Autumn 2020 Catalogue

28 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “Acquiring This New Implement Of Power And Literally Putting It Underfoot” 25. WILLARD, Frances E. AWheel Within aWheel. How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle. With Some Reflections by the Way. New York, 1895. Small octavo (4-3/4 by 7 inches), original green cloth. $950. Click for more info First edition of the 19th-century temperance leader and suffragist’s surprising path to “a whole philosophy of life” that is discovered as she learns ride a bicycle, with frontispiece and six full-page illustrations, in original cloth. When Frances Willard was elected president of the WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union), “she won on a platform that urged the WCTU to support the right of women to vote. She said that only with the right to vote could women elect officials who would support temperance. This was a master stroke of public relations, and it made women’s suffrage palatable to many—both men and women—who would not have otherwise supported it” ( Washington Post ). Without very scarce glassine. A fine copy.

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