Autumn 2020 Catalogue

30 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “Women Being The Homekeepers, And The Natural Guardians Of The Children, It Is Important That They Be Made Familiar With The Culinary Art” 27. KLEBER, Mrs. L.O., compiler. The Suffrage Cook Book. Pittsburgh, 1915. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth. $2500. Click for more info First edition of this important fundraising cookbook meant to support women’s suffrage, featuring dozens of recipes such as suffrage pie and suffrage angel cake, with 36 halftone portraits of contributors including Jane Addams, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and many other prominent suffragettes and allies, in original pictorial cloth. “First published in 1915 by The Equal Franchise Federation Of Western Pennsylvania, with a cover showing Uncle Sam weighing men and women on his scales, The Suffrage Cook Book was assembled by a Mrs. L.O. Kleber… Kleber, a little-known member of the Pittsburgh suffrage society, contacted dozens of the leading women and men who supported the suffrage movement in the UK and US, asking for contributions in order to raise money to support the women’s vote campaign. Along with Gilman, who wrote the classic novella The Yellow Wallpaper , and The Call of the Wild author [Jack] London, contributors also include the suffragette Lady Constance Lytton; Jane Addams, the second woman to win a Nobel peace prize; and Julia Lathrop, the first woman to head a federal department, the US Children’s Bureau” ( Guardian ). Owner stamp of the Suffrage Service Hut, Pittsburgh, a USO-type enterprise for soldiers toward the end of World War I. Interior generally quite nice, faintest rubbing and soiling to cloth. A near-fine copy.