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Once Upon a Store
by Marnell, William H
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8vo. 189 pp. Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. DJ price-clipped, with light chipping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Very light sunning to board edges. Faint mold damage to text block top edge at spine head, partially affecting top edge of text block, otherwise very clean. A Biography of the World's First Supermarket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 489
- Title
- Once Upon a Store
- Author
- Marnell, William H
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herder and Herder
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- grocery store, supermarket, store, retail, groceries, food, dorchester, boston, massachusetts
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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