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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir


Farmanfarmaian, Monir

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2007-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463768


Price: $13.00 

 

A Woman in Revolt: A Biography of Flora Tristan


Desanti, Dominique

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1st U.S., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages, translated from French, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800868


Price: $6.00 

Abigail Adams: Witness to a RevolutionBober, Natalie S.

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution


Bober, Natalie S.

Softcover. Simon Pulse, reprint, February 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Faint foxing to end papers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458408


Price: $15.00 

 

Alice & Edith: A Biographical Novel of the Two Wives of Theodore Roosevelt


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Light purple endpapers. Light blue boards, cream cloth spine with silver lettering and decoration. Boards are lightly toned along bottom edges. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with b/w photography of Alice and Edith on cover. Very light edgewear.

Record # 40251


Price: $13.00 

 

Alice: Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland


N/A

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Light edgewear, fraying and spotting to blue cloth covers. Internally very good.

Record # 857063


Price: $50.00 

 

Alice


Cordery, Stacy

Hardcover. New York, Viking USA, 3rd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 608 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Small tear on bottom edge of dust jacket spine. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471034


Price: $15.00 

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia PlathRollyson, Carl

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath


Rollyson, Carl

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470167


Price: $13.00 

 

An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm


Paula, Hannah

Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2nd , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 701 pages. Softcover. Wrapper has a touch of fading to spine, otherwise very good, no rips. Pages clean, binding tight. In great shape. Biography of Crown Princess Vicky, daughter of Queen Victoria.

Record # 31811


Price: $15.00 

 

Anna Freud - A Biography


Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Hardcover. New York, Summit Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. B&W photos. A very nice copy with only minor edgewear along upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 302420


Price: $6.00 

Anna Freud: A BiographyYoung-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Anna Freud: A Biography


Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

Hardcover. US, Summit Books, 1st, 1988-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461567


Price: $10.00 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh : Her LifeHertog, Susan

Anne Morrow Lindbergh : Her Life


Hertog, Susan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 561 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450629


Price: $15.00 

Anne Sexton: A BiographyMiddlebrook, Diane Wood

Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470404


Price: $15.00 

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A LifeWilson, Frances

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life


Wilson, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471555


Price: $19.00 

Beecher Sisters, The White, Barbara A.

Beecher Sisters, The


White, Barbara A.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461328


Price: $19.00 

 

Bird of Utica, The - Life, Thought and Art of Sylvia H. Bliss (1870-1963)


Davis, Forest K.

Hardcover. Adamant, VA, Adamant Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Minor sunfading to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 57658


Price: $8.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1989-08-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 413 pages, illustrations in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462936


Price: $10.00 

 

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art


Marsh, Jan

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463258


Price: $10.00 

 

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin


Lepore Jill

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Light green cover boards, dark green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. The life story of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Jane Franklin.

Record # 31776


Price: $19.00 

 

Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860


Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

Softcover. US, Brown University Press, rep, 1986-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462385


Price: $10.00 

 

Carrington: A Life


Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook

Hardcover. US, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1989-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463123


Price: $25.00 

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanMassie, Robert K.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman


Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 5th, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 625 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading on dj spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471885


Price: $19.00 

 

Caught in the Crossfire


Goodwin, Jan

Hardcover. US, Dutton Adult, 2nd printing, 1987-03-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460711


Price: $13.00 

Chainless Soul, A: A Life of Emily BronteFrank, Katherine

Chainless Soul, A: A Life of Emily Bronte


Frank, Katherine

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pagtes. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470265


Price: $15.00 

 

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle


Shorter, Clement K.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st thus, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages. Light wear and fade to maroon cloth covers. Foxing throughout text.

Record # 857062


Price: $38.00 

 

Cissy - The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson


Martin, Ralph G.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dj price clipped

Record # 55614


Price: $15.00 

 

Cissy Patterson: The Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Times-Herald


Hoge, Alice Albright

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hard cover. 237 pages. B&w photos throughout. Pink top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, scratches. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 501958


Price: $9.00 

 

Clare Boothe Luce


Sheed, Wilfrid

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55264


Price: $20.00 

 

Clementina, Lady Hawarden: Stories from Life 1857-1864


Dodier, Virginia

Hardcover. Denville, NJ, Aperture, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Early photographs throughout. Previous owner's light pencil markings on a few pages, otherwise clean, tight copy. Light rubbing to dust jacket top.

