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[Daurand-Forgues (Paul-Emile)] Old Nick :
La Chine ouverte. Aventure d’un Fan-Kouei dans les pays de Tsin. Ouvrage illustré par Auguste Borget, auteur de La Chine et les Chinois.
Paris, H. Fournier, 1845 ; cartonnage polychrome à fond noir représentant un personnage chinois fumant, en habit traditionnel doré rehaussé de rouge, bleu et blanc, fond décoré de scènes et objets symboliques, second plat à grand décor doré et vert, tranches dorées ; VI, (2), 396 pp., 50 planches hors-texte, nombreuses illustrations in-texte de tous formats, dessins de Auguste Borget.
Bookseller reference : 11299
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[De Pauw (Cornelius)]
Recherches philosophiques sur les Egyptiens et les Chinois.
Berlin, C. J. Decker, 1773 ; 3 parties reliées en 2 tomes in 12, veau fauve glacé, dos à faux nerfs dorés, décoré et doré, pièce de titre grenat et tomaison vert foncé, encadrement doré sur les plats, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; XXII, [2], 469 ; 256, 232 pp. Carte dépliante de la Grande Muraille de l'Egypte ancienne au tome 2.
Bookseller reference : 19930
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[Dessin romantique] Vieillard, Militaire & deux femmes.
[Dessin romantique] Vieillard, Militaire & deux femmes.
[Dessin romantique] Vieillard, Militaire & deux femmes. Crayon sur une feuille contrecollé sur une feuille bleue, environ 100*155mm, ca.1830. [229]
Bookseller reference : 015924
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[Dessin]
Femmes au lavoir à la plume et aquarelle
20x28 cm. -
Bookseller reference : 2268
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[Dossiers Secrets de l'Histoire]
DOSSIERS SECRETS de l'HISTOIRE
Une revue de 138 pages, format 150 x 205 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 2002, bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126724225
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[Dust jacket; Women Authors; Children's]
Collection of Dust Jacket Front Panels 1920s-1950s.
ca. 1920s-1950s. Ephemera. Good. Over 100 examples of dust jacket design virtually all being the front panels only. Included are a large number of examples from women authors and children's books. Others relate to travel Carl Akeley's In Brightest Africa. Housed in a binder with the jacket panels organized into 4 groups. Unfortunately the examples are mostly limited to the front panel but nevertheless the total showcases a wide range of dust jacket art many of these books being difficult to find in any wrapper. <br/><br/> unknown
Bookseller reference : D19736
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[Early Schools], [Women]
This book should be the repository of friendly names and of the purest thoughts and feelings that spring from the innermost depths of loving hearts
Friendship album given to a young female student in 1860. “Souvenir Album.†Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. n.d. Original black leather boards. 7 ½ x 6 in. Embossed front and back cover gilt-edged pages and gilt detail on spine. 64 pages. Title page printed in gilt and red ink. Includes 6 full page engravings of various subjects including a woman writer figures reading in a garden a lady falconer and children playing. Comes with a hand-colored “Reward of Merit†card presented to Mary A Hanson from her friend. A souvenir album that was presented as a reward to Mary A. Hanson a young student on March 31 1860 for outstanding spelling work in the previous school year. Mary’s teacher inscribed a dedication to her on the first page about how the book should be used to keep treasured memories: “Some of the happiest emotions of our nature arise from the remembrance of friends. Their names are dear; their words of love and friendship as mementos of the past calling up pleasant memories are dearer still to the heart. This book should be the repository of friendly names and of the purest thoughts and feelings that spring from the innermost depths of loving hearts. Sincerity purity and truth should characterize each thought feeling wish or sentiment here expressed. Wisdom Hope Innocence and Love should reign supreme.†She finishes with best wishes for Mary as the school year ends: “May love and friendship here unite to lay their offerings on thy shrine; And friends with gems and flowers bright a wreath of love for thee entwine.†The remaining pages of the book are blank. Very light foxing on engraving pages. Lower front hinge is worn. Very good condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 16538
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[EDUCATION -- WOMEN]. BEHNKE, HW. & Walker, Isaac M. (Pres.). H. W.
A golden investment for young people yielding a comfortable cash income a bigger and better position and independence and happiness.
Portland OR: Behnke-Walker Business College 4th & Morrison ca. 1925. 12mo. 15 1 pp. With photo illustrations throughout on yellow-tinted paper. Beige textured softcovers printed lettering and borders on front cover minor dustsoiling shelfwear still VG bright copy. First edition of this very rare promotional brochure for the Behnke-Walker Business College and occupational trade school which operated from 1900 until the end of the 1930’s training thousands of women and men for occupations in business real estate sales insurance companies and banks. Such notable women students as Pauline Darling Pauling 1902-2003 sister of Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and Katie Hurley secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening and the Alaska Constitutional Convention 1955-1956 received training and proved successful along with so many other young women through the first 3 decades of the 20th Century. It should be noted however that Behnke-Walker Business College followed City of Portland and State of Oregon mores which at the time had very strict racist policies excluding African-Americans which included Kathryn Hall Bogle 1906-2003 who had already been refused employment as an elevator operator or telephone operator in Portland. She eventually found employment with Meier & Frank’s Beauty Department and was a freelance journalist contributing articles to mainstream press and Black newspapers & periodicals in the PNW but was refused full-time employment. Founded by Behnke fl. 1894-1913 and Isaac Walker b. 1861 the Business School quickly expanded from 1 room to owning the old YMCA building at 4th & Morrison training over 10000 women and men for business careers by 1928. Courses included secretarial stenography calculator and comptometer efficiency sales and sales pitch training teacher training bookkeeping accounting typing shorthand and more. They maintained an aggressive sales recruitment system by sending out promotional brochures postcards and other trade literature. Successful women students mentioned in this brochure include Gladys Russell who became a court reporter the five Dunn sisters Honora Miller who eventually succeeded as an attorney and Ruth Hubbard as a commercial real estate business owner. Worldcat locates 1 similar copy for Cornwall Commercial College Library & Archives Canada; See: Lockley History of the Columbia River Valley III 1928 pp. 133-134; Kathryn Hall Bogle’s “An American Negro Speaks of Color†Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 89 No. 1 Spring 1988 pp. 70-81. Behnke-Walker Business College, 4th & Morrison, paperback
Bookseller reference : 63540
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[EDUCATION -- CALIFORNIA WOMEN]. FIELD, Evelyn [Woodruff].
