Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, (1999). SIGNED first edition - A book which combines real-life stories with pychological insight and blasts stereotypes. SIGNED on the title page by author Laura Rafaty. Notes. 257 pp. ISBN: 1885171617.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is described as "the first biography to reveal Julia Ward Howe - the author of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' - as a feminist pioneer who fought her own battle for creative freedom and independence. She was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. But he also wasted her inheritance, isolated and discouraged her, and opposed her literary ambitions." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. xiv, 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1451645903.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., (1935). Hardcover first edition - The memoirs of an 20th century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan. She was best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement and a strong supporter of labour reform. Born into a family of samurai, she married a young baron at an early age, and they began their life together at the Miike coal fields in Japan and she witnessed first hand the hardships endured by the miners. In 1922, she was Margaret Sanger's guide during her first trip to Japan. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. 373 pp.

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A diary covering almost one year of the life of Nannie Jackson, beginning in June 1890 when she was 36 years old, recounting in detail her daily routine of cooking, sewing, cleaning and gardening, but also giving glimpses into the support that women gave each other, and especially her close friendship with 19 year old Fannie Morgan, a friendship that upset her husband. Edited and with a long introduction by Margaret Jones Bolsterli. Volume 1 of The President's Series in Arkansas and Regional Studies. Photographs, map, glossary, bibliography, index. xii, 108 pp. ISBN: 0-938626108.

Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of memoirs which span the years from 1939 to 1946. When war was declared in England in 1939, the author joined the British Red Cross Society and was posted as a nurse to a London hospital and later is sent to India. INSCRIBED on the title page "To dear --- with happy remembrances. Read and enjoy. Affectionately, Eve." Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp. ISBN: 1571970061.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, collection of articles which explores the extraordinary changes in the lives of women, and the influence of feminism on America. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-374236453.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981. Hardcover first edition - Selected correspondence of the only sister of William and Henry James, edited and with a biographical essay by Yeazell. 214 pgs, index, genealogy, photographs.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, (2002). First edition - An account of the 19 women who set out from Santa Monica California in 1929 to compete in the Powder Puff Derby, the first women's cross-country air race. Black and white photographs, Bibliography, xv, 296 pp. ISBN: 1-57071-7699.

Mount Shasta, CA: Shasta Abbey Press, (1978). First edition - The chronicle of her last six years in Japan by Jiyu-Kennett, one of the first Western women to become a Zen master. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-930066030.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first part of her autobiography - the story of her childhood in a 'family' shaped by the story told by her mother: that she was a widow (although in reality she was an unwed mother) - and of her early years and her ambivalence about her sexuality, her career as a dance critic and her life in the then-forming SoHo world. Illustrated with photographs. 164 pp. ISBN: 0-394-527577.

New York: Vintage Books, (1992). SIGNED - An account of a 3-day rafting voyage down an uncharted section of the Boh River in Borneo, where journalist Tracy Johnston knew little in advance of the adventure she had signed up for - including treacherous rapids, foot rot, leeches, swarms of sweat-eating of bees, swimming cobras and more. In addition, she learned what it was like to be a woman adventurer on the wrong side of forty. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - Here's to many more adventures in mid-life. PS. Thanks for your leech stories." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-679740104.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic study of women murderers in the US - but also a social history of women in America from colonial times to the present, told thru the often tragic or desperate stories of women on the very edge of society - women driven to kill. Among the women are Belle Gunness, Lizzie Borden, Ruth Snyder, Alice Crimmins and dozens of unknown women. 408 pgs including index, notes on sources. ISBN: 0-03-0407117.

Marquette, MI: Lake Superior Press, (1996). First edition - The author's account of her experiences as a teacher in one room school houses in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, for eight years beginning in 1939 when she was a 19 year old, recent graduate of normal school. Illustrated with photographs. Double page map. 60 pp.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1995. First edition - A selection of over 100 essays organized around broad topics of identity, economic justice, health, sex and sexuality, and others. Photographs. 494 pages. ISBN: 1-879960-427.

