Large gift inscription to front endpaper; an excellent copy.
Pictorial title.
£135
London, Walter Scott, 1899.
First edition. 8vo. Original red gilt-pictorial cloth.
A bright attractive copy of this mournful reflection on British society at the turn of the century, by a then well-known socialist, novelist and campaigner.
In stock
Large gift inscription to front endpaper; an excellent copy.
Pictorial title.
Non-Fiction
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1932.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
The Count was a member of the ancient Sforza dynasty, descendant from a branch of the Dukes of Milan, and related to the Pallavicini family as well as other Italian families such as the Medici and Orsini.
Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe M. Kohn
London, Frederick Muller, 1956.
First English edition, sixth impression. 8vo. Original red boards. Fourth impression dust-jacket,
A harrowing semi-fictionalised account of Nazi brothels, shedding further light on the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Non-Fiction
Aberdeen, Impulse Books, 1971.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.00.
Uncommon account of the early days of pirate radio.
New York, International Universities Press, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
Gisella Perl was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work. She survived, emigrated to New York and was one of the first women to publicize these experiences in English in this memoir.
London, Putnam, 1908.
Sixth edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, priced sixpence.
An early edition of this classic of feminist theory, reflecting on women's economic reliance on men, first published in 1898. A landmark treatise in the struggle for gender equality.