Pots, Pans and Millions.
Cummings, Edith Mae. Pots, Pans and Millions. A study of woman’s right to be in business, her proclivities and capacity for success. Washington, D.C.: National School of Business Science for Women, 1929.
8vo.; red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with an image of pots and pans transforming into coins; lightly rubbed.
First edition of the Widow Cummings’s narrative of her rise to fortune, “from a job in a machine shop, where she did a man’s work during the world war, to the presidency of her own company, with the parent office located in Detroit and many branch offices established throughout the country…in the span of a few years.”
What it was that lifted this woman out of obscurity into prominence, out of poverty into fame and fortune, while newspapers and magazines throughout the country told the story of her success, is of tremendous interest to all ambitious women. Her philosophy and her view-points, and what she has to say about the opportunities for women in the business world will be not only instructive but inspirational. The story of her phenomenal career… leads one to believe that the old American tradition of the office boy rising to the presidency of his company can now be transferred to the story of woman… (publisher’s preface)
With an advertisement of her “Home Study Course in Modern Salesmanship and Business” on the final page. This copy bears a few marginal pencil lines in the first two chapters, “Pots, Pans, and Millions” and “Adam and Evil.”
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