Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Hart, Clive.
An Admonition to the Students of Wittenberg: A Supplement to a New Argument Against Women, the Disputatio Nova Contra Mulieres of 1595
(Gilliland Press, 2000).
In pamphlet form. New book, fine. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A2960
Keywords: 0953786706, student, Wittenberg, women, argument, admonition, mulieres, Acidalius, Gedik, Hunnius, Lutheranism, soul, pamphlet
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
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Hopkins, Edward J.
The Organ: its History and Construction. A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure & Capabilities of the Organ, with Specifications and Suggestive Details for Instruments of all Sizes. Intended as a Handbook for the Organist and the Amateur. Preceded by an Entirely New History of the Organ by Edward F. Rimbault
(Robert Cocks and Co, 3rd edition, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers in soiled library binding. Binding repaired inside, to strengthen it.Small tear to fold-out plan of organ. A good, firm working copy. xxxi + 636pp. Order No. NSBK-A14237
Keywords: B0006AEBFE, instruments, musical instruments, organ, organs, history, construction, organists, keyboards, church music, organ-building
Price £98.00.
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Fairfield, Helen.
Patchwork: Over 20 New and Original Projects for You to Make
(Octopus, rpt, 1982).
Hardback. Good+, large format. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-G14297
Keywords: 070641344X, sewing, needlework, patchwork, patchwork quilts, technique
Price £10.00.
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Kollontai, Alexandra.
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle: Love and the New Morality
(Falling Wall Press, 1972).
Translated and introduced by Alix Holt. Booklet. Very good. iv + 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A15785
Keywords: booklets, stored with pamphlets, women, Russia, Russian, history, Alexandra Kollontai
Price £12.50.
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Beaney, Jan.
Embroidery: New Approaches
(Pelham Books, 1978).
Photographs by Dudley Moss. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape on fly leaf and inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13102
Keywords: 0720710723, embroidery, sewing, stitches, stitching, needlework, women, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
Price £6.99.
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Spallone, Patricia.
Beyond Conception: New Politics of Reproduction
(Macmillan, 1989).
Women in Society. Hardback. Newspaper articles pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-C14158
Keywords: 0333435311, reproduction, conception, feminism, conceiving, women, IVF, test tube fertilisation, surrogacy, motherhood, artifical conception, assisted conception, medical science, eugenics, genetic engineering
Price £12.99.
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Benson, Allan L.
The New Henry Ford:
(Funk and Wagnalls, 1923).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather worn and faded with light soiling. Contents good and firm. 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14289
Keywords: B000WG9UYY, Henry Ford, biography, biographies, Ford, Ford Motor Company, cars, automobiles, car, history, manufacturing, racing, Detroit, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Francis, Richard.
Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee: Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, The Woman Clothed with the Sun
(Fourth Estate, 2000).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-C6123
Keywords: 1857029690, Ann Lee, Female Messiah, religion, religious, Shakers, Shakerism, woman clothed with the sun, women's history, gender, Manchester, nineteenth century, Victorian, America, American, United States, USA, Shaking Quakers, Quakers, Quakerism, cults, millennium, New York, Jacob Kidney, Doorkeeper to the Commissioners for Detecting Conspiracies, Square House, Harvard, Massachusetts, New England, spiritual, spiritualism, faith, belief
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