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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 0060117974.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Square, solid copy with no marks noted to text. Bump to one board corner. Dust jacket bright, no major tears with some edgewear, now in a fresh archival mylar protector. 411 pp with index. Recounts the dramatic success stories of America's great Jewish storekeeping families--the Gimbels, Strauses, and Goldwaters among them--who rose from common street peddlers to become America's merchant princes.
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Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine / very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has some wear, with a few minor nicks and tears at the edges. Previous owner's name written on the inside of the front board. Attractive book with minimal signs of use an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Published:
1979
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16538626701
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Jim Kalett (Jacket photograph) Very good in Good jacket. xx, 411, [1] pages. Acknowledgments and Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. After graduating from Harvard University in 1947, Mr. Harris began working at A. Harris & Company, a family-owned department store founded in 1886 in Dallas by his grandfather Adolph Harris. A. Harris was sold to Federated Department Stores, which owns Macy's. Mr. Harris published a children's book, ''The Night Before Christmas--in Texas, '' a parody of the Clement Clark Moore poem. He turned to writing full time after the family business was sold. ''The Fine Art of Political Wit, '' which traced the history of political humor since the 18th century, was published in 1964. He followed with two biographies: ''Only to God: The Extraordinary Life of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, '' about the industrialist and philanthropist, which was published in 1967, and ''Upton Sinclair, American Rebel, '' about the writer and social reformer, published in 1975. In 1979, Mr. Harris wrote a history of some of America's most successful Jewish businessmen, ''Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores. '' In a review in The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt described the book as a freewheeling narrative that used the stories of the Filenes of Boston, the Riches of Atlanta, the Rosenwalds of Chicago and the Marcuses of Dallas, among others, to explore Jewish life, philanthropy and anecdotes. The book, the review said, was ''sturdy enough to hold regional history, gossip, personal reminiscences and a history of the art and science of department-store merchandising. '' Derived from a Kirkus review: The reason this survey is more readable than other works is its emphasis on people, not buildings. Leon Harris, it turns out, ran Dallas' A. Harris & Company--founded by his grandfather--for ten years; and his "happiest childhood memories, " he confides, involved buying trips with his father for "the store." Here he presents similar merchant families with unabashed enthusiasm. We meet founding fathers--immigrants all--and assorted progeny with such names as: Filene--"prideful, prickly, stubborn" Edward, who opened Boston's famous Basement; Straus--Macy's owners, and "the only Jewish merchant family in America that approximates the Rothschilds"; and the Gimbels of Philadelphia, originators of Thanksgiving Day parades. Plus: the families Kaufmann (Pittsburgh); Goldsmith (Memphis); Rich (Atlanta); Meir and Frank (Portland, Oregon); and the famous founders of Neiman-Marcus and Sears Roebuck. In the Southwest, Harris takes stock of Goldwater's; San Francisco brings us Levi Strauss, Solomon Gump, the Magnins; and even Jewish mountain men turn up--like peddler Adolph Kohn, who was kidnapped by Apaches and later "rode the warpath" with Comanches. Each family is presented in the context of its community, with Harris weaving social history into his story--the growth of anti-Semitism, the importance of brothels. An entertaining, nostalgic look at great stories run by people, not computers.
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Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York: Harper & Row, 1979. 1st edition. Sm 4to. xx, 411pp. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Good book. Good dust jacket. (department stores, Jewish merchants, biography) [ISBN 0060117974] Inquire if you need further information.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!