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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 207p. Includes "Poor Emily's Almanac" pp. 203-207. Black and white photo of the author on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Green cloth with blue letters on the spine and with a decoration in blue on the front cover. No noticeable wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket slightly abraded at top of spine, else near fine to fine and not price-clipped. Born in New York state, Bj [Betty Jane] Kidd was brought up in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago and the Art Institute. She was married to Harry Kidd, a well-known painter, and therefore spent much of her young married life in Europe. She wrote a series of ads for THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL around the theme "Never underestimate the power of a woman!" which appeared in advertising journals read by men. She was an associate copy editor with N.W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia, and, when Kidd wrote this book, she was Vice-President of a large advertising agency, Lewis & Gilman of Philadelphia. She was also the winner of the Josephine Snapp award for "the most outstanding contribution of a woman to advertising." Kidd is also the author of a previous book, JUST LIKE A WOMAN and of many articles in leading magazines. [from the dust jacket and elsewhere] Additional dust jacket title as follows: " A Key to Feminine Pocketbooks." This is a period piece about the role of women in the 1940s!

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Clarke, W.W.; Briggs, Austin Eugene; Kidd, Betty Jane (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Cover photo of William's Island in the Tennessee River; The Destiny of the Democratic Party Hinges Largely Upon the Two-Thirds Rule; Pay-As-You-Go in Building Good Roads - Tennessee Constructs its Highways with Funds from Current Revenues - nice photo-illustrated article; The Rise of Mustapha Kemal Pasha; Letter to the Folks - a letter franked by Abraham Lincoln in 1934; What's Wrong with the Press? - an newspaperman answers this perennial question (part 1); The Changing Fashions of Being Presented at Court; Henry Ford's Page - how to maintain a logical prosperit; Editorials - Mr. Mellon and the Tarriff Manifesto, the McFadden Banking Bill, The Education of Mr. Vare; Forces That Are Reshaping Mexico - a study of those who ruled the country before the revolution and those who are ruling it now; The Little Trades of Paris Streets - the soul of an ancient city; The Lights of Other Days - Candles and Candlesticks - photo-illustrated article; Now Just Who IS Queer - The Chinese or Ourselves?; A Forest Tragedy - waste leaves the lumbering towns of Tioga County, PA Destitute; I Read in the Papers - In memory of Billy the Kid, Petroleum in Ancient Times, Franklin Expedition Relics Found; Nice photos inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Van Der Heyden, Gerald (cover); Clarke, W.W.; Bird, L. Pern; Kidd, Betty Jane; Harper, George; Briggs, Austin Eugene (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: The Affair At the Inn; The Little Lincoln Girl That Never Came; Would You Have it Christmas? - or just the 25th of December; Henry Ford's Writes About Goodwill; Editorials - The Simplicity of Christ, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Straw-Balloting the Bible; Plums from a Christmas Pudding - a Play for Marionettes; The Holly-Tree; The Boy Who Didn't Like Christmas - a story for those who do; Chats with Office Callers - The Girl Who Saw Santa Claus; 2/3-page ad for The Canal Bank and Trust Co. of New Orleans. Average wear. Some soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Illustrated by Bacon, Irving R. (cover); Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Kidd,Betty Jane; Clarke, W.W.; Fitzgerald, W.O.; McCandlish, Edward (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: If Christ Came to Constantinople - ; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - a unique genius without parallel in literature; Where Americans Go When In Europe; Why So Many of Us Behave Like Imbeciles - with photo and content related to Gertrude Ederle of New York who swam the English Channel; Housing an Army in Hovels - permanent shelter for troops may not be ready in this generation - article with photos of ramshackle barracks; Levacha - a Thief Hunt in Abyssinia; Henry Ford's Page - two essentials of wisdom are knowledge of fundamentals and awareness of development; Editorials - farm relief, the McFadden Branch Banking Bill, New York's Stage Reform; Courage and Endurance - matters of stomach, not of heart; Clearing the Name of a President (Andrew Johnson) - Part 3; This Country Needs More Able-Bodied Loafers of a Certain Sort; The American Black Bear - a much abused animal; Nice one page ad for the Venice Company of Venice, Florida; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - turning wind into electricity at the University of Nebraska, Retirement of Peach Davis of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, check signing scam in Manhattan; News Bits; Nice animal photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Openings along each end of coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Dearborn Independent (Magazine) - Chronicler of the Neglected Truth, March (Mar.) 5, 1927 - Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard If Christ Came to Constantinople - ; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - a unique genius without parallel in literature;

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Bacon, Irving R. (cover); Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Kidd, Betty Jane (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fun photos of children inside front cover; Debt - Our Biggest National Industry/Money - Our Most Costly Commodity - Can the Price of Money Be Decreased?; The Backstage Story of the Marion Talley Drama - article with photo; Morality That Was First Military - army commanders long ago discovered principles now claimed by pacifists; Where the People of the British Isles Came From; Books That Started the Bells Ringing; Henry Ford's Page - Businessmen are leaders of social movements; Editorials - the McNary-Haugen Bill is vetoed, Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver advocates trial marriage, Madame Schumann-Heink denies endorsing a cigarette (being aimed at women); Skiing in the Bavarian Alps; Paid - A Billion Dollars for Beauty - Sleuths of Science Still on the Trail of Elixir of Youth; Benjamin Franklin as an Abolitionist - fascinating article; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - photo-illustrated article; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; News Bits; Nice dog/puppy photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Middle page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Bonus: Blank 8.5" x 5.5" subscription renewal form laid-in.

First edition, first printing, of this insight into the economic position of women in the 1940s. It "attempts to explore some reasons for the constant masculine-feminine controversy over the coin of the realm, and to suggest tentative answers to a few of the costly wrong guesses about feminine financial attitudes so prevalent in various branches of the present system" (p. 10). Elizabeth "Betty" Jane Kidd (1904-1958) worked in advertising and journalism and contributed widely to The Ladies' Home Journal. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and blocked in dark blue. With dust jacket. A touch of wear to corners and spine ends, damp stain to tail of spine and lower inner corner of rear cover, a handful of faint marks to edges; jacket unclipped, extremities creased and nicked resulting in loss to head of spine and rear fold, not affecting text, panels soiled: a very good copy in like jacket.