BAKER, PAULA

The Moral Frameworks of Public Life Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930

New York City: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0195064526. Cover is taupe with black lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. 1991, first edition. Illustrated with 16 b/w photos. Chapters: Limited Horizons of Rural Life, 1870-1900; Moral Vision of Men's Politics, 1870-1900; Feminine Virtues and Public Life, 1870-1900; Economy and Harmony: The Goals of Local Government in the Late Nineteenth Century; Intelligent Farmer and His Intelligent Wife: Political and Social Change, 1900-1919; Progressivism and the Countryside in the 1920s; appendix. 2 copies available. ; B&W Photographs; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; 251 pages; DJ has slight rubbing/scuffing.. New in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 10683

Catalogue: Women in Politics

Keywords: 0195064526 Women's History; Women; American History Gender Roles; Feminism; Women's History; Feminist Literature; Li Paula Baker; Politcal History; Cultural History; Social History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Busines

BLUM, BERNARD

I Was Born in a Siberian Prison

Gaithersburg, MD: Flower Valley Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 1886388067. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Published in 1997. In 1897 Mordecai Goldberg, the son of a Jewish grocer, was arrested on trumped up charges of counterfeiting and sent to Siberia. His wife and baby girl accompanied him. While there they had another child, Niutka, the mother of the author. Afterwards, Mordecai managed to escape, eventually emigrating to Israel and starting a new life, while his first family remained in Siberia, facing extraordinary hardships and exceptional kindnessess. Niutka wrote down this story, which is presented by her son, Bernard Blum. ; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; 77 pages; Cover has some edge wear and bumping/shallow creasing of corners.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 6630

Catalogue: Jewish Women

Keywords: 1886388067 Biography; Judaism; Jewish American History; Jewish History; Jewish Women; Russian History; Siberia; Anti-Semitism; Zionism; Women/Womens' History Cultural History European History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals Judaism/Jewish History/Jew

CARMI, GIORA

And Shira Imagined

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 082760288X. Illustrated by Giora Carmi. Date of publication is 1988, Gregorian calendar, and 5748 in the Jewish calendar. Cover is tan colored with black lettering on spine. Oblong shaped. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. Full page sized color and b/w original drawings by the author. Stated FIRST EDITION." Shira and her parents were visiting Israel. They went first to Tel Aviv. 'Imagine, this city appeared like a miracle out of the sand, ' her mother said. And Shira imagined....all the stuffed animals from her bedroom back in America joined her in her imagination...Wherever the family went, Shira imagined. And when she imagined, her animal friends accompanied her....Black-and-white drawings of Israeli sites contrast with full-color images of Shira's thoughts. Giora Carmi's captivating art and simple, direct text encourage further comparisons of reality and fantasy in this charming picture book". Carmi is also well know for his drawings in periodicals and magazines as well as children's books...Lovely, lively, charmingly illustrated tale of a young girl, her imagination, and an ancient land and culture. Oversized, 3#. ; Color & B/W Illustrations; 12 x 10 1/4; Unpaginated, 32 pages; Cover has light shelfwear and bumping. Front endpaper has some creasing. DJ has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, light creasing and bumping; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 9187

Catalogue: Jewish Women

Keywords: 082760288x Israel; Travel; Juvenile Literature; Art; Artists; Picture Books; Giora Carmi; Illustrations; Illustrators;

CHEN, CONSTANCE M.

"the Sex Side of Life" Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education

New York City: The New Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1565841328. Cover is black with silver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 19 b/w photos and some b/w drawings. "A suffragette, a leading figure of the American Arts and Crafts movement, a prominent peace activist, and a crusader for the right to obtain and distribute information about contraception, Mary Ware Dennett was also author of the sex-education pamphlet "The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People". Though the pamphlet--written in 1915 for Dennett's adolescents sons--ultimately became a respected, widely-read publication, public officials judged it obscene and brought Dennett to trial in a landmark censorship case...."; B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 374 pages; Cover has slight edge wear and bumping. DJ has some light edge wear, very slight crinkling across top of back.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 13057

Catalogue: Women Pioneers

Keywords: 1565841328 Mary Ware Dennett; Suffragettes; Women's Rights; Social Activism; Social History; Cultural History; American History Women's History;; Women; Women/Womens' History Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education American History Art Biog

KAHN, LIZ; FOREWORD BY BETTY HICKS

L P G a: The Unauthorized Version the History of the Ladies Professional Golf Association

Menlo Park, CA: Group Fore Productions, Inc, 1996. First Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 088197126X. Hardcover is dark green with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with dozens of b/w photos. Sections are: First 45 Years; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s & 1980s; 1990s; WPGA Founders, LPGA Charter Members. Gives a biography and history of each of the many women, stars of their days in the golfing world. The 13 LPGA charter members were: Alice Bauer; Patty Berg; Bettye Mims Danoff; Helen Dettweiler; Marlene Hagge; Helen Hicks; Opal Hill; Betty Jameson; Sally Sessions; Marilynn Smith; Shirley Spork; Louise Suggs; Babe [Didrickson] Zaharias [who as Babe Didrickson was THE American track and field star at the 1932 Los Angeles summer Olympics]. Oversized, 4#. ; B&W Photographs; 7 1/4 x 10 1/2; 308+ pages; Cover has very slight bumping; neat pen note on front end paper. DJ has slight rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 4074

