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Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some gentle toning to the pages and light edge-wear. Vanguard feminist publishing house Daughters, Inc. is best known for releasing the first edition of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, the same year it published this more obscure novel, an exploration of a fraught but darkly humorous mother-daughter relationship. Boyd, who was married to a man at the time and battling severe alcoholism, would eventually disavow the book, claiming that its writing process was an attempt to put the brakes on her emerging lesbianism (Years later, Brown told Boyd, 'You hit rock bottom and came up laughing'). When her urges didn't diminish after its publication, she left her husband, spent some time drying out, and reemerged in 1982 as a disheveled member of the Connecticut College writing faculty, wearing torn jeans, tinted glasses, and what the then–head of the English department called 'the dirtiest shoes he had ever seen,' before spending the next…
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- Title Nerves
- Author Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 169
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Daughters Pub. Co., Plainfield, VT
- Date 1973
- ISBN 9780913780046 / 0913780049
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 73086273
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Daughters, inc. paperback. Good. 8x4x0. Moderate wear. The binding is tight. The pages are lightly tanned. The text is free of markings.
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Plainfield, VT: Daughters, inc, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. GOOD. 22 cm.. Spine is creased. A couple of small spots of dampstain to top edge of last few pages. Paperback original. 1973 handwritten on copyright page. 169 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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Plainfield, Vermont: Daughters, inc.. Near Fine. 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 0913780049 . First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Signed by author on title page. Book is in Near Fine condition - scratched front cover; top of spine, creased; moderate tanning of pages due to age.; Signed by Author .
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