Record # 750326


Price: $50.00 

Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern RenaissanceWaldron, Ann

Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance


Waldron, Ann

hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469131


Price: $13.00 

 

Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust - The Struggles of Two Americans Artists - Alice Neel and Rhoda Medary


Belcher, Gerald L. & Margaret L.

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos, 304 pgs.

Record # 108550


Price: $13.00 

 

Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties: A Memoir (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Kunin, Madeleine May

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Green Writers Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight.

Record # 32148


Price: $23.00 

 

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn


Morantz-Sanchez, Regina

Softcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with marginal wear to edges, small spot of discoloration to rear wrap & edge. Illustrations in black & white, tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 5560153


Price: $19.00 

 

Corazon Aquino: The Story of a Revolution


Komisar, Lucy

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of the famed revolutionary Filipino political leader. Faded spine; mild foxing to top edge. Slightly rubbed wrappers. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951171


Price: $20.00 

Creating ColetteFrancis, Claude

Creating Colette


Francis, Claude

Hardcover. US, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1998-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Decorative stitching to cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466659


Price: $13.00 

 

Cruel Banquet - The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg


Strauss, Monica

NY, Harcourt , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 602183


Price: $18.00 

 

Cuba and Castro


Casuso, Teresa, Elmer Grossberg (Translation)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, two tone title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, very good, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Top edge dyed red. In very good shape. "Teresa Casuso, who resigned her high position in the U.N. and took asylum in the United States after supporting Fidel Castro from the beginning, now reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes story of the Revolution."

Record # 32168


Price: $19.00 

Dancing Through It: My Journey in the BalletRinger, Jenifer

Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet


Ringer, Jenifer

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center.

Record # 470285


Price: $10.00 

 

Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian town society, 1100-1300


Dillard, Heath

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Faded on spine. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233396


Price: $38.00 

 

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams


Withey, Lynne

Hardcover. US, Touchstone, 1st, 2001-10-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462158


Price: $10.00 

 

Diana Mosley: A biography of the glamorous Mitford sister who became Hitler's friend and married the leader of Britain's fascists


Dalley, Jan

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 2000-05-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464241


Price: $15.00 

 

Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China


Seagrave, Sterling

Hardcover. New York, 1st, May 5, 1992, Book: Very Good, 601 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to edges and covers of pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 451710


Price: $18.00 

 

Drawn from New England - Tasha Tudor - A Portrait in Words and Pictures


Tudor, Bethany

Hardcover. Cleveland, William Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612642


Price: $38.00 

 

Eighty Years & More Reminiscences 1815-1897


Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Paperback. New York, Schocken, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 474 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302261


Price: $15.00 

 

Einstein's Wife - Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women


Gabor, Andrea

New York, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages.

Record # 204401


Price: $15.00 

 

Elizabeth, The Exiles of Siberia - A Tale, Founded on Facts From the French of Madame Cottin


Cottin, Madame

Hardcover. New York, Hurst & Co., Publishers, Reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with embossed black printed decoration & titles to cover. Gilt compartment lines, gilt text block and black printed decoration to spine. Frontis illustration, Polish Exiles on Their Way to Siberia, in black & white protected with a tissue guard. Additional engravings in bw & one loose plate. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Light foxing to edges, tight binding, light fraying to spine crown & heel, otherwise clean throughout.

Record # 751317


Price: $25.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 204361


Price: $18.00 

Eudora: A Writer's LifeWaldron, Ann

Eudora: A Writer's Life


Waldron, Ann

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1998-11-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 398 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461518


Price: $11.00 

 

Eva Le Gallienne - A Biography


Sheehy, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 529 pages. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750848


Price: $31.00 

 

Fabulous Life of Sarah Bernhardt, The


Verneuil, Louis

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, First Edition, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with maroon decorative compartment lines & gilt titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Sarah Bernhard and Louis Verneuil in Regine Armand, January 1922. Original dust jacket with chips to edges, small tears & soiling, still elegant, now protected with a plastic cover. Black & white photographs, light toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670087


Price: $75.00 

Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the PresentMacAustin, Hilary (Editor)

Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present


MacAustin, Hilary (Editor)

Hardcover. Bloomington IL, Indiana University Press, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Small stain to top of dust jacket spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468282


Price: $13.00 

 

Famous Authors (Women)


Harkins, E. F.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Pane, 5th printing, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, 15 B&W photo portraits, including one on cover label with gilt & 2-color decoration. Short biographies of 21 women authors. Top edge gilt.

