Making up the Difference: Women, Beauty and Direct Selling in Ecuador
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Hardcover. xix, 239p., very good first edition in like dj. Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series, Book 25. More
Cat.No: 293945
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Hardcover. xix, 239p., very good first edition in like dj. Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series, Book 25. More
Cat.No: 293945
London: Max Parrish & Co Limited, 1948. Hardcover. 72p., text is set close in a smallish font (postwar economizing), illustrated with fullpage color plates as called for (on glazed alkaline stock, marginless) plus dust jacket drawing and 46 "decorations in line" by Peter Hoffer. Line vignettes x-ray add-ons like the..... More
Cat.No: 311934
2003: K-Y Brand Personal Products Company, 2003. Album. A postcard album with perforations that allow a cardstock leaf to be removed from this booklet and used as a postcard, each pretty card a separate "idea" conventionally postcard-adaptable. Seventeen such cards (counted carefully, confirmed) wire-bound securely into an oblong mini-album measuring..... More
Cat.No: 301116
Bern: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1958. Hardcover. 144p., profusely illustrated in color photography (strictly in color) printed recto facing verso texts, presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, all texts in the German language. Hardbound in 11x9 inch maroon cloth boards lettered and decorated in white. Lacks the jacket, but in nice square..... More
Cat.No: 300110
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1934. Hardcover. 254p., first edition, clay-colored cloth boards, endpapers toned and front endpaper foxed, the dustjacket has tears at the bottom edge and down the spine on the rear panel; some minor soiling, else in very good condition. A drug-racket novel. More
Cat.No: 276611
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986. Hardcover. 138p., stated first edition, very good condition in an edge worn dj with an old bookstore sticker on the rear panel. More
Cat.No: 268805
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. Paperback. xvi, 297p., wraps lightly handled, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 290315
no place: unpublished; United Democrats intermal memo, 1968. Paperback. 46p., photocopied texts from keyboard-set mss, standard leaves printed recto only in a generic brad-bound folder. Folder is edgeworn with a couple ownership names, handling grime and a splash-stain. Textblock is faintly toned and bears some underlines and brackets in ink;..... More
Cat.No: 231276
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. 481p., first edition, dj, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Born to emancipated slaves on the Mississippi, Walker built a cosmetics business that made her America's first self-made woman millionaire. More
Cat.No: 83005
Paris: Ulysse Boucoiran, Editeur, 1936. vii, 170p., ads, illustrated with line drawings and diagrams; entirely in French. A small softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed wraps with a decorated back cover. Very worn with lots of dust and a bit of dirt to covers and blanks; spine panel has undergone..... More
Cat.No: 249517
Taiwan: Haoju wenhua chuban, 2008. Hardcover. 187p. plus unpaginated plates (original packaging labels are largely in French), a huge color-plate art-book with all the bells & whistles of fine art-book production, text almost exclusively in Chinese. Hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch boards and enclosed in the dust jacket and an obi..... More
Cat.No: 305557
Culver City, CA: [Cornelia J. Mitchell], 1935. 70p., several illustrations, stiff wraps edge worn with a previous owner's name on the front wrap, a little light pencilling. Front fold has torn away from textblock, rear hinge still sound. OCLC shows only two holdings (Library of Congress and Detroit Public Library)..... More
Cat.No: 129379
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. xvi, 296p., illustrated with numerous sketches and diagrams, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself shows mild wear at top and tail of spine panel, while the dust jacket is in poor shape, missing large chunks from its spine area, but don't..... More
Cat.No: 56715
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1954. Newsletter. 69p., wraps neatly separated but present, paper evenly browned, owner's name penned at upper right corner of front cover, 8.5x11 inches. Entire issue is on Joseph Hansen's article in the Militant newspaper (as Jack Bustelo) on women and the cosmetic industry. Contributions by..... More
Cat.No: 102190
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1954. Newsletter. 69p., disbound with staples removed, paper browned, 8.5x11 inches, two holes punched at left for binder (not reaching text). Reading copy. Entire issue is on Joseph Hansen's article in the Militant newspaper (as Jack Bustelo) on women and the cosmetic industry. Contributions by..... More
Cat.No: 146441