Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at a writer who has come to personify the Victorian feminine ideal - "Through meticulous study of Mrs Gaskell's organising metaphors, Professor Bonaparte reveals that all her life she hid from herself a second self: an inadmissibly rebellious, daemonic "male" counter-force whose energies disrupted but also empowered her work." A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Notes, select bibliography, index. x, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-1390X.

New York: Marlowe and Company/ Avalon, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Illustrated by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Notes, list of drawings, further reading, 240 pp plus final drawing. ISBN: 978-1569242926.

New York: Clarkson Potter, (1981). First person stories Good(edgewear to corners, signs of wear)by women who have inspired and shaped American culture rrom the 1920s to the 1980s - among them Frances Steloff (founder of the Gotham Book Mart), ellen Stewart (pioneer in experimental theater), Tatyana Grossman (lithographer and book artist), Billie Jean King, Julia Child, Barbara Walters, Agnes de Mille, Lillian Hellman, Betty Friedan and many more. Each section is preceded by a full page black and white portrait. Index, xi, 340 pp. ISBN: 0-517-54942.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although this was written in the early years of the feminist movement, the basic premise behind this book is still relevant - that is, many men were touched and some damaged by the women's liberation movement - even if you disagree with her conclusions. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-374141770.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although this was written in the early years of the feminist movement, the basic premise behind this book is still relevant - that is, many men were touched and some damaged by the women's liberation movement - even if you disagree with her conclusions. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-374141770.

London: Creation Press, 1992. First edition - First collection of post-feminist essays and short stories by this young black woman living in London. A look at the metaphors that describe / hide / reveal women's sexualtiy.

New York: Vintage Books, (1976). First edition - "In this vivid and unique recreation of the American suffrage struggle, five unknown women [Sylvie Thygesen, Jessie Butler, Miriam Allen deFord, Laura Seller, and Ernestine Kettler] from various economic, regional, and various backgrounds reveal, in their own voices, what it was like to be a suffragist six decades ago." Photographs of each woman.Foreword by Kathryn Kish Sklar. Bibliography, chronology. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-394-716426.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the last 20 years in the life of Emma Goldman, who was deported from the United States in 1919 at the height of the Red Scare. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xv, 301 pp. ISBN: 0-807070041.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. A book which combines history and biography as it "interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. . . set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote." Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. xv, 531 pp. ISBN: 0-394555368.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Collection of over 100 of her columns - shrewd, funny, unpretentious and penetrating.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984.). An exploration of what it means to be a scientist, based on interviews with more than 100 women scientists. Bibliography, index. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-671-417398.

Toronto: Musson, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - With a balance of reason and passion, the author assesses the feelings of women writers towards their existence as women and examines their reactions to the role society expects them to fulfil. Alice Munro called this 'a very readable, often shrewd, always happily unacademic assessment of the fiction written by women from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.' 382 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A provocative look at American families and especially our child rearing habits by this noted feminist. Boldly and very personally INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- (difficult, proud, exciting, dangerous) with love" Notes, index. xii, 539 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0151404.

New York: Broadway Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A look at the West's first liberated women, free to choose their own lovers and command considerable respect and power. Muses and artists themselves, their liasons brought them influence and wealth. Among the women discussed in this book are Veronica Franco of 16th century Venice, Madame de Pompadour, La Belle Otero, Marion Davies, and many others. Illustrated.

New York: Broadway Books, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A look at the West's first liberated women, free to choose their own lovers and command considerable respect and power. Muses and artists themselves, their liasons brought them influence and wealth. Among the women discussed in this book are Veronica Franco of 16th century Venice, Madame de Pompadour, La Belle Otero, Marion Davies, and many others. Illustrated. Bibliography. 269 pp Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-7679-04508.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal study of women's experiences at one ivy league law school, and a more general look at how law school could better serve the needs of women. Extensive notes, index. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-44040.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating true story of a woman in Spain in 1933, who killed her only daughter - the mother was a feminist who had rejected marriage, selected a renegade priest to father her child, and brought her daughter up to be a prodigy - Translated from the German by Edna McCown. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-394-573285.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this often misunderstood queen of France, based on her own memoirs and correspondence. Illustrated with photographs. Sources, notes on translation, map, family tree, index. 307 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at life, and at love, when her husband was suffering from a strange and terrifying illness.

New York: The Lyons Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen interlinked essays about growing up a woman on the grasslands of North Dakota. 233 pp. ISBN: 1558218874.

New York: Pegasus, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical and biographical study of Hellman, illustrated with photographs. Introduction by Harold Clurman. A title in the Pegasus American Authors series. 372 pgs including index, notes on sources and a selected bibliography.

Washington, D.C.: Department of Labor, 1899. First edition - While this article traces the evolution of women's clubs from being primarily literary or charitable in nature to becoming more involved in public action in their communities, it is notable for the list of over 1200 such groups. listed by state, with a brief summary of each group's focus. An article disbound from the Bulletin of the Department of Labor, Number 23, July 1899 pp 501-545.

New York: Villard, (1997). Hardcover - A book which explores why the institution of marriage is failing many American women and what can be done. Selected bibliography. xvi, 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679457739.

New York: Doubleday, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the young black lawyer who came to prominence when she testified against Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court nomination hearings. Index. 397 pages. ISBN: 0-385-476256.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes 33 of the best selections by this popular humorist on the rights of women, with an introduction by Jane Curry. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 235 pages. ISBN: 0-252-010205.