The Thumb On The Scale: or The Supermarket Shell Game
by Mowbray, A.Q
- Used
- first
- Condition
- book very good- : discoloration/bleaching to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers. text clean, binding tight and square./DJ very good : age toning, NOT clipped ($4.95)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967. first edition. hardcover. book very good- : discoloration/bleaching to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers. text clean, binding tight and square./DJ very good : age toning, NOT clipped ($4.95). 8vo 178pp +copy of text of truth-in-packaging bill of 1966. stated first edition. introduction by Marya Mannes. from front flap: "Here, for the first time, si thet ruth about the five-year struggle in Congress to enact an effective "truth-in-packaging" bill. It started on June 28, 1961, when the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Senate Judiciary Committee began investigative hearings--under the leadership of Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan--to determine whether Federal legislation was needed to control supermarket packaging abuses. This is the story of those hearings." #01350.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1282
- Title
- The Thumb On The Scale
- Author
- Mowbray, A.Q
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - book very good- : discoloration/bleaching to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers. text clean, binding tight and square.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ very good : age toning, NOT clipped ($4.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- congress, law, supermarket, advertising, business, nonfiction, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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