No Glass Slipper

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. [light wear to extremities, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; the jacket has been a bit insect-nibbled along both flap-folds, and is somewhat sun-browned along the spine, with a tiny bit of paper loss at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) "The amazing success story of a self-made millionairess," an English woman who in 1946 founded the Brook Street Bureau and built it into one of the U.K.'s (and the world's) leading employment agencies. Per the jacket blurb, the book "is much more than a story of a woman of boundless energy making her way in the ruthless business world. It is also the intensely personal account of one of those modern phenomena 'the working mother,' for Margery Hurst endured and survived the pain of the failure of an early marriage and set out on the road to success with a small daughter in tow." In 1965, she was reported to be one of Britain's richest women -- but even for all her success, when it was decided that same year to take her company public (as it was related in her 1989 obituary in The Daily Telegraph) "she was advised by bankers that it would be better if her husband were the chairman, and so [she] was deprived of becoming the City's first woman chairman." .