New York: Hill & Wang, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A lively and informed exploration of women's lives in the larger context of U.S. social and political history, [it] shows how American traditions of feminism, racial and ethnic diversity, geographic mobility, and relative abundance have both aided and hindered women's strides toward equality." By the winner of the 1983 Fredrick Jackson Turner Award. Consulting editor Eric Foner. Bibliographical essay, index, xii 291 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-97842.

New York: Putnam, 1975. Hardcover -

Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.

Georgetown, Massachusetts: North Star Publications, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Divided into two sections on why we make the choices we do and making our relationships better. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Bibliography, index. xiii, 172 pp. ISBN: 1-880823128.

London: Allison & Busby, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Arranged topically - from girl and woman through beauty and life to witchcraft and poisoning. Map. Notes on oral sources, bibliography. ISBN: 0-85032-8637.

Palo Alto, CA: Privately Printed, 1948. Hardcover first edition - Family history (the Richardson family of North Carolina and Ohio as well as the Sears family) and an account of growing up in Ohio, and then living in California, by the wife of a long time Stanford University professor. Photographs. 105 pgs.

New York: Three Rivers Press / Crown, (2001). First edition - A hip, no-holds-barred guide to combining the joy of sex with the joy of motherhood. Notes, resources, index. Slightly oversized square format. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-812932749.

Palo Alto, CA: Gander Publishing, Inc. (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories taken from the author's personal journal, sharing her experiences in childhood, as a student nurse at Massachusetts General in the 1930's, as an army nurse during World War II, as wife and widow, as a mother and grandmother of "brown babies and pink babies," and as an educator and public health advocate. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- with love and memories of so many years!" and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-9639586-07.

Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, (2003.). SIGNED - 'Profiles twenty-two women and the jobs they do- from choreographer to FBI agent- describing their education- duties- personality traits- and other factors in their career success- and gives specific ways to determine one's own future work.' Photographs, index. 277 pp. ISBN: 1575421097).

Boulder, CO: Sounds True, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A book by a Vedic spiritual teacher which re-envisions ancient India's primary goddess archetypes. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "with love." Notes. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1683648826.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this French film actress, originally published in France in 1976. index. vii, 403 pp. ISBN: 0-060139862.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover - The story of growing up in Depression-ridden but still vital New York City in the 1930s. Sex was strange but fascinating, birth control haphazard and abortions primitive, and the need to learn about everything - life, literature, politics, the city - was urgent. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-060155264.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1979). A memoir by this Japanese American woman originally published in 1952. In it she describes growing up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and what it was like to be "subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens--she and her family were uprooted from their home and imprisoned in a camp," Introduction by Frank Miyamoto. xvii, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-295956887.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised history of New York City in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. Katha Pollitt states that the author "brings 19th c NY's working women out of the shadows and reveals them as neither passive dependents of men nor pathetic objects of charity and reform but as bold and spirited individuals ..struggling.. A brilliant and original book."

London: John Murray, (1970, c 1958.) dj. Hardcover - Travels along the coast of Turkey mostly by horseback and jeep. Illustrated with numerous, and often very striking, black and white photographs by the author. Folding map (tri-fold,with 3 maps.) References, bibliography and index. xiii, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-7195-13324.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1988). Travels along the coast of Turkey mostly by horseback and jeep. Illustrated with small drawings and maps. References, bibliography and index. xix, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-87951-3403.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1983) dj. Hardcover - Steinem's first book, a collection of her best and more provocative pieces written over the previous 20 years, in a special edition for the Friends of Ms. Magazine. Index. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-030632366.

Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, (1996). One of a series of "wild women" books by this author. Over 250 women, from Madonna to Senator Dianne Feinstein, offer outrageously opinionated exclamations on love, sex, and politics. SIGNED on the title page. Index. Oblong format. 288 pp. ISBN: 1-573240389.

New York: The Feminist Press, (1987.). Biography of three heroic black women "whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, 'every woman, man, and child should know': Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells [1862-1931], the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell [1863-1954], a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace." Foreword by Margaret Walker and Introduction by Barbara Christian. Photographs, chronologies, bibliographies, index. xliii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-89-7.

XLIBRIS, (2014). The two authors met at a local writer's group meeting in 2004, and developed a close friendship. However, despite their age and health problems, both women were adventurous and, using the excuse of visiting family in St Paul, they set off from California to the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore and across the country on a 5000 mile road trip. The question was could they do this and still be friends at the end. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1499079357.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1982.). Biography of one of the three great suffragettes of the 19th century - "No study of women's history in the United States is complete without an account of Lucy Stone's role in the nineteenth-century drive for the abolition of slavery and legal and political rights for women." Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 320 p. ISBN: 0-8135-1860-1.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed look at the trial of Marie Stopes, who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in the British empire. When Dr. Sutherland accused her of taking advantage of the ignorance of the poor, she sued him for libel and defamation. Although she ultimately lost the third and final decision in the House of Lords, she succeeded in bringing the topic of birth control into the open. Includes the transcripts of the trials. Frontispiece portrait. 392 pp.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Boldly INSCRIBED by Tempest Storm on front endpaper 'To Randy, Love and Passion' and dated in 19898. Autobiiography of the last star of burlesque. Includes 10 pages of black and white photos. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-934601-259.