Chicago women’s graphics collective.
Cry Out.

Chicago: Women’s Liberation Union, [1972].

Silkscreen poster on white paper, printed in purple and black, incorporating text at the top, a woman with her head down and upraised fists in the center, a second woman in profile, lots of long hair, the Venus with fist symbol, and the following text along the bottom, “Graphics - Chicago Womens Liberation Union - 2875 W. Cermak Rd. Rm 9”, some short tears and folds, nicks, old pinholes to corners, masking tape to corners on verso, 26 x 20 in.

This is the first poster produced by the Chicago Women’s Graphic Collective. Original examples are rare.

Club le monocle.
Black-and-White Press Photo.

1930s.

An image of five women seated at a table in the club with three in dresses and the other two in tuxedos, with stamps on verso indicating the photo was taken by Paul Balassa, and identifying French and American press; pencil notations indicating the name of the club in Montparnasse, and identifying one of the women in the photo as Lulu Munn, 7 x 9 1/2 in.

Club le Monocle opened in Paris in the 1920s as a safe space for lesbian patrons to gather. According to text on the verso of this image, Lulu Munn, the Montmartre club’s owner is pictured in this image. Women wore monocles to quietly identify as gay within the community, thus the name of the club. The Nazi occupation of Paris forced le Monocle to close its doors in the 1940s, but it did re-open after the war on Boulevard Edgar Quinet, with a monocle-shaped facade. (cf. https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/09/14/inside-le-monocle-the-parisian-lesbian-nightclub-of-the-1930s/)

Colette, sidonie gabrielle (1873-1954)
Trois… Six… Neuf… , Signed Presentation Copy.

Paris: Corrêa, 1946.

Octavo, signed on half-title, “Pour André Lang, en souvenir de Colette,” with a typographical error, “Troix” instead of “Trois” corrected by the author, bound in limp publisher’s paper covers, 6 1/2 x 5 in.

Cookbooks by women, two british examples: 1788 & 1811.

Including: Hannah Glasse’s (1708-1770) The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, London: Printed for Rivington and Sons et alia, 1788, octavo, lacking the bill of fare plate, contemporary leather boards, rebacked; 8 1/8 x 5 in.

[and] The Young Woman’s Companion: or Frugal Housewife, Manchester: Printed by Russell & Allen, 1811, first edition, octavo, illustrated with six full-page engravings; bound in later paper over boards, 8 x 4 3/4 in.

Glasse: ESTC T103512.

Croy, norma jean (b. 1954)
Free Norma Jean Croy, Original Silkscreen for Making T-Shirts.

[?San Francisco, 1980s or 1990s.]

The original silkscreen used to make t-shirts for Croy’s cause; [together with] a white t-shirt newly printed from the silkscreen; signs of use, old ink.

Norma Jean Croy was convicted of the pre-meditated murder of a police officer and sentenced to life in prison based on a racially charged incident in Yreka, California in 1978. An argument at a convenience store escalated to a melee at a private home in the course of which the police discharged more than 200 rounds, and a small group of young Shasta-Karok Native Americans fired three bullets. Croy and her brother were both shot by the police. Her brother returned fire, killing a police officer instantly with one shot. Norma Jean never handled any weapons. Nonetheless, she was convicted and jailed. Judge Edward Stern, who presided over Croy’s brother’s appeal in 1991 noted, “I think that when Norma Jean Croy comes up for a parole hearing again, […] the parole board should take into consideration the fact that this court believes that had Norma Jean Croy been tried in the case I heard, [she] would have been found not guilty. […] I want the record to be clear that this is my judgment, my opinion, having heard the evidence in this case.” Croy was finally exonerated and released from prison in 1997, after being wrongly incarcerated for eighteen years. In the 1990s, Croy’s cause, often alongside that of Leonard Peltier, was featured by a number of social justice groups working to free wrongly convicted Indigenous Native Americans. This silkscreen is proof of the insistent grassroots activism that helped keep her case in the public eye.

Cunningham, imogen (1883-1976)
Agave.

Circa 1970, originally captured in 1920.

Silver print with Cunningham’s signature and date in pencil on mount recto, and a Cunningham Trust label with the typewritten title and negative date, on mount verso, image 95/8 x 7 3/4 in. on a 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. mount

Cunningham, imogen (1883-1976)
The Unmade Bed.

Silver print with Cunningham’s facsimile signature and chop blind stamp on mount recto, and a Cunningham Trust label with the title and negative date (1957), and the printer’s signature in ink, undated, likely 1990s, matted; the image 10 x 13 in., the mount 16 x 20 in.

Davis, angela (b. 1944) illus. dana c. chandler jr.
This Black Woman is a Heroine!! Free Angela Now!!! Don’t Wait Until She is Dead to Honor Her!

[Boston?], 1970.

Lithographic poster printed in black ink on pale blue paper, slight tear to top blank margin, bottom corner creased, 22 x 17 in.

[Together with] Rally to Free Angela Davis, Boston: New England Free Press, [1970], lithographic poster printed in black ink on red paper advertising a rally featuring Fania Jordan (Davis’s sister), a representative from the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers, poetry, music, and more, held on December 11, 1970 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boston, sponsored by the Greater Boston Committee to Defend Angela Davis, featuring a sketched illustration of Davis speaking and text, 20 x 14 in.

Chandler (b. 1941) [aka Akin Duro], who described himself as a Pan-African Artist, was educated at the Massachusetts College of Art in the 1960s. Inspired by the Black Power movement, he created a number of striking images used in Black Panther publications, in addition to painting murals in Roxbury.

De kooning, elaine fried (1918-1989)
Small Archive of Material.

Including the following pieces:

1) de Kooning’s personal address book, small-format commercially produced mid-century with alphabetical tabs, much used, with dozens of names, addresses, telephone numbers and other random information recorded in her hand, 4 x 3 in.

2) a film reel from NBC New York in its original case labeled “Kennedy Art”, not viewed but presumably containing a TV news piece about de Kooning’s portrait of President Kennedy, 8 x 8 in.

3) an unused sketchbook of Aquabee CanvaSkin paper with “Elaine” in pen on the front cover;

4) Thomas B. Hess’s biography of Willem de Kooning published in the Great American Artist series by Braziller, 1959, with Elaine de Kooning’s ownership rubber stamp to title and copiously annotated with her corrections and reports of inaccuracy throughout the text, 10 x 7 in.

5) two small metal and mixed material sculptural pieces that may be prototypes for jewelery designs, approximately 3 x 3 in.

6) three large-format reproductions of self-portraits, (rolled); and

7) an assortment of ephemera including several exhibition brochures advertising Elaine de Kooning’s work, some with her handwritten notes.

De kooning, elaine fried (1918-1989)
Untitled (Cave).

Circa 1992-1994 after the circa 1985 wax original.

Bronze relief sculpture from an edition of thirteen, incised artist’s signature, lower center recto, with the foundry mark “RD” on lower left edge, 15 x 13 x 1 1/2 in.

Provenance: the artist Conrad Fried (1920-2009), Elaine de Kooning’s brother, Sullivan County, New York; acquired directly from the former by private collection, Sullivan County, New York.

This bronze relief was designed by de Kooning (1918-1989) toward the end of her long, illustrious career as an artist; there is another cast of the bronze on the artist’s gravestone at the Green River Cemetery, East Hampton, New York. The bronze was cast posthumously, in an edition of thirteen, under the direction of Conrad Fried, from a wax model in the artist’s studio.

Dehner, dorothy (1901-1994)
Skating.

1953, printed circa 1991.

Color engraving printed in reddish pink and black on white wove paper, full margins, from an edition of 125, signed and inscribed “Ed. 125” in pencil, lower margin, a very good impression, 12 3/4 x 4 in.

Drucker, johanna (b. 1952)
Quantum.

Dumas, marlene (b. 1953)
Imitating the Fathers.

1989.

Color lithograph printed in black and light beige on Zerkall cream wove paper, full margins, signed and dated in pencil, lower right, a very good impression with strong contrasts, 15 x 17 1/2 in.

Dutton, elizabeth schooley (1839-1927)
Two Autograph Books with her Signature and those of other Quakers from Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia, 1850s-1860s.

Two quarto-format autograph books containing mainly short sentimental verses and signatures of friends and relatives, one belonging to a person named Thamison, the other owned by someone only identified as Mary; in this album, signature pages with Lizzie Dutton’s signature also include those of her sister, Mary F. Dutton; her brother, James B. Dutton; and two Steer cousins, Mary & Frances; one with limp speckled paper covers, the other in full gilt-stamped period brown morocco, rubbed, sizes vary. (2)

Dutton, along with her sisters, established a pro-Union literary society in their town of Waterford, VA before the Civil War broke out. Empowered by parents who believed in the education of girls, free-thinking, and Quaker precepts, they started a political newspaper to express their views at the outbreak of the war. While only in their early twenties, they were forced to smuggle the manuscript material that they composed over the Potomac River to Baltimore, where a friend of their father’s printed up The Waterford News. They published eight issues of the paper between 28 May 1864 and April of 1865, even expressing dismay in print at Grant’s assault on their town. “We do not believe, if our Government had been as well acquainted with us as we are with ourselves, the order for the recent burning would have been issued; but having suffered so much at the hands of the Rebels since the commencement of this cruel war, we will cheerfully submit to what we feel assured our Government thought a military necessity.”

Dwight, mabel (1875-1955)
Farmyard.

New York: Associated American Artists, 1947.

Lithograph on cream wove paper, signed in pencil bottom right, matted, the sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/14 in.

Dwight, mabel (1875-1955)
Feeding the Chickens.

New York: Federal Art Project, WPA, 1938-1939.

Lithograph on cream wove paper, signed by the artist in pencil, lower right, titled on verso perhaps in the artist’s hand, with WPA stamp in lower left corner, slight mat burn, matted, the sheet 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.

Earhart, amelia (1897-1939)
Twelve Photographs of events around her crash on Ford Island, 20 March 1937.

