The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 36 “To Mabel Frohlich Who Is The Model For My Heroine” 34. KAUFMAN, Sue. Diary of a Mad Housewife. New York, 1967. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase. $1600. Click for more info First edition of this influential 1960s novel, wonderfully inscribed: “To Mabel Frohlich who is the model for my heroine. Sue Kaufman.” “An apt observer of the upwardly mobile urban middle class in which she lived, Kaufman sketched characters with delicate strokes of a pen dipped in mild acid. Her best-known work is Diary of a Mad Housewife, published in 1967” ( Jewish Women’s Archive ). As this book has no formal dedication, Kaufman’s inscription to Mabel Frohlich—explicitly crediting her as the model for the protagonist— carries added weight. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only light rubbing mainly to spine ends. A lovely inscribed copy. “A paragon housewife, a model of efficiency…”