A training course for camp counselors: Physical Education 57.
Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles City College 1940. 4to. 2 50 leaves mimeographed typescript w/ tables. Quarter-black cloth over tan printed wrappers black lettering printed on front cover minor tidemarks & chipping repaired & restored closed tears repaired tidemark at upper & lower fore-edge still G- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce volume by the noted teacher and administrator at Los Angeles City College who was also the Dean of Student Activities. Field 1908-1995 was a vociferous supporter of physical education supporter of camping activities and proponent of training professional young women and men to serve as counselors and administrators at Municipal Camps Private Camps for Girls and Boys as well as Private Organization Camps with an intent of offering job opportunities for LACC students. No copies in Worldcat; See: Evelyn Woodruff Field UCLA Student Leaders Oral History Transcript by David P. Gist published 1991 OCLC: 36968860 YRL Special Collections. Los Angeles City College, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63579
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[EDUCATION -- WOMEN]. FERGUSON, James.
The young gentleman and lady’s astronomy familiarly explained in ten dialogues between Neander and Eudosia. . . .
London: Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell in the Strand 1768. 8vo. 4 252 pp. With 5 of 7 copper-engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf gilt ruling on covers red & gilt morocco spine label minor scuffing & edgewear minor wear to corners rubbing chipping & wear to spine still good reference copy w/ bright interior. First edition of this work intended to teach women the importance of astronomy and science and which would continue in print until the 19th Century. In the dialogues set up between tutor and pupil the young woman asks whether science is really a suitable activity for a lady and she is reassured that not only does science promote domestic harmony and family values but improves the common sense of mankind. See: See: Henderson & Ferguson Life of James Ferguson pp. 349-350; Suzanne Le-May Sheffield Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction 2004 pp. 62-63. Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell, in the Strand, unknown
Bookseller reference : 55807
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[Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture]
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture
London: W. Clowes and Sons for H.M.S.O. 1843. 3 iv-xiv 2 2-378pp 2. Modern half calf and marbled paper over boards raised bands spine in six panels title label to second panel double rules in copper to either side of bands date to foot remaining panels with repeated small volute tool in blind. Externally very good. Internally lightly browned throughout a few corners creased small tear to top corner of M6 and M7. The reports of Alfred Austin Mr. Vaughan Mr. Stephen Denison and Sir Francis Doyle to Sir James Graham. Goldsmith's 33401. First Edition. Half Calf and Boards. Good. 8vo. W. Clowes and Sons for H.M.S.O. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003795
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[Enslavement – Women – Legal History] Wiggins, James
Two 1857 Legal Documents Concerning a Married Woman’s Right to the Sole Ownership of an Enslaved Woman and Her Children
<p>Wilcox County Alabama 1857. Two documents totaling five double-sided pages measuring 8 x 13 inches and six double-sided pages measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Folded with some stains and wear; Near Fine. Two legal documents from an Alabama chancery court suit brought against Susannah Nettles by her husband James C. Nettles concerning ownership of an enslaved woman named Chloe. The documents are a set of cross interrogatories and objections and their replies which were given by William Mellard the writer of the deed that originally gave Susannah ownership of Chloe. Mellard recalls that the deed written in 1829 provided the following:<br /><br />"Mary Rudd declared to him while directing him how to write the Instrument that as Susannah was her youngest child and a daughter that she wished while she yet lived to secure to her that much of her Estate to wit Chloe and her future increase; and she wished the Instrument so written that it would convey to Susannah the said girl Chloe in such a manner that she would not be subject to the control of her husband should she afterwards marry . and that the negro girl should not be subject to the debts of her husband should she marry".<br /><br />Mellard claims that after Susannah's marriage "James C. Nettles admitted the right of his wife to the Negroes and acquiesced in her title to them and did not claim any right to them."<br /><br />At the time the deed was drawn up the legal doctrine of coverture was in effect: a married woman did not have legal rights and obligations including a right to property ownership separate from her husband. Though Susannah was single at the time Chloe would have become James Nettles' property on his marriage to Susannah were it not for the part of Mary Rudd's deed which Mellard insists he is remembering correctly that set aside Chloe as only Susannah's property. Though some states had passed Married Women's Property Acts or similar Alabama would pass any such laws until 1867.1<br /><br />These documents are a striking example of the enforcement of a key aspect of women's rights—the right to own one's own property—in which it specifically hinges on the denial of rights to another group of women—those who are owned as property. Of interest to legal historians particularly of women's rights and enslavement.<br /><br />1 B. Zorina Khan The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development 1790–1920 Cambridge University Press 2005 167.</p>
Bookseller reference : List3026
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[ETIQUETTE - WOMEN]. POST, Emily.
