Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (60 results)

First edition. First edition. Signed by Michelle Tea on the half title, inscribed to former owner. 185, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with light wear. Signed Dar Williams postcard laid in (if this book was your jam in the late '90s, you'll probably know who that is). The author's first book.

Seller Inventory # 140944628

Small collection of union documents from a welder during WWII, housed in leather pocket folder. The owner, one Victoria Brown of San Francisco, attended the War Production Training School in Seattle, where she learned to weld, and then at age 23 joined the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America as an apprentice welder. During the war the union's ranks swelled to approximately 350,000. She found work at the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. for a few months. This small collection includes her union member's pocket folder, dues receipts, a promotion card, the backing paper of an Army-Navy Production Award emblem with a message from President Roosevelt and his facsimile signature, and her termination notice-- the reason given: "Going back to San Francisco." Apparently she did just that. Very Good overall with folding and light wear to documents. Leather pocket folder could be used again with ease-- hardly worn at all.

Seller Inventory # 140941626

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Signed by Tillie Olsen and warmly inscribed to former owner on paste down with a correction on p. 134-- the verses of a song crossed out and alternate verses written in margins by author in her neat hand. (xii), 175 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book club edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The feminist author's unfinished Great Depression-era novel.

Seller Inventory # 140937272

Paperback. First Edition. First edition. 127, [1] pp. Illustrated wraps over staple binding. Near Fine with light wear, a few small notations inside front wrap. The final work by suffragette Virginia Brooks, best-known for her activism in Chicago alongside Ida B. Wells and her two feminist books from this period: Little Lost Sister and My Battles with Vice. Her later life in Portland, Oregon-- then a small lumberjack town-- produced this fictional portrait of a young woman caught up in "white slavery" (i.e. prostitution), a bobbed hairdo, and a whirl of general vice. Her struggle ends happily enough: "Alas, how few Tillys go back to Tillamook!" The copyright page declares: "This book is expressly intended as an expose of law enforcement conditions in Oregon and especially in Portland.".

Seller Inventory # 140942807

Small broadside or window sign measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75" printed in black on tan stock slightly thicker than newsprint. Near Fine with minor corner wear. The North Dakota Votes for Women League was organized in 1911 and held their first state convention the following year in Fargo. The first statewide referendum on women's suffrage took place in 1914 but failed. In 1917 women gained the right to vote in municipal and presidential elections in North Dakota. The state became the 20th state to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1919.

Seller Inventory # 140942607

First Edition. First edition. 313 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with white lettering, color photo mounted to front board. About Very Good with slight bowing to boards, soiled cloth, foxing and a little staining to edges, corner of p. 51 stained, name written on rear paste down, rear board shows slight horizontal crease. The second of two novels by a woman's suffrage activist and journalist, offering helpful advice to younger women. Uncommon.

Seller Inventory # 140943671

First British edition. First British edition. xxxvi, 52 pp. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine, light wear, contents lightly toned with age. A radical feminist manifesto. Its author became famous when she nonfatally shot Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1968.

Seller Inventory # 140946465

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition. 128 pp. Original red cloth, front stamped in blind, spine in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper, pages a little age-toned, in an unclipped dust jacket, Near Fine, red on spine panel sunned, a few tiny closed tears to edges, back panel faintly soiled. A French novel published when the author was only 18, which inspired a 1958 Otto Preminger film. Uncommon in its first US printing in nice shape.

Seller Inventory # 140940333

First Edition. First edition. Signed by the poet and inscribed to former owner on the dedication page in ink, dated 1929. [viii], 150 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with spine lettering rubbed off, small ink smudge on dedication page, in a Near Fine dust jacket, rubbed and lightly worn. A signed poetry collection by the New England society woman who used a male nom de plume for her poetry. She was also a playwright, an actress, paramour of actor John Barrymore, and a feminist activist.

Seller Inventory # 140941907

Chromolithograph portrait print of 19th century American stage actress Bertha Welby (1844-1917). Single-sided, measuring 11" x 14". Very Good, with two small dark spots, one of which at first looks like a beauty mark on Welby's face; bit of foxing visible on verso, age-toning. Appears to be uncommon. Welby appeared in the play advertised here, One Woman's Life, in 1882 and 1883 according to newspaper ads at the time. Later in 1896 she would found The Rainy Day Club, a women's organization that advocated for sensible shorter skirts that would not get wet in inclement weather.

