Ulback Sylvia (3 results)

McFadden Book Co., New York, 1939. Hardcover, 118 pp. Small format. Slimming advice for women by Norway-born "Madame Sylvia". With black & white photo illustrations. Just tone up your body, come to Hollywood and become a starlet! Map endpapers by Russell Patterson. Very good condition. Sturdy binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. B & W photos; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 119 pages; 1939 MacFadden Book Co. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pebbled blue cloth with pictorial panel in gold and black and titles in black to cover and spine. Sylvia Ulback gained a reputation in 1920's Hollywood as a fitness and diet guru and gained notoriety as the source for the tell-all books "Hollywood Undressed." She continued to publish diet and exercise titles into the 30's and 40's including this volume. Illustrated with pictorial endpaper maps of Hollywood by Russell Patterson. Exercise poses recorded with b&w photos. Cloth rubbed a little at edges and surfaces. mild shelf bumping to boards at corner tips. Prior owner name inked neatly to front endpage. An old resale price in pen to the blank recto of the frontis photograph. VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B//w (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; blue pictorial c w/gilt & black; rubbed edges, maps on end papers; 119 clean, unmarked pages.