FS: Women: Perceptions & Traditional Roles, Etc.
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We would like to offer for your consideration:
[7728] , HOME MANUAL. "Everybody's Guide in Social, Domestic, and
Business Life. A Treasury of Useful Information for the Million.
Embracing Etiquette, Hygiene, Household Economy, Beauty, Methods of
Money-Making, Care of Children, Fancy Work, Home Decoration, Business,
History, etc.,." H.J. Smith: 1889, 507 pages. Pictorial cloth binding
-attractive; tips of corners worn. Decorative endpapers. Numerous
illustrations. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Hinges sound. Good $40
[7722] --, --. THE HOUSE AND HOME. "A Practical Book by Dr. Lyman
Abbott, H.C. Candee, Constance Cary Harrison, M. G. Humphreys, Kate
Douglas Wiggin, etc., In two volumes, this being volume II only.
Scribner's Sons: 1896, 397 pages. Cloth bound. Numerous illustrations;
400 listed, some in beautiful color. This copy shaken; front endpaper
missing. Indexed. Chapter headings on women's handiwork; interior
furnishings and decorations; house building; home grounds maintenance;
home building, more. Fair $35
[7284] Burlingham, Michael John. THE LAST TIFFANY. "A Biography of
Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham." Atheneum: 1989, 364 pages. 1st edition.
Indexed. Dust jacket very good, in protective mylar wrapper. Cloth
spine, boards. Photos. Bibliography. An absorbing saga of bold Tiffany
who gives up her 5th Avenue life of splendor for a brilliant odyssey
in Freud's Vienna. Granddaughter of Charles Tiffany, premier silver,
glass and fine jewelry creator. Bound in cloth. Very Good $15
[7710] Candee, Helen Churchill. HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING. Grosset
& Dunlap: ( Macmillan 1900), 1910, 342 pages. Cloth bound. Dedicated
to "All Those Women Who Labor Through Necessity And Not Caprice."
Suggested trades for women discussed: hack writing; parlor lectures;
applied design; footlights; household industries; architecture and
interior. Women and working. Good $25
[7587] Chiyoko, Higuchi. HER PLACE IN THE SUN: WOMEN WHO SHAPED
JAPAN. East Magazine Publications: Tokyo, 1973, 183 pages. Thick
boards with moderate soiling. Ribbon marker. Small owner's label to
red endpapers. Color plates, reproductions of prints, illustrated. Ten
Japanese women from various periods in time who shaped history and
made their mark. Women's history. Good $14
[7708] Clarke, Ida Clyde. UNCLE SAM NEEDS A WIFE. Winston: 1925, 279
pages. Cloth pictorial binding, vivid and attractive, but with some
old water staining to spine and rear cover. Dust jacket fair with
water staining on spine, in protective mylar wrapper --again colorful.
Old bookplate, small owner's label inside front cover. Frontispiece by
Frank Godwin. Illustrations by Ethel Boston. "A Happy Treatment of the
Need of Better Understanding and Cooperation Between Men and Women in
Political and Civic Activities." Good $35
[7707] De Puy, Frank A. THE NEW CENTURY HOME BOOK. "A Mentor for
Home Life in All It's Phases; a Chronicle of the Progress of America
and the World; a Compendium of the Nation's Greatest City; and a Guide
for the Great Army of Home-Builders." Eaton & Mains: 1900, 400 pages.
Decorative cloth binding -attractive. Illustrated with photographs.
Spine leaned else Very Good $45
[7723] deWolfe, Elsie. THE HOUSE IN GOOD TASTE. Century: (1913),
1914, 322 pages. Pictorial cloth binding. Copy slightly shaken.
Frontispiece with tissue guard. Photos, some in color. Interior
decorating; home furnishings; art of trelliage; doors, windows, and
chintz, much more. A good reading copy. Fair $65
[6592] English, Lila Gertrude. LOVE LIGHTS FOR MAID, WIFE AND
MOTHER. Conkey Co: 1912, 171 pages. Red cloth with one heavy soil mark
to front, moderate soil to boards. Pencil marks to top-edge. Old
owner's name to front paste-down. Oval photo picture label to front,
gilt lettering. Some smudges, stains to text, small chips. Photos.
Advice for women in all aspects of life. Good $16
[7724] Ferris, Helen. WHEN I WAS A GIRL. "The Stories of Five Famous
Women as Told by Themselves." Macmillan: 1930, 301 pages. 1st edition.
