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Old TV ads -- Cheap Book Alert
[Not sure if this is really appropriate for this forum, but since I'm not selling anything myself, I hope it's okay...]
Was at the local Half-Price Books today and found something on one of the "featured-remaindered-books" islands in the store that might be of interest to other folks here. The book is TV Wonderland - The Enchantment of Early Television by Brad and Debra Schepp. It's essentially just a collection of reprints of TV advertisements from old magazines. It also has some fluffy pop-culture commentary and TV-related factoids (usually having little to nothing to do with the ads these text-bites accompany), but about 80% of the book is straight ad reprints, and there are lots of 'em. The reproductions are so-so (mostly due to the small page size of the book and over-saturated colors), but overall they're good enough to be useful, and the entire book is printed in color. The ads cover the postwar 40's to the late 60's or so, with emphasis on the 50's. It's a small-but-chunky softcover of 176 pages. Anyway, even with its faults, if you just want a collection of old TV ads in book form, it's not too shabby at the blistering price of $3.98 (cover price: $14.95), so if you've got a Half-Price Books near you, you might want to stop in and look out for it. |
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