Elsa Jane Guerin (4 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 books: Mountain Charley; Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire, Elsa Jane Guerin, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, 112p, pb, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, text clean, solid binding + Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, Marjorie Garber, Routledge, 1991, 443p, oversz. hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding---5.00 for both.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. 2 'nd Edition. SUBTITLED : The Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin who was Thirteen Years in Male Attire '. The introduction to this 112 page autobiography describes a rush to publish (c. 1861) because impostors were out there attempting to steal Guerin's thunder. READ more about : Yellow Fever, Tarry All, Cache La Poud, Ferry Street, careworn, Guy Gulch, Table Mountain, revolver, confession, Baton Rouge, Eternal Goodness, wagon trek, and similia similibus curantur. Some versions have Charley as a pseudonym for Charlotte. There seems also to have been a revenge element, she felt jilted. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is grey with red lettering. Drawing of the androgynous author on cover. Volume us clean, square, and bright. No names nor marks. Excellent reading copy. QUote *(p, 28) : " During all rhese years that had elapsed since my hisband's death, I had not been unmindful of its cause, or unthoughtful as to means whereby I could apply that punishment, which I religiously believed ._._._. . " Size: 8vo. …