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The Feminine Mystique
by Friedan, Betty
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/good. The first edition, first printing of The Feminine Mystique, in the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket.. Octavo, 410pp. Orange cloth, quarter black cloth spine, title printed in gold on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Touch of wear to the spine, free of marks or notations, solid text block. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $5.95 on front flap, blurbs by Pearl S. Buck and Virgilia Peterson on both panels, sunning to spine, chipping along edges, a very good example. A scarce copy of this groundbreaking study on feminism.
Synopsis
The Feminine Mystique, published 19 February 1963, is a book written by Betty Friedan which brought to light the lack of fulfillment in many women's lives, which was generally kept hidden.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14278
- Title
- The Feminine Mystique
- Author
- Friedan, Betty
- Illustrator
- The first edition, first printing of The Feminine Mystique, in the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- First edition The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan first edition, Betty Friedan Feminine Mystique, Feminine Mystique dust jacket, Feminine Mystique first state, betty Friedan feminism
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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