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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Philips, David.
Crime and Authority in Victorian England: The Black Country 1835-1860
(Croom Helm, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly faded dustwrapper. 321pp. Order No. NSBK-A2830
Keywords: 087471866X, Victorian, crime, authority, the Black Country, police, prosecution, fraud, violence, property, Industrial Revolution, Wolverhampton, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, Midlands, 19th century, criminals, criminal, criminality, courts, court, trial, trials, offences, offenders, offence, quarter session, assizes, magistrate, magistrates, policing, police, constable, constables, policemen, officers, force, parish, local, bobbies, bobbie, larcenies, fraud, prosecution, prosecutors, committal, hearings, hearing, committals, peelers, constabulary, justices of the peace, justices, jp, jps, jp's
Price £25.00.
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Phillips, C. B. and Smith, J. H, editors.
Stockport Probate Records, 1620 - 1650:
(Record Society of Lancashire Cheshire, 1992).
No 131 in the Series. Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly creased dustwrapper. xxviii + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A14539
Keywords: 0902593226, Stockport, probate, legal, early modern, history, Manchester, seventeenth century, 17th century, wills, market towns, inheritance, debts
Price £15.00.
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L'Esperance, Jeanne.
The Widening Sphere: Women in Canada 1870-1940
(National Library of Canada, 1982).
Text appears in both English and French. Paperback. Minor marginal annotation, small chip to front cover, otherwise good+. 63 + 69pp. Order No. NSBK-A8522
Keywords: 0662520084, Canada, Canadians, women, women's history, female, gender, la femme canadienne, nineteenth century, 19th century, Canadian
Price £6.50.
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Jenkins, Garry.
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A10325
Keywords: 028306238X, Daniel Day-Lewis, actors, plays, stage, dramas, biographies, biography, biographical, history, twentieth century, 20th, Ireland, Irish, lives, life histories, life history
Price £4.00.
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Graham, Malcolm.
Henry Taunt of Oxford: a Victorian Photographer
(Oxford Illustrated Press, 1973).
Hardback. Slight fault to camber of the book ( -the boards are a little bent in the middle), otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A14993
Keywords: 0902280147, Henry Taunt, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, photography, photos, pictures, Oxford, Oxfordshire, camera, publishers, publishing
Price £9.00.
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Magic Poster Greeting Cards, .
An Assorted Selection of 10 Attractive Magic Poster Greetings Cards: Pack 1:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004).
Ten historical magicians' promotional posters, reproduced for the first time ever as ten attractive, colourful greeting cards. Individually wrapped in cellophane, and each with its own white envelope. Each card measures 6 inches x 4 inches, and has a plain interior, for your own message for any occasion. The selection includes: 4 X Harry Kellar, 2 X Howard Thurston, 1 X Newmann Spirit Mysteries, 1 X Hardeen, 1 X Kar-mi and 1 X Harry Blackstone Sr. Highly collectable. Greeting Cards. Fine, in cellophane wrappers. pp. Order No. NSBK-F7654
Keywords: B001F2XY6Y, magic, poster, posters, magic posters, magician, magician's, magicians, magic poster, magic posters, greetings, greeting card, greeting cards, greeting, historic, history, historical, magics, magically, card, cards, posters, poster, vaudeville, old time, show, shows, Kellar, Harry Kellar, Houdini, Hardeen, Thurston, Howard Thurston, Karmi, Kar mi, Kar-mi, Newmann, spirit, mysteries, master magician, master, spirits, spirit, seances, old time, leisure, entertainment, mystery, maskelyne, devant, david devant, conjuring, conjurors, conjure, conjurings, history of magic, magical history, magic school, stage, drama, entertain, ephemera, collector, collecting, collectors, collected, history, hobbies, hobby, images, art, representations, representation, vintage, 19th century, nineteenth century, Harry Blackstone, Blackstone, senior, junior, victorian, 20th century, twentieth century, modern, imagery, images, pictures, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, magic cards, magiccards, art, artwork, Christmas gifts
Price £14.99.
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Chen, Jack.
The Chinese Theatre:
(Dennis Dobson, 1949).
Illustrated by the author. Hardback. Yellow cloth soiled, otherwise good. 63pp. Order No. NSBK-A15058
Keywords: B000MABIFY, theatre, acting, Chinese, China, stage, costume, acting, Yangko theatre
Price £8.00.
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Hobhouse, Christopher.
Fox:
(John Murray, rpt., 1964).
With a biographical introduction by Harold Nicolson. Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise good+. xxiv + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10382
Keywords: B0000CM13H, Christopher Hobhouse, biography, biographical, lives, life histories, life history, biographies, Charles James Fox, politicians, politics, statesmen, statesman, eighteenth, 18th, century
Price £7.00.
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Stivers, Camilla.
Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State
(Sage, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-C14964
Keywords: 9780803948037, gender, public administration, state, women leaders, leadership, masculinity
Price £12.99.
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