Catalogue: Women in Sports

Keywords: 088197126x Sports; Athletes; Women Activists; Women's History; Women Athletes; Professional Athletes; Gender Bias; Gender Roles; Biography; Women/Womens' History Sports/Athletics Cultural History History American History Biography/Memoirs/Journals Busines

LOVE, ADELAIDE

The Star and the Leaf

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Cover is black with gold lettering on the front and spine. Cover has some edge wear, bumping, rubbing with a small water stain on top of back at spine. DJ has edge wear, bumping, rubbing, scuffing, fading, a series of small tears across the top and a small tear at bottom of front. Pages are deckled, clean and tight, with a few pages uncut. Several critics write "...verse of radiant beauty; " "most gentle touch percieving and transferring beauty; " and "able to sound the authentic note of womanhood.." ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/4; 93 pages. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 416

Catalogue: Women's Literature

Keywords: Poetry; Verse; Fiction; American Authors; Women Wr Poetry; Verse; Fiction; American Authors; Literature; Women Authors; Literature/Poetry/Classics Women/Womens' History Fiction

MATHEWS, NANCY MOWELL, EDITOR

Cassatt a Retrospective

No Place: Beaux Arts Editions, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0883633647. Hardcover is blue with gold blind stamped lettering on front and spine. Yellow end papers. Pages are clean and tight; appears almost as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 pictures, of which 118 are in color. Sections are Bibliographical index; Chronology; Geneology; Introduction; source notes, index. Has essays and letters by and to dozens of different writers and friends. Some of them include: Alexander J. Cassatt; Mary Cassatt; Emile Zola; Louisa May Alcott; Edgar Degas; Felix Feneon: Louisine Havemeyer; Achilles Segard; Ambroise Vollard. "...traces the life of this great American artist through the correspondence and accomplishments she maintained over a lifetime. Over 100 articles and documents....provide as intimate a perspective of this remarkable woman as one is likely to find anywhere". Very heavy and oversized; 7#. ; B & W and Color; 1.5 x 13.5 x 10.1 Inches; 357 pages; Cover has some light bumping. DJ has light bumping and rubbing; in a mylar cover.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 5276

Catalogue: Women in the Arts

Keywords: 0883633647 Art; Artists; Reference; Women Artists; Women in the Arts; Impressionism; Impressionists; France; French Art; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education European History American History Art Biography/Memoirs/Journals Antiques/Collectible

MCDONOUGH, YONA ZELDIS

Anne Frank

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1997. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. ISBN: 080504924X. Illustrated by Malcah Zeldis. Nonpaginated. Cover is glazed boards with slight bumping. End papers are yellow. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated by the author's mother, the internationally known folk artist, Malcah Zeldis, who has paintings hanging in many US and foreign museums. Every page has a brilliantly colored illustration, really bringing the text to life. This is the internationally renowned story of Anne Frank, and her family, who hid in a building annex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 1942-1944, before being betrayed to the Nazis and shipped off to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister Margot died of typhus, Anne was just 15 years old. Her father Otto was the only one of the eight from the Annex who survived the war. Anne wrote in a diary she had recieved on her 13th birthday, chronicling the everyday life of hiding in the annex, with her family and then four others, always afraid of betrayal and discovery. At the same time she was a typical young girl, with a young girl's hopes and dreams, of which she writes, and pictures of movies stars pasted on the walls. A version suitable for younger children, which while accurate, is not horrifying in its retelling, but honest and thoughtful. ; Color Illustrations; 4to, 9 1/4 x 11; 30 pages; Slight bumping on book. DJ has faint, half circle stain on bottom of front; light rubbing/scuffing; in a mylar cover.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 5716

Catalogue: Jewish Women

Keywords: 080504924x Anne Frank; Judaism; Holocaust; Amsterdam; the Net Anne Frank; Judaism; Holocaust; Amsterdam; the Net Judaism; Holocaust; World War Ii; European History; Amsterdam; Genocide; Anti-Semitism; Juvenile Women/Womens' History Cultural History Europe

MUIR, DOROTHY TROTH

Presence of a Lady the Story of Mount Vernon During the Civil War

Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 1982. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Original copyright 1946, 1974. Illustrated with four b/w pictures. Pages are clean and tight. Contains the letters written between Miss Sarah Tracey, the Secretary/Assistant for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, left in charge of procuring furnishings for the historic mansion, and Miss Cunningham, one of the Ladies, who had been called home to North Carolina. A view of life, and trying to maintain a property of national historic prominence, during a time of great chaos, strife, lack and horror. ; B&W Illustrations; 6 x 9; 90+ pages; Cover has edge wear and bumping; some creasing along the spine, remains of a label on the back cover. Two small dark spots, one on sides and one on top of page block. Slight scuffing/rubbing.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 2146

