Awaken Your Sleeping Beauty

by Lilyan Malmstead

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Epilonian Books presents ... Awaken Your Sleeping Beauty Author:Lilyan Malmstead Publisher:E. P. Dutton & Co. Release Date:1935 Seller Category:General Non-Fiction Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Good Sku: 20260831005 Notes: E. P. Dutton & Co., Published 1935. Hardcover, 96 pp.; 21 cm; frontispiece portrait of the author by Benson and full-page halftone plates after drawings by Tonya. In Good condition, no dust jacket. Red cloth boards with the Erectitude trademark figure stamped in black on front cover, black script lettering on spine. Spine sunned to pale cream, lettering still crisp. Cloth nicked through at corner tips and at head and foot of spine, mild to moderate shelf and edge wear, scattered pale speckling to front cover. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, endpapers heavily toned and foxed. Otherwise unmarked. Without the errata slip that WorldCat records as inserted before p. 81. A posture-and-beauty system marketed under the registered trade mark Erectitude, its whole principle stated on the title page: lengthen the line between the chin and the waist and you will lengthen your years. Malmstead, author of Your Face and Figure (Penn, 1931), holds that the forward-bending drills of conventional physical culture throw the body off balance and prescribes backward-bending attitudes instead, worked through twelve regional routines (hips, waist and abdomen; chin, waistline and abdomen; and so on) and followed by chapters on standing, sitting and walking, skin, neck, plucke

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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