![Item #2895 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] 300 Tested Recipes; Sold in aid of The Training Home for Girls,...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2895.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653508019)
Guy's Cliffe, Warwick, England: Henry H. Lacy, Printer, 1912. Hardcover. 88 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. A variety of interesting recipes with multinational origins. Recipes atrributed local men and women as well as The Duchess of Marlborough (recipe: Poulet á la Hongroise), also known as Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was known..... More
![Item #3974 [TOYS] [TRADE CATALOG] Barbie and Ken and Barbie's Best Friend Midge](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3974.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699563432)
Japan: Kokusai Boeki Kaisha, Ltd., 1962. Staplebound wraps. 30 pages. 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. GROOVY Color illustrated Barbie, Ken, and Midge catalog from Mattel, Inc., Toymakers. Catalog includes prices for all dolls, outfits, games, and sewing patterns. More
New York: STEIN AND DAY, 1972. Hardcover. 258 pages. Elaine Morgan takes to task the Book of Genisis along with Darwin's The Descent of Man by questioning the evolution of the human race. Morgan's reasoned reinterpretation of evolution of the human species leaves few myths unquestioned: Did men become Mighty..... More
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 sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in women's role. Excluded from the life of mind and..... More
Minneapolis: Midwest Business Service, 1964. Paperback. 87 pp, plus 29pp appendix. 21 x 13.5 cm. Scarce occupational guide for women who wanted to work as flight attendants. The manual details entrance requirements, training, daily duties, and lifestyle expectations for would-be stewardesses. At the time, there were strict physical and personal..... More
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 the world to experience the effects of rapid urban and industrial growth. She discusses the development of the three utilities..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. Hardcover. 307 pages. 24 x 16 cm. "From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known 'dollar princess,' married Lord Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth..... More
Nashua, NH: FLETCHER, 1851. Second Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. This miniature book, original copyright 1848, summons the reader to follow the advice of the author, Anna Ferguson (1778-1853), with advice for women entering society in the form of homilies and parables. Pencil notation on presentation page..... More
![Item #3887 [PHOTOGRAPHY] [WOMEN] FRATERNAL LOYAL ORDER WOMEN OF THE MOOSE. Fred Hess, Son](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3887.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694688390)
Atlantic City, NJ: Fred Hess & Son, 1931. 25 x 20.5 cm. Black and white group photo of Women of the Moose at the Annual Internation Convention in Atlantic City, NJ. Originally founded in 1888 in Mooseheart, Illinois, with restrictive membership to caucasian men. Writing in pencil on the verso..... More
![Item #3693 [SEXUALITY] Enslaved in Lace; A Story of Transvestism - Leslie's Adventures in...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3693.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687919822)
New York: WHOLESALE BOOK CORPORATION, 1970. Staplebound. 28 pages. 21 x 14 cm. "This booklet continues the sad story of Leslie, who is forced to lead the life of a young girl and must now endure certain surgical tamperings at the hands of a pitiless female doctor." One of six..... More
![Item #4620 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] All Scouts Together; A Cookbook for Children. GIRL SCOUTS OF JAPAN](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4620.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749586798)
Okinawa: GIRL SCOUTS OF JAPAN, Okinawa Council together with USA GIRL SCOUTS - FAR EAST, 1973. Spiral bound wraps. Unpaginated. Styled in the dos-à-dos fashion, one side reading through in Japanese, the other side reading through in English - with illustrations. A variety of recipes, mostly Japanese in origin -..... More
![Item #3983 [LGBTQIA+] MAN HATER; She hated men and turned to a lesbian for comfort. R. C Gold](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3983.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699997533)
Hollywood, CA: International Publications, 1963. First American Printing. Paperback. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Lesbian pulps hit their height of popularity in the mid-century, focusing on a sensationalized depiction of homosexual life, popularizing the idea that lesbianism was an illicit lifestyle. Pages toned, covers lightly soiled. More
![Item #3979 [LGBTQIA+] I WAS A WHITE SLAVE IN HARLEM. Margo Howard-Howard, Abbe Michaels](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699997564)
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. 177 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Signed by co-author Abbe Michaels with Howard-Howard's ink stamp signature above it (Howard-Howard died shortly before publication). 5 photo plates. Drag queen Margo Howard-Howard, born Robert Hesse, chronicles their descent into a subculture of..... More
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 women. "... the average woman spends about 2 hours a day, 1/8th of her waking hours in personal grooming. When..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Paperback. 136 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Newton explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various kinds of night clubs and acts they depend on for a living, and the social organization of their work. Illustrated throughout. Interior crisp..... More
Rough Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona: NAVAJO RESOURCE CENTER ROUGH ROCK DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 184 pages. 29 x 22 cm. The author describes the role of Navajo Women in a changing Navajo society. By portraying Navajo Women, the author hopes to help the reader understand the Navajo life..... More
London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1812. Hardcover. 338 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. First published in 1557, then modified and expanded in 1573; Tusser creates a calendar of information and instruction for the farming year. The latter section of huswifery reads like a poem. Interior clean. Rebound in marble boards..... More
![Item #4433 [DATING] Him Book. Mary Therese Walsh](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4433.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731361227)
Pittsfield, MA: 1941 - 1947. Spiral bound. 35 pages 25 x 20 cm. 24 pages written. This book is something that most people of this day and age would not recognize - a pre-made rating book for women to record how, when, and where they met a particular date -..... More