Stringer's Books and Ephemera

Advertising - Health and Beauty (4 items)

  • PARKE AND PARKE LIMITED
    RECIPE BOOK CONTAINING TESTED RECIPES FOR PICKLES, JELLIES AND PRESERVES COMPILED BY AN EXPERIENCED HOUSEKEEPER (Cover Title)
    Hamilton, ON Parke & Parke Ltd. no date (ca. 1910-20s)
    75.00
    Booklet is in good+ condition with some edge wear, wear to corners and spine ends, dampstain front cover along spine at bottom (see photos), light creasing to covers.
    16 pages (including covers) with a few illustrations.
    Softcover booklet, size is 5" x 6 3/4".
    Original booklet from Parke & Parke Chemists and Druggists of Hamilton Ontario Canada. Another of those booklets purporting to be helpful to the homemaker but really an advertising booklet for all their medicines.
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  • BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (Toronto) The Idea Clinic (1938)
    35.00
    Condition for the booklet is good+ with some edge wear, small stain front cover, some wear to corners and spine ends.
    30 pages with photos and illustrations, related ads.
    Staple-bound booklet, size is 4 1/2” x 6”.
    "... this issue contains a complete directory of the leading entertainments of the season ... and, too, we trust you will find the articles on Beauty... 'Entertaining' and "Christmas Gift Shopping" both informative and suggestive."

    A scarce booklet for women published in Toronto in 1938.
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  • THE NEW VIEW OF PERSONAL DAINTINESS AMONG WOMEN
    Zonite Productions Corporation
    (1928 Advertising Booklet)
    New York Zonite Products Corporation c. 1928
    35.00
    Condition is very good+ with a minor blemish to the front cover, and a very small dent to the right of the booklet.
    12 pages with a few illustrations.
    Staple-bound booklet, size is 3 1/4" x 5 1/4".
    A very small booklet from Zonite on women's hygiene.
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  • BEAUTY: IT IS OUR ENDEAVOR TO ACQUAINT YOU WITH SOME BEAUTY SECRETS: WHY NOT BE YOUR OWN BEAUTY DOCTOR? (Bridgeburg, ON) World's Dispensary Medical Association no date (ca. mid-1920s)
    40.00
    The booklet is in very good condition with slight edge wear, slight wear to corners, cheap paper tanned.
    32 pages with photos.
    Softcover staple-bound booklet, size is 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".
    1920s advertising booklet for health and beauty aids, with a few tips in amongst all the ads and testimonials.This is the Canadian edition of Dr. Pierce's booklet there is also an American edition based out of Buffalo.
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