Cora Scovil's Lady's Book, 1940 A.D.

159 pp. "Volume 1, a wonderful spiral bound book for women, is a "gentle effort to recall the past in terms of the present", much like a Godey's or Peterson's annual. "What can life hold for a woman who has no chromium in her bathroom, no pedigreed pup on a leash, no star sapphires in her slipper buckles..." Lavishly illustrated with great black and white photos of department store windows and modern design and fashion. Essays by Annabel Lee, Gladys Miller, Cora Scovil, Alice Hughes, and others. One of the really fun essays on New York City's window decorations and advertising is Scovil's Looking Through the Glass. Book also profiles eight women as leading ladies, among them Lord and Taylor's Dorothy Shaver, and tennis players Alice Marble and Eleanor Tennant. Illustrated endpapers."