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The Woman's Doctor

By: Anonymous [Sol Allen, aka Barney Allen]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: 1933

Seller ID: 16207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[ex-rental library book (Vierstahler Bros., on Walnut St., city unknown), marked by only a single stamp on the ffep, some soiling to fore-edge and bottom page edges, binding a little weak (but no cracks or splits), light shelfwear; jacket is edgeworn, with small tears and a teensy bit of paper loss at several corners, a bit of smudging/creasing in front panel, moderate soiling to rear panel]. According to the jacket blurb of this book -- "so startling, so new, that is is certain to make literary history" -- both men AND women would find out more about the mysteries of the female body than the...
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A Political Primer for the New Voter

By: Beatty, Bessie

Price: $300.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co.: 1912

Seller ID: 25038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(paper-covered boards/no dust jacket, probably as issued) [modest wear at spine ends, shelfwear to bottom edges of covers (some exposure of boards), discoloration to endpapers (possibly from a laid-in clipping, no longer present)]. A handy little guide for the "new voter," which in this context meant primarily the "new woman voter," as the book was prepared and published shortly after the California Legislature had passed a bill giving the state's women the franchise in October of 1911. One William Kent states in his introduction: "As is natural in a book written by a wo...
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All Men Are Dogs!

By: Bond, Dorothy

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Capitol Publishing Company, Inc. (A Crescent Publication): (c.1950)

Seller ID: 25041

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[covers a bit edgeworn, mostly along spine, light fading/rubbing to upper sections of front cover]. Trade PB (cartoon drawings) Substitute "Hounds" (or better yet, "Pigs") in the title, and you'd be closer to the mark: pretty much the entire book is devoted to the myriad ways in which the "working girls" of the world can expect to be sexually harassed by, well, nearly every single man they allow to get anywhere near them -- at work, at home, or in public. Pitched as "full of sharp wit and good humor," the book definitely has plenty of those, but on another lev...
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Woman in the Making of America

By: Bruce, H. Addington

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1912

Seller ID: 25006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [ex-library book, with typical but not obnoxious markings (externally, just a small call number etched in black on dark blue cloth and thus almost invisible), including a library bookplate on the front pastedown; a good solid copy, with modest wear to the extremities]. (B&W plates) From the Preface: "The present volume is an outgrowth of studies I have for some years been making for a general history of the political, economic, social, and territorial expansion of the United States. The more I became acquainted with the facts of the national evolution, t...
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Ten Brave Women

By: Daugherty, Sonia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1953)

Seller ID: 24977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[a bit of wear to lower extremities and top of spine, one-time owner's mostly-erased (but still readable) name and address on ffep; jacket shows just a little wear at spine ends, slight age-toning]. (pen and ink drawings) "Dramatic stories," for juvenile readers, of "ten women who left their stamp on America [and] whose personal stature adds to our heritage." They are: Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell, and Eleanor Roosevelt. This was a companion/follow-up to the sam...
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Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women

By: Davis, Katharine Bement

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: (c.1929)

Seller ID: 24971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [good solid book, some age-toning to edges of text block, gilt spine lettering rubbed (but still readable), front cover lettering still bright]. (Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene) Series (charts, tables) This groundbreaking study was undertaken by a New York City-based agency, the Bureau of Social Hygiene, that had been founded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1913, with the avowed purpose of discovering "conditions among so-called normal women." (This was in reaction to the fact, as explained in the Introduction, that much of the available data up until tha...
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The Genteel Female: An Anthology

By: Furness, Clifton Joseph, ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1931

Seller ID: 24907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light shelfwear, faint spotting/soiling to bottom of text block, front hinge a little weak but generally a good sound copy, one-time owner's name on second ffep, light foxing to title page; jacket has a couple of small chips in the upper area of the front panel, a little wrinkling/creasing at top of spine, one-inch scrape mark along front hinge]. (Americana Deserta) Series This illuminating anthology of selections from "obscure but once popular books -- novels, gift-books, model-letter-writers, poetry" is intended to present the Victorian female of the first half of the nineteenth ce...
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Sex and the College Girl

By: Greene, Gael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press (A Delacorte Press Book): 1964

Seller ID: 25060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book, very slight bump to bottom front corner but no other discernible wear; jacket a bit scuffed on front panel]. "A frank report from the campus on sex in the Sixties. Based on interviews with over 600 college students from 102 American colleges and universities, including every geographical location, religious affiliation and type of institution, this is a revealing and often startling look at today's college girl and the revolution in campus sexual behavior. ... In the amazingly honest words of the girls themselves, here is what they think about sex, what they do and don'...
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Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930

By: Holt, Marilyn Irvin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 11897

ISBN: 0826316352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is tight/clean, with no discernible wear; jacket shows the tiniest bit of surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs)
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Women on Their Own

By: Knopf, Olga; ed. by Alan Porter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1935

Seller ID: 18591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, minimal wear, very light foxing to all edges of text block; jacket lightly soiled at rear panel and spine, but still quite presentable]. The author, a Viennese-born physician and psychologist who had studied under Alfred Adler, came to the U.S. in 1931, announcing to the press that she was here, in the words of one reporter, to launch "a one-woman crusade against the psychological bonds that enslave the fair sex," namely their feelings of inferiority. (The same reporter described Dr. Knopf as "a woman of scholarly mein and forceful personali...
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Womanhood and Marriage [dust jacket title: The Soul of a Woman]

By: Macfadden, Bernarr

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Macfadden Publications, Inc.: 1928 (c.1918)

