WOMAN SUFFRAGE: Arguments and Results

New York: National Woman Suffrage Association, 1912. Very good plus in good jacket.. First edition of this collection of booklets issued by the National Woman Suffrage Association, in the scarce dust jacket and with an inserted publisher's notice listing new legislative gains made in the year since publication. The volume was edited by Frances Maule Björkman, socialist and member of the Heterodoxy feminist debating club of Greenwich Village, and Annie G. Porritt, a follower of Alice Paul and the National Women's Party. Their names, along with the informal title "The Blue Book," would later appear on the title page of the revised edition.

Full contents include: "Why Women Should Vote," by Jane Addams; "Objections Answered: Why Should Women Vote?" by Alice Stone Blackwell; "Where Women Vote," by Björkman; "Do You Know," by Carrie Chapman Catt; "A Comon-Sense View of Woman Suffrage," by Jesse Lynch Williams; "Why Women Want to Vote," by Björkman; "Measuring Up Equal Suffrage: An Authoritative Estimate of Results in Chicago," by George Creel and Ben B. Lindsey; and "Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage," a selection of quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, and many other notable figures. A landmark publication in US political history. 6'' x 3.5''. Original blue cloth. In original brown printed dust jacket. Publisher's "IMPORTANT NOTICE" laid in, noting several legal changes between the book's 1912 publication and June 1913. Moderate chipping to jacket, with repairs to spine verso. Light edgewear to boards, offsetting to endpapers.