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Text Box: New Books BIG Booklist Ephemera Index How to Order Text Box: book, in her foreword, is intended for all girls, and may well provide interesting and useful advice for today's young 21st century girls. A liberal education. The cheer of the unattained. Health and Beauty. The Dreamy Girl. An Even Mind. Our Restless Girls. About Signing Your Name. Love's Dawn. Winning and Wooing. Home-keeping Hearts. Heroines. A Little Nonsense. To Please People. Right and Wrong in Recreation: stay away from games of chance. On the Road. Days of Illness. What to Wear. Friends and Comrades. Christian Service. 263 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Dark green cloth on board with gilt illustration and inset picture of a fair girl. Lower edges of book frayed. Good. No dj. (4985) $15.00. Women's/Advice for Girls General Electric Electric Sink--Advertising brochure for GE Dishwasher and Disposall ca. 1938 General Electric Co. Interesting advertising piece for pre-World War II housewives. Cover shows small girl with bonnet saying "Gee, Mummy, isn't it wonderful not having to wash dishes anymore.." while "Mummy" looks inside a dishwasher, and daddy, holding his fedora, looks on approvingly. Inside, "Mrs. America Quits Two More Jobs!" and "And where she [Mrs. America] has a maid" -- there is photo of an African-American woman: -- "I'se sure got a good job now!" Electric Sink washes the dishes, disposes of food wastes electrically! 24 pp. 21.5 x 28 cm. Paper booklet, slight wear, very good. (6828) $21.00. Women's/Advertising Home Life Made Beautiful in Story, Song, Sketch and Picture, written, edited and compiled by Margaret E. Sangster 1897 New York, NY: The Christian Herald. Margaret Munson Sangster (1838-1912) was an accomplished poet, writer and a very religious woman. She is best known for her editorial work, primarily for Harper's Bazaar; this book is another example of her excellent work. This book is richly illustrated, and filled with stories, with many morality lessons, patriotic and religious works, including much poetry, some songs-- all uplifting and positive. 448 pp. 16 x 23 cm. Illustrated blue cloth on board with gilt lettering, 2 cm closed tear in bottom of frontispiece page, title page partially separated. Slight rubbing of heel and toe of spine, else a very attractive copy. Good. (1678) $34.00. Women's Ladies' Floral Cabinet and Pictorial Home Companion, The; Vol. I No. 4, April, 1872 by Williams, Henry T. 1872 New York, NY: The Ladies' Floral Cabinet and Pictorial Home Companion. Monthly periodical features articles about flower culture, children, poetry; Rustic shelter in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Fun for the Family. 8 pp. 34 x 44 cm. Newspaper, very good. (3820) $19.00 Women's/Ephemera Ladies' Repository for 1850, The, Rev. B.F. Tefft, D.D., Editor 1850 Cincinnati, OH: L. Swormstedt & J.H. Power. Splendid collection of elegant engravings, poetry, music, religious thoughts, travel, all manner of literature, book reviews, commentary, attacks on "corrupting literature." Impressive array of reading for educated women: Lead article for February discusses three books on The Jesuits, gives a colorful description and discussion, but ends with a stern message against the "Romish denomination." An Incident of the Hungarian War. Adulation of Kossuth. "Tracks of a Traveler" for September relates journey from Canada to Syracuse to Albany and eventually to Martha's Vineyard and Boston, MA. In Boston, editor attends wild meeting of the "radical, abolition, non-resistant, woman's rights, anti-Church, no-government, general-reform, out-and-out, come-out, Garrisonian Society of Fanatics. Never since the flood, has there been such a congregation of lunatics, as were assembled." Report from Germany on new strides in women's equality. 412 pp. 16 x 25 cm. Red leather on board, moderate edge wear, engravings and some pages foxed, very good. (4821) $60.00. Women's/Religious/Travel/Poetry/Literature Laws of Business for All the States of the Union with forms and directions for all transactions, Revised Edition by Parsons, Theophilus, LL.D 1875, Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Company. Harvard Law Professor prepared this book for everyman. Mortgages of land, goods, chattels; rights of women (very few); Bankruptcy; Notes of Hand and Bills of Exchange; Infants or minors; Apprentices. Married Women: …" a married woman is wholly incapable of entering into mercantile contracts on her own account. By the fact of marriage, her husband becomes possessed of all her real estate during her life, and if a living child be born of the marriage, he has her real estate during his own life, if he survive her." Includes laws of each state with regard to Married Women. 697 pp. 14 x 23 cm. Maroon cloth on board with calf spine, edges frayed, leather quite scuffed; inside hinges cracked; owner name dated 1875 on ffep. Good. (4818) $30.00. Reference Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text-Book, Revised Edition ca. 1930 Lynn, MA: The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. In front of book: Caution to the owner: This little book treats of delicate subjects and has been sent to you only by request. It is not intended for indiscriminate reading but for you own private information. Book teaches women about menstruation and women's illnesses, and care, including Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines. Also includes very explicit testimonials, two blank postcards addressed to LEP Co., and an offer for a hot plate rest. 63 pp. