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TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 73673More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LITTLE WOMEN CLUB.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Good condition overall - the front hinge is cracking and some of the signatures are loose (but holding), some fraying to the cloth at the corners but the binding is still very attractive.
Book ID: 86509More details Price: $75.00 -
THE LONGEST WAR: Sex Differences in Perspective.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. An overview of research on differences between the sexes, The Longest War is clear, lively, comprehensive, and provocative without being biased.
Condition: Good only. (edge wear, creases along edge front and back cover and spine, stamp & little ink inscrip. on 1st page)
Book ID: 14531More details Price: $9.00 -
WAGE-EARNING WOMEN
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Industrial work and family life in the United States, 1900-1930," this is a study of how working conditions extended the circumscribed life of women rather than helped to overcome it. Extensive bibliography, index.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 6210More details Price: $30.00 -
TRAFFIC IN INNOCENTS: The Shocking Story of White Slavery in England.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, (1961.). First edition - F2201, cover price 50c. The cover blares "The shocking facts about the flesh markets of Europe: a story of lust and moral depravity unequalled in civilized times" but this is actually a fairly serious, if dramatic, account of the traffic in young women which flourished in Victorian England, including the work of the rescuers - women like Josephine Butler - and of government hearings. Bibliography, index. 199 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (previous owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 31149More details Price: $13.50 -
ABOUT ALICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. First edition - A loving tribute to his wife, published five years after her death. 78 pp. ISBN: 9781400066155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Newspaper review laid in.
Book ID: 42221More details Price: $15.00 -
OUT OF THE BLEACHERS: Writings on Women and Sport
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Feminist Press & McGraw-Hill, 1979. First edition - An interesting anthology of 20 historical and contemporary selections, including essays, journalism, biography and autobiography, including selections by professional athletes like Althea Gibson and Wyllye B. White, Paul Gallico on Gertrude Ederle's record breaking Channel swim, Frances Willard on learning to ride a bicycle, and more. Photographs, index. 229 pp.
Condition: Very good - (fading to spine and edges of covers).
Book ID: 23458More details Price: $12.00 -
ARMY OF ROSES: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75834More details Price: $18.50 -
A BIT OF A BLUE: The Life and Work of Frances Fuller Victor.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Salem, Oregon: Deep Well Publishing. 1992. First edition - A biography of Frances Fuller Victor who at age 25 in 1851 began her work as a magazine editor. Born in Rome, New York, this is an account of how she came West, her life on the frontier and her personal struggles - but despite these struggles, she wrote eleven books about the life and history of the Pacific Northwest. Illustrated with 25 pages of historical photographs. Notes, sources, bibliography, xiii, 277 pp. ISBN: 0-9632066-05.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 85919More details Price: $15.00 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Photographs. Errata slip laid in. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: SIGNED by Walker on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 25112More details Price: $45.00 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 26013More details Price: $15.00 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 41155More details Price: $12.50 -
FORWARD: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89022More details Price: $35.00 -
DON'T FRY BACON IN THE NUDE: And Other Bits of Advice From My Mother.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback original.
BookSurge Publishing, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A light-hearted look at the benefits of taking her mother's advice - and the consequences when she didn't! INSCRIBED on the title page. 115 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 978-1419675928.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83549More details Price: $16.50 -
MIDLIFE MUSINGS Plus Sundry Sonnets From the Porch.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'For the Scruggs Girls.' Very good in stiff illustrated covers.
Book ID: 30909More details Price: $12.00 -
SPEAKING OF THE GIRLS. . .
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'For the Scruggs Girls.' Good in stiff illustrated covers (some dampstaining to back cover near spine, crinkling of pages.)
Book ID: 30910More details Price: $12.50 -
BEATRICE WEBB.
Edition: First printing.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. Hardcover first edition - According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dj. (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 31088More details Price: $12.50 -
BEATRICE WEBB.
