The destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt by Cecily Mackworth

NY: Ecco. Good; some wear. 1975. Hardbound. 0912946229 . 228 pages .

Ecco Press, 1975. Hardcover. Good.

Ecco Press, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean throughout. DJ with light wear, in archival cover.

New York. 1975. Ecco Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0912946229. 228 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Abner Graboff. keywords: Biography Women France. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the fascinating biography of Isabelle Eberhardt, born in 1877 and raised by her half-mad father, an ex-pope of the Orthodox Church. Tragedy after tragedy marked her childhood till she escaped to Algeria and became a Moslem, living the life of an Arab nomad, disguised as a man, accepting unbelievable hardship and poverty, and finally obtaining initiation into the esoteric religious life of Islam. She died at twenty-seven in a flash flood in the Sahara. Her life is a great adventure story, but it is also a riddle: How did this woman who lived constantly in the disguise of a man remain so essentially a woman? How can the artist be reconciled with the adventuress, the rebel? And how could the genuine mystic who yearned for sainthood, live a life that earned her the reputation of a drunkard arid a… Read More

New York: Echo Press, 1975. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. brown cloth, gilt lettering, 228 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Ecco Press, 1975. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is rubbed and worn along edges. Jacket is lightly tanned, and jacket is lightly sunned, not affecting legibility. Cover corners are lightly worn. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.