Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0131087614I3N00
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Vendeur : Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0004069305
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Vendeur : Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Good. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). N° de réf. du vendeur mon0004066406
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Vendeur : Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). No DJ. General wear to cover edges/corners. Content pages are clean and unmarked. 106 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 388890
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Vendeur : THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, Etats-Unis
Hard Cover. Etat : vg. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). 1st Am. ed.; 7.75" tall; 128 pages; b/w ils; sepia photos on front of laminated cover. Hardcover. N° de réf. du vendeur 201120
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Vendeur : Veronica's Books, Gig Harbor, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). 1st American Edition. 106pp. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 037731
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Vendeur : Veronica's Books, Gig Harbor, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). 1st American Edition. 106pp. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 037732
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Vendeur : Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust jacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0131087614. Hardback. First American edition (1972) of 1971 English original. No dust jacket; bound in pictorial boards. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight dust soiling to edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature. N° de réf. du vendeur 4204354
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Vendeur : Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : VG. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). First Edition. CLEAN COPY. N° de réf. du vendeur 049883
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Vendeur : Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Hardcover 1st American edition - very minor selfwear otherwise a fine clear sturdy copy. Wallace Reyburn was a Canadian born journalist and writer who built a career producing popular non fiction works that combined thorough research with an engaging and accessible narrative style aimed squarely at the general reading public rather than any specialist academic audience. He had a particular talent for identifying subjects that combined genuine historical interest with an element of the unexpected or quirky that would attract readers looking for something outside the mainstream of popular history writing, and he pursued these subjects with a journalist's instinct for the telling detail and the entertaining anecdote alongside whatever more substantial historical material the subject afforded. Bust Up is a popular history of the brassiere, tracing the development of this particular garment from its origins through its evolution into a major commercial product and cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century. The subject matter places the book within a small but interesting category of popular history writing that takes an apparently humble or overlooked object or invention as its central subject and uses it as a lens through which to examine broader social, cultural, and commercial history. This approach, which has antecedents in serious academic history but was particularly well suited to popular non fiction writing, allows a writer to combine genuine historical substance with the inherent appeal of an unexpected and somewhat unconventional subject. The history of the brassiere intersects with a range of significant historical themes including the evolution of attitudes toward the female body, the development of the modern fashion and garment industry, changing medical and social ideas about female health and physical freedom, and the broader story of how consumer products are invented, developed, patented, and brought to market. Reyburn navigates these themes with the light touch of a journalist rather than the methodical thoroughness of an academic historian, prioritizing readability and entertainment alongside historical substance. The book sits comfortably alongside Reyburn's other works in a similar vein, including his history of the flush toilet, reflecting his consistent interest in the social and commercial history of everyday objects and inventions that shaped modern life while rarely receiving the historical attention their influence might arguably warrant. His contribution to this genre of popular object history helped demonstrate the genuine appeal and commercial viability of writing that took seriously the history of things that polite convention might otherwise have regarded as too trivial or too intimate for sustained historical attention. N° de réf. du vendeur 1013783
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