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8076London: William Reeves. Second Edition. 1891. Original printed wrappers; iv 117 2pp. Losses to spine; covers chipped at extremities; early ownership signature to title page. Text intact and quite fresh; a Good or better copy of the ephemeral second British edition issued as No. 12 in the publisher's "Bellamy Library." The author was a nephew of John Humphrey Noyes and grew up as a resident of Noyes's Oneida Community. The novel promotes the technique of "Male Continence" as practiced at Oneida and suggests that women are entitled to withhold sex from their husbands as a means of birth control the "Strike of a Sex" of the title. Octavo. William Reeves unknown books
165931Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-235 236-240: ads original red wrappers printed in black. Later printing. This is a facsimile reprint of a Stockham reprint designated the "thirtieth thousand" at the top edge of the title page of the 1890 Dillingham edition. A significant document in the second big wave of feminism the first being taken as the period around Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN and the third as the period starting in the early 1970s. This second wave part of a large and general cultural ferment promoted sexual freedom or the beginning of what would now be called reproductive rights as well as political power. In this sleeper-awakes tale of the future the narrator discovers that women have in a variation on Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata' banded together and gone on strike not to stop war as in the case of Aristophanes but to stop being forced to have babies they don't want. Indeed the focus on sexual freedom is evident in the appearance of this present edition as part of the publisher's "Books on Health and Sexual Science" series. Alice B. Stockham the publisher was a medical doctor the fifth female doctor certified in the United States and a promoter of various causes some but not all of which would be seen as in harmony with other 'progressive' positions of then and now. For THE STRIKE OF A SEX see Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1492 citing a reprint. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 86. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 46 citing a 63-page British edition a presumed reprint. Eaton Catalogue II p.416 listing a reprint. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 37970. Not in Negley. Wright III 3735 locating DLC copy only. For ZUGASSENT'S DISCOVERY see Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1492 citing the present edition. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 124 ditto. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 86 misdating 1891. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK pp. 114-5. Bleiler 1978 p. 140 citing an 1895 Arena edition. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Not in Negley. A fine copy. #165931 Stockham Publishing Co. unknown books
1905141163Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co. 1905. Octavo pp. 1-2 3-119 120-128: publisher's ads original tan wrappers printed in black. First combined edition. The book is identified on the title page and cover as a "New and Revised Edition" which is true enough though not as precise as one might like. Miller's THE STRIKE OF A SEX first appeared as an anonymous American paperback in 1890 and that edition is rare. It was published in England by Reeves in 1895 the same year that ZUGASSENT'S DISCOVERY a loose sequel appeared in the U.S. The sequel was subsequently published in England in 1896 by William Reeves as part of its Bellamy Library i.e. utopian works in some way connected or connectable to Bellamy's hugely influential 1888 novel LOOKING BACKWARD. The present combined text was used by Arno for its reprint series of utopian works. "As for the content of the story it is a significant document in the second big wave of feminism the first being taken as the period around Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN and the third as the period starting in the early 1970s. This second wave part of a large and general cultural ferment promoted sexual freedom or the beginning of what would now be called reproductive rights as well as political power. In this sleeper-awakes tale of the future the narrator discovers that women have in a variation on Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata' banded together and gone on strike not to stop war as in the case of Aristophanes but to stop being forced to have babies they don't want. Indeed the focus on sexual freedom is evident in the appearance of this present edition as part of the publisher's "Books on Health and Sexual Science" series. Alice B. Stockham the publisher was a medical doctor the fifth female doctor certified in the United States and a promoter of various causes some but not all of which would be seen as in harmony with other 'progressive' positions of then and now. The 'discovery' of Zugassent though never spelled out had something to with coitus reservatus which points up some of the internal tensions in the feminism and progressivism generally of the period: between hedonism and puritanism; and between pragmatism get rid of corsets and occultism shun mechanical barriers for birth control as they impede the exchange of magnetism or vibrations between the couple." - Robert Eldridge. For THE STRIKE OF A SEX see Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1492 citing a reprint. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 86. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 46 citing a 63-page British edition a presumed reprint. Eaton Catalogue II p.416 listing a reprint. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 37970. Not in Negley. Wright III 3735 locating DLC copy only. For ZUGASSENT'S DISCOVERY see Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1492 citing the present edition. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 124 ditto. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 86 misdating 1891. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK pp. 114-5. Bleiler 1978 p. 140 citing an 1895 Arena edition. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Not in Negley. 7 mm tear to top edge of front cover some mild dustiness on last page still a nearly fine copy. A very uncommon edition of this book. #141163 Stockham Publishing Co. unknown books
1962137539Derby: Monarch Books 1962. Paperback. 138p. very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Lesbian pulp fiction. Grier A 249. First lesbian-themed book by Fantasy novelist Marion Zimmer Bradley. Published in April 1962. Monarch Books paperback books
