Your new home and your pocketbook
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bridgeport, CT: General Electric Home Bureau. First Edition. Brochure. Wraps.. Near Fine. N.d., circa 1944. 4to. (To be read oblong, with binding on top.) 27.5 by 21.5 cm. 32 pp. plus wraps. Selling the American dream of suburban living on credit, with a splashy presentation of the practicalities and costs of setting up an imaginary modest but comfortable house. The booklet cleverly uses a cut-out window to show the expenses, total and monthly, with a comparison of conventional financing and through G.E., with big surprise, G.E. credit cheaper every time. As one turns the leaves, another line of the ledger is revealed until the whole spreadsheet is revealed on page 31, with heating, electrical, cabinetry, kitchen appliances, etc. requiring a monthly outlay of a whopping $61.05 with conventional financing versus only $58.42 through G.E. Throughout are color cartoonish illustrations of the happy housewife, and the text is full of plenty of useful tips to inexperienced newlyweds facing their first big investment.
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Details
- Seller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 004095
- Title
- Your new home and your pocketbook
- Format/Binding
- Brochure. Wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- General Electric Home Bureau
- Place of Publication
- Bridgeport, CT
Terms of Sale
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...