Revolution Of Little Girls, The – Blanche McCrary Boyd
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For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Revolution Of Little Girls by Blanche McCrary Boyd. First edition stated, 1991 Knopf. First Printing with 1991 on both title and copyright pages and no subsequent printing.

The book is in Good condition with soiled boards, tight binding, damp stains on a straight spine, foxed page blocks, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the half title page. No other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.  

The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear, and and a strong spine. First state jacket with the $19.00 price on the creased front flap, and the 5/91 date on the rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O’Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and ’70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd’s The Revolution Of Little Girls is a completely original arid captivating work.

Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.