Etiquette. The blue book of social usage. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of social forms. . . including military and post-war etiquette.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Feb. 1945. Tall 8vo. xiii 3 654 pp. Photo frntsp. photos illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. chipping & tear to lower spine small tear lower fore-edge front cover old tape repairs still NF/G- copy. Revised and expanded 1945 edition first printing of this classic handbook on etiquette. The author has made a number of changes to account for wartime rationing as well as changing status for men and women with sections on where women should stay while their men are in training camp with wartime rationing men should definitely pay for a taxi in order to protect fragile and irreplaceable women’s clothing and even a chilling section on how to write your FBI office or local sheriff if local Junior Revolutionists are agitating. Funk & Wagnalls, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56214
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[Ex-libris Emma K. Willits] [Women in Surgery] [Pediatrics] [Children's Medicine] Austin, Mary
The Arrow Maker: A Drama in Three Acts
New York: Duffield and Company 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good . 128pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Light brown paper over boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front board. Ex-library with traces of library markings on the rear endpaper. Spine subtly darkened. Ex-libris Emma K. Willits with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Emma K. Willits 20 September 1869 – 9 April 1965 was a physician and surgeon who played a significant role in the development of Children's Hospital in San Francisco now the California campus Women and Children's Center of the California Pacific Medical Center serving as the head of the Department of General Surgery from 1921 to 1934. She is thought to be the third woman to specialize in surgery in the United States and the first to head a surgery department. A play set among the Paiute Indians. A nice association copy. Duffield and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 68898
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[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer]
Female suffrage; printed pamphlet. Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee October 20th 1873.
Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co. Printers. 1873. 10pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Three copies on COPAC. No copy at the BL. No other copy currently on the market. [Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women.] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., P paperback
Bookseller reference : 16218
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[Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland:
Female suffrage; printed pamphlet. Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting 28th July 1876.
Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co. Printers. 1876. 15pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Two copies on COPAC at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. No other copy currently on the market. [Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., Pr paperback
Bookseller reference : 16217
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[FASHION -- SHOES/WOMEN]. PETERS, [Henry William].
Catalog No. 58: Fall & Winter 1927-28. Peters Shoes Diamond Brand; Price and delivery list of Peters Diamond Brand Shoes September 1 1927. . . .
St. Louis MO: Peters branch of International Shoe Co. 1927. Two vols. 4to. 96 26; 16 pp unpaginated. colour-illustrated throughout colour-illustrated borders sample wrapping papers colour-tinted order forms yellow & red. Colour-decorated embossed softcovers raised-embossed lettering in red blue & white on white field punch-hole at upper left corner red silk braid minor soiling foxing back cover edgewear minor shelfwear slight gouging to lower fore-edge of textblock; 2nd -- w/ self-printed softcovers age toning minor creasing & bumping to corners age toning still VG-/VG copies. First edition of this very scarce Roaring 20’s shoe fashion catalogue and price-list filled with the latest Diamond Brand styles for women’s & men’s footwear embellished with the Jazz Age fashion designs in the borders of Margaret Mosley. Work shoes work boots camping boots rubber footwear and high-top Keds sport shoes are all depicted in the catalogue. Of particular interest is the well-illustrated advertising and sales section for she and department stores featuring window display equipment window valances promotional calendars watches advertising billboards advertising chairs & stools for athletic stadiums unbreakable dolls and Diamond Brand Gloves. The company has also incorporated paper samples for printed wrapping papers. The Peters Shoe Company was first established in 1892 by Henry Peters who was later a primary partner in forming the International Shoe Company at one time one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the World. No copies in Worldcat. Peters, branch of International Shoe Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 60929
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[FASHION -- MEN'S SILK TIES]. [WOMEN]. BELL, Faye (Designer).
Cohama cravats: presenting the Cohama Cravat plan -- based on the idea of a consumer-advertised and labeled tie to retail at one dollar. . . .
New York: Cohama Cravats United Merchants & Manufacturers 1412 Broadway 1940. Atlas folio. 13 x 18 in. 34 pp unpaginated. printed on thick tan paper stock with 21 different tipped-in advertising promotional samples including camera-ready newspaper ads sample window & counter display cards and folded promotional brochures for mailing each to be imprinted with the retailer’s name order book tucked into rear pocket mounted on last leaf. Tan boards plastic-comb binding to spine minor bumping to couple corners some dustsoiling minor chipping to foot of spine still a VG bright exemplar. First edition of this exceedingly scarce sales and advertising catalogue designed to present the 1940 plan by the company for their $ 1.00 men’s cravat ties. Featured are the proposed newspaper ad lines for the six different Cohama Cravats in the Spring & Summer including the Briar Bahama Camelot Rangoon Gamester and Seminole. American tie manufacturing emerged as a significant force at the end of the Jazz Age and through the 1930’s as their popularity grew world wide for their heavy use of colours vivid patterns and breaking away from the more sedate colour palate of the British tie industry. Contributing to the explosion of tie manufacturing in the 1930s and 1940s were the need by many men during the Great Depression and then the War years to change their fashion look by adding a decorative tie rather than buying a new suit or set of clothes. The Duke of Windsor heavily influenced ties styles and wearers by not only developing the Windsor knot but also wearing them with many different types of clothing. Cohama was a trademark of United Merchants which was a textile firm originally founded in 1912 as the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. merging with United Merchants in 1928 and later clothing chains across the East and South through World War II. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Gibbings The tie trends and traditions 1990. Cohama Cravats, United Merchants & Manufacturers, 1412 Broadway, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61451
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[FASHION -- WATERCOLOUR DESIGNS/WOMEN]. PAINE, Nancy.
College wardrobe; Art. . . two fashion portfolios of 11 and 9 original fashion design watercolour paintings all created by young middle schooler Nancy Paine for her art classes in Seattle in the early 1950’s.