New York: Free Press (SImon and Schuster) 2008. First edition - Memoir by the Lebanese-American ex-wife of a former advisor to Yasser Arafat in which she recounts her involuntary relinquishment of American freedoms during her marriage and her post-divorce struggles to reclaim her children from the war-torn West Bank region where they were being held by their father. In addition to her own story, she includes the stories of Arab women bucking tradition to struggle for social justice,and much on Palestinian politics and Israeli-Palestinian peace effortsIncludes an appendix of organizations working for peace. x, 255 pp.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part guidebook and part biography, this is a wonderfully offbeat look at femininity and empowerment in 20th century America as embodied in the career of Katherine Hepburn. INSCRIBED "For--Turtlenecks rock, as we know. enjoy!" 193 pp. ISBN: 13579108642.

New York: University Press of America / The Asia Society, (1985). Includes a preface by Eleanor Roosevelt in which she notes that although Kartini died young (at age 24, a few days after the birth of her son), with her letters, which give some insight into the lives of a people ruled at the time by Dutch, she was able to reach millions of Javanese. Through her writings she became a spokesman for the liberation and education of women. Edited and with an Introduction By Hildred Geertz. Translated from the Dutch by Agnes Louis Symmers. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-819147583.

New York: Ballantine, (1994). First edition - A collection of modern-day interpretations on the Bible's book of Ruth - "an amazingly eclectic group of Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, rabbis, psychologists, and scholars - including Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, Francine Klagsbrun, Alicia Ostriker and Nessa Rapoport - explore one of the most beloved stories in the Bible. In lively essays, poetry, fiction, and personal narrative, the gamut of women's experience in the modern world is illuminated by this ancient story." (Judith Plaskow) Notes.xxiii, 385 pp.

New York: Richard R. Smith Inc, (1930). Hardcover first edition - Written for older children, this contains fifteen brief biographies of women ranging from Florence Nightingale, Lady Astor, Rosa Bonheur and Lucy Larcom, Sarojini Naidu, Gertrude Bell, Marie Curie, Jane Addams and more. An interesting selection of young girls and women to hold up as models. 120 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical work in which this actress and writer describes the events following 'the verdict' - that she has breast cancer - and also gives glimpses of her life in the past. Translated from the German by David Anthony Palastanga. ISBN: 0374283222.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Hardcover first edition - An "attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, he uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams." Notes, bibliography, index. ix, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-520210123.

New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of two life long friends - who both graduated from the University of Utah in 1953 - though their letters, edited and with additional material by Patricia Frazier Lamb. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0149426.

New York: Macmillan, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of Picasso by a woman who was a 17 year old poet when she first met him in the 1940s and who was romantically involved with the artist for more than 10 years. Illustrated with black and white photograph, including some drawings of Laporte by Picasso. Douglas Cooper, art critic and long-time friend of Picasso translated the book, annotated it, and provided the introduction to this edition. The dust jacket reproduces a detail from one of Picasso's drawings of her. Notes, index. xii, 123 pp. ISBN: 0-025683004.

New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the half title page by author Wendy Larsen and dated in the year of publication. An uncommon book about Vietnam and the war - a poetic collaboration by two women, one American, one Vietnamese - Wendy Larsen, an American teacher who traveled to Vietnam in 1970 when her journalist husband was covering the war in Vietnam, and Tran Thi Nga, a Vietnamese bookkeeper whom she met there and who was reunited with Larsen in New York after Nga was forced to flee Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Map, glossary, chronology, sources. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-394549856.

New York: Pocket Books, 2000. A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother.

New York: Pocket Books, 2000. A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - A highly praised memoir of the author's look at her childhood in Carson City, Nevada until it was devastated by the fatal illness of her mother. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-671-042556.

Chicago: Contemporary Books Inc., (1988). Hardcover first edition - A very personal account of what it was like to be a white activist again apartheid in South Africa. "Despite a shielded, middle-class upbringing in Johannesburg, Levine nevertheless became aware of the malignant effects of apartheid when she was still young; as the police and military imprisoned, tortured, banished and shot thousands of blacks, she became an active opponent of the regime, she notes. Eventually, as a city councilor and newspaper columnist, she was able to criticize and focus media attention on the government's policies and their effects." Foreword by Carolyn Forche. Illustrated with photographs. xvi, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-809245442.