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Like No Other Store...: The Bloomingdale's Legend and the Revolution in American Marketing
by Traub, Marvin and Tom Teicholz
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812919637
- ISBN 13
- 9780812919639
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Times Books / Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition plus complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards, black spine cloth with gold gilt lettering, and an embossed stylized b (the Bloomingdale b) on front board. Text block clean & tight. Contains a sixteen page section of glossy black & white photos. Several black & white illustrations of comics from newspapers that mention Bloomingdales. Between the half-title page and title page there is a two page spread depicting, in black & white, shopping bags from the various country promotions featured from 1961 to 1991.( The 1991 bag was the only one pulled from the stores at request of the Italian government due to what was considered an irreverent phrase ""In Pizza We Trust."") Spread is repeated again at end of book. Total 428 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition showing only light shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. Additional photos on back of dust jacket; see photo.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000226
- Title
- Like No Other Store...: The Bloomingdale's Legend and the Revolution in American Marketing
- Author
- Traub, Marvin and Tom Teicholz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812919637
- ISBN 13
- 9780812919639
- Publisher
- Times Books / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Advertising, Marketing, Bloomingdale's (Firm) - History, Marvin Traub
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business; Consumer Behavior;
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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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- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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