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2064 French, Marilyn. THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN. New York Summit Books, 1992 First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-671-66157-4
11.00

4696 French, Nicci. THE RED ROOM. Toronto, ON, Canada Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2001 A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0670911488
14.00

1108 Frum, Linda. BARBARA FRUM: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR. Toronto Random House Canada, 1996 First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
11.00

004944 Galland, China. THE BOND BETWEEN WOMEN : A JOURNEY TO FIERCE COMPASSION. New York Riverhead Books /Penguin Putnam, 1998 First edition. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Histories of women, both real and mythological, from around the world. 1573220884
18.50

1648 Glendinning, Victoria. ELIZABETH BOWEN. New York Alfred A Knopf Canada, 1978 Biography of the Anglo-Irish novelist. 16 pages of photographs. A very good copy, publisher's logo remainder mark stamped on bottom edges, front top corner bumped, in a very good dustjacket, wear at corners. First American Edition. 0394405331
14.00

1753 Glendinning, Victoria. VITA: A BIOGRAPHY OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 A near fine copy in a very good dustjacket, some wear at edges, one small tear at top back. First Edition. 0-394-52023-8
15.00

3347 Goldberg, Whoopi. BOOK. New York Rob Weisach Books, 1997 Autobiography. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-688-15252-X
11.50

2165 Gom, Leona. THE Y CHROMOSOME. Toronto Second Story Press, 1990 Futuristic novel which examines the relations and value system of a culture of all- women. First Edition. Paperback in very good condition. 0-929005-16-3
10.00

4039 Goodrich, Norma Lorre. GUINEVERE. New York HarperCollins Publishers, 1991 Historical account of Guinevere, her role in the Arthurian legends and the reality. Stated first edition, remainder stripe at bottom along spine edge, otherwise tight, bright and clean in a near fine dustjacket. 0060164425
18.00

2653 Gosnell, Mariana. ZERO THREE BRAVO: SOLO ACROSS AMERICA IN A SMALL PLANE. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 Uncorrected Proof. A fine UPC in gold-yellow card wraps. 0-679-40025-7
14.00

3226 Goudie, Elizabeth. WOMAN OF LABRADOR. Toronto Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1973 The first book written about Labrador women by a native-born Labrador woman. Second printing. A near fine copy in a good price-clipped dustjacket, edgewear and two tears. 0-88778-079-2
16.00

1373 Greer, Germaine. SEX & DESTINY: THE POLITICS OF HUMAN FERTILITY. New York Harper & Row Publishers, 1984 A very good copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. 0060151404
14.00

2040 Greer, Germaine. SEX & DESTINY: THE POLITICS OF HUMAN FERTILITY. Toronto Stoddart Publishing Co., Limited, 1984 First Canadian Edition. A very good copy in a near fine dustjacket, some wear at bottom of spine. 0-7737-2021-9
15.00

3525 Gregor, Helen Francis with Mach, Anetta. THE FABRIC OF MY LIFE: REFLECTIONS OF HELEN FRANCES GREGOR RCA. Toronto Dreadnaught, 1987 Autobiography and catalogue of work by the Czech-Canadian textile artist. First Edition, a near fine copy, high gloss boards, dark purple endpapers, pages clean and tight, illustrated throughout by black and white photos and colour plates of artwork. Previous owner's name discreetly written at top of reverse of half-title page. 0-919567-28-2
25.00

2094 Gundlach, Julie Kettle. MY MOTHER BEFORE ME: WHEN DAUGHTERS DISCOVER MOTHERS. Secaucus, N.J. Lyle Stuart Inc., 1986 Based on interviews with ninety mothers, daughters, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, a revealing examination of the mother-daughter relationship. First Edition. A near fine copy, signed by the author on the title page, bottom corners bumped, in a near fine dustjacket, corner wear. 0-8184-0394-2
25.00

2357 Hall, Nor. THE MOON & THE VIRGIN: REFLECTIONS OF THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE. New York Harper & Row Publishers, 1980 An examination of women in myth and literature, and the underlying archetypes, of androgyny, virginity, the myths and the symbols. First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dustjacket. 0-06-011703-6
21.00

4869 Harris, Thomas. HANNIBAL. New York, NY Delacorte Press, 1999 Suspense-thriller. A near fine hardcover, light edgewear in a very good dustjacket. First American printing. 038529929X
16.00