Record # 304925


Price: $8.00 

 

Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing


McCarthy, Todd

Hardcover. New York , Miramax Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages, b&w photos. Small tear to lower edge of dust jacket, near the front flap, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 854683


Price: $10.00 

 

Fighting Chance, A (SIGNED BY WARREN)


Warren, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY ELIZABETH WARREN ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 2230179


Price: $63.00 

Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country MusicBufwack, Mary A.

Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music


Bufwack, Mary A.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 594 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468117


Price: $13.00 

 

Flanzy's: Story - Part. Two three, four


Chod--kowski violet, too --, mrs; Flanzy. leigh: Lewis, Illust. by: Richard Chodkowski

Hardcover. Middlebury, mnrstbks, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brilliant. apostrophe. no quotation marks. New - 12/3/04 three returns. ILLUSTRATED BY DICK CHODKOWSKI

Record # 191808


Price: $78.00 

 

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History


O'Brien, Keith

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Tan boards. Like new, in great shape. Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence, Klingensmith, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols and Louise Thaden.

Record # 31556


Price: $15.00 

 

Four Queens: The Proven

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penquin, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, dust jacket price clipped, light bumping to dust jacket front, back and spine; light bumping to spine, b/w illustrations throughout.

Record # 30063


Price: $15.00 

Frauen: German Women Recall the Third ReichOwings, Alison

Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich


Owings, Alison

Hardcover . New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 494 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Light adhesive residue on rear dust jacket, light foxing on top page block.

Record # 469335


Price: $19.00 

 

Golden Calm, The: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi


Kaye (EDITOR), M.M.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Mild odor. Light soil to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 2233791


Price: $19.00 

 

Good Listener Helen Bamber, The : A Life Against Cruelty


Neil, Belton

Hardcover. US, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st, 1998-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464322


Price: $15.00 

Great GarboPayne, Robert

Great Garbo


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. US, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., rep, 2002-09-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Small tear to upper edge of rear cover, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461367


Price: $13.00 

 

I Wanted To Be An Actress: The Autobiography of Katharine Cornell


Cornell, Katharine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, First Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 32 pages of photographs in black & white to center. Red boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Minor toning to pages throughout. Some tanning to endpaper gutters. Original dust jacket with heavy wear to edges, small tears, age toning and a few spots of tape. Grey dyed top edge. Clean inside, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751573


Price: $38.00 

 

In the Weesome Hours: 1843-1889 by Mary Lackey Williams


Vezza, ed., Dianne Wehrs

Softcover. Wilmington, Ohio, Orange Frazer Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800643


Price: $6.00 

 

Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect


Farris, Scott

Hardcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 471200


Price: $15.00 

Inner Voice, The: The Making of a SingerFleming, Renee

Inner Voice, The: The Making of a Singer


Fleming, Renee

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Light soil to top edge of covers.

Record # 470274


Price: $15.00 

 

Iris Murdoch: A Life


Conradi, Peter J.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 706 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464641


Price: $13.00 

 

Isabelle - The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt


Kobak, Annette

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 258 pages. Light scrape to top edge of boards otherwise VG

Record # 59961


Price: $20.00 

 

Isadora - A Sensational Life (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kurth, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 652 pages. Hardcover. Mock marble cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750920


Price: $19.00 

 

Jacqueline du Pre - A Biography


Easton, Carol

Hardcover. New York, Summit Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Very good dust Jacket over brown paper boards with red cloth covers on the spine with gilt lettering. Black and white photographs in center. Clean and tight binding.

Record # 613299


Price: $10.00 

Jane Austen: A LifeTomalin, Claire

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and very minor soil to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459815


Price: $25.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

 

Jane Austen: the Secret Radical


Kelly, Helena

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped. Some slight moisture staining to bottom left corner of back cover and dust jacket. Does not affect pages. In great condition. Binding tight, spine straight. An illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and how she intended her books to be read.

