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JOHNSTONE, Cockburn. Miss Raffles A Romantic Narrative by...and charmingly portrayed by that skillful artist Robert A. Graf. Cover-title running across front and rear wrapper is ‘Miss Raffles/and What She Stole.'
New York and Chicago: Published by International Tailoring Co., (1906--copyright J.L. Reiss). Tall 8vo., orig. pictorial wrappers with an attractive depiction of a woman running away with a suit jacket on the upper wrapper and a man in a grey suit and boater hat on the rear wrapper, (16)pp. With six full-page illustrations. Slight crease running vertically on the wrappers o/w a near fine copy with attractive colour printed wrappers. Scarce. OCLC notes 2 locations only.
A short story given away as a promotional item by various tailors who stock International Tailoring Co. products— the rear wrapper of this copy advertises the International samples displayed by the firm of F.M. Strickland, Champlain, NY.
The rather bizarre story of a young woman, Marguerite La Rue (aka Miss Raffles), who finds love through the theft of a young man's clothes, or so she thinks...
Established in 1896, the International Tailoring Company and its founder and president Jacob L. Reiss (1874-1955) rode the wave of clothing factory production. Where sweatshops were portrayed as dirty, cramped, dark, and unsafe, the modern clothing factory exemplified by Mundie & Jensen's design for the International Tailoring Company plant in Chicago was clean, spacious, brightly illuminated by natural light, and constructed with an eye to worker comfort and safety. Famous for keeping the city men of New York and Chicago dapper, The International Tailoring Company was synonymous with men's style of the golden age.
$300
JOHNSTONE, Cockburn. Miss Raffles A Romantic Narrative by...and charmingly portrayed by that skillful artist Robert A. Graf. Cover-title running across front and rear wrapper is ‘Miss Raffles/and What She Stole.' New York and Chicago: Published by International Tailoring Co., (1906--copyright J.L. Reiss). Tall 8vo., orig. pictorial wrappers with an attractive depiction of a woman running away with a suit jacket on the upper wrapper and a man in a grey suit and boater hat on the rear wrapper, (16)pp. With six full-page illustrations. Slight crease running vertically on the wrappers o/w a near fine copy with attractive colour printed wrappers. Scarce. OCLC notes 2 locations only.
A short story given away as a promotional item by various tailors who stock International Tailoring Co. products— the rear wrapper of this copy advertises the International samples displayed by the firm of F.M. Strickland, Champlain, NY.
The rather bizarre story of a young woman, Marguerite La Rue (aka Miss Raffles), who finds love through the theft of a young man's clothes, or so she thinks...
Established in 1896, the International Tailoring Company and its founder and president Jacob L. Reiss (1874-1955) rode the wave of clothing factory production. Where sweatshops were portrayed as dirty, cramped, dark, and unsafe, the modern clothing factory exemplified by Mundie & Jensen's design for the International Tailoring Company plant in Chicago was clean, spacious, brightly illuminated by natural light, and constructed with an eye to worker comfort and safety. Famous for keeping the city men of New York and Chicago dapper, The International Tailoring Company was synonymous with men's style of the golden age.
$300
