to Poppy Mackenzie, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or “truth” (one of them being “My sympathies are with the suffragettes”), below which the participants have signed their name. In good condition.

Blind, Mathilde. [Emily Duval]

Madame Roland.

London : W. H. Allen & Co, 1886.

The Eminent Women Series edition of Blind’s biography of French revolutionary Marie-Jeanne ‘Manon’ Roland de la Platière. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of English suffragette Emily H. Duval with her ownership signature to the half-title page. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s votingContinue reading "Madame Roland."

Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

New York : Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.

First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

Stein, Gertrude. [Alice B. Toklas] Introduction by Virgil Thomson

Bee Time Vine and other Pieces [1913-1927].

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1953.

First edition of volume three of the Yale edition of Stein’s unpublished writings, collected under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein’s partner Alice B. Toklas on the front free endpaper, “A peace offering to dear Elizabeth with love from Alice Paris 4 – VI – 54.”Continue reading "Bee Time Vine and other Pieces [1913-1927]."

Gross, Edward Augustus and Homer Joseph Dodge

Manual For Women Voters.

New York : Federal Trade Information Service, 1922.

First edition of this introductory manual for newly enfranchised American women following the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

Macphail, Andrew

Essays in Fallacy.

New York, Bombay, and Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co, 1910.

First edition of Macphail’s essay on the psychology of the suffragette. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

Fulford, Roger

Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle.

London : Readers Union/Faber and Faber, 1958.

Reader’s Union edition of Fulford’s work on the UK women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth. English journalist, historian, writer and politician Roger Fulford authored several important biographies and other works. Between 1964 and 1981 he edited five volumes of letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal. He was President of the Liberal Party fromContinue reading "Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle."

Cobbe, Frances Power

Why Women Desire The Franchise.

London : Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, 1869.

First edition of prolific Anglo-Irish suffragette Frances Power Cobbe’s feminist treatise. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine, burgundy morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Accompanied by an original albumen carte-de-visite of Frances Power Cobbe by Philip Crellin signed by her. In near fine condition. Library stamp toContinue reading "Why Women Desire The Franchise."

Masefield, John

My Faith in Woman Suffrage.

: The Woman's Press, [1910].

First edition of the English Poet Laureate’s speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

Phillips, Mary

The Militant Suffrage Campaign in Perspective.

London : Latimer Trend & Co, [1957].

Rare first edition of Mary Phillips’ personal account of the militant suffragette movement. Octavo, original wrappers. Foreword by the Right Hon. Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Mary Elizabeth Phillips joined the radical Women’s Social & Political Union in 1907 and established a Glasgow branch of the WSPU. In March 1908 she was sentenced to six weeks in HollowayContinue reading "The Militant Suffrage Campaign in Perspective."

X. [Smedley, Constance]; Appendix by Mrs. Philip Snowden [Ethel Snowden]

Woman: A Few Shrieks!

Letchworth Herts : Garden City Press , [1907].

First edition of Constance Smedley’s rare feminist tract, published under the pseudonym X and with an appendix by Ethel Snowden. Octavo, original cloth, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Appendix by Ethel Snowden. In good condition. Stamps throughout including to the front and rear panels and top edge. Bookplates to the pastedown.