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Mill, John Stuart. THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN. Longmans, Green & Company, London, 1869.

Price: US$33.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Boards in brown cloth, fair w/ wear to edges, old bookplate inside front, separation of hinges(but still more or less intact). 188p., stated second edition. Monumental essay on women's rights by the great British philosopher.

Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.

John Stuart Mill. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dye, 1869.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Second [US] edition, stated. Ex-library with the usual labeling. Brown blind-stamped cloth boards. Spine has been professionally repaired/reinforced with green cloth booktape. Some rubbing to boards, bumping at corners. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings. Binding sturdy.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer 1869 (2nd ed), 1869.

Price: US$110.51 + shipping

Description: In original mustard embossed cloth - top inch or so of spine split and frayed. With faded shelf-mark sticker on spine and label on front paste-down of the Burnley Mechanics' Institute. Front inside hinge a little stretched. Otherwise good internally. I'm pleased to think that the members of the Mechanics' Institute took such an obvious interest in the subject.

Seller: Elizabeth Crawford, London, United Kingdom

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 188 page hardcover - important early work on women in society. Second Edition stated on title page. Mustard colored cloth (bound by Edmonds & Remnants) - very lightly soiled - with blind stamped design on front and title on spine in gold.Interior has a few words (lightly written) in German on half title page, otherwise no interior markings.A solidly good condition copy.

Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and, 1869.

Price: US$169.70 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good

Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom

MILL, John Stuart.. The Subjection of Women. Second edition.. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, 1869.

Price: US$390.05 + shipping

Description: Second edition, following the first of the same year, of one of the great statements of the equality of the sexes, recognized as an early contribution in the feminist canon: "among campaigners for women's suffrage. it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women's movement" (ODNB). Mill had long been a women's rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Hardy (1807-1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Harriet Taylor's influence on this work was substantial, and acknowledged by Mill: "all that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds" (Autobiography, 1873, p. 266). The freedom of women can be seen as a microcosm of Mill's general philosophy of freedom, in which the greatest good of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual. Mill calls for equal legal, political, and personal rights, including the right to vote and the right to higher education. The essay was Mill's final major political tract, and also his "most unpopular and bitterly contested" work, the only one "on which he made a financial loss, even though pirated popular editions soon began to circulate widely in Europe and America" (ODNB). Octavo. Original dark yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, brown endpapers. Early library shelf labels and marks to front free endpaper verso and half-title, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants of London to rear pastedown, some pencilled annotations to text. A little darkened and rubbed, repair at head of spine, slight foxing to contents. A good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

MILL, John Stuart.. The Subjection of Women.. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: 188 pp. 12mo, publisher's gold cloth. Second edition. A few light (eraseable) marginal pencil notations and one in old ink; some soiling to the cloth, especially at the spine; old ink signature; neat quotation from Ruskin, regarding gender, opposite the title page.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart.. The Subjection of Women. 2nd edn.. Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer. 1869, 1869.

Price: US$543.47 + shipping

Description: Half title. Orig. mustard cloth by Edmonds & Remnants; spine a little darkened, sl. marking to boards. Booklabel of Shakespeare & Co., Paris. A good sound copy. Possibly co-authored by his wife Harriet.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longman, London, 1869.

Price: US$975.13 + shipping

Description: (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1869). First UK Edition. iv, 188 pages. Publisher's original mustard cloth titled in gilt to the spine and stamped in blind to the front board. Brown coated end-papers This copy was formerly owned by Repton School in Derbyshire and has one, neat, 19th century library stamp to the title page and later De-Accession Stamp when it was withdrawn from the school library. Head and tail of spine pushed and worn; spine darkened; front and rear hinges professionally repaired; top edge dusty. About VG with a clean interior. No inscriptions. One of the foundation stones of the early women's rights movement by one of the earliest male proponents of true gender equality. Looks very smart in its protective acetate cover. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom

Mill, John Stuart. The subjection of women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$1931.00 + shipping

Description: 188p.; small ownership label (Charles Clark, Totham, 1866] Essex) in three fonts and a neat small period (1872) owner's signature on front paste down, original matte-brown endsheets are in good condition, tiny binder's fiche on rear pastedown. First edition, light blue pencil marginalia with a few legible notes at end of text, also in blue pencil. Original yellow cloth boards paneled in blind, gilt spine lettering is somewhat dim and the area surrounding this title is slightly grimy; the entire casebinding has been carefully cleaned save for the titling; very subtle restoration to spine ends. Top edge a little dusty. All four corner-tips slightly bumped. Over all a sound copy in very good condition of a landmark work. One of the foundation stones of the early women's rights movement.

Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Mill, John Stuart. THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN.. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [iv], 188 pages of text. Original cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and blind stamped boards. The spine is moderately darkened, the top of the spine is frayed and worn, and there is minor soiling and shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. About 70 pages with pencil markings, including underlining, and a few pages with handwritten notes; most of the affected pages only have one light mark in the margin. The classic argument for the equality of the sexes. An eloquent and closely reasoned plea for perfect equality in the legal and social relations of the sexes. Mill's impressive argument, carried to its furthest implications by the pressure of his powerful, logical mind, made this the fundamental work on the subject. Put forth, as it was, at the close of a career which dominated English 19th Century thought, this great book had a deep and far-reaching influence upon social thought and legislation throughout the world. First edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" to 7¾" tall

Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Original dark yellow cloth titled in gilt and stamped in blind with brown coated endpapers. Contemporary penciled ownership name and old library stamp on the front fly. Boards a bit smudged, spine a little uniformly darkened and spine ends a touch worn, very good. A tight, unrestored, and unrepaired copy. Mill's final great political and philosophical tract, promulgating his support for women's rights. A high spot of the subject.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original ocher cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth, light wear at corners and spine ends. Front and rear inner hinges at endsheets exposed. Former owner details written to half-title page. Pages toned, foxed at prelims and terminals. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown. An argument for equality between the sexes, which Mill derived from an earlier collaboration between him and his late wife.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart.. The Subjection of Women.. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, 1869.

Price: US$3900.51 + shipping

Description: First edition of one of the great statements of the equality of the sexes, recognized as an early contribution in the feminist canon: "among campaigners for women's suffrage. it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women's movement" (ODNB). Mill had long been a women's rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Hardy (1807-1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Harriet Taylor's influence on this work was substantial, and acknowledged by Mill: "all that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds" (Autobiography, 1873, p. 266). The freedom of women can be seen as a microcosm of Mill's general philosophy of freedom, in which the greatest good of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual. Mill calls for equal legal, political, and personal rights, including the right to vote and the right to higher education. The essay was Mill's final major political tract, and also his "most unpopular and bitterly contested" work, the only one "on which he made a financial loss, even though pirated popular editions soon began to circulate widely in Europe and America" (ODNB). Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Contemporary inscription to half-title "Mrs McMaster from an old friend June 1869"; partly removed Edmonds & Remnants binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine lightly darkened, light rubbing and very minor wear at extremities, inner hinges with slight superficial splits but firm, contents clean and unmarked. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women.. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London, 1869.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Mill's classic work defending the rights of women, publisher's presentation copy, with a blind stamp to title, "Presented by the Publishers." Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, names to the half-title page. Rare and desirable. “Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on” (PMM 345). Mill’s wife, Harriet Taylor, proved especially influential in developing this work; her 1851 essay on the enfranchisement of women directly inspired it. “During the seven years of his married life Mill published less than in any other period of his career, but four of his most closely reasoned and characteristic works, Liberty, the Utilitarianism, the Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform and the Subjection of Women… were thought out and partly written in collaboration with his wife” (Britannica). “No one had a more rooted hatred for all oppression [illustrated by] his advocacy of the equality of the sexes” (DNB).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart.. The Subjection of Women.. London: Longmans, Green, 1869., 1869.

Price: US$4420.57 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. [4], 188, with a half-title; an unusually good, fresh copy in the original mustard cloth, slightly darkened as usual, inner hinges cracked (but firm).First edition of 'the last of [Mill's] great political tracts' (ODNB), one of the most important and controversial treatments of women's rights in the nineteenth century. Mill was heavily involved in the women's suffragette movement, and in this work he argued 'that the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes – the legal subordination of one sex to the other – is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other' (p. 1 ). Language: English

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom