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.

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

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 .

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.

Introduction by LARRY MCMURTRY.

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

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Universty Press, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. [10], 90 p.; 24 cm. Purple cloth spine with red paper over boards; yellow-stamped spine title. Grey endpapers. Dust jacket cover illustration is the painting Afternoon Fixing by Ken Sofer. Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Book is in Near Fine Condition: faint indentation along upper page edges; otherwise clean and crisp. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition.

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.

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.

Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1962. Paperback. Good. ix, [1], 113 p.: tables, map, chart; 24 cm. Beige wrappers printed in dark brown. The author studied Menomini Indian living in a reservation in Wisconsin. In Good Condition: faint dampstain at lower page edges; otherwise, clean and tight.

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.

Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Paperback. Fine. [2], 108, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Second printing. Olga Broumas (b. 1949) is a Greek-American poet who has received fellowships from the NEA, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation, a Lambda Poetry Award, and has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University since 1995. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. ix, [1], 493, [9] p.; 20 cm. Paperback; illustrated cover. Publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. A biographical dictionary of British women writers from Eliza Acton to E. H. Young. In Near Fine Condition: small puncture marks in lower corner of front cover and first few pages; clean and tight.

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.

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. xxviii, [2], 288, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contains essays by Merry E. Wiesner, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, William Monter, Madelon Sprengnether, Carole Levin, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Elissa Weaver, Mary Ellen Lamb, Tilde Sankovitch, and Mary Beth Rose. Includes index. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; one page corner creased; clean and tight.

Seattle: Seal Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 269, [3] p.; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration and design by Deborah Brown. Originally published in Norway as Egalias Dotre in 1977. Part of the publisher's Women in Translation series. Publisher's advertisement for other titles in the series follows text. Although her works had been translated into other languages, this was the first translation into English of one of Brantenberg's books. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; minor soiling inside front cover and on half title; otherwise, clean and tight.

London: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. Fine. Reprinted with new notes 1992." [6], 331, [15] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

London: Pandora / HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. ix, [1], 240 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Blue textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author reexamines the life of Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), wife of D.H. Lawrence, partially through Frieda Lawrence's own words. Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. [10], 175 p.; 22 cm. Beige cloth with gilt and black spine title. Green endpapers. Dust jacket design by Martha Lehtola. Book club edition. Contents: Canadian Spring -- Walking: Its Cause, Duration and Effect -- The Peaceful Pursuit -- Confessions of a Noisemaker -- Time Out of Mind -- Inclinations to Fish -- Tom -- With Claud Beneath the Bough . . . -- Pas Devant de Chien -- William. Essays about the out-of-doors in Britain and Canada by the author of The Incredible Journey. Two essays are about pets, one funny reflection on her experience as custodian of her daughter's canary during the summer, and one dog story--a sad and well-observed portrait of the last days of the family's bull terrier. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; chipping at ends of spine; minor loss at tail end over back joint; 1-cm. tear over front board fore-edge, without loss.