1937.

Including nine period black-and-white photographs of her plane after the crash: one 5 x 7 in.; three 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.; and five 2 1/2 x 3 in.; one photo of the plane with Earhart in the frame; one photograph showing Earhart after the crash listening to General Yount with a serious expression; and two photographs of Earhart on the steamship Lurline going home "after the crackup" festooned in leis; several photos stamped on the verso by O.H. [Otto Hickman] Hornung, Jr. of Honolulu; each photo mounted on black paper album pages with typed captions; sizes vary, all but one nicely preserved.

On 20 March 1937, in an attempt to complete the second leg of her flight around the world, Earhart, along with three crew members, attempted to take off from Luke Field on Ford Island in her Lockheed Electra 10E. Unfortunately, the runway was slick with rain and Earhart's attempt to correct a slight swing to the left turned into an out of control ground loop. Supported for a run of 50-60 feet on only the right wheel, the landing-gear on that side suddenly collapsed, followed rapidly by a collapse of the same gear on the left. Sliding on its belly in a shower of sparks, the plane sustained extensive damage, although the pilot and her crew emerged without injury. Plane and pilot boarded the SS Lurline headed back to Lockheed in Burbank for repairs.

Hornung Jr. clearly took some of these photographs, although the identity of the album compiler is otherwise undetermined. Several of the images viewable online concerning this incident are identical to those here. Other similar images were taken at the same time. All may share the same origin. Barton Kyle Yount (1884-1949), a decorated U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General, commanded Army Air Forces Training Command and served in the first and second world wars. In 1937 he was stationed at Hickham Field, Hawaii. In the image where Yount is speaking to Earhart, he is visible only from the back, leading this cataloguer to believe that the compiler of the album must have been present or informed by someone present in order to identify him. (For more see: https://tighar.org)

Essex, john (fl. circa 1722)
The Young Ladies Conduct: or, Rules for Education, under Several Heads; with Instructions upon Dress, both before and after Marriage, and Advice to Young Wives.

London: Printed & sold by John Brotherton, 1722.

First edition, octavo, bound in contemporary boards, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.

ESTC T116429; rare at auction.

Fashion and jewelry.
Six Advertising Photos.

1949-1968.

Black-and-white photos, most 8 x 10 in. featuring women modeling clothing and jewelry for advertisements, mostly for the Chicago Sun Times, all with stamps, dates, and text on versos. (6)

Female american photographers.
Thirteen Cabinet Cards.

Including photographs taken by Emma Olson of St. Paul, Minnesota; Mrs. F. Nixon [Brooklyn, NY?]; Miss [Minnie] Libby of Norway, Maine; Mrs. Harrison [no place]; an image produced by the Ladies Library Publishing & Portrait Co. in New York City; Julia O. Charles of Salamanca, New York; and Lydia Cadwell of Chicago, Illinois; including five images of women; one image of a couple; and seven images of men; sizes vary slightly, each approximately 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Minne Libby (1863-1947) operated her successful photo studio in Maine for sixty years. She attended the Boston Museum School, which is where she learned the art of photography. She was also an accomplished painter and a free spirit who eschewed the traditional clothing approved for women, preferring instead to wear men’s shirts (with flamboyant neckwear) and knickers.

Female american photographers.
Thirty Cabinet Card Portraits Taken in Southern, Midwest and West Coast States.

Including photographs taken by Cornelia Knox, of Lakeview, Oregon; Mrs. Rice of De Witt, of Nebraska; Rose Campbell of Erie, Kansas; Harriet Drum of Kansas; Miss Ella Graham of Beloit, Kansas; Olia Burger of Granby, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Brown of Cainsville, Missouri; Miss Laura Harris of Bentonville, Arkansas; Jean Honey of Clyde, Kansas; Mrs. Young of Fayetteville, Arkansas; Kay Chandler of McConnelsville, Ohio; Mrs. J.A. Webber of Rico, Colorado; Lydie Hills of Galena, Kansas; Nellie Jackson of Clinton, Missouri, and others; a few of female subjects and couples photographed by artists who only identify with initials; consisting of ten images of women; seven photos of couples and families; eight photos of children and babies; and three of men; sizes vary slightly, each approximately 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Harriet Drum (1842-1904), her son Oscar, and daughter-in-law Lottie were all photographers working in Southern Kansas and in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. They ran a railroad car studio in the early years of the 20th century.

Ella Graham and her sister Sarah ran their Beloit, KS studio jointly.

Female american photographers.
Twenty-three Cartes-de-Visite.

Including photographs taken by Miss B. J. Hadlock of Sterling, Illinois [the only tintype in the lot]; Mrs. Ruth Thomas of Camp Point, Illinois; Mrs. J.A. Reed of Morris, Illinois; Mrs. R.A. Smith of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Vreeland of McPherson, Kansas; Mrs. P.P. Bliss [no place]; Mrs. J. Hitchcock of Canton, New York; Miss C. Smith of Lowell, Massachusetts; Miss L.A. Hart of Whitewater, Wisconsin; Mr. & Mrs. Graves of Lockport, New York; Mrs. Julia O. Charles of Salamanca, New York; Mr. & Mrs. H.B. Cady of Waitsfield, Vermont; Mrs. E.M. Howard of Alstead, New Hampshire; A.C. Hamilton with Mrs. A.G. Da Lee of Lawrence, Kansas; Mrs. Moore of Canal Street, NYC; and others, each approximately 4 x 2 1/4 in.

Female scandinavian photographers.
Fifty-seven Photographic Portraits.

Including fifty-three cartes-de-visite and four cabinet cards taken by Ina Roos of Kristinestad, Sweden; Hanna Forthmeiier of Helsingborg, Sweden; Zelma Johanson of Stenstorp, Sweden; Anna Frankel of Malmö, Sweden; Mathilda Ranch of Varberg, Sweden; Laurine Andersen of Odder, Denmark; Hilma Rude of Malmö, Sweden; Lina Tonn of Lund, Sweden; and many others.

Mathilda Ranch (1860-1938) was born in Denmark and moved to Sweden with her family at the age of ten. Her father was a photographer but passed the business of capturing images to Mathilda when she was twenty-two years old. In addition to working in studio portraiture and landscapes, Ranch was also a photojournalist. Local newspapers relied on her images of fairs and attractions, royal visits, and disasters like train derailments. She was also an active feminist whose favorite motto of solidarity was “Kvinnor Kan,” which means Women Can.

Feminist, militant, & lesbian small press publications.
Fourteen Pamphlets.

1970s.

Including:

1) The Ladder, ed. Gene Damon, vol. 14, nos. 11 & 12, August/September, 1970;

2) Willyce Kim & Wendy Cadden’s Eating Artichokes, Oakland, CA: Women ‘s Press Collective, 1972;

3) Fran Winant’s Looking at Women, New York: Violet Press, 1971;

4) Bev Balliett & Patti Patton’s Graphic Details, Phoenix, AZ: Starr Publications, 1979;

5) The Feminist Book of Lights & Shadows, Venice, CA: The Feminist Wicca, 1975, signed and isncribed by the pseudonymous editor Z. Budapest;

6) In Touch, Madison, WI: The Women’s Center, 1972;

7) Judy Grahn & Wendy Cadden’s The Common Woman, Oakland, CA: Women’s Press Collective, [n.d.];

8) Amazon, Creative Writing Issue Vol. 1, Issue 10, Milwaukee, WI: Amazon Collective, [n.d.];

9) Amazon Quarterly, Oakland, CA: Amazon Press, December 1973, Vol. 2, Issue 2;

10) Meridel LeSueur’s Rites of Ancient Ripening, Minneapolis, MN: Vanilla Press, 1976, second printing;

11) Meredith Tax’s Woman and her Mind: the Story of Daily Life, Somerville: [a Bread & Roses Publication] New England Free Press, 1970;

12) Linda Gordon’s Families, Cambridge: Bread & Roses [and] Boston: New England Free Press, 1970;

13) Womankind, Chicago: Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, 1971, Vol. 1 No. 1; and

14) The Feminist Press, 1974-1975, Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, [1975]. (14)

Francken, ruth (1924-2006)
Untitled, No. 30.

1989.

Oil on canvas, dated and annotated “No. 30” in ink on the stretcher verso, with the “Salon Ruth Francken” estate ink stamp, on the stretcher, 32 1/2 x 48 in.

Born in Prague and exiled in Vienna during the interwar years, Francken studied painting with Arthur Segal beginning in 1939 at the Ruskin School in Oxford, England, and lived in New York from 1940 to 1950. She became an American citizen in 1942, and took classes at the Art Students League before settling in Paris in 1952. Francken is generally considered an Abstract Expressionist, though her later work also focused on sculpture, collage of different textiles with related techniques and furniture design. Her work from the late 1960s to the early 1970s is marked by an obsession with technology, as in this series of photo-metallic reliefs and collages. While sometimes included among the Pop artists for these 1960s/1970s works, the over-arching interest of much of her creative output is the association of industrial language and its conflictual relationship with fine art.

Frank, mary lockspeiser (b. 1933)
Four Untitled Figure Studies.

1963.

All ink on paper, signed and dated, including:

1) Standing Figure;

2) Figure on Back;

3) Figure on Side; and

4) Figure on Back with Raised Knee; all drawings 13 1/2 x 17 in. (4)

Frank, mary lockspeiser (b. 1933)
Four Untitled Figure Studies.

1963.

All ink on paper, signed and dated, including:

1) Figure Resting on Hand;

2) Firgure with Arm around Knee;

3) Figure on Side; and

4) Figure with Back Turned; all drawings 13 1/2 x 17 in. (4)

Frank, mary lockspeiser (b. 1933)
Taming of the Harp.

1971.

Handbuilt earthenware sculpture in two sections, 15 x 15 x 13 in. and 19 1/2 x 15 x 14 in.

Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery, NY; Private collection, acquired from above March 14, 1972.

