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256 pages. "Explores the magnificent tradition of Japanese food... Shows that the food can be quite simple to prepare in your own home. The photography showcases not only the beauty of the food, but also the life of the Japanese people, the stunning landscape and the colourful traditions and festivals of Japan itself." - from front flap. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this beautifully presented work. Book
76 pages. Features: Doctor's Diary - Acidosis; Home is Where You Are (short story); Be the Smartest Family under the Sun - #4 in our great fashion holiday fashion series; Fun loving easy knits; Song in Her Heart (serial); Polly the Dog's devotion to her blind owner Harry; My Life with Bing - photo-illustrated article by Mrs. Kathryn Grant Crosby; An End to Dreaming (short story); Don't Be Afraid of X-Rays; Transform your fireplace; Short articles on four girls who made their jobs passports to happy adventure - Frances Mattheson, Pamela Hammond, Penelope Grimes and Maxine Ridell; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Wall's Ice Cream; Recipes and colour photos of Glorious cakes for sweet or tea; Maternity fashion ideas; Many lovely ads; and more. Pages 47-48 missing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
156 pages. Covers: bush life; wilderness; adventure; love; stories; growing; things; dogs; recipes; cabin fever; rivers; hot saunas; languages; cloth; diapers; bears; potlatch; wood; horizontal life; storytelling; northern lights; Yukon sounds; stargazing. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful resource. 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: 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. 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
16 pages. Contents: Walking suit with camargo over-dress - front and back illustrations; Hints on the use of paste and glue; Temperature for Cooking; The moral of both babies - Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of lilacs; New York Fashions - traveling dresses,, varieties for tourists, point russe embroidery, Personal; crochet tobacco pouch; dressing-case; hanging flower-pot screen; netted and bead window-screen; natted guipure square for setting together covers; London's Heart - continued; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Gentleman's traveling or smoking cap; traveling-purse; embroidered shawl-strap; gentleman's collar box with cover of plaited cord; umbrella and parasol traveling-case; embroidered twine canvas traveling-bed; traveling wall-pocket; Pretty Pepita - 1; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; General Schenck at Christ's Hospital, London - with illustration; Gypsying Servants; The couse of true love never did run smooth; humor. Average wear. 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
16 pages. Contents: Skin diseases caused by bad soaps; Cloaks and overcoats for girls and boys from 3 to 14 years old; The Wondering Heir; Manners Upon the Road - of the seasons; New York Fashions - double vests, new drapery, plain redingotes, black camel's-hair polonaises, polish jackets, mantelets, basques, embroidery, waistcoats, pompadour brocades, garlands, fanciful stockings; Personal; Cord and crochet passementerie border; tatted and crochet collars; knitted and crochet white worsted fanchon Tatted and crochet edging; knitted knee protectors; embroidered work-table; braid, cord, and soutache borders; knitted hood; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Knitted and crochet white worsted cape with hood; Swiss muslin and lace frill with Jabot; crape and lace frill with Jabot; Swiss muslin fichu; Paris Fashions; Better Late Than Never; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; Tatted edging for linterie; embroidered work-bag; toilette box with silk and cane cover; tapestry design for slippers; gros grain cravat bow; An Algerian Wedding; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Content: Lady's watteau wrapper - front and back; Fish-Scale Flowers; Every Body to Blame; New York Fashions - the watteau wrapper, costumes, basques, over-skirts, lower skirts, polonaises, carriage costumes; evening and dinner dresses; Personal; Chair with embroidered cover; brown linen clothes-pin bag; intant's protector; gros grain apron; fault-finding; Otto of Roses; Ladies' and children's house dresses; lady's dinner dress; large illustration "Japanese Ladies at Their Toilette"; Paris Modes; My Big Blunder; Extremities - the head and hands; A Chinese Funeral in San Francisco; Useful Recipes; Will it Pay; Princess Johanna Von Bismarck; Mushroom Culture; Breton Women at a Pardon; and humor. Some staining. