"The Art of Feminine Beauty" 1930 Rubinstein, Helena

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RUBINSTEIN, Helena

[286] pp.

Horace Liverwright

1930

Second Printing

8 1/4" x 6"

Beauty is neither wholly the gift of … Read more RUBINSTEIN, Helena

[286] pp.

Horace Liverwright

1930

Second Printing

8 1/4" x 6"

Beauty is neither wholly the gift of God nor the gift of the cosmetician. An important part is always played by the desire to be lovely and the willingness to make small daily sacrifices to achieve it. If you follow the rules for your particular type or age you will keep your loveliness to the end of your days.'

Helena Rubinstein's 1930 beauty bible, scarce with the dust jacket. Rubinstein pours out her wealth of experience in the beauty and cosmetic industry to offer advice on everything from skin to hair, from exercise to breathing, from makeup to mirrors, from diet to plastic surgery. Chapters include 'How to Make and Keep a Beautiful Skin', 'Lovely Hands Are Important', 'A Somewhat Technical Chapter on Obesity', 'Bathing for Beauty' and 'Where Facial Surgery Enters'. The 1920s had seen an increasing democratisation of the beauty industry, the beauty culture was expanding and Rubinstein's aim was to bring her advice to every woman. Much of her wisdom, written ninety years ago, still rings true.

Helena Rubinstein. Horace Liveright. New York. September 1930. First edition, second printing (in the same month as the first printing). Hardback, octavo; decorated cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 286 pages. Portrait frontispiece and 13 hors-texte plates with b&w photographs illustrating the exercises suggested in the book. English. 215 x 150mm. 0.8kg.

Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear to jacket, light ruffling to spine ends and forecorners, fading to spine, a couple of small nicks neatly repaired with tape to verso, small stain at base of spine, original price-sticker to front flap; some faint staining to rear board, very slight bowing to boards, no inscriptions, internally clean and fresh.RUBINSTEIN, Helena See less