Exhibited: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 10 Independents; An Artist Initiated Exhibition, January 14 - February 27, 1972; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, Mary Frank: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, June 4 - September 10, 1978. (cf. Herrera, Hayden, Mary Frank, NY, 1990, illus. p. 7.

“The 1970s witnessed a surge of women artists gaining recognition within an art world that had become greatly diversified in style, subject, and materials. The art of Mary Frank resists easy categorization and, at first glance, seems outside the mainstream of late twentieth century art. Her choice of hand-built clay as her medium for fine art sculpture and her exploration of the interconnectedness of the natural world and humanity through the imagery of the body set her apart.” (https://reynoldahouse.emuseum.com/people/496/mary-frank/objects)

Frank, mary lockspeiser (b. 1933)
Three Female Nudes.

Handbuilt earthenware sculpture, depicting three small figures in a cave-like enclosure, 8 x 11 x 3 1/2 in.

“Frank’s best-known works are the ceramic sculptures that she started making in the early 1970s, despite having had no previous experience in the medium. (She also worked at home and had no kiln, she told me in a recent phone interview, and so had to carry her fragile pieces down the hall of her apartment building, “past the baby carriages and kids on skates, down the elevator and get [them] in the truck” and off to be fired.) In addition to the Everson’s work, there are several other wonderful examples at the Dorsky, including the poignant Arching Woman (ca. 1972), a mere drape of clay that somehow manages to summon Bernini’s Saint Teresa in Ecstasy, and Three Dancers (1981), which finds an ideal midpoint between the serene choreography of Tang Dynasty tomb figures and the muscular figuration of Auguste Rodin.” (Quoted from Glenn Adamson’s From Facts to Wonder: Mary Frank’s Enigmatic Figures, https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/mary-frank-enigmatic-sculptural-figures-1234621314/)

Frank, mary lockspeiser (b. 1933)
Torso: Verso and Recto.

Handbuilt earthenware sculpture, depicting a woman’s torso in a cylidrical format, open at both ends, with incised surface marks, 11 1/2 in.

Frankenthaler, helen (1928-2011)
Untitled (Cleveland Orchestra Print).

Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., 1978.

Color screenprint on White Arches Cover paper, full margins., signed and numbered 7/150 in pencil, lower margin, a very good impression, 22 1/2 x 30 in.

According to Harrison, “To achieve the brushstroke marks that give the print its painterly quality, the artist drew directly on the screens with liquid tusche. This method of screen making allowed her the gestural freedom that is not available in either the hand-cut film process or photo-stencil methods.” Harrison 70.

Gag, wanda (1893-1946)
Easter Morning, (Pussy Willows).

1926.

Transfer lithograph from zinc plate on wove sheet with Vidalon watermark, signed in pencil, lower right; Winnan 20; sheet 21 3/4 x 16 in.

Gag, wanda (1893-1946)
Spinning Wheel.

1928.

Wood engraving on wove paper, from an edition of 100; signed by the artist in pencil, matted; Winnan 57; image 4 3/4 x 3 7/8 in., the sheet 7 x 5 3/4 in.

Gannett, deborah sampson (1760-1827)
The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine.

Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, February, 1792.

Octavo, containing, among other articles, an account of Gannett’s petition for pay she was denied while fighting as a man in the American Revolution, with other material of interest, including a lengthy printed article by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, disbound, 8 x 5 in.

ESTC P5459; Evans 24949.

“January 19, Boston. A petition was presented [to the House of Representatives] by a Mrs. Deborah Gannett, who served with reputation as a soldier three years in the army of the United States and received an honorable discharge therefrom. This extraordinary woman enlisted as a male by the name of Robert Shirtliff; and as such did her duty without a stain on her virtue or honor. She only prays, in her petition, for the payment of her arrears; but submits the circumstances of her services to the consideration of the legislature.” (cf. pages 142-143).

Gannett was wounded in battle, and unwilling to allow a doctor to remove two bullets from her leg, for fear her gender would be revealed, dug one out herself (penknife & sewing needle), while the other stayed lodged in her thigh for the rest of her life. Paul Revere wrote on her behalf requesting a proper military pension in 1804. Congress approved the request and put Gannett on the pension roll in 1805.

Gilman, charlotte perkins (1860-1935)
In This Our World.

Boston: Small, Manynard, & Co., 1898.

First edition, octavo, the author is listed as Charlotte Perkins Stetson on the title page, with author portrait bound opposite title, bound in publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Gilman, charlotte perkins (1860-1935)
Women and Economics

Boston: Small, Maynard, & Co., 1898.

First edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s red cloth with printed paper spine label, 340 pages (small hole inside blank gutter of the final leaf, binding slightly cocked, generally good, contemporary ink signature to ffep, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.

[Together with] Human Work, New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1904, first edition, octavo, in publisher’s brown ribbed cloth, stamp in gilt, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

Goldman, emma (1869-1940)
Anarchism & Other Essays, Signed.

New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911.

Stated third edition on front board, flat signed in full by Goldman on ffep; octavo, with frontispiece portrait protected by a tissue guard, bound in publisher’s off-white cloth stamped in black on spine and front board, toned, damage to top of page edges, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.

Goldman, emma (1869-1940)
Living My Life, Signed and Dated Single Volume Edition.

New York: Garden City Publishing, [1934].

Large octavo, signed by Goldman on ffep and dated London, March 22, 1938; bound in publisher’s cloth, with the original dust jacket featuring bright red sans serif type and a portrait of the author in black and white (the jacket somewhat tattered, lacking a piece of spine at the head), the binding very good; contemporary ownership stamp on ffep, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Goldman, emma (1869-1940)
Living My Life.

New York: Knopf, 1931.

Stated first edition, two octavo volumes, bound in publisher’s blue cloth lettered in blue on front boards and spines, corners somewhat frayed, spines faded, contemporary ownership inscription of Anna Knauth on ffep of each volume, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (2)

Gott, ada augusta (fl. circa 1880)
Dare Fairfax.

New York: E.J. Hale & Son; Baltimore: W.H.H. Adkisson, 1872.

First edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s green cloth boards stamped in gilt, stain to bottom outside corner affecting front board and a few following pages, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.

Gott’s work received reviews in The Southern Magazine and in The Southern Review when it was first published. The first publication described Dare Fairfax as, “A tale of considerable power and genuine pathos, very nearly spoiled by the author’s craving for intensity of style.” The latter publication noted, “The story, which opens very ingeniously, interested us from the very beginning, and the interest did not once flag till we reached the end of the volume. We devoured the book at one sitting; and if the reader is not too old to enjoy a ‘love story,’ he can easily do the same.”

Gott had a sister and brother. None married. Ada and her sister lived together at the Bristol apartments in Baltimore, where their brother Jackson, an accomplished architect, died in 1909. Ada published only this novel and two books of poetry.

Gottschalk, donna.
Sisterhood Feels Good.

New York: Times Change Press, 1971.

Offset lithographic poster printed in blue ink on pale yellow paper, masking tape to verso corners, tack holes to corners, 22 x 15 1/2 in.

Gottschalk’s pro-lesbian image of two women asleep in bed with a poster reading, “Lesbians Unite!” pinned on the wall over their heads was taken in Pennsylvania in 1969. This poster was ubiquitous in the lesbian community in the 1970s and ’80s.

Grant, beatrice of duthil (1761-1845)
Sketches of Intellectual Education and Hints on Domestic Economy Addressed to Mothers.

Baltimore: Published by Edward J. Cale, B. Edes, printer, 1813.

Octavo, likely the first American edition, preceded by a Scottish publication the previous year; uncut, in publisher’s original printed boards, front board detached, some toning and spotting to contents, boards toned and chipped, 7 x 4 3/4 in.

Mrs. Grant has included an appendix to her work on the instruction of poor children. She writes about bad habits, how to choose a wet nurse, instruction of the “deaf and dumb,” and even includes a chapter on “vaccine inoculation.”

Rare at auction; sometimes misattributed to Anne MacVicar Grant.

Greenaway, kate (1846-1901)
Mary had a Little Lamb.

October 21, 1895.

Watercolor and graphite illustration on paper painted as a Christmas card for John Ruskin; initialed and dated lower left, matted and framed, with segment of owner’s label from Ruskin sale purchase mounted to verso; image 3 1/2 x 3 in., on 7 x 5 in. sheet.

Provenance: John Ruskin; Mrs. Arthur Severn; Sale of Ruskin Manuscripts and Library, 1930, Sotheby’s London, July 24, 1930, Lot 59; Private collection, New York.

Literature: M.H. Spielmann and G.S. Layard, Kate Greenway, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905, pictured opposite page 62.

“Indeed, charm and delicacy rather than strength are characteristic of Kate Greenaway’s genius. We see them, for example, in the little ‘Swansdown’ and companion drawings […] and in ‘Mary had a Little Lamb,’ which the artist drew as a Christmas card for professor Ruskin, with their delicate touches of colour and the exquisite pencil outline — so unhesitating and firm nevertheless, that, despite their simplicity, they rarely fail to realise the exact degree of beauty or of character intended”–page 540.

Greenaway began a correspondence with Oxford Professor and art critic Ruskin in 1880 when he wrote to compliment her on her drawings. The two developed a long and close friendship until Ruskin’s criticism of her later work ultimately eroded their relationship.

Greenaway, kate (1846-1901)
Portrait of a Girl in Kerchief and Collar.

Circa 1880s.

Oval watercolor on paper mounted to board, signed “K. Greenaway” along lower left curve, tipped to mat and framed, image 13 x 9 1/4 in., on a 17 x 13 in. board.

Provenance: Argosy Book Store; Private collection, New York, purchased from above, May 1957; thence by decent to current owner.