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Features: fall hats and bonnets; Hedge culture; To make chromos look like nature; The First baby; New York Fashions - mantles of costumes; crochet edgings for lingerie; case for table mats, tea napkins, etc.; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Useful recipes; corners of borders in satin stitch embroidery, for album covers, portfolios, etc.; gray sultane suit; Cats; Paris modes; Ten in Ten, Once; Guido in the cell of Beatrice Cenci; Swiss muslin fichu; cambric apron for girl from 5 to 7 years old; linen apron for girl from 5 to 7 years old; Freaks of Memory; humor; and more. Average wear. Half of page 675 missing. Book
16 pages. Contents: Before the Doctor Comes - boils, carbuncles, and felons; Suits for girsl and boys from 4 to 15 years old; Regimen of Travel; New York Fashions - French Cashmere, English fabrics, Cicillian cloth, widow's silk, fall shawls, cloth and cashmere wraps, house jackets, velvets, opera cloaks; Personal; Watch-case; Dressing-case; Carriage leather music port-folio; suit for girl from 3 to 5 years old; corners of tapestry borders for covers, cushions, etc.; suit for girl from 10 to 12 years old; suit for girl from 7 to 9 years old; bows for slippers; drilling and crochet clothes-bag; tatted and crochet fringe; Nursing as a Profession for Ladies; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Fall hats and bonnets - many illustrations; Vague People; Seeing the World; The Gipsy's Glass; Useful Recipes; Large illustration "Croquet Under Difficulties"; Crape sprays for trimming hats; Lady's Walking Suit; Lady's house dress; Women in the French Revolution; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of an Apron-Polonaise Walking Suit.; The Jewel of Constistency, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Apron Polonaise, Imported Suits, Spring Paletots; Personal; Tapestry Border for Chairs, Sofas, etc.; Neglige basket trimmed with ruches; Brioche with cloth and knitted cover; Netted Guipure Edging; Trimming for blouses, lingerie, etc.; Hannah (continued); Old Ladies' Flowers; Bizarre full-page illustration shows new bride and groom emerging from church... but bride is an elephant!; Illustration on page 201 has been removed; Familiy breakfasts and dinners - recipes; Sayings and Doings; Common Ugliness; Tricks of Countenance; April Showers - with illustration; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of a Short-Sacque Walking Suite; Separation, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Short-Sacque Suit, Easter Suits, Dinner Dresses, Summer Silks, Goat's-Hair, and Alpacas, Pique Suits, Linen Suits, Batiste Suits, Grenadine Costumes; Personal; Lovely page of Ladies' Spring Wrappings illustrations; Claremont, Surrey (with illustration); Hannay (Continued); Writings; Sayings and Doings; The Royal Marriage - illustrationns of The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise; Sister Annie, by Justin McCarthy; Plain Speaking; Family Breakfasts and Dinners - recipes; Putting Children Forward; Illustrations of Princess Louise's Wedding Gifts; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of Misses' Polonaise Suit (with cut Pattern) and Ladies' Walking Dresses; The Unprofitable Servant, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - Misses' Polonaise Suit, Miscl, Gentlemen's Fashions, Semi-dress and dress suits, business suits, overcoats, Traveling and summer suits, Shirts, collars, and cravats, Hats and shoes; Personal; Full page illustration showing alphabets, monograms, vignettes, coronets, and figures in white embroidery; Illustrated directions for the folding and packing of clothing; Hanah (continued); Useful Recipes; The Courtin', by Professor J. Russell Lowell (illustrated by Hoppin) - two pages of verse and humorous illustrations; The Brocade, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; The Secret of Success; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration of a young lady and her two suitors entitled Just One Turn More, by W.B. Myers; Half-page illustration clipped from page365; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of an Evening Toilette; A Good Word for Children; New York Fashions - carpets, furniture; Personal; Lovely embroidery; Mortmain - I; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; Full-page illustration by Lumley entitled The Rival Schools shows well-dressed young ladies of rival schools meeting at a corner; The Laddery of Love - a full-page illustration by Wm. B. Myers shows young, formally-dressed couples chatting