Search Results: women's Studies from Mary Riversong Books

Pasternak, Boris. The Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers. 1961, The Citadel Press. Softcover. 87 pages. 4 7/8 X 7 3/8. Please see our stock photo. "An enthralling novelette by the author of Dr. Zhivago. How a thirteen-year old girl ceases to be a child and becomes a woman in Russia just before the Communist Revolution." USED. Good Condition.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977 Dodd Mead First Printing Thus in an unclipped original lavender dust jacket protected in a mylar wrap. Original stated price $15.00. 529 pages, indexed. EXLIB. Good Condition/ Good Condition DJ. A nice clean copy. A great read.

ANZIA YEZIERSKA: 1932, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, First Edition, 1932. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. by Chas. H. Bohn & Co. . USED. Good/ No DJ Included. About the author: "Yezierska's fiction focuses on Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the century, and she sees herself as giving voice to her people".

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.

Blume, Judy. Are you There, God? It's Me, Margaret. 2014, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9781481413978. 5 3/4 X 8 5/8. USED. NEAR FINE CONDITION/NEAR FINE UNCLIPPED DJ. 169 pages. A BANNED BOOK. Summary: Deals with the role of religion in suburban United States in the mid-20th Century, and with puberty. The protagonist is an 11 year old girl.

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.

172ScottReporter Scott, Jane: Barbara Owen: Girl Reporter. 1956, Avalon Books First Edition. WOMEN IN JOURNALISM. EXLIB. Good/Good original price-clipped blue dust jacket. 5 ¼ X 8 224 pages. A nice find. RARE.

Plath,Sylvia.1971 First American Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States ISBN 06-013356-2 on the back dj panel. Summary: "The Bell Jar details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet. She is selected for a month-long summer internship as a guest editor of Ladies' Day magazine, but her time in New York City is unfulfilling as she struggles with issues of identity and societal norms."

Wharton, Edith. The Children. D. Appleton 1928 Stated First Printing, September, 1928. Black boards with Yellow titling and ornamentation. (1) on the last page of the text. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 347 pages. States (1) on the last page. Says "Moters" on page 135. New York & London. 5 5/8 X 7 7/8. A square, solid copy. RARE. Plot Summary: "First published in 1928, The Children is one of Edith Wharton's later novels, published when the author was in her mid-sixties. Like much of Wharton's fiction, it explores the moral complexities of socially unacceptable relationship – in this instance, one between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl."

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."

Bonney, Jo. 2000 First Edition, Theater Communications Group. EXTREME EXPOSURE, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE TEXTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. EXLIB. Softcover. 424 pages. 6 X 9. Good Condition/ None issued. Monologues, American; American Drama; 20th Century; Performance Art; United States. ISBN1559361557.

Pauli, Hertha: Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man." VG/Good original unclipped $4.95 purple dust jacket. Maroon boards with bright silver titling on the spine. 249 pages, indexed. 53/4 X 8 ¼.

Michael Cunningham. The Hours. Biography of Virginia Woolf. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Stated First Edition, 1998, FSG, NY. USED. VG/VG Unclipped dust jacket. ISBN0374172897 . 229 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne de Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

Burnett, Frances Hodgson A LADY OF QUALITY. Charles Scribner's copyright 1896. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Jewel Photoplay, Edition, 1924. USED. VG/Good Original RARE Virginia Valli as film character Clorinda Wildairs dust jacket. Protected in a mylar wrap. Green boards, red titling with grey ornamentation. 363 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 ¾. Please excuse our stack of books photos. A Lady Of Quality is the only title available here.

Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X

And Life Goes On. 1932 1st Ed. Doubleday, Doran, 1932. By Vicki Baum author of GRAND HOTEL. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good-original unclipped Bernhard art dust jacket. Front flap price $2.50. "The vivid tale of Elizabeth, the divine drudge, is Vicki Baum's first new book since Grand Hotel". Bright orange boards and topstain. Not sunned. Will ship from Oregon.

Patrick Dennis. Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television Belle Poitrine, as told to Patrick Dennis. With 150 photographs by Cris Alexander. 1961 E.P. Dutton, NY. STATED FIRST EDITION. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD $5.95 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. RARE THUS. 272 pages. Large Format: 7 ¼ X 10 ¼. Summary: "Little Me, was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of Maybelle Schlumpfert, "Belle Poitrine" (French for "Pretty Bosom"). It was written by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame.

Margaret Mitchell. Lost Laysen. 1996, Scribner. First Edition, 1st impression Thus. By Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With The Wind". BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION. Summary: "A spirited tale of love and honor on a doomed South Pacific Island called Laysen". Used. VG Condition/VG unclipped dust jacket. ISBN0684824280. 125 pages. 5 ¾ X 9 ½.

Mata Hari: Courtesan And Spy. 1930, Blue Ribbon Books Photoplay Edition featuring actress Greta Garbo. Coulson, Major Thomas, OBE. BIOGRAPHY. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 312 pages 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY. Summary "Femme Fatale Mata Hari's True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death. Mata Hari (1876-1917), real name Gertrude Margarete Zelle. Dancer on French stage, executed as a spy by the French. Please see our stock photos. " HARD TO FIND.