Isbn: 9780807833087 - well-read lives: how books inspired a generation of american women (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight unread copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy sans rips/tears, stains or discoloration. ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. "In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost-and found-themselves in books and worked out a life purpose around them. Drawing on their letters, diaries, college essays, and autobiographies, 'Well-Read Lives' explores the range of women's reading practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to discover the meaning of reading in particular women's lives. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new and often unsettling identities in the English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of their own creation, even as they sought to develop a literature of their own." 380 pages. *Note: Due to weight of book additonal shipping cost may be required for out-of-U.S. shipment in deference to destination. GF1.…

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original green lettered cream cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 380, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. spine faded.