Seattle WA: Nancy Paine ca. 1953-54. Twenty-one original fashion design watercolour paintings all oblong folio 9 sized 15 x 12 in.; 12 sized 18 x 15 in. 1 is painted title only many of them signed by Nancy down in lower corner 1 graded and reviewed by teacher several with neat cursive annotations some curling minor edgewear to corners some toning still VG set with the 2nd set retaining the original portfolio cover sheet. These original watercolour fashion designs reflect the 1950’s emphasis on full circle skirts swing skirts pencil skirts tea length dresses and fitted tight waist blouses reflecting the influence of Christian Dior towards increased femininity in the post-World War II era. For the College Coed portfolio our young artist has included designs for Capri pants lingerie fitted wool dresses flowing “poodle†skirts bathing suits tennis outfit ice skating clothing riding outfits and evening wear. The second portfolio incorporates diamond pattern one-piece bathing suits terrycloth robes different evening weather and nighttime negligee. Although young Miss Paine would not go onto becoming a commercial artist she did work as office manager for many years for the Simpson Lumber Company. Nancy Paine, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58213
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[FASHION -- MID-CENTURY/WOMEN].
Croquis haute couture Ete: robes ensembles. . . No. 83. . . .
Vienna: Wiener Modellgesellschaft M.B.H. Editions de Mode Fashion Publications 1955. Folio. 9 x 13 in. 23 colour plates in pochoir-inspired hand-coloured style. Printed beige softcovers minor creasing head of spine minor dustsoiling still VG bright copy. First edition thus of this beautifully rendered collection of haute couture summer dress designs issued by the Viennese fashion cooperative in the 1950s. These designs show the decided shift towards elegance and perfectly matched accessories for women during the 1950s with nipped-in waists full-skirted dresses as well as tailored fitted clothes with a hint of playfulness and exuberance inspired by the designs of Cristobal Balenciaga and Hubert de Givenchy as well as the feminine silhouette of Christian Dior. No copies in Worldcat of this issue. Wiener Modellgesellschaft, M.B.H., Editions de Mode, Fashion Publications], paperback
Bookseller reference : 56299
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[FASHION -- SHOES/WOMEN].
Dorothy Dodd boots and oxfords in stock Spring and Summer 1917.
Boston New York & Chicago: Dorothy Dodd Shoe Co. 1917. Folio. 38 2 pp. Illustrated throughout green woodcut borders text diagram tables at end for shapes of heels and lasts for women’s shoes illustrated in the catalogue still retaining the original detachable index price list. Gray boards green embossed lettering graduated index thumb-tabs at fore-edge minor edgewear rubbing still VG copy. First edition of this scarce and nicely printed World War I-era catalogue for women’s shoes. This wholesale catalogue includes illustrations and listings for white oxfords and pumps laced patton and buttoned pumps high-top washable boots known as the “Chicago†as well as the Gold Medal pumps & boots in canvas and leather. The Dorothy Dodd shoes and boots were the most popular women’s shoe from the late Victorian through the Edwardian eras marketed in nearly every major department store and women’s shoe shop across the United States. No copies located in Worldcat. Dorothy Dodd Shoe Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56418
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[FASHION -- WOMEN & EDUCATION]. WILLIAMS, Beryl.
Fashion is our business. . . .
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1945. 8vo. 204 2 pp. With 22 photo plates. Black publisher’s cloth silver lettering front cover & spine slight shelfwear minor bumping at foot of spine w/ d.j. cover art of Dragonia fabric by Everfast chipping & tear to upper fore-edge minor chipping foot of spine couple minor closed tears still VG/VG- copy. Second printing of this work drawn from interviews with 12 leading American fashion designers intended as a “splendid career book full of suggestions for the girl who who feels drawn to the great world of clothes and designers.†Those interviewed included Clare Potter - considered inventor of American sportswear; Emily Wilkens - pioneer in fashion clothing for teenagers; Hattie Carnegie with her ever elegant dresses; Edith Head - famed Hollywood costume designer; Louella Ballerino -- famed California designer of sportswear swimwear and distinct ethnographic influenced fashions and others. J.B. Lippincott Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 62617
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[FASHION - WOMEN]. [KOEWING, Frank (Ed. & President).]
Fashions and fabrics; The model hostess; An American woman in Algiers; For the fair rider bicycles; The emancipated woman as portrayed in the fiction of the day. . . The Standard Delineator of Fashions Fancy Work and Millinery. . . Vol. II No. 2. . . .
New York: Standard Fashion Company June 1895. 4to. 96 pp. 1 large folding colour chromolithograph frontisp. sized 21.5 x 10.75 in. 1 colour chromolithograph plate over 150 woodcut text illustrations & engravings. Gold-coloured printed softcovers brick-red lettering minor dustsoiling light wear to creases of folding frontisp. still VG copy. First edition of this scarce and beautifully printed fashion magazine which was published under this title only from 1894 through 1896 when it was forced to change the name to The Standard Designer after losing a lawsuit brought by the Butterick Publishing Co. against Frank Koewing d. 1933 their former western sales manager for Butterick. Founded in 1887 the Standard Fashion Co. would eventually become a serious rival to the Butterick Pattern Co. appropriating the “Delineator†for his magazine poaching employees and eventually building the company to issuing over 100000 cut patterns a week. While often facing bankruptcy and litigious to a fault the company was acquired as a subsidiary in 1900 by Butterick and the combined companies would thrive through the ensuing decades. Each of the Standard Delineator magazine issues featured a large chromolithograph frontispiece of the latest fashions as well as a smaller one of millinery designs. Worldcat locates primarily microfilm copies however individual issues are held by Notre Dame and Davidson College; See; A Man of the Hour Frank Koewing The Bookseller and Newsman Vol. 13 1896 pp. 4-5; Carol Ann Dickson Patterns for Garments: A History of the Paper Garment Pattern Industry in America 1979. Standard Fashion Company, paperback
Bookseller reference : 54146
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[FASHION -- SINGER SEWING MACHINES/WOMEN]. SINGER SEWING; ALOS, Margarita.