Seller Inventory # 140945779

First edition. First edition. 103 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, paper title label on spine. Very Good+, lightly worn and dust-soiled, small former owner's stamp to paste down. Lacking dust jacket. An uncommon work by the Irish-American anarcho-feminist poet.

Seller Inventory # 140944620

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Good, with rubbing to cloth at extremities, light fraying at corners and heavy rubbing to spine ends. Discoloration to top edge of rear cover. Front inner hinge slightly exposed, previous owner name stamp to front free end paper. Gilman's scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century, asserting that liberation requires getting women out of the house.

Seller Inventory # 170210003

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Very Good with cloth rubbed at extremities; faint cup ring and deep indent to front cover. Rubber ownership stamp of the College Equal Suffrage League to the front and rear free endsheets. Gilman's scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century, asserting that liberation requires getting women out of the house. A nice copy with a suffrage-related provenance.

Seller Inventory # 140937457

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition, Signed by Simone de Beauvoir on page at front. xxxviii, 715 pp. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt stamping, all edges gilt. A Fine copy. A classic examination of women in history.

Seller Inventory # 140945994

First Edition. First edition, first printing. (Yellow wraps printed in red and black with .50 price on rear.) 32 pp. Staple bound in bright yellow and red pictorial wrappers. Very Good with light edge wear, contents lightly toned. Page gathering 15-18 pp is detached from binding, but intact. Minor soiling to rear cover. The debut comic from feminist artist Mary Wings. It depicts a quick-witted stream of consciousness story line of a heroine who discovers herself sexually and comes out as a lesbian. It became an instant classic in the California '70's independent comic book scene. On a profile of the author for Syfy Mary Century called it "a one-shot that's widely considered to be the first comic that was explicitly written by a lesbian for other lesbians to read, with no straight audience in mind whatsoever.".

Seller Inventory # 140946176

Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Margaret Sanger on title page, inscribed to former owner, dated April 1962. First edition, later printing. 352 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light wear in Good+ unclipped dust jacket, closed tear in and tape stain on back panel, a little chipped at edges. A biography of the Planned Parenthood founder signed by its subject.

Seller Inventory # 180206002

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Near Fine. Slight dulled, light rubbing at tips. Front and rear inner hinge exposed. Pages toned, with the early pages creased diagonally. A lovely copy of Gilman's scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century, asserting that liberation requires getting women out of the house.

Seller Inventory # 180705014

First edition. First edition, first printing. 410 pp. Bound in publisher's boards over black spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with bookplate on paste down, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, clear dampstain to pages 9 & 10. In Very Good dust jacket, hipped at head and tail with short tears, a little sunning to spine panel, unclipped ($5.95). Fifteen years after graduating from Smith College, Friedan was tasked with surveying her fellow all-female alumni. Curiously, she found that despite having children and enjoying material comforts, many of the women she spoke to were unhappy in their role as housewives. She coined the phrase "feminine mystique" to highlight the prevalent assumption that a "feminine" woman would be completely fulfilled by domestic life and not seek anything more, such as education, work, or even have political opinions. Shining a floodlight on women's previously-hidden problems, Friedan takes aim at society's structural sexism and urges women to find fulfillment outside of the domestic realm that engages their full mental capacity. The Feminine Mystique is credited with sparking the second wave of feminism in the United States, and is considered one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Seller Inventory # 140944301

First Edition. First edition, limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Fannie Hurst on the limitation page.[iv], 481 pp. Bound in publisher's buckram with leather title label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Very light wear to label, else Fine. Housed in a sturdy custom slipcase. A classic romance novel that inspired five film versions, featuring a strong female protagonist who likes to live "fast." Hurst's most popular work.

