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“My skirts are clear,” Writes Susan B. Anthony to a Woman Who Had Purchased Some of Her Books, Likely Including “The History of Woman Suffrage”

“My skirts are clear,” Writes Susan B. Anthony to a Woman Who Had Purchased Some of Her Books, Likely Including “The History of Woman Suffrage” by Susan B. Anthony

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Seller: The Raab Collection
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“My skirts are clear,” Writes Susan B. Anthony to a Woman Who Had Purchased Some of Her Books, Likely Including “The History of Woman Suffrage”
Author
Susan B. Anthony
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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9/3/04. It is interesting that she was personally sending out her books to women nationwideThe History of Woman Suffrage is a set of books that was produced by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, and others associated with the women’s rights movement. Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the movement, primarily in the United States. Its more than 5700 pages are the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. It was written from the viewpoint of the wing of the movement led by Anthony and Stanton. Volume 4 of the set was published in 1902. Anthony also wrote other books over the course of her career.This letter refers to books that Anthony had published, which a woman in Connecticut had ordered directly from Anthony. Considering that Volume 4 of The History of Woman Suffrage was published not long before this letter, we would conjecture that this was one of the books involved. The books had arrived at their pick up point at an express company, and Anthony had been so notified by the delivery location. So she wrote a letter to the purchaser informing her and enclosing the express company’s notice. But the woman had already written Anthony that she knew they had been delivered to the express company location but had not picked them up, which plainly irritated Anthony. Anthony told the woman to pick up the books.Typed Letter Signed, on National American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead, Rochester, N.Y., March 9, 1904, to Susan Thurston Cooper in Stamford Connecticut, saying she is no longer responsible for the books now that they have arrived. “My Dear Friend - Enclosed is the Adam’s Express Co.’s notice that your books are at their office in Stamford. And then I have received your letter saying that you had been notified that the books were there and had not called for them. Now you should either call for the books or else notify the Company to keep them until you did call, for my skirts are clear now the books are at the office and you have been notified. So I shall leave it to you to see about. Sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony.”An interesting letter about Anthony’s books, with use of the phrase “my skirts are clear” to connote that she had done all she could and was no longer responsible for the books.
Collection of Letters Sent from California Prisons, 2006–2015, Including Inmates’ Art and Descriptions of the Inmate Firefighting System

Collection of Letters Sent from California Prisons, 2006–2015, Including Inmates’ Art and Descriptions of the Inmate Firefighting System by [California – Prison Art – Inmate Firefighting] Multiple Authors

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Collection of Letters Sent from California Prisons, 2006–2015, Including Inmates’ Art and Descriptions of the Inmate Firefighting System
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[California – Prison Art – Inmate Firefighting] Multiple Authors
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Auger Down Books (United States)
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Overall excellent.
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California, 2015. Eighty letters, ten artworks, and two photographs. Anonymized for writers’ and their families’ privacy, with more information available on request. Overall excellent.. Offered here is a collection of letters and art sent from people incarcerated in the California State Prison system, primarily from a husband (“P.”) and wife (“A.”) to P’s mother and stepfather. A., who served a shorter sentence than P., worked as an inmate-firefighter. Currently, about twenty to thirty percent of California’s firefighters are incarcerated people, and about ten percent of those are women; they work cutting the fireline, receiving little compensation and at a significantly higher risk of injury than both their non-incarcerated counterparts and other prison laborers. They also are not eligible to become firefighters upon release, due to California’s laws about both employment and EMT certification following a felony conviction.[1] A. writes of her training: “I’ve been training for camp. Its realy realy hard. This has got to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Well Im gonna make this my last trip to prison well, I hope so anyway.” (January 12, 2009) She also writes from the field that “Its very hard and dangerouse but I guess Im used to it” (June 6, 2009), with later letters giving more detailed descriptions; for instance: “Im not in San Diego right now because my crew and my cousins crew got sent to all the fires that are up North =) we left on the 4th and we’ve been on the road and to a couple of fires since I don’t know when we are going back but Im making money! yesterday I worked a 24 hour shift and we got back to have our down time to rest this morning. Its very tireing and hard I felt like I was hiking forever! Right know Im up in Shasta County its beautif up here and I’ve never been this far from home befor.” (August 14, 2009) A. wanted to save up to buy a car. She wrote that firefighting is “hard work for a dollar a day” (December 14, 2009)—in 2023, the inmate-firefighter pay rate was raised to an astounding 16 to 74 cents per hour with a maximum daily rate of $5.80 to $10.24.[2] P., on a longer sentence in various higher-security facilities, grappled with boredom, loneliness, and the bureaucracy involved in trying to contact his wife and family. The prisons where he was incarcerated were frequently on lockdown for months at a time, including the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, which locked down in June of 2009 following a gang-related riot. He often describes being hungry and not allowed to go to the commissary, either because of lockdowns or just because “there not letting Hispanics go” (January 30, 2011). One way he seemed to have dealt with his circumstances was through art. Over time, his package requests—incarcerees can only be sent packages through approved third-party vendors, which contract with prisons—included, alongside toothpaste and deodorant, art supplies and even a typewriter and books on “how to properly write a novel” (January 30, 2011). He mentions copying drawings, and the reader can see him experiment with different handwriting styles in the letters and on envelopes. The art in the collection includes greeting cards with teddy bear, clown—a common character in Chicano art—and nature motifs; a Las Vegas Raiders butterfly (signed “E”, most likely by P.’s cellmate Ernie, for whom drawing is a “little hustle to make money for food and supplies” (January 30)); and a pair of beaded earrings that P. bought for $10 “to some Indian here” (August 25, 2010). Of interest to scholars of outsider art and incarceration in the California prison system. [1] Carly Tolin, “Fighting More Than Fires: California’s Inmate Firefighting System Needs Reform,” The Georgetown Environmental Law Review, February 6, 2025. [2] Doug Melville, “Inmates Can Make Up Nearly A Third Of Those Fighting California Fires,” Forbes, January 9, 2025.
The Little Frog's Lecture, and Other Stories

