Hardcover. Germany, Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3-vol set in slip case. Hardcovers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact, informative volumes. In Volume 1 you'll learn about the first magazines that appeared around 1900 in France, Germany, and the U.S., and follow the development of the genre through the First and Second World Wars. Covered are men's magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction. Volume 2 documents the proliferation of pin-up magazines following World War II, most notably a little item called Playboy that debuted in December 1953 and spawned dozens of imitators. This volume also charts the emergence of English men's magazines, fetish magazines, and the top five covergirls of the 1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new American pin-up magazines following the loosening of U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in decline, England going pervy; nudists going hippy, and Germany going pervy, hippy and political.

Softcover. NY, Harper Design, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. Eleanor Dwight delivers the definitive biography of Diana Vreeland, the twentieth century's most influential fashion editor. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive photographs and personal materials from the legendary style maker's private collection, and featuring a new preface from Vogue's Andre LeonTalley, Diana Vreeland is an indispensible look at a grand dame of great couture. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred drawings and photographs, many by the best fashion photographers of the time: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and Brassai. Here, too, are the trendsetters, artists, models, and celebrities with whom Vreeland worked and played, including Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Elsie de Wolfe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Reed Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 275 pages, color and b&w photos. An early biography of the Country & Western singer Dolly Parton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerset UK, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Black & white photographs throughout. Light pen marking couple pages. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Essay by Maria Morris Hambourg. Includes 54 tritones, 10 text illustrations and 4 gatefolds. A clean and tight near fine copy. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that ran January 14 through April 21, 2002 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hardcover. New York, Bullfinch Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light abrasions on bottom corners. Light edgewaer to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Though her work has often been overshadowed by that of her peers such as Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer, Irish designer, lacquer-artist, and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now widely recognized as a designer of great talent and individuality. She first excelled in the exacting craft of lacquer, creating screens, panels, furniture, and objects of technical virtuosity and poetic strength. Eileen Gray then developed an interest in architecture, designing two houses, ?E-1027? (completed 1929) and ?Tempe a Pailla? (completed 1934) in the south of France, which are seminal examples of the spirit of the Modern movement. This book analyses and illustrates the full range of her furniture, interiors, and completed architectural projects. Reprint of the edition of 1993.

Hardcover. Taschen, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Though her work has often been overshadowed by that of her peers such as Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer, Irish designer, lacquer-artist, and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now widely recognized as a designer of great talent and individuality. She first excelled in the exacting craft of lacquer, creating screens, panels, furniture, and objects of technical virtuosity and poetic strength. Eileen Gray then developed an interest in architecture, designing two houses, "E-1027" (completed 1929) and "Tempe a Pailla" (completed 1934) in the south of France, which are seminal examples of the spirit of the Modern movement. This book analyses and illustrates the full range of her furniture, interiors, and completed architectural projects. Reprint of the edition of 1993.

Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. One of the most compelling figures in colonial America, Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785) was a Scottish immigrant who settled in Boston in her early twenties and took up shopkeeping. For many years, she practiced her trade successfully while marrying three times, once to a much older man who left her an extremely rich widow. This biography chronicles the life of this extraordinary "ordinary" woman who tried to make a place for herself and other women in the world by asserting her own independence inside and outside of the home. As an importer and retailer of British goods, Murray conducted business with merchants and manufacturers in England and buyers in the American colonies, even traveling to London to select her own stock. Deeply satisfied by her work and the economic freedom it brought her, she acted as mentor to other women, helping them to establish shops of their own. She also protected her autonomy by demanding prenuptial agreements from her second and third husbands that gave her a measure of control over her property that was rare for a married woman of her day. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy. For adults only.

Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown velvet on boards with color photo cover inset. Unpaginated (approx. 300 pages.). Fully illustrated with b/w & color plates of famous "leg man" Elmer Batters' photos. Introduction by Dian Hanson. In original brown nylon stocking, it seems it was never undone. Text in English, German & French.

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Parkstone, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages. A historical collection of erotic photos of women, most nude. B&w, sepia, some color. Very good in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Softcover with light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Foxing to edges, faint musty smell. Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their color. Together with Mark's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of insight into a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the completeness of the photographer's involvement, by her humanity, and by the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still abide there.

