[covers a bit edgeworn, mostly along spine, light fading/rubbing to upper sections of front cover]. Trade PB (cartoon drawings) Substitute "Hounds" (or better yet, "Pigs") in the title, and you'd be closer to the mark: pretty much the entire book is devoted to the myriad ways in which the "working girls" of the world can expect to be sexually harassed by, well, nearly every single man they allow to get anywhere near them -- at work, at home, or in public. Pitched as "full of sharp wit and good humor," the book definitely has plenty of those, but on another lev... View More...
[a bit of wear to lower extremities and top of spine, one-time owner's mostly-erased (but still readable) name and address on ffep; jacket shows just a little wear at spine ends, slight age-toning]. (pen and ink drawings) "Dramatic stories," for juvenile readers, of "ten women who left their stamp on America [and] whose personal stature adds to our heritage." They are: Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell, and Eleanor Roosevelt. This was a companion/follow-up to the sam... View More...
[light shelfwear, faint spotting/soiling to bottom of text block, front hinge a little weak but generally a good sound copy, one-time owner's name on second ffep, light foxing to title page; jacket has a couple of small chips in the upper area of the front panel, a little wrinkling/creasing at top of spine, one-inch scrape mark along front hinge]. (Americana Deserta) Series This illuminating anthology of selections from "obscure but once popular books -- novels, gift-books, model-letter-writers, poetry" is intended to present the Victorian female of the first half of the nineteenth ce... View More...
[nice clean book, very slight bump to bottom front corner but no other discernible wear; jacket a bit scuffed on front panel]. "A frank report from the campus on sex in the Sixties. Based on interviews with over 600 college students from 102 American colleges and universities, including every geographical location, religious affiliation and type of institution, this is a revealing and often startling look at today's college girl and the revolution in campus sexual behavior. ... In the amazingly honest words of the girls themselves, here is what they think about sex, what they do and don'... View More...
[a sharp-looking copy, lower right corner of front cover bumped, no other significant wear; the jacket is bright and attractive with some light soiling, a bit of wear to the edges and extremeties, and a short closed tear at the top front foldover]. (pen and ink drawings) "In this gay and wise little book," the author, then an assistant editor at Vogue, assures her intended readership -- women living "a solitary existence--whether you like it or not" -- that this experience "can be dull or fun, doom or adventure," depending entirely on your attitude and approach: "Above all, it needn't be lone... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, minimal wear, very light foxing to all edges of text block; jacket lightly soiled at rear panel and spine, but still quite presentable]. The author, a Viennese-born physician and psychologist who had studied under Alfred Adler, came to the U.S. in 1931, announcing to the press that she was here, in the words of one reporter, to launch "a one-woman crusade against the psychological bonds that enslave the fair sex," namely their feelings of inferiority. (The same reporter described Dr. Knopf as "a woman of scholarly mein and forceful personali... View More...
[moderately shelfworn, bumping to bottom corners, rubbing to gilt lettering on front cover; jacket a bit tattered, with a number of small chips and other bits of paper loss at edges and corners]. (B&W photographs) A manual covering literally every aspect of marriage, from an author often cited as a forerunner of the mid-20th century exercise gurus Charles Atlas and Jack LaLanne. If ever there was a self-made man, it was Bernarr Macfadden, an avid proponent of good health through exercise and diet (specifically vegetarianism), and above all avoidance of the medical establishment. His magazine... View More...
[very light shelfwear, faint soiling to bottom edges of covers, a tiny bit of scuffing along edge of rear cover; jacket shows light wear at extremities, closed tear at top edge of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED ("Pam M") by the author on the front endpaper. Supposedly to redress the alleged problem that "until now, there has been little humor in women's liberation," the author in this tome "lets down the hair of the liberated woman [and] introduces a little levity -- and a good deal of common sense as well -- into the somber arena of sexual politics." The author, a sometime actress and ... View More...
[front hinge a little weak, otherwise just a bit worn, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket age-toned (somewhat more at spine), a couple of tiny chips at top of front panel, a few little nicks here and there]. Classic Depression-Era guidebook for "any girl[!] who is honestly striving to find her way through the intricate and baffling mazes of the business world." Like most "women in the workplace" guides from back in the day, the text whiplashes a modern reader through a workscape of equal parts fascination, outrage, amusement and horror. Presented "in the business girl's own vern... View More...