The Little Frog's Lecture, and Other Stories

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The Little Frog's Lecture, and Other Stories
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Good. Light dust soiling, short tears, including a larger short tear through covers and leaves at bottom of volume, chipping to
Description
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1867. Good. Light dust soiling, short tears, including a larger short tear through covers and leaves at bottom of volume, chipping to head.. A handsome McLoughlin publication for early readers, telling the following stories:The Frog's Lecture; Peter Little and the Lucky Sixpence; and The Pet Lamb. Includes large in-text illustrations, all line drawings and most nearly full-page, with large rhymes/poetry for new readers. Single vol. (10.5" by 7"), pp. [16], in-text illus., in original illus. self wrps depicting boy and girl in countryside, advertisements on lower wrapper.
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The Three-Cornered Hat by Antonio de Alarcon, Pedro; Kredel, Fritz (woodcuts); Levin, Lawrence M. (trans.)

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The Three-Cornered Hat
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Antonio de Alarcon, Pedro; Kredel, Fritz (woodcuts); Levin, Lawrence M. (trans.)
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: H. Bittner & Company / [Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press], 1944. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Yellow cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; illustrated dust jacket; 4to (6.5 x 10 inches); pp. 151, [1], with 21 woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Book is fine, in like dust jacket with just a little light rubbing along the edges.
Batman & Me: The Saga Continues...: an Autobiography

Batman & Me: The Saga Continues...: an Autobiography by Kane, Bob, with Tom Andrae

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Batman & Me: The Saga Continues...: an Autobiography
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Kane, Bob, with Tom Andrae
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ReadInk (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
Van Nuys CA: Zanart Entertainment, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1996). 2nd printing. Hardcover. (pictorial laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [moderate bumping to base of spine, light surface wear to covers, no other significant wear]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Well-illustrated autobiography by the creator of "Batman." Includes full-color reproductions of several early comic book stories. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is FREE.**** .
THE GOOD EUROPEAN

THE GOOD EUROPEAN by BLACKMUR, R.P.

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THE GOOD EUROPEAN
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BLACKMUR, R.P.
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good.
Description
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1947. First Edition. Very good.. First edition of Blakmur's third collection of poems, number 57 of 270 copies. Hardcover. Very good without jacket. 8vo. 39pp. Quarter cloth and patterned paper covered boards. Printed title label to spine. Cloth ends a bit rubbed. Boards mildly toned toward edges. Previous ownership signature to first endpaper. Otherwise clean, sound.
Monster Mass Meeting: A message to the People of the Bronx! [handbill]

Monster Mass Meeting: A message to the People of the Bronx! [handbill]

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Monster Mass Meeting: A message to the People of the Bronx! [handbill]
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Bronx, NY: Bronx Committee, Joint Conference of ERB Organizations on Civil Service, 1936. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill, toned, otherwise very good. Argues that the Emergency Relief Bureau's current staff had consistently fought for relief but now faced removal and replacement through the adoption of a civil service examination. List of speakers includes Heywood Broun, two assembly men, and several aldermen.

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