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  • Johnston, Jill
    MOTHER BOUND: Autobiography in Search of a Father.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first part of her autobiography - the story of her childhood in a 'family' shaped by the story told by her mother: that she was a widow (although in reality she was an unwed mother) - and of her early years and her ambivalence about her sexuality, her career as a dance critic and her life in the then-forming SoHo world. Illustrated with photographs. 164 pp. ISBN: 0-394-527577.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 38780
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  • BLOOD SISTERS: An Examination of Conscience. by Miner, Valerie.
    Miner, Valerie.
    BLOOD SISTERS: An Examination of Conscience.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in England in the 1970s focusing on the relationship of two women, cousins - one whose mother remained in Ireland and who is involved in the IRA and the other the daughter of the sister who emigrated to California and who is involved in the women's rights movement. This 'combines several themes within the tense format of a thriller.' 206 pp. ISBN: 0-312-084617.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 48314
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  • BLOOD SISTERS: An Examination of Conscience. by Miner, Valerie.
    Miner, Valerie.
    BLOOD SISTERS: An Examination of Conscience.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    New York: St Martin's, (1982.). First edition - Novel set in England in the 1970s focusing on the relationship of two women, cousins - one whose mother remained in Ireland and who is involved in the IRA and the other the daughter of the sister who emigrated to California and who is involved in the women's rights movement. This 'combines several themes within the tense format of a thriller.' 206 pp. ISBN: 0-312-084625.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83988
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  • SUMMER WILL SHOW. by Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978.)
    Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978.)
    SUMMER WILL SHOW.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, 1936. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her very highly praised - and very scarce - fourth novel. Set in the early to mid-19th century, this is a story of a woman born to the landed gentry, who, after being betrayed by her husband and losing both of her children to smallpox, flees to Paris, where she becomes involved with her husband's former mistress, a woman raised in czarist Russia. In 1848, Sophia finds herself caught in the revolutionary crossfire. The NY Times called this an "imaginative work which begins with no indication of how it will end, and becomes by turns a period comedy of manners, a stylized comedy of temperaments and at last…

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    New York: The Viking Press, 1936. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her very highly praised - and very scarce - fourth novel. Set in the early to mid-19th century, this is a story of a woman born to the landed gentry, who, after being betrayed by her husband and losing both of her children to smallpox, flees to Paris, where she becomes involved with her husband's former mistress, a woman raised in czarist Russia. In 1848, Sophia finds herself caught in the revolutionary crossfire. The NY Times called this an "imaginative work which begins with no indication of how it will end, and becomes by turns a period comedy of manners, a stylized comedy of temperaments and at last the drama of a woman's conversion to a new order of life...It is a very difficult thing to begin a book on a light and mocking note, make it gradually grow deeper and more resonant, and charge it finally with passionate sound; but Miss Warner has done it with unmistakable success." and author Mary McCarthy called the "denouement where elegance burns into fervor, the most triumphal single moment in revolutionary fiction, so the whole elaborate, fine-spun novel seems the most skilful, the most surefooted, sensitive, witty piece of prose yet to have been colored by left-wing ideology." 421 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in red and black boards (some discoloration from binder's glue in the gutters) in a fair only example of the fragile and uncommon dustjacket with a large chip at the bottom of the dj spine, several other chips and overall edgewear, tape repair to bottom edge and more - but still basically intact, original price of $2.50 present - and now protected by an archival wrapper.

    Book ID: 90892
    View cart More details Price: $300.00