Autumn 2020 Catalogue

32 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “Keep America Dry!” 29. ALGEO, SaraM. The Story of a Sub-Pioneer. Providence, Rhode Island, 1925. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $600. Click for more info First edition of this photo-illustrated work on Rhode Island’s suffragette movement, one of 1000 numbered copies, inscribed: “Keep America dry! Sara M. Algeo. Barrington, R.I., Nov. 3, 1932.” From the beginning, New England was at the center of the conflict over women’s suffrage, with several states revoking women’s suffrage rights immediately after independence and the rest of the nation following. In 1917, Rhode Island, like many other states in the years leading up to the 19th Amendment, granted women presidential suffrage. This work focuses on the space between—those years when women protested and suffered and risked death for the right to vote. The author, Sara Algeo, carefully narrows her focus to Rhode Island, showing its interaction with the larger movement and the areas in which it broke ground. Without rare dust jacket. This book is wonderfully inscribed with a reference to the temperance movement, one of the suffrage movement’s two major antecedents (along with abolitionism). Interior generally fine, cloth with small stain to front board. A near-fine inscribed copy.