along an ornate stairway; Jacko & Co; Obligations; The Lovels of Arden (continued); Finishing Touches - an illustration by Mrs. A. P. Stephens shows a bride being dressed; Five-inch by Four-inch clipping from last page; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of Mantelets for girls; The "Circus" World, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - undressed silks, pongees and foulards, Lyons Poplins, Summer Silks, Black Grenadine, Trousseau for May; Personal; Examples of fine embroidery and crochet; Lovely illustrations of Ladies' Mantelets, Blouse-Waists and decorative sleeves; The Lovels of Arden (continued); Fantastic two-page compilation of illustrations of walking suits; Worth While for Women to Know; A May Blossom; Infant Geniuses; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; The Four-Leaved Clover; The Late Queen of Sweden (illustration); Sections of Tidies; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of ladie's traveling suit; May-Day; New York Fashions - Traveling Dresses, Cretonne Costumes, Parasols, Various Embroidery Illustrations; Basket for keeping boiled eggs warm; Net for Boiling Eggs; Bag for Keeping Boiled Eggs Warm; Crochet Border for Curtains, Covers, Hangings, etc.; Dr. Arnold's Prescription; A French Home; Looking for a Pattern; Lilies; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; Dramatic full-page illustration of a French home after the Bombardment of Paris; Nice illustration entitled Looking for a Pattern by W.L. Sheppard; How Kaiser Wilhelm's Sister was Won; Living in Germany - Marketing and Table; The Lovels of Arden (continued); Nothing to Wear - an episode of city life by Wm. Allen Butler; Nice illustrated ad for Helmbold's Catawba Grape Pills; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' Fall Wrappings; The Way of This World, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - the round skirt, over-skirts, baskques, Sleeves, paletots, casaques, trimmings, crinoline; Personal; Work-box with stand; Embroidered money box; Embroidered sofa pillow; A Japanese Breakfast; Blonde Beauties; Servants in old times; Suit for elderly lady; Theckla paletot; Elizabeth Peletot; Pera Paletot; Anachronisms of Medieval Artists; Lillian's Lover; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; Wonderful centerfold features dozens of examples of under-clothing for children from 1 to 16 years old; Paris at Prayers; Writing Letters; The Cryptogram - continued; Circus has Come; For the Ugly Girls - No. V; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Redingote; Watch case; Giving of Charity; New York Fashions - Repellents, Pique Cloth, Fancy Cloths, Tartans, Bonnets, Round Hats; Personal; Corset Making; Many illustrations of corsets - including one for a child from 1 to 2 years old!; Muslin and Lace Collar and Bow; Pelerine with Bow; Jacket with Oriental Embroidery; A Woman's Friendship; Penny Wise and Pound Foolish; Bound to John Company - continued; Love Warmed Over; Useful Recipes; Alpaca Blouse Waist with Lilac Satin Trimmings; Wattean Blouse Waist; Cap for Elderly Lady; The Marriage Mart; Engagements; Caps, Corsages and Collars; Lawn Aprons for young girls; Debenham's Vow; Carlotta Patti; Street Costume; Full-page illustratoin entitled "In Tow" shows finely-dressed ladies walking on the beach followed by their gentleman friends; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
205 pages. "Here in this book are the old and the new. Here you will find Gefilte Fish and Fish Souffle; Strudel and Chiffon Cakes; Creplech, Blintzes, Fritters and Waffles! Here, the homely dishes that the biblical Sarah must have prepared for angels, and here, too, the food that angels on earth may prepare for modern and discriminating husbands!" - from Foreward. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
100 pages. A wonderful compilation of recipes submitted by members of the church. Average wear. Minimal markings to contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., Sixty-First Thousand, with numerous line illustrations and plans in the text, some light and occasional spotting; original maroon cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blocked in black, yellow advertisement endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed, one gathering slightly proud else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 10pp publisher's catalogue at end, and trade advertisements in the text. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects a variety of articles, reviews and travel pieces all in the author's inimitable style. INCREASINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.