Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew

by Gordon Lee Weil

Book Overview

1977, hardcover edition, Stein & Day, NY, 277 pages. Black and white photo gallery. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812823141
• ISBN13: 9780812823141
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Stein and Day
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not my favorite Sears history book, but not a bad tome...

In fact, even though this isn't my all-time favorite book on Sears history, it does contain my FAVORITE Sears Roebuck story. According to Weil, in the early years of the 20th Century, a woman wrote to Sears asking to return two bottles of patent medicine she'd purchased for her late husband. The clerk who responded to this inquiry asked the woman the reason for the refund. The woman replied and told him that she'd purchased THREE bottles of the medicine but that her husband had since passed on. The clerk is said to have replied, "Perhaps you'd like to see a copy of our tombstone catalog?" Now *that's* aggressive marketing. This book is well-researched and filled with good stats and facts. The cover shown here doesn't look like the cover on my book but perhaps that's just a difference in revisions. Rose Thornton author, The Houses That Sears Built