Catalogue: Famous Women

Keywords: Dorothy Troth Muir; Mount Vernon; George Washington; Historic Architecture; Historic Properties; Civil War; War between the States; American History; Women's History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Architecture American History Furniture/Interiors

SAWYER, SUSAN

More Than Petticoats Remarkable Tennessee Women

Helena, Montana: Twodot Book, 2000. First Edition (?). Softcover. ISBN: 1560449012. More Than Petticoats Series; B&W Illustrations; 6 x 9; 139+ pages; Very slight shelf wear to cover. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Some b/w illustrations. "...presetns the stories of 12 extraoridnary women from Tennessee's past. Some of these women are well-known, such as Elizabeth Gilmer, who transformed herself into columnist Dorothy Dix, and Sarah Polk, America's 11th First Lady. Others are less familiar, such as Ida B. Wells Barnett, one of the first Black investigative journalists, and Emma Bell Mills, who recorded rural mountain life through words and paintings. The women featured in this book, all born before 1900, influenced society in ways that still affect us today".. Near Fine .

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Book number: 2719

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: 1560449012 Women; Women Activists; Women's History; Biography; Cultural History; Social History; American History; African American Authors; African American History; Literature/Poetry/Classics Women/Womens' History Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural Hi

SUMPTION, DOROTHY

Sports for Women

New York: Prentice Hall, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Cover is blue cloth with gold lettering on front and spine. Very minor sunning and shelf wear, almost invisible. Stamped on inside front cover with department stamp from U. Of Mich, and again on bottom of title page. Pages have a little sunning and wear, but otherwise exceptionally clean and intact. A good book about the attitude for women and sports pre-WWII. Shows how far we've come. Many b/w drawings, diagrams and photos. Mentions such sports as dancing; tennis, bowling, swimming, fencing, badminton, table tennis, and archery. Another book that foreshadows the advent of Title IX legislation for girls' and womens' school athletics. ; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 6 X 8 1/4; 264 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7839

Catalogue: Women in Sports

Keywords: Sports; Athletics; Women; Women's Sports; Educatio Sports; Athletics; Women; Womens' History; Cultural History; Colleges; College Sports; Women in Sports; Women/Womens' History Sports/Athletics Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education Scienc

TOPPING, BRETT AND NANCY G. HELLER

The Age of Grandeur and a Woman Who Lived It Artist Evelyn Metzger

Washington, D. C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1995. First Edition (?). Softcover. ISBN: 0940979284. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book; still in publisher's shrink wrap. Extensively illustrated with 100+ color and b/w pictures. Evelyn was born in New York in 1911, the daughter of well-to-do aesthetes. Her parents had been traveling to Europe and around the USA for years before her birth, and they took their children with them, as they continued to visit museums and enhance their already extensive art collection. She was educated at the Horace Mann high school, a place noted for its rigorous, demanding and progressive curriculum, where she excelled. From there she entered Vassar College in 1928, and from there, with some ups and downs due to the vicissitudes of the stock market and the Great Depression, she continued her globetrotting life, always living in the best circles. She'd run into the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in an elevator, and so forth.. Fascinating biography of a woman who lived her life with great zest. Oversized, 4#. ; Photographs; 9 1/4 x 11 1/2; 263 pages; Very slight bumping.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 13547

Catalogue: Women in the Arts

Keywords: 0940979284 Evelyn Metzger; Women Artists; Women's History; National Museum of Women in the Arts; Museum Collections; 20th Century Artists; World History; Cultural History; Social History;

TURNER, ERIN H.

More Than Petticoats Remarkable California Women

Helena, Montana: Twodot Book, 1999. First Edition (?). Softcover. ISBN: 1560448598. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with some b/w pictures. "...the ten women presented here, all born before the 20th century, were extraordinary not because they took on male roles but because they blazed their own trails and became a part of California's history...Isadora Duncan, one of the of the founders of modern dance, Dorothea Lange, a celebrated documentary photographer; and Tye Leung Schulze, who quietly defended the rights of California's Chinese citizens; among others mentioned in this book. ; More Than Petticoats Series; B&W Illustrations; 6 x 9; 128 pages; Cover has slight edge wear.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 11722

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: 1560448598 Women Activists; Women; Women's History; Women Pioneers; California; California History; American History; Cultural History; Social Activism; Literature/Poetry/Classics Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Orient/As

WOLFF, JANET

Feminine Sentences Essays on Women & Culture

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. Softcover. ISBN: 0745608558. Cover is wraps. Pages are clean and tight. No underlining, highlighting or margin notes [except on page 1]. 9 b/w illustrations. "The essays in this book challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and enquiry...question of women's writing...." ; B&W Illustrations; 6 x 9; 146 pages; Cover has light bumping, edge wear, rubbing. Underlining on page 1; other pages are clean.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 3268

Catalogue: Women in the Arts

Keywords: 0745608558 Women Activists; Women in the Arts; Women's Studies; Women's History; Sociology; Women Authors; Women Writers; Cultural History; Social History; Literature/Poetry/Classics Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Biogra