Just What the Doctor Ordered by Various Contributors
$13.00
An entertaining collection of period advertisements for remedies, health products, personal grooming and beauty, featuring the bold claims and changing social attitudes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part of the Ad Nauseam series, this compact book contains 23 reproductions presented as postcards — a fun source of vintage advertising imagery for collectors and paper ephemera enthusiasts.
Details: Various contributors; Prion Books Ltd, 2002. English. Illustrated card/postcard book with 23 postcards. ISBN-10 1853753505; ISBN-13 9781853753503.
Condition: Glossy cover has light rubbing, minor edge and spine wear, and small scuffed patches with colour loss on the front. The cover is marked '23 postcards'; completeness of detachable cards has not been individually checked.
Book details
- Title
- Just What the Doctor Ordered
- Authors
- Various Contributors
- Publisher
- Prion Books Ltd
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Card book / 23-postcard book
- Edition
- Ad Nauseam series; 23 vintage advertising postcards
- Subjects
- Vintage advertising, Health and grooming advertising, Postcards, Advertising ephemera, Humour
- ISBN-13
- 9781853753503
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, EPHEMERA, GIFT BOOKS, HUMOUR & SATIRE, NON-FICTION BOOKS
Type: NON FICTION
Category: AD NAUSEAM, ADVERTISING HISTORY, B0122, BOOKS, EPHEMERA, GIFT BOOKS, HEALTH AND GROOMING, HISTORICAL ADVERTISING, HUMOUR, NON FICTION, POSTCARDS, PRION BOOKS, STOCKING FILLERS, VINTAGE ADVERTISING
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