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Introduction - Preface by Chantal Thomas 2 31,5x25,5 cm., legatura editoriale cartonata lucida, cofanetto, pp. 255; 255; moltissime illustrazioni a colori, prima edizione completa, in lingua inglese, come nuovo.
Vintage advertising piece for the Westinghouse electric Household Laundry Iron, Turnover Toaster, "Magic" Electric Warming Pads, and Cozy Glow Heater. Also included are small diagrams of the Westinghouse electric curling iron, electric drying comb, electric home marceller, and domestic soldering iron. Some/all of these appliances could be powered by plugged into a light socket. Undated - circa 1930s? item # E. 98-150m-11-27-D.L. Moderate wear. Tiny nibbling along some edges. Unmarked. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's and Child's Dresses; Home-made carpets; Drying Flowers in the Sand; Siesta; Manners Upon the Road - of Safety-Valves; New York Fashions - wraps, the dolman, the sacque with cape, yak lace, house sacques, opera cloaks, the national dress trimming; Box for ironing utensils; Cover for Flat-Iron; Alphabet for marking Linen; Breakfast Caps - many nice illustrations; London's Heart; Service; Sayings and Doings; Fantastic centerfold consists of dozens of illustrations of shirts, caps, under-drawers, chemises, collars, etc.; At Rye - by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Fashions; Niss Nilsson's Last Appearance - with illustration "Christine Nilsson's Last Night at Drury Lane Theatre, London"; Subsitute for Cream; Needle-work and tatted chemise yokes; buttons and button-holes for lingerie; needle-work, point lace, and crochet borders, rosettes, insertions, and edgings for lingerie; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Large clipping from page 619. Book
Features: Bow Fishing Helps Rid Waters of Carp Menace; Principles of Wildlife Management (part 1); How About Those Long Shots? ; Portrait of a Chesapeake Bay Retriever; How to Make Your Own Bush Laundry; St. Hubert's Festival; 1967 All-Canada Trap Team; Vintage Honda generator ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Summer Hood with Cape - front and back views; Manners Upon the Road; A "New Departure"; New York Fashions - summer mantles, fans, gloves, summer shoes; Personal; knitted and crochet insertion for linterie; medallions for album covers, port-folions, etc.; curtain bands; alphabet for marking lingerie; coffee-warmer; netted cover for circular stand; An African Harem; Gold-Fish; Sayings and Doings; Cambric Garden Hat; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with frills; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with ribbon trimming; Rest; Fischer's Method of Bleaching Straw; Dutch Marriages; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Ladies' straw hats; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Suits for lady, girl, child; A Glass of Wine; Cure for Husband's Vices; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - ball dresses, net over dresses, silk dresses; Personal; crochet lambrequin for work-tables, corner brackets, etc.; edgings for trimming under-clothing; foundation figure in satin and knotted stitch for caps, lingerie, etc.; rosette for lingerie, etc.; My Hugo, by Annie Thomas; Sayings and Doings; New-Year's Day in Different Countries; Mr. Lumpkin's Modern Fairy Story; Glimpses of Life in Paris Before the War; Whate Agora Muff; black astrakhan and white fur muff; muff for girl from 10 to 12 years old; knitted polishing glove; silk postillion basques; evening dress for elderly lady; From a Distance; humor. Average wear. Note: large clipping from page 91. Book
16 pages. Contents: Tulle and Lace Veils; Fashionable Employments; Dinner-Parties; Dinners, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of rainy weather; New York Fashions - camel's-hair cloth; loadies' cloth costumes; new tunics; "Dolly Vardens"; Calicoes; plannel polonaises and wrappers; toys, chromo-lithographs; Personal; towel rack of carved wood with embroidery; braid-work lunch bag; canvas work-bag with point russe embroidery; tatted and crochet insertion and edging for lingerie; Border for curtains, lambrequins; Suits for girls and blys from 1 to 15 years old; The Lovels of Arden - continiued; Grumbers; knitted and crochet worsted glove; velvet and kid kitchen glove; sewing-weight with case for sewing utensils; Royal's Raffle, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Paris Gossip; The Prince of Wales - illustration and write-up; Netted clothes-bag; crochet