The Ten Stage Secrets of Beauty and Social Success

Sydney: H. H. Watson Printing Co., No date.
First Edition.

15cm x 9cm. 16 pages. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.

Dedicated to the Women who have Helped Themselves and used their Charms – to my Many Friends on and off the Stage – and to the Women who are Willing to Try. Grace Duncan of 178 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, a former actress turned business woman writes on the beauty and understanding pertaining to actresses before providing further guidance to the domestic woman and how to harness the power of attraction through the power of the mind, wardrobe, grace, bust, hair, and body. Many recipes are provided for the creation of shampoos, moisturisers, and lotions. Undated, Duncan’s acting resume is not widely noted, however her advertisements for obtaining the most remarkable complexion treatment ever known appeared in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1916-1918. 1 copy recorded in OCLC at Monash, however a likely near identical (and equally scarce with 1 holding at Southern Methodist University, Dallas) publication was marketed in the United States attributed to Pearl LaSage.

Old horizontal crease. Staples rusted and with a small split at spine tail, though the wrappers firm. Small chip to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel and a short closed tear to fore-edge of lower panel. Minor soiling and some faint pencil maths on the wrappers lower panel. Good Condition.

AU$150.00

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