Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction by Fairbanks, Carol - 1986

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, First printing in clean original dust jacket. Clean unfaded green cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with photographs, drawings. 300 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, has slight wear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This book is based on an examination of over 100 works from the frontier era to the present, all written by American and Canadian women who lived long periods of their lives on the prairies. The works provide new insights into women's roles on the frontier, their ordeals, and the factors behind their decisions to stay on prairie farms and in prairie towns..