[nice tight clean book; jacket shows a little rubbing/scuffing along bottom edge of front panel, one small tear there as well, spine a bit faded]. "Portrait of a Conned Woman" might be a better title for this "chronicle of one woman's experience--of an unsuspecting woman who was 'taken,' heart and pocketbook, by a con man working, albeit just barely, within the law--and how her programming in a rigidly defined sex role made her the perfect victim, a pushover just waiting to be fleeced." Most of the book takes the form of a long letter from the author to her lawyer, in a diary-l... View More...
(price-clipped) [modest shelfwear, small piece of blue paper tape stuck to front endpaper (why?); jacket is somewhat edgeworn, with a bit of wrinkling/crinkling at ends of spine]. INSCRIBED to a friend and SIGNED by Eleanor Metheny on the title page. In attempting to answer the burning question, "What is woman's role in today's world?", the authors, a pair of California educators, present case histories, essentially, of five women: one a professional woman with a home, a husband, and two children, but "harassed by the conflicting demands made upon her"; another who married young (at 18), havi... View More...
(no dust jacket) [modest wear to extremities, dust-soiling to top edge of text block, age-toning to other edges]. (B&W photographs) "This book avowedly explains her bank to the American Woman. More subtly, but not less effectively, it should explain the American Woman to her banker, if he will read between the lines." The author, who the title page informs us was the Chairman [sic] of a mouth-filling organization called the National Commitee for the Education of Woman in Financial Matters and the Protection of Her Money, "gives her readers the results of personal experience in h... View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-library with many markings, labels, considerable shelfwear, etc.; a reading/reference copy only] A reference/reading copy only (ex-Brooklyn Public Library) of this informative work by this noted American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and pacifist, and his then-wife -- who, one suspects, might actually have deserved top billing on this particular book. (The book apparently wasn't considered important enough to even rate a passing mention by Nearing biographer Stephen Whitfield, who also has very little to say about Nellie herself, at one point re... View More...
[good solid book, light shelfwear, dust-darkening to top of text block; jacket shows a bit of wear along top edge, minor paper loss at top of spine, some random surface-scrape marks on spine]. "A college woman with a sense of humor tells the story of her experiences as a worker in various industries -- no muckraking, no theorizing, no trying to stir up trouble between employers and employees; the book is just a vivid picture of things as they are, a section of life." And, in my opinion, the book is all the more valuable for the author's having had no more of an "agenda" than that. She worke... View More...
(no dust jacket) [good solid book, some shelfwear to bottom edge and upper extremities, light dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name in ink at top of front pastedown] (frontispiece portrait) This novel traces the growing social consciousness of its protagonist, Kate Barrington, beginning with her graduation from college and following her efforts to find her true place in society, while balancing the demands of her career with the traditional expectations for a woman of her time. Elia Peattie (1862-1935) became a journalist in the 1880s, and over the course of many years wrote... View More...
[nice clean copy, light shelfwear, slight bumping to spine ends and a couple of corners; jacket a little edgeworn, one small closed tear and associated creasing]. The "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" of its day, as two prominent authors of the time weigh in (in back-to-back format) on the foibles of their respective opposite sexes. Mrs. Rinehart opines that "as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is alw... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid square copy, minor shelfwear, spine cloth sunned, one tiny dark stain on spine, small bookseller's label (McClelland & Co., Columbus, Ohio) on front pastedown; minor pencil lining in text, a couple of turned-down page corners]. From the Foreword by Dr. Charles Francis Potter, founder of The First Humanist Society of New York: "If ever a book was sorely needed, this one is. My experience as a preacher has revealed to me the appalling number of unhappy women over forty. Some are simply at a loss what to do with themselves when their children need them no longer. O... View More...
(no dust jacket) [good solid copy, minor bumping to top corners, gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; one-time owner's name and reading-note-to-self on ffep, some pencil underlining and occasional brief notations (also in pencil) in the text]. Sponsored by the National Federation of Settlements (and with an introduction by Jane Addams, its first president), this volume grew out a study that was "undertaken immediately upon the formation" of the organization in 1911. It was designed to gather information from settlement houses throughout the country related to the soc... View More...
[nice clean copy, faint shelfwear, NO remainder or other marks; light rubbing and minor abrasions to jacket, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. The author "traces the evolution of women's diaries over the centuries, looking at them in a wise and wonderful new light. It is a fascinating a journey through the private lives of unknown and famous women as revealed in the pages of their journals." View More...
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