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Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench?: Hardware Stores and Hardware Stories
by Staten, Vince
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684801329
- ISBN 13
- 9780684801322
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New Yoik: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 2nd Printing Second Printing. Hard cover in fine condition with beige boards, red spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no markings to note; only writing is former owner's name at top right corner of front free end paper. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. Presents as new and unread. * From the back jacket flap, ""It doesn't matter if you've never actually fixed anything and don't have a single tool in your garage except your daddy's old hammer. Join Vince Staten in this fun and funny celebration of good tools and great times and what you'll get is not only an exploration of the mechanical mysteries but a gloriously guided tour of that perfect hardware store we all dream about, the one that has just what you need and someone there who can tell you how to use it.""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001436
- Title
- Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench?: Hardware Stores and Hardware Stories
- Author
- Staten, Vince
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684801329
- ISBN 13
- 9780684801322
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New Yoik
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Hardware industry - West Virginia - Winfield - Anecdotes, Hardware stores - West Virginia - Winfield, Winfield Hardware
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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