Women's Studies & Men's Studies from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Horizontal format illustrated 19th century youth American paperback, history, This biographical account for young readers describes the courageous work of runaway slave Harriet Tubman in helping to guide escaping slaves northward to safety and freedom via a network of other anti-slavery citizens, homes, churches.

RARE in original. Lower edge wear, lower spine surface repair needed. Olive green tightly woven cloth over boards; decorated by green and red stamped floral artwork, front wrapping around spine. Very nice light green small print end papers. Durable paper text pages. 16x20 cm. Concave outside page block. Rounded spine. Facsimile author signature, front board. Collected by Kate Sanborn, based… Read more about this item

Front cover color art features contributing writer and lead actress Lili Tomlin's portrait. Playwright Jane Wagner, "known for her satiric humor, social commentary and moving drama" had received the New York Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards earlier for "The Search".

Brown fabric over boards. White titles, front and spine. Jacket flaps detached and lightly glued inside each board; in back w/ makeshift library pocket. Other random ex-library markings. End paper foxing to a few other front pages. Age-toning to text pages. Photo borders have some foxing, not true of images alone. Book cover front: 3 nickel size white stains. Author… Read more about this item

New York / Oxford.: Oxford University Press., 1984. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blemished by top page block foxing. Clean covers. Well-bound.. 1 Grey and rose cloth over boards. 432 p. Epilogue, Notes, Biographical Note, Index. Audience: General/trade. Women authors / History and Criticism / American fiction / 19th century.… Read more about this item

New York.: Summit Books / Simon and Schuster., 1981. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Page block foxing: top and side. Clean interior.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 344 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. Classic feminist United States history and literature by the author who 2 decades earlier articulated and… Read more about this item

Berkeley CA.: University of California Press., 1990. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Good. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by prior owner. Limited front underlining in Introduction.. Carroll, Hanson (Photos by), and Wilson, Joyce (Photos by), and Heilman, Grant (Photos by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Audience: General/trade. Gender Studies / Literary Criticism / Male Sexuality. Authors: Melville, Herman;… Read more about this item

Harper Perennial, 1987. Perennial Library edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Near fine; Top page block shelf dusting.. Leger, Fernald (Cover Art, "Three Women Holding Flowers" painting by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 154 p. Audience: General/trade. A candid collection of essays exploring in personal terms the quality and custom of women's lives. The author is working at… Read more about this item

Modern Library Classics Paperback Edition., 2001. First edition. 1st paperback edition, 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. With light random lower back cover spots.. 1 Trade paperback. 348 p. Audience: General/trade. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) has been described as having "the most original and challenging mind which the [women's] movement produced", (Carrie Chapman Catt). Her lead story is terrifying… Read more about this item

Viking., 1995. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Light page block foxing.. 1 Textured blue paper over spine; off-white paper over boards. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. 341 p. 24 cm. Audience: General/trade. 20th century Women's Studies, exploring the lives and professional partnerships of 5 brilliant, achieving women wed to brilliant, achieving men,… Read more about this item

New York.: Atlantic Monthly Press., 1989. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Back cover jacket soiling.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 241 p. 22 cm. Audience: General/trade. Artists / anthropology / women's studies. Five artists engaged in the act of creation: the composition of our lives, using the framework of comparative biography. Larger… Read more about this item

Middletown CT.: Wesleyan University Press., 1988. First edition. Stated first.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Minor top page block soiling.. 1 Dark pink cloth over boards. Black spine titles. Jacket: B&W classic art study, front. 319 p. Audience: General/trade. Feminist literary criticism, imaginative in its choice of texts. Courage in literature. Women's Studies. Discussions include… Read more about this item

Pocket Books. by arr. w/ Alfred A Knopf., 1984. First edition. 1st Pocket Boks printing.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. Uniform darkening to top page block. Clean. Smooth spine.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Autobiographical novel, "painfully honest and terribly funny" (from back cover notes). Wise and witty, Nora Ephron's character Rachel, 7 months pregnant, has… Read more about this item

Los Angeles CA.: Holloway House Publishing Company., 1975. Mass-market paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Cover wear. Prior owner name across top page block. Age-toning.. Smith, Bob (Front cover art by).. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 218 p. Audience: General/trade. A life story involving lesbianism, drugs, and racism, recalled by a black female psychiatrist who can… Read more about this item

New York / Chicago / San Francisco.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston., 1970. First edition. Stated 1st Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Near fine volume. Jacket has done its job, protecting the volume, and suffering spine end and edge wear; darkening jacket spine; small chips w/ larger one on back top outside corner.. 1 Light… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh PA / San Francisco CA.: Cleis Press., 1989. 4th pinting.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light cover wear. Clean pages. Tight.. Ferentz, Nicole (Artwork by). 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Brightly illustrated covers: orange, purple; w/ blue and red titles. Pen&Ink line art. Audience: General/trade. Subtitle: "...on the sweet & savory arts of Lesbian Courtship, sensualizing them with… Read more about this item

New York.: Basic Books / Perseus Books Group., 2001. ARC.. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Trade paperback. 198 p. Audience: General/trade. A bittersweet memoir of falling in love with books, ideas, and the fight for social justice, beginning in the 1960s. In this volume, the author reveals her personal life as activist and writer.

New York.: Fawcett Crest by arr. w/ Saturday Review Press., 1973. First edition. 1st Fawcett.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Moderate cover reading wear. Spine creasing.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 157 p. Audience: General/trade. Women's Studies / Humor / Autobiographical. "Yes, married" is a book on Everywoman's marriage, a witty anatomy.

New York.: Rarity Press., 1931. First edition. Presumed 1st printing, Rarity edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine volume. Light wear to jacket. No illustrations w/ text.. 1 181 p. Purple cloth over boards. Line drawing in silver, naked woman, lower front right. "A careful scientific inquiry into the subject of sex in… Read more about this item

New York.: Carlton & Porter., 1851. Thirty-eighth thousand.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Historic insect damage to board gutters. Foxing. Tightly bound.. 1 251 p. Royal blue embossed covers, oval w/ floral edges. Gold spine titles w/ ornament. Stitched binding. 18 cm. 4 pages publisher lists, primarily Christian. Subtitle: "Designed to be a… Read more about this item