(San Francisco) Forbes, Ernest. The Other Way. Respectfully Dedicated to all good Housewives.

Illus. with wood engravings of household appliances, and with ads. Dec. cloth. First Edition. San Francisco: Ernest Forbes, 1899.

Hints for the housewife, with heavy emphasis on the use of gas, this book was issued by the gas industry (brand spanking new at the time) and distributed by local gas companies. This copy has ads for San Francisco businesses, incl. a great photo of the Guadaloupe Dairy Company at 15th Ave. & San Bruno (Potrero Hill), cows speckling the hillside. Irregular browning to cloth from binder's glue, internal stains to upper margins, else very good. Bitting p.162. 

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