Women's Studies

California:: Cheri Gaulke.. Edition of 100. A pouch made of multi-colored Balinese sarongs contains an artists' book whose design is inspired by traditional palm-leaf books. Indonesian teak covers are held together by a central red cord and batiked wooden beads. Digitally printed on an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 with archival inks and Epson watercolor paper in an edition of 100. Each pouch is unique as each has its own batik design and cloth. Each book is signed and numbered. A true story. One lesbian trying to get pregnant; one gay man dying of AIDS. Life; death. The struggle to make life; the struggle to hold on to life. The ironies compound and cancel each other, until what is left are the dignity of struggle and sanctity of possibility. "Mark began dying of AIDS long before I began trying to conceive, both of us racing against the inevitability of time" begins the text, which tells the story of a journey between birth and death and of a magical trip to Bali. The imagery… Read More

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Brand new condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white, fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First printing. A volume in the ASA Rose Book Series (The Arnold and Caroline Rose Book Series of the American Sociological Association). Tables. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in dark blue on the spine and front cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket. 8vo. xvii, 187pp.

New York: Mora Boyle Publisher. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Published weekly, January 20, 1937, vol. 2, no.3. Upscale magazine edited for the women of Metropolitan New York. Clean soft covers with lightly rubbed spine edge. Features: Hoodwinking Justice; Nostalgia; From salesgirl to buyer, Southward Ho! Fashions: Bermuda; Apres Midi Simplicity; So much to buy so much to spend; Along Topper Row. Photographs: Kids love the snow; Man versus machine. Magazine ; Drawings& Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 34 pages .

"Una de las mejores biografías de la excelsa poetisa mexicana Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." (Palau, Manual del Librero) Primera edición, de autor, impresa en Madrid por los hijos de M.G. Hernández, 1910. Muy bella encuadernación holandesa de escuela española con tapas marmoleadas, lomo en piel vacuna con 4 falsos nervios, títulos y ornamentos dorados. Magnífico ejemplar, únicamente el canto superior de las tapas está un poco raspado. Interiores impecables. Muy raro, especialmente en esta encuadernación y estado de conservación.

Copyright ends at 1965, No Edition, No Printing Stated. Last page has 72-73-74-75 10 9. The American Edition is the Second Edition. This is a First American Edition with a 1972 (later) Printing. The dust jacket has some soiling with tears at edges of the spine and corners, see photos. Book itself is in Near Fine condition with the exception of a stain inside the cover which transferred to the FEP and bled onto two pages beneath. (Lowered the rating to Very Good). The black boards with blue lettering have bumped spine edges.

La femme dans la nature, dans les moeurs, dans la société, dans la légende, dans la société. By: Edmond Perrier, Verneau, Frederic Loliee, Chalck de la Faverie, Victor du Bled, Jules Claretie, Camille Pert, Prevost Marcel.Women in nature, in customs, legend and society, in French LanguageBeautifully bound books about Women, their nature and impact on the society, culture. The book shows and covers all aspects of womanhood in various parts of the world and in different cultures. The book has folding plates as well as retracting/popup plates.4 TomesParis, Sablons, Maison d'edition Bong & Co., [1900]Size: 29 x 22 cmPp.: 527, 373, 424, 354.Binding: Fine leather binding, giltstamped, colorstamped and blindstamped. Minor cracks on the top spine joints and rubbings on the top spine cover extremes (visible on T3). Minor stains and scratches on the panels (visible on photos). Imperfections on T4, part of the front panel damaged, leather melted near the center of the panel (1,5cm diameter).Condition:… Read More

Rare - collectable. Ex-library book otherwise in good condition with unmarked text. It is the softcover ISBN but with hardcover library binding. Some library stamps on page edges blacked out with sharpie. See also pictures for edition & condition.

197The Complete Opera Book is a very interesting and comprehensive book of operas illustrated with sixty three portraits, besides many lyrical and musical notation excerpts. There are very minor indications of wear in this book and no markings. The binding is very slightly discolored from exposure compared to the rest of the cover. I have been unable to find another copy of the 1937 version.

Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1997, trade paperback, 404 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Signed without inscription by the Author on the half-title page, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings in bright pictorial card covers, light edge and corner bumps, slight crease to front cover. The leading American lesbian activist, author, editor, and teacher's second novel, a work of historical fiction and an extraordinary testimony to the lives of Russian Jewish lesbians who immigrated to North America at the turn of the twentieth century, for which she was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction. Glossary appended. ISBN 9780889740747

The Temperance Bugle Call, For use in Temperance Meetings, Public Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges and in the Home. By Lyman S Leason. Copyright 1916. First Edition. Published and sold by L.S. Leason and D.B.Gilbert. Lincoln, Nebraska: 1916. From "Beware of the Bottle" to "Our Glasses Upside Down" and "When We Vote Nebraska Dry" and some songs with new words to old melodies, this is straight out of the Prohibition Era. A piece of history that is scarce outside of larger rare book collections! ****************See Photos for full Index to titles.*************** Condition: NOT a library book. Good, complete condition as shown. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business with you again! **Attention… Read More

Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine near new with single very light crease.
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Sixteeth-century England was scarcely a paradise for anyone by modern standards, and women in particular had few rights. At birth their fate was in hands of their fathers and after marriage everything they had belonged to their husbands. Yet in large numbers sixteenth-century women managed to work around these disadvantages and achieve personal success, even personal wealth.

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

Chicago: Radical America / Surrealist Editions / Black Swan Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Text in English translation. Rare 1972 Radical America / Chicago Surrealist Editions / Black Swan Press version of this classic text. Ownership signature of printer Peter Koch to inside front cover (no other markings), a bit of reading wear and staining.

Brown boards with gold writing on spine; top and bottom of book spine rumpled. Author's picture on back dust jacket; slight shelf wear to top and bottom of dust jacket. FPT and cover price of $17.95 on front dust jacket flap; book has overall tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Edition, Ninth Printing as indicated by "Ninth printing, 1987" on copyright page. Author's signature and inscription on title page.L'Engle's non-fiction work that explores the possible "answers to ultimate questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?". Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.

Horas de mi vida poesias de dulce maria borrero primera edicion berlin j kats verlag & sanchez y rosal hermanos 1912 signed con extensa dedicatoria de su autora para aurelia castillo de gonzalez.encuadernacion original de la epoca,buen estado,algo gastada por su uso.libro rarisimo edicion unica de coleccion.bordes laminados en oro.primer libro escrito por su autora.dulce maria borrero de lujan (Puentes Grandes, 1883 - La Habana, 1945) Poetisa cubana. A los doce años abandonó su país en compañía de su familia para instalarse en Cayo Hueso (Estados Unidos), debido al ambiente prebélico que envolvía la isla antillana.
Acabada la Guerra de la Independencia cubana, regresó a su país natal y comenzó a darse a conocer como escritora. En 1908 recibió el primer premio de los Juegos Florales del Ateneo de La Habana. Fue miembro de la Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras.
Dulce María Borrero defendió la incorporación de la población femenina al ámbito de la educación y la cultura en artículos… Read More