Browse Items (145 total)
- Collection: Rare Books and Periodicals
Sort by:
Zoo, Volume 1, No. 1
The Zoo was a short lived literary magazine published in 1960 by students at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU). In fact, volume one, number one, may have been the only issue. The magazine contains 15 poems including one by Tom Robbins…
Tags: Richmond Professional Institute, RPI, Tom Robbins, VCU
Woman Citizen
"For Justice and Mercy Women's Over Sea Hospital Unit Sails For France" cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor
Tags: suffrage, women, World War 1
Woman Citizen
"In the Hands of Her Friends" cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor
Illustration on back cover from a painting by Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1905).
Illustration on back cover from a painting by Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1905).
Woman Citizen
"Handing on the Work" by C. D. Batchelor
"Special Convention Number"
"Special Convention Number"
Tags: feminism, political cartoons, suffrage
Woman Citizen
"Help! I Can't Keep It Down" by Charles H. Winner
Tags: feminism, political cartoons, suffrage
Woman Citizen
"Women Bring All Voters Into the World. Let Women Vote." cover illustration by James Montgomery Flagg
Tags: feminism, political cartoons, suffrage
Woman Citizen
"Halt Who Goes There?" cartoon by C. D. Batchelor
Tags: feminism, political cartoons, suffrage
Woman and the New Race
Preface by Havelock Ellis.
Slip of paper at half-title page is printed with an address and instructions for writing Margaret Sanger personally.
Slip of paper at half-title page is printed with an address and instructions for writing Margaret Sanger personally.
Tags: birth control, Margaret Sanger
Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
Epigraphs:Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream. --RumiNever enter a house that does not have furniture music. -- Eric Satie
Tags: Tom Robbins
What Work Is : Poems
Volume dedicated and Inscribed by the author to Larry Levis. From the Larry Levis Collection.Inscription:
April 11, ‘91Dear Larry,I wanted you to have the first copy of this book because (Turn 2 pages, please) … You know WHAT WORK IS, & no one…
Tags: Larry Levis, Philip Levine
What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors.
Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 "The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational…
What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work.
Handbill showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the…
Tags: social welfare history, temperance
Villa Incognito
Epigraph:You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaPS 3568.O233 V55 2003
Tags: Tom Robbins
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
"This is not an autobiography. God forbid! Autobiography is fueled by ego and I could make a long list of persons whose belly buttons I'd rather be contemplating than my own.... I'd like to think Tibetan Peach Pie isn't a memoir either, although it…
Tags: Tom Robbins