Priscilla Juvelis – Rare Books Catalogue 71: American Women Writers, Reformers and Achievers Item #34 1. Addams, Jane. The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. New children” from Germany Russia, etc. For her efforts, she was expelled from York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. $350 the Daughters of the American Revolution but awarded the Nobel Prize for First edition in original dust jacket. 168pp; + 6 pages of ads for books by Peace. DAB XI, pp. 10-12. NAW I, pp. 16-22. 100 Most Influential Addams and Ida Tarbell, original blue gilt-stamped cloth, buff dust jacket Women of All Time, #5. NAW I, pp.16-22. Alonso, Peace as a Women’s printed in brown with title on Issue, pp. 66-69. (9830) front of book with blurb by pub- lishers explaining the intent of the Co-Founder of Radcliffe author to explain the scientific With Autograph Letter Signed theory of race memory; author, title and publisher printed on 3. [Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary]. A First Lesson in Natural spine; book is fine, jacket sunned History. By Actaea. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, at spine and edges, some chip- 1859. $300 ping along top edges, small chip First edition of the author’s first book. Page size: 7 x 4-5/8 inches; 82pp; with at spine with loss of “R” in Road 40 text illustrations, including map of Florida; original brown blind-stamped of title, flap corners clipped, cloth with title in gilt on spine; tips and spine edges a tiny bit rubbed, front closed tear about 1" long at top of front panel, generally very good and quite blank with gift inscription prob- unusual thus. Jackets from 1916 rarely survive in any kind of condition. ably contemporary with book pub- Jane Addams (1860-1935), settlement founder, social reformer, peace lication, very good+. Laid in is worker, author and first American woman to win a Nobel Prize, was born two-page autograph letter signed and educated in Illinois, which was to be the site of her life’s great work at “E. C. Agassiz / Cambridge / Jan and surrounding Hull House. Addams wrote a series of book connected with 28th” addressed to “Dear Sir”, 2 her work, “the long historical role of ministration to basic human needs.” pp. 6-11/16 x 4-5/16 inches, white (NAW I) THE LONG ROAD OF WOMAN’S MEMORY is one of them. paper with engraved “A” at top, The stories of those women passing through Hull House, struck by the “two letter answers inquiry about a unprofitable goddesses: Poverty and Impossibility,” is both troubling and pamphlet by her stepson, touching. This is certainly an early feminist tract pointing out the need for Alexandre, and mentions legislation to effect change, or what Addams called, the “most absorbing of Theodore Lyman, who studied all occupations, the reconstruction of a living world.” (p. 107) NAW I, pp. natural science with Louis 16-22. Women’s Writings, pp. 10-11. (9753) Agassiz, husband of Elizabeth and father of Alexandre. While copies of her second book (1865) are common, this title rarely appears. Signed Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, was born into a socially-prominent Boston 2. Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. New family. She married the famous Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz. York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. $600 Home schooled except for brief attendance at Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s First edition, in dust jacket signed by the author on the front blank “Comps informal history class, she devoted her life to learning. She was the of the author / Jane Addams.” Page size: 7-½ x 5 inches; 258pp, including indispensable president of Radcliffe from 1882 to 1903. She was one of the Appendix, blue cloth, title, author and publisher stamped in gold on spine, first women members of the American Philosophical Society and one of original yellow dust jacket printed in brown. with publisher’s blurb printed seven female managing directors of the Society for the Private Collegiate on front below title and author’s name, Instruction for Women. NAW I, pp. 22-25. American Woman Writers I, pp. spine with author, publisher and title on 23-24. Women Scientists in America, p. 86. (11205) yellow decorated ground, jacket chipped at spine ends, white shelf sticker bordered in 4. Alcott, Louisa May. Autograph quotation signed. red ¾ x ½ inch above publisher’s device at [Boston]: [1880]. $300 bottom of spine, spine chipped at corners Louisa May Alcott quotes Goethe with and spine ends with two triangular chips on this quotation, “Do the duty that lies / back panel each about 1 x ½ inch; exterior nearest thee. Goethe. / L. M. Alcott” of book near fine, front pastedown has 15 11 in ink on sheet 3- /16 x /16 inches, large ex-libris of previous owner as well as removed from autograph album, with his