196358990Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1963. First Edition. 8vo pp. 331. Illustrated with photos couple of spots on the foredge o/w a very good copy. Bobbs-Merrill unknown books
19525615Poland Ohio: Gold Seal Publications 1952. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. THE 1952 LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. VG in a bright price-intact VG example of the fragile dustjacket with light offsetting at the front panel and one small closed tear to the spine. Octavo 47 pgs. A nice piece of Americana --and Ohio homesteading. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Gold Seal Publications hardcover books
20032282229Alfred A. Knopf 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 173 pp. In the fall of 1988 Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was she claims perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final months and the larger narrative of her father's life. With compassion self-scrutiny and an urgency born of her own yearning to rescue her father's memory from the disorder and oblivion that marked his dying and death Sue Miller takes us on an intensely personal journey that becomes by virtue of her enormous gifts of observation perception and literary precision a universal story of fathers and daughters. James Nichols was a fourth-generation minister a retired professor from Princeton Theological Seminary. Sue Miller brings her father brilliantly to life in these pages-his religious faith his endless patience with his children his gaiety and willingness to delight in the ridiculous his singular gifts as a listener and the rituals of church life that stayed with him through his final days. She recalls the bitter irony of watching him a church historian wrestle with a disease that inexorably lays waste to notions of time history and meaning. She recounts her struggle with doctors her deep ambivalence about many of her own choices and the difficulty of finding continually the humane and moral response to a disease whose special cruelty it is to dissolve particularities and to diminish in so many ways the humanity of those it strikes. She reflects unforgettably on the variable nature of memory the paradox of trying to weave a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. And she offers stunning insight into her own life as both a daughter and a writer two roles that swell together here in a poignant meditation on the consolations of storytelling. With the care restraint and consummate skill that define her beloved and best-selling fiction Sue Miller now gives us a rigorous compassionate inventory of two lives in a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling-as we all eventually must-to make peace with their fathers and with themselves. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2003916546NY: Knopf. 2003. A memoir. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Knopf hardcover books
19502207151Viking 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1950 Hard Cover. Ernest Taylor Pyle August 3 1900 - April 18 1945 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America and later of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide. Viking hardcover books
195060256New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Nice Author Inscription plus Inscribed by Ros. Goodman see index a Very Good copy in a chipped dj. . The Viking Press hardcover books
195031945New York: Viking 1950. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgewear with chunk from base of spine panel. viii 439 1 blank pp. Illustrate from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & author killed in combat during World War II. Viking hardcover books
186027891Petersburg: Printed by A. F. Crutchfield & Co. 1860. Original printed front wrapper stitched 84pp. Small hole in front wrapper not affecting text spine wrapper shorn light toning lacking the rear wrapper. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> A long and learned discourse with elaborations on circumcision in "the Jewish Church." Miller argues "that the Infants of Church-members are born members of the Church" and that they "are born members of particular churches and not of the Church catholic."<br/>FIRST EDITION. Haynes 12227. Not in Sabin. Printed by A. F. Crutchfield & Co. unknown books
194315596Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Pres 1943. Pamphlet. Very good. Octavo 23 cm pp. 25 14. Staplebound with no wrappers. Includes 7 black and white plates of fish and scales. From the Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan. Former owner's name on first page. Slight edge and corner wear. University of Michigan Pres unknown books
20042206852Transaction Publishers 2004. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Tiny ink mark to front wrapper. 2004 Trade Paperback. In 1992 the massive files of East Germany's infamous Ministry for State Security the Stasi were made publicly available and thousands of former East Germans began to confront their contents. Finally it was possible for ordinary citizens to ascertain who had worked for the Stasi either on a full-time basis or as an "unofficial employee" the Stasi's term for an informer. The revelations from these documents sparked feuds old and new among a population already struggling through enormous social and political upheaval. Drawing upon the Stasi files and upon interviews with one-time informers this book examines the impact of the Stasi legacy in united Germany. Transaction Publishers paperback books
20012305952New York: Thames & Hudson 2001. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket corners lightly bumped. 2001 Large Hardcover. 288 pp. Includes 323 illustrations 171 in color. "The Olmec began playing ballgames around 1800 BC an activity that soon became an important part of Mesoamerican life. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina and includes 11 essays from the world's leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture. The contributors consider all aspects of ballgames enactment gender and symbolic aspects the regalia worn `performance' the court setting and the legacy of the game. The catalogue contains many superb colour photographs of figurines painted and sculpted vessels and relief panels. Thames & Hudson hardcover books