and tatted and needle-work collars for children; point lace cover for fan; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Dolly Varden Walking Suit - front and back; Shopping; Manners Upon the Road - of dream-children; New York Fashions - Dolly Vardens, camel's-hair polonaises, batistes, linen chambery, pongee foulards, spring stuffs, washing fabrics, grenadines, trimmings, mantles, spring shawls and scarfs; Personal; borders for chairs, curtains, etc.; knotted braid purse; lamp-chimney brushes; crochet and needle-work insertions for lingerie; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Suitable dresses; Otter Hounds - with illustration; Violins; Paris Gossip; Useful Recipes; Americans in Europe; Making Love; Love Letters of Eminent Persons; humor. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's fall dresses; ladies' fall and winter suits; A Future Style; Manners Upon the Road - of honesty and policy; New York Fashions - the princess polonaise, the double talma and apron-front suit, the dolman suit, the scarf mantle, velvets, passementerie ornaments, wool goods; Personal; Needle-work medallions for cravat ends; child's crochet caps; hem-stitching for lingerie; ladies' fall hats and bonnets; tatted and crochet edging and insertions; needle-work insertion and trimming for lingerie; Paris Gossip; Victoire's Faith; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits - nice full page illustration; Capture of a Shark in the Tropics; To the Bitter End - continued; Lady's Walking Dress; Prince Charles in Hiding - with nice illustration; Red; humor. Average wear. Book
Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Contents: U.S. Riots - photo of burned plant in Erie and an arrest in Minneapolis; Photo of Javits with Nelson Rockefeller; Time Essay - Violence in America; Hong Kong Leftsits arrested in raid; Negro women eating boxes of laundry starch!; The Turkish Tycoons of Soul - Wexler, Nesuhi & Ahmet Ertugun; Eight pages of photos of tourism in the USSR: Pentacostal Tongues and Converts; Photo of Joe Frazier after defeating George Chuvalo; Photo of Leo Durocher; Drunks in the Bowery; Dissolving Silver for Kodak Film - silver price coming alive; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
14 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "Child's Gabrielle Dress and Walking Coat and Ladies' Summer Dresses"; Politeness at Home; Manners Upon the Road - of summer friends; New York Fashions; Nice illustration "The Peddler"; Births in Holland; Hugh Damer's Last Leger - continued; Handkerchief with tatted border; fringe for trimming coverlets, curtains, etc.; crochet rosette for covers, lingerie; Medallions for cigar-cases, etc.; cover for prayer-books, bibles; Hair Dressing - with illustrations; A Very Natural Flower; Chat from the Capital; Useful Recipes; The Empress Augusta - full-page illustration; Invalidism; Notable Sleepers; humor. Average wear. Page 420 loose but present. Book
16 pages. Contents: Boy's knee-breeches, vest, and jacket; "Our Extravagant Girls!"; Activity of Children; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - hats and hints for gentlemen, varieties for ladies; Personal; crochet and other suspenders; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Point lace and white needle-work edging for lingerie; netted guipure insertion for covers, pillow-slips; Medallion for porte-monnaaies, cigar-cases, etc., colored embroidery; design for sofa-pillow, etc., application, point russe, and satin stitch embroidery; tapestry designs for covers of pincushions, emery cushions, etc.; embroidery design for cigar-cases, card-cases, etc.; Swiss muslin chemise russe; tatted rosettes; Shirts versus Wives; Vassar College; Living in Germany - high schools and colleges; Sea Weeds; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The Fourth of July"; A Lover's Device; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: How Shall We Furnish the Parlor?; Barbaric Behavior; Manners upon the Road - of little poems; New York Fashions - black costumes, white suits, simple buff linens, elaborate batiste suits, dolly varden suits, summer silks, sicilienne mantles, French polonaises, mantles; Personal; Irish guipure crochet collar; Embroidered tablets; case for sewing silk, thread, etc.; case for visiting cards, postage stamps, etc.; The Young Professor; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Collar and sleeve of linen with raised squares; embroidered card press; ribbon and cane knitting-work case; gray linen