Seller ID: 23662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderately shelfworn, bumping to bottom corners, rubbing to gilt lettering on front cover; jacket a bit tattered, with a number of small chips and other bits of paper loss at edges and corners]. (B&W photographs) A manual covering literally every aspect of marriage, from an author often cited as a forerunner of the mid-20th century exercise gurus Charles Atlas and Jack LaLanne. If ever there was a self-made man, it was Bernarr Macfadden, an avid proponent of good health through exercise and diet (specifically vegetarianism), and above all avoidance of the medical establishment. His magazine...
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Portrait of a Con Man: A Game Some People Play

By: Mendoza, Fay

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 8148

ISBN: 0533018692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean book; jacket shows a little rubbing/scuffing along bottom edge of front panel, one small tear there as well, spine a bit faded]. "Portrait of a Conned Woman" might be a better title for this "chronicle of one woman's experience--of an unsuspecting woman who was 'taken,' heart and pocketbook, by a con man working, albeit just barely, within the law--and how her programming in a rigidly defined sex role made her the perfect victim, a pushover just waiting to be fleeced." Most of the book takes the form of a long letter from the author to her lawyer, in a diary-l...
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When Love Comes to Woman

By: Morton, Leah

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, J.H. Sears & Company: 1929

Seller ID: 20816

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, light dust-soiling to top edge, bumping and slight exposure of board at bottom front corner, spine cloth a little darkened]. Per a contemporary ad for this "new and somewhat disturbing" book, it deals with "the problem of the unmarried mother as seen through the eyes of a social worker," and poses the following questions: "What shall the present day woman have for her standards, since the old standards have been swept away? Shall she go out in search of happiness and adventure, or stay at home in cotton wool? Shall she live the same life as ...
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An American Woman and Her Bank

By: Mott, Bessie Q.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1929

Seller ID: 25064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

(no dust jacket) [modest wear to extremities, dust-soiling to top edge of text block, age-toning to other edges]. (B&W photographs) "This book avowedly explains her bank to the American Woman. More subtly, but not less effectively, it should explain the American Woman to her banker, if he will read between the lines." The author, who the title page informs us was the Chairman [sic] of a mouth-filling organization called the National Commitee for the Education of Woman in Financial Matters and the Protection of Her Money, "gives her readers the results of personal experience in h...
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Woman and Social Progress: A Discussion of the Biologic, Domestic, Industrial, and Social Possibilities of American Women

By: Nearing, Scott, and Nellie M.S. Nearing

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1912

Seller ID: 25045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [ex-library with many markings, labels, considerable shelfwear, etc.; a reading/reference copy only] A reference/reading copy only (ex-Brooklyn Public Library) of this informative work by this noted American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and pacifist, and his then-wife -- who, one suspects, might actually have deserved top billing on this particular book. (The book apparently wasn't considered important enough to even rate a passing mention by Nearing biographer Stephen Whitfield, who also has very little to say about Nellie herself, at one point re...
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Working With the Working Woman

By: Parker, Cornelia Stratton

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1922

Seller ID: 24614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid book, light shelfwear, dust-darkening to top of text block; jacket shows a bit of wear along top edge, minor paper loss at top of spine, some random surface-scrape marks on spine]. "A college woman with a sense of humor tells the story of her experiences as a worker in various industries -- no muckraking, no theorizing, no trying to stir up trouble between employers and employees; the book is just a vivid picture of things as they are, a section of life." And, in my opinion, the book is all the more valuable for the author's having had no more of an "agenda" than ...
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The Fundamental Error of Woman Suffrage

By: Parker, William

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Company: (c.1915)

Seller ID: 25035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Poor dj

[book is modestly but evenly worn, front hinge a little weak; jacket spine is completely gone, and the remainder of the jacket is heavily chipped along all edges (but with no significant loss of jacket text)]. An anti-suffrage screed, with the sort of title that makes you want to say "oh yeah? so show me!" Well, a quick rundown of some representative chapter titles will give you a pretty good snapshot: Chapter I, "Woman Suffrage a Moral Error"; Chapter VII, "Man, the Head of Woman"; Chapter XII, "The Moral Fall of Women and the Church"; Chapter XIV, "Woman ...
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The Precipice

By: Peattie, Elia W.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1914

Seller ID: 24997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good solid book, some shelfwear to bottom edge and upper extremities, light dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name in ink at top of front pastedown] (frontispiece portrait) This novel traces the growing social consciousness of its protagonist, Kate Barrington, beginning with her graduation from college and following her efforts to find her true place in society, while balancing the demands of her career with the traditional expectations for a woman of her time. Elia Peattie (1862-1935) became a journalist in the 1880s, and over the course of many years wrote...
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A Woman's Career: The Exactions and the Obstacles

By: Reed, Myrtle

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/London, G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press: 1914

Seller ID: 25004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(lavender cloth with gilt lettering and illustration; no dust jacket) [attractive little book, top edge gilt, tiny stain on front cover]. Posthumously-published essay by this popular and prolific writer ("recently discovered among [her] papers," per the publishers' note), in which "she writes with her accustomed incisive humour in regard to the position of the working woman." This isn't some kind of proto-feminist exhortation to the ladies to get out into the workforce, however -- it is, rather, a paean to the women who "keep house," and is both funny and insightful wi...
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"Isn't That Just Like a Man!" [and] "Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!"

By: Rinehart, Mary Roberts | Cobb, Irvin S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: (c.1920, c.1919)

Seller ID: 23546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, light shelfwear, slight bumping to spine ends and a couple of corners; jacket a little edgeworn, one small closed tear and associated creasing]. The "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" of its day, as two prominent authors of the time weigh in (in back-to-back format) on the foibles of their respective opposite sexes. Mrs. Rinehart opines that "as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is alw...
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Category: Women's Issues / Feminism