Record # 32125


Price: $19.00 

Jean Rhys: Life and WorkAngier, Carole

Jean Rhys: Life and Work


Angier, Carole

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown & Co., 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 762 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean copy with edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471814


Price: $23.00 

 

Jean Stafford: A Biography


Roberts, David

Hardcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 494 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Elegant biography of distinguished writer. Mild rubbing and fading to dust jacket, which is enclosed in a protective plastic sleeve. Mild soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952595


Price: $29.00 

JOAN OF ARC: A MILITARY LEADERDeVries, Kelly

JOAN OF ARC: A MILITARY LEADER


DeVries, Kelly

HARDCOVER. Stroud, Sutton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Stroud, Sutton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations, photos. . 242 pages. Record # 467285

Record # 467285


Price: $10.00 

 

Josephine Baker


Hammond, Bryan

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape LTD, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color/black and white photographs. Light foxing to front end paper. Tape repaired dust jacket shows signs of edge wear as well as fading. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 468066


Price: $31.00 

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 VolumesRichards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 Volumes


Richards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Ex-library set with bookplates and stamps on front endpapers, and labels at bottom at bottom of spines. Top edges gilt. Slight fade to spines. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614004


Price: $63.00 

 

Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak: One Woman's Journey Through the Northwest Passage


Jason, Victoria

Hardcover. Canada, Turnstone Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear to covers. Like new.

Record # 2233456


Price: $15.00 

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful BirdBarcott, Bruce

Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird


Barcott, Bruce

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 313 pages, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457308


Price: $8.00 

 

Lee Krasner


Hobbs, Robert Carleton

softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Black and White pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469463


Price: $25.00 

Leni Riefenstahl: A LifeTrimborn, Jurgen

Leni Riefenstahl: A Life


Trimborn, Jurgen

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, b&w photos. Minor wear to pictorial dust jacket with tiny tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453081


Price: $12.00 

Life of Katherine Mansfield, TheAlpers, Antony

Life of Katherine Mansfield, The


Alpers, Antony

hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469632


Price: $10.00 

 

Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman (SIGNED)


Wright, William

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Some sunfading to covers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.

Record # 471292


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives of Margaret Fuller, The : A Biography


Matteson, John

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012-01-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464711


Price: $15.00 

Lost Tudor Princess; TheWeir, Alison

Lost Tudor Princess; The


Weir, Alison

Hardcover. U.S., Ballantine , 1st U.S., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of Lady Margaret Douglas. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951103


Price: $19.00 

 

Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller


Fuller, Margaret

New York , Greenwood Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages.

Record # 203745


Price: $13.00 

 

Madaline - Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans - The Private Writings of a Kept Woman


Upton (Ed.), Dell

Hardcover. Athens, GA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 366 pages.

Record # 64320


Price: $25.00 

 

Madcap Queen: The Story of Marguerite of Navarre


Rival, Paul

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1st US, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the French by Marvin McCord Lowes. Light wear, fraying, rubbing to edges and spine, no dust jacket. Small stains to bottom edge and front endpaper.

Record # 809737


Price: $15.00 

 

Mademoiselle Libertine: A Portrait of Ninon de Lanclos


Cohen, Edgar H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Publisher's letter laid in. 329 pages. Edge wear, rubbing, large tape-repaired tears to dust jacket. Small stains on bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851518


Price: $18.00 

Marguerite of Navarre R., E. (Eric Russell) Chamberlin

Marguerite of Navarre


R., E. (Eric Russell) Chamberlin

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Decorative stain to top edge. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469243


Price: $15.00 

 

MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE JOURNEY


FRASER, ANTONIA

Hardcover. LONDON, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1ST UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, LONDON, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1ST UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Color and black and white photographs/illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 488 pages. Record # 467261

Record # 467261


Price: $13.00 

Mary Austin - Song of a MaverickStineman, Esther L.

Mary Austin - Song of a Maverick


Stineman, Esther L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light fading to dust jacket.

Record # 702


Price: $15.00 

 

Mary Curzon


Nicolson, Nigel

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The story of an American socialite who married into a high position in the British Government. Dj with close tear to rear panel

Record # 55620


Price: $18.00 

 

Mary, Wayfarer: An Autobiography


Mebane, Mary E.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Good dust jacket with water stain. Ink stamp to bottom edge.

