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What Women Want (1914)

Tags: feminism

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Uncivil Liberty: an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of ruling Woman without her consent

Tags: feminism

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Front cover, Jurgen and the Law; a Statement with Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal, by Guy Holt, 1923

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Flyleaf and title page, Jurgen and the Law; a Statement with Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal, 1923

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Inscription to Hunter Stagg by Langston Hughes, title page, The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, 1926

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Feminism and sex-extinction (1920)

Tags: anti-feminism, feminism

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Bible Stories from the Old Testament in Three Dimensions

Tags: Bible, pop-up, religion

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Tags: Betty Tisinger Collection, Christianity, Christmas, pop-up, religion

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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

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Cover, The Caged Panther; Ezra Pound at Saint Elizabeths by Harry M. Meacham, 1967

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Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library bookplate, Poetry Society of Virginia typed on bookplate, on inside of front cover, The Caged Panther; Ezra Pound at Saint Elizabeths by Harry M. Meacham, 1967

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Inscription to the James Branch Cabell Library by the author, The Caged Panther; Ezra Pound at Saint Elizabeths by Harry M. Meacham, 1967

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"Contagious disease" warning bookplate on inside of front cover and drawing by Billy DeBeck on flyleaf, His Vanished Star by Mary Noailles Mufree, 1894.

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Cover, Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books ... The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates, carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw.d Hoppus surveyor ... and embellish'd w.th a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others. London, Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, 1736

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Inside of front cover showing bookplate of Sir Richard Brooke, Baronet, on inside of front cover of Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books ... The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates, carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw.d Hoppus surveyor ... and embellish'd w.th a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others. London, Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, 1736

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Frontpiece, Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books ... The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates, carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw.d Hoppus surveyor ... and embellish'd w.th a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others. London, Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, 1736

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Title page of Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books ... The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates, carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw.d Hoppus surveyor ... and embellish'd w.th a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others. London, Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, 1736

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Title page, Pavannes and Divagations by Ezra Pound, 1958

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Photograph of Ezra Pound and Harry Meacham pasted on flyleaf, Pavannes and Divagations by Ezra Pound, 1958

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Title page, The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 by Ezra Pound, 1950

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Photograph of Ezra Pound pasted on flyleaf, The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 by Ezra Pound, 1950

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Photograph of Ezra Pound taped on inside of front cover, The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 by Ezra Pound, 1950

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Marginalia (index to names) by Harry Meacham on inside of back cover and its reverse, The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 by Ezra Pound, 1950

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The Ark

Tags: Betty Tisinger Collection, Bible, children, pop-up, religion

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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

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