Vintage Collier books with Red & Gold covers 6 volumes Faith Baldwin romances They were published in the 1930's. Classic Quaint romances of the time with heroine seeking a life with a career and a life with romance and a home life. Pre World War II society and lifestyle--The period between Victorian Woman's place in the Home and the burgeoning force of women seeking a life of fulfillment outside and within a home and family. Lifestyle romances with a "modern" twist. (see Faith Baldwin bio info below) Nice books for your bookshelf or side table; charmingly quaint elegant shabby chic decor... ( see pics and ck shop main page for more info on shipping/policies/etc & ask questions if needed) Decorative books for your library decor with title on spine. To see more in the WhenrosesBloom collection.
DIMENSIONS and SPECS: Approx. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4" X 1 3/8" each with 272 up to 311 Pages each Approx 8" wide together on shelf P F Collier & Son Publishers New York circa 1930's Gold Title spine textured binding with embossed author Faith Baldwin. Small dent/hole on back of spine at title Enchanted Oasis volume and slight rub to gold on The Heart has Wings (see photos as they are part of description). Books are in good vintage condition for age with light wear/fade. Some rub/nicks/"eats" at top of some of volumes. Binding firm. Titles included: The Heart has Wings, Enchanted Oasis, Career by Proxy, Rich Girl, Poor Girl, The High Road, Hotel Hostess. Please see photos as they are part of the description. Use zoom feature to see greater detail.
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Please note that vintage items are at least 20 years old and have had a prior "life" and will have some normal wear and imperfections appropriate with the age. Any major or noticeable flaws will be mentioned in the listing. You are purchasing 6 Faith Baldwin romance novels only. Any other items shown in photos are for display purposes only and are not included with purchase.
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Biographical details from Antiquarian Booksellers Association:
Faith Baldwin was once one of the bestselling authors in America, although she was never a lauded award-winner. Instead, Baldwin practiced what was variously called “light” or popular fiction, and today is generally called romance — usually with a touch of superiority. In her obituary, The New York Times declared her ‘the doyenne of American light fiction writers.” Raised in relative wealth and comfort in Manhattan, Baldwin initially saw acting as a means for a single women to gain independence, but as her writing career took off, she embraced it.
At the start, she wrote for the women’s magazines, publishing poetry and prose -- whatever there was a market for. In 1921, she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill, and by 1927 she was able to regularly sell the serialization rights for many of her novels to mainstream magazines, assuring herself of a steady income. Critics have alternately praised Baldwin for being a proto-feminist and dismissed her for being too conservative, which is unsurprising as Baldwin generally wrote about the domestic concerns of love, marriage, and a woman's career, concerns which tend to be under-appreciated in any age. But, in novels like Private Duty (1935), Hotel Hostess (1938), and Career By Proxy (1939) she often returned to the question of whether a woman could be fulfilled through work and also find marital bliss — although her heroines often had to accept their fate of leaving their job after marriage — and she frequently focused on women who resisted the status quo. The Feminist Press republished Baldwin’s 1931 novel Skyscraper in 2004 as part of a series that celebrated female pulp fiction. Skyscraper concerns a young woman who works, but whose beau cannot yet afford to marry her. Will he accept a woman who works, and will she be able to pursue her career? Those were important questions to women at the time, and increasingly after WWII brought so many into the workforce for the first time.
However, those were also important questions to Baldwin personally. An astute observer of the social mores of her time, she was a deft hand at allowing her heroines to push against the edges of what was acceptable.
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