This portrait is believed to have been created in the 1880s, when Greenaway was at the height of her artistic talent and acclaim. Her publisher, Edmund Evans, hired poet Frederick Locker-Lampson to assist Greenaway with her verse writing. The two became close and Locker-Lampson, wealthy and well-connected, eventually began to help her enter London society in order to make beneficial introductions and promote her work to an affluent market. Commissions to paint the portraits of wealthy European patrons’ children soon followed, as well as invitations to display her paintings at the Royal Academy. This delicate portrait of a young girl may very likely have been one such portrait.

Grunzweig, ruth, photographer.
It’s All Right to be Woman Theatre.

New York: [Davis], circa 1970.

Poster printed in red ink on bright yellow paper with graphics in a sans serif type, the same image used for the documentary about the acting troupe of the same name, 22 x 17 1/4 in.

It’s All Right To Be Woman Theatre was founded by Sue Perlgut and Lynn Laredo in 1970. “The troupe created fresh and innovative forms of expression based on stories from their lives, at a time when women were beginning to break free from the roles that had traditionally defined them.” (cf. https://itsallrighttobewomantheatre.com/)

Guerrilla girls.
Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? Signed Poster.

Long narrow lithographic poster printed in black and red on a yellow background, depicting Ingres’s Grande Odalisque wearing a guerilla mask, signed by three Guerilla Girls with their pseudonyms: Aphra Behn, Lorraine Hansberry, and Rosalind Franklin, mounted on foamcore, 27 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.

Hagin, nancy (b. 1940)
Triple Mirror.

Boston, 1973.

Self-portrait acrylic on canvas, titled and signed by the artist on the back of the canvas, with label from the Alpha Gallery on Newbury Street, Boston, affixed to back, depicting the artist in a multi-paneled mirror, created at about the time of her first solo show in 1972, with contemporary frame, 19 x 17 in.

Hagin graduated BFA from Carnegie-Mellon in 1962 and holds her MFA from Yale. She has taught at Pratt, FIT, Cooper Union, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In her work she consistently applies a realistic approach to the challenges of representing space altered by reflection. It is more common to see her distinctive style in still life.

Hallam, beverly (1923-2013)
Sun Rings.

1968.

Color monotype on cream wove paper with wide margins, signed, titled, dated, and numbered 1/1 in pencil, lower margin, a very good impression, 9 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.

Hallam was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and earned her B.S. Ed. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1945 and her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1953. An experimental printmaker, she relished adopting new techniques and media in her work and dedicated a large part of her career to the monotype. She exhibited at many galleries and museums throughout her career, including retrospectives at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts in 1971 and the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine in 1998.

Hammond, valerie (b. 1952)
Threshold.

Albuquerque: Tamarind Institute, 2011.

Lithograph on paper, signed, dated and numbered 5/5 in pencil, lower margin, with blind stamp lower left, a very good impression; 35 x 24 3/4 in.

Harbou, thea von (1888-1954)
Metropolis.

Prague: A. Sveceny, 1927.

First edition in Czech, translated by Marie Dolejsi, illustrated with stills from the 1927 film throughout, with illustration before the title; bound in publisher’s blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine and front board and a stylized building façade blocked in black, patterned endleaves, marbled edges, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

This translation of the original treatment of the expressionist science fiction film was published in the year of the film’s release to appeal to the Czech-speaking audience.

Harper, ida husted (1851-1931)
Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Signed and Inscribed by Anthony.

Indianapolis & Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899 & 1898.

Two large quarto volumes, a mixed set, the first ex libris Mary C. Roseborough of Elmira, Ohio, with signed presentation to her and her husband by Anthony on ffep, “In the words of […] Lucretia Mott, Be your dependence Equal, your independence mutual, your obligation reciprocal, such is the true basis of a happy marriage,” and a typed letter signed by Anthony to the Roseboroughs originally sent accompanying the gift of this book; with extensive manuscript notes in Roseborough’s hand throughout, together with many pasted clippings from relevant publications; the second volume from a different set; publisher’s cloth, volume one with a bust of Anthony stamped in gilt on the front board and gilt-lettered spine, volume one in different cloth and no stamping with a publisher’s paper label on the spine, both rubbed and bumped, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (2)

Few details on Roseborough survive, although she is listed as a subscriber to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in April of 1894.

Harrison, laura elizabeth sterne (1847-1921)
Manuscript Diary of Several Voyages Including an Overland Trip to California, and a Climbing Trip to Mount Shasta, 1872-1873.

12mo format manuscript on wove lined paper, consisting of a single signature of 40 pages, inscribed densely in pencil throughout, approximately 3,500 words, outlining three different trips taken while the writer was a single woman.

The first recounting a journey of August 22-September 10, 1872 from Sterne’s home in St. Louis, MO toward Lake Superior by way of Chicago, IL; Escanaba, Michigan; Ishpeming, MI; Duluth, MN; Hinckley, MN; Green Bay, WI: Oconomowoc, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Fort Snelling; Milwaukee, WI, and back to St. Louis, traveling by train and boat primarily, with mention of successful post-fire rebuilding going on in Chicago, a trip to a peat mine, the Calumet copper mine, and an iron blast furnace.

The second trip June 13-21, 1873 from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, IA; Omaha, NE; Cheyenne, WI; Salt Lake City, UT; and Carson City, NV (where they stayed at the Glenbrook House); on this journey, Sterne and her party took the Union Pacific Rail Road past such sights as Echo Canyon, Castle Rock, Pulpit Rock, the Devil’s Slide and Devil’s Gates; she observed “Indians” at the train station shooting arrows for the amusement of passengers, women with “papooses” and Indian girls giggling; the visit to Salt Lake City included a guided visit to the Mormon Tabernacle with much information regarding the organ; a drive past “Mr. Young’s house”; some visits to a Crown Point mine and the mint in Carson City; Sterne concludes this section with the observation, “This is a nice place, and we don’t mind staying here a while.”

The third trip is very interesting, it begins in San Francisco on August 6, 1873, after departing the city by rail, observing Alcatraz, Angel, and Marco’s Islands, they pass by San Pablo Bay, the Straits of Carquinez, and then Suisun, stopping at Benicia, CA; Stockton; and Sacramento; followed by a somewhat harrowing stage coach ride from Redding, CA to Shasta.

“Then came packing of the human freight, nine inside five outside, stage a Concord coach, very hard, dusty, close, dreadful”; when they arrived they were first informed that at least one of their party’s bed “would have to be made with a pitchfork,” although Sterne ultimately found hers on a parlor sofa; from there the party departed for Mount Shasta on horseback with three Native Americans to help with the horses and camping baggage, they rode to a camp and ate grouse cooked on a campfire and slept directly on the ground.

The following day at 6:00 am Sterne and party began the ascent of the mountain, a peak first climbed by a woman in 1856; she describes the mouth of the crater, and the “perfectly blue” water within; after lunch and drinking snowmelt, Sterne goes with “the gentleman” to see the Whitney Glacier.

“Then after a while Mr. S. came to see if we [the women] would go too. I went with him, alone, the others preferring not to go. I felt very fully repaid for a climb to the tip top & a walk of 1/2 mile over a ridge of snow. [I] saw the Whitney Glacier. It is very beautiful, castles & spires & diamonds of snow on the side & the main body all cracked & broken with both wide and narrow channels.”

Sterne also describes the amazing view of the lakes and mountains of the Shasta Valley; the last entry in the diary is dated Monday 18 [August, 1873], “reached here tired & dirty & hungry.”

Some staining to contents, in card-weight paper wrappers with a hole punched in the top corner and a loop of string tied through it, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.

As is so often the case, we know more about Sterne’s husband, Edwin Harrison, than we do of Sterne herself. Although this journal was written before she was married (13 November 1873), we may surmise she was in the company of her future husband, mainly because of the heavy interest in mining and metals, his career. Others she calls “cousins” but that could mean anything. What comes down to us is an interesting journal of an intrepid young woman whose life is under-recorded. Biographies of her husband mention that she was at one time the president of the Missouri State Federation of Women’s Clubs and that she had three children.

Harvard college’s house cleaning team.
Salt Print, circa 1863.

Large photo trimmed to an oval and mounted on an album page, the image outlined in pencil; showing a group of thirteen women, (nine standing, four seated), a variety of ages, each woman in a long dress or skirt, some with knitted shawls, several wearing aprons, several holding dusters, rags, and brooms; and one in a kerchief; their garments mostly patterned, plaid, or dark; posing outside a large brick building with flat brick columns and windows above their heads; the image 8 x 6 in. on a 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. page, likely taken from a yearbook.

Harvard College maintained a cleaning staff to tend to the residents of student housing until 1950. A variety of demeaning terms were used to describe these under-recognized hard-working women, including goodies, maids, sweeps, and biddies. These positions were eliminated when the university suspected that they might demand higher wages, at which time the school turned to its own students to clean up after themselves.

Hoffman, malvina cornell (1885-1966)
Head of a Monk.

Circa 1920.

Bronze on wooden base, with the artist’s initials incised on the lower left, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 5 in. (excluding base).

Ex-private collection, Pennsylvania.

Hosmer, harriet goodhue (1830-1908)
Autograph Letter Signed, Watertown, MA, 24 August [no year, circa 1860].

Wove bifolium inscribed over three pages to friend and author Mrs. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), regarding Child’s written accounts of Hosmer’s celebrated sculpture, Zenobia, and her monumental sculpture of Thomas Hart Benton, and her plans to travel to St. Louis in the near future; 9 3/4 x 8 in. when unfolded.

[Together with] a brief note signed by Hosmer in 1895 on stationery from The Ledge, Bar Harbor, Maine. (2)

Living a life that seems barely possible for her time, Hosmer began in Watertown, Massachusetts under daunting circumstances. Her mother died when Hosmer was six, she lost her two little brothers in 1834 & 1835, and her older sister died when Harriet was only twelve. All of this loss seems to have encouraged her father, a physician, to raise his only remaining child to survive. Hosmer was encouraged to row, ride horses, ice skate, and draw. She traveled alone in the wilderness of the western United States, and visited the Dakota Indians. Women were not allowed to attend medical classes, but she impressed family friend Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell of the Missouri Medical College, who invited her to study human anatomy. Hosmer mentions two of her most famous sculptures in this letter, Zenobia, and the ten-foot bronze of Thomas Hart Benton made for Lafayette Park in St. Louis, MO.

