"The Beach Book" 1963 STEINEM, Gloria (SOLD)
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STEINEM, Gloria
[277] pp.
The Viking Press
1963
10 1/2" x 8 3/4"
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The inside of this book jacket is a sun reflector
Gloria Steinem's 1963 book celebrating beach culture dedicated "To Ocean Beach Pier that was and to Paradise Island". Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith (yes, the economist and diplomat). Fascinating peak into early '60s attitudes to leisure.
Illustrated by Chas B. Slackman.
Around the time when Gloria Steinem donned a Playboy bunny costume to become an undercover feminist, she also published this tribute to the pleasures of the beach. With its foil dust jacket, the back side of which was intended to double as a tanning aid, this illustrated book seems much more Helen Gurley Brown than Gloria Steinem. Except, it is rather literary, with excerpts of works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, and Marcel Proust. Today, Steinem acknowledges it is an anomaly in her body of work but she still claims it.
“Cary Grant is walking down the beach toward you. He is carrying a shaker of martinis. He is smiling.”
--Gloria Steinem