Suffrage from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [vi],[640]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. A substantial compilation of works by Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), a noted suffragist and social reformer who in 1872, had been the first woman to run for President of the United States. The… Read more about this item

Boston: The Woman's Journal, 1893. First Edition. Broadsheet, 10" x 8-1/2" (ca 26cm x 21cm). Printed both sides of a single sheet; text in three columns beneath masthead on recto. Mild soil and creasing; small losses at margins (not approaching text); Very Good. Extracts in favor of woman suffrage from various sources including Whittier, Wendell Phillips, John… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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: 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.

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… Read more about this item

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).… Read more about this item

New York: Womans Press, 1922. First American Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered buckram, 139pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light shelf wear, front free endpaper darkened, else Very Good. British suffragist preacher and author who would later found the Society for the Ministry of Women (1929) in her campaign for the ordination of women.

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.

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… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; orange top-stain; 343pp. Small eraser smudge and monogram stamp on front endpaper, else a fine, tight copy with unfaded top-stain, in the pictorial dustwrapper which is crisp and unclipped, very Near Fine. Novel of the women's suffrage movement in Nashville following the First World War.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Springfield, MA: U.S.A. Bicentennial Committee of Springfield, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; 44pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in the original wrappers. Tinted halftone illustrations throughout.

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.