Today's list: WOMEN

We will be presenting at the upcoming Book Fair - April 27-30 at the Park Avenue Armory - Booth A29

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The Somerset Club Cook Book. Boston: The Somerset Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 113 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition - one of 3,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, for... (#3221) Price: $75.00

A Woman's Work is Never Done; A History of Housework in the British Isles 1650-1950. Caroline Davidson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1983. Second Edition. Hardcover. 250 pages. 25 x 19.5 cm. Caroline Davidson's pioneering book is a study of domestic life in Britain, the first country in... (#3083) Price: $30.00

Eating My Words; An Appetite for Life. Sheraton, Mimi. New York: William Morrow, 2004. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Mimi Sheraton, one of the most renowned food writers and restaurant reviewers in the country... (#3589) Price: $50.00

Woman's work; The Housewife, Past and Present. Oakley, Ann. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Paperback. 275 pages. Woman's Work examines the history and nature of this unpaid occupation, from pre-industrial period until today. At the center of the book... (#3590) Price: $15.00

[HANDMADE] [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKING] Recipe Binder; with personal ephemera. Connecticut/California: 1940's-1960's. Cards. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled... (#1931) Price: $175.00

THE HOME MAGAZINE - (Supplement to The Home Magazine); Charts For The Kitchen - Volume. Logan, Mrs. John A. Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co., 1889. Wraps. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets... (#2086) Price: $125.00

THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS; Woman's Work in a Man's World. Spradley, James P. & Mann, Brenda J. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Paperback. 154 pages. The authors apply field work methods used in tribal societies to the study of social behavior in a college bar... (#3591) Price: $20.00

PERISH THE THOUGHT; Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860. Conrad, Susan Phinney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 292 pages. Part biography, part history, part literary criticism, this lively and insightful book celebrates America's first generation of women intellectuals. The thirty... (#3592) Price: $35.00

[DOMESTIC] [WOMEN] Women! Save Your Hands. The Stovene Manufacturing Company. Portsmouth, N.H. The Stovene Manufacturing Company, c. 1895. Loose_leaf. 21 x 10.5 cm. Buy a mitten for 15 cents and get a ten-cent box of Stovene [stove polish] free! The... (#2855) Price: $30.00

The Ladies Indispensable Companion and Housekeeper's Guide; Embracing Rules of Etiquette; Rules for the Formation. New York: H. Dayton, 1860. Hardcover. 136 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Truly an indispensable companion, this guide has tips and tricks to work through everything from nosebleeds to scarlet... (#3017) Price: $125.00

Feminine Psychology; Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Kelman, M.D. Horney, Karen M.D. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. 269 pages. Dr. Horney began to question certain theories of Freud's, especially his libido theory, which her own careful clinical observations... (#3599) Price: $40.00

What Every Woman Should Know About WINE. Fried, Eunice. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. Fried, a wine consultant and writer gives her best advice to women who would like to dip their... (#3598) Price: $30.00

WOMEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE; Alcohol and Its Impact. McConville, Brigid. New York: Schocken Books, 1983. Hardcover. 151 pages. Focusing on case studies and research, McConville highlights the mental and physical consequences of drinking such as - women are more likely... (#3597) Price: $20.00

The New Broom; A Legislative Newsletter for Massachusetts Women. Boston: The New Broom. Zine. 4 pages each. 28 x 21.5 cm. "Are You Fighting Mad? How angry do you get when you are brought up short by a "no... (#3028) Price: $125.00

Booklet for Women Who Wish to Determine Their Own Names After Marriage [together with] 1975. Barrington, IL: Center For a Woman's Own Name, 1974. Mixed Editions. Staplebound. 56 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm and 39 pages, 22 x 18 cm. Booklets guiding women who would... (#3040) Price: $40.00

Child Care and the Working Woman; Report and Recommendations of the Secretary's Advisory Commitee on. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. First Edition. Staplebound. 54 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Follows the 1975 report of the subcommittee on social services and welfare, the SACRRW... (#3041) Price: $20.00

Mirror Mirror... Fashion, Beauty, and Womans Liberation. Linda Phelps. Kansas City: Kansas City Womans Liberation, circa 1970s. First Edition. Loose_leaf. 28 x 22 cm. Unpaginated. Two-page statement discussing the complexities of fashion, beauty, and identity in the lives of... (#3045) Price: $75.00

LIVING WITH CANNIBALS; AND OTHER WOMEN'S ADVENTURES. Slung, Michele. Washington DC: Adventure Press, 2000. Hardcover. 243 pages. Forward byb Reeve Lindbergh. Tour the world with women who defied Victorian(and later) convention to venture alone among the headhunters of Borneo... (#3596) Price: $20.00

Chattel or Person?; THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE MISHNAH. Wegner, Judith Romney. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988. Paperback. 267 pages. Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules compiled by Jewish... (#3595) Price: $20.00

MORE WORK FOR MOTHER; The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1983. Hardcover. 257 pages. The author helps explain why today's women spend as much time doing housework as did her colonial sister. Through historical analysis... (#3594) Price: $20.00

[ALMANAC] [REPURPOSED] [SCRAP BOOK] Philadelphia Almanac; Plus second handmade scrapbook. 1890. Wraps. Unpaginated (46 pages). Interesting and unusual repurposed Almanac that had a second life as a storehouse for colorful trade cards, advertisements, and keepsakes pasted in - giving the... (#3311) Price: $150.00

[MANUSCRIPT] [SEWING] [STUDENT WORK] Cours de Couture. Rogers, Louise. Montreal: Couvent de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame, 1857. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 20.5 x 26 cm. A handwritten and unique book of examples used to teach a sewing class at the Convent... (#3309) Price: $1,500.00

[DAY BOOK] [NAVY] [HAWAII] Homemaker's Daily Ledger; Navy Spouse. Honolulu, Hawaii: 1927-1928. Hardcover. 105 pages of handwritten notes. As the US Navy was working to build up the Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, personnel along with their families carved... (#3340) Price: $250.00

[TEXTILES] Crochet Sample Book. Price: $250.00

[TEXTILES] My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck and Co., c. 1960. Wraps. Unpaginated [20pp.] 22 x 28 cm. Sewing instructional book filled with completed assignments. Handwritten instructions along with completed pieces of work, pinned in... (#3477) Price: $325.00

[COLORADO] [PHOTO ALBUM] French Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder. Stilphen, Louise Hope. 1926. Hardcover. Unpaginated. [50pp]. 18 x 25 cm. A well organized and in-depth view of the life of a young aspiring opera singer, Louise Hope Stilphen (Dec. 2, 1904 -... (#3566) Price: $325.00

[TEXTILES] Sample Book - Fancy Needlework for Trimming Dresses. c. 1890. Sewn binding. 7 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Thirty-three distinct and skillfully hand stitched trim samples - each sewn onto a handmade cloth book. During the Victorian era... (#3540) Price: $125.00

Sister Age. Fisher, M.F.K. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. 22 x 15 cm. A collection of fifteen stories on the OTHER subject MFK Fisher was intrigued by: the... (#3588) Price: $25.00