New York: Golden Press, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Robert Laffont. Translation by Anne Carter. 4to. Off-white cloth with red spine lettering and front board graphic, pictorial dust jacket, corrugated cardboard box with paper label. 296pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good/good plus. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears; box a bit age toned, rubbed and edgeworn, but complete and strong. A tight and quite handsome first U.S. edition of this far-ranging (to quote front flap) "exciting panorama of man's daily life across the ages, showing the evolution of the ways and habits of living from prehistoric times to the present." The seldom-present cardboard box did its protective job and kept the book pristine and the dust jacket quite nice. Name/address "From the Library of" inkstamp on front flyleaf of Edgar G. Hellum (1906-2000), the well-known "Bard of Pendarvis" -- resident of historic Mineral Point, Wisconsin who in the 1930s began saving early Cornish miner's cabins that were being destroyed and assembling an entire mini-village of them -- now Pendarvis, a state historic site.

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Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 42181
Title: 100,000 Years of Daily Life: A Visual History
Author: BROSSE, Jacques
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Golden Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1961
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.

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