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New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1929. Memorial Edition second printing. hardcover. very good/very good. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 " 214 pages. dj is a bit darkened around edges and spine (dj now in mylar protector). previous owner's name on first page.

NY: KNOPF. 1928, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x1. Ex-Library hardcover no dj (blue boards) in very nice condition. Library stamp inside.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Used-Very Good/Collectible-Very Good. 1929. Second Printing. Hardcover w/DJ. 12mo., 214 pp. .

Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1928. First Canadian edn. 8vo, pp. 214. A fine copy in dj. Binding designed by W.A. Dwiggins. A group of essays reflecting life in Gale's hometown.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 19228. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Owner signature and handsome bookplate on front endleaves and spine just a bit toned, topedge darkened, near fine in a spine-toned, good only dust jacket split at the upper shoulder, with one vertical split on the spine and small chips along the edges.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wisconsin author, a journalist, activist, & early feminist. First edition (first printing) with same date on title & copyright pages, no later printings noted. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; binding design by W. A. Dwiggins. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket shows minor edgewear, short tears, tiny faint stain, light chipping - most notably to the head of the spine. Text clean; [10], 214 pages + colophon, b/w frontispiece woodcut by Bennett, photo of Eliza Beers - the author's mother & subject of one essay. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Bennett. 5¾" by 7¾".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [13], 4-214, [4] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; brown topstain. Price of $2.50 on the reverse of the jacket. Publisher's cancel after the dedication page. Illustrated by a woodcut frontispiece and a full-page portrait of one of the subjects of the essays. Jacket woodcut by Richard Bennett. Women in Wisconsin, "Zona Gale". A collection of essays from an early feminist figure, who made her home in south-central Wisconsin. Zona Gayle was a playwright and author who served as a mentor and friend to fellow Wisconsin author and feminist Margery Latimer. After graduating from UW-Madison in 1895, she worked as one of Milwaukee's first female newspaper reporters. A nice copy of Gale's first book of essays. A Near Fine book with minor foxing to the preliminaries and boards' edges; dust jacket is Very Good+ with minor edge wear and a bit of toning to the spine panel and the front fold.

PORTAGE, WISCONSIN AND OTHER ESSAYS, Knopf, 1928, first edition, a tight vg+ copy. INSCRIBED by the author and dated a year after publication.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Second Printing. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 12mo, 214 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author as follows: "To Fola La Follette-She knew and was near to "Father" and Eliza Beers. Zona Gale, Portage, Wisconsin, November, 1929." Eliza Beers was Zona Gale's mother. and Fola La Follette was the daughter of progressive politician Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette and lawyer and women's suffrage leader Belle Case. Zona Gale was raised in Portage, Wisconsin and lived most of her life there. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. No marks in book, binding tight. Spine lettering sunned. A nice association copy. Book condition VG.