Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BUSINESS.) WALKER, MADAM C.J. The Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Manual. [1]-211. [[iv] pages. Illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in white; lettering rubbed off as is common with this title; binding rubbed, previous owner's jottings. Indianapolis: Madam C.J. Walker Schools of Beauty, circa 1928
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first edition of this very scarce beauty manual, issued by the Madam Walker School. The original owner of this book, Elizabeth Montgomery of Independence, MO, a student of the Walker School, has written a "Marcel Poem," on the blank leaf preceding the title-page. It doesn't quite rhyme, but it sets down the various steps involved in Marceling, a process of straightening and waving black hair.