casgrain therese (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First English. The author of these 192 pages - includes end-notes - lead the fight for Quebec women to get the vote. She succeeded in 1941. .Read more about : Victor Marchand, La Ligue des Droits de la Femme, League for Social reconstruction, suffrage, adultery, Civil Code, Miss Irene Joly, immovable property, and ammended article 1425a. UNillustrated. Cond: Boards are grey with gilt lettering at spine. Straw coloured end-papers. D.J. is black with white lettering. Portrait (photo) of Madame Casgrain at the window. Tight in binding. UNsoiled. No names. Marks of a book service in two places. D.J. (UNclipped) bright with significant wear along top edge. Excellent reading copy ! ! Quote (p. 115) : "._._. but a few weeks later his prediction proved correct. The shock was all the greater for me personally since my family and I lost a considerable fortune within the space of forty-eight hours. When the crisis deepened and the hideous spectre of unemployment rose up everywhere, the Canadian Prime Minister ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Bon. 200x130mm. 296 pages. Préface de Frank-R. Scott.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (medium). Gray cloth, 192pp, [2] newspaper clippings about Casgrain laid-in, boards sunned, spine ends bruised. Very Good in Very Good, unclipped d/w, jacket sunned at inner covers, minor tears at corners, edges, jacket creased at top edge of front cover. Casgrain championed the women's right to vote, especially in Quebec, and she was the first woman to lead a political party in Canada.

Hardcover. pp. 192. 8vo. Publishers light-gray boards with gilt lettering to the spine, mustard-yellow endpapers. Lightst rubbing to the boards, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in lightly rubbed dustjacket showing a few chips and short closed tears along the edges of the panels. Overall, very good+.