THE UNVEILING.
by Payne, Grace Fisher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some minor notations to the title page and copyright page by the author, and updates to the/very good
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About This Item
Duarte, CA: : Westminster Gardens,, (1957). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some minor notations to the title page and copyright page by the author, and updates to the author's biography on the dj flap.. 2nd printing. "This is the story of Esmat, a woman of modern Iran, her struggle for the right to individuality in a land where for centuries women have held an inferior position." INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 1973, but not personalized. Underneath her signature the author has commented "Written to show the problems which women living in a Moslem land who sincerely revere the Koran must overcome to fulfill the dictates of Islam." The author spent most of her married life in Iran as the wife of a missionary and as a teacher. 313 pp. Dust jacket art by Vera Bock.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71882
- Title
- THE UNVEILING.
- Author
- Payne, Grace Fisher
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some minor notations to the title page and copyright page by the author, and updates to the
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Westminster Gardens,
- Place of Publication
- Duarte, CA:
- Date Published
- (1957)
- Keywords
- central asia, iran, women authors,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Central Asia and the Middle East;
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