The Sex Side Of Life

Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle For Birth Control And Sex Education

BY CONSTANCE CHEN
A relative of Lucretia Mott, Mary Ware Dennett was one of the pioneering radical women involved in suffrage in the 19th Century. She wrote a short and plain sex education manual for her sons that went on to be widely distributed and led to her conviction on obscenity charges. A fascinating look at life in those turbulent times.

New Press 1996 374 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

A Short History Of A Long Travel From Babylon To Bethel

BY STEPHEN CRISP
A 17th century Quaker tract. An allegory of Pilgrims Progress believed to be written by Stephen Crisp (1628-1692), who had been a traveling minister and responsible for the spread of the Society of Friends into the Netherlands. Written to point out the differences between Bunyan's outward faith of rituals compared to the inward, renewal-of-heart Quaker faith, using a similar fictional account of a journey. Fondly remembered as a small blue hardback, now a pamphlet.

Tract 2008 20 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

Some Rural Quakers

A History Of Quakers And Quakerism At The Corners Of The Four Shires Of Oxford, Warwick, Worcester And Gloucester

BY JACK WOOD
A history of 300 years of Quakers in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. Home to over 40 Quaker Meetiings.

Sessions of York 1991 153 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Stories From Kenya

Php 319

BY TOM & LIZ GATES
The authors lived and worked in a Quaker mission hospital in rural West Kenya.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Strength In Weakness Manifest

In The Life, Various Trials, And Christian Testimony, Of That Faithful Servant And Handmaid Of The Lord, Elizabeth Stirredge

EDITED T H S WALLACE
Strength in Weakness MANIFEST: IN THE LIFE, Various Trials, and Christian Testimony, of that faithful Servant and Handmaid of the Lord, ELIZABETH STIRREDGE, Who departed this Life, at her House in Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, in the 72nd Year of her Age. Written by her own Hand. Showing her pious Care and Counsel to her Children, and according to their Desire, made Public : Also for the Instruction and Benefit of many other Parents and Children concerned. Phew - along title for a short but impressive spiritual treasury from an early friend. With notes and introduction

Foundation Publications 2011 172 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Studs Terkel Touch And Go (88)

STUDS TERKEL
SECONDHAND fair condition in Dustcover. Memoir of the greta man-nuff said.

New Press 2007 268 PP. Cloth

$7.50 USED - availability checked May 22nd 11:55am EDT

That Of God

A Documentary

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY CHANDA CHEVANNES
This lyrical documentary explores Quaker principles through the personal spiritual journey of Canadian Quaker Jane Orion Smith. Starting with her Quaker marriage ceremony the film follows 5 years of her life, along the way other Quakers (Marc Forget, Janet Ross, Beverley Shephard, and Carol Leigh-Wehking) explore their experiences and perceptions of Quakerism.

PPCINC ltd 2011 53 MIN Disk

$20.00 (in stock)

Time On Two Crosses

The Collected Writings Of Bayard Rustin

EDITED BY DEVON CARBADO AND DONALD WEISE
Time on Two Crosses showcases the extraordinary career of this black gay civil rights pioneer. Spanning five decades, the book combines classic texts ranging in topic from Gandhi's impact on African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, the antiwar movement, and the assassination of Malcolm X, with never-before published selections on the call for gay rights, Louis Farrakhan, affirmative action, AIDS, and women's rights.

Cleis Press 2003 350 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

To Be Silent... Would Be Criminal

The Antislavery Influence And Writings Of Anthony Benezet

BY IRV BRENDLINGER
Born in 1713 Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most significant forces in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century. To Be Silent... Would Be Criminal introduces the development of antislavery activity in America and then traces the life of Benezet, examining both his work and influence on individuals. Benezet's correspondence with several influential contemporaries is reproduced here, giving insight into his relationships and his desire to build a viable network to oppose slavery.Was $35 now $25.

Scarecrow Press 2006 246 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

To Try The Bloody Law

The Story Of Mary Dyer

BY ROBERT S. BURGESS
A new biography of Mary Dyer, written by a member of New England Yearly Meeting.

