withrow oswald (7 resultados)

Soft Cover. Condición: VG. 143pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Light soil to outer edges, light creasing from page handling and curl/creasing at corners. Wraps have edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 21 x 28 x 1cm, wt750g Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 155 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are darkened and lightly stained and foxed. Orange cloth hardcovers with black and green pictorial design. Lightly worn around the edges, and scuffed and smudged on the back cover. Spine is lightly darkened. 1ST EDITION. VG/- -. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Black cloth. No jacket. 229 pp. Endpapers depict a perspective plan of the Kingston Penitentiary. An account of the life of a prisoner in the Kingston Penitentiary in Canada, recounted by Oswald Withrow a doctor and birth control activist who was incarcerated for performing abortions. Withrow wrote this memoir partially in response to prison riots in the 1930s, exposing the harsh conditions in prison, with the hope of initiating prison reform. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning, fading and edgewear to the book, including some small dings along the extremities. Several light orange spots of staining to the endpapers.

xiv, 1 leaf, 17-155, [1] pages including frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, plates : 21 cm.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 8vo. Orig. black cloth, orange lettering. B&W illustrated endpapers with plan of Kingston Penitentiary. xiv, 229 pp. Light bruising and chafing to corners. Dust jacket is faded, darkened to spine, lightly edge worn, some short and long tears, some repair and reinforcement with paper tape to reverse.

Card covers. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Saddle stapled card covers. Manhood Series Number Three: Facts for Fighters, 16 pages: spot of grime and chip off back cover [and] Number Four: If Every Man Were Straight, 20 pages. 5.3 x 3 inches.