Hardcover. Berlin, Steidl, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 123 pages, 65 color plates. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.

Hardcover. Berlin, Steidl, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 123 pages, 65 color plates. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run un-cropped and has additional images. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 123 pages, 65 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.

Hardcover. Gottingen, Steidl, reprint, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 123 pages, 65 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spin, 530 pages. After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. Clean copy.

Softcover. Girard KS, Haldeman-Julius, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray-green wrappers, 155 pages. Copyright page states 1947, but most likely reprinted from a 1938 publication, edited here by the publisher. Clean copy.

Cambridge UK, Polity Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology. Clean copy.

Softcover. Koln, Benedikt Taschen, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. At the turn of the 20th century the cigarette was both symbolic of emancipation and evocative of female eroticism. The photographs collected in this volume illustrate the piquant fascination of that blue-grey haze. sepia tone photos throughout of partially clothed and nude women smoking and holding cigarettes. Erotic. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Throughout her career, Eve Arnold alternated between serious documentary photography and working behind the scenes on numerous films. At a time when Hollywood studios controlled every aspect of their actors' image, Arnold's candid photographs showed them at their most intimate and their most compelling: Marilyn Monroe sharing a private moment with Arthur Miller, Marlene Dietrich, uncharacteristically girlish in the recording studio, Michael Caine and Candice Bergen doing an impromptu tango number and an exhausted Richard Attenborough stealing a nap in between shooting. Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a collection of these famous film stills along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoot. As her camera revealed the unseen sides of Hollywood legends, Arnold also became privy to their private lives. In her Film Journal, she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film sets, of Marilyn Monroe combing her pubic hair during an interview, Simone Signoret discussing her husband Yves Montand's infidelities, Joan Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, and Marlene Dietrich recounting her night with John F. Kennedy. With 80 previously unpublished photographs, including many old favorites, Eve Arnold: Film Journal is a classic from one of the great photographers of our time.

Softcover. Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. Nowhere are we given a more profound glimpse into the dawning stages of women's emancipation than in turn-of-the-century posters. In this revealing book with 206 full-color posterswe are presented with women stepping out of the confining traditional roles which they were cast and exercising their new-found liberation. We see them taking to the roads on bicycles, getting behind the wheel of automobiles, hoisting an aperatif, attending a ball unescorted and we are provided with glimpses into women's burgeoning, nascent sexual freedom. This volume features all the top artists of the period: Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Grasset, Chret, Mucha, De Feure, Cappiello, Steinlen, Grn, Pal, Bradley, Penfield and others. These lively images not only reflected their time, but did much to inspire this new-found freedom.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with tears, creasing along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. Zurich, Shedhalle Zurich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Text in German and English. Black & white photographs by Francesca Woodman. 3 pages with brief underlining in ink. Light wear to covers. Introductory essays by Harm Lux and Kathryn Hixson. Chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Francesca Woodman "was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she died by suicide at the age of 22, in 1981."

Softcover. New York, Strawberry Hill Book, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Black & white drawings and photographs. Light wear along spine, cover edges. This is the softcover edition. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Uitgeverij Luster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Germaine Van Parys (1893-1983) was one of Belgium's most important photographers. As a press photographer, she had the privilege of looking in on the lives of the royal families, but her work also features rock-and-roll stars and the common man. Her godchild Odette Dereze (born in 1932) followed in her godmother's footsteps from a young age and started a career as a photo journalist. Extensive research done by photo historian Johan Swinnen resulted in the rediscovery of much hitherto unknown archival material of significant photographic-historical value created by these two strong female photographic pioneers.

Hardcover. Boston, Joseph Knight Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, some spotting/soiling to covers. Front cover Pastedown photograph with light rubbing. Moderate/light foxing to pages throughout. Photographic illustrations by Mrs. N. Gray Bartlett. Scarce.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, large color-illustrated label pasted to front cover, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, cloth lightly faded at edges, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 330 pages. A visually captivating history of the evolution of Glamour magazine and the brands legendary decades at the forefront of female empowerment in an incredible photographic volume For more than 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent women's empowerment brand in America. But until now, no one has told the extraordinary story of its origins, the famous names who helped shape the magazine into the global powerhouse it is today, and Glamour's many historic firsts. Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, the first to present Gloria Steinem's writing, and the first to feature groundbreaking reporting on reproductive rights. In a gripping journey, follow the group of women editors and journalists who spearheaded the magazine as World War II transformed the female landscape with over 7.5 million working women suddenly in the US workforce in 1940 and repositioned the title from charting Hollywood glamour to the magazine for the girl with a job.

