Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) [signed]

Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2011. First Edition. Small quarto in jacket; 96 pages: illustrations (some color), color map; 27 cm. Heavily illustrated. Fine in near fine jacket with very minor edge-wear; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781426307614

Signed by author. Numerous color illustrations & b&w photo reproductions of historic interest. "Explores the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement." / Contents: Foreword / Lean Missback Day. Introduction. Inventing the bicycle. Feature: celebrity cyclists. "The devil's advance agent". Feature: cycling slang. Fashion forward. Feature: cycling songs. Fast and fearless. Feature: the cycling press. New freedoms. Feature: selling with cycles. Highlights in cycling and women's history. Resources. Sources of quotes. Index.