A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave
by Sloan, Bob (With Steven Guarnaccia.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0811807576
- ISBN 13
- 9780811807579
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
San Francisco: Chronicle Books [0-8118-0757-6] 1995. (Square hardcover) 96pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Patterned endpapers, black and white and color photographs and illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped. "The stuff of men's lives - and their pockets, closets, bureau drawers, and medicine cabinets - is sublimely catalogued in this nostalgic look at the clever, indispensable, and occasionally foolish accoutrements men routinely used in the 1930s, '40S and '50S for grooming, smoking, eating, drinking, and other essential activities". (Household, Advertising, Antiques, Grooming, Hair, Household, Masculinity).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153349
- Title
- A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave
- Author
- Sloan, Bob (With Steven Guarnaccia.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0811807576
- ISBN 13
- 9780811807579
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- This edition first published
- April 1, 1995
- Keywords
- Household, Advertising, Antiques, Grooming, Hair, Household, Masculinity
- Bookseller catalogs
- Household and Domestic;
Terms of Sale
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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