Seller Inventory # 140942652

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Advance presentation copy signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on tipped in sheet, stating "This copy of On My Own is one of those signed by Mrs. Roosevelt for advance presentation to friends of the author and publisher." Laid in is the business card of Lynwood Giacomini, an American publishing representative and bibliophile. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles blocked in dark blue on spine. Near Fine with sunning to spine cloth and light soiling, pages toned. In acetate wrapper which is slightly shrunken, wavy and has an edge-chip; lacking the slipcase. A lovely copy. First Edition, Advance Presentation Copy.

Seller Inventory # 140940079

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition and first in the English language. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in blind over quarter dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear and pages tanned with upper corners lightly bumped. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning, light soiling and light wear to the extremities.

Seller Inventory # 140944911

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, with text in German and English. Very Good, wraps lightly soiled and lightly toned, with a bit of edge wear; short split started at the top of the front joint, small ownership stamp to half-title page. Pages lightly handled; offsetting from news clipping to title page and frontis portrait. Transcribed from a 1903 lecture given by Duncan in Berlin, this feminist text would become the manifesto of modern dance.

Seller Inventory # 170502006

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Margaret Sanger on the first blank sheet; with ownership stamps of United States Congressman Fred Schwengel to front paste down and top and bottom textblock edge. Very Good with cloth lightly worn at tips, and inscription effaced from verso of front free endpaper. Pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, which is a bit edge-worn and spine toned and foxed, with a small area of abrasion to the base of the spine. Bound in publisher. A biography of the Planned Parenthood founder signed by its subject.

Seller Inventory # 140940844

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Two volumes. First edition, first printings. Bound in publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jackets. Near Fine with fading to spine and edges, light foxing to cloth, wear at corners and spine. Pages toned. Bookseller ticket to pastedown in one volume, and remnant of ticket in the other. A nice copy of the infamous anarchist's autobiography.

Seller Inventory # 140942359

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cinnamon cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, light fading to spine and light soiling to cloth, foxing to top of textblock edge. Offsetting to free endsheets from binder's glue, slight musty odor to pages. A lovely copy of Woolf's feminist essay, which proclaims "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.".

Seller Inventory # 140944819

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printings. Two volumes bound in publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jackets. Near Fine with typical sunning to spine and edges, small stain at bottom edge front board of volume I. Contents lightly toned with minor offsetting from frontispieces. A very bright, nice set of the Lithuanian-born anarchist's autobiography.

Seller Inventory # 140946182

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's canary cloth with blue paper title label to upper board and spine lettered in blue. Very Good with soiling to cloth and wear to fore edge of upper board. Pages toned and with a faint cigar smoke odor. A collection of satirical works and poetry promoting the suffrage movement and broken down into five sections: the Treacherous Texts, Campaign Material, Women's Sphere, A Masque of Teachers, and The Unconscious Suffragists. Each section varied in the style of writing employed by Miller from poetry, to prose, to lists, to a short play, but all of the writings promoted feminist and suffragist themes and ideals. Many of the poems previously appeared individually in the New York Tribune.

Seller Inventory # 140944358

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine, cloth shows light stains visible in raking light. Light underlining in pencil to early pages of text, pages toned. The notable feminist writer's ground breaking analysis of economic activity and the subjugation of women.

Seller Inventory # 140944027

Condition: Very Good. Ca 1880. A collection of 30 trade cards featuring 17 different designs by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, who developed them as a young student along with her cousin Robert Brown. These trade are author's first published work, though she dismissed them in her autobiography as merely "an amusing source of income." Chromolithographed cards roughly measuring 2" x 4.5", with designs printed on rectos and many printed on versos with advertisements for Kendall Manufacturing's Soapine and French Laundry Soap, four cards advertise Curtis Davis & Co.'s Welcome Soap; ten versos are blank. The utopian feminist best-known for her semi-autobiographical short-story "The Yellow Wallpaper" written after a bout of severe postpartum psychosis.

Seller Inventory # 140943825

First edition. First edition. xvi, 493 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in blind with gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with some staining to cloth, foxing to tissue guard of frontispiece, very slight waviness to textblock, barely any foxing to contents. Nice shape overall.An uncommon biography of American Quaker abolitionist Isaac Tatem Hopper (1771-1852) by Lydia Child, a leading abolitionist herself, as well as an author and activist for women's and Native American rights.

Seller Inventory # 140945766