Libro “Singer†de bordados. . . ; Academia “Singer†Villa Canas: examen primer curso Ano 1939. . . Singer company embroidery manual together with embroidery sample catalogue for Singer Sewing Center in Argentina showing all of Ms. Alos’ sewing samples.
New York: Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co. Departamento de Educacion January 1941; 1939. Two vols. 1st - Tall 8vo. 225 1 pp. Over 150 colour and black & white photo illustrations diagrams. Black textured softcovers gilt lettering & decoration printed on front cover edgewear bumping to corners minor soiling old tape repairs to front cover still G- copy; 2nd -- Oblong 4to. 12 x 7.75 in. 54 pp. on pink-tinted paper with 57 tipped-in fabric embroidered sewing samples including over on linen silk lace satin and wool textiles each w/ school stamp approving sample. Half-blue cloth post-binder over blue goards gilt lettering stamped on front cover sewn at gutter margin w/ white silk ribbon soiling minor dampstain curving to covers from the bulk of the tipped-in samples on the leaves still a VG exemplar. Both preserved in blue textured cardboard box & lid minor edgewear faint tidemark to lower fore-edge 1 corner. Fourth revised edition of this well-illustrated embroidery guide on stitches to be learned and executed on Singer Sewing Machines together with a beautifully done sample book showing Ms. Alos’ skills in learning the necessary skills in her Singer school in Villa Canas Argentina. The Singer Sewing Machine company developed special Singer Sewing Academia in Argentina Mexico and many other South American countries as well as Spain between the World Wars. These special private schools for professional dressmakers using the Singer manuals allowed female-owned dressmaking businesses to grow and create professional spaces separte from men. In addition these academias allowed women to pay by the class and embroidery was one of the advanced skills which commanded higher wages for women at the time. Singer actively encouraged this movement in order to develop home-based businesses and academias which in turn increased their sales of sewing machines. The sample book begins with a number of decorative types of embroidery stitches monograms and then displays floral patterns spider-web patterns laces a beautifully embroidered red roses and carnations on purple silks and satins. Worldcat locates 2 copies of the Libro Singer Bibliotecas del Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico; British Library 3rd editions; See: Ketteler Sewing through the years in art women and society; Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez Atlantic Threads: Singer in Spain and Mexico 1860-1940 pp. 198-210. Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co., Departamento de Educacion, paperback
Bookseller reference : 53215
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[FASHION - BELLE EPOQUE MILLINERY/WOMEN]. FOURNERY, Felix & REUTLINGER, [Leopold-Emile (Photographer)].
Paris 1900 Spring and Summer millinery showing the leading designs from life by the great Parisian modistes. . .
Porland OR: Lipman Wolfe & Co. 1900. 16mo. 32 pp unpaginated. w/ photo illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers view of the goddess Minerva holding broken sword city of Paris stretching into the background and medals which originally honored Czar Nicholas for the disarmament conference of 1898 now changed to the United States Seal w/ original mailing envelope post-marked 1¢ Franklin stamp NF/NF copy from the library of Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm 1840-1932 noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray 1810-1889 who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent and subsequently later married Jacob Kamm 1823-1912 pioneering Oregon industrialist and entrepreneur. First edition of this beautiful belle epoque 19th-Century fashion catalogue issued by the historic Lipman Wolfe & Co. department store in Portland OR featuring elaborate large-rimmed hats with extensive trimmings featuring fashions created by such women designers as Madam Michniwicz-Tuvee Esther Meyer Camille Roger perhaps best remembered later for her Art Deco Suffrage hats the Guillard sisters and others. The famed Lipman Wolfe & Co. department store was founded in 1880 by Adolphe Wolfe who teamed up with his uncle Solomon Lipman and at the time still maintained their original Dekum Building at 3rd Street and were the first to introduce customer elevators to their many floors. No copies in Worldcat. Lipman, Wolfe & Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 60928
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[FASHION -- WOMEN & MEN'S CLOTHING]. [ISRAEL, Clarence Elbert (President)].
The Melville Company distinctive styles for particular women. Salesman fashion sample portfolio fashion designs textiles samples sales forms.
Cincinnati OH: The Melville Company ca. 1950. 4to. 39 8.5 x 11 in. fashion plates with 97 tipped-in fabric samples including cotton cotton blends cotton-rayon blends satin nylon for men & women’s fashions dresses lingerie pants suits skirts. order blank booklet preserved in original cardboard portfolio w/ company design logo on rear flap an excellent collection. First edition of this scarce and unusually complete salesman sample sales kit for women’s dresses fashions coats lingerie as well as men’s overcoats underwear & socks and even women’s outerwear rubber pocket books and overcoats in post-World War II America. The Melville Company was a coordinated direct-sales fashion company supplied by Harford Frocks Inc. which maintained a large mail order tailoring operation in Ohio from the early 1920s up through the 1970s employing 100s of tailors and seamstresses to fill orders together with J.C. Field & Son Inc. direct marketing firm. The company focused on “plus sizes†while maintaining how these fashions emphasized trim appearances survived on a constant sales force composed primarily of young women and house wives earning extra money willing to peddle door-to-door and created a high-quality product. The catalogue offers invaluable illustrated historical reference for the colours styles and fabrics during the explosion and impact of Christian Dior’s new designs reflecting the refined femininity with severely cinched waists extra padding to the hips longer and decidedly more romantic skirts and dresses as well as nicely fitted jacket-and-skirt tailored suits. Israel 1901-1991 built and ran this very successful mail order dressmaking operation which also owned the Fashion Frocks Dress Company as well and operated out of the Oesterlein Machine Company historic building in Cincinnati OH now home to the American Sign Museum. The Melville Company, unknown
Bookseller reference : 54848
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[FASHION -- VICTORIAN WOMEN].
