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JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A Biography.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88288More details Price: $25.00 -
BURIED TREASURE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
El Cerrito, CA: Earl Enterprises, 1982. First edition - The second book by the author of "A Sagebrush Heritage." Written in a very informal style, this begins with "A sexagenarian writes a book, so can you." The buried treasure, of course, are the papers, letters, photographs and more, sometimes saved over the generations, and which inspired her to write her family history. This book includes information about some of the people who helped her in her research and provided more letters for her - as well as some authors whom she knew slightly or wrote to. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-960256417.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 90305More details Price: $35.00 -
UNSUBMISSIVE WOMEN: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
Edition: First printing.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Gold Rush-era Chinese prostitutes, which looks at these women as complex human beings rather than as commodities, as working women and objects of anti-Chinese sentiment. Based on census schedules, newspapers, government documents, literary sources, missionary records. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of drawings. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 300 pp,. ISBN: 0-806126531.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 44961More details Price: $24.50 -
AN UNSPOKEN HUNGER: Stories from the Field.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which uses "poetic and insightful inspiration to urge the reader to become aware, assess the damage, and begin to heal broken bonds." It opens on Africa's Serengeti Plain and then moves on to the deep woods of Sitka, Yellowston National Park, an eulogy for Edward Abbey and more. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-679432442.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90150More details Price: $18.50