Frances v rummell (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. The first novel written under how own name by this educator and author, a delightfully humorous story of playing the stock market. "To most widows approaching fifty and with a widow's mite of $3000, the stock market would appear to be a capricious key to security. But to Jane McPhipps whose only future seemed to be loneliness without Horace and part time school teaching, the investment world was the goose that laid the golden egg. So begins a delightful story of bright magical fun, describing the profits and pitfalls of money and love, against the colorful background of San Francisco." SIGNED on the title page with the comment "with the best wishes of Aunt Jane and the author." Illustrated with drawings by Mircea Vasiliu. Long after Rummell's death in 1969 she was revealed as the author of the 1969 book "Diana: a strange autobiography," a book published under the pseudonym of Diana Frederics, and probably a semi-autobiographical lesbian novel rather than an actual autobiography: it has been described as the first lesbian book in which two women find happiness and fulfillment in their relationship, a radical idea at the time. 210 pp. Near fine in a good dust jacket. (some overall edgewear to dj, with several small chips, a bit of toning to the spine, original price of $3.50 on flap. Uncommon signed. …