Record # 804370


Price: $12.00 

 

Messengers of the Wind - Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories


Katz (Ed.), Jane

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Some Black & white illust. 317 plages.

Record # 68380


Price: $15.00 

 

Midwife's Tale, A - The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812


Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

Paperback. New York, Knopf, Wraps , 1990, Book: Very Good, 444 pages. A social portrait of life in Augusta, Maine in the late 1700's. Paperback.

Record # 302787


Price: $15.00 

Moreau, LA - A Biography of Jeanne MoreauGray, Marianne

Moreau, LA - A Biography of Jeanne Moreau


Gray, Marianne

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Adult, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. 10 pages of b&w photography. Gilt titles on spine. Some wrinkling to front end paper, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468026


Price: $13.00 

 

Mountain Charley


Guerin, Mrs. E. J.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, new, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401960


Price: $12.00 

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His MusicGlover, Jane

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music


Glover, Jane

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2006-01-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462015


Price: $10.00 

 

Mozart's Women: the Man, the Music, and the Loves of His Life


Glover, Jane

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom of text block, clean and tight copy

Record # 2230437


Price: $19.00 

Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a MarriageEisenhower, Susan

Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a Marriage


Eisenhower, Susan

Softcover. Sterling, Vi, Capital Books, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462166


Price: $10.00 

 

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life


Clinton, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Harper, rep, 2009-01-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465780


Price: $19.00 

 

My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter


Beer, Anna

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2003-08-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462379


Price: $10.00 

 

My Life with John Steinbeck: The Story of John Steinbeck's Forgotten Wife


Brown, Douglas

Softcover. UK, Lawson Publishing, 1st paperback, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape, looks barely read. Based on interviews between Gwyn Steinbeck and Douglas Brown. A look at the mysterious author, John Steinbeck.

Record # 31886


Price: $23.00 

Names and Stories: Emilla Dilke and Victorian CultureIsrael, Kali

Names and Stories: Emilla Dilke and Victorian Culture


Israel, Kali

Hardcover. N Y, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages.

Record # 58998


Price: $13.00 

Nancy Astor, a biographyMasters, Anthony

Nancy Astor, a biography


Masters, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 237 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460614


Price: $11.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965


Ford (Editor), Hugh

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613692


Price: $25.00 

 

Nelson's Wife - The First Biography of Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson


Keate, E. M.

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Black & white illustrations. Upper right corner of cloth cover and interior pages bumped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Blue cloth covers and spine sun faded with minor rubbing. 1/4" tear to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608800


Price: $50.00 

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth LawrenceWilson, Emily Herring

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence


Wilson, Emily Herring

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "...one hundred years after her birth, No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of this fascinating woman. Like classic biographies of literary figures such as Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and garden writers of the twentieth century."

Record # 30425


Price: $23.00 

 

No Turning Back - A Hopi Indian Woman's Struggle To Live in Two Worlds


Qoyawayma, Polingaysi

Softcover. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, As told to Vada F. Carlson. Black & white illust. 180 pages. Heavy sunning to wrappers otherwise VG.

Record # 65359


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life


Pruitt, Ida

Hardcover. US, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1979-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 129 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and upper edges of flaps. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462903


Price: $38.00 

 

Olive Schreiner


First, Ruth/Ann Scott

Hardcover. New York, Schoken Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609665


Price: $10.00 

 

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull


Goldsmith, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages, b & w illustrations, tight, clean copy, like new, dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 800563


Price: $6.00 

 

Our Famous Woman: An Authorized Record of Their Lives and Deeds.


Stewart Phelps, Elizabeth; et al.

Hardcover. Hartford, C, A.D. Worthington, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 715 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light wear to covers, gilt lettering on front cover. Moderate soil patch on upper left corner of rear cover, otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233642


Price: $100.00 

Passing ShotsShiver, Pam w/Deford,F.& Adams S.

Passing Shots


Shiver, Pam w/Deford,F.& Adams S.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 5688


Price: $9.00 

 

Passion of Abby Hemenway, The: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History


Clifford, Deborah Pickman

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 2230375


Price: $19.00 

 

Passionate Nomad - The Life of Freya Stark


Fletcher Geniesse, Jane

New York, Random House , 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Black & white photographs and maps.

