Search Results: Women Writers

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Macmillan of Canada. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Cornell University Press, 1991T. paperback. Very Good. 0.7874 in x 8.8976 in x 5.9843 in.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1990. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG-. 0231072511 1st paperback edition [number line], 8vo, 269 pages, bw/ illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD- : slight edgewear, some scattered underlinings to the "Vindication ..Women" chapter, otherwise a great clean and tight working copy.

Westminster, Maryland: Fawcett Books, 1989. First Edition, Later Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Radically original biography of Nora, James Joyce's wife. Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. Book is clean, tight with a hint of toning at text, else fine. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4, 472 pp, index, bibliography, notes, b/w photo section.

Tin House Books. Used - Very Good. 2007. Paperback. Very Good.

Nelson P. Farquhar. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Faint rubbing to dust jacket. ; 1st edition. Illustrated with black and white photos. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 171 pages .

Introduction by LARRY MCMURTRY.

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Novel.

London: Phoenix, 2000. Soft cover. VG+. 1842121669 Reprint ed. [originally published in 1977 by Jonathan Cape], 8vo, wraps, 332 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

Cornell University Press, 1991-04. Paperback. Good.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0231042620 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, 283 pages, bibliographical notes. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/G+. 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 226 pages, bibliographical notes. VERY GOOD book / GOOD jacket: light edgewear, top page edge slightly darkened, owner inscription, old bookseller label on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn, with a few large chips to top edge, spine darkened with a small hole and a tear. An evaluation of the various Victorian literary personalities, as well as chapters on Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant.

NY: Stein and Day, 1981. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0812827619 1st Am edition [First published in 1981], 8vo, tan boards with burgundy cloth backstrip, 232 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear to book and jacket; jacket has slight yellowing and scuffing to white on rear panel. Frances Burney d'Arblay [1752-1840], one the the early women novel writers "before Jane Austen" who spanned the 18th and 19th centuries - Dr. Johnson said of her, "Miss Burney is a real wonder; " her life alone is a page-turner. Noted for Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, and her letters and diaries.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book is clean, bright and fresh. DJ is priceclipped. "An important book which should be read by every woman considering motherhood, who is a new mother, or who is torn between motherhood and her career. Thought-provoking, well researched and well organized and may change the course of the history of her life and the life of her family." - Arlene Cardozo

New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. Later printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book is clean, tight and fresh but no DJ. Previous owner's name deftlt written on the front flyleaf. First American Edition of Antonia Fraser's oft-reprinted biography of Mary Stuart, the author's first work of history.

New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/fine. x, 253 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with copper stamped spine title and beige paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on lower page edges. In the title essay, Gordon examines novels by Dreiser, Faulkners, and Updike, where she finds "an abundance of female corpses and a certain heroism attributed to the men responsible; she finds an ideology which suggests that men are active, eager, gold creasures--except when women slow them down."--dust jacket. Remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise in Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xiv, 202 p., 8 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black and beige cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) was an American author who was very active in the 1920s and 1930s but largely forgotten before her death in 1963. She wrote 12 novles, 2 volumes of poetry, 4 children's books, and 2 autobiographical works from 1921 to 1941. In this praised biography, D. A. Callard draws on a variet of sources to present a full picture of this interesting and rebellious American writer. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First American edition. xvii, [1], 300 p.: 16 p. of unpaginated illustrations; 24 cm. White cloth with blue spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Gun Larson. Book is in Near Fine Condition: red remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: rubbed; creasing and chipping along lower edge.

New York: Viking Studio Books, 1990. Paperback. Fine. ix, [1], 102 p.: color photographs; 18 x 20 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Contents: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield -- A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty -- The Chrysanthemums by John Steinback -- Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Occasional Garden by Saki. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.