In addition to championing Hosmer’s work in print, Child was also active in transcendentalist and abolitionist circles, a supporter of women’s rights, and a Native American rights activist, who opposed American expansionism. In a letter written to Hosmer on 16 September 1860, perhaps in response to Hosmer’s letter here, Child wrote, “I hope you won’t get into a fight with any of your rivals and settle the question with Bowie knives and revolvers, Missouri fashion. I can send you a Bowie knife bearing the motto, ‘Death to Abolitionists,’ if you want it, but Bowie knives won’t kill us. God bless you, dear little Ruffian!”

International women’s day.
Two Posters from the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Two rare regional posters, both likely from Madison, Wisconsin:

1) Bread and Roses, multi-color screen print produced by a group called Women’s Works, incorporating two long-stem red roses, a loaf of bread with two slices, and the text of the American women’s suffrage anthem printed in black italic type, printed for International Women’s Day, March 8, 1981, on textured beige paper, 25 x 19 in.; and

2) International Women’s Day, [Madison, Wisconsin: no printer, with symbol of a Union print job, 1979 or 1984], color lithographic poster printed in black and red, with a large Venus with fist symbol in red in the background, and a schedule of events for Wednesday March 7th through Saturday March 10th in bold black lettering, advertising workshops, rally, speeches, and showings of the films, Women’s Happy Time Commune, and Salt of the Earth, along with Family of Women lesbian feminists in concert, and a march on Saturday, 17 x 11 in.

Irish & british imprints related to women.
Three Titles in Four Volumes, 1773-1800.

Including:

1) Hester Chapone’s (1727-1801) Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Young Lady, Dublin for Exshaw et al., 1773, 12mo, two volumes in one, contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards, ESTC T05971 (no U.S. copies);

2) Hannah More’s (1745-1833) Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, Dublin: by William Porter for Pat. Wogan, 12mo, 1800, stipple-engraved author portrait frontispiece, half-title present, later half buckram, ESTC T155773; and

3) William Alexander’s (d. 1783) The History of Women, London: Printed for Strahan & Cadell, 1779, first edition, two large quarto volumes, untrimmed, both copies with deckle edges throughout; bound in uniform half cloth, ESTC T36567. (4)

Jesenská, milena (1896-1944)
Cesta k Jednoduchosti.

Prague: Topic, 1926.

First edition of the author’s first book, one of 300 copies, unnumbered, bound in contemporary full red leather title and author stamped in gilt on front board, 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.

Jesenská was a correspondent of Franz Kafka, and translated several of his works from German into Czech. She worked in letters throughout her life, editing, translating, and writing short and long works. Vocal regarding the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia while writing for and editing the magazine Prítomnost (The Presence), she stayed in Prague at her own peril in 1939. There she was detained by the Gestapo, first at Pankrác and later in Dresden. She died as an inmate at the Ravensbrück concentration camp on May 17, 1944.

This particular work, whose title translates to The Journey to Simplicity, contains straightforward advice about marriage, love, freedom, and other topics.

Johnson, georgia douglas (1880-1966)
Bronze: a Book of Verse, Signed and Inscribed First Edition.

Boston: B.J. Brimmer, 1922.

First edition, small octavo, signed and inscribed on ffep to poet, playwright, and New Yorker magazine contributor Kenneth Phillips Britton, with appreciation, Johnson’s full signature, and 1461 S Street, Washington, D.C. address; foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois; bound in full publisher’s brown cloth, with paper spine label, slightly abraded, generally very good, 6 1/8 x 5 in.

“Author’s Note: This book is the child of a bitter earth-wound. I sit on the earth and sing–sing out, and of, my sorrow. Yet, fully conscious of the potent agencies that silently work in their healing ministries, I know that God’s sun shall one day shine upon a perfected and unhampered people.”

Johnson, osa leighty (1894-1953)
Archive and Signed First Editions.

Including:

1) Seven black-and-white photographs taken by the Johnsons while traveling to Africa and the South Seas in the early 20th century, of which five depict Osa, and two landscape;

2) 1938 calendar with a photograph of a giraffe, signed and inscribed on verso by Osa;

3) Two letters from the Johnsons, one handwritten, one typed;

4) Lion: African Adventure with the King of Beasts, New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929, stated first edition, signed and inscribed on ffep, red cloth, no jacket;

5) Osa Johnson’s Jungle Friends, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939, stated first edition, signed and inscribed, publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket;

6) I Married Adventure, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940, signed and inscribed on ffep, publisher’s cloth, no jacket;

7) Four Years in Paradise, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941, stated first edition signed and inscribed on ffep, publisher’s cloth, no jacket;

8) Bride in the Solomons, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944, signed and inscribed, publisher’s cloth, no jacket;

9) Last Adventure, New York: Morrow, 1966, signed by Osa’s mother, publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket; and

10) Short typed narrative from the Sale family that was given these items by the Johnsons, describing them and their visits, and a photograph of Charles “Chic” Sale (1885-1936) on his California farm.

This interesting archive of letters, five signed first editions, and original photographs has come down through the family of the vaudeville performer, film actor, comedian, and author Chic Sale and his wife Marie Bishop Sale (1890-1985). The couple befriended the Johnsons, and kept in touch with them for years. Many of the books are inscribed to Marie, or to the entire family. The short happy narrative of the Johnsons was written by Cherry Sale Brown.

Johnson, osa leighty (1894-1953)
I Married Adventure, Signed and Inscribed Copy.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940.

Third impression, signed and inscribed by Johnson on ffep, “To Mrs. David Lowenthal with best African wishes, Osa Johnson,” the recipient of this volume, Jane Mary Alice Lamberty, was a geographer and scholar who worked at the American Geographical Society, her husband, David Lowenthal (1923-2018) was a world-renowned American historian, geographer, and student of human culture; large octavo, illustrated throughout, bound in publisher’s zebra-patterned cloth, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.

With humble origins in Kansas, Osa Johnson went on to travel the world with her husband, living in Africa for most of the 1920s. They documented their adventures in film, and pioneered the first wildlife series to be aired on American television, Osa Johnson’s Big Game Hunt. I Married Adventure was the bestselling non-fiction book of 1940.

Juana inés de la cruz (1648-1695)
Poëmas de la Unica Poetisa Americana.

Barcelona: por Joseph Llopis, 1691.

Quarto, third edition, with corrections and additions made by the author; bound in contemporary limp parchment, some repairs to title, repairing two small abraded holes, and thinned slightly abraded area along blank fore-edge margin; printer’s woodcut device to title, attractive calligraphic ink title to spine, printer’s waste used as pastedown and free endleaf at back, no front flyleaf, paper repair along inner joint, otherwise unsophisticated, 8 x 6 in.

Palau 65222; this edition not in Sabin.

Kahlo, frida (1907-1954) [and] lucienne bloch (1909-1999)
Three Photographs of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, & Bloch.

1930s.

Including three black-and-white images taken in 1933, depicting the trio at the New Worker’s School after Rivera’s mural was finished; an image of Rivera with Ernest Bloch; and a photo of Frida at Laredo when the Rio Grande flooded in the fall of 1932, waiting for a train that took twelve hours to come, each with Bloch’s stamps on the verso, and captions, each image 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (3)

Keller, helen (1880-1968)
Two Black-and-White Photo Portraits.

Including: Whitman’s profile bust portrait of Keller taken from behind and used in conjunction with the publication of her autobiographical The Story of My Life, published in 1903, tacked to a black mount, with a blurb about the book on the verso, along with a stamp of the American Weekly reference library, the image itself touched up for publication in pencil, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

[And] Nickolas Muray’s full-length portrait of Keller taken in New York circa 1925, posing with an open book, a plaster round relief profile of Homer on the wall behind her, and Keller’s Great Dane Sieglinde stretched out at her feet, the dog looks up expectantly; with photographer’s name blind embossed and rubber stamps on verso, 8 x 10 in.

Kent, corita (1918-1986)
Don’t Just Do Something.

1976.

Serigraph on paper, one of an edition of 200, signed bottom right, with original photocopied artist’s gallery label on verso with title, date, edition, size, and Kent’s contact information, 22 3/4 x 23 in.

Bright swathes of red, yellow, purple, and forest green fill the page, with a short message in purple at the top. “Don’t just do something, Buddha said, stand there!”

Kent, corita (1918-1986)
F is for Frog prince, from the International Signal Code Alphabet Series.

1968.

Serigraph on wove paper, signed “Corita” in pen, bottom right; printed in red ink on white wove paper, incorporating a fancy calligraphic initial and border superimposed on a large red diamond with the following text based on the artist’s handwriting, “Frog Prince by Grimms… Then she felt beside herself with rage and, picking him up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, crying, ‘Now will you be quiet, you horrid frog?’ But as he fell he ceased to be a frog, and became all at once a prince with beautiful kind eyes. And it came to pass that with her father’s consent they became bride and bridegroom. And he told her how a wicked witch had bound him by her spells, and how no one but she alone could have released him, and that they two would go together to his father’s kingdom…”; “68-69-6” in pencil in the lower left corner, 23 x 17 1/2 in.

Kent, corita (1918-1986)
M is for Magick, from the International Signal Code Alphabet Series.

1968.

Serigraph on wove paper, signed “Corita” in pen, bottom right, with design in blue and white dominated by text and a large white ‘X’, with an inset image reminiscent of a woodcut at the bottom center showing figures holding hands in a ring below the sun and the text, “God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive”; with “68-69-13” in pencil in the lower left corner, 23 x 17 1/2 in.

Kent, corita (1918-1986)
Magical Friend.

1972.

