Women's Biography
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Heiress
by Nigel Dempster
The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film by Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richardson as Dr. Sloper.
Carrie
by Stephen King
First published in 1974, Carrie was Stephen King's first published novel. This dark tale introduces the reader to Carrie White, a social outcast in her highschool, menaced by bullies while at school, and her religious nut of a mother at home. Carrie gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, and woe to her tormentors...
Women's Biography Books & Ephemera
A Window in My Garden and Other Poems by Pearl B. Newell
by Newell, Pearl B
Chicago: Norman Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good +. [30] p. (on double leaves): frontispiece (signed L. Mennard) and illustrated title page; 20 cm. White paper spine with pink spine title; pink-and-white handmade paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 50 copies printed by the Norman Press under the directon of Robert B. Newell. Inscribed by Robert B. Newell to Luretta B. Crissey, 1940, on the front free endpaper verso. The Norman Press was founded by Norman Forgue. In Very Good+ Condition:...
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£29.26
Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman; Edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann ewen; Historical Afterword by Joe W. Trotter
by Garrison, Memphis Tennessee; Bickley, Ancelia R., editor; Ewen, Lynda Ann, editor
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. xxxiv, 249 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Orange endpapers. Part of the publisher's series in Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. Memphis Tennessee Garrison (1890-1988) was a teacher in McDowell County, West Virginia, who organized a chapter of the NAACP in 1921. From 1931 to 1946 she was the community mediator for U.S. Steel Gary Mines and from 1963 to 1966 she was vice president of the National Board of the NAACP....
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£21.14
Electioneering Women: An American Appreciation in The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review; Edited by James Knowles -- vol. 48, no. 285, Nov. 1900
by Banks, Elizabeth L
New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co, 1900. Paperback. Very Good -. 8, [1], 686-880, 9-12 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Cabinet Government or Departmentalism? by J. A. R. Marriott -- The Lake-Dwellers by the Rev. Dr. Jessopp -- Extravagance in Dress by Lady Guendolen Ramsden -- Voice Culture by Mrs. Walter Creyke [Caroline Lawes Creyke] -- The Van Eycks by W. H. James Weale -- Electioneering Women: An American Appreciation by Elizabeth L. Banks -- The Cradle of...
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£11.38
A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
by Juska, Jane
New York: Villard, 2003. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Signed without inscription by the author on the title page. A good to very good copy - the book is clean, tight and unmarked but with bruising and bending to the spine tips and a rubbed spot on the lower front cover. The unclipped dustjacket has matching bending at the spine tips and some chipping at the folds - still bright and attractive. 272 pp., Juska's tale of taking a year off from teaching to "have a lot of sex with...
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£14.23
The Case Against Hillary Clinton
by Noonan, Peggy
New York, New York: Regan Books. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2000. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 181 pages: 5.75 x 8.5 in.: 1.4: KB#001298: Stated First Edition. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "As the long, scandal-ridden trial of the Clinton years comes to an end - and as the first lady mounts her own campaign for independent political office - it is time for a summation. What is the legacy of Clintonism?" .
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£11.38
Aristotle Onassis
by Fraser, N.; Fraser, Nicholas
Ballantine Books, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£9.75
"The Benedicts Abroad": Five Generations (1785-1923) being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from their Letters and Journals, as well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson; arranged and edited by Clare Benedict
by Benedict, Clare, editor
London: Ellis, 1930. Hardcover. Good -. xii, 651 p., frontispiece and 17 leaves of illustrations; black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. This is number 405 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Donated to the Kansas City, Missouri, Public Library by the editor, Clare Benedict, who drew from family journals and letters to recount her travels to Europe with her mother from 1894 to 1923. Small label on front fixed endpaper: "With the Compliments of Miss Clare Benedict, Credit Suisse,...
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£15.45
The Life Story of Alice Culler Cobb
by White, Mary Culler
New York: Fleming H Revell, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine. No DJ Issued A Gradute and Principal of Wesleyn College, Georgia. Life story of an early pioneer of women and the prejusice she fought and faced. 240 pgs. Green cloth over boards., Excellent condition. Great collectible of early works.
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£36.58
Wartime Chronicle: Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
by Bishop, A. & Bennett, Y.A. (Editors)
London: Victor Gollancz , 1989. Hardcover. Good/good. Vera Brittain was an ordinary housewife, and active pacifist, during World War II, living mainly in London. This is the third volume of her diaries, covering the period of the London Blitz. Gives real insight into social conditions in Britain during the war. Size, 24 x 155cm, 352 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, green cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket, internally good: generally clean and unmarked in...
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Get to the Heart: My Story
by Barbara Mandrell
Get to The Heart: My Story by Barbara Mandrell, Bantam Books Hardback, October 1990 392 pages isbn 0553057995. Book shows very light use, dust jacket shows edgewear and some fading.A multifaceted performer whose music strikes a chord of truth. A loving wife and mother whose traditional values and tremendous faith touch the heart. But in September 1984 fate placed Barbara Mandrell and two of her children on a Tennessee highway, where a car crossed two lanes of traffic to hit her car head-on...and Barbara...
