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The Housekeeper; a monthly [no date, place of publication or issue number given. An advertising supplement for maids, housekeepers, nannies, servants, circa 1885]

First edition thus

Price: $9.50


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Book description: Minneapolis, Minnisota:: Power and Transmission Publishing Co.,. 1887.. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Good. A single issue. Quarto, 12" tall, unpaginated (16 pages) self wraps wraps. A good, complete trade magazine, with moderate exterior wear and soiling, folded at the middle (originally mailed folded at the middle), with edge chipping to the wraps which have become fragile, unbound as issued, interior paper clean and moderately yellowed with a short tear at the fore-edge fold and generally fragile due to the cheapness of the paper. Filled with wonderful period black and white illustrations and advertisements for the trade, with no articles to speak of..

  • Bookseller: Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 17285
  • Format/binding: Original Wraps
  • Book condition: Good
  • Edition: First edition thus
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Power and Transmission Publishing Co.,
  • Place: Minneapolis, Minnisota:
  • Date published: 1887.
  • Keywords: Business, History, Industry, Manufacturing, Machines, Grain Elevators, Periodical, Nineteenth Century (19th)

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