Cloth bound. Exterior soiled, tips of corners worn. Illustrated by
Curtiss Sprague. Hinges sound. Profiles of Ernestine Schumann-Heink;
Janet Scudder; Marie Curie; Jane Addams; Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. Good
$18
[7706] Festing, Gabrielle. ON THE DISTAFF SIDE. "Portraits of Four
Great Ladies." James Pott: 1903, 281 pages. Cloth bound; gilt spine
lettering. Old gift inscription inside. Frontispiece with tissue
guard. Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (1521? - 1608) - Elizabeth
Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland (1647 - 1690) - Elizabeth
Percy, Countess of Ogle and Duchess of Somerset (1666-1722) - Amelia
Sophia Eleanora (1710-1786). Uncommon. Good $25
[7726] Furlong, Pauline. BEAUTY CULTURE AT HOME. "A Complete Course
in Shampooing, Facial and Scalp Massage, Hair Coloring, Manicuring,
Chiropody, Developing and Reducing - Also Hundreds of Reliable
Formulas for Beauty Preparations." Paulette School: Washington, DC:
1914, 147 pages. Decorative cloth binding. Photo frontispiece of
author. Illustrated. Good $45
[6631] Hale, Mabel. BEAUTIFUL GIRLHOOD. Vir Publishing/Gospel
Trumpet: 1922, 224 pages. Light blue cloth, very clean, with oval
photo picture label to front. Neat gift inscription to half-title
page. Photo frontispiece, pages with attractive border trim. No former
ownership markings. Etiquette, manners and character building for
young teenage girls. Entertaining, some religious overtones. Spine
leaned and lightly bumped, otherwise Very Good $15
[7705] Hill, Janet McKenzie. THE UP-TO-DATE WAITRESS. Little, Brown:
(1906), 1929, 184 pages. Binding is cloth with graphic on front cover
of young woman in apron and cap. Illustrated with half-tone engravings
of Tables, Prepared Dishes, Appliances, etc. Waitressing; traditional
occupations Very Good $30
[6591] Quigley, Dorothy. THE WAY TO KEEP YOUNG. Dutton: 1897, 92
pages. 12mo Green cloth, graphic of young woman to front, gilt
lettering. Foxing to text. Hinges sound, binding true. Top-edge gilt.
Author of "Everybody's Fairy Godmother." To grow old like a tree;
exercise and study; love; foods that keep persons young, more. Good
$16
[7725] Rayne, Mrs. M. L. WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO? "Or, Her Position in
the Business and Literary World." Eagle: 1893, 528 pages. Decorative
cloth binding; crimson and very attractive. Marbled edges.
Frontispiece loose. Numerous illustrations. Decorative endpapers with
quite old repair to inner hinges, binding sound. Illustrated poem
entitled "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe at
rear of book. An intriguing book. Women in the world of telegraphy,
coloring photographs, wood engravers; bee keeping, cooking, gardening,
host of other occupations. Good $45
[6941] Reitman, Dr, Ben L. SISTER OF THE ROAD. "The Autobiography of
Box-Car Bertha." Gold Label Books: (1937) 314 pages. Dust jacket with
water stains along seam of rear flap else good, interesting blurbs and
attractive spine graphic, in protective mylar wrapper. Bound in red
cloth with light water stains along edge of rear board else very
bright and clean. No ownership markings. A "wandering woman in the
underworld." Includes appendices of various sociological observations,
slang, terms used. A story of a woman's desperate, vagrant life on the
fringes of society. Very Good $20
[6800] Rice (revised by), Sara S. LIGHT IN DARKNESS. "Autobiography
of Mary A. Niemeyer." Lippincott: 1885, 223 pages. Green cloth with
gilt spine lettering, impressed decorations. Light rubbing to cloth.
No former ownership inscriptions. Frontispiece with tissue guard.
Memoirs of woman who deals with being blind from childhood onwards.
Spine with faint roll else Very Good $35
[6589] Sangster, Margaret E. WINSOME WOMANHOOD. "Familiar Talks on
Life and Conduct." Revell: 1900, 260 pages. Decorated blue cloth with
white lettering and border trim; fanciful graphic in gold to front.
Heel of spine bumped, small stains to back board. Top-edge gilt.
Owner's stamp to ffep. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrated
title page. Illustrated by studies from life by W.B. Dyer. Proper
behavior and moral conduct and womanly expectations as dictated by the
cultural conventions of this period. Good $20
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