Pan-American Wall Paper & Paint Co. Oakland Division Sample Catalogue Circa 1935
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Oakland, CA: Pan-American Wall Paper & Paint Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sales Catalogue. Massive wallpaper sample catalogue (18 x 13 x 1.5 inches) with embossed and textured front wrapper and textured back wrapper. Wrappers in very good condition with light wear to edges and small chip to base of spine. Interior pages very good; several pages noted with small chips to the fore edge. Approximately 100 sheets plus up to 70 additional borders interspersed. The verso of each sheet includes style information, codes, dimensions and other information important to the sales person and likely client. Overall, this catalogue is in much better condition than many we have seen,. Save for one frontispage of advertisements, the entire catalogue is of sample wallpaper pages and patterned trim. The first 37 sheets have no trim samples and certainly were not produced--early samples in the book are more muted and not heavy on graphic elements. Later samples are more colorful including some extremely bright gaudy screened samples bright enough to require sunglasses. No date noted but we feel it to be from the mid 1930's. Classic item of Americana. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023259
- Title
- Pan-American Wall Paper & Paint Co. Oakland Division Sample Catalogue Circa 1935
- Format/Binding
- Sales Catalogue
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Pan-American Wall Paper & Paint Co.
- Place of Publication
- Oakland, CA
- Keywords
- Wall Paper Sample Book, Salesman Sample, Oakland, CA
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Wrappers
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- Edges
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- Verso
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- Spine
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