Serigraph on paper, one of an edition of 200, signed near the center, bottom edge, with original photocopied artist’s gallery label on verso with title, date, edition, size, and Kent’s contact information, in a plexi-glass frame, 31 x 19 in.

This composition consists of eight broad vertical black brushstrokes with the following text in multi-colored letters, quoted from Joseph Pintauro. “I am the magical friend / you can keep me for as long as you choose / I am the magical friend, I am impossible to lose.”

Kent, corita (1918-1986)
To see again what I have seen before.

1970s.

Signed lithographic print on coated paper with signature in the print and pen signature at the foot of the sheet, featuring a watercolor version of her rainbow swash motif with text on top, 17 x 14 in.

[Together with] Samples of seven of her Corita Cards greeting card designs, each printed in color on glossy stock in vibrant colors and folded, with a variety of love-themed messages, late 1970s, mounted;

[And] Made for Each Other, a lithographic poster in purple, pink, and yellow with printed signature, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969, after the 1967 screenprint.

Kloss, gene (1903-1996)
Carding Wool, the Old Spanish Way.

1930s.

Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, number forty-nine from an edition of fifty, signed, titled, and numbered by the artist, with a written explanation in the artist’s hand on the inner mat, “Posed for me in the 1930s by a friend and her daughter. She told me that her grandmother had taught her the whole process of weaving that had been brought over from Spain and practiced right here in Taos in the early days.”, the print 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. in a 23 x 17 1/2 in. mat.

Kloss, gene (1903-1996)
La Niña.

Etching on wove paper, number sixteen from an edition of thirty-five, signed, titled, and numbered by the artist in pencil reverse mat burn, slight surface abrasion, matted, 17 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.

Kohl-spiro, barbara (b. 1941)
Four Signed, Limited Edition Serigraphs.

1970s.

Including: Pinwheel and Pride; Hallelujah; Sweet Soul; and Mensch; each brightly screenprinted on Arches 88 paper, titled and signed “Barbara Kohl” by the artist, with a blind-embossed capital X, all prints numbered thirty-eight from an edition of 100, very nicely preserved, 30 x 22 in.

Kohl-Spiro’s work is inspired by patchwork quilts. Her designs radiate saturated colors and patterns that are both geometric and loose at the same time.

Kollwitz, käthe schmidt (1867-1945)
Begrüssung.

1892.

Etching on paper, full margins, second state (of two), signed in pencil, lower right, a good, strong impression of this early etching, 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.

Klipstein 13; Knesebeck 131.

Kollwitz, käthe schmidt (1867-1945)
Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm.

1910.

Etching and drypoint in brown ink on paper, wide margins, fifth state (of seven), with the printed text in the lower margin, signed in pencil, lower right, a very good impression, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

Klipstein 110; Knesebeck 114.

Krasner, lee (1908-1984)
Signed Exhibition Poster.

1973.

Chromolithographic poster advertising Krasner’s second show at the Marlborough Gallery in New York, in May of 1973, with a reproduction of the artist’s work, Rising Green, in cream, green, purple and blue; signed by Krasner in pencil at the bottom and inscribed, “for Arthur,” 29 x 22 in.

Kusama, yayoi (b. 1929)
Red Pumpkin, Naoshima.

2019.

Cast resin sculpture painted red and black, with artist’s copyright stamp and title on the bottom by Benesse Holdings, Inc.; housed in the original box, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; the box 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.

The original Red Pumpkin is a thirteen foot tall structure that can be visited and entered on Naoshima in Japan. It was originally installed in 2006.

La barraque, christine (1868 or 1873-1961)
Hastings Law School Class Photograph.

San Francisco: Boye & Habenicht, 1026 Market Street, [1897].

Large format formal studio portrait, depicting the class and professors consisting of thirty-five men, and two women, with La Barraque seated in the front row wearing a calico-patterned skirt and matching blouse decorated with a bold ruffled trim in white, wearing dark glasses, with her hands folded in her lap, because she is seated in the front and the photograph is so large, she is presented in a very visible and detailed way, the woman to her left was La Barraque’s reader; photo studio’s name in the print and embossed into the original mat upon which it is mounted, nicely preserved, inscribed in pencil on the verso of the mat, “Class Portrait, Hastings Law College ‘97”; 23 x 18 3/4 in.

La Barraque was the first blind woman admitted to practice law in California. She attended the California School for the Deaf and Blind in Berkeley as a young person and graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California in 1896. Precise information regarding La Barraque’s attendance at Hastings is spotty as all of the school’s records were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the fires that followed it. This survival is notable, and provides better information about the time of her attendance. Also remembered as a professional singer and advocate for the rights of people with blindness and other challenges, La Barraque served for some time as president of the San Francisco Workers for the Blind, and sang at performances to benefit charities supporting the blind including an event where Helen Keller was in attendance, and on the same bill at another show that was headlined by Mark Twain.

Larsen, nella (1891-1964)
Passing.

New York & London: Knopf, 1929.

First edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver and orange, lacking dust jacket except for one inner flap tucked inside, top edge stained red, two corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

Laurencin, marie (1883-1956)
La Gloire des Brontë.

1930.

Color lithograph, full margins, signed and numbered 55/115 in pencil, lower margin, a very good impression, 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.

Marchesseau 146.

Le moyne, pierre (1661-1706)
La Galeries des Femmes Fortes.

Leiden: Elzevir; Paris: Angot, 1660.

12mo, illustrated with added engraved title and twenty full-page engraved portraits in full of strong women; bound in full red morocco gilt by Selz-Niedrée, all edges gilt over marbling; front board detached; ex libris Genard with gilt-tooled red morocco book label inside front board and R. Percy Alden with bookplate on ffep; 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.

Le normand, marie-anne adelaide (1772-1843)
La Sibylle au Congrès d’Aix-La-Chapelle suivi d’un Coup-d’Oeil sur Celui de Carlsbad.

Paris: Chez L’Auteur, [Imprimerie de Madame Jeunehomme-Crémiere], 1819.

First edition, octavo, in original publisher’s printed paper wrappers, illustrated with frontispiece and six full-paged engraved plates; untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges, front cover detached, some discoloration to verso of frontispiece and final leaf from old tape, a large copy very fresh internally, scarce in wrappers, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Le Normand, a great practitioner of the tarot deck, self-sufficient business owner, and personal consultant to Napoleon, was present at the Congres of Aix-La-Chapelle as a spiritual advisor to the Emperor. Her own fortunes changed somewhat at the change of power when Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena. At that time, she largely withdrew from public life, offering readings only to trusted friends.

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
I: Cutting, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number sixteen from the English edition of thirty, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 15 1/2 x 10 in.

"Cutting is the first in Leighton's series of six wood engravings illustrating different aspects of the work involved in timber harvesting. The series grew out of her observations at the Canadian International Paper Company's lumber camp in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, which she visited in the winter of 1930-31 during one of a series of lecture tours she undertook in America before emigrating there permanently in 1939. Leighton engraved her designs on wood blocks from sketches made on site. Notwithstanding the remote setting that inspired the series, its theme of bodily toil is consistent with Leighton's many prints of English rural life. Her series echoes the concerns of many American artists during the 1930s, when the poverty and unemployment of the Great Depression inspired glorification of the ordinary worker, as in the prints of James Edward Allen, Gifford Beal, and Benton Murdoch Spruance, who, like Leighton, used a serial format to portray work in a narrative fashion." (cf. The Terra Foundation for American Art's online description.)

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
II: Limbing, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number twenty-six from the English edition of thirty, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 14 x 11 in.

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
III: Loading, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number fourteen from an edition of 100, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 15 x 11 in.

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
IV: Landing, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number ninety-three from an edition of 100, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
V: Resting, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number thirteen from the English edition of thirty, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 14 1/2 x 11 in.

Leighton, clare (1898-1989)
VI: Breaking Camp, from the Lumber Camp Series.

1931.

Wood engraving on off-white Japanese paper, copy number ninety-three from an edition of 100, signed lower right, numbered and titled lower left, matted, the sheet 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.

Lesbian pride & women’s political action.
Two Posters & Three Large Outsider Artist Prints.

Including:

1) a poster advertising Sinister Wisdom, featuring Tee Corrine’s 1976 photograph in black and white;

2) a poster for Madison Wisconsin’s Gay Thanksgiving, with an image of same-sex pilgrim couples within a double male/double female symbol by Gary Tipler;

3) Noreen Scully’s The Kiss, Seattle: Day Moon Designs, 1976;

4) David Fichter’s poster for Flight of the Flamingoes, depicting a performance of the Wallflower Order Dance Collective, limited edition large-format silkscreen, number 22 of 130, signed by the artist and numbered;

5) unidentified black-and-white print on laid paper depicting a woman trying to disarm another woman with a rifle, likely in protest of the Vietnam War; all large format, sizes vary. (5)

Leslie, eliza (1797-1858)
Autograph Letter Signed, Philadelphia, 2 March 1835.

Large wove bifolium with self-envelope conjugate with complete address panel and two postmarks, inscribed over one page, to American author and poet, Emma Catherine Manley Embury (1806-1863), in Brooklyn, New York, concerning the possible publication of poetry and an article for the Carey & Hart publication, The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present; old folds, original seal neatly excised when the letter was originally opened, old mount remnants on blank margin of the envelope panel, 9 3/4 x 8 in. folded.

“I received a few days since your two articles for Mssrs. Carey & Hart’s souvenir. I will insert the verses with great pleasure, but I fear that the tale, though it also possesses much merit, will not exactly answer the purpose, it being desirable that all the prose communications from American writers should be essentially of an American character. […] I will return ‘The Storm Painter’ by the first private opportunity.” The Storm Painter was published in The Ladies Companion magazine in 1839.

Leslie was a prolific published author in her own right, contributing fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers. She is also remembered for her numerous cookbooks, especially Directions for Cookery, which was first published in 1837.

