London: Profile Books. Very Good+; Minor cover creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no . names or marks inside. Cover artwork by David Downton.. 2008. Reprint. Paperback. B&W Photographs; In 1909 London's first dedicated department store opened in a glorious burst of publicity, spearheaded by the largest advertising campaign ever mounted in the British press. No one understood the sex appeal of shopping better than Harry Selfridge - the showman of shopping. ; 9781861971692 .

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Lindy Woodhead worked in international fashion public relations for more than twenty-five years. During the late 1980s she spent two years as the first woman on the board of directors of Harvey Nichols. Woodhead retired from fashion in 2000 to concentrate on writing. Her first book, War Paint, a biography of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, was published in 2003. She is a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Times Saturday Magazine . A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she is married with two sons and lives in southwest London and southwest France.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27308
Title: Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge
Author: Woodhead, Lindy
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+; Minor cover creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork by David Downto
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 1861971699
ISBN 13: 9781861971692
Publisher: Profile Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2008
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...