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£8.94
Siberian Dream
by Pantaeva, Irina
New York, New York: Bard. 1st ed. 309pp Previous owner name to bottom page edges else fine the dust jacket is protected by an adjustable mylar cover. Photographs . bx 59
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£8.13
Heroines in Blue: stories of courage by women of the British Police Forces
by Lucas, Norman
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. Compelling accounts of bravery by female police officers, often in the words of the women themselves. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 211 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, black cloth boards in good dust jacket. Internally, shows page margins beginning to tan, otherwise good: clean and unmarked in sound bindings.
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£3.50
Good As Gold: A Comedy in Four Acts by K. McDowell Rice
by Rice, Katharine McDowell
Worthington, Mass: K. McDowell Rice, 1905. Paperback. Good +. Second edition. 43, [21] p.; 20 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Advertisements for other plays by the author on final 20 unpaginated pages. Katharine McDowell Rice (1859-1945) was an author of children's books and many humorous plays. She studied dramatic literature and theater at Radcliffe College as a special student, graduating in 1912. During the First World War, she helped to found the Boston branch of the Women's Peace Party. On...
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£20.32
Callas
by George Jellinek
Panther, 1965. Paperback. Acceptable. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 238 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Contains black and white plates. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to front hinge. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Small tears and chipping, with heavy tanning and marking overall. Book is slightly curled.
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£5.66
Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism 1963-1975
by Bradley, Patricia
Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Paperback. Near Fine -. xviii, 322 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author looks at mass media and the women's movement in the United States from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs shown on ABC television (the "Battle of the Sexes") and its aftermath. In Near Fine- Condition: small black dot on lower page edges;...
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£13.01
Spit, Polish and Tears: Stories of W.A.A.F.s In World War II
by Small, Norman
Durham: Pentland Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good/Good. Durham: Pentland Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. Good/Good. A collection of stories, written in the main in the words of ex-WAAFs of the Second World War. It tells of their joys, their tears, and their times of great trauma, but, through it all, there shines good humour, pride, a sense of belonging and a very real love and compassion for those with whom they served. Contains 240 pages, 24 x 17cm, with 17 b&w photos. Ex-library,...
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De l'Indecence aux Hommes d'Accoucher les Femmes, et de l'Obligation aux Femmes de Nourrir leurs Enfans: Pour montrer par des raisons de Physique, de Morale, & de Medecine, que les meres n'exposeroient ni leurs vies ni celles de leurs enfans, en se passant ordinairement d'Accoucheurs & de Nourrices
by Hecquet, Philippe
Trevoux, France: L'Imprimerie de S.A.S., 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. "Et se vend à Paris. Chez Jacques Etienne Libraire." 94, 145, [7] p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "L'Inec aux Hommes." Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut head pieces and initial letters. In an...
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£313.78
Itinerari Automobilistici d'Italia: Umbria
by Dainelli, Giotto and Umberto Gnoli
Firenze, Italy: Luigi Pampaloni, 1924. Fair. xviii, [10], 216, [8], I-16, II-20, III-26 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown flexible cloth printed in black. Advertisement on back cover for Veedol motor oil. Advertisements throughout. Automobile Club di Milano -- at head of front cover and title page. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of poet Leolyn Louise Everett. Leolyn Louise Everett Spelman (1888-1971) and her husband, composer Timothy Mather Spelman, spent much of their time in Italy,...
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£10.57
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth, by Hilary Spurling (2010)
by Spurling, Hilary
USA: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Hardcover. used-good condition, acceptable/Yes. 6.5x9.5. “Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth” (2010), by Hilary Spurling. One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in "The Good Earth," an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Noble...
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Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles the Second ob. 1705; From the Original of Sir Peter Lely in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Gordon
by Freeman, Samuel
London: Harding & Lepard, 1830. Very Good. 1 leaf 28 x 19 cm. Image is 12 x 9.5 cm. "Engraved by S. Freeman." Stipple engraving of Catherine of Braganza as queen, with her hair in ringlets, wearing a loose gown and mantle fastened on her right shoulder. She is seated with her left hand on an open book beside a crown and feeding a lamb with her right. First published in 1826 in the folio edition of Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Catherine of...
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£29.26
Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend
by Huffington, Arianna
Simon & Schuster, 1981-02-01. Hardcover. Like New. Signed by Author. Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only...no inscription) on front blank end paper. A previously owned copy that is unblemished and appears unread.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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£19.47
Sunday Skaters: Poems
by Salter, Mary Jo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. [10], 102 p.; 22 cm. Light grey cloth with silver-stamped spine title and front cover author's initials. Dust jacket design by Martha Simpson. Stated First Edition. In Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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£18.70
Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Numbers 12 & 13 Special Peace Issue
Kansas City, Mo: Helicon Nine, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 178, [6] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: The Black & White Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz by Carol Jacobsen -- Flying in Your Own Food by Padma Perera -- Dreams & Rhubarb by Katherine Mansfield -- An Interview with Maxine Kumin by Enid Shomer & Sheffield Sanford -- -- The Natives by Karen Fowler -- Morning: The World in the Lake by Linda Hogan -- On Psychic Numbing by Helen Caldicott --...
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Strange Piece of Paradise
by Jentz, Terri
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Brown hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. Signed without inscription by the author on the title page. A good plus copy with wear to the spine tips and a fairly heavy forward cocking to the spine from being read. Interior is clean and unmarked and the binding is solid. Unclipped dustjacket is in very good condition with minor shelfwear to the edges - clean and bright. 542 pp., the story of Jentz's return to...
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£28.45