scrap-bag; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; Evening Toilette; Tatted Rosette for Lingerie; crochet rosette for tidies, etc.; borders for table-covers, curtains, etc.; Keeping Flowers Fresh; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk and cashmere walking suit; poplin walking suit; Poonah-Work; Domestic Life; MAnners upon the Road; New York Fashions - ladies' cloth, cloakings, twilled woolen goods, lingerie, laces, hints about costumes; Personal; Lace and Point Lace Collar; Waste-paper basket with embroidered lambrequins; waste-paper basket run with colored braid; point lace tidy; crochet insertion for lingerie; point lace and crochet insertion for lingerie; tatted edging; tatted rosettes for lingerie; tatted square for lingerie; Hannah - continued; sayings and doings; netted guipure insertion and edging; point lace and crochet edging; lady's point lace and crochet gimp chemise yoke; knitted and crochet insertion; needle-work edging for lingerie; crochet edging worked crosswise; crochet insertion worked crosswise; point lace and crochet insertion; cashmere over-skirt; ecru crepe de Chine over-skirt; Algerienne over-skirt; How Nationalities Grow Old; My Prophet; The Lunch-Table-Coffee; Useful Recipes; carriage leather wall tidy to hang over wash-stand; embroidery designs for a foundation for toilette cushions, etc.; Blood-sucking Bats; humor. Average wear. Clipping from page 603. Book
16 pages. Features: Summer walking suit; shade trees for streets; Complaining of monotony; Summer conveniences - refrigerants; white pique dress for boy from 2 to 3 years old; child's crochet collar; bead mosaic handle of riding-whip; white needle-work rosettes for infants' caps; knitted lace for lingerie; tapestry border for chairs, rugs, etc.; summer hats and bonnets; coiffur for elderly lady; gentleman's hat shade; Mademoiselle Fifine's Supper; Female Common-school teachers; Paris Fashions; Full-page illustration "Lady Washington's Rebuke"; Full-page illustration "Idling away a Summer Day", by Gaston Fay; The Cryptogram - continued; What the Whole Family Said; Large illustration "Girl and Thrush"; humor; and more. Average wear. Large clipping from bottom of page 531. Book
16 pages. Contents: Boy's blouse, shirt-waist, and knickerbockers; Serviceable Clubbing; New York Fashions - chintz silks and percales, riding habits, applique embroidery , cashmere wraps, varieties; Personal; crochet cover for boiled eggs, potatoes, etc.; Sillk Brush; Crochet cover for flat-iron; crochet and serpentine braid insertion for lingerie; tatted rosette; ironing mat, corner of border for cushions, covers; cravats and bows for the hair; Hannah; Dreams; Useful recipes; Lovely illustration "The Rustic Mirror" shows girl looking at her reflection in water; Holiday Faces - with illustrations; Legends of the Cross; Clara Barton in Strasburg and Paris; Whorth While for Women to Know; The School-Master; A Stroll on Shingleton Beach - and what came of it; Paris Fashions; Sea-Side Fantasies - illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
20 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "They Carefully Put Their Teeth Into the Lye..."; Thanksgiving; Women and Men - Opressive Leisure; Family Living on $500 a Year - part XLVI - Thanksgiving Dinners; New York Fashions - furs, small girls' and misses' costumes; Personal; Sketches in Constantinople - Bridge of Galata, Palace of Dolma Bagtche Imperial Palace, Mosque of St. Sophia, Turkish Ladies Shopping, etc.; Lyd's Three Thanksgivings - with illustrations; Wonderful vull-page illustrated ad for the opening of the new Grand Street Building of Edward Ridley & Sons of New York - "Ridley's, 309 to 321 Grand St."; Lovely centerfold illustration "Portrait of a Lady" - from the picture byCarolus Duran exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1886; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready - first part; Misses' and girls' dresses and cloaks - nice full-page illustration; Corsages for dinner and reception toilettes; laundry basket; afternoon toilettes; some infant schools; a beautiful air-plant; humor. Above-average wear and soiling Book