The Young Ladies’ Journal. Supplement No. 38 of the New Triple Paris Fashion Plates. . . . Hand-coloured fashion engraving of 25 different Winter fashions for young women and girls in three rows.
London: Edward Harrison January 1887. Elephant folio. 17.25 x 25.25 ins. Hand-coloured engraving architectural details in the backgrounds originally folded into four sheets some chipping & edgewear to plate creases some minor repairs to verso small tears to lower fore-edge affecting a few letters a G- copy w/ the colour and images still very bright and crisp. First edition of this very scarce and beautiful fashion Supplement leaf which was laid-in with this Victorian monthly which was comprised of articles on fashion embroidery sewing craft work family reading sheet music and more. The fashions in the top row include day wear and more casual clothing for the well-dressed Victorian girl as well as winter jackets muffs and hats. The second row is devoted to evening gowns and formal wear reflecting the revived return to the bustle the fashionable tight corset which was intended to create a long torso and force an S-shape as well as high collars and chokers reflecting the influence of Alexandra Princess of Wales who hid a scar with these methods. The bottom row encompasses dress coats and evening coats which were long have elaborate hats fur trims and yards of rich fabrics. Each monthly issue would include descriptions of the illustrations and prices for cut-out fashion patterns which could be purchased from the Young Ladies’ Journal. Typically since these were published on fragile paper and often thrown away they have become quite scarce. Edward Harrison], hardcover
Bookseller reference : 46439
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[FASHION -- LEVI'S JEANS/WOMEN]. DOWNEY, Lynn, LYNCH, Jill Novack & McDONOUGH, Kathleen.
This is a pair of Levi’s Jeans. . . the official history of the Levi’s brand. . . .
San Francisco CA: Levi Strauss & Co. Publishing 1995. Folio. 313 5 pp. With 100s of illustrations colour plates colour photos large folding plates & pages illustrated endpapers. Quarter-black cloth over illustrated boards cover art of Levi’s brand jean label slight shelfwear rubbing w/ mylar dustjacket minor bumping to foot of spine edgewear still NF/VG- copy inscribed by Downey & McDonough in Sharpie marker on ffep. to Gina “Always sweet always the best-dressed!†First edition signed presentation copy of this lavish pop-culture artist’s book celebrating the advertising and Levi’s jeans worn by miners labor union members field workers protesters and many others for over 150 years. Even includes a photograph of the complete first womenswear outfit produced by Levi Strauss of hiking knickerbockers for that visit to Yosemite. Levi Strauss & Co., Publishing, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56987
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[FASHION -- ART DECO/WOMEN]. BENITO, [Eduardo Garcia].
Vogue: hats and gowns from early Paris openings. . . Vol. No. 80 No. 6 Whole No. 1444.
Greenwich CT & New York: Conde Nast Publications Inc. Sept. 15 1932. Folio. 96 pp. With 100’s of text illustrations photo illustrations mostly in black & white some colour illustrations photos & plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Benito 1891-1981 on metallic silver background Art Deco lettering design Camel cigarette ad on back cover chipping head & foot of spine minor creasing edgewear still VG copy. First edition thus of this installment in the noted fashion magazine’s results of the Paris Autumn fashion lines featuring designs by Schiaparelli Patou Lelong Forstmann’s Elga and others. Benito who was a native of Valladolid Spain later became one of the most iconic Art Deco artists of the Jazz Age creating covers for Vogue and Vanity Fair and heavily influenced by Picasso Modigliani and others. Conde Nast Publications, Inc., paperback
Bookseller reference : 60351
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[FASHION -- NURSING UNIFORMS/WOMEN].
Young and dashing . . . the Budget ‘67 look catalogue.
Philadelphia: Budget Uniform Center 1613 Chestnut Street Winter 1967. 4to. 54 2 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations many in colour. Colour-illustrated softcovers scuffing front & back cover minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy from library of Phyllis M. Compton w/ mailing label on back cover. First edition of this 1960’s marketed to the “miss who likes to be ‘with it’ while maintaining a professional look.†Budget Uniform Center nursing and medical uniforms emphasized their drip-dry Dacron and Cotton Bengaline blends or the Drip-Dry Dacron and Nylon stretch jersey fabrics featuring “top designer’s†shift shape dresses swinging skirts demi-fit skimmer shapes and more all presented as the new sleek slim high-fashion uniforms. Candy Striper and other auxiliary uniforms and smocks were available while also offering for sale Kay’s No-Starch Caps shadowproof slips and graceful Naturalizer sole shoes. No copies in Worldcat. Budget Uniform Center, 1613 Chestnut Street, paperback
Bookseller reference : 58002
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[FASHION ART -- DESIGNS/WOMEN]. [DUFFY, Barbara (Artist/Designer) & MANGONE, Philip].
