Pleasantville, NY & Montreal: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated yellow pictorial boards, 416 pp, illustrations (many in color) on most pages, index. Starting from "the premise that what is educational should also be entertaining," the editors "faced the Sherlockian task of tracking down and uncovering the 'secret lives' of things so often taken for granted. Was what is mundane today once exotic, frightening, of forbidden? (Buttons had to be smuggled into England in the reign of Charles II.) Can it be that what seems as modern as the latest dance craze is actually ancient history? (The can-can, which shocked Nikita Khrushchev in Paris, had been performed in Egypt 4,000 years earlier.) ... Have there been obscure versions of what is now commonplace? (In ancient Greece coin-operated machines dispensed holy water.) ... As colorful and unusual answers to these questions emerged, they repeatedly evoked the same involuntary reaction from the editors: 'I didn't know that!' Whenever that happened, the subject inevitably earned a permanent place on the list." Shipping weight 4 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 26 X 20 cm.

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Bookseller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RFGN00039
Title: Stories Behind Everyday Things
Author: Polley, Jane (Ed.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+
Jacket Condition: No dj
ISBN 10: 0895770687
ISBN 13: 9780895770684
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Place of Publication: Pleasantville, NY & Montreal
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: General Reference
Bookseller catalogs: Reference;
X weight: 64 oz
Size: 26 X 20 cm

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