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Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc.. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1966. First Asian Edition. Hardcover. "The first complete history in a Western language of a custom which seems utterly barbarous to the West, but which persisted for a thousand years in China." - dust jacket. "A history of probably the most singular way in which women… Read more about this item

Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Independent. Good. 1926. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Politics And The New Woman - A study of suffrage by Marian Bruce Clark, who believes it has failed; Joseph C. Lincoln Tells of his Cape Cod Years; The White Weasel - A True Indian Story; Shapes That Come And Go; Middle Age Has… Read more about this item

Victoria, B.C.: Government of British Columbia. Good. 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 0772643318 . "This historical overview provides an opportunity to chronicle the spirit and determination of a few of the many women who percieved the biases in their society's common assumptions about women, and either worked to correct them or succeeded in spite of them. Highlights… Read more about this item

USA: North American Publishers Corp.. Poor. 1973. First Edition. Paperback. This songbook contains piano sheet music, lyrics and chords for these Helen Reddy songs: A Song For You; Best Friend; Crazy Love; How Can I Be Sure; I Am Woman; I Believe in Music; L.A. Breakdown; No Sad Song; Peaceful; Summer of '71; The Last Blues Song;… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company. Fair. 1943. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Classic Norman Rockwell cover illustration of "Rosie The Riveter". "As WWII drew millions of American men and boys from their jobs and professions women took over positions they previously occupied. This portrait honored those working women. Posed like Michelangelo's Prophet Isaiah… Read more about this item

New York: Majority Enterprises, Inc.. Fair. 1972. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Iconic preview issue of this eminent feminist publication "written for all women, everywhere, in every occupation and profession - women with deep, diverse ambitions, and those who have not yet had a chance to formulate ambition - women who are wives, mothers, and grandmothers, or… Read more about this item

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter, 1967. Book. Illus. by Beny, Roloff (photography). Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 112 pages. Features: How to Trace Your Family Tree; 50 Experts Predict Your Future; Image of Canada; Women on the Go - Past; Women on the Go - Present; 200 Years of Canadian Art. Fiction: Napika;… Read more about this item

New York: Majority Enterprises, Inc.. Good. 1972. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Iconic preview issue of Ms. signed and inscribed by its co-founder, Gloria Steinem, upon front cover. This landmark feminist publication was "written for all women, everywhere, in every occupation and profession - women with deep, diverse ambitions, and those who have not yet had… Read more about this item

New York: The New York Times Company, 1975. Book. Illus. by Skrebneski. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Features: Fantastic aerial photo of an offshore drilling platform; American Fur Industry one-page color-photo ad features three beauties in long coats, each eating submarine sandwiches; Drilling for Oil in the North Sea - Britain's race… Read more about this item

Charlotte, North Carolina: Elizabeth Publishing Company. Good. 1939. Reprint. Paperback. 192 pages. Presents "information on America's present white slavery conditions with many hard-to-believe human interest facts about innocent girls and young women who are actually caught in the net." - front cover. Reprint of the 1939 first edition. Chapters include: How Girls Are … Read more about this item

New York: Lee Furman Inc., 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, [3], 477 pages. Index. "Examines women as a social problem, as the puppet of a sex urge infinitely more powerful than that of man, as a virgin, as a wife, as an adultress, as a widow, as a spinster,… Read more about this item

USA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1957. Book. Illus. by Shaw, Mark. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 134 pages. Features: Many lovely color-illustrated ads for products and companies such as Palmolive, Cannon, Ivory, Crest, Pepsi; and many more; School Shortage - Must They Be Palaces?; The First Child and his Special Position,… Read more about this item

Canada: Clarion Publishing. Good. 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Neatly signed, without inscription, by Carrie M. Best atop title page. vi, 258 pages. Colour photo portrait of Ms. Best. Many black and white reproductions of photos in text. News clipping of Ms. Best's obituary laid-in. "A woman of outstanding worth, a tenacious crusader… Read more about this item

Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1977. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 92 pages. Designed by Wendy Cadden and Karen Sjoholm. Primarily illustrated in black and white plus several color pages. "These poems, intended for reading out load, have cumulative power. Images of women in a range of forms - portraits,… Read more about this item

Canada: Univ of Toronto Press, 1981. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "A rare, first-person account of growing up different in Canada. Depicts, sympathetically and graphically, the agonizing process of an immigrant community adjusting itself to life in the New World. Important for the light it sheds on the social history of Canadian… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge & K. Paul, 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 247 pages. Bibliography and index. A major contribution to our understanding of power, textuality and subjectivity. Sparkles with evidence of why many feminists and social thinkers regard author as one of the most imaginative and instructive writers… Read more about this item

USA: Conde Nast, 1976. Book. Illus. by Elgort, Arthur; Avedon. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Please note: missing pages 21-22, 33-34, 53-54, 63-64, and 75-78. Features: Diane Von Furstenberg - Life at the Top; Truman Capote's Zoo; Women - Can Rights Be Equal; and much more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average… Read more about this item

London: Church Missionary Society, 1919. Book. Illus. by Payne, H.E.; Carlile, J.M. Muriel. Fair. Hardcover. Second Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second printing. 160 pages. Charming colour illustrations tipped in. Black and white illustrations in text. The story of young Hana who lives in the Japanese village of Yamamoto. "The condition and… Read more about this item

USA: Yale University Press, 1993. Book. Illus. by Hoch, Hannah. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xviii, 260 pages. Index, bibliography, chronology and footnotes. "Investigates the multilayered social construction of femininity in the mass culture of Weimar Germany, focusing on the intriguing photomontages of the avant-garde artist Hannah Hoch." - dust jacket.… Read more about this item

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1946. Book. Illus. by Klett, Walter; Jedla, Alan; Hur, Baz; Cox, John Rogers. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 170 pages. Features: Unsuspected Beauty - complete novel by Thyra Samter Winslow; Adventures in Editing; Tangee ad features Mrs. Charles Boyer; Willie - My Filipino Man Servant; Why… Read more about this item