Record # 204300


Price: $20.00 

 

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark


Geniesse, Jane

Hardcover. US, Random House, rep, 1999-09-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463211


Price: $11.00 

 

Passionate Pilgrim - The Extraordinary Life of Alma Reed


May, Antoinette

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white. 283 pages.

Record # 58222


Price: $15.00 

 

Patterns of Her Life: The Diary of a Vermont Dairy Farmer's Wife, 1894


Francis, Susan

Softcover. Manchester, VT, Shires Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps with only minor wear. Full color & b/w illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233080


Price: $25.00 

Penelope Fitzgerald: A LifeLee, Hermione

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life


Lee, Hermione

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price clipped front dust jacket flap. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470938


Price: $19.00 

 

Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation


Allgor, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006-04-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462397


Price: $11.00 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Poppie Nongena: The Internationally Acclaimed Story of One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid


Joubert, Elsa

Hardcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. A small bump to top edge of front cover board. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on back cover. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In great shape. A story of a woman's struggle to keep her family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings.

Record # 32163


Price: $15.00 

 

Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, The


Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1994-08-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Faint musty smell. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463081


Price: $10.00 

 

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III


Fraser, Flora

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 2005-04-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462144


Price: $11.00 

 

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III


Fraser, Flora

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 2005-04-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462398


Price: $10.00 

 

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaugan


Hayes, Elaine M.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards pristine, black binding tape and purple gilt title stamped on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Remainder mark on bottom edge, other edges clean. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Hayes brings to life the story of one of America's most musically gifted, creative, intelligent, and productive women.

Record # 31713


Price: $19.00 

 

Rebel fo Rights - Abigail Scott Duniway


Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

Paperback. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, Rep. wraps , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 302378


Price: $15.00 

Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott DuniwayMoynihan, Ruth Barnes

Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway


Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

Softcover. NEW HAVEN, CT, Yale University Press, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 450062


Price: $30.00 

 

Ruby - An Ordinary Woman


Thomson Glaser, Bonnie and Anne Martin Worster (ed)

Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Black & white photographs.

Record # 204059


Price: $12.00 

 

Russia Through Women's Eyes - Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia


Clyman, Toby W./Judith Vowles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. dust jacket with fading to spine, and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610670


Price: $13.00 

Sam Curds' Diary: The Diary of a True WomanArpad, Susan (Editor)

Sam Curds' Diary: The Diary of a True Woman


Arpad, Susan (Editor)

Hardcover. Athens, OH, Ohio Univ Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470262


Price: $23.00 

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent MillayMilford, Nancy

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay


Milford, Nancy

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 550 pages. Hardcover. 30 pages of b&w photography throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Related article laid in. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468549


Price: $19.00 

 

Savage Beauty


Milford, Nancy

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 550 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed poet. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light scuffing and marking to rear dust jacket upper edge. Slight bumping to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952396


Price: $23.00 

 

Secret Life of The Lonely Doll - The Search for Dare Wright, The


Nathan, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611653


Price: $19.00 

 

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette


Thurman, Judith

Hardcover. US, Knopf, Bc ed, 1999-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 529 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462930


Price: $11.00 

Seduced by Logic: Emilie Du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian RevolutionArianrhod, Robyn

Seduced by Logic: Emilie Du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution


Arianrhod, Robyn

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition with only minor edgewear. Very clean, unmarked, tight copy.

Record # 470844


Price: $25.00 

 

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII


Starkey, David

Hardcover. US, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003-07-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 852 pages, illustrations in color anmd b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462162


Price: $10.00 

 

Story of Chicago May, The


O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Biography of famed "Queen of the Underworld." Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate fading to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951739


Price: $25.00 

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy TiptonMiddlebrook, Diane Wood

Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459789


Price: $15.00 

 

Sylvia Plath: A Biography


Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, pink quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In this biography, only the second ever published, and the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, the author examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Platt's life, as well as her achievements.

Record # 32191


Price: $25.00 

Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her StoryRiley, Dawn

Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her Story


Riley, Dawn

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co (T), 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470229


Price: $10.00 

 

The Making of a Feminist - Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas


Dobkin (Ed.), Marjorie Housepian

Paperback. Kent State University Press , reprint wraps, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Paperback. Ex-library copy. Black & white photographs. Cover is scuffed and has some light edge wear.

