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The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America
by Jay, Robert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 7.75" x 10.25" (oblong), 112 pp, bound in blue cloth, illustrated throughout (some in color). Fine copy in fine dust jacket. "The first serious study of this form of advertising," according to the jacket. "The author traces the history of the cards by showing their development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England and America, their high point in circulation and reproduction quality from 1870 until the turn of the century, and their demise with the increasing use of advertising in nationally circulated magazines.
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- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23644
- Title
- The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America
- Author
- Jay, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, MO
- Date Published
- 1987
Terms of Sale
Walkabout Books
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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