Celo Valley Books 2000 131 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Up From Chester

Hiroshima, Haverford And Beyond

BY ALLAN BRICK
The immediate post-World War II convergence at Haverford College of pacifist Quakers and returning veterans led the writer to become a conscientious objector and anti-war activist. In 1965 he was deeply affected by the self-immolation at the Pentagon of Norman Morrison, his friend and fellow member of Stony Run Meeting. He recounts how that event heralded the bitter atmosphere of the years that followed as opponents of the Vietnam War were driven into increasingly radical beliefs and behaviors. Returning to college teaching in 1972, he has sought to illuminate the relationships between literature and opposition to injustice and war.

Xlibris 2009 206 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

A Very Dangerous Woman

Martha Wright And Women's Rights

BY SHERRY PENNEY AND JAMES LIVINGSTON
"A very dangerous woman" is what Martha Coffin Wright's conservative neighbors considered her, because of her work in the women's rights and abolition movements. In 1848, Wright and her older sister Lucretia Mott were among the five brave women who organized the historic Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. Wright remained a prominent figure in the women's movement until her death in 1875 at age sixty-eight, when she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. At age twenty-six, she attended the 1833 founding of the American Anti-Slavery. Active in the Underground Railroad, she sheltered fugitive slaves and was a close friend and supporter of Harriet Tubman.

Univ of Massachusetts 2004 316 PP. Paper

$25.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Walking With Wolf

Reflections On A Life Spent Protecting The Costa Rican Wilderness

BY KAY CHORNOOK AND WOLF GUINDON
From the forest of Monteverde in Central America comes the story of pioneering conservationist Wolf Guindon. Jailed in the U.S. in 1949 as a conscientious objector, Wolf was among a small group of Quakers who left a year later in search of a new life and found it on a wet, green mountaintop in Costa Rica. For the next twenty years, Wolf labored clearing land and establishing a dairy farm. In 1972, he found a new purpose when he helped establish the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Since then he has worked relentlessly to secure the protection of the wilderness so that the flora and fauna of this vast, beautiful and diverse region will be intact for generations to come.

Wandering Word Press 2009 298 PP. Paper

$25.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Walt Whitman And Opera

BY ROBERT FAUER
SECONDHAND. Grubby but readable paperback. "There is excitement even in Professor Faner's schol­arship: the excitement of young Whitman as he went from opera to opera and from concert to concert, as he began to understand the full beauty, first of the human voice and, later, of the orchestra, and the excitement of observing how all this comes back into his poetry, as subject-matter, as words written with the capabilities of the voice always in mind, as construction. There is, too, much information on other things than Whitman's art in Walt Whitman and Opera, so that it is a source-book for the history of music in America during the middle years of the nineteenth century." -TLS

S Illinois press 1972 246 PP. Paper

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Wartime Diaries Of Francis Newman

HILL, MARGARELIVES

2008 60 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

The Wetherills

Friends Of Mesa Verde

BY FRED BLACKBURN
The Wetherill family became the earliest students of Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping helped preserve key information, leading to a deeper understanding of the people who built and occupied the cliff dwellings. As devout Quakers, they felt they were predestined to protect the historic sites from wanton destruction - a role that would not be assumed by the government or other institutions until years later. Based on decades of meticulous research, author Fred Blackburn sets the record straight on these early protectors of Mesa Verde.

Durango Herald Small Press 2006 209 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Whirlwind Of Life

The Story Of Emilia Fogelklou

BY MALIN ANDREWS
This is an abbreviated English language version of a best selling Swedish book. Emilia Fogelklou became a Quaker after involving herself in many of the issues of her time like suffrage, psychology, modern theological thinking. It was not a well known religion in Sweden, but she searched long and hard. She was a mystic who was also an active worker for peace and justice with AFSC in the ruins of Europe after WW2. This is a lively book about an inspiring and unusual Friend who also spent time In America

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 208 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

William And Sarah Biddle 1633-1711

Planting A Seed Of Democracy In America

BY C MILLER BIDDLE
Tells of the progenitors of the Philadelphia Biddle family who settled in West New Jersey. The book describes the religious and economic persecution experienced in England followed by their emigration. It is full of day to day descriptions of quaker life in those days. They were actively involved in establishing a new government that had many of the elements important in future democracies. It describes how they helped establish of a fair judicial system and a better system of land tenure.