16 pages. Contents: Evening Dress - front and back illustrations; Luck; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - evening dresses, wedding dresses, bride-maids' dresses, bridegroom's suit, wedding cards, dresses of the trousseau; Personal; knitted and crochet bib; crochet bib; crochet waist for child from 1 to 2 years old; crochet tobacco pouch; cover for hot-water bottle; rice-powder box; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Sayings and Doings; Carriage-leather mat; knotted and crochet fringe for curtains, etc.; Edging for Lingerie; Design for Lamp Mat - point russe and button-hole stitch embroidery; crepe de chine cravat with jabot; Modern Costume; Kitty's Two Thanksgivings; Laura Silver Bell; low-necked evening dress, with adjustable court train and round skirt; Crochet Purse; embroidered chair cushion; footstool with hot-water bottle and cover; Diaries; humor. Average wear. Please note - cartoon clipped from central portion of back page. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's House and Street Suits; Novel Junk-Shops and their Keepers; St. Valentine's Day; Household Furniture - Wall-Paper; New York Fashions - spring silks; black silks, armure silks, brocaded silks, oriental silks, bourette, evening silks, checks and stripes, black and colored grenadines, spring millinery; Personal; Fringe of polonaises; Mignardise and crochet border for dresses, wrappings, etc.; netted and knotted fringe for dresses, wrappings, etc.; Mignardise and crochet edgings for lingerie; Border for lingerie - wroght guipure; Monograms for handkerchiefs; Border for Opera Cloaks, children's dresses, etc.; Dress Trimming; Jewel-Cup; Furniture Brush; Initials for Handkerchiefs, white embroidery; Figures for Tidies - wroght guipure and lace stitch; Juliet - continued; Savyings and Doings; coiffures, scalpettes, braids, etc. - nice illustrations; Gros Grain evening dress; Silk and Satin Evening Dress; Green Pastures and Piccadilly - continued; Why Kitty Did Not Kill Herself; Madame Schliemann - wife of the celebrated antiquarian discoverer - article and nice illustration; Fan with Lace Cover; Crepe lisse and lace fichu-collar; Cravats of serge ribbon with embroidery; netted guipure square; Russian braid and crochet square for tidies; Eradication of Garden Vermin; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Girls' and Boys' skating suits; Novelties in wax-work; Unhappy Wives; Manners Upon the road - of new-year's calls; New York Fashions - evening dresses, faille and silk, embroidered tulle over-skirts, white tulle dresses; Personal; Crochet purse; embroidered work-box; embroidered work-box; embroidered canvas work-bag; collar in Genoese embroidery; Knitted veil; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Sayings and Doings; Beautiful huge centerfold illustration of "Ball and Evening Dresses"; Euphemia's music-box; The Lady Correspondents at Washington; Playing-Cards; ball and eveniing head-dress of blue flowers and ribbon; bow of embroidered tulle and velvet ribbon; embroidered cloth rug; embroidered glove-box; laundry book; port-folio with application embroidery; tapestry border for key-bags, napkin-rings, etc.; Novel Names; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' Summer Dresses - nice cover illustration; Wedding gifts; Manners upon the road - of family crafts; New York Fashions - loose polonaises, fichu-blouses, new white blouses, the fan waist, varieties; Personal; Point lace and netted guipure edgings, insertions, etc. for lingerie, tidies, etc.; Cravat bows and bows for the hair; Black velvet necklace with steel spangles; English gossip; The county poor-house facts; Nice illustration for the month of July - but there is a small clipping from upper corner; Paris Fashions; Sayings and doings; To the Bitter End - continued; humor. Average wear. Note: page 485 missing. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring house and street dresses; The Love of Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of snow; New York Fashions - the spring suit, misses and children's clothing, boys' clothes; Personal; Necessaire for sewing utensils; tatted and crochet collars; cover for sofa-pillow - gold or silver embroidery; corners for album-covers, cushions, etc.; border for trimming lingerie; work-basket with stand; tassels for work-baskets, curtains, etc.; mignardise and crochet cover for toilette cushions; point lace and crochet cover for toilette cushions, etc.; Gold Beads; Some toilettes at Washington; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' and children's walking and house dresses; Color in Rooms; Illustrations - "Comedy of Married Life" - shows bull confronting man and woman; How it was Done; English Gossip; Sabres and Skirts; Peonies; Useful Recipes; To the Bitter End - continued; Who Will My Husband Be? - text and large illustration of women pouring water through the end of a key; humor. Average wear. Book