On Lies, Secrets & Silence: Selected prose 1966-1978 (two volumes)
by RICH, Adrienne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Virago Limited, 1980. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITIONS. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bruised, faint spotting to top edge. In the original grey, red and blue dust jacket: edgewear and creasing. [With:] Trade paperback. Original grey, red and blue card covers. Edgewear and creasing. Toned. Else, clean and tight. Both very good. A pleasing pair of the first two British editions of Rich's important lesbian feminist collection, including 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as re-vision' (1971), 'Toward a Woman-Centred University' (1973-74) and "It is the Lesbian in Us..." (1976), as well as essays on Jane Eyre and Emily Dickinson. The Virago paperback cased editions were published simultaneously and preceded by the US edition, published a year earlier by W. W. Norton & Company.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2765
- Title
- On Lies, Secrets & Silence: Selected prose 1966-1978 (two volumes)
- Author
- RICH, Adrienne
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Virago Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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