Hillbilly Women Tapa dura - 1973

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". viii, 230pp. Somewhat heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Jacket sits slightly loose on boards. Toning and gentle bumps to corners and edges of black cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A Book of Heroines. They live in the towns and hamlets of southern Appalachia. They are the women of the coal-mine camps and mill towns; they are members of a fiercely proud sisterhood. For in spite of enormous abuse from mine and mill operators, welfare agencies, corrupt union officials, and their gun thugs, these women remain undaunted. Hillbilly Women tells their stories in their own words--sometimes angry, sometimes… Leer más