One Man's Family Looks at Life
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
no place: Standard Brands Incorporated, 1938. Unpaginated, about 28p., photo illustrated throughout, sewn text bound in 7.5 x 5.5 inch pictorial paper over boards. A few flecks of offset white to cover decoration, background off-white is toned slightly, a nice copy of a fragile item. According to a scene-setting paragraph at the beginning, "The Barbours" live in "the sea cliff area of San Francisco." Sea Cliff? out of towners don't know how posh that is. The book itself is Anglophile but anti-war (war costs too much money, money symbolizing lives lost). The text is pretty jumbled, the actors speaking out of their radio personas, trying to sound wise and inoffensive at the same time. A prefatory letter from "Paul," reproduced as a frontispiece facsimile of "his" holograph letter, is particularly fatuous, being mostly about "Tender Leaf Tea," their sponsor. The portrait photograph of each actor is captioned, and again Paul takes the cake. Where Paul's face is villainously moustached, his cheeks roue' hollowed, and his eyeballs disturbingly sanpaku, the caption reads "The way out of this mess is to return to the simple fundamental principles each of us learned at his mother's knee" and Paul, get cracking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75908
- Title
- One Man's Family Looks at Life
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Standard Brands Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- no place
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1930S; San Francisco; California; Radio; Theater, theatre;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..