The Hostess and Social Executive. A Guide to Women who Desire to Enter this Fascinating Field of Endeavor. In Collaboration with Roxana Allen.

Los Angeles: Huron & Stanton Printing Company, 1930 First edition of an uncommon item. Blindstamped brown buckram. . Minor shelf wear to spine. A few leaves bumped at the upper corner. Clean throughout. Decorative endpapers which read "Knowledge is power." John Willy book plate laid in. A very good+ copy. Erma Hubbell (1881-1963) worked in hotel management and as a hostess. At the time of the present work, she was based at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, a hotel famous for being the site of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Before moving to LA, Hubbell worked as a social executive for the Eppley chain of hotels in Omaha, Nebraska. (Inventory #: 17845)