Edition: First printing.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - According to the preface, this is not a comprehensive biography of Webb, but a brief account, "of the life and times of the greatest woman I have ever known, set down by one who had the privilege of being her friend and her fellow-worker within the Fabian Society.) Illustrated with 8 full page photographs, includes an index. 197 pp,
Condition: Near finein turquoise cloth (after allowing for wartime production standards) in a fair only dust jacket with chipping and short closed tears to the edges.
Book ID: 82273More details Price: $21.50 -
NO CHEATING, NO DYING: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2012. SIGNED first edition - A book which "investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it's worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.. . In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues--sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children--through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship." SIGNED on the title page. Selected bibliography. 177 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54931More details Price: $24.00 -
A THOUSAND SISTERS: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - The story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - Led by Marina Raskova three regiments consisting of women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics were formed including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Photographs, source notes and an author's note. 376 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 81283More details Price: $19.50 -
TRADE UNION WOMEN: A Study of Their Participation in New York City Locals.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Praeger, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes bibliographical references and index. 179 pages. ISBN: 0-275-058506.
Condition: Near fine in olive green boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 21453More details Price: $25.00 -
FIRE WITH FIRE: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this sometimes rather controversial feminist author, perhaps more relevant now than ever. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xix, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-67942718X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67790More details Price: $16.50 -
MADELEVA: A Biography.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (compliments of Madeleva Society stamped on half title page)
Book ID: 87163More details Price: $21.50 -
COMMUNE ON THE FRONTIER: The Story of Frances Wright.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of a woman born in Scotland in 1795, who came to America in 1818 as a young woman because she believed in freedom - she wrote books, founded a commune, published a radical newspaper, spoke out against slavery, organized religion and for women's rights. A title in the Women in America Series. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xiix, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-690204019.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 78697More details Price: $13.50 -
BLOOD SISTERS: The French Revolution In Women's Memory.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The promises of 'Liberty, equality, and fraternity' did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. The memoirists portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." Based on 80 accounts of the Revolution left by women, from the 16 page testimonial by the wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison to the 10 volume memoirs of Mme de Genlis. Illustrated, notes, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-465-092632.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 46485More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MAGIC ROOM: A Story about the Love We Wish for Our Daughters.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Gotham / Penguin, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - His last book - a tribute to hopes we have for our daughters - "Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker's Bridal, in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride's image into infinity. . . Run by the same family for four generations, Becker's has witnessed transformations in how America views the institution of marriage: some of the shop's clientele are becoming stepmothers, some are older brides, some are pregnant." SIGNED on the title page, and very uncommon thus - Zaslow was killed in an automobile crash just a month after this book was released.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56101More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ZIEGFELDS' GIRL.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography by the daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke - in which she describes her childhood, which included such things a pet baby elephant, as "abnormally happy." Photographs. 209 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth in a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, some damage to front cover of dj along side of spine, large chip and creasing to back cover) .
Book ID: 85925More details Price: $16.50 -
AMELIA EARHART (Great American Series.)
Edition: First edition.
Novato, CA / San Francisco: Jabberwocky / AVC / Cassettes Classics, (1977.). First edition - Dramatization of the life of this pioneering aviator. A title in the Great American Series. Includes a cassette tape and a stapled booklet with a brief introduction and a transcription of the tape. 17 pp. Other titles in this series also available.
Condition: Fine in stiff orange, blue and white covers with cassette tape.
Book ID: 44055More details Price: $8.50 -
TRIED AND PROVEN RECIPES FOR FIRELESS COOK STOVE.
Edition: First printing, a slim booklet.
Chicago & Kansas City: W. E. Black Company, (1908). First edition - Athough "fireless cook stove" sounds like a contradiction in terms, this early precursor to the crockpots (except that it used retained heat from boiling water, etc, instead of electricity) was one of the few early 20th century innovations that actually enabled women to get out of the kitchen and still serve a hot meal later. This booklet includes a 4 pp of general instructions, some pictures of the roaster and 20 pp of recipes plus 3 blank pages for memorandum. Measures just 6 3/4 inches tall, 4 1/4 inches wide, unpaginated.
Condition: Near fine in tan stapled wrappers, with black lettering and decoration on front cover (light crease to cover)
Book ID: 83528More details Price: $25.00