Radcliffe Florence (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 418 pp. Original dark green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding a bit soiled and rubbed; corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w photos.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wiles, Frank E. & Harrison, Florence & Wilson, Radcliffe & Brock, C.E. & et al., (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine. Front cover shows a girl waving a hankie, ice-skating. First story is 'Pen the Poacher' by Joan. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped, slightly browned and grubby. Wear to corners and cover edges. A couple of small patches of surface paper damage to front cover. Rear cover a little grubby. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Contents very good just some light foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pompano Beach: Exposition Press of Florida, Inc., 1985. First Edition, stated. Octavo (23.6cm); illustrated dust jacket with $13.00 price intact; black boards with gilt lettering to spine; [xviii], 181pp; photos and facsimiles. Jacket rubbed with shallow tears along edges and brief scuffing to surface. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with warm inscription to friend and fellow educator Lillie Murray Sawyer. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Frontis: Phyllis Wheatley YWCA Building, Washington DC. xvii. Illustrated. bibliography. 181pp. Black boards with gilt title on spine. Pictorial Red Dust Jacket. INSCRIBED on f.f.p.: "To T. O. W., soror and associate, Best wishes for continued success. Florence J. Radcliff. 28 April 1898.". Signed By Author. Hardcover.

First Edition. First edition. Written by an educator, administrator and past president of the PW YWCA, this history of the independent Young Womens Christian Association of Washington DC founded by and for black women chronicles its struggles with the all-white National Capital YWCA at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. INSCRIBED BY RADCLIFFE on front endpaper, "To Helen,/ The sweetest fruit on/ the tree of life is friendship./ Love-/ Florence J. Radcliffe/ 27 January 1987." Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and showing a few small creases, nicks, and tears. To this day and "in keeping with its mission, Phyllis Wheatley is the only YWCA in [DC] providing affordable housing to women regardless of race, creed or color [and serving] many women in transition" as well as its surrounding community. Scarce, especially so in dust jacket. Signed.