Surviving the Fire: Mother Courage & World War II
Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publishing Inc., 1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 146, illus., map, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears/chips. More
Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publishing Inc., 1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 146, illus., map, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears/chips. More
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxviii,[2], 300 pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations. References. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Barbara, Great to see you again. Carol Kolmerten. This is one of the Writing American Women series. Ernestine L. Rose was one of the most important, but also one of the least-known, women's rights activists in nineteenth-century America. In the first comprehensive biography of Rose, Carol A. Kolmerten has recovered the most eloquent and persuasive speeches and letters of the movement itself. Rose's disappearance from history is telling. Scorned by newspaper editors, ministers, and politicians, she was also ignored by many of the very women and men with whom she shared reform platforms. In a movement that drew much of its moral and intellectual energy from appeals to sentimental Christian piety, Rose's atheism, her Jewish and Polish background, her foreign accent, and her blunt appeal to reason all made her a kind of barometer for the era's reformers, registering their anti-Semitism, their anti-immigrationist sentiments, their unconscious racism. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 259, illus., maps, bibliography, index, sticker reisdue at bottom of spine. More
New York: Miramax Books, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 274 p. Bibliography. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2002. First Edition, Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 235, [1] p. Illustrations. More
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983. 199, wraps, appendix, sticker with a Kate Millet quotation on front cover, ink mark on title page, sticker residue on rear cover. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c1991. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 214, illus., maps, references. Translation of: Die Stunde der Frauen. More
Rockville, MD: Maryben Books, c1995. First Printing. Wraps. 22 cm, 112 pages. Wraps, illus., minor soiling to covers. Signed by the author. More
New York: Rausen Bros. 1952. 79, wraps, spine glue weakened, several tears and small pieces missing to wax paper DJ. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1983. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 330, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ edges worn, ink notation on flyleaf Correspondence between two college friends, revealing the hurts and joys of transforming to adulthood, married life, and motherhood. More
New York: Shapolsky Publishers, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 159, Inscribed by the author. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 219, [7] pages. Inscribed and dated by the author to Steve Roberts (husband of Cokie Roberts) on the title page. Inscription reads: To Steve with all best wishes. Thank you so much for making me feel comfortable. Deborah Larsen, September 5, 2002. Ms. Larsen is the winner of the 1987 Wallace Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. Perviously she lived in Oxford, England where she was a prizewinner in the National Poetry Competition and read her poetry for BBC Radio 3. She also taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, PA. This novel is based on the true story of a woman named Mary Emission (or, as some think, Mary Samisen) who, in 1758, was actually taken by a Shawnee raiding party in south-central Pennsylvania, and forced from her home. In this reimagining of her life story, Mary gradually becomes integrated into her new Indian family and by her own choice does not return to white society. More
New York: Hyperion, 2002. First American Edition. First Printing. 210, map, glossary, chronology. More
New York: Regan Books, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 325, illus. (some color), tape residue on rear board and DJ flap. More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 399, [5] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Erasure residue on fep. Minor edge soiling noted. Paul Lauter (spouse of Florence Howe) is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon. Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. Florence Howe was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian. She earned a BA from Hunter College in English, and a MA in English from Smith College. Her life and work were focused on feminism and social justice. She founded Feminist Press in 1970. In 1973, she became the president of the Modern Language Association. She was a college professor and taught women's studies at Goucher College. In 1971, she became professor of Humanities at SUNY. She wrote or edited more than a dozen books and more than 120 essays. Her essays were published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Women's Review of Books, and a variety of anthologies. Her books included a memoir, A Life in Motion and a collection of essays, Myths on Coeducation. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 314 pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by Mari J. Matsuda to Betsy Levin on the Title page. Also signed by Charles Lawrence. Inscription read: To Betsy Levin With thanks for all you've done to bring equality to legal education. Betsy Levin was the first tenured woman on the faculty at Duke Law. Her primary interests focused on education, local government, and constitutional law. While she was on the Duke Law faculty she was also a Residential Fellow at the National Institute of Education and General Counsel at the Department of Education. Levin authored and edited several books on education and school financing such as Future Directions for School Finance Reform in 1975 and The Courts as Educational Policymakers and Their Impact on Federal Programs in 1977. Levin served on several committees on education, educational financing, and women's rights including the ACLU. In 1966 Levin obtained an LL.B. at Yale, where she was Topics Editor of the Yale Law Review. In 1981 Levin became Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, a position she held until 1987. Levin remained on the Colorado faculty until 1993. She served as the executive director of the Association of American Law Schools from 1987 to 1992. Levin continued to teach in a variety of adjunct and visiting professor positions until her retirement in 2009. Reviews the original intent of affirmative action policies and argues for their critical role in the health of American society, emphasizing the need for an expanded and more humane version of affirmative action. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 440, notes, bibliography, index People in both traditional monogamous and "open" marriages discuss frankly their senses of guilt and shame, their strivings for power and control, their compulsions to tell all, their impossible struggles to juggle marriage and infidelity, showing that adultery is not only a story of liberated sensuality and distraught families, but a poignant attempt to live out a tale of rebellion, conquest, and self-affirmation, a toxic compensation for frustrated lives. More
