Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope. 1978 Limited First Edition, Franklin Leatherbound, with Notes from the Editors

Coles, Robert and Jane Hallowell Coles

Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1978

About this Item

New, and quite pristine in every way. As New. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited First Edition. Includes the somewhat-uncommon 8-page 'Notes from the Editors', with the Coles' portrait on the back. Illustrations by Chet Jezierski in the book, portrait of Robert and Jane Coles on the Notes 'Notes' by Leland Neff. Also, prior to pagination, 'A Special Message to the members of The First Edition Society' from both authors, with their signatures laser-printed thereon. Octavo, 297 pp. Full rich very deep green-blue leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, black moire endpapers, All Edges Gilt, with black satin page-marker ribbon. An example of Franklin's always-lavish bindings, the limited and true first edition of 'Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope', the Coles' portraits of 'five ordiinary and extraordinary women' - a migrant farm worker, an Appalachian native, a San Antonio chicana, an Eskimo woman, and an unnamed white maid who worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Robert Coles, a noted child psychologist, is a professor emeritus at Harvard University). 22 k gilt at all page edges, 60-pound Franklin Library Eggshell Wove Cream paper, 11-Point Trump Medieval typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless. As bright, tight and immaculate as it was on its first day in 1978. Please review scans. The separate Notes from the Editors is somewhat scarce. See all scans. L-frnkln5.

Seller Inventory # 61598

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope. 1978 Limited First Edition, Franklin Leatherbound, with Notes from the Editors
• Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Chet Jezierski
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • History / Government / Political / Societal
  • Fine and Decorative Bindings