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VENUS IN SACKCLOTH: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses by Malvern, Marjorie M - (1975.)

by Malvern, Marjorie M

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VENUS IN SACKCLOTH: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses by Malvern, Marjorie M - (1975.)

VENUS IN SACKCLOTH: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses

by Malvern, Marjorie M

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Carbondale, IL:: Southern Illinois University Press,, (1975.). Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon, and especially so inscribed by the author.. . First printing. A scholarly and perceptive study of the changing attitudes toward Mary Magdalen during the past two thousand years. John Lash in his article on Gnostic beliefs states "No one lately seems to have gotten her tawdry image as right as Marjorie M. Malvern, whose Venus in Sackcloth was published in 1975, almost thirty years before the present furor over Magdalene [that is, due to Brown's DaVinci Code] . Malvern shows that 'the connection of the Magdalen with a goddess of loveÉ is unbroken and unmistakable' in European art and literature from classical times. Illustrated with many reproductions of art works from medieval times on. Extensive notes, selected bibliography, index. Very warmly and personally INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown "For --- May you remember the words of Max Spielman 'Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny - what is it but to say, Proctoscopy repeats hagiography?' as you view 'Venus in Sackcloth' - with love and best wishes for joy." 219 pp.
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  • ISBN 10 0809307073
  • ISBN 13 9780809307074
  • Publisher Southern Illinois University Press,
  • Place of Publication Carbondale, IL:
  • Date Published (1975.)
  • Keywords women's studies, myths, christianity, gnostics, da vinci code,

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Thompson & Thomas, Chicago, IL.1905. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text slight yellowing typical of age. Text block has brown tinted top edge and marbled fore edge. Illustrated throughout with over 350 woodcut illustrations and numerous color plates, including frontispiece. Second printing of this scarce and comprehensive work on embroidery, crochet, knitting, needlework, beading, and much more for women and homemaking. Published during the Victorian era, this book served as a guide in providing new, beautiful and inexpensive items for the home. Book was first published in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was dedicated to Mrs. Potter Palmer, its President Board of Lady Managers. Remarkable condition for its age.
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Risk

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Ann Arbor, Bywater Books, 2009, trade paperback, 320 pp, First Edition stated, Fine condition, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slightest touches to rear corners, in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The American lesbian activist, author, editor, and teacher presents the story of an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian high-school tutor who risks everything she has and discovers what is left behind when the last gamble is lost. ISBN 9781932859690
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DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

by [Beasley, Delihah L., 1867-1934] Crouchett, Lorraine J.

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El Cerrito, CA:: Downey Place Publishing House,, 1990.. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name inside front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Uncommon study of this Black journalist and writer. Beasley was the first to produce a history of Black Californians and she was, for almost two decades, a featured columnist with Oakland Tribune. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, index. vii, 66 pp.
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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein.

by Sims, Dorothy Rice (1889-1960).

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New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1940.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good overall in blue cloth with printed cream spine label (some discoloration to front endpaper, tear to leaf 175/176). no dust jacket. . First printing. Informal autobiography of an uncommon woman, one whose very privileged life was more than just "curiouser." It opens with her leaving school at twelve, since there was "no point in clogging my mind with things that everyone knew." She studied sculpture and painting in Spain and Paris. She was a motorcycle street racer, and the first amateur licensed woman pilot in the United States, training at Wright School, Mineola, New York, in 1916. One of her sisters showed a talent for writing poetry, so their father founded the Poetry Society of America and set up a salon in the grand ballroom of their 22-room apartment at the Ansonia Hotel; a salon which was regularly attended by Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Atherton, Richard LaGallienne and Frank Harris, and… Read More
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Beyond the Pale
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Beyond the Pale

by Dykewomon, Elana

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Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1997, trade paperback, 404 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Signed without inscription by the Author on the half-title page, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean with no markings in bright pictorial card covers, light edge and corner bumps, slight crease to front cover. The leading American lesbian activist, author, editor, and teacher's second novel, a work of historical fiction and an extraordinary testimony to the lives of Russian Jewish lesbians who immigrated to North America at the turn of the twentieth century, for which she was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction. Glossary appended. ISBN 9780889740747
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Sorosis 1897-1898, Articles of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws, Standing Rules and Rolls of...

Sorosis 1897-1898, Articles of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws, Standing Rules and Rolls of Members

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New York IN VERY GOOD + CONDITION. 58pp, bound in original maroon paper over boards, floral endpapers, binding and hinges tight. "The object of Sorosis is to bring together women engaged in literary, artistic, scientific and philanthropic pursuits, with the view of rendering them helpful to each other and useful to society". NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Light edge wear to covers, with a slight bow.
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Pirate Jean
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Pirate Jean

by Kaufman, Reginald Wright

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Macaulay, 1930 Artistic dust jacket has edgewear, some dampstains, price clipped, creased, in mylar. Kaufman, was editor of Bangor Daily news, 1941-1947, kept a house in Bath, Maine, was praised by Emma Goldman as the first serious attempt to explore the problems of women prostitution for his novel "House Of Bondage. Ex library stamp Withdrawal University Libraries, Inc. O/w no markings. Rare in DJ. to half title page.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.
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Uneasy Access
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Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society

by Anita L. Allen

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Rare - collectable. Ex-library book otherwise in good condition with unmarked text. It is the softcover ISBN but with hardcover library binding. Some library stamps on page edges blacked out with sharpie. See also pictures for edition & condition.
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DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

by [Beasley, Delihah L., 1867-1934] Crouchett, Lorraine J.

