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n.p.: n.p., 1939. Paperback. Fair. Unnumbered pages. The vast majority of leaves are soft tissue paper, sort of like bathroom tissue. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Cover wrinkled and soiled. Tears along cover edges and backstrip. Internally clean and sound although many of the leaves have faded, especially around edges. Text pages contain spoof listing for products, scatalogical humor, etc. Spoof on Sears and Roebuck Catalogs and their use as toilet tissue in outhouses.
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Rears and Robust Catalogue
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Wheeling, WV: Morning Call. Very Good; Covers soiled and creased.. 1941. Softcover. Green pictorial softcover. Unpaginated, but an inch-thick production. A spoof of the ubiquitous Sears and Roebuck mail order catalogues that graced many late 19th and 20th century American homes and was sometimes jokingly referred to as toilet paper for outhouse use, hence this collection of faux blank "toilet paper" sheets, interspersed with bound-in illustrated fake advertisements and loose printed items. The jokey catalogue has a hanging thread at crown, complete with cup hook on front free endpaper and illustrated instructions to "hang me up in your Castle of the Half Moon." The potty humor continues throughout the book with die-cut inserts, sand paper, wall paper, a paper packet of instructions about how to make your "moon shine" (more toilet paper inside, har, har) , jokes at the expense of women, WPA workers, Adolf Hitler, stock market workers, frugal Scots, New Dealers, politicians, farmers, and others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Old Saratoga Books
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- Format/Binding Softcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good; Covers soiled and creased.
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Morning Call
- Place of Publication Wheeling, WV
- Date Published 1941
- Keywords Vintage Humor, Bathroom Humor, Toilet Paper, Weird Books, Spoofs, Parodies
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Rears and Robust Mail Order Catalogue for Spring Summer Fall Winter
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Hamden, Connecticut, United States
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Rears and Robust Mail Order Catalogue
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Wheeling, WV: Morning Cal, 1939. Scrapbook. Fair. Soft cover. Spoof of the Sears & Roebucks Catalog, 1939-1940. From the 1900s through the 1970s the Sears Catalog was ubiquitous throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and many other countries throughout the world; often found in outhouses and bathrooms serving dual functions of reading material, and toilet paper. .
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REARS AND ROBUST MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE: For Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
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- Original color printed wrappers, with string loop at the top (for hanging), and housed in teh publishers paper mailing envelope.
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Wheeling, W. VA: Morning Call Publishers, 1940. Original color printed wrappers, with string loop at the top (for hanging), and housed in teh publishers paper mailing envelope. Shelfwear, edges worn, and covers slightly creased; mailing envelope worn with chipping and tears along the top side edge. Very Good. 4to. Appox. 57 pages of humorous ads interleaved with countless 8 x 11" toilet paper sheets, and 8 laid in loose or mounted items (including a hanger screw and a sheet of sandpaper). The 'Rears and Robust Mail Order Catalogue', published for several years circa 1936-1942, was a spoof on the Sears catalog and all its uses, and was meant as.
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