What a Girl Can Make and Do. New Ideas for Work and Play.

New York: Scribner's, 1919 Early edition, the first edition being printed in 1902. Beige-colored pictorial cover with illustrations of girls playing ball and crafting. Octavo. Illustrated title page and hundreds of instructional illustrations throughout, diagrams and plates. Both joints starting to split but appear to have been discretely glued. In the rare dust jacket. Some chipping to edges, head and foot of spine of jacket. A very good, clean copy in a very good jacket that is hardly ever seen with the book. This companion volume to the American Girls Handy-Book includes a wide range of instructions for crafts and activities such as wood working, valentines, (truncated) witchcraft, and basketball. The preface begins: "This new century, bringing with it the strong, healthy, independent, athletic American girl, makes a demand for new opportunities for the exercise of both mind and body" (v.) Therefore, the activities in this book move beyond traditional women's work, aimed instead at "modern girls, girls of the twentieth century, who like to use both brains and hands." (Inventory #: 17854)