Cabin John, Maryland: Diane Leatherman, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade Paperback. 166, [2] pages. Illustrated cover. Signed by the author, Diane Leatherman, on the title page Includes Prologue and 34 chapters. Born in Kansas City just as her parents were emerging from the Great Depression, Diane Leatherman learned early to dread the "crossing of Kansas" when the family traveled west each summer. There were few restaurants or gas stations with clean restrooms. Nothing in those days was air-conditioned. The state was flat, hot and endless. Life has gotten easier--for most of us. With all of the problems modernization makes, still each of us have more opportunity to fully develop ourselves, especially women. Ms. Leatherman began college at a small girls school in the middle of Missouri, which her grandmother had attended a half century before, and finished a degree almost 15 years later. She has been a park ranger, teacher, worked at an "eighteenth century" dirt-level farm and has served as Executive Director of Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Maryland. She is a member Maryland Writers Association, National Writers Union, and Publications Marketing Association. Fictionalized memoir, mature women will recognize the bright little girl who grows up to see no recourse but marriage at the end of the 1950s. When the social revolution of the 1960s manages to reach her, she begins to be restless with her role and throws her life into a spiral that imperils her and her children, yet results in a more complete person. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. First American printing [stated]. Hardcover. 351 p. More
New York: Harmony Books, 2002. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [10], 342 p. Illustrations. Map. Family Tree. More
Seoul, South Korea: Taewon Publishing Company, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 195, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
London: G. Allen & Unwin, [1930, c1929]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 690, boards worn and soiled, board edges and corners worn, ink note inside front board, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Second Printing. Hardcover. [8], 339, [5] pages. Presentation bookplate on front endpaper, burn hole in DJ spine, spine also damaged. Signed by the author.. An American and a French woman in 19th-century Paris work their way around the rigid rules of their social set. This moving tale of regret and compromise values a sense of family over lonely career advancement, yet thankfully avoids positing marriage and children as a strong woman's only reprieve from alienation. Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer from Washington, D.C., and a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio. She is the widow of fellow writer and journalist Jim Lehrer. Lehrer has written four novels, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and book reviews. Her first novel, Best Intentions, was published in 1987. When They Took Away the Man in the Moon came out in 1993. Out of Eden, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, was published in 1996. Confessions of a Bigamist: A Novel, described by the Washington Post as whimsical and droll, was published in 2004. Publishers Weekly describes Lehrer's writing style as intelligent and mannered. In 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by McDaniel College. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 339, [5] pages. Some soiling to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. An American and a French woman in 19th-century Paris work their way around the rigid rules of their social set. This moving tale of regret and compromise values a sense of family over lonely career advancement, yet thankfully avoids positing marriage and children as a strong woman's only reprieve from alienation. Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer from Washington, D.C., and a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio. She is the widow of fellow writer and journalist Jim Lehrer. Lehrer has written four novels, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and book reviews. Her first novel, Best Intentions, was published in 1987. When They Took Away the Man in the Moon came out in 1993. Out of Eden, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, was published in 1996. Confessions of a Bigamist: A Novel, described by the Washington Post as whimsical and droll, was published in 2004. Publishers Weekly describes Lehrer's writing style as intelligent and mannered. In 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by McDaniel College. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 339, [5] pages. Some soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. An American and a French woman in 19th-century Paris work their way around the rigid rules of their social set. This moving tale of regret and compromise values a sense of family over lonely career advancement, yet thankfully avoids positing marriage and children as a strong woman's only reprieve from alienation. Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer from Washington, D.C., and a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio. She is the widow of fellow writer and journalist Jim Lehrer. Lehrer has written four novels, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and book reviews. Her first novel, Best Intentions, was published in 1987. When They Took Away the Man in the Moon came out in 1993. Out of Eden, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, was published in 1996. Confessions of a Bigamist: A Novel, described by the Washington Post as whimsical and droll, was published in 2004. Publishers Weekly describes Lehrer's writing style as intelligent and mannered. In 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by McDaniel College. More