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Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical
by MacKinnon, Janice R; Mackinnon, Stephen R
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0860682617
- ISBN 13
- 9780860682615
- Seller
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About This Item
London, UK: Virago Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. xii, 426pp, with occasional black and white illustrations. In black cloth boards with gilt titles. 8vo. Upper text block edge very slightly dusty, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped along upper edge, lightly sunned on spine. From an impoverished Colorado childhood, to her final years subject to the scans of McCarthyism, Agnes Smedley's life was both dramatic and intense: birth control pioneer, social journalist, freedom fighter and associate of the early Berlin Freudians, she was a part of the of the most important social and political revolutions of the 20th century.
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- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021612
- Title
- Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical
- Author
- MacKinnon, Janice R; Mackinnon, Stephen R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0860682617
- ISBN 13
- 9780860682615
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 425
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Agnes Smedley, Freedom Fighters, Birth Control, Social Campaigner, Radicalism
- X weight
- 0 kg
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