Record # 204206


Price: $12.00 

The Trial of Madame CaillauxBerenson, Edward

The Trial of Madame Caillaux


Berenson, Edward

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st Paperback, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with some minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471438


Price: $15.00 

 

the Woman and the Myth - Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings


Chevigny, Bell Gale

Softcover. New York, Feminist Press, 2nd, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 509 pages. Paperback.Covers with rubbing, light creasing

Record # 204155


Price: $12.00 

 

This is Kate


Hard , Margaret

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company , 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages hardcover. Red cloth cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Black titles on the spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857215


Price: $23.00 

 

Together: Annals of an Army Wife


Marshall, Katherine Tupper

Hardcover. New York, Tupper and Love, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, hardcover. Friendly collection of the domestic life of Katherine Tupper Marshall, wife of General Marshall. Heavy fading to boards, mostly to spine. Bumping to corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Heavy spotting and age toning to prelim pages. Includes tipped-in letter written by the author. Black-and-white photographs intact. Unmarked and scarce. A tight copy.

Record # 952210


Price: $38.00 

 

Trials of Mrs. Lincoln, the: The Harrowing, Never-Before-Told Story of Mary Todd Lincoln's Last and Final Days


Schreiner, Samuel A. Jr.

Hardcover. New York, Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Blue cover boards, red title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. A small scrape to back of dust jacket, otherwise very good. In great shape for its age. Drawing from a 20,000-page, never-before-mined treasure trove of recently discovered family letters and documents, the author sets straight, and even recreates the record with this portrait.

Record # 31649


Price: $13.00 

Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline GordonJonza, Nancylee Novell

Underground Stream, The : The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon


Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Hardcover. US, Univ of Georgia Pr, 1st, 1995-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464068


Price: $10.00 

Underground Stream, The: The Life and Art of Caroline GordonJonza, Nancylee Novell

Underground Stream, The: The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon


Jonza, Nancylee Novell

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor to no wear to edges. Black and white pictures in center. Nice copy.

Record # 2233594


Price: $19.00 

Virginia Woolf: An Inner LifeBriggs, Julia

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life


Briggs, Julia

Hardcover. Harcourt, 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470301


Price: $19.00 

Virginia WoolfKing, James

Virginia Woolf


King, James

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 699 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine, cloth half covers.

Record # 470183


Price: $31.00 

Willa Cather: The Emerging VoiceO'Brien, Sharon

Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice


O'Brien, Sharon

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1986-11-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, dust jacket price clipped, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461812


Price: $10.00 

 

Willie Mae (Brown Thrasher Books)


Kytle, Elizabeth

Softcover. US, University of Georgia Press, 2nd printing, 1993-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466171


Price: $10.00 

With Bleeding Footsteps: Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious LeadershipThomas, Robert D.

With Bleeding Footsteps: Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership


Thomas, Robert D.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Decorative staining on top edge. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 467968


Price: $10.00 

 

Woman's Proper Place


Rothman, Sheila

Hardcover. US, Basic Books Inc.,U.S., na, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Inscribed by author. Light wear to covers and spine, else a nice copy.

Record # 450124


Price: $20.00 

 

Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Margaret Winthrop


Earle, Alice Morse

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, 2-page illustrated plate in front of book. Light foxing to plate. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Rubbing to cover corners. Spine faded. Library bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851488


Price: $15.00 

Women of Letters - Selected Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell MitfordRaymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan

Women of Letters - Selected Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford


Raymond, Meredith B. and Mary Rose Sullivan

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 302370


Price: $30.00 

 

Women on High - Pioneers of Mountaineering


Brown, Rebecca A.

Hardcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Very good dust jacket over gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Interior clean and tight.

Record # 613298


Price: $13.00 

Women Who Made History in Monroe CountyPostupack, Mary Frances

Women Who Made History in Monroe County


Postupack, Mary Frances

Softcover. Monroe County PA, privately printed, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages, b&w illustrations, softcover.

Record # 406784


Price: $10.00 

 

World of Love, A: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND HER FRIENDS 1943-1962


LASH, JOSEPH P.

hardcover. FRANKLIN CENTER, PA, THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 610 pages. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Full leather stamped in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpages & silk ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper otherwise, clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469042


Price: $38.00 

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