Mermey Maurice (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Library binding with ink stamps on a few pages inside. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1929 Hard Cover. 768 pp. A collection of numerous articles on current political and social events, along with letters to the editor, music and drama reviews, books of the month and book review sections, etc. This volume discusses everything from birth control to the dangers of cocaine to telepathy to the failure of the Federal Reserve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Extremely rare First Edition with Foreword by Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair 1939. Contains advice for getting your money's worth when shopping by experts from most of the big department store chains of that day (Macys, Bloomingdales, Abraham & Strauss, etc). Blue fabric cloth with black spine lettering and design. xi, 301pp., index. End papers age toned. No writing in the book. Full refund if not satisfied.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. (1st Edition). [xii], 301p. Pastedowns and endpapers toned, cover corners bumped and rubbed. From the Foreword: A collection of articles by "buyers, merchandise managers, and research experts of some of America's great department stores," designed to give the shopper the "incisive information which can guide her to better shopping--to more economical shopping---[.] whether the object of her quest be a handkerchief or a handbag, floor covering or furniture." Advice and information especially useful to a shopper during the Great Depression of the 20th century. (8-1/4"x5-3/4").