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IN A GILDED CAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth book in her award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and Daniel Sullivan, a captain in the New York police force. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-31238534X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83461More details Price: $27.50 -
SILENT VOICES: The Southern Negro Woman Today.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on interviews with many wormen in the South - workers on Delta plantations, college students, domestic servants, housewifes, nurses and more. 273 pp
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 14914More details Price: $20.00 -
SILENT VOICES: The Southern Negro Woman Today.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on interviews with many wormen in the South - workers on Delta plantations, college students, domestic servants, housewifes, nurses and more. 273 pp
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small bookstore stamp)
Book ID: 64678More details Price: $25.00 -
A MAN'S WORLD: How Real is Male Privilege and How Is Its Price?
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1995.). First edition - Fourth book by this award-winning African American journalist; in it he changes his focus from the discussion of racism to gender issues. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172061.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 36467More details Price: $9.00 -
THE PILL, PYGMY, CHIMPS AND DEGAS' HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the scientist who synthesized the birth control pill, and as such, has had an enormous influence on the lives of women in the 20th century - and on changes in our culture. Photographs, index. 321 pgs. ISBN: 0-465-057594.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (rem line.)
Book ID: 13198More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PILL, PYGMY, CHIMPS AND DEGAS' HORSE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1992.). SIGNED - Autobiography of the scientist who synthesized the birth control pill, and as such, has had an enormous influence on the lives of women in the 20th century - and on changes in our culture. SIGNED on the title page with the words "with compliments" and dated in 1999.Photographs, index. 319 pgs. ISBN: 0-465-057586.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 68327More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WIDOW'S WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens on Cape Cod in 1761 where a woman refuses to give up the right to her home after her husband, a whaling captain, is lost at sea. Historical and bibliographical notes. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0061782145.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86862More details Price: $18.50 -
SAMANTHA RASTLES THE WOMAN QUESTION.
Edition: First printing.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes 33 of the best selections by this popular humorist on the rights of women, with an introduction by Jane Curry. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 235 pages. ISBN: 0-252-010205.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear at upper edge of front cover of dj, other edgewear)
Book ID: 18923More details Price: $20.00 -
LETTERS OF A JAVANESE PRINCESS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: University Press of America / The Asia Society, (1985). Includes a preface by Eleanor Roosevelt in which she notes that although Kartini died young (at age 24, a few days after the birth of her son), with her letters, which give some insight into the lives of a people ruled at the time by Dutch, she was able to reach millions of Javanese. Through her writings she became a spokesman for the liberation and education of women. Edited and with an Introduction By Hildred Geertz. Translated from the Dutch by Agnes Louis Symmers. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-819147583.
Condition: Good overall - some scattered underlining and marginal notations.
Book ID: 84054More details Price: $13.50 -
BILLIE JEAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this great women's tennis champion - focusing primarily on her career, but also discussing the abortion controversy she was involved in, and her marriage to Larry King. Illustrated with photographs. 208 pages, index.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 15824More details Price: $20.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Uncommon in this, the true first edition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 35251More details Price: $175.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. The very uncommon hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 35252More details Price: $100.00 -
CALL ME WOMAN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 62380More details Price: $18.50 -
REQUIEM FOR A WOMAN'S SOUL..
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but powerful novel depicting the brutality of political torture by this Argentinian journalist. Although presented as fiction, it is based on interviews with many women who were, like the protagonist, arrested, never charged, but tortured. Translated by Paul Riviera and the author. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-394-549171.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57937More details Price: $20.00 -
MARIE STOPES AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.
Edition: First edition.
London: Faber & Faber, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography focusing on both Stope's public life (founder of the first birth control clinic in the British Empire) and on her often chaotic personal life. Photographs, index. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-371-16206.
Condition: Near fine in a very good- dustjacket (closed tears to dj.)
Book ID: 4473More details Price: $16.00 -
A TRACK TO THE WATERS EDGE: The Olive Schreiner Reader.
Edition: First printing.
New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket. (lower corners bumped, tear to front cover of dj tape-repaired on interior, price clipped)
Book ID: 90309More details Price: $60.00 -
A TRACK TO THE WATERS EDGE: The Olive Schreiner Reader.
Edition: First printing.
New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. INSCRIBED by Thurman on the title page and signed as "Howard." Scarce thus. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (sunning to spine of dj, minor wear at top of dj spine)
Book ID: 90366More details Price: $300.00 -
TAHIRIH: A PORTRAIT IN POETRY: Selected Poems of Qurratu'l-'Ayn.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Brochure for Kalimat Press laid in.
Book ID: 86903More details Price: $35.00 -
LIFE ON THE LINE
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title page indicates that this is a 'special limited edition of the friends of MS magazine, with a facsimile signature at the bottom. Autobiography of the daughter of a black female fundamentalist preacher who went on to become not only the first African American president of Planned Parenthood, but the first woman to head it since Margaret Sanger founded the organization in 1916. Errata slip laid in. 489 pages. ISBN: 0-345-392655.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59551More details Price: $20.00 -
LIFE ON THE LINE
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title page indicates that this is a 'special limited edition of the friends of MS magazine, with a printed signature at the bottom. Autobiography of the daughter of a black female fundamentalist preacher who went on to become not only the first African American president of Planned Parenthood, but the first woman to head it since Margaret Sanger founded the organization in 1916. Errata slip laid in. 489 pages. ISBN: 0-345-392655.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 13455More details Price: $18.00