1898165169Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons 1898. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-7 8-130 131-136: blank note: first four and last three leaves are banks with first two and last two leaves used as free endpapers and paste-downs inserted frontispiece photographic portrait of the author original black cloth front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A short utopian lost race novel of a journey by submarine to a subterranean world where a pallid race has attained social and technological perfection. Eden is located here in the hollow earth a bit neglected although the Tree of Knowledge still flourishes. Basically a religious fantasy a curious blend of allegory and science fiction with many imaginative touches. The author was blind and deaf according to the autobiographical preface. Note: Binder's title reads "MY SOVEREIGN GUIDE / A TALE OF EDEN. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1495. Costes and Altairac 281. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 157. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 116. Teitler 868. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 10147. Wright III 3750. Not in Negley or Lewis. Cloth scuffed some wear at corner tips endpapers tanned a good or somewhat better copy. #165169 Geo. Rice & Sons unknown books
1898157115Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons 1898. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-7 8-130 131-136: blank note: first four and last three leaves are banks with first two and last two leaves used as free endpapers and paste-downs inserted frontispiece photographic portrait of the author original black cloth front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A short utopian lost race novel of a journey by submarine to a subterranean world where a pallid race has attained social and technological perfection. Eden is located here in the hollow earth a bit neglected although the Tree of Knowledge still flourishes. Basically a religious fantasy a curious blend of allegory and science fiction with many imaginative touches. The author was blind and deaf according to the autobiographical preface. Note: Binder's title reads "MY SOVEREIGN GUIDE / A TALE OF EDEN. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1495. Costes and Altairac 281. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 157. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 116. Teitler 868. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 10147. Wright III 3750. Not in Negley or Lewis. Cloth spotted and a bit scuffed 10 mm closed tear in upper margin of frontispiece a sound good copy. #157115 Geo. Rice & Sons unknown books
1898147633Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons 1898. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-7 8-130 131-136: blank note: first four and last three leaves are banks with first two and last two leaves used as free endpapers and paste-downs inserted frontispiece photographic portrait of the author original black cloth front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A short utopian lost race novel of a journey by submarine to a subterranean world where a pallid race has attained social and technological perfection. Eden is located here in the hollow earth a bit neglected although the Tree of Knowledge still flourishes. Basically a religious fantasy a curious blend of allegory and science fiction with many imaginative touches. The author was blind and deaf according to the autobiographical preface. Note: Binder's title reads "MY SOVEREIGN GUIDE / A TALE OF EDEN. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1495. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 157. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 116. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 10147. Wright III 3750. Not in Negley or Lewis. A clean bright very good copy. #147633 Geo. Rice & Sons unknown books
20158910Seattle WA: Amno & Co 2015. Limited Edition. Unique/Original Wraps. Fine. Bright and unmarred. Colored formed case title and year printed in copper design team printed on PCB limitation inscribed on the interior of watch body; black band; booklet staplebound mustard wrappers signed by the designers. Limited edition of 18 14 with nylon bodies 4 with stainless steel <br/><br/>The design team were challenged to produce a book prototype in watch form which would include displayed letters persistence-of-vision POV and Morse code visual or audible. This limited edition is the result. Each watch 'reads' sonnets 1 and 2 in Morse code and the speed is adjustible. Amno & Co paperback books
1925187191Lexington: The Maxwelton Co 1925. Hardcover. xiv 436p. frontis plate preface introduction critical memoir 10 plates including frontis plus cover illustration of a coin selected bibliography concordance general index very good first author's autographed edition of 500 copies number 83 signed by Miller and Robinson bookplate of John W. Hancock lengthy personal inscription to him signed by Miller with a risqué rhyme "While critics 'Monster' may it call/Like serpent that began-cock/It's Sappho Modernist - that's all/So give it your John Hancock!" In quarter-cloth and gilt ove blue pebbled boards with coin illustration. The Maxwelton Co hardcover books
2012WELLER9780062060624Ecco 2012. New. New book. Ecco unknown books
191812672Brooklyn: n.pub 1918. Pamphlet. 32p. wraps off-setting on endpapers else very good condition. Dedicated to the New York Chamber of Commerce. n.pub unknown books
195931339London: Ward Lock and Company 1959. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Miller "For my sister Rhea and brother-in-law Irving with love Sigmund." Cloth spine ends lightly pushed beginning page toning; dustjacket with chipped corners wear at the spine ends tape reinforcement on spine topedge. Very Good condition in a Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Miller's first novel. Inscribed by Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Good. Association Copy. Ward Lock and Company Hardcover books
1984706761NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston. 1984. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Holt, Rinehart & Winston paperback books
194815459New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce 1948. 1st edition Shifren & Jackson A66a. INSCRIBED by Miller on a preliminary blank. Black cloth spine over printed paper wrapper boards designed by Merle Armitage. Patterned paper eps. Dust jacket. General shelfwear to book Very Good. Jacket quite worn with splits along folds with old tape repairs holding it together- Fair. 124 4 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Duell Sloan & Pearce hardcover books