C Miller Biddle 2012 394 PP. Cloth

$38.00 (in stock)

William Charles Braithwaite (5556)

Memoirs

BY THOMAS AND EMMOTT
SECONDHAND COPY, cloth no dust cover, lots of underlining and some pencil noted corrections and additions. Noted Quaker Historian. Brief life, including his eastern travels, plus some interesting lectures preserved.

Longmans Green & co 1931 178 PP. Cloth

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William Penn (45625)

Apostle Of Dissent

BY HANS FANTEL
Secondhand copy. Hardback with slightly torn jacket in good condition. From the Stony run Library. The author noted for his biography "The Waltz Kings" attempts to strip Penn of "three centuries of myth" in this popular biography and then present him as adventurer and rebel "who matched radical vision with personal courage" in laying the groundwork for the American experiment. Includes 4 pressed flowers (one a johnny jump up).

Morrow 1974 282 PP. Cloth

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Windows For The Crown Prince

Akihito Of Japan

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
In 1946, Japanese Emperor Hirohito selected Quaker Elizabeth Gray Vining to be a tutor for the Crown Prince, the future Emperor Akihito, a position she held for 4 years. She was eventually to be a tutor to most of the Imperial Family, including Empress Nagako. After returning to the U.S., she maintained a close, lifelong relationship with the family. This is her story of the "Windows" she tried to open for the future emporer.

Tuttle 2000 320 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

With Head And Heart (622)

An Autobiography

BY HOWARD THURMAN
SECONDHAND COPY - hardback in fair condition with dustjacket. Handsome volume of Thurmans autobiography. an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. Thurman traveled broadly, heading Christian missions and meeting with world figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. When Thurman asked Gandhi what message he should take back to the United States, Gandhi said he regretted not having made nonviolence more visible as a practice worldwide and suggested some American Black men would succeed where he had failed.

HBJ 1979 260 PP Cloth

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Wobbling Home

A Spiritual Walk With Parkinsons

BY JIM ATWELL
This second collection of columns, "Wobbling Home," is a deeply insightful meditation on his illness, his Christian faith, and his journey's end. Raised a Roman Catholic, Jim has been a Quaker for forty years. Viewing his life as a "Parkie" through the lens of Quakerism, he sees the disease as emanating from the same loving Source that gives him life -- a Source which also manipulates his body and brain at random times and in mysterious ways. He shares not only his own thoughts and reactions, but also those of his loving wife Anne and other Parkies and their spouses as well.

Square Circle 2010 190 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

The Woman Said Yes

Encounters With Life And Death

BY JESSAMYN WEST
Jessamyn West's mother was a woman of strong Quaker conviction. When Jessamyn, newly married and diagnosed with tuberculosis was sent home to die, her mother helped her find the strength to live and the experience gave her a lifelong appreciation of the sanctity of life which was reinforced by the sad death of her sister. The author of many novels and short stories with a Quaker theme, here she writes a short but pithy memoir of her extraordinary life.

HBJ 1986 180 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Women In The Seventeenth-century Quaker Community

A Literary Study Of Political Identities, 1650-1700

BY CATIE GILL
Starts with an introduction to Quakerism in the 1650s. then accounts of their sufferings and petitions., followed by a discussion of post-Restoration Quaker writing. Gill shows that of nearly 4,000 Quaker texts published between 1650 and 1699, 220 were authored by women, and one-fifth of all women publishing in seventeenth-century England were Quakers when women authors overall amounted to only one percent of the total. Especially helpful to other scholars will be the extensive bibliography of Quaker publications, with cross-referencing for each contributor to collectively authored texts and notations about signers of petitions.

Ashgate 2002 256 PP. Cloth

$69.95 (in stock)

Women Of Power And Presence

The Spiritual Formation Of Four Quaker Women Ministers - Php 294

BY MAUREEN GRAHAM
Spiritual and psychological development of Rebecca Jones, Rachel Hicks, Elizabeth Fry, and Lucretia Mott.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)