Letona, bartholomé de (fl. circa 1660)
Perfecta Religiosa, Contiene Tres Libros. Libro I. De la Vida de la Madre Geronima de la Asunçion de la Orden de N.M.S. Clara.

Puebla: Viuda de Juan de Borja, 1662.

First edition, quarto, later calf, minor wear; minimal dampstaining and wear; early owner’s signature and two faint later owner’s stamps on title page, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.

Letona’s work chronicles the fascinating life of Mother Jerónima de la Asunción (1555-1630), who founded the first Catholic monastery in Manila in 1621.

In the spring of 1620, at the age of sixty-six, Jerónima and six nuns traveled from Toledo to Seville, the first leg of the very long journey to the Philippines. In Seville, Velázquez painted a stunning full-length portrait of her. They departed from Cádiz by boat, arrived at Veracruz, and then traveled overland to Mexico City, finally arriving there in September. The group stayed in Mexico for six months with other sisters of the same order. From Mexico City in the spring of 1621, mules conveyed the nuns to Acapulco, where they set sail aboard the Spanish galleon San Andrés to the Philippines.

Madre Jerónima did not always see eye-to-eye with the male overseers of the convent, which was established exclusively for Spanish women, excluding Indigenous women. The conquistadors were concerned to see the pool of marriageable Spanish women in the Philippines shrinking as novices entered the convent. At the same time, native Filippino women who tried to join the order were denied, not by the convent and Madre Jerónima, but by the male Franciscan superiors. Her attempt to allow Doña María Uray of Dapitan to join was denied, as was her proposition that a separate convent be created for non-Spanish women in the late 1620s. However, in the years after Jerómina’s death, the nuns of Santa Clara found a way to sneak Martha de San Bernardo into the order, with a little jurisdictional maneuvering.

According to Worldcat, the prologue contains a detailed description of the Pacific Ocean and navigation in the Far East, and of the Philippine Islands. Apparently wishing to suppress the navigational material, the Council ordered the prologue removed from all copies, but the suppression was ineffectual. The Prologo is present in this copy.

Medina, Puebla 59; Palau 136757; Sabin 40250.

Levitt, helen (1913-2009)
Four Silver Prints.

Circa 1940.

Including: 1) N.Y. (Shoeshine); 2) N.Y. (Sandlot); 3) N.Y. (Man Crossing a Brooklyn Street); and 4) N.Y. (Man with a Cape); each with Levitt’s signature and numbered 30, 93, 116 and 138; one with “Brooklyn” in pencil on verso; each image approximately 2 3/4 x 4 in.

Loos, anita (1888-1981)
Eleven Press Photos.

A group of early black-and-white images of Loos and her husband, including an 8 x 10 portrait by Nickolas Muray; another by London photographer Sasha; several with stamps of King Features Syndicate on verso, others with typed captions for press release, sizes vary. (11)

Loos, anita (1888-1981)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Signed and Inscribed with a Drawing.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.

Octavo, later impression with a large drawing of a blobby human holding a leaf labeled, “big leaf,” with an inscription below, “What Ho! Nude by A. Loos with love to Bea from the artist,” the inscription possibly directed to Beatrice Capel, later Lady Michelham; in publisher’s half red cloth with patterned paper boards and label on front board, illustrated by Ralph Barton; 7 1/4 x 5 in.

[Together with] Loos’ Kiss Hollywood Good-by, New York: Viking Press, 1974, octavo, with a signed and inscribed photograph of a portrait of the artist in the original holograph addressed envelope inserted, reading, “Greetings to Carole Edwards from Anita Loos, May 18th, 1975,” sent from Loos’s 171 West 57th Street address, with rubber stamp on verso of envelope. (2)

Loudon, jane wells webb (1807-1858)
The Ladies’ Flower Garden of: Ornamental Bulbous Plants [and] Ornamental Perennials.

London: William Smith, 1841; [and] William S. Orr, [1849].

First edition of Bulbous Plants, second edition of Ornamental Perennials; two large quarto volumes; illustrated with fifty-eight and ninety full-page hand-finished chromolithographic plates of flowers and plates; bound in uniform later half green morocco, front board of one volume detached, both with rubbing and wear, contents good, 11 x 8 1/2 in. (2)

Loudon successfully promoted the idea that gardening was an appropriate hobby for young women through the publication of a number of books in the present series. She also wrote a science fiction novel before the genre was known by that name. In 1827, at the age of seventeen, she anonymously published The Mummy!, in three volumes, which she describes as “a strange, wild novel” set in the twenty-second century.

Lyford, carrie alberta (1878-1954)
A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School.

Hampton, VA: Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, [1921].

First edition, octavo, a very well-preserved copy in publisher’s tan cloth titled on front board and spine, small chip to fore-edge of ffep, title page adhering to facing leaf along gutter slightly, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

Lyford was Director of the Home Economics School at the historically Black Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Her book was intended both for students and teachers. “The book represents a compilation of recipes that have been used in cooking schools of the country for many years. It is not designed for the use of experienced cooks who are seeking a wider variety and a great elaboration of recipes but for the young cook who desires to prepare simple dishes well.” (Quoted from the author’s introduction.) After her time at the Normal Institute, Lyford turned her attention to the study of traditional practical hand crafts of Native American Indians including those of the Sioux, Ojibwa, and Iroquois Nations. Beginning in 1929, she traveled extensively to Indian reservations in her work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Maar, dora (1907-1997)
Fruit.

Felt-tip pen and color ink on cream wove paper, initialed in ink on verso, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Estate of the artist, Paris, with the ink stamp lower right recto; private collection, New Jersey.

Maar, dora (1907-1997)
Fruit.

Pen and color inks on wove paper, initialed in pen and ink, lower right recto, 11 5/8 x 161/2 in.

Provenance: The estate of the artist, Paris, with the ink stamp lower right recto; private collection, New Jersey.

Matter, mercedes carles (1913-2001)
Pen and Ink Figure Study.

Small format ink figure study of a standing woman in profile, matted and framed, not examined out of frame, 6 1/2 x 4 in. sight.

Mccarthy, helen kiner (1884-1927)
Church at Premezzo.

c. 1925.

Oil on board, with period gallery label on verso, identifying this piece as number seven, with title and artist’s name, under glass in a period frame, 10 x 8 in.

McCarthy studied under Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell at the Philadelphia School of Design. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of female artists who exhibited annually in that city. Their first collective show as held at the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1917. The goal of banding together as a group was to validate the notion that women ought to be accepted as professional artists on the same footing with men.

Mccullers, carson (1917-1967)
Clock Without Hands, Signed and Inscribed First Edition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

Stated first printing, inscribed on ffep, “For Rebecca Love Carson,” in blue ballpoint pen, with the original unclipped dust jacket with window feature, bound in publisher’s red cloth, nicely preserved with slight tape discoloration to free endleaves only, 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

Mead, grace bigelow sears (1864-1918)
Wee Holme: a Manuscript Record of its Construction, 1909-1910

Octavo format notebook containing information regarding the building of the home at 30 Stetson Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, beginning with the purchase of the land, and including construction quotes, three autograph letters signed by the Boston architect, Samuel W. Mead [cousin to the author’s husband, Charles Henry Mead (1844-1920)], who designed the home; included in Sears Mead’s notes are wallpaper and blind samples, notes about home care and approaches to placement of the home on the lot, how to seal wood floors, “structural facts & hints,” and philosophy of decor, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful. Simplicity and sustainability”; all costs are also recorded, and many other details; although a house still stands at this address, according to what this researcher can gather, it was built in 1895, so perhaps the street has been renumbered in the last 112 years.

Meriwether, lide parker smith (1829-1913)
Autograph Manuscript of Lecture Notes.

1880s.

Octavo-format lined journal originally used (barely) as an account book, repurposed by the author containing handwritten notes and clippings, occupying approximately 144 pages, easily legible and densely inscribed, on topics of Meriwether’s various social causes for presentation in public lectures; black morocco boards, both detached, lacking spine, in need of resewing; pages somewhat wavy where clippings have been pasted, with occasional glue discoloration, a very good candidate for restoration, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

Meriwether was a strong vocal advocate for women’s rights whose work contributed substantially to the first wave of feminism. The platform of the Tennessee Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which she served as president from 1884 to 1897, included planks beyond those suggested by its name. Meriwether advocated for raising the age of sexual consent (which was ten years old), woman’s suffrage, female education, equal pay, and equal rights under the law, to great success. She also actively recruited Black women to join the WCTU, and presided over interracial meetings of the group in Memphis in the 1880s.

In this manuscript, which begins with remarks for a speech delivered at the end of 1888, Meriwether’s prepared text is interspersed with clippings to be read out loud in support of her points. For example, she includes a newspaper piece on a filthy dive bar downtown on Mulberry Street in New York City. Frequented by poor women who buy stale beer mixed with soda water, these “pitiable wrecks” would drink themselves into a stupor, and then sleep on the floor. Our orator includes it to drive home her point. Meriwether felt that women of privilege were complicit in the degraded status of their sisters when they fail to take political action. Without equal education, equal work opportunities, and equal pay, how can indigent women provide for themselves? She does not mince words. “Oh woman! living in comfortable ease! is it nothing to you that thousands of your sisters, hounded into the depths by poverty, ignorance, and licensed greed, are battling and sinking in these black waves of moral and social degradation and death?”

The talk that begins on page 37 of the current manuscript is titled, “Waste Not, Want Not,” and is clearly written to address a Black audience. Meriwether writes in part, “I have always felt that our race owed to yours a peculiar debt of gratitude, the like of which has never been known in the history of any other nation.” Raised in Virginia, she goes on to describe her warm feelings about the Black woman who tended and raised her from infancy, and then transitions into a description of the successes of people of color in the south. “I want to see you all prosperous, and happy, and good. I rejoice always to see schoolhouses going up for you. I love to see your nice churches, your comfortable schoolhouses, your kind, well-educated teachers, your honest, straightforward God fearing preachers. I love to go to your school examinations, and see your exhibitions, and to see how fast your children learn & how bright they are, and to hear them sing & play and to look at their pretty paintings & embroideries; and to know that they are improving their advantages and in time they will be useful & honorable men & women, a blessing and an honor to their parents, their country, & their race.”

