Search Results: rears and robust catalogue

n.p.: n.p., 1939. Paperback. Fair. Unnumbered pages. The vast majority of leaves are soft tissue paper, sort of like bathroom tissue. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Cover wrinkled and soiled. Tears along cover edges and backstrip. Internally clean and sound although many of the leaves have faded, especially around edges. Text pages contain spoof listing for products, scatalogical humor, etc. Spoof on Sears and Roebuck Catalogs and their use as toilet tissue in outhouses.

Wheeling, WV: Morning Cal, 1939. Scrapbook. Fair. Soft cover. Spoof of the Sears & Roebucks Catalog, 1939-1940. From the 1900s through the 1970s the Sears Catalog was ubiquitous throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and many other countries throughout the world; often found in outhouses and bathrooms serving dual functions of reading material, and toilet paper. .

Wheeling, W. VA: Morning Call Publishers, 1940. Original color printed wrappers, with string loop at the top (for hanging), and housed in teh publishers paper mailing envelope. Shelfwear, edges worn, and covers slightly creased; mailing envelope worn with chipping and tears along the top side edge. Very Good. 4to. Appox. 57 pages of humorous ads interleaved with countless 8 x 11" toilet paper sheets, and 8 laid in loose or mounted items (including a hanger screw and a sheet of sandpaper). The 'Rears and Robust Mail Order Catalogue', published for several years circa 1936-1942, was a spoof on the Sears catalog and all its uses, and was meant as.