signature on front flyleaf, front matter autograph poem “To Tommie” on verso pages brittle and separated from book block, and signed “Alice J. Kelley”. Louisa half -title foxed; housed in custom-made purple cloth over boards clamshell May Alcott (1832-1888) is best known box with title and author stamped in gold on black leather label on spine. for her novel, LITTLE WOMEN, published in 1868. (11191) Addams organized the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915 (with Carrie Chapman Catt). This is an important title in Account of Sermon by Quaker Preacher, the bibliography of Jane Addams, representing her thinking on one of the two causes to which she dedicated the second half of her life: world peace and Priscilla Hunt women’s rights. In 1915, as newly elected chairman of the Women’s Peace Party she 5. Anonymous [Perhaps Gray, Alice]. Manuscript helped draft the platform for the group; some of the points she included were Commonplace Book. NP [perhaps Philadelphia]: ND but ca. later included in Wilson’s fourteen points. The following April she became 1830. $850 president of the International Congress of Women at The Hague, which had Hand-written collection of poems by various authors as well as elegies and a two-fold manifesto: anti-war and equality for women. The period imme- death notice from New Jersey paper and most notably a five page diately following World War I was difficult, indeed, for this woman of peace. transcription (or account?) of a sermon delivered in Philadelphia on the 16th Vilified and called unpatriotic for her anti-war stance, she persevered with day of the 2nd month of 1823 by Pricilla [sic] Hunt. Page size: 7-¾ x 4-7/8 her efforts against the greatest of social evils, war. She worked tirelessly in inches; 118pp. Bound: calf spine with marbled paper over limp boards, the post-war period to help feed children in this country as well as “enemy Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] binding worn and rubbed, Saint Susan’ as her followers love to call her. As vice-president-at-large she sewing very loose and presided over every session, and never was in better voice or more pages disbound, edges of enthusiastic spirits.” some pages ruffled but still Anthony then goes to the very important topic of the “Bible Resolu- quite readable, with signa- tion.” The 1896 convention had the contentious problem of approving or ture at last page in same censuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible (1895). The HIS- hand as the entries, “Alice TORY OF WOMEN SUFFRAGE reports a vigorous contest over the Bible Gray.” Priscilla Hunt Resolution. “Although this (THE WOMEN’S BIBLE) was done in her Cadwallader was born into [Stanton’s] individual capacity, yet some members claimed that, as she was a religious Quaker family in honorary president of the National Association, this body was held by the North Carolina. She trav- public as partly responsible for it and it injured their work for suffrage. A eled around the United States preaching, espousing the cause of Elias Hicks resolution was brought in by the committee declaring: This association is and the “Reformation” when the Hicksite Separation of 1827-1828 took non-sectarian, being composed of all shades of religious opinion, and has no place. Her belief in the “inner light” of all human beings placed her in the official connection with the so-called ‘Woman’s Bible’ or any theological reforming sect of Quakerism, resulting in advocating a greater role for publication.” women in society. (11217) Susan B. Anthony argued against the Bible Resolution, stating, “The one distinct feature of our association has been the right of individual opinion Anthony Writes Colby on “Bible Resolution” and for every member.” She went on to point out that the atheist, Ernestine Rose, Strategy to Obtain the Ballot was always welcomed at their conventions. She concluded, “This resolution adopted will be a vote of censure upon a woman who is without peer in intellectual and statesmanlike ability”. The original resolution was adopted 6. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony Autograph Letter Signed to by 53 yeas, 41 nays. Both Anthony and Colby voted nay. Clara Bewick Colby. Rochester, NY: Jan. 12, [18]97. $8,500 Anthony’s position on women suffrage was always on point: first the 3 7 Holograph, 39 lines on sheet 10- /8 x 7- /8 inches, on letterhead of National ballot and then other problems could and would be addressed. The second American Woman Suffrage Association, showing Elizabeth Cady Stanton page of this letter shows Anthony at her best, marshalling her arguments to as Honorary President and Susan B. Anthony as President, with daisy put the ballot first on the agenda, but allowing for personal liberty to do what emblem and year of Seneca Falls meeting, 1848, in center of flower, folded one deems best.