PALMER, Gretta

[248] pp.

Robert M. McBride & Company

1930

First Edition

7 5/8″ x 5 3/8″

VG

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A GUIDE BOOK infused with such a wealth of spirit and individuality that all of New York’s population, floating or permanent, will throw it bouquets. It gives the advice most pleasant and necessary to womanbe her purse well-filled or lean. The writer of it does not lack sophistication and is hard-boiled enough to know New York’s opportunities in the matter of dresswitness her comment on one Fourteenth Street shop:

I know that you can pick up astounding bargains here in dresses that do not turn green when you wear them out in the sunlight. All the employes are sitting on high platforms engaged in watching for shoplifters, so expect no service. Please, in the name of the defenseless Police Department, do not choose a sale day for your visit.

She has, in fact, the shopping world of New York “down cold!” Her discoveries range from: The Ultra-Ultra Places to Foibles in Furniture, The Homing Pigeonhole, Gifts and Gadgets, and one chapter entitled Miscellaneous, that covers employment agencies, doctors and dentists, photographers, repair experts, and how to find any street number in New York. Any New York guide will give you reliable informationbut this one goes over the top in individual style.