Life As We Have Known It. By Co-operative Working Women

London: Hogarth Press, 1931. First printing. Hardcover. xxxix, 141 pages. Hardcover, bound in orange cloth with black lettering and rules; lacking the jacket. Covers and top page edges a little dust-soiled, and front hinge a bit weak, but generally a nice copy. Item #873

A book of essays and excerpts from letters recollecting women's experiences in the Women's Co-operative Guild, now known as the Co-operative Women's Guild, established in England in 1883 as the women's branch of the cooperative movement. Illustrated with frontispiece and seven other black-and-white plates. Twenty-five page "Introductory Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies" by Virginia Woolf. An important title in the history of women and labor, with numerous reprintings since the 1970s by W. W. Norton in New York and by Virago in London.

Price: $50.00