4544 Hart, Carolyn G. DEAD MAN'S ISLAND. New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books, 1993 Mystery, book club edition. A very good hardcover, pages clean and tight, in a good dustjacket showing regular signs of shelfwear, one short tear at bottom of spine, and rubbed at corners. 0553091735
7.50

3418 Haskell, Molly. HOLDING MY OWN IN NO MAN'S LAND : WOMEN & MEN & FILM & FEMINISTS. New York, NY, U.S.A. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1997 First Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-19-505309-5
16.00

3693 Hayslip, Le L.y with Hayslip, James. CHILD OF WAR, WOMAN OF PEACE. New York Doubleday, 1993 First Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-385-42111-7
14.00

1713 Heilbrun, Carolyn G.. THE EDUCATION OF A WOMAN: THE LIFE OF GLORIA STEINEM. New York The Dial Press, 1995 First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket, one small closed hole on inside front flap. 0-385-31371-3
11.00

4679 Hemon, Louis. MARIA CHAPDELAINE. Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.A. Tundra Books, 1991 Introduction by Roch Carier, translated by Alan Brown, illustrated by Gilles Tibo. A near fine trade paperback. 0887762425
6.95

005061 Herman, Lisa. BOURGEOIS BLUES. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1989 Fiction. First printing. A near fine hardcover, stamp on front free endpaper, in a very good deustjacket, crease d on inner flap. 0771040741
9.95

000157 Hoeg, Peter.. SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW.. New York, NY, U. S. A. Bantam Books, 1994 First printing paperback. Very good condition, light shelf wear, creasing on spine. Pages clean and tight. 0770426182
4.95

1534 Hoffman, Eileen, M.D.. OUR HEALTH, OUR LIVES: A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO TOTAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN. New York Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, 1995 "A total view of what health care should be...a book that can rescue us in the present, and change jealth care in the future." as quote from Gloria Steinem on jacket. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. 06718880853
11.00

2151 Holmes, Nancy. DOWN TO THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE: VICTORIAN LADY TRAVELERS. Victoria, BC Sono Nis Press, 1991 Poetry. First Edition. A fair copy, softcover with folded flaps (French wraps), cover showing wear and one spot of surface paper loss, but pages clean and tight as if unread. 1-55039-005-8
10.00

1306 Holmes, Peggy with Spalding, Andrea. NEVER A DULL MOMENT. Don Mills, Ontario Collins Publishers, 1984 The life of the writer and broadcaster in Edmonton in the 1920's and 1930's. With a foreword by Premier Lougheed. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition 0002172771
11.00

005099 Hunt, Felicity (editor). LESSONS FOR LIFE: THE SCHOOLING OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, 1850-1950. Oxford, England Basil Blackwell, 1987 A very good softcover, slight discolouration of cover edges. 0631149759
18.00

2993 Jones, Charlene; Stitt, Linda; Kwiat, Cecilie. UNCRITICAL MASS IN CONSORT. Toronto Sadhana Press, 1995 Poetry. First Edition. A fine copy, softcover.
14.00

2530 Jones, Star with Paisner, Daniel. YOU HAVE TO STAND FOR SOMETHING, OR YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING. New York Bantam Books, 1998 First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-553-10854-9
11.00

3122 Karafilly, Irena F. THE STRANGER IN THE PLUMED HAT: A MEMOIR. Toronto Viking, 2000 Story of the author's mother and her experiences with Alzheimer's disease. Uncorrected and unpublished proofs, a fine copy, softcover. 0-670-89294-7
14.00

1901 Kaye, M M (editor). THE GOLDEN CALM: AN ENGLISH LADY'S LIFE IN MOGHUL DELHI, REMINISCENCES BY EMILY, LADY CLIVE BAYLEY, AND BY HER FATHER, SIR THOMAS METCALFE. New York Viking, 1980 Biography of Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, born in Meerut in 1830, raised in Delhi to the age of 5 when she was sent home to England to be educated, and who returned to India in 1848, later married to Sir Edward Clive Bayley in Delhi. Includes110 facsimile pages of the Delhi Book compiled by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, with colour illustrations by Delhi artists. Dark red boards with gilt stampings, decorated endpapers. Fine in a near fine dustjacket. 0-670-34400-1
16.00

000058 Kingston, Maxine H. THE WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS. New York, NY, U. S. A. Random House, Incorporated, 1977 First printed in 1976. Very good condition paperback, light creasing on spine, pages clean and tight. 0394723929
4.95

