HUDDLESTON, Josephine. Secrets of Charm.

(New York, NY): G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929.  First edition.  Hardcover. 21cm by 14.2cm.  297 pages.  Foreword by Florenz Ziegfeld.  First edition of Huddleston’s influential and culturally significant manual of interwar femininity, issued at a moment when the rhetoric of “charm” was merging with emerging professionalized beauty culture. Huddleston—an early practitioner in the modern charm-school movement—developed a system linking poise, carriage, voice, dress, grooming, and social confidence to the expanding social and economic roles of women after the First World War.  The volume includes recipes for shampoos, face masks, shampoos, tips for posture, skin care, grooming, dressing, and much more.  Illustrated.  A very good copy in dust jacket.  Jacket a little grubby with closed tear at spine.  Scarce.