Publication: [United States]: [Publisher not identified], 1977.
Description: Self-defense guide for women, with an occasionally humorous tone, by Memphis Police Department lieutenant Jim Bullard. First edition. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs by Noel Barrow. Pictorial card wrappers with a black-and-white photographic montage on the front and rear covers. 11 x 8.5 inches; [6], 87, [3] pages. Wrappers with light wear and toning, a small nick at the lower edge of the rear wrapper, and some light foxing and toning to the interior. Very Good+. Published in 1977, amid rising public concern about violent crime. The book also appeared as the feminist self-defense movement was gaining national visibility, with women’s martial-arts and self-defense groups expanding rapidly in the mid-1970s.