Seven original fashion designs by teacher and later commercial artist Barbara Duffy while working as a teacher for the Jacob Gould Vocational School in Brooklyn NY including designs for mink coats “Toppers†coats for women wearing skirts & blouses stylish “Paris†hats belted dresses and long evening dress. The last of the designs depicts a beaver pelt trimmed coat “Sketched at Mangone’s.â€
Brooklyn NY: Barbara Duffy ca. 1942-1945. Seven pieces of original pen & ink art and gouache colouring and overpainting sized from 10 x 15 in. 3 up to 15 x 20 in. 3 on “Winsor & Newton’s Illustration Board 30 x 40†while the 7th piece is 9 x 17 in. executed on textured thick laid-paper pencil annotations in MS on fore-edges all pieces signed in thick black pen on versos some dustsoiling staining to fore-edges to a couple bumping to corners edgewear still a VG set of well-done exemplars. These original fashion design illustrations encompass women’s dresses hats fur coats evening wear and a post-War design by Mangone. The two dresses drawn by Duffy are reminiscent of the Claire McCardell easy to wear and comfortable dresses which emerged at the end of the War and featured a cinched-in waist floppy collars and padded shoulders retaining the influence of men’s tailoring on women’s fashions during the War. The “Toppers†are splendid examples of box or swagger coats often made in light wool cotton or rayon blends and in this case with fetching hats and cinched-in waists. The two smaller designs with mink or beaver coats include one with a matching purse and the other with a pillbox hat. The two “Paris†style Cloche hats are nicely drawn and one is fitted with a mesh veil. The exceptional Mangone design indicates it was “Sketched at Mangone’s†which was probably one of the frequent sessions the designer would put on fashion shows at the Fashion Institute or local boutiques in and around New York following World War II and features a coat trimmed in beaver fur with Cloche hat and according to Duffy was available in light and dark wool along with an ascot. Mangone 1884-1957 was not only a significant Italian-American designer who quickly adapted Paris fashion trends into his own American style and was very popular from before World War I until after World War II. Strikingly he also was a survivor of the Hindenburg disaster who managed to leap from the Zeppelin at Lakehurst NJ with his daughter and grand-daughter looking on suffering significant burns and after shock and hospitalization spent considerable time recovering. Duffy b. 1919 taught at the Jacob Gould Vocational School for girls in Prospect Park Brooklyn NY from the time she left college until after World War II after which she worked as designer in local department stores and then disappears from census and public records. Barbara Duffy, unknown
Bookseller reference : 61064
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[FASHION ART -- VOGUE/ WOMEN]. K. JO.
Vogue. Striking original pen & ink artwork for Mid-20th-Century fashion counter display for Vogue Fall & Winter fashions featuring stylish woman in V-neck cocktail dress with gloves clutch purse and drape over one arm and with pinched waist stylish coat wearing beret and holding umbrella in lower right corner.
Los Angeles CA: K. Jo ca. 1955. Folio. 14 x 18 in. Original pen & ink w/ gouache colouring on studio board initials of artist at lower right corner edgewear & chipping to corners fore-edges still a VG- exemplar. This delightful artwork mock-up for a Vogue fashion advertising counter display featuring a stylish black chenille silk yarn cocktail dress with the model sporting a short haircut hoop earrings and white evening gloves. The same model is shown wearing a beret and chenille wool/rayon fabric evening coat double-breasted pinch waist and gloves. K. Jo the unidentified artist has left the banner blank which would have included in the printed version the day & time of either the fashion display or of the possible patterns. This cataloguer could find no information on the original artist and two possible references to cover art designs for Vogue in 1951 and 1953. K. Jo, unknown
Bookseller reference : 61063
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[FASHION TAILORING MANUSCRIPT -- GERMANY/WOMEN]. [BODE, Carl].
Die Damenschneiderei The Ladies Tailor.
Hannover: Schneidermister ca. 1930-1933. Oblong elephant folio. 23.5 x 14.5 in. 25 leaves unnumbered. Original women’s fashion patterns in pencil throughout many with tipped-in pattern cutouts mounted on the sheets as well as colour images of the finished design tipped-in and mounted manuscript pencil notes & directions in some colour pencil additions to a a few patterns. Stiff limp beige covers black cloth spine title mounted on front cover scutting edgewear repair to corners of front cover corner still a remarkable manuscript w/ tipped-in instructions for taking measurements and fashion by the Nazi Party on first leaf including one entitled “Ein Modewart macht Propaganda.†This German fashion pattern tailoring and pattern manuscript provides an exceptional original artifact of the period when the Nazi Party began to force educational and cultural changes upon German Society against the tailoring and fashion industry in Germany during the early 1930’s. By 1930 Berlin had emerged as an international fashion capital drawing Parisian fashion designers and most of the tailoring schools and fashion houses were operated by generations of Jewish family owners. Tailors and fashion designers were constantly reminded that they must create a wholly Aryan fashion and that they were to avoid French or other outside influences. Despite the pressure most women tailors and fashion designers in the tailoring or cutting schools continued to still draw their influences from Parisian and American couturiers by creating their own patterns and pattern books from which these internationally themed clothing designs could be made. This fashion pattern book by Bode focuses on women’s suits skirts capes coats and knickerbockers. However the Party never succeeded in creating a unique Fashion industry especially because of the drive to dress women in peasant costumes or uniforms even as the Nazi Party would confiscate the assets of over 2700 Jewish fashion houses retailers and manufacturers with 1000’s of tailors and seamstresses forced into labor and concentration camps to produce clothes for military and high society. See: Uwe Westphal Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry 2019. Schneidermister, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 59525
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[Feminist Utopian Novels] Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant (Two Women of the West)
Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance
Boston MA: Arena Publishing Company 1894. Very Good. Boston MA: Arena Publishing Company 1894. Second Edition. Octavo; dark blue cloth stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers; 269pp. advertisements. Light wear; minor scuffing; slightly cocked; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good. <br /> <br /> A pioneering work of Feminist Science Fiction "Unveiling a Parallel" follows a nameless male narrator as he travels to Mars and encounters a society in which women vote and hold positions of power in business and politics. Women are liberated sexually and socially -- the narrator falls in love with Elodia who belongs to a drinking club smokes patronizes male prostitutes and to his horror is raising an illegitimate child. Bleiler sums the work up as "Feminist thought in the form of science-fiction concentrating mostly on equal economic rights and the sexual double standard." The work was originally published the year prior with author attribution only to "Two Women of the West;" the pair were living in Iowa at the time. This edition the first published with the author's names. Rare in any state with no copies in retail or auction records; an important and overlooked work. <br /> <br /> Bleiler Early Years 2214; Duangrudi Suksang. Review of "Unveiling a Parallel" Syracuse University Press Edition 1991 in Utopian Studies Vol. 4 No. 1 1993 pp. 143-145. Arena Publishing Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 46423
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[FEMMES CÉLÈBRES] - [DE LA CROIX (Jean-François)]
DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE PORTATIF DES FEMMES CELEBRES (par J. F. de La Croix)
Paris L. Cellot 1769 -in-12 plein-veau 2 volumes, reliure plein veau havane moucheté in-douze (binding full calfskin duodecimo) (17 x 11 cm), dos 5 nerfs (spine with raised bands), décoration "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre et tomaison frappés "or", pièce de titre et de tomaison sur fond de maroquin bordeaux avec filet "or" en encadrement, roulette "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, entre-nerfs à fleuron "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, roulette large "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or" en tête et en pied, filet "or" sur les coupes, toutes tranches lisses peignées rouge et bleu, sans illustrations (no illustration), excepté une vignette gravée sur bois en noir en bas de de la page de titre + fronts de chapitre, lettrines et cul-de-lampes gravées sur bois en noir, (IV + 739) + (692 + 2 p. de privilèges) pages avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1769 à Paris Chez L. Cellot Editeur, ,
Bookseller reference : 24098
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[FEMMES FATALES] - BELTRAN (Max.mique) -
Femmes fatales.