Millett, kate (1934-2017)
Archive, Typed Manuscripts & Letters.

Including three handwritten letters and one invitation with two holograph envelopes, a curriculum vitae; typed manuscripts of A.D., 8 1/2 x 11 in. 317 photocopied pages double-spaced, printed on both sides and held together with a black plastic strip binding (velo-bind), and The Looney Bin Trip, 609 single-spaced photocopied pages printed on both sides, in a three ring binder with additional holes for a strip binding along the gutter margin, one original marginal annotation in The Looney Bin Trip; all material from the 1980s and ’90s and addressed to Sandra Norton, Dean of Arts & Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Loony Bin Trip, note the change in spelling, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1990; and A.D.: a Memoir, was published by Norton in 1995. Best known for her 1970 second-wave feminist tract, Sexual Politics, Millett was an artist and educator who paved the way for greater women’s equality in the workplace.

Morrison, toni (1931-2019) alice walker (b. 1944)
Four Titles Including First Editions, and Signed Copies.

Including:

1) Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1970, stated first edition, octavo, in a very good dust jacket;

2) Walker’s In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1973, stated first edition, octavo, signed on title page, in publisher’s binding and very good dust jacket;

3) Morrison’s Lecture and Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, New York: Knopf, 1994, first edition, 12mo, signed on title page, in publisher’s red cloth, and;

4) Morrison’s The Dancing Mind, New York: Knopf, 1996, 12mo, signed on title page, in very good publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. (4)

Morrison, toni (1931-2019)
Jazz, Signed First Edition & Uncorrected Proof.

New York: Knopf, 1992.

Stated first edition, octavo, publisher’s cloth, with dust jacket, as new with unclipped dust jacket dated 4/92; [and] an uncorrected softcover proof copy of the same work, with laudatory note on the author’s Beloved stapled inside the front board, some drink circles to front cover. (2)

In addition to winning the Pulitzer for Beloved, Morrison was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Moseley braun, carol (b. 1947)
Eleven Press Photos.

Black-and-white and color 8 x 10 in. photographs of Braun with press information on versos taken on political occasions, including photos at speaking events, campaign headquarters, meeting supporters, visiting constituents, and with other political and cultural icons including Patricia Ireland, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, and Gwendolyn Brooks. (11)

Moxon, eliza (fl. circa 1832)
Oral Instructions & Memoranda in the Art of Cookery, Manuscript on Paper.

[?England, October 1832.]

Octavo-format manuscript on wove paper watermarked 1830, consisting of neat calligraphic title and approximately 100 pages neatly inscribed with more than 150 different recipes legibly written, most ascribed to their creators and dated, often mentioning English town names, including several London neighborhoods: Leyton, Battersea, and Twickenham, and others; along with many recipes attributed to other members of the Moxon family; with some recipes on loose pieces of paper inserted; the recipes themselves include fish cakes, chantilly cream, green pickles, eau de cologne, German wine sauce, ginger beer, jellies, egg crust, pot pourri, pickled walnuts, and much more; bound in half leather, a bit worn, generally very good, 7 x 4 1/2 in.

Murray, judith sargent stevens (1751-1820)
On the Equality of the Sexes.

Boston: Isaiah Tomas & Ebenezer Andrews, 1790.

First edition, as it appeared in The Massachusetts Magazine. Or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, numbers III & IV for March and April; two disbound octavo pamphlets formerly bound, with Murray’s essay appearing in two parts that begin on page 132 in the March issue, and part two starting on page 223 of the April issue; 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.

Murray’s careful consideration of the rights of women, published here under her nom de plume, Constantia, begins with a long poem. Colored by her own experiences, she systematically addresses arguments that posit a woman’s inherent inability to engage in higher thinking. Instead, she indicates the inequality in education, and the ban on women’s participation as adults in any challenges beyond the home as the determining factors in women’s lives. Her work preceded Wollstonecraft’s by two years.

National organization for women [now].
Round Poster on Card.

Washington, DC: Allied Printing, [1970s].

Lithographically-printed black graphics on glossy coated paper affixed to board, double-sided, to be carried during protests, demonstrations, and marches, some surface scuffing, 23 in. circle.

Nevelson, louise (1899-1988)
Two Faces.

1984.

Pencil drawing on paper, Signed and dated in pencil, bottom recto, 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (folded).

Provenance: Albert Argentieri, New Jersey, friend of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, New Jersey.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Argentieri, a photographer and artist, lived near Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) and her assistant, Ted Haseltine, his dear friend. Albert photographed Louise, her artworks and sculptures; both Albert and Ted. When staying in New Jersey, both Albert and Ted would collect wooden pieces from abandoned buildings and other locations for Nevelson to use in her sculptures. The early etchings and drawings she gave to Argentieri are unique.

Nevelson, louise (1899-1988)
Untitled.

New York: Hollander Workshop, 1965-66.

Etching and aquatint on Rives BFK, full margins, with The Estate of Louise Nevelson blue ink stamp on verso, a very good, richly-inked proof, 23 7/8 x 17 5/8 in.

Nevelson, louise (1899-1988)
Untitled.

New York: Hollander Workshop, 1965-66.

Etching and aquatint on Rives BFK, full margins, one of only several artist’s proofs, no published edition; with The Estate of Louise Nevelson blue ink stamp on verso; a very good, richly-inked proof, 13 5/8 x 17 7/8 in.

Nin, anaïs (1903-1977)
The House of Incest.

Paris: Siana Editions, 1936.

First, limited edition, copy number sixty-seven of 249 printed and signed by Nin on the limitation page, additionally signed and inscribed to Rebecca West and her husband Henry Maxwell Andrews in 1936 on ffep; folio, in original limp wrappers and glassine jacket (slightly chipped), generally very good, unopened, 11 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.

Rebecca West (1892-1983), British travel writer, literary critic, author, and journalist is often quoted describing Nin as “a beautiful woman, the only real genius I have known in my life,” in a 1946 letter to George Orwell. A Cafe in Space: the Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, volume 1, April 21, 2020 issue, contains an essay by Lynette Felber concerning the contentious friendship between West and Nin.

Palmer, miss (fl. circa 1780)
Histoire de Miss Beville; [Together with] Histoire d’Amandé; [and] Les Confessiones de Mme de Mainville.

Belville, Amsterdam: Chez Arkstée & Merkus; Paris: Chez de Hansy le jeune, 1769; Amandé, London & Paris: Chez Vente, 1768; [and] Mainville, Paris: Chez Dufour; Lyon: Pierre Cellier, 1768.

Three titles in six 12mo volumes uniformly bound in attractive contemporary half sponge-decorated sheepskin bindings with paste-paper decorated boards, spines neatly gilt, each with two spine labels, a neat set of literature intended for a female audience, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (6)

Histoire de Miss Belville, an epistolary novel sometimes attributed to Charlotte Palmer, first appeared in London under the title, Female Stability: or, the History of Miss Belville, in 1780. In it, the author weaves multiple plots of love, dishonor, and intrigue. All of the English language editions are rare at auction and in libraries. Worldcat lists no copies of the French edition of Miss Belville.

Pardoe, julia sophia h. (1804-1862)
Lady Arabella: or, The Adventures of a Doll.

London: Kerby & Son, [1856.]

First edition, small quarto, illustrated by George Cruikshank with four hand-colored etchings (one bound as the frontispiece); bound by Westleys & Co. London in full publisher’s red cloth, stamped in blind with ornamental gilt title on front board and lettering on spine, with their ticket pasted inside the back board, spine frayed, especially along back joint, 6 3/4 x 5 in.

Pardoe was an English travel writer, novelist, and poet who was first published before she turned twenty. Her travels yielded a number of works concerning the people and cultures of Portugal, Hungary, the Bosporus region, and Turkey. The present work, intended for a young audience, begins with a little girl, Mary Lawson, who should have been on her way to school. Her steps are arested when she sees a mutilated doll in a heap of trash on the street. Imagine Mary’s astonishment when the doll begins to cry, and then offers to share her sad tale.

Parks, rosa louise mccauley (1913-2005)
Four Press Photos.

1980s-‘90s.

Including: two black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photos of Parks on her seventy-second birthday in 1985; a color photograph of Parks with Gregory Reed, Bill Clinton, and Elaine Steele taken in 1995; and a black-and-white photo of Parks by Nancy Lane at the Ford Hall Forum at Northeastern University in 1991, when she received the Lewis and Evelyn Smith Amendment Award. (4)

Parrish, clara weaver (1861-1925)
Isabella and the Pot of Basil.

Circa 1899.

Watercolor on paper, signed in pencil in lower left corner, the sheet mounted on board, depicting an image inspired by Keats, purchased by Ella Benson Morris at the Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition in 1899; 18 x 13 1/8 in.

The somewhat macabre tale of Isabella, taken as inspiration by both Keats and Parrish, was derived from Boccaccio’s Decameron. In it, Isabella’s love is murdered by her own brothers. His ghost visits her in a dream, and tells her the tragic news. She exhumes his body and plants his head in a pot of basil, which she tends obsessively.

Pennell, elizabeth robins (1855-1936)
Four Autograph Letters Signed.

Four letters written on wove bifolia stationery sheets, each with her 14 Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. [London] address printed at the top; each addressed to Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) in his capacity as editor of The Century Magazine, dated 13 January; 3 February; 17 February; and 21 February, 1900, each letter approximately 7 x 4 1/2 in. folded, one with some chipping. (4).

Each letter concerns art and articles sent to Johnson for publication. Both Robins Pennell and her husband Joseph Pennell were writing and illustrating for the magazine at this time. They were busy putting together articles on Mont St. Michel, pitching story ideas, submitting text and images, and taking editorial notes on the revision of same, as reflected in the letters here.