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El Cerrito, CA:: Downey Place Publishing House,, 1990.. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name inside front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Uncommon study of this Black journalist and writer. Beasley was the first to produce a history of Black Californians and she was, for almost two decades, a featured columnist with Oakland Tribune. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, index. vii, 66 pp.
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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein.

by Sims, Dorothy Rice (1889-1960).

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New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1940.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good overall in blue cloth with printed cream spine label (some discoloration to front endpaper, tear to leaf 175/176). no dust jacket. . First printing. Informal autobiography of an uncommon woman, one whose very privileged life was more than just "curiouser." It opens with her leaving school at twelve, since there was "no point in clogging my mind with things that everyone knew." She studied sculpture and painting in Spain and Paris. She was a motorcycle street racer, and the first amateur licensed woman pilot in the United States, training at Wright School, Mineola, New York, in 1916. One of her sisters showed a talent for writing poetry, so their father founded the Poetry Society of America and set up a salon in the grand ballroom of their 22-room apartment at the Ansonia Hotel; a salon which was regularly attended by Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Atherton, Richard LaGallienne and Frank Harris, and… Read More
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Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses

Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses

by Malvern, Marjorie M

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Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 219 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and yellowing, particularly on back cover, otherwise, unmarked, crisp, and tight copy. Record # 854566
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SUPER LATE BLOOMER: My Early Days in Transition; An Up and Out Collection
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SUPER LATE BLOOMER: My Early Days in Transition; An Up and Out Collection

by Kaye, Julia

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(Kansas City, MO): Andrews McMeel Publishing, (2018). First edition. A paperback original. "A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye's gender transition." From her popular webcomic, "Up and Out," which she used to "process her journey and help others with similar struggles realize they weren't alone." Oblong white paperwraps. Fine.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage

by Cholmondeley, Mary

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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the bible story of Esau.
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DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

DELILAH LEONTIUM BEASLEY: OAKLAND'S CRUSADING JOURNALIST.

by [Beasley, Delihah L., 1867-1934] Crouchett, Lorraine J

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El Cerrito, CA:: Downey Place Publishing House,, 1990.. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name inside front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Uncommon study of this Black journalist and writer. Beasley was the first to produce a history of Black Californians and she was, for almost two decades, a featured columnist with Oakland Tribune. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, index. vii, 66 pp.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky

Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky

by Nijinsky, Romola

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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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The Silence Of The North

The Silence Of The North

by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East

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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture.

Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture.

by Peiss, Kathy

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Metropolitan Books Henry Holt Co. New York., 1998. First Edition (Stated).. Softcover.. Fine/--. 9 x 6 x 1.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book and Covers FINE. Read gently once. Covers are coated matte card with photo front and white back. Covers and spine are clean, crisp, bright, unmarked, no creases, corners straight, no spine or vertical creases, a tiny bit of age darkening in the white of back cover along spine edge, if book is tilted in bright light, small rub marks can be seen from adjacent book on shelf. Page edges and inside of book are clean, tight, bright, white, crisp. Appears to have been gently read once as three page corner tips have been dog eared and restored flat. Black/white photos, diagrams, illustrations.
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Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830

Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830

by Eger, Elizabeth and Charlotte Grant, Cliona O'Gallchoir, Penny Warburton

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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. xii, 320 pp. Bound in black boards, title in gilt on spine, in green dust jacket printed in white. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine, bright copy in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear to extremities. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Women of Today: Illustrated
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Women of Today: Illustrated

by COLE, Margaret

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946. Very Good. Second impression (originally published 1938). 8vo, pp. viii, [312] + b/w portrait frontis and 10 plates and new Preface. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Green top edge. Gentle wear to extremities, sparse spotting to fore-edge, creasing to top margins of pp. 29-40. In the fabulous original dust jacket: wear, creasing and a few chips to edges and extremities, tape repair to the reverse of head of spine, still, the cover art remains bright. Very good/ Good+. A pleasing copy. Dame Margaret Cole (n�e Postgate; 1893�1980, OBE, DBE) was an English socialist activist and author. A woman of talent and influence herself, who could be "personally acerbic," she was a member of the interwar "progressive intelligentsia", alongside the Webbs, working for the Fabian Research Department (ODNB). She co-founded the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda in 1930, as well as the New Fabian Research Bureau in 1931. Alongside her scholarship, Cole is… Read More
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Dawn Beloved
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Dawn Beloved

by Jean Devanny

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Very Rare First edition 1928 hardcover by a New Zealand authoress, Jean Devanny. She was a pioneer writer and the author of "The Butcher Shop". The spine of the jacket states this book is "a powerful study of a woman's personality in a remote New Zealand bush town". The text has no writing and is in good condition with only lightly faded pages. The jacket is worn with a few tears and crinkles plus rubbing, but still colorful. It is adhering to the cloth covered boards and there is foxing to boards. Hinges are intact. Good binding.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide)
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide)

by Christie, Agatha

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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 Grosset & Dunlap Reprint. Complete and Unabridged. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. 1 inch missing from dj at bottom spine. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY. Originally published as Sparkling Cyanide. COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED. VERY Hard to find this this item complete with its original dj.
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