2986 Klapthor, Margaret Brown. THE FIRST LADIES. Washington, D C White House Historical Association, 1983 Fourth printing. A very good softcover, light creasing across cover. Includes official paintings of the first ladies, photographic portraits of Rosalynn Smith Carter and Nancy Davis Reagan. 0-912308-22-2
10.00

4401 Knowles, Valerie. FIRST PERSON : A BIOGRAPHY OF CAIRINE WILSON, CANADA'S FIRST WOMAN SENATOR. Toronto, ON, Canada Dundurn Press, 1988 A near fine softcover., pages are clean and tight. 1550020307
14.00

2897 Koller, Alice. THE STATIONS OF SOLITUDE. New York William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1990 A personal account of the exploration of self and finding a personal direction in life. First Edition. A fine copy, small happy face stamp on front facing endpage, in a fine dustjacket. 0-688-07940-7
14.00

2934 Kwinta, Chava. I'M STILL LIVING. Toronto Simon & Pierre Publishing Company Limited, 1974 A personal account of holocaust survival by a Polish-Jewish woman. Second printing. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket, one short tear at bottom edge. 0-88924-035-3
14.00

1276 La March, Judy. A VERY POLITICAL LADY. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1979 Biography. First edition. A very good copy with previous owners ex-library embossing on title page in a fine dust jacket. A novel by a former Canadian Cabinet Minister. 0771046227
11.00

3699 Lacey, Robert. MAJESTY : ELIZABETH II AND THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 A near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dustjacket, closed tear at top spine corner. Later printing. 0-15-155684-9
12.00

3831 Ladha, Yasmin. LION'S GRANDDAUGHTER & OTHER STORIES. Edmonton, AB, Canada NeWest Publishers, Limited, 1992 Short stories combining the Indian -Muslim heritage and Canadian immigrant experience of the author. First Edition, a fine trade paperback. 0-920897-25-8
12.50

4584 Landes, Ruth. OJIBWA WOMAN. New York W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1971 Subtitles: male and female life cycles among the Ojibwa Indians of Western Ontario. A very good trade paperback, wear at edges of cover and top of spine, pages clean and tight. 0393005747
12.50

4426 Lang, Marjorie. WOMEN WHO MADE THE NEWS : FEMALE JOURNALISTS IN CANADA, 1880-1945. Montreal, PQ, Canada McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999 A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Publishers spec sheet included. 077351838X
24.50

2581 Laurence, Margaret. DANCE ON THE EARTH; A MEMOIR. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1989 Autobiography, illustrated with black and white photos. First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket, one short closed tear at top of spine. 0-7710-4746-0
14.00

1796 Lennartz, Annemarie. SENORA AND THE WHALES. London Lutterworth Press, 1959 The author's adventures as the wife of a Norwegian captain of a whaling ship stationed in a small Peruvian port. Line drawings throughout. First published in German in 1957, this is the first English translation by Anne Scott. First British Edition. A very good copy, gutter broken at half-title, in a very good dustjacket.
14.00

3384 Leon, Vicki. UPPITY WOMEN OF ANCIENT TIMES. Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. Conari Press, 1995 "200 uproarious pirates, pyramid builders, poets, poisoners, panderers, power brokers, and princesses in a lively, informative and highly entertaining chronicle of life as it really was." Softcover, 7" x7", fine condition, pages clean and tight. 1-57324-010-9
10.00

3804 Lessing, Doris. UNDER MY SKIN: VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949. New York, NY, U.S.A. HarperCollins Publishers, 1994 First American Edition, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0060171502
16.00

005136 Lewis, Alfred Allan. LADIES AND NOT-SO-GENTLE WOMEN. New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press, 2000 Biography. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0670858102
17.50

2864 Lord, Bette Bao. LEGACIES: A CHINESE MOSAIC. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 Autobiographical account of Chinese life and the events surrounding the 'China Spring' by Lord, novelist and wife of the former American Ambassador to China. First Edition. A near fine copy, green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles, light rubbing at edges, in a near fine dustjacket. 0-394-58325-6
11.00

3249 Luxton, Meg. MORE THAN A LABOUR OF LOVE: THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN'S WORK IN THE HOME. Toronto The Women's Press Ltd., 1980 First Paperback Edition. Trade paperback in near fine condition, pages clean and tight. 0-88961-062-2
10.00

4311 MacDougal, Bonnie. ANGLE OF IMPACT. Toronto Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998 Legal thriller, fine in a fine dustjacket. 0345414454
14.00

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