Travels in America 1851-1855 Tapa dura - 1982

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Very Good. Southern Illinois University Press for the Swedish Historical Society, 1982. Cloth, dj., 152 pp. Very Sound.

Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Hardback. Very Good/Lightly Worn. clean, unmarked copy.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Southern Illinois University Press. VG+/VG. 1982. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. 080931018x . In very good plus condition with almost no usage showing. Blue/gray covers with crisp gold lettering on spine. Comes from the private library of Audrey Harkness O'Connor. Text is clean/tight. Frontispiece shows a daguerreotype of the author by S. F. Buerling in Havana 1855. DJ is brown with white lettering/blue illustrations. Has a blue tinted photo of the above mentioned daguerreotype. DJ edges have some very emall and usual nicks/tears one of which has been recently repairred at top/bottom edges of spine due to shelf sliding. Minor age browning along DJ edges. Gift quality condition. If a photo is showing with this description it is not from us. If you would like a photo, please request one Need to send a gift? We offer free domestic drop delivery, free gift wrapping and card for almost any occasion. Just let us know the occasion and your message. ; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4; 152 pages .

Swedish Pioneer Historical Society and Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Hbk, 152pp, illustr portrait frontis, an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new

Carbondale, IL:: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society / Southern Illinois University Press,, (1982). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First edition. Letters and diary entries by Roos, who left the constraints she felt doomed to as a woman in Sweden in the 1850s and so traveled to America to test her ability to be independent, spending four years on a plantation in South Carolina as a governess, just as the slavery debate was entering its most heated phase. She comments on contrasts: freedom and slavery, cold and heat, great industriousness and total apathy, but when she returns to Sweden, confident in her independence, she has only scorn for the arguments she heard espousing the "good" of slavery. As she pleaded for the rights of women in Sweden, she drew analogies between those theories of slavery and the treatment of women. Translated and with a preface by Carl L. Anderson, who notes that at the end of the 19th century she was recognized as one of the… Leer más