Paris, L'écho des savanes albin michel, 1989 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo.
Bookseller reference : 200702539
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[FEMMES FATALES] - BELTRAN (Max.mique) -
Femmes fatales.
Paris, L'écho des savanes albin michel, 1989 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo.
Bookseller reference : 200702510
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[FEMMES FATALES] - BELTRAN (Max.mique) -
Femmes fatales.
Paris, L'écho des savanes albin michel, 1989 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo.
Bookseller reference : 200702505
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[FEMMES FATALES] - MAX, BELTRAN (Mique) -
Femmes fatales.
Paris, L'echo des savanes - albin michel, 1989 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Bookseller reference : 200706232
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[Femmes Pythagoriciennes] - MEUNIER (Mario), traduction nouvelle avec prolégomènes et notes par.
Fragments et lettres de Théano, Périctioné, Phintys, Mélissa et Myia.
P., Guy Trédaniel, Editions de la Maisnie, 1980, 1 vol. petit in-8 br. sous couv. à rabats, de 120 pp.
Bookseller reference : 5001
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[FEMMES]
La misère sociale de la femme d'après les écrivains et les artistes du XVIIe au XXe siècle.
Paris, Devambez, 1910. 1 vol. in-folio. Broché, cartonnage blanc vierge, sous couvertures crème à rabats, titre doré au centre.
Bookseller reference : 13359
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[FEMMES]
Les femmes d'après les autreus francais.
, s.d. ; in-4, 599 pp., demi cuir vert . Relire et coins frotté.
Bookseller reference : 200820816
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[FEMMES]
Paroles de femmes.
Colmar, Les amis du club de prevention europe , 2000 ; in-4, br.
Bookseller reference : 201205020
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[FEMMES] - BESANÇON (Docteur) -
Le visage de la femme.
Paris, Vigot frères editeurs, 1946 ; in-12, 163 pp., broché. Quatrième edition.
Bookseller reference : 201009865
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[FEMMES] - BINET (André) -
Les formes de la femme.
Paris, Vigot frères, 1947 ; in-8, 216 pp., broché.
Bookseller reference : 200703833
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[FEMMES] - HELFT-MALZ (Véronique), LEVY (Paule) -
A part égale les femmes dans la société française.
Paris, Patrick banon, s.d. ; in-8, 246 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Bookseller reference : 200620609
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[FEMMES] - LESUEUR (Veronique), MARNY (Dominique) -
Un siècle de femmes.
, Le pré aux clercs , 1999 ; in-4, 143 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Bookseller reference : 201105690
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[FEMMES] - MAMONOVA (Tatiana) -
Voix de femmes en Russie.
Paris, Denoel/ gonthier, 1982 ; in-8, 153 pp., br.
Bookseller reference : 201200366
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[FEMMES] - STOOP (Chris de) -
Elles sont si gentilles, monsieur les trafiquants de femmes en europe.
Paris, La longue vue, 1993 ; in-8, 288 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Bookseller reference : 200808557
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[FILM & CINEMA - WOMEN]. AGNEW, Frances [SCHEUING, Frances May].
Motion picture acting. How to prepare for photoplaying. What qualifications are necessary. How to secure an engagement. Salaries paid to photoplayers. Illustrated edition.
New York: Reliance Newspaper Syndicate 1913. 12mo. 101 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Orange cloth blk lettrng on frnt cvr & spine slght bmpng hd of spine mnr dustsoilng hd & ft of spine w/ d.j. mnr chppng & tear hd of spine affecting lettrng tear to lwr fore-edge of rear cover some dustsoilng still NF/G- copy. First edition of this fascinating and early work advising careers in the burgeoning silent movie industry. Agnew 1891-1967 starred in a number of early movies for the small studios but by her early 20s was becoming an agent industry critic and screenwriter on such movies as Are Parents People The Golden Princess; Soft Living; Love Hungry; and others. She includes sections describing the early history of the industry the differences of acting in movies as opposed to stage necessary qualifications training agencies salaries and producing. Of particular interest are her chapters on early stars with interviews including Miss Gwendoline Pates with Pathe Freres Carlyle Blackwell with Kalem Miss Miriam Nesbitt with Edison Miss Flora Finch with Vitagraph Miss Muriel Ostriche with Reliance John Bunny with Vitagraph and others. Very scarce in the original dustjacket. Reliance Newspaper Syndicate, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44810
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