Ellen Trafford (2 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, trade paperback, sunned, 64 pages, sm4to.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Hanley, F.; Anderson, C.W.; Trafford, Margaret; Mahon;Stiles, Kirk; et al (illustrator). First Edition. A rare example of this apparently short-lived feminist-oriented depression-era periodical. 128 semi-glossy stapled pages. 7.8" x 5.5". Contains only one page of advertising, that being a two-color (black and orange) illustrated piece for Tangee cosmetics inside front cover. The eleven articles include: Why Shouldn't Women Run the World?, How to Lose a Man?, and Man's Magazine Man. The nine stories include: Men are the Darnedest, The Child Hater - There's Something Wrong When a Man's Childless, and Telephone Number, in which a housewife's calls to a gentleman are nearly discovered by her husband. Fantastic section of full-page black and white photos of women at work entitled "The Weaker Sex" includes women of Osaka's Toyo Textile factory training with rifles, Mrs. Ruth Yeamans - Idaho's only woman police judge, Welding instructor Mrs. Anne McEnally, Mlle. Nadia Boulanger - first woman Conductor in Royal Philharmonic history, diver Mrs. William Nichols of Philadelphia, Miss Bertha Sherfy - U.S. Treasury Department expert, Acme photographer Joy Lacks (in China with troops), seawoman Anna Tymanina - third officer of Soviet freighter 'Kalinin', and long-distance canoeist Marie Sarkipato. Many one and two-color cartoons. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Black carrying string mounted in two holes punched by printer near top and bottom of fore-edge, per illustration of fancy lady on page one who proudly holds her copy by the string as if it was a purse. A wonderful early American feminist artifact.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Mrs. - The Last Word. In a Woman's Magazine!, No. 1 - Premier Issue Women's Liberation Movement Lib Feminism History Feminist Equal Rights Class Struggle 1930s Sexism History United States.