Hardcover. Boston, John P Jewett and Company, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Stated "Fourth Thousand" on title page, 418 pages. Early women's rights advocate Harriot K Hunt, considered the first female doctor in the United States. After two refusals to have her study at the Harvard Medical School, she received a private medical education and practiced with an emphasis on prevention of disease. She was a dedicated advocate for women as professionals and as an educated populace. A very early advocate for changes to voting rights and property rights for women. Each year when she paid her taxes, in fact, she issued a "taxation without representation" protest. An intriguing look at attitudes and treatment of early women's rights advocates from a well-educated and outspoken women. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine, name on inside front cover, ownership stamp to blank leaf preceding half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Light scratch top rear cover, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club , 2nd, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. The Groupies was a special edition of Rolling Stone magazine published in 1969, and for the first time the photographs from that issue are featured in book form, together with previously unpublished images and behind-the-scenes shots and interviews.

Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious color, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer's archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full color celebration of Hammer's female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?).

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 307 pages, over 250 photos and illustrations with 16 color plates. Wonderful photos by Avedon (25), Dahl-Wolfe (12), Munkasci (11) and many others. Purple cloth covers with an edgeworn, soiled dust jacket.

Softcover. Schiffer, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty judge. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, lively personality, wealthy and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored in the new automobiles while holding court for admiring men. Fisher's portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels as well as hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher's work extremely hot on the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will benefit from the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide author Bruce Magnotti.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy. Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power traces the path of this remarkable early feminist and visionary art patron. In Rubinstein's world, art and commerce blended seamlessly. She ornamented her salons and homes with splendid artworks--Surrealist murals, modernist portraits, Art Deco furniture, Venetian mirrors, and one of the era's great collections of African and Oceanic art. Her understanding of beauty was similarly expansive and democratic: she saw the face as the site for self-expression and the exploration of identity. The Rubinstein beauty program thus included not only makeup and hairdressing, but also lessons in health, deportment, and culture. Such features, innovative at the time and wildly popular, today provide a fascinating glimpse into popular culture as it affected women in the 20th century.

Hardcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Taken between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, this selection of Newton fashion editorials-one of the first books he ever published-is accompanied by journal entry-style texts by Newton providing anecdotes and describing the circumstances of each shoot. On every page is evidence of Newton's groundbreaking vision that transformed fashion photography-an influence that can still be seen today in the pages of the greatest fashion magazines.

Softcover. NY, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 2001, Softcover, 428 pages. Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest-held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how-to-get-your-man manuals and ends with the newlywed year. First there's ?Courtship and the Marriage Quest." Geller looks at the absurd nature of proposals, the inane practice of engagement and gift-giving, and the bizarre rules governing the wedding dress. In part two, ?The Big Day," she deals with the specifics of the wedding itself. There are place cards and table settings, rigid photo ops, vows, toasts, garter belts, and daddy dances. What do these highly scripted procedures say about this most treasured ritual? Finally, the author explores some of marriage's deeper implications in ?Living in the Plural": the strangely isolating honeymoon and the establishment of marital identity that begins with a simple thank-you note. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 460 pages, illustrated with color photographs culled from girlie magazines of the 1950s. Issued without dust jacket, pictorial boards. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with laminated cover boards. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear and rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 453 pages, b&w illustrations. At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as static and unindividuated beings who functioned solely in a sexual and reproductive capacity, thus formulating many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential. BramDijkstra's Idols of Perversity explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind,Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Moreau, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Interlink Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light fading to rear wrappers, otherwise clean, tight copy. The 37 stories which comprise this collection challenge the long-held stereotypes and provide a rare look at the everyday lives of common people in villages across Fujian province. Despite the efforts and influence of the male-dominant Confucian culture, the stories reflect women's voices and women's lives touched by power and independence.

Softcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade and edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development.