In-Stock Styles Spring and Summer 1915: Dorothy Dodd and Gold Medal Oxfords and Boots
Boston: Dorothy Dodd Shoe Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 83 (1)pp. with tabs at foredge. Original gray cloth with red lettering on cover. Extensive company catalog for Dorothy Dodd and Gold Medal shoes with tabs at foredge indicating the different types of shoes, e.g. Dull Kid, Gun Metal, Patent leathers, etc.
Introductory pages show color offset reproductions of realistic drawings of the Dorothy Dodd headquarters in Boston and its branches in Chicago and New York, followed by a page describing the company service with b/w offset reproductions of drawings depicting four shipping scenarios. Tipped-in a small yellow page explaining a particular shipping policy. The next three pages give instructions on how to size up client stock as well as order instructions. The extensive selection of shoe models is displayed on paged seven through eighty-one with offset reproductions of shoe models in b/w and color, four to six shoe models per page with categories displayed on tabs at foredge. Two pages with index of style numbers, wholesale and retail prices at rear followed by an advertisement for the Dorothy Dodd monthly publication "Dealer." The last page is a chart f nine colors, with tissue guard, representing the colors described in the catalog. Binding with some sunning and rubbing along edges, light wear along edges and some loss of red color of cover lettering. Heavy foxing on title page and foxing along edges of following few pages, else sporadic and on tabs at foredge. Binding in overall good-, interior in good to very good condition. g- to vg. Item #44248
Price: $375.00