Herschberger Ruth (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes The Hour of Man by Henry Miller (mentions Alcoholics Anonymous) as well as an essay on The State of the Jazz Lyric by Hazard Adams and Bruce R. Park. Unmarked copy, a bit of wear and toning, fraying to top of spine. Not Signed.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 1948 signed and inscribed first edition, Pellegrini and Cudahy (New York), 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, orange paper-covered boards over green cloth spine, black lettering to spine, 56 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with paper residue to the lower front and rear boards. Light line of dampstaining to the first few pages of the book - from the title page through the first page of text. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely inscribed by the author to the prior owner, Murdo J. MacLeod (b. 1935), a Scottish historian of Latin America, who published extensively on the history of colonial-era Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Otherwise, a clean and unmarked copy in a severely chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~QQ~ [1.0P] Ruth Herschberger (1917-2014) was a poet as well as the author of Adam?s Rib (1948), a book of feminist essays with such titles as 'How to Tell a Woman from a Man' and 'Society Writes Biology.' Hershberger?s poetry collections include this 1948 issue and Nature and Love Poems (1969). Her work was published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006).

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, including a tiny short tear at the rear upper edge. The contents are fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Oblong 32mo. A bit of faint foxing on topedge, slight toning on the boards, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, and faint spotting on the cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Solid copy of this important 1940s literary magazine edited by Barbara Howes and Ximena De Angulo from Greenwich Village. Includes Henry Miller. Unmarked copy, closed tearing at head of spine and light bumping. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, about fine in about fine d.j. with a small chip.vv8/3/2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the page edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, tiny nicks, and creasing. Signed by the author.

Offered here is a rare first edition and first printing of Adam's Rib: A Defense of Modern Woman by Ruth Herschberger, published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1948. This is a scarce hardcover edition with its original dust jacket, making it a notable find for collectors of feminist literature and mid-century American social commentary. The book itself is in Near Fine condition, with a tight binding and hinges, and the text is attractive, clean, and unmarked throughout. There is a previous price in pencil on the top of the front endpaper, but otherwise the interior is very well preserved. The edges of the textblock show a few very small, minor blemishes, and there is a bit of spotting on the spine fabric of the hardcover. The dust jacket is housed in a protective Demco mylar book jacket cover. The jacket itself is in Poor+ condition, with many small holes along the surface and some large chunks missing, though it remains in one piece. The jacket spine ink is rubbed off in many spots, and there are dampstains and other blemishes on the surface. The jacket flaps are in good shape, except for the tips of the top edges, which are mostly ripped off. Adam's Rib is a pioneering feminist work that challenged the prevailing scientific and cultural narratives about women in the mid-20th century. Ruth Herschberger, a biologist and poet, used sharp wit and rigorous analysis to critique the essentialist reductionism that defined women's roles in society, arguing that womanhood was a social construct rather than a biological destiny. Her work prefigured and influenced later feminist thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, and is recognized as a foundational text in the history of feminist thought.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo, about fine in GOOD only d.j. with a number of chips and tears.INSCRIBED by this proto feminist to a fellow resident of Westbeth " To Edward (Field) poet from Ruth with love NYC Nov. 28, 1982 (HP3). Inscribed by Author(s).

[1] pp.; 27.9 x 21.6 cm.; loose leaves; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Flyer for the Westbeth Playwrights first production "RAPE-IN" presented at The Assembly (The Jane Hotel Theatre), New York City, May 16-18 and May 24 - 26, [1971]. Written and performed by Helen Duberstein, Gwendolyn Gunn, Sally Ordway, Helene Dworzan, Ruth Herschberger, Cryse Maile, Dolores Walker, Jean Roseberry and Lyon Phelps. Fair / Good. Folded in six. Multiple notes and corrections marks in red marker, black pen and pencil (see image) possibly made by a member of the Westbeth Playwrights.

Condition: Good. Letterpress. 40.5 x 31cm.Tear in lower margin without loss.As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby. .Ruth Herschberger was born in 1917 in Philipse Manor, New York, and grew up in Chicago. She attended the University of Chicago and Black Mountain College. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Nation, Poetry, Partisan Review, and other magazines, as well as in anthologies. She is the author of two books of poems, Nature & Love Poems (Eakins Press, 1969) and A Way of Happening (1948), and Adam's Rib (1948), a book of prose. She received a Hopwood Award for Poetry, the Midland Authors Award for Poetry, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, a Rockefeller grant, and a Bollingen grant for translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Herschberger died on October 14, 2014.