Perkins and Wolfson (5 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 393. Bibliography, index. With several illustrations. Red cloth. Ex library with pocket and stamps. Hinges tender, cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, slightly stained and faded, o/w VG. The unconventional Wright was a friend of Lafayette and Robert Owen, and advocated the abolition of capital punishment, miscegenation as the solution of the race problem, equality for women, a national system of education, and other radical causes. She founded the short-lived Nashoba community in Tennessee as an experiment with the emancipation of slaves through a system of cooperative labor.…

Condition: New. In English.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 393. Bibliography, index. With several illustrations. Red cloth. A VG tight copy in chipped dj. The unconventional Wright was a friend of Lafayette and Robert Owen, and advocated the abolition of capital punishment, miscegenation as the solution of the race problem, equality for women, a national system of education, and other radical causes. She founded the short-lived Nashoba community in Tennessee as an experiment with the emancipation of slaves through a system of cooperative labor.…

(WRIGHT, FRANCES). PERKINS, A. J. G. and Theresa WOLFSON. Francis Wright, Free Enquirer. The Study of a Temperament. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 1st ed. 8vo. [8], 393, [1] pp., frontis., illus. In orig. cloth with non-price clipped d/j. Light staining to the cloth and scattered ink marginal bracketing in ink, else very good in a chipped d/j. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper.…