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. Paper booklet with tape spine, very good. Included are testimonials for Sanative Wash, two blank postcards, and a typed letter offer. (5555) $30.00. Women's/Medical/Advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text-Book, Revised Edition ca. 1932 Lynn, MA: The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. In front of book: Caution to the owner: This little book treats of delicate subjects and has been sent to you only by request. It is not intended for indiscriminate reading but for you own private information. Book teaches women about menstruation and women's illnesses, and care, including Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines. Hysteria, Melancholy, "The blues", etc. Also includes one blank postcard addressed to LEP Co. 55 pp. 11.3 x 15.6 cm. Paper booklet with tape spine, very good. Included is one blank postcard. (5857) $20.00. Women's/Medical/Advertising Meal Planning and Table Service in the American Home by N. Beth Bailey, Associate Professor, Household Science Department, Iowa State College; with Preface by Florence E. Busse. 1923. Peoria, IL: N. Beth Bailey. "Table Service" is not just for when guests are in the home. There is coming to be a realization, Prof. Busse says, that the demands of a complete family life necessitate the repeat processes of regular living, and the children benefit from the influence of a well-ordered meal. This is for that large group of women who have no maid, or at best, but one maid. Author prefers left-hand meal service, but she has been using right-hand service for six years. Table etiquette. Fork --prongs up or down? It is still good form to make a dinner call within two weeks. Principles of Menu Making. 128 pp. 14 x 22 cm. Grey cloth on board, very clean; title page and last index page foxed, remainder of book is quite clean. Very good. (5274) $20.00. Women's/Etiquette Mother and Babe, Their Comfort And Care; Metropolitan Pamphlet Series, May, 1894. London, England: Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.) All you need to know, as you get ready for your baby, 1894-style. Many drawings of clothing for Mother and Babe, tunes for lullabies, lots of advice. Preparations for baby's coming; what to wear; baby's arrival; breast feeding; colic, pretty garments for babies and mothers, catalogue of clothing, etc. 84 pp. 17 x 24 cm. Paper booklet, brown cover, soiled, dampstained, with 1 x 2 cm. Chip in lower right hand corner of cover. Several pages of text dampstained. Fair. (2354) $36.00. Educational New York Millinery and Supply Co. Fall and Winter 1906-1907 Catalogue 1906 New York, NY: New York Millinery and Supply Co., 628-630 Broadway. . Wholesale catalogue for vast array of hats: Handsome Stylish Turban, Short Back Sailor, Paon Silk Velvet, Mushroom effect with crimped silk braid, Tambourine effect, Handsome taffeta silk, Gainsborough hat, Rolling back sailor, Misses' hat made of good quality felt with drapings of heavy taffeta silk ribbon, Vesta shape with shirred taffeta silk, Felt hat with plaited India satin, as low as $12.00 per dozen. Also ribbons, velvets, velvetas, silks, satins, fancy feathers, wings, birds, breasts, etc. 40 pp. 24 x 33 cm. Paper booklet, 8 cm vertical tear in center fold of front page, small chips in edge, fair.. (6908) $46.00. Women's/Advertising Norwegian Drawn Work (Hardanger) Shirtwaist Edition, Gittertyl Filet Illustrated by Porter, Anna M. 1905 Asbury Park, NJ: Kinmonth Press. Book of photos of women in Norwegian Drawn Work clothing, photos and drawings of elaborate Norwegian drawn work. Good illustrations of women's styles. Hedebo (Danish Work) to be introduced next season, for collars, shirtwaists, etc. 40 pp. 15.5 x 22.6 cm. Paper booklet, spinefold badly worn, many small tears, repaired with cellophane tape. Poor. (7898) $28.00. Women's/Needlework What Can a Woman Do; Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World by Mrs. M.L. Rayne, Illustrated 1893 Petersburgh, NY: Eagle Publishing Co. Mrs. Rayne notes that ca. 1840 Miss Martineau in Massachusetts wrote that there were only seven industries open to women who wanted to work. This shows all the opportunities available in 1893: Literature, Journalism, Telegraphy, Canvassers, Stenography and Type-writing, Law, Music, Government Clerks. Book then offers poems by women and includes an odd illustrated piece at the end, "Curfew Must Not Ring To Night" by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe. 528 pp.+ 15 x 21.5 cm. Decorated maroon cloth on board, back spine loose at one signature, but contains professional tape repair at end of book. Inscription in pencil on front free endpaper: "Miss Pauline Pierpont book presented by her Aunt Pulsifer". Good. (1790) $30.00. Women's Women's Journal, The, Boston, Saturday, February 17, 1883, Vol. XIV No. 7 Boston, MA: The Woman's Journal. Many stories about women's suffrage; Women's rights in Canada. Temperance. Higher education of women in Europe. Woman Suffrage Record in the Legislature. Female physicians in France. Much news about women. Julia Ward Howe is editorial contributor. 8 pp. 32 x 50 cm. Newspaper, pages unopened, very good. (5538) $20.00. Women's/History Return to INDEX