Eva Figes, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good stated first American edition. Inscribed by author on title page. Promotional material from publisher laid in. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight bumping to corners, edges. Very good dust jacket. Not price-clipped.Slight bumping to spine ends, edges, corners. Slight crease to spine. A great sparse inscribed edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

London: Faber & Faber, (1974). First edition, 1st impression. 8vo. 120 pp. Original brown paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gold, in original unclipped (£2.25) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, a few nicks, rubbing and fray - particular to spine ends. A few creases and surface scratches to jacket. Spine mildly faded with some wraparound to panels. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light shelf wear to edges, particular to spine ends. Page edges with light vintage toning. Interior is clean and unmarked Signed by the author in black pen on the front free end paper. Dust Jacket: Very Good Hardcover: Near Fine "Eva Figes exposes a relentless cycle of human failure, unfulfilled longings and inescapable responsibility. Through this individual tragedy, seen from a new and disturbing angle, Eva Figes probes the deepest trauma of a woman's psyche. Figes's best known work is Patriarchal Attitudes, a feminist polemic written in 1970, published one month before Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The book argued that nurture rather than nature has shaped all secondary sex characteristics and considered why prominent female figures of the nineteenth century were ambivalent or hostile towards the feminist movement.".

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original postcard from Eva Figes (English author and feminist) to Rosemary Goad. Rosemary Goad was director of Faber and Faber and good friends with many authors and artists, including Eva Figes. The writing on the postcard is all in Eva's hand and reads; "Enjoying peace and scenery, though weather is changeable. Kids love the mansion - Orlando thinks there are ghosts and young Grass hid in the wardrobe last night, thus confirming his fears. Even adults hear bumps in the night. But we're all hooked on Scotland for scenery and unspoilt space. Love Eva". The postcard is of Loch Tay at Kenmore and is stamped and postmarked "Kinross, 11am 7 Aug 72". Condition: Foxing and slight rubbing to the corners. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth with dust wrapper. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Eva Figes - 88 pag Size: 5i4. Signed by Author. not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIGES, Eva. B. London: Faber & Faber. 1972. 8vo. First edition. Publisher s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking typographical dust jacket, uncredited. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. An excellent copy overall, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, top edge a trifle marked, the contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (£2.00 net), slightly faded at spine, extremities a trifle bumped but a very presentable copy overall. The fourth novel by the German-born English writer who is best remembered for her feminist polemic, Patriarchal Attitudes (1970), and for her association with the loose group of experimental London writers which included B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Alan Burns, and others. Uncommon inscribed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Figes' exceptional second novel, relating a day in the life of an elderly man. Inscribed by Fega to the flyleaf in the year of publication: "To Dulan / My favourite critic! / Eva / London 17.3.67." London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles to spine; pp. 119. A near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket shows minor shelfwear with a small closed tear to front panel, toning to spine, protected in archival mylar. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Figes's first book of nonfiction, a feminist classic published the same year as Greer's The Female Eunuch and Millet's Sexual Politics. Inscribed by Figes to her parents: "To Mummy & Daddy with love/ Eva/ 23rd May 1970." An excellent association copy, especially for an author who writes ".a woman is taught to desire not what her mother desired for herself, but what her father and all men find desirable in a woman." Spine- and edge-sunned; a near fine copy, in a supplied, near fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Arthur - because he asked for it! Eva 22.5.70". Figes's feminist polemic examines "in historical perspective the attitudes which have helped to determine the role of women in society" (blurb). It was published at a crucial moment in the feminist movement, the same year as Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends slightly rubbed, gilt bright, two faint marks to boards; jacket extremities rubbed, lightly soiled, verso top edge browned, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.